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Hello. I did a verb to a random noun, but stuff still happens.

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So what's up? You're green.

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Dab-a-dee-dab-a-di. That's not the lyrics.

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After years of holding out, Apple has finally announced that they will be adding RCS support to iMessage.

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But what does that mean?

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You know how if you're using iMessage and somebody on Android texts you, it's green bubble bad times?

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Well, that's gonna be a little less painful now, because RCS is like a text message, but it allows, like, rich content.

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So while texting people on Android from iOS, you'll now get, like, typing indicators and reactions and better media support.

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It won't feel so trash.

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However, Apple has announced that they will still be green.

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They're still gonna single them out, because frankly, it's an extremely good marketing campaign.

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Single people out who aren't like you buy our product so you can be cool, he said, holding an iPhone.

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Slightly interesting and maybe related, the company Nothing, who makes some like cell phones and earbuds and stuff, they're like hipster device company.

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They recently announced Nothing Chats, which was going to work on Android and allow you to message iMessage people.

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So they were gonna, they just announced that they were gonna fix the problem themselves.

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And how were they going to do that?

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Partnering with a company who has a giant server farm of Mac Minis somewhere that log into iCloud on your behalf and perform actions.

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So like literally give us your login information and we'll log in for you and like route your messages on your behalf.

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That's kind of weird.

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So it's not great.

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And I hope that Apple's update makes that less of a thing.

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Sorry to the people who built that, but no.

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Shock and horror and who could have seen this coming.

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Elon Musk is an asshole and like continues to show us just how much as Elon has recently tweeted in strong support of a deeply anti-semitic take.

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I'm not going to show the original post because it is gross, but he essentially responded to a like anti-semitic great replacement theory type post by saying,

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You speak the actual truth.

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And then after receiving criticism for the anti-semitism he's fostering, he lashed out at his critics.

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He continues to claim that anti-semitism on the platform is being like made up by media organizations that are out to get him while also then posting direct anti-semitism.

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It does not take a whole lot of scrolling through his replies to see just how happy he has made literal Nazis.

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And so in response, a whole bunch of personalities and companies are pulling out of Twitter.

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Finally, I mean, they've been doing that, but there's still a lot of holdouts.

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Hell, even IBM has pulled all of their ads from Twitter saying that they quote,

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suspended all advertising on X while they investigate this entirely unacceptable situation.

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If you weren't aware, IBM collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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And this is still too much for them.

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I know that people like to say that they're on Twitter because of the porn.

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I know people like to say they're on Twitter because they have their network there and it's hard to move.

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I know if someone came to me and told me you should get off TikTok, I'd be like, no, but you should really get off of Twitter.

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It is a sinking ship that is on fire and being piloted by a bunch of hate.

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Now, I understand that simultaneously every single social network has major, major issues, but it's just Twitter.

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And if you think it's an act of defiance to stay on Twitter, I don't know what to tell you.

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It's really not what I can tell you to try to make this a little easier to hear is that if you are on Twitter and you're hesitant to move,

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I can tell you that everyone on threads and Macedon and everywhere else that I have seen people moving to have been like, oh my God,

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my interactions are much better here.

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Like literally everyone's just like, I don't understand.

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I have like half the followers I used to have, but I'm getting way more engagement.

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What's going on?

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The answer is people aren't just fucking mad and hating everything.

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Well, they are moving on.

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This is a reminder that Democrats suck too.

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This is a secondary reminder.

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I am not a centrist.

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This past Wednesday, there was a peaceful protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza staged out front of the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Footage of the protest shows protesters locking arms, singing songs, wearing shirts, saying ceasefire now and calling for a ceasefire.

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Cops then showed up and attempted to disperse the crowd by beating them,

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dragging them, running over them with bikes and pepper spraying them.

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The cops showed up and began becoming violent.

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And when the crowd was trying to not get hurt by the cops, the cops were then like, oh, the crowd is violent.

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Politicians, cops, and the media are joining hands in making this out to be a thing where the protesters were horrible and violent.

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The Democrats inside of the DNC headquarters likened this situation to January 6th.

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I have read multiple articles that go at length about how six police officers were injured with scrapes and bruises and one of them got pepper sprayed.

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Meanwhile, over 90 protesters were injured by the cops, the protesters that have been called violent,

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and likened to January 6th by the own representatives that they were trying to plead to, pleading to the representatives to call for peace in Gaza.

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Here's a third reminder.

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Under the leadership of Democrats, we have lost abortion rights.

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They have rolled back queer rights across the country.

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They expanded Trump's border wall.

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They are funding a genocide in Gaza.

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Marriage equality, both interracial and queer marriage, are at risk.

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This isn't to say that things wouldn't be worse under Republican leadership,

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but this should show you that Democrats are not fighting for the people.

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They are fighting for your votes so they can continue to take as much money as possible from lobbyists.

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Lobbyists who then decide what they vote for.

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We're already in a situation where robots are deciding our fate.

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According to a lawsuit filed against United Health, which is the biggest health insurance company in America,

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they're using an AI to determine who gets and does not get coverage, and it doesn't work very well.

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Well, if you ask them, it probably works great.

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The AI that they are using is called NHPredict, and is apparently supposed to look at case files

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compared against a big database of, I guess, previous case files,

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and then determine whether or not they still get coverage for what they're asking for.

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This is most prevalently affecting elderly patients who are in elderly care facilities

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and getting help with elderly care things.

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While they're supposed to be insured to be able to stay at nursing facilities and receive aid and whatnot,

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assisted living, the AI says,

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Eh, nah, I don't think so, actually.

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The AI is apparently not quite up to snuff in terms of navigating the intense complexity of human health,

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and it ignores stuff like comorbidities.

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You know, that little thing.

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Routinely, doctors are saying that the coverage is just randomly stopping well before it's medically recommended,

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and they can't actually get any insight into the decisions being made

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because the company just says, oh, the AI information is proprietary.

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We can't share it with you.

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We can't explain to you why this machine says that you have to go bankrupt for your medical expenses.

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But of course, this is deeply unsurprising.

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Health insurance companies are for profit,

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and their goal is to deny as much coverage as possible while still legally being considered health insurance.

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That is the optimization that they're going for, and that is what this AI does,

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and this allows them to say, don't blame us, it's the AI.

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Making all those tough decisions about how to optimize who does and doesn't get health care

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so that we can maximize profits.

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Not maximizing the health and well-being of the nation, maximizing profits.

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On this day in 1810, Sweden declared war on Great Britain,

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sparking a two-year-long war called the Anglo-Swedish War of 1810 to 1812.

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That's just math, baby.

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The war was extremely bloody and...

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Actually, never mind. There was no battles.

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It was a bloodless war.

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They didn't really do anything about it.

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They were just like, ah, we're at war!

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And then they forgot, I guess.

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English ships remained docked at Swedish ports because they still had to do trade and whatnot,

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and no one really did anything about that.

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In fact, the only people who died in this quote-unquote war

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were farmers who were uprising against conscription efforts from Sweden.

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They declared war, did nothing about it, except killing some of their own citizens

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because they didn't want to go to war.

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Great governing.

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Lightning round.

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Snoop Dogg has announced that he is giving up smoking,

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and he asks for privacy in his life around that decision.

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YouTube has launched a feature where you can tell an AI to create a fake song

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in the style of a famous singer.

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I don't like it.

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Online pet store Chewy has laid off 200 employees.

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This past Wednesday and Thursday, thousands of Starbucks employees walked off the job

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in protest of horrible working conditions, despite massively increased sales.

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Derek Chauvin, the murderer who murdered George Floyd,

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is once again seeking to have his murder charge overturned.

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An artist in Russia did a protest against the ongoing war against Ukraine,

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and has now been sentenced to seven years in prison.

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In America, life expectancy for men is now six years less than for women.

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This is the largest the gap has been since the mid-90s.

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The Super Mario RPG remake is out today.

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Yahoo!

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That was terrible.

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And finally for today, after sweeping the awards, including Game of the Year,

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Baldur's Gate 3 developers Larian Studios are like super excited about how well their game is doing,

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and terrified about trying to uphold that legacy.

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They're excited to talk about new games, but they're also like,

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ah, that was a big release.

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A programming note for you from me.

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I'm going to be taking a couple of weeks off from Stuff Keeps Happening.

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My plan is to return to this show December 6th.

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The reason for that is I have a lot of irons in the fire,

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and an upcoming trip to Pax Unplugged in Philadelphia December 1st through 3rd.

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I would love to see you there.

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I am launching a new podcast alongside the incredible Diana of the Rose,

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and that's happening like very, very soon.

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So I want to be able to focus on that,

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focus on a few other projects that I have going on,

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and get ready for Pax without having to also juggle making Stuff Keeps Happening,

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and I don't want to compromise quality if I don't have to.

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So instead, I'm hitting pause for a few weeks.

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I'll be back on the 6th, and I hope to see you then.

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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 a free dental care.

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My name is Endeavorance.

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This show will be back on December 6th, but I will not be gone.

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Head to endeavorance.camp to find all of the stuff that I am doing.

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But regardless, I will see you on the 6th, take care, and be well.