1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,800 Hello, I sought the spell of mastery, but stuff still happened. 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:07,800 So what's up? 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:12,080 The US Justice Department just kind of blew up the right wing chuddo sphere. 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:13,440 Two major things have happened. 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:18,920 One, the DOJ put out an affidavit talking about Russia's efforts to have fake accounts 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,040 just populating social media with shit takes. 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:27,320 Two, the uncovering of Tenant Media, which is a right wing media outlet that is associated 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,880 with a bunch of big name right wing influencers such as Tim Pool. 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:32,640 Let's actually start with that second one. 10 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,320 The Department of Justice has basically called out right wing influencers who have been receiving 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,840 money to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian operatives who were 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,640 pretending to be a media company in America. 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,760 Now the DOJ has made it clear that it's not the fault of the influencers necessarily. 14 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,560 But that means that the two options here are either these right wing influencers were 15 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:57,520 aware of what was happening and they were okay with it, or they were useful idiots. 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:58,520 Or both. 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:00:59,520 Probably both. 18 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,200 Tim Pool, Josh Rubin, and the like have since taken to social media and been like, ah, I've 19 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,440 been alerted that I was the victim of a crime. 20 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,120 Somehow all this money I was receiving to spew hatred and foster vitriolic ideology among 21 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:16,160 my young impressionable base came from somewhere unexpected. 22 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,160 Russia. 23 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,200 Who would have thought that the country whose whole like internet thing is trying to destabilize 24 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:26,280 the discourse in US politics would be paying people who are destabilizing discourse in 25 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:27,480 US politics. 26 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,760 The other part, which is an affidavit that has a translated Russian document talking 27 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:37,440 about plans to essentially make fake accounts on social media and astroturf for the Republican 28 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:38,440 Party. 29 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:39,440 Sorry. 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,240 US political party A. The document has multiple redactions and the redactions are always US 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:49,360 political party A when referring to the US political party that is most aligned with 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,320 furthering Russian agendas. 33 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,560 It's a strategy document that's like, hey, okay, so this one political party in the US 34 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,400 is kind of like already doing the thing that we want to do, which is destabilizing the 35 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,400 US. 36 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,720 So let's just pump that up. 37 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,360 Russia and US political party A. Truly a match made in heaven. 38 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,400 Quite literally, here's a quote. 39 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:15,640 US political party A is currently advancing a relatively pro-Russian agenda, which could 40 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:17,040 be exploited. 41 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,040 Consummation, yes, there are loads of fake social media accounts out there being run 42 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:27,320 by either professional people who are doing this to sow discord or AIs. 43 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,800 Just being AIs. 44 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:29,800 But it's real. 45 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:30,800 It's a thing. 46 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,200 Be thoughtful about the content you're engaging with. 47 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:38,000 I'm not even an exemption, but if my production value is of any indication, I am not receiving 48 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,240 hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russia. 49 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:47,120 Like there's an entity out there that wants to push a pro-beday narrative. 50 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:53,160 I am here and my pockets are ready if you're just trying to slip a hundo in there. 51 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:54,160 Lightning round. 52 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,080 There's a measles outbreak happening in Oregon among children as there has been an abysmal 53 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,680 rate of vaccination. 54 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:01,880 Vaccinate your kids. 55 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,960 You know, that thing that we've done forever that has actually eradicated viruses in the 56 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,320 past. 57 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,320 Do that. 58 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,200 If you're originally refusing to comply, Elon Musk's Starlink Internet service is 59 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,560 now blocking Twitter in Brazil per a court order. 60 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,000 OpenAI has stated that they wouldn't really be able to be a business if they had to adhere 61 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,720 to copyright law and not use copyrighted material in their training data. 62 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,720 Hey y'all. 63 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:25,720 The call. 64 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaking of dumb AI bullshit, Microsoft has clarified that you're not supposed to be 65 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:36,000 able to uninstall their invasive recall system on Windows 11, which is going to snapshot 66 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,920 your computer frequently and just store all that data to be processed by an AI to help 67 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:42,920 you. 68 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,560 They pushed an update that said you could disable it and they're like, that was a mistake. 69 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:47,560 Oopsies. 70 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:53,680 And finally for today, No Man's Sky is finally a real video game because they've added 71 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:54,680 a fishing minigame. 72 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,640 It joins the ranks of Destiny and Animal Crossing in the real video game territory. 73 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,000 That is all I have for you today. 74 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,640 Thank you so much for joining me. 75 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,120 Add to SKH.News for sources and more. 76 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,120 My name is Endeavorance. 77 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,400 I will see you again soon. 78 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:35,360 Take care and be well.