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Hello. I had some business in midtown Manhattan, but stuff still happened.

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So what's up? It's a Funk-Off! Not the good kind.

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You know Funko Pops? Like, the weird looking toy things?

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They took down itch.io, the gaming website. Itch is a pretty popular indie gaming website.

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It's like Steam, but for indie games and art and a bunch of other stuff.

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And recently they were taken whole ass offline because this like AI powered bot that Funko Pop uses

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to detect copyright infringement saw itch and was like, that's copyright infringement.

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Why? I don't know. I don't think they know either.

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But ultimately what it meant was there was a takedown request and itch was taken offline.

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When you have a website, the domain name, the URL, whatever.com, that's like leased to you.

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Like somebody else is managing that and you just can control where it points.

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The owner of the domain name that's giving it to you is called a registrar.

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And this bot reached out to the registrar for itch.io and was like,

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that's a bad one. Get rid of that one.

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And the registrar didn't really look too hard into it and was like, okay.

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It's back up now. But it's kind of a big deal that an AI bot crawling the internet

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reached out to a company that has the ability to take down entire websites.

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And that just happened for no reason. It's also the same domain registrar that I use for my websites.

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Oops. Elon Musk may need to settle for his $350 billion that he already has.

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After using his child as a human shield in the wake of a recent CEO's execution,

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Elon Musk has been denied his $56 billion pay package from Tesla again.

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This is the second denial of this pay package by a judge in Delaware who's basically saying,

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no, stop that. Knock it off.

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Musk used his influence over the Tesla board to rubber stamp what would be the biggest payout

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to any executive ever for all that great work he's doing at Tesla.

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What is he doing? The man just tweets all day.

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Here's a quote. This comes from Charles Elson from the University of Delaware

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Center for Corporate Governance, which is, I mean, that's a unique one.

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Quote, you had a board that wasn't independent, a process that was dominated by the chief executive

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and a package that was way out of any sort of reasonable bounds.

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It's quite a combo.

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The lawsuit brought to stop this payout was actually brought by a shareholder of Tesla

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to begin with. Their legal complaint was, this is some bullshit.

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Musk is, of course, not happy because he's a soulless monster whose only happiness comes from

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being the center of attention and getting paid more than anyone else in history.

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And he also likes Diablo 4. He likes Diablo 4 a lot.

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Join me. We flock together in these bluest of skies.

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Blue sky's popping off. It's really popping off.

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They recently hit 24 million users with an exponential increase in users.

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I didn't have a different word. Usage?

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So what the hell is blue sky and what makes it any different? Why?

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You know, blue sky is a microblogging service similar to Twitter.

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It was originally founded actually by Jack Dorsey, the original creator of Twitter.

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He has since left because he got upset that they wanted to have moderation standards on blue sky.

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Blue sky refers to itself as open and claims that it can't be taken over by billionaires.

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I want to quickly analyze what that means.

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So if you've heard of Macedon, similar to Macedon,

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blue sky is built on top of a protocol rather than being a privately held service.

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So whereas Twitter is a privately held service that was bought by a single person

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who now has total control over the data and who can access it and whatnot,

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if it's a protocol, it's a open system and people can build on top of it.

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And blue sky is one of those things built on top of it.

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Think like email. You can have a Gmail and email a Yahoo account.

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That's because both of those services speak the language of email.

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They use the email protocol.

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There's an existing open standard called activity pub.

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That is a protocol for Twitter like stuff to be able to publish updates

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and like reply favorite stuff like that.

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That's what Macedon is built on top of and a bunch of other services

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that all speak the language of activity pub and they can all interact that way.

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Blue sky is different.

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Blue sky looked at the existing standard and said,

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no, we're going to make our own standard.

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And they did that and it's called the act protocol.

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And that's what blue sky is built on top of.

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Thanks for sticking with me.

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Largely what this means is that ideally,

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despite the fact that blue sky is currently just a VC funded startup,

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ideally, no one will have sole ownership over the stewardship of data,

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which would mean that you wouldn't have an Elon Musk coming in and buying blue sky

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because he can't like structure.

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So that's that.

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Follow me on blue sky endeavor in stock camp on blue sky.

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Okay.

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The French government went, it wasn't long ago that I was doing one of these episodes

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talking about French president Macron installing Michel Barnier

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as a new prime minister in France.

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And that was deeply unpopular.

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Barnier is far right and was selected to be the prime minister

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right after a bunch of left leaning groups made huge headways in elections.

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So in a shocking twist, that didn't work out.

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The French government has now collapsed after a historic vote of no confidence passed

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for the first time in about 60 years.

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It was brought because the new prime minister was trying to ram through a budget bill

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without a parliamentary vote,

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which is not something that people are usually pretty okay with.

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Now, to be clear, the phrase the French government has collapsed sounds pretty dramatic.

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It's not, it's not.

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I mean, it's notable, but all it really means is

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they're going to pick a new prime minister and restructure the parliament.

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Macron has been facing calls to step down and he's still like,

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no, I'm going to finish out my term.

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And speaking of governments collapsing,

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after 13 years of civil war in Syria, Bashar Assad has fled.

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Assad has been the authoritarian leader of Syria since 2000.

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And people haven't liked that.

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In 2011, civil war broke out and has been raging ever since,

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escalating into a proxy war and just causing untold human suffering.

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But recently, with the ongoing situation with Israel

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and other powers in the region being preoccupied,

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Assad didn't have anyone to call for help when the opposition forces took over Damascus.

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They rushed in, took the city in a pretty quick sweep,

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and Assad fled the country like the little bitch boy he always was.

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There's been rejoicing in the streets and around the world

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because the refugees from this war have been astronomical.

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So think for a second about the amount of relief currently being felt

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that was brought on by nothing but this man's ego.

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Lightning round.

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Those outdoor splash pad things that kids jump around and play in are disgusting.

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And the CDC looked into it and it's really, really bad.

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Don't have your kids play in those.

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After a recent cyber attack on major American network infrastructures,

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the FBI is changing their tune and they're like,

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hey, maybe y'all should actually use encrypted messaging after all.

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Like the FBI is like, no, we like, hmm.

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All right, maybe use encryption.

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Meta will be joining Google, Amazon, and Microsoft

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in pushing for a nuclear power plant

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to power their data centers to run their AIs that nobody wants.

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What if we had nuclear power for anything but that?

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Speaking of massive wastes of electricity,

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the Hawk 2A girl recently launched a crypto shit coin

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that then crashed in value 95% right after launching.

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All signs are currently pointing to a rug pull,

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which is essentially a pump and dump scam.

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She may be up shit creep.

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Nick Fuentes, the very loud white supremacist

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who made that video that he said, your body, my choice.

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He's been charged with battery and arrested.

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So that's nice.

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And finally for today, Broward County, Florida,

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is finally going to be expunging criminal records that were generated

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from a 1993 sting operation where their own police department

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was producing and selling crack cocaine to get convictions.

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Yes, the police department was producing and selling crack cocaine.

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And those convictions were still on the books.

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This was back in 1993.

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This didn't just happen,

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but they're just now getting rid of the conviction.

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So, you know.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content,

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and a blackout curtain for your mind.

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My name is Endeavorance.

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I'll be back on Monday.

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Take care and be well.

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Hello, podcast folk.

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I'm back.

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I said goodbye and now I'm back.

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Hope you're doing well.

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Thank you so much for listening to the Stuff Keeps Happening podcast.

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And especially with the looming TikTok ban potentially actually happening,

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I'm going to be leaning more into podcast stuff.

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So keep an eye out for more announcements in the world of podcaster-y from your boy, Truly.

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And thank you so, so very much.

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Take care, be well, and I'll talk to you soon.

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Bye-bye.