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Hello.

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I defeated Andross's true form, but stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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Hey, maybe don't send your literal DNA samples to a tech company.

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Genetic testing company 23andMe has suffered a massive user data breach,

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including user information associated with their genetic data.

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The hackers who stole the data have posted it online for sale

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and seem to be explicitly targeting Jews and other ethnic minorities.

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This is a great example of why the

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I don't need privacy because I've got nothing to hide argument falls short of anything.

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And even if you think you have nothing to hide,

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people that you know and love might have something to hide

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and can be derived from your data.

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If you use an unencrypted messaging app to tell somebody

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that someone else you know got an abortion in America,

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you're putting them at risk.

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But I digress into a tangent.

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That doesn't normally work that way.

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But please, consider what websites actually need to know about you.

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Does it need your real email?

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Does it need your real name?

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Does it need your real age and birthday?

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Does it need your real phone number?

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The answer is almost always probably not.

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You can use email platforms like Fastmail or systems like Google Voice

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to make throw away email addresses and throw away phone number.

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One of the easiest things that you can be doing is using a unique password

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and even a unique email address for every service that you use.

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A password manager will help you organize all of that

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and is generally safer than just using the same password everywhere.

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Also use two-factor authentication.

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I'm going to stop. I'm going to get off this topic now.

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Gavin Newsom has killed the vibe.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill

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which would have decriminalized natural hallucinogenics,

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think magic mushroom.

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The bill reached his desk and was supposed to be like,

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oh, this is good for medical stuff, so we should decriminalize it.

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And he was like, nah, let's actually do a whole bunch of extra regulation

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about how it can be used for medical stuff before we decriminalize it.

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Because that made a whole lot of sense for cannabis, right?

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Let's just do it again.

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That made sense.

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I'm a user of medical cannabis.

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The distinction between medical and recreational cannabis usage is fucking dumb.

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But we can't just go around decriminalizing things

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without finding a new way to replace it to get more people in jail.

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Got to keep the cash flowing.

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Bandcamp is not in a good way.

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If you're not familiar, Bandcamp is a popular online music marketplace

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mostly used by indie artists, but all sorts of folks, really.

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In March of 2022, Epic Games purchased Bandcamp for reasons.

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And in recently of now, Epic Games sold Bandcamp.

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Because reasons.

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But here's the thing.

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They sold Bandcamp.

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And that didn't necessarily include the employees.

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Suddenly, hundreds of Bandcamp employees found out

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that they didn't have a new job offer from the new owner of Bandcamp.

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And for a while, they just didn't have access to their systems anymore.

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And Bandcamp was just kind of existing without oversight.

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The new owners of Bandcamp are a music licensing company called Song Trader.

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And they haven't really explained what the hell is going to happen to Bandcamp.

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They had a Zoom meeting where they were like,

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oh, we're going to keep it friendly to artists.

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And then all the employees were like, cool, do I have a job?

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And they were like, I don't know.

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Weird.

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Universal Basic Income works.

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The Denver Basic Income Project has just published an interim report

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about six months in to a study they've been doing to see

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how does UBI affect people who need help.

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They have been working with three different payment plans.

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One is just a basic 50 bucks a month.

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But there's another that has a big upfront stipend

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and then routine payments of like 500 bucks.

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Their other plan is closer to a thousand dollars a month.

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And the idea is they're trying out different payment plans

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to see what kind of UBI gives the most impact for people.

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Only six months in, the results are inspiring.

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People are finding ways out of homelessness.

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They're getting jobs and able to enroll in classes,

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pay down debt and get out of the tents they've been sleeping in.

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It's almost like a great way to help people without means

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is to give them some means.

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You cannot budget your way out of poverty

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and you certainly can't budget your way out of poverty

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if you don't even have a home.

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This is not the first study of UBI

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and it's not the first study that shows that UBI works.

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Other cities have already done trial programs

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and they've all seen positive results.

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And the cost is a drop in the bucket

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compared to the alternative cost of

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paying a bunch of cops to keep shuffling homeless people place to place.

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We could save a lot of money

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by simply improving people's lives.

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Wild.

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On this day in 1799, the HMS Lutene sank in a storm

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while carrying about 1,200,000 great British pounds worth of gold

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and silver.

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We're talking about a stereotypical of lost treasure at sea as it gets.

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There were many attempts of salvaging both the ships and that booty

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but unfortunately the sea spread that booty all around the ocean floor.

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Said booty was kept in kind of makeshift barrels and whatnot

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that disintegrated nearly immediately

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so not a whole lot of it was recovered.

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But boy did people go through great lengths to touch that booty.

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Lightning round.

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Amazon's Alexa was claiming that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen

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citing right-wing outlets.

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It has reportedly since been fixed.

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Relatedly, Mike Lindell the MyPillowGuy is out of money

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and can no longer pay for his legal fees around the 2020 election fraud stuff.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is likely to leave the Democrat Party

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given that he's not very popular there and is running for president.

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Notably he's not particularly popular among the Democrats

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for his anti-vax and conspiracy stances.

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Some dude was charged for stalking a woman

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by flying his plane over her house routinely for like years

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and apparently sometimes throwing tomatoes out of his plane at her house.

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That's one way to do it.

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Don't do that.

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One of Metta's new AI chat bots is a relationship advice bot

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and it will kink shame you.

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If you don't adhere to heteronormative monogamous relationships,

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it's not interested.

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And finally for today, fashion company Prada will be helping in designing

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the next NASA spacesuits for an upcoming moon mission in 2025.

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

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My name is Endeavourance.

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I'll be back on Wednesday.

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Take care and be well.