Hello, I got what I needed from the grocery store.
But stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Hey, Zeus, knock it off.
I'm putting you on notice, Zeus, because I'm scared.
A 51 year old cattle rancher in Colorado was killed
when he was struck by lightning alongside a hundred of his cattle.
Now, of the hundred cattle who were affected by the lightning strike,
34 died. The rest of them survived.
But that's a lot of cattle.
And, whoa, Mike Morgan, the rancher who was very unfortunate,
was out there feeding the cattle.
He was in a trailer when the lightning struck in the big open pasture.
His wife and father-in-law were nearby.
They saw it happen.
They were affected a little bit, but they survived.
My goodness, this man was a cattle rancher, right?
So he probably wasn't just arbitrarily feeding cows
in an open pasture in the middle of a storm.
Like, this was probably a freak bolt.
Ranchers aren't famously known for having their cattle exposed
to the obvious dangers of the elements.
So I can't imagine.
Zap, I will, if I'm like outside and I have to go like 20 feet,
if I hear thunder, I'll be like, hustle in.
I know it's unlikely.
I know it's literally used as like an example of a thing that's super rare.
We just live in a snow globe of chaos.
One day you wake up and entropy says no.
So I don't know, hug your dog.
I strive to do my best to bring you nothing but the facts.
And so let me bring you a fact.
The Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with.
And also you can go listen to that album that they released
that is what there's one copy of it.
You can go listen to it in Tasmania,
Adam Museum for a ticketed event only this month.
But you can listen.
If you're lost, let me catch you up.
There was a Wu Tang Clan album that dropped in 2015
and they only made one copy of it.
There was a lot of controversy around that decision,
even within said Clan of the Wu Tang.
And yet here we are.
You may recall that Martin Screlli, the farmer bro
who jacked up all those medication prices,
he purchased the album when it came out.
Only to have it seized as part of an asset forfeiture
after all the crimes that he did.
So for a spell, the only entity that had ownership of this Wu Tang album
was the US State Department.
They eventually sold it off.
It is now on loan to the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania
where they're going to do a few listening of it.
So if you want to hear the album, now's your chance.
TikTok, TikTok, TikTok.
It's me. I'm Bite Dance.
And the clock is ticking for me because I'm Bite Dance
and laws every day a day passes,
which means that we're closer to the day
that TikTok is supposed to divest to be able to continue working in the US.
That's how time goes.
And while TikTok strongly maintains that divestment is a non-starter
from an economic and technical and business perspective,
there's still some stuff that's happening behind the scenes.
Or at least there's reports of stuff happening.
A report from Reuters says that TikTok is trying to separate out
their suggestion algorithm, which apparently amounts to millions of lines of code.
The goal would be to separate it out from the rest of their codes
so they can make like a US-centric version or something like that.
Now, as somebody who worked in tech for quite some time,
it's probably not like millions of lines of code
that form the algorithm for the actual suggestion thing,
but this is still probably a huge undertaking
to try to finish before the deadline in like less than a year.
At the same time, after this report came out from Reuters,
TikTok was like, nah, Reuters is wrong.
To which Reuters responded, nah, we stand by our reporting, we're right.
So the whole situation is just very clear.
That makes it easy.
Will there be a ceasefire?
It depends on who you ask and probably not.
I just want to speak real clear and directly to you
that when I was putting this segment together,
I found myself in disbelief at just how absurd what I was reading was.
Because Biden came out and was like, hey,
Israel agreed to a framework for a ceasefire.
And then Israel was like, nah, we didn't.
Netanyahu wants to destroy Hamas entirely
before even considering a ceasefire,
which basically just means leveling Gaza.
It's a lot easier to claim that land as your own
if there's not those pesky residents there.
But the Biden administration,
trying to look at all like they have a handle on any of this,
reiterated like, no, no, Israel proposed a framework
of their own design that they're going to agree to
that will lead to a ceasefire.
To which an aid to Netanyahu and to some degree,
Netanyahu himself were like, yes, we agreed to that,
despite it being a bad deal.
At which point, basically everyone in the upper leadership
of Israel was like, nah, we're never taking this deal.
That's not good.
I'll leave if there's peace.
And so given that there's been this weird back and forth,
when asked for clarity from the State Department,
the US State Department, they were like, well, okay,
it was Israel's proposal after we did some serious diplomacy
with them, which is a not very clever way of saying,
we came to them and said, please dear God,
accept a ceasefire.
And they said, no, but we're going to just pretend
that they said yes in the hopes that that works.
At the end of the day, they don't want the hostages home.
The hostages being there are how they can continue
justifying their assault on Gaza.
The leadership of Israel knows that they can get away
with what they're doing, as long as the US has their backs,
which we always will.
Biden already was like, oh, Rafa's a red line,
but not that Rafa, the other Rafa.
Yeah, they bombed a lot of it and there's tanks there,
but I had this specific, if you open up Google Maps, right?
Let me just draw this line here.
Does anybody have a goalpost?
I can borrow.
Meanwhile, little bonus, OpenAI announced
that they identified Israel and Russia using their systems
to generate and disseminate propaganda
in multiple languages.
I love that we have a propaganda generation machine
that's just on the internet, gaming.
Capcom is reportedly working on remakes
of Resident Evil Code Veronica and Resident Evil Zero.
There anything like the Resident Evil 4 remakes hype?
Sony hosted their state of play event.
They had a whole bunch of announcements,
including God of War Ragnarok's port to the PC this year,
as well as a new like Astro Bot game
and a whole bunch of other announcements.
Wildermith, which is a really awesome,
group-based role-playing storytelling comic book game,
is getting a final expansion.
Go check it out if you haven't seen it before.
And No Man's Sky is getting another update.
This time called Adrift.
No Man's Sky, famous for its botched launch
followed by incredible levels of dedication
from the development team to actually deliver
on making it a great game.
Well done, y'all.
This new update's gonna bring a temporary game mode
that will let you basically be alone in the universe.
It's gonna get rid of virtually every other entity.
No stores, no shops.
You're on your own.
Survive.
It's actually pretty rad.
That's actually pretty rad.
Lightning round.
Mexico has elected Claudia Scheinbaum for their presidency.
She's the first woman to hold the seat,
and it's also a climate scientist.
The next version of iOS is apparently going to have
an AI emoji generator.
But it's gonna get weird, y'all.
YouTube is continuing their attack on ad blockers,
and they're now experimenting with just whole ass
blocking videos and skipping videos,
or just preventing you from watching more videos
after a certain amount if they detect
that you're using an ad blocker.
A cast extra from Home Alone 2 was recently found guilty
of 34 felony charges.
North Korea is reportedly dropping bags of trash
and shit on South Korea using balloons.
Someone swatted the mother of a cop
who was injured in January 6th,
and then went on to threaten to shoot up a school
related to the cop.
People are busted.
Like, just some people.
Not everybody is busted, but some people are busted.
And finally for today, Google has confirmed
the authenticity of leaked internal documents
that explain how their search engine works.
It contradicts a lot of the stuff
that has been said publicly to the SEO industry.
God, I hate that concept.
But it's kind of a big deal,
because like, if you know how to leverage Google better,
you get to leverage.
You get seen.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode
of Stuff Keeps Happening.
Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content,
and my secret pirated copy of the Wu Tang album.
My name is Endeavorance.
I'll be back on Monday.
Take care and be well.