Hello.
Absolutely nothing is out of the ordinary.
But stuff still happens.
So what's up?
Hey, be careful about the dentist if you do crimes.
Don't send selfies from the dentist.
This is wild.
Khan Gorgulu, amazing name, but it gets better,
sent a selfie to Giovanni Spada, his partner in crime.
Gorgulu was at the dentist
and he had the silly like dentist sunglasses on
where they're like shining a light in your face.
You know how the dentists just like to kind of like
open your mouth up and shove their fingers in there
and then ask you questions about like your entire life story?
He was in the middle of that and he sent a selfie
and his crime partner was probably like,
wow, those are some funny glasses.
I'm gonna forget about this until his crime partner got,
got and the cops were able to identify him as the partner.
So Khan thinking that he was just doing a funny
little goofy selfie is now in jail.
Just another reminder of how dangerous it can be to go
to the dentist, be afraid.
Now the two of them were, they were smuggling drugs, right?
That's the crimes that they were doing.
They were in the UK and they were smuggling cocaine and weed
and they were doing a lot of business.
It's the UK.
It's hard to live there without cocaine and weed.
So I am sorry that I'm sorry that the dentists
have ruined your fun, the UK.
Wow, Facebook invaded your privacy.
No one saw this happen before.
There are a bunch of articles about this
and they almost entirely bury the lead.
So I'm gonna try to not do that.
Facebook was snooping on people
and they did it by dooping people.
They weren't breaking into your phone.
They tricked you into giving you access to everything.
So here's what happened.
Facebook is a deeply insecure dude basically, right?
Like constantly is just trying to steal from everybody else
to make themselves be the most important one in the room.
But that gets increasingly hard
when they get outed for doing that.
And so one of the recent attempts
at undermining everything and spying on the competition
was to trick their users into installing a VPN
on their phones that just forwarded
all of their unencrypted data to Facebook.
This VPN was not branded as Facebook,
but it was pushed in the Facebook app.
And it is owned by Facebook
despite not being branded as owned by Facebook.
There's a part of a project called Project Ghostbusters
which was a very thinly veiled attempt
at undermining Snapchat,
one of their biggest competitors or threats.
However they see it.
This is part of why I hate all the recent VPN ads
that are everywhere right now.
VPNs do not just inherently make your data more secure.
That's not what they do.
They route your data through a third party.
It's all it does.
Now, maybe you trust that third party
more than your default ISP.
That's your call to make.
But if that third party is Facebook,
then all of your data is being routed through Facebook
and they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
Yup, here's a tip.
Your data is mostly secured by default.
I know that that sounds wild,
but like if you go to a website with HTTPS,
people aren't usually able to snoop on what you're doing.
Not without a fairly sophisticated attack.
Should you use a VPN that you trust?
Sure, go for it.
I do, but like, it's not required.
And it doesn't inherently make your data more secure.
It just gives someone else access to your data.
Anyway, fuck Facebook.
Stop doing that.
But never fear.
Now we are all learned users of the internet
and our data is perfectly secure.
Damn it.
AT&T has reset the pins slash pass codes,
not passwords to be clear,
for eight million customers, give or take.
This is in response to 73 million customers
having their data leaked.
So apparently back in 2019, there was a hacker
that was like, hey AT&T,
I have 73 million rows of data about your customers.
And AT&T was like, nah, we don't believe you.
Nah, you be calm with that.
And they were like, no, there's no proof of that.
You didn't do it.
Anyway, strange, 73 million customers from AT&T
have had their data breached by the hacker.
Just kind of posted online, sort of just shared.
Anyway, it's out there now.
It includes your home address,
your social security numbers, your pins, stuff like that.
A security researcher got in contact with Tech Crunch
and was like, hey, by the way,
this stuff is like nominally encrypted,
but it's very easy to just kind of suss out
what's going on here.
This is a problem.
Tech Crunch, the source of this story,
then went and contacted AT&T.
And AT&T was like, no, we don't know anything about that.
We don't see anything about a breach in our systems.
It was probably a third party.
Yeah, it was probably a third party vendor, everybody.
It was a third party vendor who leaked your data.
It's not our fault.
Nevermind that AT&T is the one
that you entrusted to shepherd your data
and should be aware of what their third parties are doing.
Anyway, they're looking into it.
TM, that's all.
I have a need for two things.
Education and speed.
A nine-year-old led cops in California
on a bit of a car chase,
because he wanted to go to school.
So the child who is a child
and whose name is not out there because they're a child,
I will refer to them as Jason Bourne.
They were trying to get to school
and so Bourne just kind of hopped into the car
and sped off during a stop at an intersection.
They apparently accelerated strangely or something.
And this cop was like, what's going on there?
And started to chase them down.
Jason Bourne then made a couple of turns,
led the cop on a small chase
before ultimately pulling into a parking lot
and then backing into the cop car.
This point, Jason Bourne was cornered
by the cop, by the one cop in the parking lot.
The cop got out and saw that there was a small child
in the car by himself and was like,
what the fuck is going on here?
This is sad.
Mr. Bourne apparently stuck his little head out the window
and shouted, I'm sorry, I'm trying to get to school.
Oh no, he just wanted an education.
Can't we have anything in this country?
Anyway, it turns out that the parking lot he pulled into
was one parking lot over from the school
he was trying to get to.
So he was so close, so close.
And they just kind of took him to school
and they were like, hey, parents, don't let this happen.
Signed the cops.
Lightning round, the attorney general of Missouri
is suing media matters after media matters
criticized Twitter for being super racist now
that Elon Musk is in charge, okay?
Kenda is almost out of their maple syrup reserves.
That's horrifying, but there's not expected
to be as short as just yet.
Just, whew, we're safe.
If you haven't heard or you missed my video on it,
the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore,
it doesn't exist anymore.
It got hit by a big boat and that's not what bridges
are supposed to do or that's not what boats
are supposed to do with a bridge.
It's gone now.
And of course, because Baltimore has a lot of black people,
conservatives are like, ah, the black people
are the reason that the bridge is gone.
And they're saying that the mayor is a DEI hire,
it's out of control, it's wild, y'all.
Like they drove CRT into the ground, now it's DEI.
Just say the n-word, have a fucking backbone
if you're gonna be a racist.
Thailand is possibly close to legalizing
same-sex marriage, possibly.
Contrasting that, the great nation of Best Buy
is crumbling to conservative pressure
after their employees have made donations
to queer rights groups.
Conservative think tanks with stakes in the company
are like, hey, how do queer rights help the company?
And stop doing that specifically.
Nevermind the whole, you know,
having your employees feel safe at work thing.
That can't, that's nothing.
Since no one ever listens to my advice,
New York City rolled out an AI chat bot
that's supposed to help small businesses
figure out small business policy stuff.
And it's been suggesting illegal things.
And the city is like, oh, it's a work in progress.
I just don't do the crimes that it tells you to do.
Remember all that hubbub about the room temperature
superconductor and everybody was like,
this is so real and it's gonna change the world
and it's so real.
And I was like, y'all, it's probably not real.
Yeah, it wasn't real.
And the guy who was doing that is now being charged
with like research malpractice.
Did I just say I told you so?
I mean, yeah, I think that was pretty clear.
This segment of the video is targeting explicitly
like three commenters who got all up in my shit
about how I was wrong.
Anyway, get fucked.
RFK has named his running mate
for his 2024 presidential campaign.
It is a rich big tech lawyer
that he appointed as his running mate.
Reminder that it's like statistically impossible
for RFK to win.
So, I mean, whatever.
Sam Bankman Freed, the guy that was behind FTX
and their massive implosion in the crypto space
has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
And the courtroom art of that sentencing is hysterical.
As of the latest patch in Stardew Valley,
you can now adopt additional pets,
which means you can now get multiple little goobers
running around your farm.
I need them.
I need them now.
I've got a friend who has already 100%
at Stardew Valley since 1.6 dropped.
They're okay, I think.
Horizon Forbidden West has been ported to PCs
and also Steam Deck.
So you can play it on the Steam Deck.
You can go shoot robot dinosaurs
in a post-apocalyptic world on the toilet now.
Born just in time.
Born just in time, let me tell you.
And finally for today,
the Groundhogs Day Groundhog, Puxitani Phil
and his partner Phyllis have welcomed two baby Groundhogs.
That's adorable.
I think we should just all be happy about that.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode
of Stuff Keeps Happening.
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My name is Endeavorance.
I'll be back on Monday.
Take care and be well.