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Hello.

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I painted my nails the color of the dark dimension, but stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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Ring, ring?

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That's the sound of your doorbell spying on you and also getting you money.

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Kind of.

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Ring doorbells owned by Amazon were hit with a lawsuit from the FTC saying,

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hey, your employees are illegally accessing user data, like accessing videos

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taken by your doorbell without your knowledge, against your will,

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and against their own terms of service.

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Basically, the thing they said they wouldn't do, but they did it anyway

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and they got a bunch of video to train their algorithms or something without telling anyone.

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Beyond that, their lack's approach to privacy allowed hackers to hack ring doorbells and ring cameras and stuff.

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Basically, hackers could just look at your videos.

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Really cool, really cool, really cool.

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The FTC is now issuing $5.6 million worth of refunds via like over a hundred thousand PayPal refunds,

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which is certainly an option.

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And this is actually the smaller of two FTC settlements with Amazon.

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The other one being that Amazon's Alexa was storing the voice data and location information of children

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for far longer than they said they would.

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Very cool.

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Love having a company create voice imprints and location data of children.

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Really cool, but at least we can buy stuff with our voice.

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Last quick note, Ring Only very recently changed their policy,

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which previously allowed law enforcement officers to access your camera without your permission.

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So, you know, we're running this again apparently because Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction

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has been overturned in New York.

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The New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein's conviction in the state of New York.

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He's still convicted in California.

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The argument was that he was not tried fairly in New York

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and that the prosecution called witnesses that were not a part of the allegations,

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which is just unfair to the guy who serially raped people.

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Unfair to call people to the witness stand that could incriminate him.

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I want to be clear, this does not mean that he's been found innocent instead of guilty.

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They're basically calling a mistrial and it's just going to go over again.

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Just a redo, a salty run back.

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Here's a tip.

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Don't use your local position of authority to sexually abuse women.

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That's a tip from me to you.

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More like rip talk.

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I'm in danger.

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Bite Dance has said that they would rather just shut down TikTok in the U.S. than sell it

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if everything that goes through goes through.

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Backing up for a second, the U.S. Congress just recently passed a TikTok ban.

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It was part of a larger spending bill and the TikTok ban was like tacked on to it,

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but it was passed and signed by Biden.

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I'm not giving them any latitude here.

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They threw this ban in on a must pass bill.

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It's shitty.

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It's garbage and it's shitty, but it's also probably not going to do anything immediately.

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There's a year long grace period to begin with and there's also going to be just myriad lawsuits.

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I find it personally very unlikely that TikTok will be going away anytime soon.

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Follow me elsewhere though.

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But with all that said, Bite Dance doesn't actually make a profit off of TikTok.

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It's not profitable.

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Many tech platforms are actually not profitable.

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There's just an egregious amount of money in tech venture capitalism.

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They can just kind of keep propping stuff up until it might eventually make a profit.

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It's wild, but if Bite Dance were to sell TikTok, they'd be potentially exposing their algorithms,

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which is their secret sauce.

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All of these social media companies want to have the winning algorithm.

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They don't want to share it.

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And so when they're looking at it, they're like, well, we're operating at a loss.

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And if we sell it, we expose our industry secrets.

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So why wouldn't we just shut it down if you're going to force us to?

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Now, you should still be mad.

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The government should not have the authority to determine what apps you can and cannot use.

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I do not care if it is a threat to quote national security.

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The threat to national security that they're claiming is that other people might be able to influence your thought rather than them.

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The threat to national security that they are afraid of is freedom of speech.

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Even in the case of it being a foreign government propagandizing us or whatever,

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the U.S. government is not allowed to determine what can and cannot be conveyed to U.S. citizens

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because that would infringe free speech.

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So there's not much water to be held in this bucket of their legislation.

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I didn't sleep well last night.

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Boeing is a very healthy and safe place to work for as an engineer who is focused on safety.

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I'm going to blink twice now for no reason.

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John Barnett, the guy who was recently found dead after being a whistleblower for Boeing,

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he worked there for quite some time being a quality control manager.

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During his time there, he raised concerns about faulty parts and processes that prioritized speed over safety.

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And he was told to shut up.

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He got pushed back.

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It didn't go anywhere.

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He eventually retired in 2017,

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later finding himself testifying in an ongoing investigation into Boeing and why their planes keep falling apart in the sky.

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And then after starting to give some really incriminating testimony,

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he was found dead in what has been reported as a suicide.

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Separately, the FAA is now investigating two union employees who were retaliated against by Boeing for raising similar concerns.

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Now, this is America and we've got some very cool laws.

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And one of those very cool laws is that commercial airline manufacturers can do their own manufacturing inspection on behalf of the regulatory agencies,

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which is to say there are employees at Boeing whose job is to tell the FAA that Boeing is doing a good job.

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But these people didn't do that.

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They were like, oh, hey, Boeing is not doing a good job.

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And then they were reprimanded.

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They got very similar, terrible performance reviews, one of them left the company, and now Boeing is being investigated.

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Overall, Boeing is having a very normal day and nothing is out of the ordinary.

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Everything's fine.

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Stop asking questions.

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Game or time?

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I've got my gamer stance.

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Let's talk about gamer news.

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David Kim, the lead designer of StarCraft Multiplayer, has founded a new game studio and is building a new RTS.

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The studio is called Uncapped Games, and he's saying that this is going to be a paradigm shift for PC RTS games.

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BlizzCon 2024 has been canceled.

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Blizzard said this decision was not made lightly.

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What they are planning to do instead is just show off stuff at other game conventions.

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I think they've got some more things on their mind right now.

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The last bit of gaming news for today is that Sea of Thieves is coming to PS5 this week.

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It's actually the day after recording.

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Lightning round.

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Arizona has indicted a bunch of Trump's former goons from their like, 2020 fake-elector scheme thing, and they're not happy about that.

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3D house printing is still a thing that's coming along, and recently a Portuguese company built their first two-bedroom house via 3D printing.

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It's really cool if you haven't seen it.

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It's like a giant arm that just like kind of poops out cement and just like goes along.

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It's neat.

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This guy in Belgium has a condition where his body produces its own alcohol and he was charged with a DUI,

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but recently got out of the charges because he was like, I just, I can't not have alcohol in me.

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Christine Noem, who is one of the front runners for Trump's potential VP picks, said in her memoir that she shot her dog and a goat while hunting one day

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because the dog wouldn't learn and the goat was unruly.

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And so now people are like, why did you just kill your dog?

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What?

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So don't, don't do that.

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There's a company that's selling one of those like robot dog things, but they strapped a flamethrower to it.

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They're saying it has use in wildlife control and agriculture.

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This is a bad idea.

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Aaron Sorkin has announced that he is working on a sequel to the social network and it's going to focus on like social media's influence on January 6th.

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I have no idea what this is going to look like, but the social network was a very good movie.

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So this, I hope this will be too.

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Google's market cap has hit $2 trillion and stayed there.

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There are two, two trillion dollars.

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I don't, can I have some?

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This is a casual reminder.

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I po nothing.

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The cops are legally allowed to force unlock your phone if you use facial recognition or thumbprint recognition.

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So maybe consider turning off biometric unlock on your phone.

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If you have an iPhone, you can hold the lock and power up button for a few seconds and it will lock your phone down and require a passcode to unlock.

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And finally for today, a cat accidentally got shipped from Utah to California after stepping into an Amazon return box.

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The receiving department at Amazon opened up a box and found a kitty.

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It's okay though.

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Everything is fine.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to stuff keeps happening dot online for sources, bonus content and a accurate depiction of the creation of the universe.

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If you are listening to this on some sort of podcasting application, I would absolutely love it if you could leave a positive review or, you know, if you hate me, you know what?

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Honestly, I couldn't blame you for leaving an honest review.

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But whatever your review is, I appreciate it very much.

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And don't forget to share this around to anyone who might enjoy hearing it as well.

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This is going really well.

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So how do I close this down?

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Thank you for listening and I will talk to you again in a week.

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Nailed it.

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I'm a really good podcaster.

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Okay.

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Bye bye.