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Some Other Stuff · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Okay, hi, how's it going? Hey, it's me. I'm not
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  standing over over there. I'm sitting right here
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  I posted yesterday because of you know the whole
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  um, you know dropping lots of bombs on Iran thing
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  that that we're doing now and It kind of derailed
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  my whole ass plan for the week. We're trying
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  something new today. This is an experiment You're
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  here with me together in this moment to see how
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  this goes. I'm just gonna like read some of the
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  like half baked stuff from the draft that I had
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  to throw away because of the aforementioned bombs.
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  But I didn't want to just like not talk about
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  some of this stuff because there's some there's
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  some like good stuff in here. Well, there's some
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  good stuff in here. There's also some like crazy
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  shit. But I'm just going to go through it and
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  just give some quick thoughts off the dome. This
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  is going to be very casual, business casual,
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  though. So wear your wear your formal wear. So
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  I'm going to skip over what was going to be the
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  main story. I had I had so much written. was
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  like here is the current state of play of like
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  everyone who's involved in this potential war
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  slash proxy war and Whoops, so let's just kind
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  of like let's talk about anything else because
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  that's all I've been steeping in since it happened
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  Understandably, I think but I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  put my brain on something else for a bit. Here
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  we go A really wonderful first topic here medical
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  assisted death. So over over in England and Wales
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  They're dying Jesus, this is how unprepared I
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  am. So people die, and sometimes people get sick
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  and then die. And there's an issue where your
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  quality of life is like really, really bad while
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  you're sick and dying. And so some people are
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  like, hey, you know what? I'd rather just be
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  dead. It would be considered mercy by some. It
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  would be considered horrific by others. But I
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  feel like it's a deeply personal choice. And
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  I feel like I have no business in telling somebody
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  else whether or not what they should do with
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  that. But still doctor assisted suicide is a
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  touchy issue especially in part because doctors
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  wear an oath to do no harm and so like What happens
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  there, but also also sometimes? putting them
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  out of their misery is the right thing. It does
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  less harm. It's a whole debate, but in England
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  and Wales there has finally been some movement
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  forward where lawmakers have actually signaled
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  support and pushed some legislation forward to
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  allow doctor assisted suicide or terminally ill
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  patients specifically. It passed the House of
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  Commons, I believe, and it's now going to go
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  to the House of Lords. If you're not a Brit boy,
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  you're not an Englander, You know, if you're
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  not united under the kingdom, they've got sort
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  of how like we, like in the States, we've got
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  two houses of Congress, we've got the House and
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  the Senate, like a lower and a higher house.
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  In London land, right, in the Britopia, they've
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  got a House of Commons for the rabble rousers,
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  and then a House of Lords. And my understanding
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  is that to be a member of the House of Lords,
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  You have to have a cane. Maybe a top hat. But
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  yeah, they're unelected. Cool. But also, like,
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  largely expected that this is gonna pass. I'm
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  gonna look up what countries already have doctor
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  -assisted suicide as a thing. Okay, it is...
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  According to Wikipedia, assisted suicide is legal
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  in some countries under certain circumstances,
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  including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany,
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  Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,
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  Switzerland, parts of the United States. and
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  all six states in Australia. Goes on to say the
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  constitutional courts of Colombia, Ecuador, Estonia,
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  and Italy have legalized assisted suicide, but
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  their governments have not yet legislated or
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  regulated the practice. What? Parts of the states?
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  Whoa. OK, well, um, here's a map. Oh, good. It's
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  legal in D .C. I need I need to record a self
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  -promo at some point. Hi. If you like what I
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  do, if you want to support me, you can head to
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  merchfrom .dev and get yourself some Next up
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  on my list we've got this this This came across
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  my feed last week. It was around the earlier
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  part of the week It has been sitting around in
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  my back pocket as a thing that I didn't even
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  know how to begin approaching because it it broke
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  my brain in in ways I think because I should
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  have expected this and I just ha headline the
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  army's newest recruits tech executives from meta
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  open AI and more high -ranking executives from
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  major tech companies like Palantir and Metta
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  have been literally added to the military, but
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  they're basically just consultants, but Big Tech
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  has been angling to just suck up that government
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  contract money recently. Metta, Google, Microsoft,
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  they're all supplying infrastructure, at least.
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  for military exercises, like AI stuff to help
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  you analyze the battlefield or whatever, and
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  cloud computing for your airstrikes, I guess.
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  They are warmongers, like they sell war -supporting
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  infrastructure. That is, that's what these companies
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  do. So you see Google, oh yeah, the search engine,
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  right? Yeah, they also help with bombings. Microsoft
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  is kind of worse on that. Oracle's also very
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  bad, and Palantir, I mean Palantir's an actual
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  contractor. Long story short, there's a blurring
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  and vanishing difference. between government,
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  like military contractors, and big tech as we
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  knew them. Meta, a social media platform, is
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  developing AI models that they're then turning
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  around and selling to the US military. Same with
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  OpenAI and ChatGPT. So, fun. So what does this
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  mean? Not a ton, it's just collusion. Like it's
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  just, it's the usual goings -ons of money being
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  passed around between major corporations and
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  the military. They want to be more embedded in
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  the military so they have better offers and options
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  for getting contracts. That's my read on this.
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  It sucks, it's dumb, and it shouldn't be happening.
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  But that's the mantra of this entire country.
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  Moving on. What do we got here? What do we got
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  here? What do we got here? Oh, this one's fucked.
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  This is more of a technical thing, but there
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  was a snooping process that was discovered that
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  a bunch of the shady apps, you know, like Facebook,
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  Instagram, a handful of Chinese apps as well,
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  were using to circumvent protections for your
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  privacy on your own device. The attack is called
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  Local Mess, and there's a really great write
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  -up about it. I'll link to it below. But here
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  is the summary paragraph. Quote, we disclose
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  a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially
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  affecting billions of Android users. We have
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  found that native Android apps, including Facebook,
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  Instagram, and several Yandex apps, including
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  Maps and Browser, silently listen on fixed local
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  ports for tracking purposes. So what does that
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  mean? Let's start with defining a few terms.
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  Let's start with port. Port in like computing
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  terms is... It refers to a place in which a device
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  can do communication. Think of it like a literal
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  port, like a cargo port, but for data instead
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  of cargo. And so a, quote, local port is a port
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  that's on your device. And what this is saying
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  is these apps were setting up ports that were
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  quietly being used by websites that you were
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  visiting. That would funnel data to the apps
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  that could then associate your web traffic with
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  your advertising ID that the apps know about
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  you already They're supposed to be a disconnect
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  there. They're supposed to be a native app tracking
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  ID and Separately, there's web stuff. They're
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  supposed to be a gap there But they were looking
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  for ways to get around that so they could better
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  track you around the internet leveraging features
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  of your devices without your knowledge to gather
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  information against the will of the platform
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  and the spec of the design. And then they got
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  caught and stopped doing that. So, or at least
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  changed their strategy. According to this, they've
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  stopped doing it as of June 3rd. Hopefully they
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  keep not doing it. Next up, Musk is suing New
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  York State over a social media hate speech law.
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  New York State has a law that they're basically
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  saying if you run a social media website, you
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  need to disclose how you monitor hate speech.
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  Elon Musk doesn't want to do that with Twitter,
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  probably because they don't monitor hate speech.
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  I've talked about this before, the whole like
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  piecemeal states having their own laws for tech.
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  We've seen it in Texas for the not allowing minors
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  on social media and also in a bunch of other
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  states with porn bans. In California, they've
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  got sort of like their own privacy laws that
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  are trying to emulate some of what the EU does.
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  But because of the way that the states are set
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  up, they're all trying to sort of force companies
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  to have regulation that's not federal, but for
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  all intents and purposes. you kind of have to
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  adhere to it if you want to function in the United
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  States. So it's not federal, it's a state law,
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  but it's a mess. That's what I said last time,
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  I think. I'm pretty sure I said it's a mess.
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  And so, yeah, there's not a lot here. I mean,
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  tech companies are suing states all the time.
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  But this is basically Twitter saying, we don't
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  want to have to tell you what we're doing about
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  hate speech. Stop it. Oh, this one's... But the
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  girls are fighting. Don't don't come at me for
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  that meme. It's a meme. I talked about this on
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  stream last week. Open AI and Microsoft are kind
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  of quietly starting to beef. Microsoft wants
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  to basically own Open AI. They tried to be there
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  first. They wanted to just be the ones that are
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  like the corporate sponsor for Open AI and Open
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  AI would just forever be working with Microsoft.
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  And Open AI is increasingly uninterested in that,
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  it seems, and is less interested in solely working
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  with Microsoft and more interested in Probably
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  trying to eventually use SERP, Microsoft. It's
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  gotten to the point that OpenAI has, I believe,
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  a contract with Microsoft or at least an agreement
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  where Microsoft is their cloud hosting provider
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  for OpenAI for all the chat GPT stuff, but OpenAI
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  doesn't want that to be the case. They want more
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  power. They want more control over their own
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  company, which I can't blame them on that, except
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  for OpenAI does suck. But it looks like they're
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  getting ready to start saying that Microsoft
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  is being anti -competitive, which if it gets
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  to that point, oh boy. Because Microsoft has
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  staked its claim on like co -pilot and co -pilot
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  branding and all that built into PCs powered
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  by OpenAI or whatever. If OpenAI starts beefing
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  with Microsoft, let me rephrase that. I hope
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  OpenAI continues beefing with Microsoft. Hey,
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  good news. Here's good news. ZeniMax is unionizing.
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  This is gaming. We're in gaming now. Uh, sorry.
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  I warned you. Oh, damn. Reporting from Engadget.
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  Members of the Zenimac Workers United CWA union
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  have ratified the contract agreement with parent
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  company Microsoft. This agreement with the union
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  representing the video game studios quality assurance
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  employees marks the first time that Microsoft
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  has entered into any union contract in the US.
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  That is... significant the Zenimax is best known
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  for working under Bethesda doing I think right
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  now they're doing Elder Scrolls online and Bethesda
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  got picked up by Microsoft and when that happened
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  the QA team was like hey Don't fuck us as a part
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  of this and now it seems that it worked. That's
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  exciting like literal years in the making I think
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  this all started back in like 2022 2023 well
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  done. Yay workers go Union. I'm just gonna read
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  the headline here. This is from 404 media They
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  do amazing work go check out 404 media. They're
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  they're excellent Here's the headline martyrdom
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  or bust Texas man caught plotting terror attack
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  through roblox chats I am kind of just I'm sitting
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  here like I'm just it's wild they were there's
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  essentially just a group that is like Chatting
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  in roblox and this dudes like I am going to be
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  a martyr I'm going to do a terrorist and like
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  the feds found out because someone else in roblox
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  overheard and was like hey feds This doesn't
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  seem good. The dude's handle was crazy pain with
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  it with a three like oh my I'm I'm I'm reading
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  about You know remember when there was like all
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  that shit going down with Investigations into
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  Trump and there was like person of interest one
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  or whatever like they when there's when there's
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  legal documents They label people as like, you
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  know, person one, person two, party one, whatever.
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  Roblox user one replied to the person. Roblox
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  user one is. At this point, if they don't hold
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  the trial in Roblox, then what the fuck is the
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  point? He was caught. He wanted to bomb some
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  kind of music festival. I'm seeing Christian
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  music festival, but also other. other groups
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  as well. It seems like the dude was unhinged
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  and thought that he was like a member of ISIS
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  or something. When questioned he was like it
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  was an emotional response but then also said
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  that he wanted to either get the hell out of
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  the US and if not that then quote martyrdom or
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  bust. So hey if you are playing Roblox keep an
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  eye out. I used to gag about how everybody should
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  use RuneScape guild chat to coordinate the uprising.
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  Now we're here. Alright, last thing. I've kinda
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  skipped over some of the other stuff. I wanna
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  end on a fun one. I think we could all use a
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  bit of fun, and not only is this a fun one, it
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  also has the cutest pictures to go with it. Here
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  we go. A book collector in the UK was, quote,
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  gobsmacked. He was rearranging his collection
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  of books, and he opened up one of them that he
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  got at a charity shop, like a secondhand store,
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  a while ago. And he was flipping through it,
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  and he found that it contained handwritten notes
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  from his wife from 50 years ago. Timeline. They
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  were not together 50 years ago and and his wife
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  had a book and drew in it his wife's mom gave
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  that book away like, you know charity drive gave
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  it away at some point years ago in the 70s, holy
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  shit this guy is then a book collector and just
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  happens to have purchased this book at some point
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  and Then way later on happens to look into it
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  and see that's my brother -in -law. And these
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  are my wife's writings Oh, hey, they went on
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  to discover two other novels on his bookshelf
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  also featured annotations from his wife. Quote,
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  we both sat there not quite sure how to handle
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  it because this was just extraordinary. So this
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  guy now says that he essentially has a quest
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  to go find more books that his wife wrote in
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  50 years ago. This is the news that we need.
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  This is what we need. And look at the... It's
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  a good one to end on. Let me know how this was.
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  I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just recording
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  stuff. I Let me know if you like this. I I hope
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  I hope hope you did obviously I didn't talk about
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  Same things I talked about in yesterday's post.
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  So you want to hear about the Iran stuff? That's
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  there's a whole video on that. That's yesterday
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  Regardless, take care be well. I'll see you on
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  Monday. Goodbye