1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,280 Hello, I got what I needed from the grocery store. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,600 But stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:07,600 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,120 Hey, Zeus, knock it off. 5 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:13,320 I'm putting you on notice, Zeus, because I'm scared. 6 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,680 A 51 year old cattle rancher in Colorado was killed 7 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,920 when he was struck by lightning alongside a hundred of his cattle. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,120 Now, of the hundred cattle who were affected by the lightning strike, 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,400 34 died. The rest of them survived. 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,400 But that's a lot of cattle. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,800 And, whoa, Mike Morgan, the rancher who was very unfortunate, 12 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,400 was out there feeding the cattle. 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,640 He was in a trailer when the lightning struck in the big open pasture. 14 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,680 His wife and father-in-law were nearby. 15 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,520 They saw it happen. 16 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,800 They were affected a little bit, but they survived. 17 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,560 My goodness, this man was a cattle rancher, right? 18 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,040 So he probably wasn't just arbitrarily feeding cows 19 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,200 in an open pasture in the middle of a storm. 20 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,120 Like, this was probably a freak bolt. 21 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:00,160 Ranchers aren't famously known for having their cattle exposed 22 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,440 to the obvious dangers of the elements. 23 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,680 So I can't imagine. 24 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,760 Zap, I will, if I'm like outside and I have to go like 20 feet, 25 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,680 if I hear thunder, I'll be like, hustle in. 26 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:12,760 I know it's unlikely. 27 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,400 I know it's literally used as like an example of a thing that's super rare. 28 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,560 We just live in a snow globe of chaos. 29 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,400 One day you wake up and entropy says no. 30 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,040 So I don't know, hug your dog. 31 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,360 I strive to do my best to bring you nothing but the facts. 32 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,360 And so let me bring you a fact. 33 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,520 The Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with. 34 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,640 And also you can go listen to that album that they released 35 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,120 that is what there's one copy of it. 36 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,720 You can go listen to it in Tasmania, 37 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,440 Adam Museum for a ticketed event only this month. 38 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:48,320 But you can listen. 39 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:49,680 If you're lost, let me catch you up. 40 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,680 There was a Wu Tang Clan album that dropped in 2015 41 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,720 and they only made one copy of it. 42 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,560 There was a lot of controversy around that decision, 43 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,600 even within said Clan of the Wu Tang. 44 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:02,640 And yet here we are. 45 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,280 You may recall that Martin Screlli, the farmer bro 46 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,320 who jacked up all those medication prices, 47 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,760 he purchased the album when it came out. 48 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,600 Only to have it seized as part of an asset forfeiture 49 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,520 after all the crimes that he did. 50 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:19,120 So for a spell, the only entity that had ownership of this Wu Tang album 51 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,920 was the US State Department. 52 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:22,360 They eventually sold it off. 53 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,920 It is now on loan to the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania 54 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:29,600 where they're going to do a few listening of it. 55 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,120 So if you want to hear the album, now's your chance. 56 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,200 TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. 57 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,920 It's me. I'm Bite Dance. 58 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,800 And the clock is ticking for me because I'm Bite Dance 59 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,800 and laws every day a day passes, 60 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,600 which means that we're closer to the day 61 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,600 that TikTok is supposed to divest to be able to continue working in the US. 62 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,240 That's how time goes. 63 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,880 And while TikTok strongly maintains that divestment is a non-starter 64 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,520 from an economic and technical and business perspective, 65 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,680 there's still some stuff that's happening behind the scenes. 66 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,080 Or at least there's reports of stuff happening. 67 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,600 A report from Reuters says that TikTok is trying to separate out 68 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,120 their suggestion algorithm, which apparently amounts to millions of lines of code. 69 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,880 The goal would be to separate it out from the rest of their codes 70 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,880 so they can make like a US-centric version or something like that. 71 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,880 Now, as somebody who worked in tech for quite some time, 72 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,880 it's probably not like millions of lines of code 73 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,360 that form the algorithm for the actual suggestion thing, 74 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,360 but this is still probably a huge undertaking 75 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,120 to try to finish before the deadline in like less than a year. 76 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,120 At the same time, after this report came out from Reuters, 77 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,880 TikTok was like, nah, Reuters is wrong. 78 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,560 To which Reuters responded, nah, we stand by our reporting, we're right. 79 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,960 So the whole situation is just very clear. 80 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:52,160 That makes it easy. 81 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,560 Will there be a ceasefire? 82 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,120 It depends on who you ask and probably not. 83 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,960 I just want to speak real clear and directly to you 84 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,160 that when I was putting this segment together, 85 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:07,760 I found myself in disbelief at just how absurd what I was reading was. 86 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,560 Because Biden came out and was like, hey, 87 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,760 Israel agreed to a framework for a ceasefire. 88 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,440 And then Israel was like, nah, we didn't. 89 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,760 Netanyahu wants to destroy Hamas entirely 90 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,760 before even considering a ceasefire, 91 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,040 which basically just means leveling Gaza. 92 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,040 It's a lot easier to claim that land as your own 93 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,040 if there's not those pesky residents there. 94 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,440 But the Biden administration, 95 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,440 trying to look at all like they have a handle on any of this, 96 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,640 reiterated like, no, no, Israel proposed a framework 97 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,040 of their own design that they're going to agree to 98 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,840 that will lead to a ceasefire. 99 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,640 To which an aid to Netanyahu and to some degree, 100 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,640 Netanyahu himself were like, yes, we agreed to that, 101 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,840 despite it being a bad deal. 102 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:55,120 At which point, basically everyone in the upper leadership 103 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,720 of Israel was like, nah, we're never taking this deal. 104 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:00,920 That's not good. 105 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,320 I'll leave if there's peace. 106 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,920 And so given that there's been this weird back and forth, 107 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,920 when asked for clarity from the State Department, 108 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,720 the US State Department, they were like, well, okay, 109 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,720 it was Israel's proposal after we did some serious diplomacy 110 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,800 with them, which is a not very clever way of saying, 111 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,280 we came to them and said, please dear God, 112 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:27,720 accept a ceasefire. 113 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,440 And they said, no, but we're going to just pretend 114 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,520 that they said yes in the hopes that that works. 115 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,880 At the end of the day, they don't want the hostages home. 116 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,960 The hostages being there are how they can continue 117 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,840 justifying their assault on Gaza. 118 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:43,760 The leadership of Israel knows that they can get away 119 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,880 with what they're doing, as long as the US has their backs, 120 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,120 which we always will. 121 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,400 Biden already was like, oh, Rafa's a red line, 122 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,360 but not that Rafa, the other Rafa. 123 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:00,360 Yeah, they bombed a lot of it and there's tanks there, 124 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:05,160 but I had this specific, if you open up Google Maps, right? 125 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,920 Let me just draw this line here. 126 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,800 Does anybody have a goalpost? 127 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:10,640 I can borrow. 128 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,200 Meanwhile, little bonus, OpenAI announced 129 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,080 that they identified Israel and Russia using their systems 130 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,360 to generate and disseminate propaganda 131 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:19,560 in multiple languages. 132 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,960 I love that we have a propaganda generation machine 133 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,720 that's just on the internet, gaming. 134 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,680 Capcom is reportedly working on remakes 135 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,120 of Resident Evil Code Veronica and Resident Evil Zero. 136 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,480 There anything like the Resident Evil 4 remakes hype? 137 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,520 Sony hosted their state of play event. 138 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:38,760 They had a whole bunch of announcements, 139 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,760 including God of War Ragnarok's port to the PC this year, 140 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,800 as well as a new like Astro Bot game 141 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,200 and a whole bunch of other announcements. 142 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,760 Wildermith, which is a really awesome, 143 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,400 group-based role-playing storytelling comic book game, 144 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:52,920 is getting a final expansion. 145 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:54,520 Go check it out if you haven't seen it before. 146 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,080 And No Man's Sky is getting another update. 147 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:58,720 This time called Adrift. 148 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,280 No Man's Sky, famous for its botched launch 149 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,600 followed by incredible levels of dedication 150 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,440 from the development team to actually deliver 151 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:07,760 on making it a great game. 152 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:08,760 Well done, y'all. 153 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,320 This new update's gonna bring a temporary game mode 154 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,600 that will let you basically be alone in the universe. 155 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,000 It's gonna get rid of virtually every other entity. 156 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 No stores, no shops. 157 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,440 You're on your own. 158 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,360 Survive. 159 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,200 It's actually pretty rad. 160 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,000 That's actually pretty rad. 161 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:24,840 Lightning round. 162 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,680 Mexico has elected Claudia Scheinbaum for their presidency. 163 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,080 She's the first woman to hold the seat, 164 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:30,920 and it's also a climate scientist. 165 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,800 The next version of iOS is apparently going to have 166 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,880 an AI emoji generator. 167 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,480 But it's gonna get weird, y'all. 168 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,600 YouTube is continuing their attack on ad blockers, 169 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,840 and they're now experimenting with just whole ass 170 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,440 blocking videos and skipping videos, 171 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,400 or just preventing you from watching more videos 172 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,080 after a certain amount if they detect 173 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,360 that you're using an ad blocker. 174 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,800 A cast extra from Home Alone 2 was recently found guilty 175 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:57,400 of 34 felony charges. 176 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,680 North Korea is reportedly dropping bags of trash 177 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,000 and shit on South Korea using balloons. 178 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,040 Someone swatted the mother of a cop 179 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,160 who was injured in January 6th, 180 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,960 and then went on to threaten to shoot up a school 181 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:13,600 related to the cop. 182 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,160 People are busted. 183 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,920 Like, just some people. 184 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,080 Not everybody is busted, but some people are busted. 185 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,040 And finally for today, Google has confirmed 186 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,000 the authenticity of leaked internal documents 187 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,960 that explain how their search engine works. 188 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,680 It contradicts a lot of the stuff 189 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,640 that has been said publicly to the SEO industry. 190 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,000 God, I hate that concept. 191 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,200 But it's kind of a big deal, 192 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,080 because like, if you know how to leverage Google better, 193 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,720 you get to leverage. 194 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:41,800 You get seen. 195 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,680 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 196 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:44,680 of Stuff Keeps Happening. 197 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:48,240 Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content, 198 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,240 and my secret pirated copy of the Wu Tang album. 199 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,360 My name is Endeavorance. 200 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:54,680 I'll be back on Monday. 201 00:08:54,680 --> 00:09:04,680 Take care and be well.