1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,567 Hello 2 00:00:00,567 --> 00:00:03,203 I was able to leave the Hotel California, 3 00:00:04,371 --> 00:00:06,906 but Stuff still Happened. 4 00:00:06,906 --> 00:00:07,774 So what's up? 5 00:00:07,774 --> 00:00:10,477 All right, preamble, I've got a story to tell you. 6 00:00:10,477 --> 00:00:12,779 I have been an Elon Musk hater 7 00:00:12,779 --> 00:00:14,414 since far before it was cool. 8 00:00:14,414 --> 00:00:16,783 Backstory, I have spent over half of my life 9 00:00:16,783 --> 00:00:19,986 as a professional technologist and software engineer. 10 00:00:19,986 --> 00:00:21,588 I do content full-time now, 11 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:23,089 but that was my job before this. 12 00:00:23,089 --> 00:00:25,992 In my time in tech, I met many a tech bro, 13 00:00:25,992 --> 00:00:28,194 and of course they all like Musk. 14 00:00:28,194 --> 00:00:30,397 I wanna say it was like 2013-ish 15 00:00:30,397 --> 00:00:32,665 when I was originally putting Musk in the, 16 00:00:32,665 --> 00:00:35,301 solidly in the "fuck this guy, he actually sucks" camp. 17 00:00:35,301 --> 00:00:37,737 I remember having a colleague that was all about him 18 00:00:37,737 --> 00:00:39,072 and like wanted to work at Tesla, 19 00:00:39,072 --> 00:00:40,640 wanted to have a Tesla. 20 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:41,875 Fast forward a few years, 21 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:43,743 I think around the time of like the miners 22 00:00:43,743 --> 00:00:46,012 that were stuck in a cave and Musk was like, 23 00:00:46,012 --> 00:00:47,814 "I'm gonna make a submarine to get them out." 24 00:00:47,814 --> 00:00:49,849 "Also, the guy who's currently leading the effort 25 00:00:49,849 --> 00:00:52,085 to free them is a pedophile!" 26 00:00:52,085 --> 00:00:54,721 Yeah, around that time, that coworker of mine was like, 27 00:00:54,721 --> 00:00:56,723 "Okay, actually this guy is just crazy." 28 00:00:56,723 --> 00:00:58,725 I know that we've now got those like bumper stickers 29 00:00:58,725 --> 00:01:01,127 on Teslas that say something along the lines of like, 30 00:01:01,127 --> 00:01:04,497 "I bought this before I knew Elon was terrible." 31 00:01:04,497 --> 00:01:06,733 But we've known he's terrible for a long time. 32 00:01:06,733 --> 00:01:08,568 People just haven't been paying attention. 33 00:01:08,568 --> 00:01:10,804 And so it is triply frustrating for me 34 00:01:10,804 --> 00:01:13,440 when I see people defending him up and down, 35 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:14,574 like some kind of genius, 36 00:01:14,574 --> 00:01:17,644 when anyone who actually understands this stuff 37 00:01:17,644 --> 00:01:22,415 knows that he is a moron at best and malicious at worst. 38 00:01:22,415 --> 00:01:23,450 So with that out of the way, 39 00:01:23,450 --> 00:01:25,085 let's talk about two of his goons 40 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:27,520 who have sort of like risen to the top of the radar 41 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:28,655 right now. 42 00:01:28,655 --> 00:01:31,057 There's too much to cover, but let's focus on these. 43 00:01:31,057 --> 00:01:33,460 The first up is 25 year old Marco Elez, 44 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:36,296 who recently resigned from his position in Doge 45 00:01:36,296 --> 00:01:38,264 after a Wall Street Journal report 46 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:40,567 connected him to a now deleted Twitter account 47 00:01:40,567 --> 00:01:44,103 that posted just overtly racist things, 48 00:01:44,103 --> 00:01:46,039 self-described racist things. 49 00:01:46,039 --> 00:01:47,173 He literally posted saying, 50 00:01:47,173 --> 00:01:49,409 "I was racist before it was cool." 51 00:01:49,409 --> 00:01:51,177 Hence my opening line of this show. 52 00:01:51,177 --> 00:01:53,279 Now the Wall Street Journal published this article, 53 00:01:53,279 --> 00:01:55,849 the guy resigned, and then Musk took to Twitter 54 00:01:55,849 --> 00:01:58,218 where he posted a poll to his followers saying, 55 00:01:58,218 --> 00:01:59,619 "Should I rehire him?" 56 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:01,788 And then J.D. Vance jumped on and was like, 57 00:02:01,788 --> 00:02:03,723 "You know, he said some pretty bad things, 58 00:02:03,723 --> 00:02:06,226 but we shouldn't reward journalists 59 00:02:06,226 --> 00:02:07,861 who try to destroy people." 60 00:02:07,861 --> 00:02:11,664 "And so for that reason, we should rehire the guy, 61 00:02:11,664 --> 00:02:12,966 despite the fact that he said 62 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:15,101 we should normalize hating Indian people, 63 00:02:15,101 --> 00:02:16,336 and my wife is Indian." 64 00:02:16,336 --> 00:02:18,771 That's me being J.D. Vance, I guess. 65 00:02:18,771 --> 00:02:20,140 So some back and forth happens, 66 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:22,275 and a whole bunch of stans on Twitter 67 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:25,812 are all encouraging Elon to rehire this "kid." 68 00:02:25,812 --> 00:02:27,780 They keep saying it's just some kid, 69 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:29,782 and he made a mistake, and he has learned. 70 00:02:29,782 --> 00:02:32,152 This was so long ago, and he's grown since then. 71 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:36,022 He's 25, and he was posting as recently as December, 72 00:02:36,022 --> 00:02:39,192 like 2024, like a month and a half ago. 73 00:02:39,192 --> 00:02:42,529 But I'm sure the 25-year-old who was 25 74 00:02:42,529 --> 00:02:45,598 when posting that he was a racist, 75 00:02:45,598 --> 00:02:46,900 learned a lot since then. 76 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:48,201 And so all the discussion was like, 77 00:02:48,201 --> 00:02:49,435 "Oh, but this is America. 78 00:02:49,435 --> 00:02:51,271 You're allowed to harbor whatever opinions you want, 79 00:02:51,271 --> 00:02:52,872 and you shouldn't be punished for that. 80 00:02:52,872 --> 00:02:53,873 That's a thought crime." 81 00:02:53,873 --> 00:02:55,475 I feel like if you are in a position 82 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:57,710 in the federal government of America, 83 00:02:57,710 --> 00:02:59,279 and you overtly state, 84 00:02:59,279 --> 00:03:01,314 "I think that there are certain groups of people 85 00:03:01,314 --> 00:03:04,250 "by skin color that are worthless," 86 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:06,553 you probably shouldn't be in the federal government, 87 00:03:06,553 --> 00:03:07,520 or alive. 88 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,523 He was literally calling for a eugenics-based 89 00:03:10,523 --> 00:03:11,724 immigration policy. 90 00:03:11,724 --> 00:03:14,427 Like, it's not, ugh. 91 00:03:14,427 --> 00:03:16,596 And Elon then rolls up and says, 92 00:03:16,596 --> 00:03:20,166 "To err is human, to forgive divine." 93 00:03:20,166 --> 00:03:22,302 Because he thinks he's a fucking god. 94 00:03:22,302 --> 00:03:25,138 But for some reason, forgive in this case 95 00:03:25,138 --> 00:03:28,374 means fully reinstate and completely ignore 96 00:03:28,374 --> 00:03:31,411 the abhorrent points of view espoused by this person, 97 00:03:31,411 --> 00:03:34,380 and reinstall them as having direct access 98 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:36,449 to Treasury Department servers. 99 00:03:36,449 --> 00:03:40,587 I feel like there's a different version of forgiveness 100 00:03:40,587 --> 00:03:41,588 that we could do. 101 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:43,456 Like, saying, "Oh, well, you know, 102 00:03:43,456 --> 00:03:45,792 "we're not gonna charge you with a hate crime, 103 00:03:45,792 --> 00:03:47,660 "but you're not gonna work this job anymore." 104 00:03:47,660 --> 00:03:48,294 I don't know. 105 00:03:48,294 --> 00:03:50,563 I feel like, I feel like that's fair. 106 00:03:50,563 --> 00:03:52,832 And so ultimately he's been reinstated, 107 00:03:52,832 --> 00:03:55,235 because obviously, and a bunch of people 108 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:58,471 are arguing why 25 means kid, 109 00:03:58,471 --> 00:04:01,474 and should be forgiven for having racist points of views. 110 00:04:01,474 --> 00:04:03,009 Never let them live this down. 111 00:04:03,009 --> 00:04:04,844 Never, ever, never. 112 00:04:04,844 --> 00:04:06,379 Because if just a few parameters here 113 00:04:06,379 --> 00:04:09,048 were just shifted a bit, this kid would be in jail. 114 00:04:09,048 --> 00:04:10,383 But let's move on to the other one 115 00:04:10,383 --> 00:04:12,285 that actually gets a bit wackier, 116 00:04:12,285 --> 00:04:15,254 this time, 19-year-old Edward Coristine. 117 00:04:15,254 --> 00:04:19,892 He also goes by Big Balls online. 118 00:04:19,892 --> 00:04:21,194 If you're wondering what he looks like, 119 00:04:21,194 --> 00:04:23,563 he looks like this, you shouldn't be surprised. 120 00:04:23,563 --> 00:04:25,431 The 19-year-old who calls himself Big Balls 121 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:27,767 is now in a, quote, "elite team" 122 00:04:27,767 --> 00:04:29,335 that is among the people who have access 123 00:04:29,335 --> 00:04:31,337 to your personal information. 124 00:04:31,337 --> 00:04:33,439 I mean your social security number, 125 00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:34,574 your banking information. 126 00:04:34,574 --> 00:04:36,042 Why does he have access? 127 00:04:36,042 --> 00:04:36,809 I don't know. 128 00:04:36,809 --> 00:04:39,045 What does that have to do with cleaning up 129 00:04:39,045 --> 00:04:40,380 waste in the government? 130 00:04:40,380 --> 00:04:41,214 I don't know. 131 00:04:41,214 --> 00:04:43,416 But this kid, who is actually a kid, 132 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:46,486 because he's fucking 19, just two years ago, 133 00:04:46,486 --> 00:04:50,490 when he was 17, was fired by his internship 134 00:04:50,490 --> 00:04:52,125 for leaking company secrets. 135 00:04:52,125 --> 00:04:53,760 Oh, maybe that was just like a little mistake. 136 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:54,761 Maybe he was just, you know, 137 00:04:54,761 --> 00:04:56,529 didn't know the protocol and leaked it. 138 00:04:56,529 --> 00:05:00,600 He was actively embedded in a well-known cybercrime ring. 139 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,302 He was bragging to them about having access 140 00:05:03,302 --> 00:05:05,471 to the servers of the company he was working for, 141 00:05:05,471 --> 00:05:07,473 which was a cybersecurity company. 142 00:05:07,473 --> 00:05:10,043 Except it's also a cybersecurity company 143 00:05:10,043 --> 00:05:13,579 that has a history of employing criminal black hat hackers. 144 00:05:13,579 --> 00:05:15,448 The company, called Path Networks, 145 00:05:15,448 --> 00:05:16,916 if you want to look up a thing, 146 00:05:16,916 --> 00:05:19,152 just to dig a little deeper yourself, 147 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:21,321 you can Google about Cosmo the God. 148 00:05:21,321 --> 00:05:23,389 That is a person that they previously employed. 149 00:05:23,389 --> 00:05:24,757 After being fired from this company, 150 00:05:24,757 --> 00:05:25,858 he went back to his hacker friends 151 00:05:25,858 --> 00:05:29,262 and he was looking for a good source for DDoS for hire. 152 00:05:29,262 --> 00:05:31,964 DDoS is distributed denial of service. 153 00:05:31,964 --> 00:05:34,967 It's essentially a brute force cyber attack 154 00:05:34,967 --> 00:05:37,170 where you try to take down a server by overwhelming it. 155 00:05:37,170 --> 00:05:37,970 And if you want to look further 156 00:05:37,970 --> 00:05:39,672 into some of the rings he was involved in, 157 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:42,275 you can just start by searching "The Com" 158 00:05:42,275 --> 00:05:44,343 It's a whole rabbit hole. 159 00:05:44,343 --> 00:05:46,813 If you're bored one day, go for it. 160 00:05:46,813 --> 00:05:49,282 But in the newsletter, I've linked a very extensive piece 161 00:05:49,282 --> 00:05:52,018 by KrebsOnSecurity that goes through all of this 162 00:05:52,018 --> 00:05:53,653 and explains the actors involved, 163 00:05:53,653 --> 00:05:56,489 the companies involved, and what all this stuff means. 164 00:05:56,489 --> 00:06:01,494 So anyway, Big Balls also had an LLC called Tesla.Sexy, 165 00:06:01,494 --> 00:06:03,830 starting to see a trend here. 166 00:06:03,830 --> 00:06:05,798 And also on his own LinkedIn profile, 167 00:06:05,798 --> 00:06:08,935 his most recent experience is listed as camp counselor. 168 00:06:08,935 --> 00:06:11,370 And so ultimately a 19 year old 169 00:06:11,370 --> 00:06:15,007 who leaks company information and has direct ties 170 00:06:15,007 --> 00:06:19,045 to criminal hacking rings is now employed in the government 171 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:21,214 and has direct access to your information. 172 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:23,983 And there are people actively cheering this on 173 00:06:23,983 --> 00:06:25,718 because they don't know what they're cheering on. 174 00:06:25,718 --> 00:06:28,388 And if they do, and that's what they want, 175 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:29,722 then they're just busted. 176 00:06:29,722 --> 00:06:30,757 I don't know what to say, 177 00:06:30,757 --> 00:06:33,926 because I am 100% for a complete audit 178 00:06:33,926 --> 00:06:36,362 of the money being moved around in this country. 179 00:06:36,362 --> 00:06:38,398 There's too much of it going to places 180 00:06:38,398 --> 00:06:39,699 that we don't know about. 181 00:06:39,699 --> 00:06:43,369 The DOD hasn't been able to pass the audit in how long? 182 00:06:43,369 --> 00:06:44,971 But that's not what they're fucking with. 183 00:06:44,971 --> 00:06:46,005 They're trying. 184 00:06:46,005 --> 00:06:49,308 I would be shocked if they did anything material there. 185 00:06:49,308 --> 00:06:51,277 But instead they're digging through files 186 00:06:51,277 --> 00:06:54,714 that they shouldn't have access to about citizens 187 00:06:54,714 --> 00:06:56,082 Not the government officials, 188 00:06:56,082 --> 00:06:58,785 who are also mostly just a political civil servants 189 00:06:58,785 --> 00:07:00,386 who just keep the lights on. 190 00:07:00,386 --> 00:07:03,022 The people that we're mad at as a reminder 191 00:07:03,022 --> 00:07:04,791 are the elected officials who are taking 192 00:07:04,791 --> 00:07:07,860 an untold amount of money from business interests. 193 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:09,862 That is where there is corruption. 194 00:07:09,862 --> 00:07:11,464 People like Elon Musk himself, 195 00:07:11,464 --> 00:07:13,366 who is a government contractor, 196 00:07:13,366 --> 00:07:17,170 is now in charge of the systems that move money 197 00:07:17,170 --> 00:07:18,504 to government contractors. 198 00:07:18,504 --> 00:07:21,340 That is explicitly the corruption 199 00:07:21,340 --> 00:07:22,308 that we need to get rid of. 200 00:07:22,308 --> 00:07:24,644 But instead we're rehiring self-described racists, 201 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:28,881 and for some reason a 19 year old with no prior experience 202 00:07:28,881 --> 00:07:31,918 has top secret access to everything. 203 00:07:31,918 --> 00:07:35,454 I cannot tell you how much of my time was spent 204 00:07:35,454 --> 00:07:40,293 just managing junior engineers around the ages of 19 to 25 205 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:41,961 and fixing all of their mistakes. 206 00:07:41,961 --> 00:07:44,163 That was my job for like a decade, 207 00:07:44,163 --> 00:07:47,300 was just preventing junior engineers from crashing systems. 208 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:49,101 And for some reason I don't think these guys 209 00:07:49,101 --> 00:07:52,271 are magically exempt from the inherent dumbassery 210 00:07:52,271 --> 00:07:54,507 of being a young man, a young white privileged man. 211 00:07:54,507 --> 00:07:56,475 So yes, let's root out corruption. 212 00:07:56,475 --> 00:07:58,878 Yes, let's get money out of politics. 213 00:07:58,878 --> 00:08:00,980 I don't think that's what's happening right now. 214 00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:03,015 Anyway, speaking of crime, 215 00:08:03,015 --> 00:08:04,417 let's talk about a couple of heists. 216 00:08:04,417 --> 00:08:06,819 Now I regret to inform you that I don't have 217 00:08:06,819 --> 00:08:08,921 a big complete heist for you, 218 00:08:08,921 --> 00:08:10,690 but instead I got two smaller things 219 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:12,592 and hopefully they add up to feel pretty good. 220 00:08:12,592 --> 00:08:15,127 First off, how about them egg prices? 221 00:08:15,127 --> 00:08:17,997 Because someone just stole 100,000 eggs 222 00:08:17,997 --> 00:08:20,066 from a distribution truck in Pennsylvania. 223 00:08:20,066 --> 00:08:21,334 Given the current price of eggs 224 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:24,437 due to inflation and bird flu and everything, 225 00:08:24,437 --> 00:08:27,240 that amounts to about 40 grand worth of eggs. 226 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,175 That could be double tomorrow, who knows? 227 00:08:29,175 --> 00:08:31,277 So this took place in Greencastle, PA, 228 00:08:31,277 --> 00:08:33,846 if you're around that area and one of your friends is like, 229 00:08:33,846 --> 00:08:37,550 hey, we're gonna do the ultimate omelet party. 230 00:08:37,550 --> 00:08:40,186 Maybe question the source a bit, or don't. 231 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:41,120 You didn't see nothing. 232 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,123 And for the second one, this is just beautiful. 233 00:08:44,123 --> 00:08:44,624 I love this. 234 00:08:44,624 --> 00:08:47,159 Visionary storegoer, Dylan Rockwell, 235 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:48,794 had a literal crime ring. 236 00:08:48,794 --> 00:08:50,196 He had a ring that he would wear 237 00:08:50,196 --> 00:08:55,001 that had the barcode for tomato soup from Walmart on it. 238 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:57,870 He'd get what he wanted to buy in quotations 239 00:08:57,870 --> 00:09:00,973 and he'd walk up to the self checkout and scan it. 240 00:09:00,973 --> 00:09:01,974 The ring, that is. 241 00:09:01,974 --> 00:09:03,509 Power tools, soup. 242 00:09:03,509 --> 00:09:05,244 A new jacket, soup. 243 00:09:05,244 --> 00:09:07,547 A $300 grill, soup. 244 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:09,248 Anyway, he got caught 245 00:09:09,248 --> 00:09:11,851 and the local police were like, okay, that's pretty genius. 246 00:09:11,851 --> 00:09:13,085 Thanks for your ingenuity. 247 00:09:13,085 --> 00:09:15,755 He was charged with felony burgleury... 248 00:09:15,755 --> 00:09:16,289 buh 249 00:09:16,289 --> 00:09:19,792 he was charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor theft, 250 00:09:19,792 --> 00:09:21,127 but he probably should be charged 251 00:09:21,127 --> 00:09:22,628 with actually being a genius. 252 00:09:22,628 --> 00:09:24,430 All right, policy stuff. 253 00:09:24,430 --> 00:09:25,698 We're back, buckle up. 254 00:09:25,698 --> 00:09:28,301 As of now, the Trump administration has effectively asked 255 00:09:28,301 --> 00:09:31,771 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop operations. 256 00:09:31,771 --> 00:09:33,606 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 257 00:09:33,606 --> 00:09:36,275 which is difficult to say even with the abbreviation, 258 00:09:36,275 --> 00:09:39,178 was established in 2008 after the financial crisis 259 00:09:39,178 --> 00:09:40,746 that fucked us all. 260 00:09:40,746 --> 00:09:43,349 This is one of the few agencies whose explicit purpose 261 00:09:43,349 --> 00:09:46,752 is to just protect the wallets of average citizens. 262 00:09:46,752 --> 00:09:47,653 Since their inception, 263 00:09:47,653 --> 00:09:52,191 they've returned about $20 billion back to US citizens 264 00:09:52,191 --> 00:09:55,294 from banks that were taking advantage of us. 265 00:09:55,294 --> 00:09:57,363 And so it has been a big target 266 00:09:57,363 --> 00:10:00,132 of anyone with big corporate donors for a long time, 267 00:10:00,132 --> 00:10:02,568 Again, if I wanted to materially improve the lives 268 00:10:02,568 --> 00:10:03,803 of the people in this country 269 00:10:03,803 --> 00:10:06,038 by helping to ensure that their tax money 270 00:10:06,038 --> 00:10:09,675 is going towards causes that they expect them to go towards, 271 00:10:09,675 --> 00:10:12,712 this wouldn't be one of the ways that I get rid of waste. 272 00:10:12,712 --> 00:10:16,615 Investments in this agency result in more dollars out 273 00:10:16,615 --> 00:10:18,951 back in your pocket than dollars in. 274 00:10:18,951 --> 00:10:20,720 So every dollar that you pay to this agency 275 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,222 through your taxes, you've made more money, 276 00:10:23,222 --> 00:10:24,890 purely just from disrupting schemes 277 00:10:24,890 --> 00:10:27,026 from banks and financial institutions. 278 00:10:27,026 --> 00:10:28,761 So there's that, they wanna get rid of that. 279 00:10:28,761 --> 00:10:31,564 Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, who, by the way, 280 00:10:31,564 --> 00:10:33,399 is our Secretary of State now. 281 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:34,533 Marco Rubio. 282 00:10:34,533 --> 00:10:36,769 Anyway, little Marco is threatening Panama, 283 00:10:36,769 --> 00:10:38,137 saying that if they don't do more 284 00:10:38,137 --> 00:10:39,939 to reduce Chinese influence, 285 00:10:39,939 --> 00:10:42,775 then America will have to "do what's necessary 286 00:10:42,775 --> 00:10:45,044 to protect its national interests." 287 00:10:45,044 --> 00:10:47,546 This comes on the heels of Trump loudly talking 288 00:10:47,546 --> 00:10:49,749 about wanting to take the Panama Canal back, 289 00:10:49,749 --> 00:10:52,718 as well as annex Greenland and Canada. 290 00:10:52,718 --> 00:10:55,321 As I said last time, it was never a joke. 291 00:10:55,321 --> 00:10:58,391 And recently, Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, 292 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:01,093 was overheard saying that it is a very real threat, 293 00:11:01,093 --> 00:11:03,129 that Trump wants the minerals 294 00:11:03,129 --> 00:11:05,031 and just resources from Canada. 295 00:11:05,031 --> 00:11:08,267 None of which seems to be reducing federal spending, 296 00:11:08,267 --> 00:11:11,337 which again, is something I would very much like to see. 297 00:11:11,337 --> 00:11:13,272 Google would like to explicitly do evil 298 00:11:13,272 --> 00:11:15,675 as they've updated their AI ethics principles 299 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,210 to remove wording that says that they wouldn't deploy 300 00:11:18,210 --> 00:11:21,280 AI applications that could, quote, "cause harm." 301 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,282 They put out a blog post justifying the change, 302 00:11:23,282 --> 00:11:25,918 being like, "It's a matter of national security and whatnot." 303 00:11:25,918 --> 00:11:29,021 I would counter that by saying that I just recently 304 00:11:29,021 --> 00:11:32,024 rewatched "Captain America Winter Soldier," 305 00:11:32,024 --> 00:11:33,793 and that's the plot of that movie. 306 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:36,529 Like specifically, that is the plot of the Nazis 307 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:37,763 in that movie, Hydra. 308 00:11:37,763 --> 00:11:40,332 They're like, "Hey, we are gonna deploy this AI system 309 00:11:40,332 --> 00:11:42,701 that takes out people using an algorithm." 310 00:11:42,701 --> 00:11:45,471 And maybe we shouldn't have that be a thing, said... 311 00:11:45,905 --> 00:11:46,939 ...the good guys. 312 00:11:46,939 --> 00:11:50,609 Now I'm not much of a deep thinker here, 313 00:11:50,609 --> 00:11:52,812 but I watched that movie and I'm pretty sure 314 00:11:52,812 --> 00:11:54,580 the Nazis were the bad guys. 315 00:11:54,580 --> 00:12:00,286 Last thing on policy, it's the De-FART-ment of Education. 316 00:12:00,286 --> 00:12:01,854 I didn't have a joke planned for this one, 317 00:12:01,854 --> 00:12:02,721 just deal with it. 318 00:12:02,721 --> 00:12:04,790 So the White House is working real hard to get rid 319 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:05,925 of the Department of Education, 320 00:12:05,925 --> 00:12:08,094 and this has been a Republican talking point 321 00:12:08,094 --> 00:12:09,395 for a long time. 322 00:12:09,395 --> 00:12:12,298 Like it was established in the, what, 80s-ish, 323 00:12:12,298 --> 00:12:14,767 and since then they've just been like, "I hate this thing!" 324 00:12:14,767 --> 00:12:17,436 Mostly because Reagan was like, "I hate this thing!" 325 00:12:17,436 --> 00:12:19,004 That's me being Reagan. 326 00:12:19,004 --> 00:12:22,274 I have a very broad set of talents here. 327 00:12:22,274 --> 00:12:24,844 Now again, all for audits, but let's talk about 328 00:12:24,844 --> 00:12:28,247 what the Department of Education does and does not do, 329 00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:30,149 because it is critically important to understand 330 00:12:30,149 --> 00:12:31,317 what you're criticizing. 331 00:12:31,317 --> 00:12:33,986 So the Department of Education does provide grants 332 00:12:33,986 --> 00:12:36,622 and support and research so that we can have 333 00:12:36,622 --> 00:12:39,358 cutting edge education methods in theory, 334 00:12:39,358 --> 00:12:40,893 which I agree, we don't. 335 00:12:40,893 --> 00:12:43,696 But it also ensures that federal civil rights are upheld, 336 00:12:43,696 --> 00:12:46,098 like not allowing schools to be segregated 337 00:12:46,098 --> 00:12:48,601 and ensuring that schools are ADA compliant. 338 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:52,538 The Department of Education is legally barred federally 339 00:12:52,538 --> 00:12:54,406 from dictating course material. 340 00:12:54,406 --> 00:12:57,042 That is not a thing that the Department of Education does. 341 00:12:57,042 --> 00:13:00,646 They also don't define the requirements for being a teacher. 342 00:13:00,646 --> 00:13:02,114 So they can't do something like say, 343 00:13:02,114 --> 00:13:04,783 "Oh, you must be of this political affiliation," 344 00:13:04,783 --> 00:13:05,518 or whatever. 345 00:13:05,518 --> 00:13:06,919 They just straight up cannot do that. 346 00:13:06,919 --> 00:13:08,687 That is already illegal. 347 00:13:08,687 --> 00:13:11,724 Well, that would be illegal regardless, but still. 348 00:13:11,724 --> 00:13:15,261 However, there is absolutely some gray area 349 00:13:15,261 --> 00:13:16,962 where the Department of Education 350 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:18,230 provides that federal funding, 351 00:13:18,230 --> 00:13:21,300 but there is a catch there that you have to adhere 352 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:23,335 to federal anti-discrimination laws. 353 00:13:23,335 --> 00:13:26,038 So if you have a school that is against 354 00:13:26,038 --> 00:13:30,376 including disabled people and anyone who's not white, 355 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:31,744 then you don't get federal funding, 356 00:13:31,744 --> 00:13:33,212 which is apparently a problem. 357 00:13:33,212 --> 00:13:35,714 The proposed alternative for the Department of Education 358 00:13:35,714 --> 00:13:38,884 from Republicans is school choice and a voucher program, 359 00:13:38,884 --> 00:13:39,985 which essentially just takes money 360 00:13:39,985 --> 00:13:42,221 that would have gone towards the Department of Education 361 00:13:42,221 --> 00:13:44,723 to be distributed across the country as needed, 362 00:13:44,723 --> 00:13:46,325 and instead goes to coupons 363 00:13:46,325 --> 00:13:48,961 that you can give to private schools, 364 00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:51,664 which is usually synonymous with religious schools. 365 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,699 So they want to take a taxpayer-funded system 366 00:13:53,699 --> 00:13:56,101 and turn them into a new direct way 367 00:13:56,101 --> 00:13:58,637 to funnel money into private schools 368 00:13:58,637 --> 00:14:00,506 under the guise of competition. 369 00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:02,107 And let's just ignore the fact that 370 00:14:02,107 --> 00:14:04,476 if you don't have decent wealth and accommodations, 371 00:14:04,476 --> 00:14:06,278 you can't actually still go to those public schools, 372 00:14:06,278 --> 00:14:07,947 and also those public schools can just straight up say, 373 00:14:07,947 --> 00:14:09,315 "Oh, we don't allow black students," 374 00:14:09,315 --> 00:14:11,550 despite taking federal tax dollars. 375 00:14:11,550 --> 00:14:14,119 So again, not reducing waste, 376 00:14:14,119 --> 00:14:15,721 just moving your money into the pockets 377 00:14:15,721 --> 00:14:17,556 of the people that they want it to go to. 378 00:14:17,556 --> 00:14:18,791 Anyway, um... 379 00:14:18,991 --> 00:14:19,758 Lightning round. 380 00:14:19,758 --> 00:14:22,194 Surfers and skater boys, I'm so sorry, 381 00:14:22,194 --> 00:14:26,398 but Quicksilver, Volcom, and Billabong are all closing. 382 00:14:26,398 --> 00:14:26,966 Bankrupt. 383 00:14:26,966 --> 00:14:28,801 US tech conglomerate Honeywell 384 00:14:28,801 --> 00:14:31,070 is splitting into three different companies, 385 00:14:31,070 --> 00:14:34,640 so they currently produce thermostats and aerospace stuff, 386 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,609 and that's not necessarily going to be the case anymore. 387 00:14:36,609 --> 00:14:38,744 Mitch McConnell fell down some stairs 388 00:14:38,744 --> 00:14:39,912 again 389 00:14:39,912 --> 00:14:41,513 and survived 390 00:14:41,513 --> 00:14:42,081 again. 391 00:14:42,081 --> 00:14:42,648 Why 392 00:14:42,648 --> 00:14:43,816 According to a recent study, 393 00:14:43,816 --> 00:14:47,286 there may be about seven grams of microplastics 394 00:14:47,286 --> 00:14:48,020 in your brain. 395 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:50,222 For reference, that's about as much plastic as you need 396 00:14:50,222 --> 00:14:51,690 to make a plastic spoon. 397 00:14:51,690 --> 00:14:53,025 Don't worry, I padded the... 398 00:14:53,025 --> 00:14:54,827 We're gonna end that, we're gonna end with a good one. 399 00:14:54,827 --> 00:14:55,728 We just gotta get through the rest. 400 00:14:55,728 --> 00:14:57,329 A hacker has claimed to have stolen 401 00:14:57,329 --> 00:15:00,733 about 20 million user credentials from OpenAI 402 00:15:00,733 --> 00:15:02,534 and posted them on the dark web. 403 00:15:02,534 --> 00:15:03,936 We don't know if that's true, 404 00:15:03,936 --> 00:15:05,237 the investigations are ongoing. 405 00:15:05,237 --> 00:15:08,774 Over the weekend, there was a huge PlayStation network outage, 406 00:15:08,774 --> 00:15:09,808 and people were big mad. 407 00:15:09,808 --> 00:15:13,112 Like, the amount of salt that was generated online, 408 00:15:13,112 --> 00:15:14,813 we would never have to worry about snow again. 409 00:15:14,813 --> 00:15:17,149 And finally for today, a historically Black church 410 00:15:17,149 --> 00:15:21,120 in Washington, DC, won a lawsuit against the Proud Boys. 411 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,088 During a 2020 campaign rally for Trump, 412 00:15:23,088 --> 00:15:25,057 the Proud Boys vandalized the church. 413 00:15:25,057 --> 00:15:26,625 The church sued them and won, 414 00:15:26,625 --> 00:15:29,595 and the Proud Boys never paid up for their penalties. 415 00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:31,931 And so they were just recently awarded 416 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:33,666 the Proud Boys trademark. 417 00:15:33,666 --> 00:15:37,569 And so now a black church in DC owns the trademark 418 00:15:37,569 --> 00:15:40,873 for the Proud Boys, so if they try to do any kind of like, 419 00:15:40,873 --> 00:15:44,410 advertising material or t-shirts or whatever, 420 00:15:44,410 --> 00:15:46,111 they gotta clear it with them. 421 00:15:46,312 --> 00:15:47,913 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 422 00:15:47,913 --> 00:15:49,181 of Stuff Keeps Happening. 423 00:15:49,481 --> 00:15:54,486 Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content and sources. 424 00:15:55,554 --> 00:15:57,690 My name is Endeavorance, I'll be back on Monday. 425 00:15:58,090 --> 00:15:59,758 Take care and be well.