1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,560 Hello. I solemnly floated through the eddies of time, but stuff still happened. 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:12,080 So what's up? We live in interesting times where tech companies are doing everything they can 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:17,520 to do the dumbest bullshit possible. Let's start with Microsoft. You're the ones that make windows. 4 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:22,880 That's an operating system. Microsoft announced a new AI-powered Windows feature called Recall, 5 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:28,320 which records everything you've ever done on your computer and feeds it into an AI so that you 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,080 can be like, hey, what did I type like eight days ago? The thing, you know, I'm always wondering 7 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,960 what I typed eight days ago, and I've never once been able to open up, you know, the history 8 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:45,680 of my browser and searched, got to have an AI reading everything I do. Obviously, this didn't 9 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,240 go over well. Microsoft is not synonymous with user trust. So they were like, hey guys, we're 10 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,960 rolling out a new feature that's going to record everything you do and feed it into an AI. Pay us 11 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:00,880 money to which security researchers were like, what the fuck? What? This is my impersonation of a 12 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:08,560 security researcher hearing about this. What? So security researchers are obviously not into it, 13 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,760 but here's the thing. Neither is anyone else. Also, a group has already put together a tool 14 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:20,080 to hack and exploit this feature. Already, not even out yet, but you can hack it. Anyway, 15 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:25,120 they've already backtracked a bit and they're like, hey, okay, you'll have to enable the feature, 16 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,600 and we'll encrypt the database that has the everything in it. That'll fix it. Now will you 17 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,320 pay us money? Before we move on to the other tech company that did a big dumb, Microsoft has another 18 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:38,720 little thing, just a little treat, a little bonus. So Microsoft is pushing co-pilot. They're 19 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,480 AI branding thing, and they're trying to ship laptops that are branded as like AI laptops, 20 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:49,760 and it's like co-pilot plus PC or something like that. Get at it. Stop it. I just need to write an 21 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:55,040 email. Come on, guys. Anyway, Intel and Nvidia have been pushing their new laptop lines that are 22 00:01:55,040 --> 00:02:00,880 capable of all these AI things, and the AI features aren't there. Quite literally, these laptops 23 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:06,400 don't actually have AI in them. They're being sold as AI laptops. They don't have AI in them. 24 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:14,080 That will be coming in a future software update eventually, but here's the thing though. Pay us 25 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:21,600 money. I want that money. I want the dollars. But anyway, business. The other one, Adobe. 26 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,400 They fucked up real bad. So Adobe, they make Photoshop and other creative software. They recently 27 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:31,680 popped up a new notice about their terms of service that clarifies that quote, they can access your 28 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:38,720 content through both automated and manual methods such as for content review, as well as you guessed 29 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:46,080 it, AI. So people got big mad. Like obviously, why are you able to access and consume and possibly 30 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:52,720 train AI models or review the content of my professional work? Like this is industry standard 31 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:58,800 software, and now they're like, also, hey, industry, hey, come here, huddle up. We own you. And guess 32 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:04,080 what? Wouldn't you know it? They've also backtracked, kind of. They put out that classic blog post 33 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:09,120 that's like, no, y'all are making a big deal out of this. It's not a big deal. Let us clarify. 34 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,680 It's exactly what you thought it was, but shut up. So that fixed it. Let's move over to France. 35 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,720 But not in a car. 1600 cops were deployed to queller protest against the expansion of a 36 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:25,520 roadway in southern France. According to the protesters, there were about 7,000 people there. 37 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:31,040 They're protesting the roadway because it would fuck up natural habitats, farmland aquifers, 38 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,640 you know, the usual. And it very much seems like the local authorities just kind of rubber 39 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:41,200 stamped this project all the way through. Just make it happen. Aquifers? I don't know. I can't see that. 40 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,600 It's probably not important. So the protesters showed up and they did protests as the French do. 41 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:52,240 So there was fire. Yeah, okay. But the state referred to these people as radical individuals who 42 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,560 performed extremely violent attacks with catapults. More of a trebuchet guy myself. The state went on 43 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,200 to say that these people quote clearly come to cause damage with no link to the issue. 44 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:10,080 You know, no link to the to the issue that they're protesting at their protest. And further, 45 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:15,200 while the activists counted their numbers at around 7,000, the state says that there was only 1600 46 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:21,600 protesters as a reminder of the state deployed 1600 cops. That would be one cop per protester. 47 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,640 If that were true. So which L would you like to take the state of France? There were a few 48 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,120 people injured in the protests, including one cop that was hit by a Molotov. Neutral expression. 49 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:37,360 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Here's my impression of Elon Musk. I want money. Give it. 50 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:43,280 Apparently, Elon Musk needs about $50 billion to stay motivated. He's still seeking a massive 51 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:48,480 compensation package of somewhere between like $46 and $56 billion, depending on which way the 52 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,120 wind's blowing. Elon has been trying to get this compensation package from Tesla for years now. 53 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,880 It's already been blocked once in courts for being outlandishly overpriced. Here is a quote 54 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,360 from the original ruling that struck down the attempted payment the first time. This payment 55 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:09,440 would be quote, the largest potential compensation opportunity ever observed in the public markets 56 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:16,560 by multiple orders of magnitude, 250 times larger than the contemporaneous median peer 57 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:22,480 compensation plan and over 33 times larger than the plan's closest competition, 58 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:27,840 which was Musk's prior compensation plan. Said in other words, that's a lot of fucking money. 59 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:32,880 That's more money than anyone's ever been paid for anything. And the second closest payout was 60 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:38,400 you. And this is 33 times bigger than that. But hey, maybe Elon Musk just wants to be able to order 61 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,240 DoorDash. But we're back and there's now another vote happening for this compensation package. 62 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:47,120 And the chairperson at Tesla wrote an unhinged letter to investors saying like, 63 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:51,280 Elon needs this money. Otherwise, he won't be motivated. And we need to make sure that Elon 64 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:58,160 is motivated. And that costs $50 billion, $50 billion to a man child to tweet like his bloggers. 65 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,000 Now, obviously, Elon is rallying for this. He's pushing back against anybody who 66 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,720 criticizes it. And he referred to shareholders that aren't going to vote for it as 67 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:11,920 oath breakers, which is weird, but also weird. A bunch of investment firms who are invested in 68 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,840 Tesla are like, hmm, this seems like a bad idea. They must just not know how important it is 69 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:22,560 to make sure that Elon is motivated. Last week, Israel bombed a school in Gaza, 70 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,200 killing 33 civilians, most of them women and children. After doing this, the Israel military 71 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,040 did the thing they always do. They were like, there was Hamas there, we promise. They took 72 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:36,160 a photo of the school and they pointed to it and said, see, look, that's where we think Hamas was. 73 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,960 So we bombed it. Evidence? Why do you need that? When asked what they're going to do about the 74 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,720 civilian casualties, they're like, we don't know anything about that. This is obviously egregious. 75 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,200 They bombed a school and killed dozens of civilians that were sheltering there. And so the 76 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:54,640 US took a very strong response by turning around and passing a bill that would sanction the ICC. 77 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:59,360 Context, this bill is not going through, but the US House of Representatives has passed with 78 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:06,000 bipartisan support, a bill that would sanction the ICC for calling for Netanyahu's arrest. 79 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,680 The United States of America is beefing with the International Criminal Court because the 80 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:18,080 International Criminal Court wants Netanyahu to stop doing a genocide. Again, bipartisan support, 81 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,640 plenty of Democrats voted for this. Again, it's also probably not going anywhere. It's going to 82 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,240 die in the Senate and it would otherwise die at Biden's desk. That doesn't mean the Senate is good. 83 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,320 That doesn't mean Biden is good. This is dumb. This was a bunch of representatives seeing an 84 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,120 opportunity to signal where they lie and where their values are, but they knew this wasn't going to 85 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,360 go anywhere, but they also knew this is going to piss off a lot of people, but they knew, knew, knew 86 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,840 it was basically safe. They can make their investors happy with the vote, not have to deal 87 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,280 with the outcome, and they don't give a shit about the constituents. That's a non-factor. 88 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:52,400 But beyond that, we are inviting Netanyahu to come speak to a joint session of Congress on July 24th, 89 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,840 because we love inviting international war criminals to come talk to us, share your wisdom, 90 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:03,520 hell of a TED talk, anyway. Game it. Destiny 2, the final shape is out and no spoilers. I haven't 91 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,680 played the campaign yet. I'm going to do it this week. I've just been busy. Final Fantasy 14's 92 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:14,160 Dawn Trail expansion is coming out soon. Hype. Something, something, play for free, something, 93 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,720 something award-winning expansions. Quick aside, if you haven't really looked into Final Fantasy 14 94 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,960 and you're looking for like a good MMO to play, it's a really solid option. It's a lot of dialogue, 95 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,600 but it's a solid option. And this update is like a big overhaul update, like a big visual 96 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:32,080 overhaul and whatnot, modernizing and shit. So it's a good time to get into it. I'm sorry 97 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:37,360 if this is the catalyst of me breaking your life though. So, Larian Studios will be adding official 98 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:42,080 modding support to Baldur's Gate 3 later this year. That might seem silly if you've been modding 99 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,400 for a while now, but this is going to be like official built-in support and hopefully have 100 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,760 more possibilities. Summer Games Fest is going on. There's a ton of announcements more than it 101 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,640 makes sense for me to call out here so you can click through to the links in my newsletter and 102 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,920 find all that stuff. Sid Meier, Civilization 7 has been announced and will be released next year. 103 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:07,440 Can't believe that we've had seven whole civilizations. I only followed the one lightning round. 104 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,240 After passing an executive order that shuts down the border and caps asylum request much like 105 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,200 Trump was doing, Joe Biden is now dealing with the fallout of that. Joe Biden, the Democrat 106 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,680 president who's closing the border and deporting people, is dealing with the fact that we don't 107 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:26,560 have enough flights to deport everyone. Great. MrBeast is now the most subscribed YouTube channel, 108 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:32,640 taking over T-Series after a long battle. He's approaching 300 million subscribers. 109 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:38,000 Can I have like one of those? I'm just joking. I'm glad you're here. You're my favorite. 110 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:44,000 I genuinely cannot imagine posting to 300 million people. My God. Spotify is raising their prices 111 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,960 again. Deal with it. The Humane AI pin, the one that flopped super, super, super hard, 112 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,360 they're already trying to sell the company and apparently the wireless charging case 113 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:58,800 catches fire. Instagram is testing ads that will force you to stop scrolling and watch the ad. 114 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:03,520 Steve Bannon has been ordered to report to prison by July 1st. It's going to be a good month. 115 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,360 Dolly Parton has announced a new Broadway musical. She said you're going to laugh and cry. 116 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:13,520 Those are the two emotions. Some group in Wyoming is trying to run an AI as mayor. 117 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,240 They think they're really clever. It's just chat GPT. And also that's dumb and also you 118 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:23,760 can't do that. And finally for today, happy pride. Pat Seijak is finally retiring from Wheel of Fortune. 119 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,160 Would you like to buy a vowel or perhaps a less shitty person to be your game show host? 120 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,600 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to 121 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:38,240 SKH.News for sources, bonus content, and tips and tricks for keeping Elon Musk motivated. 122 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:48,240 My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Monday. Take care and be well.