Hello.
I defeated Andross's true form, but stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Hey, maybe don't send your literal DNA samples to a tech company.
Genetic testing company 23andMe has suffered a massive user data breach,
including user information associated with their genetic data.
The hackers who stole the data have posted it online for sale
and seem to be explicitly targeting Jews and other ethnic minorities.
This is a great example of why the
I don't need privacy because I've got nothing to hide argument falls short of anything.
And even if you think you have nothing to hide,
people that you know and love might have something to hide
and can be derived from your data.
If you use an unencrypted messaging app to tell somebody
that someone else you know got an abortion in America,
you're putting them at risk.
But I digress into a tangent.
That doesn't normally work that way.
But please, consider what websites actually need to know about you.
Does it need your real email?
Does it need your real name?
Does it need your real age and birthday?
Does it need your real phone number?
The answer is almost always probably not.
You can use email platforms like Fastmail or systems like Google Voice
to make throw away email addresses and throw away phone number.
One of the easiest things that you can be doing is using a unique password
and even a unique email address for every service that you use.
A password manager will help you organize all of that
and is generally safer than just using the same password everywhere.
Also use two-factor authentication.
I'm going to stop. I'm going to get off this topic now.
Gavin Newsom has killed the vibe.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill
which would have decriminalized natural hallucinogenics,
think magic mushroom.
The bill reached his desk and was supposed to be like,
oh, this is good for medical stuff, so we should decriminalize it.
And he was like, nah, let's actually do a whole bunch of extra regulation
about how it can be used for medical stuff before we decriminalize it.
Because that made a whole lot of sense for cannabis, right?
Let's just do it again.
That made sense.
I'm a user of medical cannabis.
The distinction between medical and recreational cannabis usage is fucking dumb.
But we can't just go around decriminalizing things
without finding a new way to replace it to get more people in jail.
Got to keep the cash flowing.
Bandcamp is not in a good way.
If you're not familiar, Bandcamp is a popular online music marketplace
mostly used by indie artists, but all sorts of folks, really.
In March of 2022, Epic Games purchased Bandcamp for reasons.
And in recently of now, Epic Games sold Bandcamp.
Because reasons.
But here's the thing.
They sold Bandcamp.
And that didn't necessarily include the employees.
Suddenly, hundreds of Bandcamp employees found out
that they didn't have a new job offer from the new owner of Bandcamp.
And for a while, they just didn't have access to their systems anymore.
And Bandcamp was just kind of existing without oversight.
The new owners of Bandcamp are a music licensing company called Song Trader.
And they haven't really explained what the hell is going to happen to Bandcamp.
They had a Zoom meeting where they were like,
oh, we're going to keep it friendly to artists.
And then all the employees were like, cool, do I have a job?
And they were like, I don't know.
Weird.
Universal Basic Income works.
The Denver Basic Income Project has just published an interim report
about six months in to a study they've been doing to see
how does UBI affect people who need help.
They have been working with three different payment plans.
One is just a basic 50 bucks a month.
But there's another that has a big upfront stipend
and then routine payments of like 500 bucks.
Their other plan is closer to a thousand dollars a month.
And the idea is they're trying out different payment plans
to see what kind of UBI gives the most impact for people.
Only six months in, the results are inspiring.
People are finding ways out of homelessness.
They're getting jobs and able to enroll in classes,
pay down debt and get out of the tents they've been sleeping in.
It's almost like a great way to help people without means
is to give them some means.
You cannot budget your way out of poverty
and you certainly can't budget your way out of poverty
if you don't even have a home.
This is not the first study of UBI
and it's not the first study that shows that UBI works.
Other cities have already done trial programs
and they've all seen positive results.
And the cost is a drop in the bucket
compared to the alternative cost of
paying a bunch of cops to keep shuffling homeless people place to place.
We could save a lot of money
by simply improving people's lives.
Wild.
On this day in 1799, the HMS Lutene sank in a storm
while carrying about 1,200,000 great British pounds worth of gold
and silver.
We're talking about a stereotypical of lost treasure at sea as it gets.
There were many attempts of salvaging both the ships and that booty
but unfortunately the sea spread that booty all around the ocean floor.
Said booty was kept in kind of makeshift barrels and whatnot
that disintegrated nearly immediately
so not a whole lot of it was recovered.
But boy did people go through great lengths to touch that booty.
Lightning round.
Amazon's Alexa was claiming that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen
citing right-wing outlets.
It has reportedly since been fixed.
Relatedly, Mike Lindell the MyPillowGuy is out of money
and can no longer pay for his legal fees around the 2020 election fraud stuff.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is likely to leave the Democrat Party
given that he's not very popular there and is running for president.
Notably he's not particularly popular among the Democrats
for his anti-vax and conspiracy stances.
Some dude was charged for stalking a woman
by flying his plane over her house routinely for like years
and apparently sometimes throwing tomatoes out of his plane at her house.
That's one way to do it.
Don't do that.
One of Metta's new AI chat bots is a relationship advice bot
and it will kink shame you.
If you don't adhere to heteronormative monogamous relationships,
it's not interested.
And finally for today, fashion company Prada will be helping in designing
the next NASA spacesuits for an upcoming moon mission in 2025.
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