Hello. I took the dash action to double my movement speed.
But stuff still happened.
So what's up?
We did it again.
Humanity.
Everything has led up to this point where once there was nothing,
humanity looked out over to the open ocean of possibility and said,
let there be two actually shitty AI assistant hardware things back to back.
And so now we have the rabbit R1 and it sucks.
All right. So like I very recently talked about the humane AI pin
and it's supposed to be like a lapel pin that is AI powered.
And it's the first mainstream AI hardware.
It's it's shitty and it doesn't work.
And now we've got the rabbit R1, which is also shitty and doesn't work,
but it's cheaper and cheaper is about all it has going for it.
It's basically a little do a hickey that you can keep in your pocket
in addition to your phone that has a far less capable version of Siri attached to it.
It can do like four things.
It can it can call you an Uber.
I wouldn't trust it to do that in the slightest, but it can do that.
Apparently, tech reviewers like MKBHD got their hands on this device
and were like, this is terrible.
Why are these things happening?
And one of the best subtitles, I think it was the verge, maybe,
said that AI is in its juicero age, which is I mean,
that's a bit of a niche tech dunk.
I want to share that I've seen ads for this thing on TikTok,
like nonstop over the past year, and they progressed over time.
At first, they were like, look at this cool do a hickey.
We won't tell you what it does, but it looks cool, doesn't it?
Then they were like, OK, we'll tell you what it does.
And all the comments on those ads were like, why is this not an app?
What? And then the next thing I noticed was they turned off comments on their ads
and they turned off like counts.
Weird how this should have been an app.
Oh, wait, it is.
So now that people have their hands on this device,
it didn't take long for someone to reverse engineer and find out that
it's just running Android and the entire thing is just a single Android app.
They actually got it running on an Android phone, too.
Like it's it's literally just running an Android app.
Not only could it have just been an app, it literally is.
And they're just not letting you have it as an app.
Now, Rabbit claims that like their their real sauce is their large action model,
which is their back end that lets their device do stuff.
But it doesn't do stuff right now.
It does very little stuff right now.
If there was an actually accurate AI that was capable of interfacing with things
at the scale that these companies are claiming that they could do,
that'd be kind of neat, I guess.
Maybe it'd be like a nice accessibility tool, maybe.
But I still would basically never trust an AI that can hallucinate
to determine where I want to go in an Uber ride.
If you're looking for a job, a great way to be compensated until the end of your life
is to be a whistleblower for Boeing that is not a job.
We're going to workshop. We're going to workshop the intro.
Joke. There is now a second dead Boeing whistleblower.
It's an accident.
He got sick suddenly and died suddenly after being a whistleblower
during an ongoing inquiry into Boeing about a lack of safety measures.
The second one dead.
Joshua Dean was by all accounts healthy and perfectly fine before
becoming ill and dying very suddenly.
He worked at a supplier for Boeing where he noted,
hey, the safety here is not safety here.
And they were like, shut up, get back to work.
Dean was fired in 2023 and fired a complaint with the NLRB,
citing that his termination was retaliatory in nature
because he was like, hey, these planes aren't safe.
Now, Sam Salapor, who recently testified in front of Congress,
he's still alive.
He's the third whistleblower and
hopefully he's safe.
But like, we know what happened here.
Like, let's not just let's not kid ourselves.
But it's Boeing.
America is not about to do anything to Boeing
that would actually threaten its business operations.
I truly don't see a world where it's like, wow, you guys did bad,
like real bad, like real obviously bad.
And so we're going to find you a substantial amount
or completely change your leadership or do anything else.
This is not going to happen.
It's Boeing.
They're a massive defense contractor and a huge cash cow.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn
that one of our fabulous three letter agencies
is already involved.
That is speculation.
It's genuinely difficult to not just sound
like a conspiracy theorist,
but it's two whistleblowers dead from a massive corporation
in the midst of an ongoing inquiry
into their lack of safety measures.
Like, ah, ah, ah, ah.
We're going to need more tinfoil.
Employees at Google who were recently fired over Google's
association with Israel and their billion dollar contract
have filed a complaint with the NLRB against Google,
saying that they were unlawfully retaliated against,
including one employee who was just near the protest
and got fired.
He wasn't even protesting.
He was just observing and got fired.
But perhaps Google doesn't give a shit
because they've laid off like thousands and thousands
of employees recently.
They just dropped another 200.
This time, people who were on their way
and people who were on their core teams,
including safety and privacy, but it's OK.
Google says that they're going to bridge these gaps with AI,
which, uh, unrelated.
Google has had a 15% increase in quarterly revenue
in Q1 from last year and just launched a $70 billion
stock buyback program.
They also recently passed a market cap of $2 trillion.
So maybe they don't need employees.
Money is the product now.
Here are a few recent updates on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The most recent ceasefire talks that several Western nations
were saying, oh, this is the one.
This is the one.
They fell through.
Israel is now saying that they are absolutely
going to be launching an operation into Ra'fa, which
is where there's over a million refugees.
They are sheltering there because they
were told to go there.
They were told this is the safe place to flee to
if you're a civilian, go here.
There's virtually no reasonable way to get out of Ra'fa,
and you have to pay money to leave.
Money that I'm sure they could get from a bank or maybe back
home if they had a bank or a home left.
And also it shouldn't.
As the ceasefire talks were going on, Western countries
and members of the G7 urged the International Criminal
Court to hold off on charging Netanyahu with genocide.
They were like, please hold off on charging him with genocide
because it might hurt his feefies.
And that would sour the talks.
If you, I mean, he sure he is doing some genocide.
But like, just don't, don't say that.
Just yesterday, Israel banned Middle Eastern outlet
Al Jazeera from the country.
They were saying that they were spreading anti-Israel
sentiment, and so they cannot operate there.
Very free.
I want to be super clear that despite where your stance is
on any of this, a country that says, hey, you're not
allowed to say that the country is bad, is bad.
But clearly speaking, ill of Israel is a high crime.
And speaking of that, the US House of Representatives
just passed a bill that does exactly that.
It makes criticizing Israel considered anti-Semitic hate
speech.
Because again, Jews must fit in our definition of Jews.
And in our definition of Jews, it's Israel.
That's what Jew is.
If you're not actually familiar with Judaism and Zionism
and whatnot, Zionism is a political movement.
It is not religious.
It is a political movement.
Jews are not inherently Zionists.
And also, Zionists are not inherently Jews.
There's plenty of Christian Zionists
because they believe it's a part of a larger master plan that
brings about the second coming of Jesus and the rapture.
And it's a death cult.
Like, it's a straight up death cult.
And it's very bizarre.
And it's not what Judaism is about,
which explains why there are so many Jewish people and rabbis
at pro-Palestinian protests.
They're like, hey, stop doing violence in the name of Jews.
This is explicitly not our deal.
Anyway, regarding that law, the ACLU is already pushing back.
And it's probably not going to go anywhere.
The Senate still has to pass it.
Biden has to sign it.
I doubtful it's going to go through and do anything.
But I would gesture broadly at the current state
of American politics.
So I don't know.
Gaming.
It is rumored that the Switch 2 is going
to have magnetically attaching joy cons,
as opposed to the slighty clicky kind that it has right now,
which the first thing that happened to my Switch when
I got it on launch day was someone else took it,
tried to put the joy con in.
They put it in backwards and it got stuck.
So here I was with a brand new Switch.
I feel like, oh god, it's broken.
They are making a new Game of Thrones MMORPG.
This happened once before, like 10 years ago.
And it didn't work.
It got canceled.
Maybe this one will.
The developer is Nexon.
I'm not familiar.
Hasbro has said that they're going
to start making more games.
They're going to work with third parties
and also build them in-house.
And they're claiming that they're
going to be to a similar quality of Baldur's Gate 3, which
is genuinely hysterical.
If you have, or more specifically,
if you haven't played the Mass Effect series,
the Mass Effect Legendary Edition is currently 90% off
on Steam.
That's all of the original games in their DLC
and remastered.
So neat.
Players of Helldivers 2 got really, really big mad
because the developers announced that they
were going to have an update that requires you to log in
to a Sony account for some reason,
even if you're playing on Steam.
And Sony is now backtracking.
They've actually announced that they're not going to go for
with that update because obviously, lightning round.
We are finally seeing the beginnings of trials
for COVID relief fraud.
There's like seven trials going on out of 70 that are planned.
China's Academy of Sciences has released the most detailed map
of the moon ever.
Jake Paul and Mike Tyson are going to fight.
OK.
Tesla is laying off hundreds more employees.
They recently laid off 14,000 employees.
Razer, the gaming peripheral company,
made a face mask, like an RGB face mask,
that they claimed was going to be as good as N95s.
And that was just a straight up lie.
And now they have to pay a million dollars.
Since no one listens to me, since nobody ever listens,
some Catholic media group put up an AI chatbot that claimed
to be a priest.
And it said that you can baptize people in Gatorade.
They've taken it offline.
Stop making AI chatbots.
Some space junk from the International Space Station
fell through the roof of a random person's house in Florida.
They're fine, cosmically.
The US is finally considering changing cannabis
to be a schedule three drug instead of schedule one,
which is like heroin and shit.
The UK had their local elections recently,
and the Tories, their conservatives,
lost bad, like, bad, like hundreds of seats.
Ron DeSantis has banned lab grown meat in Florida.
And I am not kidding when I say that the genesis of this
goes back to anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy theories
that started during COVID.
While you're out there living your life, going to your job,
hanging out with your family, seeing your friends,
doing fun things, there's a contingent of people out there
who are so preoccupied with their hatred
that they're now banning lab grown meat.
And that's not supposed to make sense.
There's not supposed to be dots to connect there,
because they shouldn't have been connected
in the first place.
Blankers tell.
Anyway, let's cut this off with this one.
With all the great advancements in AI recently,
the US Air Force is working on AI-powered fighter jets.
They say that the jets are already beating out
human pilots in air-to-air combat simulations.
Cool.
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