1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,960 Hello. My call was very important to them. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,400 But stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:07,400 So what's up? 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:12,440 Biden dropped out. 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,520 Joe Biden dropped out of the race. 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,760 This is because I recorded a very long, extensive segment 7 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,400 about the complexities of Biden's current situation. 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,400 And as I was recording his announcement that he was dropping out of the race came out, 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,800 his decision was made entirely to inconvenience me specifically. 10 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,800 And has nothing to do with any of the ongoing situations in the nation. 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:39,200 I want you to understand that it is pretty likely that someone like Kamala Harris will take over 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,600 and pursue new ways to specifically thwart me in the work that I do. 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,600 I need you to understand that AI is not people. 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:47,400 It's not people. 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,600 I know it might seem like sometimes it can be people. 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,200 It's not people. 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:52,760 Stop it. 18 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,520 HR organization company Lattice tried to push an update to their software 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,440 that added support for AI employees. 20 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:01,880 So you got your org chart, right? 21 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,280 We're getting real sexy with it. 22 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:04,880 We're talking about org charts today. 23 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,320 You got your org chart, right? 24 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:07,240 And it's got your team. 25 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:08,360 Got your manager. 26 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,160 You got Jason. 27 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,040 Fuck that guy. 28 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:12,440 And then you've got you. 29 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:13,600 You're doing great. 30 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:14,880 Five stars. 31 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,840 And then you've got chat GPT on your team listed in the org chart with you, 32 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,960 you know, right next to you, a fleshy human being who probably worked really hard 33 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:26,480 to get to the position that you're in. 34 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,000 Now there's a computer next to you. 35 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,920 Lattice wanted to refer to AI as digital workers, digital workers, 36 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:38,440 as if we are not already like an entire country that is just professionals 37 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,160 at dehumanizing workers. 38 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,680 And seemingly all of this was just so that they could be like, we do AI. 39 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:44,320 Look it. 40 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:46,200 We're an AI company now. 41 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,000 Anyway, it didn't work. 42 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,320 No one wanted this. 43 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,000 All of their customers were like, hey, dog. 44 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:52,680 What? 45 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,200 Literally one of their customers was like, I have a lot of questions, 46 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,360 but primarily why? 47 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:58,440 Anyway, it didn't work. 48 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,080 They rolled it back because obviously God damn. 49 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:03,920 Stop it. 50 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,120 Knock it off. 51 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,840 Bad executives. 52 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:08,400 No. 53 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:08,960 Down. 54 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,200 Are you ready for less HIV? 55 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:11,840 What? 56 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:12,800 What am I doing? 57 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,800 Because here comes less HIV. 58 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:15,320 Yeah. 59 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,040 Medical science. 60 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:17,520 Woo. 61 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,160 A pre-exposure prepped HIV drug was recently tested in South Africa and Uganda. 62 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,800 It is a twice annual injection rather than a daily pill. 63 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:33,160 In a 5,000 person double blind test, the injection was found to have 100% efficacy. 64 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,680 They tested the medication on a bunch of women in Uganda and South Africa 65 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,080 and the ones who were taking the pills every day, 66 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,480 but mostly did not get HIV, but a few of them did. 67 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,080 In the trial with the injection, no one did. 68 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:51,080 So like consider this, a twice annual shot versus a daily pill. 69 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,640 Just keeping up with the pill can be hard sometimes and that can affect the efficacy. 70 00:02:55,640 --> 00:03:02,200 The drug is called Lena capovir and it is a fusion capsid inhibitor. 71 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,080 You know, we talk about this all the time. 72 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,280 So that's really, really cool. 73 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:13,160 If it's not literally 100%, it could still be very, very, very close at scale 74 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,760 for a twice annual injection to prevent HIV. 75 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,560 HIV infections have been going down over time, but they are still non-zero. 76 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,840 And it's not a lovely thing to contract. 77 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,760 Now allow me to just say in a lot of cases where you hear about some kind of miracle drug trial, 78 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,800 it's probably never coming to market, right? 79 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,000 Like it's like you hear about it and then it never, nothing ever happened. 80 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,080 In this case, I can say that they are currently actively moving on to a new phase 81 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,920 that is not double blind testing more and they're putting together proposals 82 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,720 to send off to various governments to get approved for sale. 83 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,640 The big question now is if it's going to get approved and what the cost will be like. 84 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,880 But, that's rad. 85 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:52,920 Yay science. 86 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,840 I am very sorry, Texas. 87 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,600 You're about to get a bit more musky. 88 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:01,240 So California passed a law to prevent trans children from being outed preemptively 89 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,880 to their parents against their will and Elon Musk just doesn't like it when children have rights. 90 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,720 Maybe Musk hates children having rights. 91 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:12,440 Maybe he hates trans people or probably both because apparently that was the last straw. 92 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:17,880 And now he is valing to move the headquarters of SpaceX and Twitter to Texas. 93 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,200 And he's being real frisky about it. 94 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,440 He's like, I'm a taxi boy. 95 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,280 What this law does that he's so up in arms about is it just prevents schools 96 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:31,480 from enforcing rules that require teachers to tattle on kids to their parents 97 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,480 when the kids have a different gender identity than previously expected. 98 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:41,080 It's literally just a you can't force people to narc in a world where there are parents out there. 99 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,720 Who would disown or otherwise abuse their children upon learning those facts? 100 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,280 Seems like a good way to protect the kids. 101 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:53,560 I can say personally that the number of people who have come into even just my community 102 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,360 and have told me that they have found a safe space here away from their family 103 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,800 who would otherwise disown them, heartbreaking. 104 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,440 But hey, glad to have you. 105 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:05,720 I like you for you. 106 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,800 Anyway, Musk is, this is just an excuse to both hate on trans people 107 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,080 and make a big stink about moving to Texas, which he wants to do anyway because taxes and shit. 108 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,080 So he wants to go move on all to Texas and that's not going to go well. 109 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:19,960 But who cares also? 110 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,040 It's like just mostly paperwork. 111 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,080 But beyond that, Musk recently came out in full support of Trump 112 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,960 and has even now gone as far as to add a Trump specific, you know, like hashtag 113 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,640 that's got an extra icon next to it. 114 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,280 So if you use like hashtag MAGA, it like calls that out. 115 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:39,000 And if you search MAGA or Trump 2024, it makes like American flags rain down 116 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,200 on your browser. 117 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,640 It's the dumbest shit. 118 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,880 You know, the whole thing about like, you know, gotta remain neutral. 119 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,760 The big tech elites are influencing our politics. 120 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:47,880 And this is the town square. 121 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,640 We have to remain, you know, it's an independent platform, blah, blah, blah. 122 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,440 Also, MAGA 2024, baby. 123 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,440 Anyway, go off Twitter. 124 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,720 Gaming, the new Baldur's Gate patch coming out later this year is going to do some pretty 125 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,680 cool stuff with like split screen, like dynamic split screen, 126 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,680 where when you get near each other, it turns from split screen into a single screen. 127 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,800 And then when you get further apart from each other again, it goes back into split screen. 128 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:10,520 Kind of neat. 129 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,600 They're also doing more kissing updates. 130 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,880 A lot of kissing. 131 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,880 Just so much investment into making sure the kissing is just right. 132 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:19,640 Oh, and additional evil endings. 133 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,320 You horrible, horrible person. 134 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,440 Microsoft released a caked up Xbox controller. 135 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,320 I have no further words about this. 136 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:32,920 Nearly a decade late, Nintendo is finally going to release a dedicated joy-con charger 137 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,520 for the Nintendo Switch. 138 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,600 Which, just in time for the successor to the Nintendo Switch to come out. 139 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:43,880 At Bethesda Game Studios, hundreds of employees across a bunch of sectors have unionized with 140 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,080 the CWA. 141 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,560 They previously had some smaller unions at some like subcontractors and sub offices and 142 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,240 whatnot, but this is a like full office union. 143 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,200 The people in development and design and QA and all sorts of stuff, that's rad. 144 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:59,480 Unionize your workplace. 145 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,880 I would unionize, but by boss Flynn, he's... 146 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,640 whoo. 147 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,080 Fierce capitalist. 148 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,920 Sometimes I try to get just a little bit of kibble and he does not like that. 149 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:11,920 Lightning wrap. 150 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,520 One of the world's largest uncontacted indigenous tribes was recently spotted on a beach in 151 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,880 Peru. 152 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,640 Presumably looking for food? 153 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,160 We can't really ask them because of the whole uncontacted thing. 154 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,000 But we got it caught on camera and I linked to it in my newsletter. 155 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:33,080 It's really bizarre to watch footage of human beings walking around on a beach who have 156 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,960 never been contacted by outside society. 157 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:36,960 Like damn. 158 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:42,680 Apple used an AI data training set that included stolen data from YouTubers like MKBHD and 159 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:43,680 Mr. Beast. 160 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,200 Instagram is adding a feature called notes, which I thought was already a feature that 161 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,360 they had called notes, but this is a different one. 162 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,280 And I don't get it. 163 00:07:53,280 --> 00:08:00,080 Something like a disappearing pseudo kind of almost comment that you can leave on videos 164 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,560 and goes away after a while. 165 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,440 And is like kind of, I don't understand. 166 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,320 I don't understand Instagram, but I am on Instagram. 167 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:11,560 If you want to follow me there, just in case a major platform that I am on happens to disappear 168 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:12,840 in the coming month. 169 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,680 After his assassination attempt, Trump is now selling Trump assassination attempt inspired 170 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:18,680 sneakers. 171 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,240 He's really just, you know, traumatized. 172 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,400 He's just struggling to move forward with this. 173 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,120 You can tell by the monetization. 174 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:30,520 Costco is now selling a doomsday bug out bag bucket of food. 175 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,480 It's like a bucket of food that has a 25 year shelf life. 176 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,480 So I mean, get it while you can. 177 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,360 Workers at Disneyland are demanding better pay, saying that they're sleeping in their 178 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,920 cars and in nearby motels because of a lack of a living wage. 179 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:52,160 Weird how if you work somewhere full time, you should be able to live somewhere nearby 180 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:53,480 to be able to work there. 181 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,600 There's a sad looking bear that cropped up in Florida and people started taking selfies 182 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:03,920 with it and local wildlife experts are like, Hey, don't, don't, don't take selfies with 183 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,400 a sad looking bear. 184 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,160 This is a reminder from, from me to you, don't take selfies with bears. 185 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:11,160 Just kind of period. 186 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,800 And finally for today, there are ongoing massive protests in Bangladesh. 187 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:16,240 They've been cut off from the world. 188 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,680 Communications just cut by their government. 189 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:23,400 Their army has been called in and given a shoot on site order. 190 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:29,200 Protestants have been protesting a quota system in the country that saves jobs for specific 191 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:35,280 people and is largely seen as like preventing people who need jobs from getting job and 192 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,880 instead rewarding like political loyalists and whatnot. 193 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:43,520 The quota system was repealed and then reinstated and that's why the riots, well, among other 194 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:49,240 things the protests were happening now and then counter protesters got involved, turned 195 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:50,240 violent. 196 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:51,240 Here we are. 197 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:57,600 The country has slightly gone back on the quota thing, but not, not fully. 198 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,240 That's where it stands. 199 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:00,240 Shit's pretty wild. 200 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,040 So there's that kind of ended on a bummer. 201 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:08,600 I mean, I can't really do much about that, but I will say that I have a big announcement 202 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:16,160 coming up soon and I cannot wait to share the next phase of me with you all. 203 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,920 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of stuff keeps happening. 204 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:31,160 The SKH.News for sources, bonus content and a positive vibe in the form of a digital hug. 205 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,160 My name is Endeavorance. 206 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,680 I am going to be gone for a few weeks as I'm traveling to GenCon and it's sort of 207 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,040 weirdly timed with my content schedule. 208 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:40,560 So I'm going to be gone for a couple of weeks. 209 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:43,280 I will be back on August 12th. 210 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,280 Thank you so very much for listening. 211 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:50,800 Take care and be well.