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Hello.

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I put my seat back in the upright position,

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but stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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The price of oil is skyrocketing.

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But not that kind of oil.

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Olive oil.

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Massive droughts in the Mediterranean have messed up olive oil production so much

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that prices have skyrocketed to a record high.

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Prices are now as high as $8,900 per ton.

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I don't have, I don't have any idea what normal is.

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I don't tend to buy olive oil by the ton.

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But that's a lot apparently.

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This massive price hike has led to heists, and we love a good heist here.

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One of the biggest heists reported is about 50,000 liters of extra virgin olive oil

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amounting to about $450,000 worth of product.

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That is a lot of virgin.

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The moral of this story is that if you have olive oil in your kitchen,

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lock that shit up,

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because you never know when someone's gonna come steal that greasy goodness.

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Unity promises change.

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In a normal world, that would be like a campaign slogan,

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or like a notion that if we all work together, we can make the world a better place.

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But in this timeline, it's a company going back on their pricing model.

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Extraordinarily quick recap.

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Unity, it's a game development engine.

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They recently announced a new pricing structure that pissed everyone off.

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They are now saying that they're gonna make changes to the pricing structure they announced,

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and the changes are probably not going to be, we're not doing that after all.

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Instead, the changes are gonna be, we're gonna clarify stuff and make it a little simpler perhaps.

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But we're still gonna change the pricing structure on you.

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Deal with it.

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Here's the thing, if you're not like a game developer, or you don't really know how all that works,

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game development is a multi-year task,

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and one of the foundational things you do is choose an engine.

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You can't really switch engines on a whim.

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And so there's a bunch of developers who have spent years and millions of dollars of assets

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to build a game.

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And now they have to deal with Unity just changing the pricing structure,

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and potentially bankrupting them.

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Even if they do make decent changes to this,

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they've already shown us their ass.

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They can't really be trusted to not change the rules again.

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And so a lot of developers are like, nah, we're done, we're out,

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we can't deal with this, we can't trust you.

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And mind you, Unity is a publicly traded company, so crashing and burning, lol.

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Speaking of gaming, Microsoft is really going through it right now.

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Microsoft has suffered two egregious leaks.

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The first one I'll talk about is a 38 terabyte leak from AI research.

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For context here, one terabyte is a thousand gigabytes.

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It's a lot of data.

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And it's apparently a bunch of internal company data that they were using to train AIs or whatever.

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And just... that's just out there.

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Like, leaking a terabyte of data is a lot.

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Leaking 38 terabytes of data is... holy crap.

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They maintain that no user data was leaked and say it was all internal company data.

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Which also still sucks.

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Anyway, the other leak was from a court filing.

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They accidentally uploaded a ton of internal communication and market plans

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and things that we weren't supposed to see as an attachment on a court filing.

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Like, we've learned a lot. There's just so much tea here, it's out of control.

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Apparently, the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, at one point floated the idea of buying Nintendo.

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We now know ahead of time what the next Xbox is gonna look like,

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and they're gonna be getting rid of discs apparently and making it a cylinder.

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Oh, and also, they didn't think that Baldur's Gate 3 was a game that was gonna be noteworthy.

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They were like, this is gonna be a whatever.

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So it's just kind of a lot, um, and very hilarious.

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It turns out people aren't super into AI.

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Who'da thunk it?

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A new poll of about 2,000 US adults has shown that most people are more concerned

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with the potential problems of AI than the potential solutions it brings.

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At the top of the concerns were like data harvesting, privacy, misinformation, political stuff.

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And lower down the list was, it's going to replace my job.

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So most people are really concerned about just how much it'll fuck up just talking to each other.

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And yeah, despite every tech company ever trying to cram an AI chat bot into their app,

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the majority of people, a slight majority, like 54%, are just not feeling it.

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That changes as you break down into demographics.

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For example, older responders were typically more suspect than younger responders.

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Men were significantly more into AI than women.

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Wow.

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But here's the strange one.

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Millennials were the most optimistic about AI.

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Even beating out Gen Z, which I don't understand.

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I'm on the younger-ish side of millennial,

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and I don't understand why anyone in my generation would be happy

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about the next generation of tech overlords fucking up the world.

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Like, what?

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Like, have we been on the same internet?

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Did you watch the social network?

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But as a reminder, the vast majority of all this AI stuff is being pushed because of venture capital investments.

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It's just the new hotness and the term that gets the most investors right now.

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There's a lot of overinflation of what the AIs are actually doing right now.

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And while AI does have an actual place in this world,

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especially in like medical research and whatnot,

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the vast majority of what all these people are talking about with AI taking over the world

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is just trying to ramp up investors.

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Like, we're already seeing a stark decrease of trust in AI and usage of AI tools like ChatGPT,

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and they're trying to find more ways to keep putting it in front of you so they can keep making a buck.

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It's pretty much where we went after crypto didn't pan out.

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Probably something else is going to come along.

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But maybe I'm wrong.

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But at least this has slightly more of a real-world application than crypto did.

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On this day in 1378, a second pope was elected in the start of what would be known as the Western Schism.

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Cardinals in the Catholic Church couldn't agree on who was the correct pope,

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and so they just got two of them, and they beefed for like 40 years.

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Pope battle.

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Yeah, these two popes just tried to out-pope each other for a while,

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and eventually a third pope entered the ring.

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We had three popes at once.

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I would pay so much money to watch a pope cage match.

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Just a hell of a lot of popery.

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Lightning round.

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Pennsylvania's governor has announced that the state is going to start automatic voter registration.

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I do not know why that's not a national standard.

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I mean, I know why, but still.

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Elon Musk's Neuralink company is moving forward with human trials soon.

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Notably, they've already been beaten to the market by companies that have like actual medical research goals and whatnot.

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Please don't let Elon Musk put a chip in your brain.

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Speaking of Musk, he also recently floated the idea of putting the entirety of Twitter behind a paywall.

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Please do that.

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Speaking of which, this is just a general reminder.

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If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, and that's like the place that you've been staying despite all of this happening,

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he can screw you over at any point.

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Please, please diversify.

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Have a backup on another something, someone.

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Far-right personalities have come out in droves, again, Musk included,

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to voice support for Russell Brand after he was hit with a bunch of rape and sexual assault allegations.

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Stanford's particle accelerator can now do some cool, cool x-ray stuff that I don't understand,

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but I read the article and it had cool words in it about like subatomic phenomena, and I'm excited about that.

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But finally for today, the cast of Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be doing a one-shot D&D campaign on the High Rollers channel on Twitch.

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I believe that's this Friday.

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

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Head to Stuff Keeps Happening.online for sources, bonus content, and the current time of day.

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As a reminder, I'm going to be off on Friday and the next coming Monday.

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So I'm going to be back on Wednesday.

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Take care and be well.