1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,960 Hello. I got a negative egg on my first shop, but stuff still happens. 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,560 So what's up? Is big mooshi, big mooshi. 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,960 Consider the following. You're out for a walk. You're hungry. You're looking around. 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,480 And there's a big mooshi. In this scenario, you're good at foraging and you know what mushrooms 5 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:24,000 are edible. And you're like, that one is edible. 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,320 Well, congratulations. In this story, you are the person that I'm talking about right now. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,440 Because a woman in England was out for a walk with her family when she saw a five kilogram 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:38,000 puffball mushroom. She's a big, thick boy like me. 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,840 Yeah. So she was like, I want that. So she picked it up and took it home 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,280 and fed her family for a week. Granted, her family is quoted in being like, 11 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,080 yeah, we're kind of sick of the mushroom at this point. But hey, free food. 12 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,640 Now I looked this up because I was like, is a five kilogram puffball mushroom a big deal? 13 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:02,560 And they can get pretty big. Like the biggest one apparently was like 40 something kilograms 14 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,000 among the largest of mooshies. But apparently when they get that big, 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,960 they're like no longer edible. So it's pretty awesome that this one was this big and still edible. 16 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:14,640 My favorite tidbit from this story is that apparently one of the things they did with it 17 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,520 was like take a vertical slice of it and use that as the crust of a pizza. 18 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:25,840 Damn mooshi pizza. A couple episodes ago, I talked about a situation in 1993 where police 19 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:32,640 officers in Broward County, Florida were selling crack cocaine at all. But that was 1993. That was 20 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:38,480 a while ago. But now there's two Homeland Security agents who are selling bath salts. Bath salts that 21 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,720 were originally evidence that was confiscated from criminals that they were then like, we can 22 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:48,080 make a profit off of this. Here's the thing. This is like the most understood corruption. 23 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,400 Like this is like baby's first corruption. It's like the most run of the mill plot line. 24 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:58,480 The agents were like, oh, I want money. We've got drugs from the evidence. Let's sell that. 25 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:04,080 But they got caught. Here's how it worked. They tapped some dude who was in prison 26 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,280 and they're like, hey, you're going to be our informant now and you're going to go do like 27 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:13,520 above board operations where you're like, you know, our mole in drug sales. But also if, 28 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,000 take this and sell it. So the guy did. He was like, I was pressured by the agents. 29 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,280 The agents were arrested. And don't worry, justice is coming for them. They've been charged with 30 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:30,320 a single count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. They made 300 grand. 31 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,120 A 26 year old whistleblower who blew the whistle on Open AI's copyright infringement 32 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:40,320 has been found dead in his apartment. Suchir Balaji was a former employee at Open AI and he 33 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:45,280 made waves earlier this year when he blew the whistle saying, hey, they are just violating 34 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,080 copyright law left and right, which we know, but having an employee come out and be like, 35 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:56,400 y'all, it's truly ridiculous how much copyright violation is going on. That must have spooked the 36 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,320 company a bit. Now, local officials have said that they've determined this to be a suicide 37 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,520 right after we were told that the Boeing whistleblowers death was a suicide, but I don't 38 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,560 know. Maybe it truly is just a string of suicidal whistleblowers for national security adjacent 39 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:17,120 corporations. And we should just get used to that and accept it. Accept it. Now I should say Open AI 40 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,920 has stated that they are big sad to hear about this guy's death. That's what they've said. 41 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:28,320 Right. Right. At the same time, they released a video rendering AI model to the public to be able 42 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,920 to render video because that's what we need in the world. For real. We don't know a whole lot more 43 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,840 about this, but I just want to say on the topic of AI and like generative AI, what are we getting 44 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:43,040 out of this genuinely? Like the only argument that I've seen is that this is going to automate 45 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:49,040 creativity. To what end? Money? Why? What do we need money for if we can automate everything? AI 46 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:55,360 100% has a place in modern day and it has had a place in modern day for quite some time. It's 47 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,760 it's been a thing. It's been a part of our daily lives for the past more than a decade. It's just 48 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:05,600 recently we put a mouth on it and that had a wow factor that they're now cramming into everything. 49 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:12,000 So like I'm not going to say there is no value to anything AI. At the same time, why are we rushing 50 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:18,320 so hard in this one direction with it when we can instead be going any other direction? How many 51 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:25,520 people in this world need access to the ability to generate video at a whim? Is that is that the best 52 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,480 use of our time and energy? This judge hates onion. A judge stopped the onion from buying Infowars. 53 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:36,400 Backing up, Infowars, Alex Jones's failed media empire. He got got really bad by courts after 54 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,520 spending like a decade saying that the dead children from the Sandy Hook Massacre were paid 55 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:46,960 actors. The families of those dead children took him to court and won to the tune of 1.5 billion 56 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:53,280 dollars. Those families bankrupted Infowars and then banded together with satirical news publication 57 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:59,280 The Onion to make a bid on the entirety of the Infowars empire to try to buy it off of Alex 58 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:03,920 Jones during the auction. And their bid was accepted. But then Alex Jones bitched and moaned 59 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:09,280 a lot. And then Elon Musk got involved and then a judge said no. The judge's actual argument is that 60 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:14,800 there wasn't enough auctiony things that happened here. Like they should have accepted more bids 61 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:20,240 and gone back and forth more and that they went too quick to the final offer. Elon Musk's involvement 62 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:26,560 is that they're claiming that Twitter owns every account on Twitter. And so the court can't make 63 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:32,080 Twitter hand over the Infowars account to The Onion because that's part of their media empire 64 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,800 is the account. But Twitter says no that's our property. Which I want to be clear if that's the 65 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,920 case that's Twitter saying they own every account which means they are responsible for what's 66 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,800 published on every account. They're basically saying uh no we're a publisher and this is all our 67 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:53,200 media. Which is wild because that's the exact thing they're arguing against in every other lawsuit. 68 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:58,400 So I mean not that we should be surprised irony is dead but still. What does this actually mean 69 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:03,040 for Infowars? Well it just means a do-over. There's going to be another auction and The Onion is still 70 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,280 going to try to buy it. I hope that'll work out. We'll see. They should buy it and make me the new 71 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:12,320 anchor. Lightning round. A US woman was caught in Sydney trying to bring a golden gun through 72 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:18,400 airport security. She's in jail now. After the fall of Assad in Syria people have been delving 73 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,040 into his secretive prisons where he was keeping political prisoners. They also may have found 74 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:29,200 his nudes in in his house. Rupert Murdoch the owner of the Fox News empire was hoping to give his 75 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:35,840 entire empire to his one ultra conservative son to continue his legacy and lost that battle. It's 76 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:41,120 going to go across multiple of his kids not all of whom are that messed up. There's someone or a 77 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:46,240 group of people throwing googly eyes on art installations in Oregon. I love you. And in gaming 78 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,360 stuff we got the Witcher 4 trailer. We did kind of play a series. It's so freaking hype. Caves of Cud, 79 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:58,560 an old school style roguelike has finally hit 1.0 after 15 years of development time. Cyberpunk 2077 80 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:03,680 got a surprise big old update. And finally for today Astro Bot won Game of the Year from the Game 81 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,320 Awards upsetting a whole bunch of Capital G gamers along the way. 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