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Hello.

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I waited 30 minutes after eating to swim.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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They went ahead and did it.

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They made the Doc Ock arms backpack thing.

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They shouldn't have done that.

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They shouldn't have done that.

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Researchers at KinLab, the Kinetic Intelligence Machine Lab at the University of Illinois,

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made this backpack ass thing that's got four arms that are robot arms that follow your movement and oh my god,

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this is the beginning of the end?

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It's actually not that big of a deal.

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The arms just kind of waggle around right now.

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It reads your upper body movement and the arms are just kind of like...

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...

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That's the sound of the arms.

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It's very much a prototype and the idea is that they're gonna do some like exoskeleton augmented human capability stuff.

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But I would I would recommend just being ready to run at any moment.

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Once they team up with Boston Dynamics and put one of these things on those robot dogs, it's game over.

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The verdict is in.

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Elon Musk is most deaf-killing Twitter.

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According to newly published analytics from research firm SimilarWeb,

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Twitter global traffic is down 14% year over year.

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And that's global and just the desktop traffic and the US loan traffic is down 19%.

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Mobile Twitter traffic is down 17.8% and for context,

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the average of the other services tracked by this group are only down 3.7% year over year.

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The major outlier here is TikTok which is up 22.8%.

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You're welcome TikTok.

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It's all me.

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It's all...

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It's all me.

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Good news for ol' Muskie though

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because despite all the traffic going down,

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traffic specifically to Elon Musk's profile is up 96% year over year.

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I guess he got what he wanted.

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Speaker of the House?

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Never heard of it.

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Best I can do is talker of the apartment.

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The US Republican-led House of Representatives is still in absolute disarray

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as they haven't been able to elect a new speaker.

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This is not normal.

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Electing a speaker is a formality.

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We don't have a Speaker of the House.

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This doesn't happen.

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Anyway, Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, is still trying to become Speaker

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despite having lost more votes on his second attempt of doing that.

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He's apparently gonna go for three and is expected to lose even more votes.

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And also, holdouts against him are now receiving death threats

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which is part of why they're like,

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I don't think this is a good idea.

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A lot of people in his party see it dangerous to put him in such a high position of power

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considering that he's...

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very far right.

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It would make him second in line for the presidency, to be clear.

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Without a Speaker of the House, we can't pass laws.

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And there's another deadline coming up for the government shutting down

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without being able to pass a law.

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And so, the Freedom Caucus, who orchestrated this whole catastrophe,

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are happy regardless, because they want to just shut the government down.

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Like, that's their goal.

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Now, ha ha, yay, shutting the government down and all,

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but to be clear, these are fascists doing it.

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It's not the kind of shutdown you want.

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Anyway, bonus tidbit.

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Be smart about this one.

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There's rhetoric going around about Jim Jordan and how he's been in Congress for 17 years

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and has never passed any legislation.

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This is murky at best.

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I want to be clear that I'm not out here defending Jim Jordan.

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He's a piece of shit who likely covered up sexual assault against students that he oversaw

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when he was a collegiate coach.

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At the same time, this argument is not very helpful, because it's not entirely true.

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He has co-sponsored bills that have passed,

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and he has sponsored resolutions that passed but aren't technically bills.

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So, you can say that he has never sponsored legislation that became law,

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but that's also kind of only half the story.

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He is obnoxious, he is unfit, he is a horrible person,

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there are plenty of things to hit him on that are far more direct than that rhetoric.

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But regardless, fuck him.

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In a rare late-night televised speech from the Oval Office,

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Joe Biden made an announcement that he is seeking over $100 billion of additional aid

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to send to Israel and Ukraine.

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The number he is seeking is $105 billion to send that way.

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He says that it's America's job to hold the world together,

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and that we have to send this money to Israel because it is a matter of national security for the U.S.

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I'm sure it is, Joe.

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Unrelated, it is estimated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development

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that it would cost about $20 billion to end homelessness in America.

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Unrelated, the U.S. is projected to spend up to $6 trillion a year

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on our current health care system.

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Whereas virtually all research into the subject shows that a Medicare-for-all solution

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to health care in America would significantly reduce both government spending

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and average health care spending per person.

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While taxes would go up slightly, it is also estimated that the average person

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would end up with more cash in their pocket due to the cut spending of ridiculous medical pricing.

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But related, I don't live in fucking Israel,

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and I don't support Israel's assault on the people of Gaza.

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I don't support that Israel is currently bombing the place they told civilians to seek shelter.

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I am not quite keen on the idea of my money going towards an ethnic cleansing

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by a government that has been trying to establish an ethnostate

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in a region that has historically played home to a wide variety of religions and ethnicities.

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But what do I know? If I can't see the connection between killing innocent civilians across the world

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and my own country's national security, maybe I'm just not cut out for the job.

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On this day, in 1973, the Sydney Opera House opened for the first time.

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Queen Elizabeth, the one that kicked it last year,

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she opened up the building that is now seen as a hallmark of modern architecture.

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The facility is apparently capable of hosting more than 1,500 acts a year, which is bzonkers.

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Lightning Round.

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YouTube is reportedly working on an AI tool that will let creators record themselves

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using the voices of famous musicians, and they're seeking the legal rights to be able to do that.

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The FCC is moving forward with a plan to reestablish net neutrality in the US

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after the Trump administration removed it, despite major public outcry.

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The Tesla Cybertruck has been delayed again, and Elon Musk stated that

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Tesla dug its own grave with the Cybertruck, which doesn't make any...

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It's his stupid idea.

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According to claims from the FBI, North Korea has been giving IT workers in their country

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false credentials to then work remotely for US corporations,

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take in their salaries, and then use that to fund weapon programs.

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I knew remote work was dangerous.

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That was a joke. Remote work is the future.

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Stop requiring people to go back into the office.

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Sydney Powell, a co-conspirator with Trump and the whole election fraud thing

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and the big case in Georgia, has taken a plea deal.

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She's pled guilty and will be testifying against her co-defendants, including Trump.

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Nokia will be laying off up to 14,000 people as their telecom infrastructure sales have started to drop.

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23andMe was hit by a second major hack, with more user information being leaked.

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It is advised that if you've ever used 23andMe, you should change all of your passwords.

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This is a reminder to use a different password and even different email address for every service that you use.

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I recommend using Bitwarden as a password manager.

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You can also look into PassKeys, which is a new technology that's looking to basically replace passwords

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by just using your actual phone to store a cryptographically secure key to get you access to your accounts,

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your phone, your device, really any device.

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Google and Apple are both rolling out PassKeys on their platforms.

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You can just search PassKeys and learn more about it.

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And finally for today, John Stewart's show on Apple TV has been abruptly cancelled,

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reportedly due to his coverage of AI and China.

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Weird how a tech company with a media arm is interested in censoring negative topics about China and AI.

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Weird.

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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,

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and an in-depth guide on how to do a kickflip McQuist.

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My name is Endeavorance.

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Take care and be well.