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Hello. I left my campsite better than I found it.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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It texted back!

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We're back in contact with the Voyager 2.

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If you didn't catch my previous episode about this, how dare you.

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But here's the recap.

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The Voyager 2 is a spacecraft that we sent out and it's just supposed to go real far.

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And we sent it out a long time ago.

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And we talked to it every once in a while.

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It takes a long time to kind of communicate with it.

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We accidentally texted it some bad commands.

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It turned its antenna the wrong way and we lost contact.

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And so then we just started shouting into the universe saying,

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Baby, come back.

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We heard signals from it.

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Like we knew that it didn't stop transmitting.

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But we were trying to get our signal back to it.

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And guess what?

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We did it.

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We didn't expect to reestablish contact really till October where it was going to realign itself automatically.

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But we did what they called an interstellar shout and got its attention.

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Basically, we just took a big old antenna and we were like,

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That's the language.

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That's the language of satellites.

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In summation,

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Yay.

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They stole $300,000 worth of trading cards.

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Damn.

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Very casually too.

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So if you're not aware, Gen Con happened this past week.

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Gen Con is a huge tabletop gaming convention in Indianapolis.

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Now it's a really, really big convention, right?

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And while they were getting set up,

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some dudes kind of just strolled in and took a palette full of trading cards worth about $300,000.

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To be clear, these guys strolled up with a palette jack and they were just like, yoink.

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And goodbye.

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Goodbye. It's on tape and they're being searched for, but they just kind of rolled up and took it.

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$300,000.

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At time of recording, they're still looking for these dudes.

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And so if you see any nerd that's got like a trench coat and they do like the trench coat thing,

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but there's like trading cards inside, maybe don't buy or do.

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I'm not your dad, but I could be.

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That was weird.

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I'm very sorry.

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We're going to talk about Elon.

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I would prefer to not, but it's just there's so much.

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It sucks that it's relevant, but here we go.

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So previously Elon Musk stole the handle X from a X user.

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So now X owns at X.

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I hate this.

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Well, they did it again.

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They took another user's handle just kind of by force.

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This time at music.

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Then Twitter user Jeremy Vought got the at music handle all the way back in 2007

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and has been operating it since then doing like thing, building integrations,

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working with third parties, just like conducting the handle for a long time.

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But not anymore because Elon Musk took it.

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It's his now.

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Now does Elon Musk have the right to take it?

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Why the hell not?

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He bought Twitter.

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He owns all of Twitter.

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He can make it unusable.

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However, he wants.

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If it is such a case that you've got a fancy username and Elon Musk wants it,

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you're just fucked.

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Deal with it.

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But the thing is that as a reminder, Elon's stands are in a cult.

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And it turns out that Jeremy Vought is an Elon Stan.

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And so he's like, oh, I don't know.

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I still think he's doing pretty good.

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And I believe in him.

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I like the text ones.

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Yeah.

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He kind of took the thing that I've been doing for the past 15 years of my life.

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But it's OK because he's got a lot of money.

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And I just think that he's just real neat.

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I do not know what to say.

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Have some self-respect.

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Tread harder on me, daddy.

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Anyway, after that, Elon went out to randomly fucking tweet

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that X is going to cover legal bills of people who face ramifications from their employers

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for stuff that they post or repost on X.

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Quote, if you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting

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or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.

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No limit.

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Please let us know.

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I cannot imagine this new CEO's reaction to having seen this

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because there is a 0% chance that he talked it over with her first.

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And this is a whole different level of fucked

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because Elon himself has fired people from Twitter for what they posted on Twitter after he bought it.

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And it's a triple third level of fucked

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because he also just had to delay payouts with their new creator payout system

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because he doesn't have the money to do that.

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I mean, he claims that there's like a shocking number of people who signed up,

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which just translates to we can't pay out to everyone.

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I would be truly surprised if Elon Musk is still the person who owns Twitter this time next year.

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And not because he happily sold it, but because it was taken from him.

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Stop typing.

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I can hear your password.

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So researchers scare me because they have now trained an AI

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to be able to listen to your keystrokes.

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Listen to your keystroke and determine what you type.

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And they proved that they can do it over Zoom.

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So if you are on a Zoom call for work

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and you are shit talking about someone who's currently presenting in DMs to your friend at work,

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they know now using a literal audio recording of typing on a keyboard,

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we can translate that into pretty accurate written word.

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How useful is this?

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I don't know.

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Is it going to target you?

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Probably not.

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But it's wild that we can do this.

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This is pretty wild and reminds me of another type of attack that really blows my mind.

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If you didn't know, if you have a smart speaker in your home,

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an attacker with line of sight through say like a window

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can use a laser and a computer to modulate the laser,

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shine it at the microphone of the smart speaker,

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and trick the smart speaker into thinking that it just heard something.

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From the exterior of your home, they can silently deliver commands to your smart speaker.

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And if you have that hooked up to a smart lock on your front door,

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technology.

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I want to talk about a pretty neat lady because on this day in 1890,

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born.

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Gurley?

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Jarley?

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Gurley?

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This lady.

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Y'all.

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Holy God.

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She was a founding member of the ACLU.

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Yes, that ACLU.

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But she was too badass for that.

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She was a staunch supporter of women's rights,

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and she pushed for women's suffrage, access to birth control,

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all that good shit, and also was in the Communist Party.

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And so the ACLU kicked her out for being a damn commie.

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Quite literally, too radical.

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But did that stop her?

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No, it didn't.

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She went on to keep pushing and being an activist for equal rights,

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getting arrested at a demonstration,

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and she was jailed for two years where she wrote a book

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and then came out of the jail and then continued to kick ass.

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She was also possibly bi, so she got a chance, except for she's dead.

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Lightning wrap.

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Google is now offering for their employees to pay $90 a night to sleep at the office.

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Sorry, $99.

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Twitch streamer Kaisenat did a PS5 giveaway in New York,

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and now he's being charged with inciting a riot because it went pretty wild.

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Thanks primarily due to sales of the Valve Steam Deck,

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Linux has now surpassed Mac OS on usage stats for Steam.

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Game it.

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The Barbie movie has broken a billion dollars in revenue at the box office worldwide.

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Sleigh Queen.

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Researchers have, for the second time, gotten a net positive energy gain from a fusion reaction.

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We're not really at infinite clean energy yet, but it's pretty cool.

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And finally for today, the FBI is investigating a ransomware attack

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that's affecting a hospital network that's across multiple states.

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So technology.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, and clear blue skies.

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My name is Endeavorance.

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I'll be back on Wednesday.

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Take care and be well.