Hello. I paged Dr. Beat due to an emergency.
But stuff still happened.
So what's up?
A near record-breaking data breach.
We didn't quite break the record, but we got close.
I know you're all really hoping for an even bigger data breach,
but only 2.9 billion people just had their data leaked,
which is just shy of Yahoo's 3 billion person data leak in 2013.
A company called National Public Data,
which is actually called Jericho Pictures Inc,
has a business of background checks.
How do they do these background checks?
Well, they scrape your information from anywhere that they can find,
despite you giving them permission.
Then they save it.
Then they sell it as a background check product.
Like specifically, they're pulling data from anywhere they can,
including private spaces where you didn't, you know, give permission.
What kind of data you ask?
Oh, I'm thankful.
Thank you. Thank you for that layup.
Names, social security numbers, addresses, the whole shebang.
It's kind of all of it.
It's like a cornucopia of personally identifiable information.
Real quick, I feel like I glossed over it just a bit.
What?
Like, I want to be clear.
This is not a unique business model.
This is not the only company that does this by any means.
But they do do this.
And a hacker group hacked them and then posted their stuff on the Internet for,
oh, like three and a half million dollars.
We could just pool our money together and buy it if you want.
Y'all down for that?
I would love to just have 2.9 billion social security numbers just on hand, just for funsies.
I could probably guess a few of them.
Anyway, they're being sued by a guy whose data was among the 2.9 billion people.
He was alerted by a data monitoring service and he was like, why?
What?
So he's suing them for money and he's also suing them so that they stop doing this.
Or at the very least, stop storing unencrypted personal information in sort of one big dump.
Like, what?
Hey, guys, great business idea.
We're going to scrape a bunch of data off the Internet that no one asked us to do.
And then we're going to store it just kind of in one spot.
Encryption?
Never heard of it.
Anyway, there's nothing that anybody could have really done to prevent getting owned by this leak.
There do exist services out there that can like scrub your data from data brokers and whatnot.
They're not a silver bullet.
They can help.
But the actual solution is to have a robust set of legislation to prevent this.
Or said another way, to come down so hard it would be unimaginable to recover when something like this happens.
Like, it's truly wild to me.
I know I am an Internet boy, right?
I get it.
I know how much of this stuff is just happening constantly.
And also, it still blows my mind.
Anyway, I guess delete your Internet service provider and computer.
I have a confession.
I have worked for multiple tech companies that are based in San Francisco.
I've always been a remote employee.
But most notably, I have to check every time that I try to spell San Francisco.
It's the S's and the C's.
They just fuck me right up.
But I might not have to care for much longer because a bunch of companies have been moving out of San Francisco.
Like, for a long time they've been doing this.
Most recently, Elon Musk was like, hey, we're going to close down the San Francisco office of Twitter and move to San Jose.
Which is like an hour away.
Real huge moves happening.
And like he has his own motivations.
Those motivations are mostly he hates the libs.
But there's been a lot of other companies that have been trying to pull out of San Francisco.
And it's kind of annoying why.
I want to be super clear.
San Francisco is a rad city.
I've been there a bunch of times.
There's wonderful people, amazing art, excellent culture and just a lot of natural beauty.
There's also, there's like sea lions.
Are they sea lions?
They're like sea lions.
And they're pretty fun.
But also, San Francisco very famously catered to a bunch of tech bros a little too hard and kind of tanked their entire housing.
Like housing situation.
And they just kind of kept catering.
And there was so much money coming in that they're like, this is fine.
This is fine.
OK, maybe we should actually tax them and legislate just a little bit.
And then very suddenly, all of the tech companies were like, what?
No.
Quite literally, one of the reasons that tech companies are like beefing with San Francisco is there's now rules around having gourmet tier cafeterias built into your office space that your workers never leave the office and never patron the surrounding businesses.
You know, that thing that society does.
Let's have a whole bunch of rich people come into the city and stay in the office for 12 hours and then leave and never do anything else as opposed to like having a functional society where people like walk around and do things.
Now, you might be thinking, well, that's their right.
You know, that's the tech company.
They've got the money.
They want to treat their employees well.
It's all about trying to bring people in.
It's actually just about keeping people in the office.
It is not rare for a tech company to serve really amazing spreads for breakfast, lunch and dinner, provided that you are in the office for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The number of people that I've had to explain that to is off the charts.
Like, I've been in a cafeteria with a co-worker and they've been like, can you believe this?
This is amazing.
And I'm like, I mean, yeah, I can definitely believe it because breakfast is served at like six and then dinner is served at like six.
That's a 12 hour day.
They're keeping you here for.
I've never seen someone's brain break so thoroughly.
Anyway, there's been a long history of companies moving either just outside city limits or just kind of to another surrounding place around San Francisco because San Francisco has already kind of run the course of good faith to all these tech companies.
And as much as a lot of these tech oligarchs will be like, oh, no, we love regulation.
We want to have responsible development.
They don't.
They don't want regulation.
They want to be in the room where regulations are being made so that they can make them work for them.
Anyway, if you want cheap office space, I know a place.
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Can we go back, actually?
Can we just talk more about the merch store?
No?
All right.
MrBeast, you know where I'm going.
You probably already know this.
Let's talk about it.
If you are somehow not aware of the insane controversy that's currently surrounding MrBeast, it's a doozy.
And if you're somehow not aware of who MrBeast is, you live a blessed life.
Now, look, I'm not going to lie.
I've enjoyed some of this guy's videos in the past, but it's gotten increasingly obvious how gross it's getting.
MrBeast is the most subscribed person on YouTube, and he's been fighting for that spot back and forth for a while, but he's got it right now.
And his whole thing is these really big challenges that people are pitting against each other in ridiculous games that ultimately result in someone getting paid.
Essentially game shows.
That's kind of it.
But they're also laden with a whole bunch of subscribe now and you'll enter a raffle to be in one of our videos.
Or buy this specific shirt from our merch store and you'll have a chance at meeting me.
And while doing all of this, very notably, his primary audience is literal children, like pre-teen.
So he's already been out here getting some flack for like, hey, why are you doing lotteries to children?
Like, that's not I.
And then over the past couple of weeks, things have just gotten way worse.
It started with allegations of child grooming coming out about Ava, a longtime member of the MrBeast, like, core group,
who was seemingly grooming children, having inappropriate conversations and discords, seemingly with MrBeast knowing.
But that kind of quickly took a backseat after a bunch of videos have come out from former MrBeast employees saying like, hey, this dude's a literal psychopath.
They go over the absurd working conditions that they've been put in.
They go over the rigged challenges that are actually being faked.
They go over the non-rigged challenges that weren't faked, but put people through absolute hell.
And then a lot of this is now coalescing around hundreds of accounts of horrendous conditions in a recent 2,000-person episode they were doing
that was the start of a new Amazon TV series they're working on.
The idea was that there was going to be 2,000 people all competing in this massive event.
And the first episode would be 2,000 people with 1,000 people being eliminated,
and those remaining 1,000 would go on to do the Amazon show,
while that episode would be uploaded to MrBeast's YouTube channel as like, promotion.
But, whoa, it was awful.
People were reporting that they weren't being fed, they weren't given new clothing,
people were having seizures on the field.
Eventually people realized that during the games,
bigger people could just beat the shit out of smaller people and not get in trouble.
People were talking about not being fed for 20-plus hours.
There's broken bones, people going to the hospital.
So what do I have to say about why this happened?
Well, a spokesperson said, quote,
The video was unfortunately complicated by the CrowdStrike incident,
extreme weather, and other unexpected logistical and communication issues.
I feel like if you're doing a thing with 2,000 human beings,
you should have a handle on your logistics.
I feel like if you're doing a thing with 2,000 human beings,
with millions of dollars of prize money in play and backing from Amazon,
you should probably have a handle on your logistics.
Somehow I don't think CrowdStrike is the reason that large men
were beating the shit out of small women and elderly people.
But maybe I just don't understand technology all that well after all.
This is all still kind of ongoing, there's more stuff coming out,
seemingly every day, and it's basically a reckoning for the old beastie.
Well, see where it lands?
Yikes-a-roanin'.
That's where I would describe it in summation.
Yikes-a-roanin'.
Lightning round.
Disney announced a whole bunch of new sequels,
because everything's a sequel now,
but they're gonna make Incredibles 3, Toy Story 5, and a bunch of other ones.
I got some giggles because they announced the next Avatar movie,
not Airbender, not that one, the other one, the blue one,
and it's gonna be called Fire and Ash,
just to make it even more confusing as to which Avatar we're talking about.
A woman at Chicago's O'Hare airport was found dead
and tangled up in the baggage claim conveyor belt thing.
There are ongoing investigations,
it appears as though she may have wandered into a restricted area.
Don't mess with that stuff, y'all.
That viral image of the Turkish sharpshooter at the Olympics,
who's just like hand in pocket holding out his gun,
it's even more badass because now he's got a quote saying,
storms were raging inside me when that photo was taken.
A Russian chess player may be facing a lifetime ban
after being caught spraying a mercury-based poison
on her opponent's board before a match.
We got a new bank seat.
It's a goat.
Right before the closing ceremonies for the Paris Olympics,
a dude tried to climb the Eiffel Tower.
It sparked like an evacuation in the immediate area
and a delay of ongoing events.
He's flying.
They got him.
I don't know how far up he got, but well done, guy.
A house exploded in Maryland, killing one person and injuring several others,
damaging nearby houses.
Investigations are ongoing into what happened.
If you have gas lines, please make sure they're inspected
and handled properly.
That's like my biggest fear.
And finally for today, Jack Black has confirmed that Tenacious D will return
after they broke up seemingly temporarily
after Kyle Gass made a joke about Trump's assassination
because we love the D and so does Jack Black.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.
Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content,
and my application for being the new band member of Tenacious D.
My name is Endeavourance.
I'll be back on Monday.
Take care and be well.
Hello there, listener.
This is Endeavourance with my post-episode talk.
I should just like make this a part of the, whatever.
You're, it's a secret.
We're here together and no one else knows that we're here.
Shh, keep it quiet.
Don't keep it quiet.
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