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