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Hello. My name is Professor Backbitches, but stuff still happens.

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So what's up? It's Earth Day! Earth Day! I made a whole day for it. Wild.

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It's Earth Day. Uh, we're on a rock in space. It's Earth Day. It's a day on Earth. Moving on!

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You've probably seen ads for the AI pin, and if not, congratulations, you're living a better

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life than I am. The long story short, a bunch of AI tech bros poured a bunch of money into a company

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called Humane that was making a pin that is an AI pin. They were like, hey, what if we took Siri

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and put it on your lapel and made it slow and worse? This product is supposed to be like the

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next evolution after smartphones. That's what they're building it as. And it's like device that

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sits on your lapel and you can like press a button and it has a mic and you talk to it and it sends

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what you ask to the cloud and then chat gpt does things. And it does basically nothing. Like it

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can't schedule a calendar event, for example, but it can look at what's in front of you and tell you

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what you're looking at, which is like cool from an accessibility perspective. But that's like

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not what this is trying to be. This is a $700 device with a $25 a month subscription that

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doesn't connect to your phone and doesn't use your existing phone number. It's not good. Anyway,

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yeah, basically everybody was like, this device looks like it's gonna bomb. And then it came out

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to reviewers and reviewers just absolutely destroyed it. So much so that MKBHD when he reviewed it

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called it the worst new product he's ever reviewed. And that was so harsh that a bunch of business

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boys were like, these reviewers are being too mean. Bad reviews kill a product as if products have

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an inherent divine right to exist and be successful, maybe make a better product than what you made.

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Because it's bad. I distinctly remember seeing an ad for this thing on TikTok and they were like,

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look at our new Google Calendar integration. It can tell you what the next event on your

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specifically just Google Calendar is. And this woman was like, look how easy it is. What's the

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next event on my calendar? And then it got back to her. Like I remember watching it in real time

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and being like, there's no way, there's no way they recorded this. And they were like, this is a

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good idea to post. Anyway, while Boeing, a paragon of safety, after a year of a bunch of planes not

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really staying in one piece during flight, Boeing is now under renewed scrutiny, possibly also because

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of the whistleblower that was like, hey, things aren't good at Boeing. And then that whistleblower

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was no longer alive. But a different whistleblower who is still alive recently testified in front

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of Congress, Sam Sallapore said that he had been at Boeing for 17 years. And he brought safety

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concerns to his superiors. And they were like, shut up, get back to work and stop saying things

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that might cost us money. And so Congress is like, oh, wow, that sounds bad. We should fix that.

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And the FAA was like, we want to get on in this. Okay, let's, I am very concerned about Boeing.

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Note to the audience, they're not concerned about Boeing. They're concerned about Boeing having a

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bad image because Boeing is a very important company to the US government. So too big, too fair.

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Yeah, I mean, Boeing, like, they make a lot of stuff and the US is not keen to be like, we're

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gonna punish Boeing. And that's, I mean, that's partially why Boeing gets away with what they

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get away with. But hey, maybe, maybe, just maybe, they can at least pretend to care enough to make

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it such that there's policy that says, hey, if you make commercial airliners more often than not,

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your airplane should land with all of the pieces it took off with. I feel like, I feel like we

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can come together and agree on this. I'm starting this segment off with a warning. If you come to

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my comments, and you make a joke about how Google's slogan used to be, don't be evil, I'm preempting

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your joke here. Google has fired 28 employees after a sit-in in protest against a $1.2 billion

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contract that Google has with Israel. It's called Project Nimbus. It is cloud infrastructure stuff

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for Israel. It's essentially a bunch of employees were like, Hey, I don't like the idea of my work

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being used to promote apartheid and genocide. And Google was like, why? There's money. And so a

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bunch of employees across multiple offices performed protests, sit-ins in meeting rooms and offices and

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whatnot. And they basically were just like, stop doing this. They were then arrested and fired.

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Cool. Chris Ricalewall, Google's head of global security, had the following to say, quote,

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The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you're one of the few who are

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tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. This man

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straight up said, look at all of your coworkers. See how they sit down and shut up. Why aren't you

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doing the same? Real cool. Real cool. Do the right thing, everyone. Never cause a stir. Don't stand

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up for your morals and never demand more of your employer. It is important to remember our place

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and to accept that things are how they are. And we have absolutely no control nor influence over

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anything. And as long as we all believe that, it will remain true. I literally forgot about the

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Apple Vision Pro. It came, it was everywhere. It was all over my 4U page. A bunch of dumb dinguses

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walking around with a thing on their face. And they're like, haha, it's so revolutionary. And

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they all returned it like a week later. Anyway, it's still a thing. And apparently the tech was

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sound. It just doesn't have a use case. But Kimmy G, a tech reporter at Mashable recently

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tried to use the device on a trip. They were like, hey, okay, I want to go on vacation. And

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flying is stressful. Maybe the Vision Pro will let me have a more comfortable experience. Nope.

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No. So here's the thing. It's supposed to be a spatial computer. That's like how they are

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portraying this device. When you're sitting in an airplane seat with no room whatsoever,

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there's not much space to compute. Doing gestures isn't really going to work. And if you like,

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look away or down or anything, it just, it can't really track. And so it just falls apart. And so

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this notion of like, oh, put on this headset and you'll have a cinema like experience while you're

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on the plane. No, not really. But also it just, it's still just, it just looks, it just looks so dumb.

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It looks so bad. My understanding is that it's actually a pretty technologically impressive

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device. That's what everybody seems to be like, wow, the hand tracking is amazing. The eye tracking

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is amazing. What do I do with it? Between this and the AI pin, it's just like, we made smartphones

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and, and like that worked. That was really good. And then that broke every tech person's brain.

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They're like, okay, so we know that there's some combination of components. And if we cram them

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all together, everyone will change the entirety of reality to be around our product. But how do

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we do that? What components do we need? And where do we strap the screen to your face? Yes. Gaming news.

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Hey gamers, it's gaming news time. Uh, here we go. Twitch is planning to roll out a TikTok-like

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discovery feed to everyone soon, which is good because discovery on Twitch is trash. Any,

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any attempt at fixing that is good. We got another look at Hades 2 and it looks hype,

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and they made the gods even hotter somehow. Baldur's Gate 3 won the BAFTA Game of the Year

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award, which makes it the first game to sweep every major game of the year award, beating out even

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Elden Ring. After the brutal layoffs at Bungie last year, a bunch of former leads on Destiny have

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gotten together and made a new game company. We will see how that goes. Sturdy Valley got

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another content update. Again, again. And hey, uh, City of Skyl- I'm talking to uh,

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I'm talking to Cities by Diana here specifically. I'm so sorry about Cities Skylines 2, and also I

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know that your handle is no longer Cities by Diana, but still. Um, Cities Skylines 2 has been kind of a

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huge disappointment, and they had a big DLC recently that was also a huge disappointment, and they're

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like apologizing. Rough. Like, uh, that sucks. Lightning round? Did you know that hedgehogs can

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inflate? That's a thing. They can apparently get air trapped under their skin. And some people on a

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bus in the UK saw an inflated hedgehog and reported it, and it was saved. They deflated it. Elon Musk

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wants to make it so that if you're a paying member of Twitter, his AI can write tweets for you.

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Vietnam has sentenced a billionaire to death for essentially swindling $44 billion from their

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economy. Let's uh, let's do that. More. Giancarlo Esposito, the person who played Gus in Breaking

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Bad, apparently once considered arranging his own murder so his children could get the insurance

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money. But then he landed the part. Tesla has recalled all 3,878 cyber trucks that have been

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delivered because you can get the accelerator stuck in the full down position. YouTube is rolling

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out a design change for their desktop website. It's not, it's a big shift. Man sent himself

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on fire in front of the ongoing Trump trial that I don't care about the trial. Um, but this guy

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thought that Trump and Biden were in cahoots for a fascist takeover of America. He died. And finally

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for today, there is concern on the rise for the increasing use of ketamine and the effect it's

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having on young people's bladders. If you're not aware, ketamine kind of destroys your bladder

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and makes it so you're just going to piss your pants. Whoops. Thank you so much for listening

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to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to Stuff Keeps Happening to online for sources,

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bonus content, and a step by step guide on how to become too big to fail. My name is Endeavorance.

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I'll be back on Monday. Take care and be well.