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But stuff still happened.
So what's up? Medical science.
They did it again, those crafty fuckers.
So long COVID sucks, right?
And every time you get COVID,
you have an increased chance of getting long COVID.
It's not great.
Long COVID can have a whole bunch of different symptoms,
and not the least of which is brain fog,
which also happens during normal COVID.
I can say for sure that's a symptom.
It sucked. It wasn't great.
I didn't like it.
But scientists found why that happens.
Neat.
It happens because the blood vessels in your brain
are leaking, not neat.
They did MRI scans of long COVID patients,
both with and without brain fog.
And what they saw was that the patients who had brain fog
had decreased integrity in the blood vessels in their brain,
and they were leaking. Yeah.
Now, you don't need to freak out.
It's not like brain bleed bad.
Like it's not like that.
But it's also not great, but it's also kind of good.
Because now we know what it is, and we can potentially treat it.
So thank you, Science Folks, for doing that research
and making that discovery.
I was busy, so I couldn't do it.
So thank you for picking that one up.
Yeah. Weird.
Crafting policy based on misguided religious beliefs
is a bad idea.
Alabama's Supreme Court has ruled that embryos are people,
like whole-ass people, with rights.
Embryos, as in a small clump of cells
that more often than not, don't make it.
Embryos, which are generated in fertility clinics
during IVF treatments, and often need to be discarded
for various mundane reasons.
With this ruling, fertility clinics in Alabama
are not sure how the hell they can continue going on.
They basically need to be able to create a bunch of embryos
so that one of them might be viable.
And so they're like, well, if these are people,
if this is murder, we can't exist.
To be clear, this is not an abortion clinic.
This is a clinic that's trying to help people have babies.
They're trying to make them.
And they are now suffering because of the weird
religious rights fascination
with stripping all of your bodily autonomy.
A veritable cornucopia of old white men
have been thrilled with this decision.
For no reason.
Like, for nothing.
They are simply walking around incapable
of bringing their wives to orgasm,
and so they're mad at the world.
Alabama Senator and sentient raisin Tommy Tuberville
stated his emphatic support for this decision.
They quote, we need more kids.
We need people to have an opportunity to have kids.
Upon being informed that IVF treatment
is explicitly a thing that exists
to give people the opportunity to have kids,
he said, and I quote,
well, I haven't studied the issue.
I'm not here to say that your religion isn't valid.
I'm not here to say that you can't have your religion.
You can't benefit from it.
It can't generate community
and it can't give you guidance in life.
But what I am saying is that it is unacceptable
to attempt to use the cudgel of the state
to enforce the rules of your religion on other people.
That's fucking gross.
Stop it.
Last week, chat GPT had a bit of a crisis.
Not like an existential crisis
of it gaining sentience and questioning reality.
It's not capable of doing that.
It just shit the bit.
Out of nowhere, GPT-4 just started to spit out
absolute nonsense in response to props.
Like, just completely unhinged shit.
Non sequiturs, just repeating words.
Absolute gibberish.
Kind of hilarious, actually.
Now, as a reminder,
any tech person outside of the AI bro sphere would tell you,
AI, as we see it right now,
is basically just fancy autocomplete.
It is the functional equivalent
of tapping the middle suggestion on your phone's keyboard
constantly and then just sending someone
what came out of that.
Only instead of just training it on your text messages,
it's trained on everyone's text messages
and stolen information.
But just like any piece of software,
it is capable of just bugging the hell out.
And so recently, it started saying things such as, quote,
lift off the gather and vindicate the things
to be seen as centermosts for the meat.
Cool, very artificial, very intelligent.
And so for a day, it just kind of shat the bed continuously,
just giving people gibberish answers.
Anyway, let's make that control our dating life
because Match Group, a tech conglomerate
that owns Tinder, Hinge, OKCupid, Match.com,
and like 12 other dating apps,
has just signed a deal with OpenAI
to integrate chat GPT into their company.
They got themselves a thousand enterprise licenses
and they're gonna equip their workforce
with this technology and they're telling you,
straight up, you don't need to work.
Here's a quote from their announcement, quote,
don't worry, we're not letting all this excitement
get to our heads.
Our love story with AI comes with a promise of responsibility.
Think of it as a prenup with technology.
I hate that.
Now, I wanna be clear, AI has been in your dating app
for quite some time.
In fact, AI has been powering a lot of the things
that we just use daily for the better part of the last decade.
It's just not this generative AI.
AI has been helping with medical research,
it's been doing data processing,
all sorts of stuff for quite a while.
We've been taking these neural networks
and training them to solve a specific problem.
But this isn't that.
GPT and generative AI, as we see it right now,
is trying to be general purpose
and because of that, everyone's trying to figure out
how to use it, whether or not they actually need to.
And the answer is they don't need, they do not,
they don't need to.
So where before, in AI was simply just a computer
that was told like, hey, here are some patterns,
can you help find more of these patterns?
And it was like, yeah, I can do that.
Now it's, hey, computer, can you tell me what to think?
And the computer's like, all right,
here's just like a jumble of a bunch of words, maybe?
Does this look good?
Do you like this?
Do you love me?
So the chat GPT about to help you come up
with a better opener, probably not.
I don't know if anyone is capable of that.
My advice to you as always
is to simply just text someone, hey, works every time.
Lightning round.
Capital one is trying to buy Discover,
the like financial network for $35 billion.
If I could just get one of them billions,
like just 35 of those billions,
can I get like one of them?
The CEO of Tumblr is in hot water for a whole bunch
of reasons that like, I'm not gonna get into the specifics,
but I do wanna read one thing.
Long story short, he pissed off the trans community
on Tumblr, which is Tumblr.
And part of it was because a user posted what he said
was a credible threat against his life.
Here's what they posted.
The offending post said that they hope that, quote,
the CEO dies a forever painful death
involving a car covered in hammers
that explodes more than a few times
and hammers go flying everywhere.
Gotta watch out for those credible death threats.
In an attempt to get ahead of the impending
cryptographic apocalypse that is quantum computing,
Apple is upgrading the security of iMessage encryption.
That was a really like technologically dense sentence.
And but it was real.
CPAC happened again.
It's the conservative convention
and they just openly hosted Nazis.
Like people who were like, yes, I am a Nazi.
Not even trying to hide it.
They were like, they were welcomed with open arms.
Shocking, another famous woman on the internet
had more deep fake news circulating on Twitter.
Weird how that keeps happening.
Wisconsin in the US has signed a new legislative map
that's going to reduce their extreme gerrymandering
asmich.
Vice News has announced that they're stopping that.
They're not gonna post on vice.com anymore.
Just gone. Elden Things DLC comes out in June,
June 21st, 2024.
I want it.
There's a measles outbreak in Florida,
which is not shocking because the surgeon general
of Florida advocates against vaccinations.
Just so you're aware,
the average measles patient infects 18 people.
So Google's AI was trying a little too hard to be inclusive.
And when people were asking for imagery of Nazis,
it rendered black women as Nazis.
Reddit is filing for an IPO after all the dumb bullshit
they've been pulling.
And as part of their filing papers,
it came out that they paid their CEO $193 million
in compensation last year.
Reddit is not profitable to be clear.
A man checked the Powerball website
and saw that he had won.
Only to find out later on that the numbers
that were posted on the website were not right.
They were inaccurate.
And now he's suing.
And finally for today, Cape Town, South Africa
recently had a horrifying smell overtake their whole city.
And they were looking for the source,
checking the sewers and everything.
Turns out it was a boat that was docked at the harbor
filled with cattle, which ha ha funny bad smells,
but also animal abuse.
Don't do that.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode
of Stuff Keeps Happening.
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