1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,567 Hello 2 00:00:00,567 --> 00:00:03,837 I usurped Soviet rule with my telekinesis, 3 00:00:04,838 --> 00:00:07,374 but Stuff still Happened. 4 00:00:07,374 --> 00:00:08,308 So what's up? 5 00:00:08,308 --> 00:00:12,445 Mitch McConnell has announced that he will not be seeking 6 00:00:12,445 --> 00:00:14,848 reelection after the end of his current term. 7 00:00:14,848 --> 00:00:18,485 So let's talk about the legacy of Mitch McConnell. 8 00:00:18,485 --> 00:00:19,753 Let's start with the basics. 9 00:00:19,753 --> 00:00:23,289 This man has been in the United States Senate for 40 years 10 00:00:23,289 --> 00:00:25,425 and has served over a decade as the leader 11 00:00:25,425 --> 00:00:27,127 of the Republicans in the Senate. 12 00:00:27,127 --> 00:00:29,529 There's no denying the fact that he has had 13 00:00:29,529 --> 00:00:33,466 a gargantuan impact on the trajectory of American politics. 14 00:00:33,466 --> 00:00:34,601 That's his whole thing. 15 00:00:34,601 --> 00:00:36,169 So let's dig into some of those specifics 16 00:00:36,169 --> 00:00:39,272 and talk about just why he is so reviled. 17 00:00:39,272 --> 00:00:41,641 Let's start with his home state, Kentucky. 18 00:00:41,641 --> 00:00:42,909 He is a senator. 19 00:00:42,909 --> 00:00:45,245 The Senate in the US has a hundred members, 20 00:00:45,245 --> 00:00:46,913 two per state, in order to give 21 00:00:46,913 --> 00:00:49,082 equal representation to each state. 22 00:00:49,082 --> 00:00:51,317 This means that the senator from Kentucky, 23 00:00:51,317 --> 00:00:54,854 a state that I and most people in this country don't live in, 24 00:00:54,854 --> 00:00:57,957 has been essentially dictating the course of our politics 25 00:00:57,957 --> 00:00:59,159 for my entire life. 26 00:00:59,159 --> 00:01:00,927 You might've thought it was the president. 27 00:01:00,927 --> 00:01:02,529 No, not really. 28 00:01:02,529 --> 00:01:04,130 At time of writing, which again, 29 00:01:04,130 --> 00:01:06,666 reminder is 40 years into this man's residency 30 00:01:06,666 --> 00:01:10,603 in the Senate, Kentucky is 43rd in the economy 31 00:01:10,603 --> 00:01:13,907 and 46th in healthcare among the states. 32 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:17,377 During COVID, half of Kentuckians lost income 33 00:01:17,377 --> 00:01:19,546 and Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate 34 00:01:19,546 --> 00:01:22,215 before hearing anything about COVID relief. 35 00:01:22,215 --> 00:01:25,318 He infamously spearheaded the pushback against Obamacare/ACA. 36 00:01:25,318 --> 00:01:28,788 If he had successfully repealed it, which he almost did, 37 00:01:28,788 --> 00:01:30,290 he would have removed healthcare 38 00:01:30,290 --> 00:01:32,959 from almost half a million of his constituents. 39 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:34,961 All the while, he cozied up to coal barons 40 00:01:34,961 --> 00:01:38,631 and gave massive tax breaks to CEOs of coal companies 41 00:01:38,631 --> 00:01:42,102 who fucked around and lost the pensions of their miners. 42 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:46,172 Kentucky is big coal country, but that means coal miners. 43 00:01:46,172 --> 00:01:49,742 A lot more miners who are actually doing the work. 44 00:01:49,742 --> 00:01:52,145 Yeah, he's done everything he could to empower the people 45 00:01:52,145 --> 00:01:53,947 that ruined those guys' lives. 46 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:55,014 So that's nice. 47 00:01:55,014 --> 00:01:55,715 Well done. 48 00:01:55,715 --> 00:01:56,549 Let's zoom out 49 00:01:56,549 --> 00:01:58,551 The national stage. 50 00:01:58,551 --> 00:02:00,787 So again, Mitch McConnell has been the leader 51 00:02:00,787 --> 00:02:02,989 of the Republicans, either the Senate majority 52 00:02:02,989 --> 00:02:05,692 or minority leader for about a decade. 53 00:02:05,692 --> 00:02:08,128 He's not currently doing that now, 54 00:02:08,128 --> 00:02:10,163 but up until very recently he was. 55 00:02:10,163 --> 00:02:12,465 During that time, he famously called himself 56 00:02:12,465 --> 00:02:14,567 the Grim Reaper of the Senate, 57 00:02:14,567 --> 00:02:17,403 saying that nothing was gonna pass under his rule. 58 00:02:17,403 --> 00:02:20,907 Like outright his statement was to cause American democracy 59 00:02:20,907 --> 00:02:23,643 to grind to a halt and get nothing done. 60 00:02:23,643 --> 00:02:27,013 If you've ever wondered why we don't do anything, 61 00:02:27,013 --> 00:02:27,714 that's why. 62 00:02:27,714 --> 00:02:29,983 I mean, there's obviously more factors than just that, 63 00:02:29,983 --> 00:02:32,719 but his impact cannot be overstated* 64 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:35,321 I remember seeing this man go up 65 00:02:35,321 --> 00:02:39,459 onto the floor of Congress and genuinely make the case 66 00:02:39,459 --> 00:02:43,563 that making voting day a national holiday is socialist, 67 00:02:43,563 --> 00:02:45,598 as if that's a bad thing. 68 00:02:45,598 --> 00:02:48,034 Anyway, he would go on to block Obama 69 00:02:48,034 --> 00:02:51,204 from ceding a Supreme Court justice, Merrick Garland. 70 00:02:51,204 --> 00:02:54,007 Merrick Garland was appointed about a year out 71 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:55,942 from the next presidential election, 72 00:02:55,942 --> 00:02:58,711 to which Mitch McConnell said, "Nah, nah, nah, that won't do. 73 00:02:58,711 --> 00:03:00,146 "It's too close to the election. 74 00:03:00,146 --> 00:03:02,582 "The American people deserve to have a say in this. 75 00:03:02,582 --> 00:03:06,152 "I refuse to even have a vote on this candidate." 76 00:03:06,152 --> 00:03:08,621 The Senate has to confirm Supreme Court justices 77 00:03:08,621 --> 00:03:10,390 and Mitch McConnell was in charge of the Senate. 78 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:12,592 And he just said, "No. 79 00:03:12,592 --> 00:03:14,427 "I'm just gonna not do that." 80 00:03:14,427 --> 00:03:16,262 And he did that for a year. 81 00:03:16,262 --> 00:03:18,698 And then under Trump, he sat three justices, 82 00:03:18,698 --> 00:03:21,768 one of whom was sat 28 days before the election. 83 00:03:21,768 --> 00:03:24,003 Strange that, weird. 84 00:03:24,003 --> 00:03:25,905 He's also one of the main reasons 85 00:03:25,905 --> 00:03:27,640 that we have Citizens United. 86 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:30,343 He fought hard to remove caps 87 00:03:30,343 --> 00:03:33,613 on how much money corporations can put into politics. 88 00:03:33,613 --> 00:03:37,083 He argued "money is speech and speech is democracy." 89 00:03:37,083 --> 00:03:39,586 And because of that, companies should be able to pour 90 00:03:39,586 --> 00:03:41,955 an unlimited amount of money into our election, 91 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:43,590 because it's just not fair 92 00:03:43,590 --> 00:03:45,959 that these giant faceless corporations 93 00:03:45,959 --> 00:03:49,762 aren't being represented as much as the people 94 00:03:49,762 --> 00:03:50,530 in this government. 95 00:03:50,530 --> 00:03:54,667 I sure am glad that Palantir has more of a vote than I do. 96 00:03:54,667 --> 00:03:57,704 He loudly championed Trump's tax plan in 2017, 97 00:03:57,704 --> 00:03:59,172 saying that it was gonna be a pivotal moment 98 00:03:59,172 --> 00:04:00,873 for the American economy. 99 00:04:00,873 --> 00:04:03,142 And that has turned out to be an abject failure. 100 00:04:03,142 --> 00:04:04,978 It was entirely tax cuts for the rich. 101 00:04:04,978 --> 00:04:07,714 And now that we've had enough time since 2017 102 00:04:07,714 --> 00:04:10,149 to analyze the economic fallout, 103 00:04:10,149 --> 00:04:12,352 it has been a complete and total disaster. 104 00:04:12,352 --> 00:04:14,153 Mitch McConnell is a career politician 105 00:04:14,153 --> 00:04:16,589 who focused on changing the game 106 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:19,058 to make it all about preventing things from happening 107 00:04:19,058 --> 00:04:20,793 while enriching yourself. 108 00:04:20,793 --> 00:04:22,462 That is just his legacy. 109 00:04:22,462 --> 00:04:23,563 While that sounds like, 110 00:04:23,563 --> 00:04:25,365 oh, that could be anyone in Congress, 111 00:04:25,365 --> 00:04:26,933 he is the prototype. 112 00:04:26,933 --> 00:04:30,603 He is the one that normalized this beyond any doubt. 113 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:32,438 He is the one that would go up and say, 114 00:04:32,438 --> 00:04:36,242 look, I'm going to just flaunt my political power 115 00:04:36,242 --> 00:04:37,010 and abuse it. 116 00:04:37,010 --> 00:04:39,479 I'm going to completely ignore any kind of history 117 00:04:39,479 --> 00:04:41,247 and just do what I want. 118 00:04:41,247 --> 00:04:42,949 And no one can stop me. 119 00:04:42,949 --> 00:04:44,350 Does that sound familiar? 120 00:04:44,350 --> 00:04:48,921 I could go on and on and on about just how much hypocrisy 121 00:04:48,921 --> 00:04:51,057 this man embodies, but it doesn't matter 122 00:04:51,057 --> 00:04:53,660 because these people don't feel that shame. 123 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:55,461 And so we near the end of Mitch McConnell 124 00:04:55,461 --> 00:04:56,763 in the United States Senate, 125 00:04:56,763 --> 00:05:00,099 which again has been for more than my whole life. 126 00:05:00,099 --> 00:05:02,502 I have not known a world in which this man 127 00:05:02,502 --> 00:05:05,538 did not have his finger on the scales of our future. 128 00:05:05,538 --> 00:05:07,840 And so hopefully now you too understand 129 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:10,410 why Mitch McConnell deserves to burn forever 130 00:05:10,410 --> 00:05:11,978 in whatever hell he believes in. 131 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:14,380 And I will update you as to when the next best 132 00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:17,684 gender neutral bathroom is unveiled after he's buried. 133 00:05:17,684 --> 00:05:18,918 Hey, do you like what I do? 134 00:05:18,918 --> 00:05:20,486 And you want to help me continue to do it. 135 00:05:20,486 --> 00:05:23,189 Here's three great ways that you can do that. 136 00:05:23,189 --> 00:05:25,658 One is easy and free, share 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00:05:56,489 All right, moving on. 152 00:05:56,489 --> 00:06:00,059 Let's talk about gamers and entertainment. 153 00:06:00,059 --> 00:06:01,360 But first gamers 154 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,397 Pokemon Go delete your data. 155 00:06:04,397 --> 00:06:08,234 Pokemon Go developer Niantic, Niantic, Niantic, 156 00:06:08,234 --> 00:06:10,303 they're selling off their gaming division. 157 00:06:10,303 --> 00:06:11,971 Does that sound confusing? 158 00:06:11,971 --> 00:06:14,374 That's because they were mostly a data collection company. 159 00:06:14,374 --> 00:06:16,509 Yes, the company that makes Pokemon Go 160 00:06:16,509 --> 00:06:18,010 is selling off Pokemon Go 161 00:06:18,010 --> 00:06:21,114 to a Saudi mobile game developer company, 162 00:06:21,114 --> 00:06:22,882 because they already got the data they wanted 163 00:06:22,882 --> 00:06:24,951 and now they can just go to do contracting stuff. 164 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:29,021 Pokemon Go being a very strongly geolocation focused app, 165 00:06:29,021 --> 00:06:31,290 it was all about getting people to walk around, 166 00:06:31,290 --> 00:06:34,160 collect data and map out the earth and whatnot. 167 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,231 It was entirely just using you to generate data 168 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:39,132 so that they can make money. 169 00:06:39,132 --> 00:06:41,968 All wrapped up in a Pokemon game 170 00:06:41,968 --> 00:06:44,203 because what better way to get people to do what you want 171 00:06:44,203 --> 00:06:46,205 than make them think they're just playing a game. 172 00:06:46,205 --> 00:06:47,206 It's insidious. 173 00:06:47,206 --> 00:06:48,007 It's gross. 174 00:06:48,007 --> 00:06:49,108 It's nasty. 175 00:06:49,108 --> 00:06:52,245 But everyone who did play Pokemon Go agreed to this. 176 00:06:52,245 --> 00:06:53,980 Technically, it was in the terms of service. 177 00:06:53,980 --> 00:06:57,083 That doesn't make it okay, but it makes it legal. 178 00:06:57,083 --> 00:06:59,485 Now you might be like, oh, I don't care. 179 00:06:59,485 --> 00:07:01,554 What are they gonna do with my data? 180 00:07:01,554 --> 00:07:02,221 Who cares? 181 00:07:02,221 --> 00:07:03,589 I get it. 182 00:07:03,589 --> 00:07:06,092 The point is they fucked everyone over. 183 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:08,261 Hey kids, come play this Pokemon game. 184 00:07:08,261 --> 00:07:10,329 Anyway, we're gonna go contract out this data 185 00:07:10,329 --> 00:07:12,432 to whoever the highest bidder is now. 186 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:14,901 Like regardless of your personal sentiment 187 00:07:14,901 --> 00:07:17,403 on whether or not your personal data 188 00:07:17,403 --> 00:07:19,605 is something you care about or not. 189 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:21,073 That's not the important thing here. 190 00:07:21,073 --> 00:07:23,576 It is the mass surveillance. 191 00:07:23,576 --> 00:07:26,345 That's just generally not a thing we want, 192 00:07:26,345 --> 00:07:28,548 especially in the hands of private corporations, 193 00:07:28,548 --> 00:07:30,783 who again, only look for profit. 194 00:07:30,783 --> 00:07:33,719 I am not out here to hype up governments 195 00:07:33,719 --> 00:07:35,988 and tell you that every government 196 00:07:35,988 --> 00:07:38,191 as it exists today is good. 197 00:07:38,191 --> 00:07:40,526 But at least the abstract concept 198 00:07:40,526 --> 00:07:42,995 of the governing body of a people 199 00:07:42,995 --> 00:07:46,899 is a group that is trying to work for the people, 200 00:07:46,899 --> 00:07:48,234 not for themselves. 201 00:07:48,234 --> 00:07:51,103 In theory, a public organization 202 00:07:51,103 --> 00:07:52,839 is working for the betterment of the public, 203 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:54,807 not enriching themselves, 204 00:07:54,807 --> 00:07:57,276 which is exactly what every private company 205 00:07:57,276 --> 00:07:59,345 that's collecting all of your data is trying to do. 206 00:07:59,345 --> 00:08:00,980 Anyway, I said, let's talk about gamers, 207 00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:03,216 but now we're gonna talk about the gamer, 208 00:08:03,216 --> 00:08:04,784 the CEO of GameStop. 209 00:08:04,784 --> 00:08:08,855 This man, the CEO of GameStop, went full capital G gamer 210 00:08:08,855 --> 00:08:10,890 because they're selling off their Canadian 211 00:08:10,890 --> 00:08:13,025 and French wings of the company. 212 00:08:13,025 --> 00:08:15,261 And he was like, "Ugh, we're so, 213 00:08:15,261 --> 00:08:16,896 they're all woke and terrible." 214 00:08:16,896 --> 00:08:17,864 I shit you not. 215 00:08:17,864 --> 00:08:21,100 The CEO of an actual company went on to Twitter 216 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:23,169 and publicly posted an email address saying, 217 00:08:23,169 --> 00:08:26,873 "Hey, email this address if you wanna put it in an offer 218 00:08:26,873 --> 00:08:29,108 to buy our Canadian and French wings. 219 00:08:29,108 --> 00:08:31,711 You get the wokeness and liberalism for free." 220 00:08:31,711 --> 00:08:34,413 Like, bro, what? 221 00:08:34,413 --> 00:08:35,848 Here's the quote. 222 00:08:35,848 --> 00:08:38,284 Email m&a at GameStop.com 223 00:08:38,284 --> 00:08:40,953 if you're interested in buying GameStop Canada 224 00:08:40,953 --> 00:08:42,989 or Micromania France. 225 00:08:42,989 --> 00:08:46,125 High taxes, liberalism, socialism, 226 00:08:46,125 --> 00:08:49,028 progressivism, wokeness, and DEI 227 00:08:49,028 --> 00:08:52,131 included at no additional cost if you buy today. 228 00:08:52,131 --> 00:08:53,466 You're an adult. 229 00:08:53,466 --> 00:08:55,968 You're a human adult. 230 00:08:55,968 --> 00:08:59,805 Do you hear yourself or read yourself? 231 00:08:59,805 --> 00:09:00,573 It was a tweet. 232 00:09:00,573 --> 00:09:04,310 I'm so far and beyond done with people saying woke and DEI 233 00:09:04,310 --> 00:09:06,746 about everything. 234 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:08,481 You sound moronic. 235 00:09:08,481 --> 00:09:10,449 If you can't get through the day without being upset 236 00:09:10,449 --> 00:09:12,985 about Black people and women existing, 237 00:09:12,985 --> 00:09:14,987 I think you have some self-reflection to do. 238 00:09:14,987 --> 00:09:17,690 Anyway, Korra has some explaining to do. 239 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:18,524 This is not gamer. 240 00:09:18,524 --> 00:09:19,759 This is just entertainment now. 241 00:09:19,759 --> 00:09:20,326 That's right. 242 00:09:20,326 --> 00:09:22,728 We've got Avatar news. 243 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:24,530 I'm actually so fucking excited, y'all. 244 00:09:24,530 --> 00:09:26,766 We got official word that there's gonna be a new entry 245 00:09:26,766 --> 00:09:28,801 in the Avatar The Last Airbender series, 246 00:09:28,801 --> 00:09:31,370 a new show starring a new Avatar. 247 00:09:31,370 --> 00:09:32,838 It takes place after Korra. 248 00:09:32,838 --> 00:09:34,540 They're already greenlit for two seasons 249 00:09:34,540 --> 00:09:37,510 and it is being developed by the original showrunners. 250 00:09:37,510 --> 00:09:40,246 It is going to be titled Avatar Seven Havens, 251 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:42,815 and it apparently takes place after Korra 252 00:09:42,815 --> 00:09:44,951 and the world has kind of gone to shit, 253 00:09:44,951 --> 00:09:48,354 and the Avatar is now considered the destroyer of humanity 254 00:09:48,354 --> 00:09:49,455 instead of the savior. 255 00:09:49,455 --> 00:09:51,691 It's gonna be starring an earthbending Avatar, 256 00:09:51,691 --> 00:09:54,727 and I'm hype, and I'm hype, and I'm hype. 257 00:09:54,727 --> 00:09:57,463 Bonus thing, we're getting a new Avatar book as well, 258 00:09:57,463 --> 00:10:00,666 and it stars the most niche imaginable character 259 00:10:00,666 --> 00:10:01,934 from the Avatar universe. 260 00:10:01,934 --> 00:10:03,002 If you're watching this and you're like, 261 00:10:03,002 --> 00:10:04,370 "I know nothing about Avatar. 262 00:10:04,370 --> 00:10:06,038 "Why are you talking about this so much?" 263 00:10:07,139 --> 00:10:07,840 Deal with it. 264 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,542 The character who's going to be the star 265 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:12,044 of a new upcoming Avatar novel 266 00:10:12,044 --> 00:10:14,847 is the girl that Zuko went on a date with 267 00:10:14,847 --> 00:10:16,515 in Tales of Ba Sing Se. 268 00:10:16,515 --> 00:10:19,485 Just that random girl that was all up in Zuko's face 269 00:10:19,485 --> 00:10:22,054 and was like, "Hi, I'm cute," and Zuko was like, 270 00:10:22,054 --> 00:10:24,390 "Fine, I'll date you," and then he ran away. 271 00:10:24,390 --> 00:10:24,724 Her. 272 00:10:24,724 --> 00:10:25,958 She was too good for him anyway. 273 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:27,226 So that's neat. 274 00:10:27,226 --> 00:10:28,327 Hold on to that. 275 00:10:28,327 --> 00:10:31,697 Hold on to the neat, we're going back in. 276 00:10:31,697 --> 00:10:32,665 Technology. 277 00:10:32,665 --> 00:10:35,368 Last week I talked about Apple being asked by the UK 278 00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:37,503 to give the UK government a backdoor 279 00:10:37,503 --> 00:10:40,473 into Apple's encrypted iCloud data protection stuff. 280 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:41,440 We have an update. 281 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,777 Apple has said, "No, we're not gonna do that. 282 00:10:44,777 --> 00:10:46,545 "We're just gonna completely get rid of that feature 283 00:10:46,545 --> 00:10:47,346 "in the UK." 284 00:10:47,346 --> 00:10:48,848 So they kind of basically did that. 285 00:10:48,848 --> 00:10:52,118 Apple is removing the ability for users in the UK 286 00:10:52,118 --> 00:10:55,388 to use the end-to-end encryption option for iCloud. 287 00:10:55,388 --> 00:10:57,423 This was in response to the UK government saying, 288 00:10:57,423 --> 00:11:00,459 "We wanna be able to access the encrypted data." 289 00:11:00,459 --> 00:11:03,429 This basically just does that without compromising 290 00:11:03,429 --> 00:11:05,364 the security system for other users. 291 00:11:05,364 --> 00:11:07,767 It's more of a containment of the possible fallout 292 00:11:07,767 --> 00:11:10,970 rather than completely capitulating. 293 00:11:10,970 --> 00:11:12,938 But Apple has now gone on record saying, 294 00:11:12,938 --> 00:11:14,940 "We will never build a backdoor." 295 00:11:14,940 --> 00:11:16,242 So we'll see. 296 00:11:16,242 --> 00:11:18,411 Their track record does show that. 297 00:11:18,411 --> 00:11:19,712 It does, I gotta give them that. 298 00:11:19,712 --> 00:11:22,682 If you followed my content for any extended period of time, 299 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,984 you may have heard me talk about how Silicon Valley 300 00:11:24,984 --> 00:11:28,187 and Tech at Large is literally a cult. 301 00:11:28,187 --> 00:11:29,622 That's what this part's about. 302 00:11:29,622 --> 00:11:32,024 Between Elon Musk thinking he needs to populate the world 303 00:11:32,024 --> 00:11:35,695 with his "genius DNA" and Peter Thiel injecting himself 304 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:37,830 with the blood of the young, 305 00:11:37,830 --> 00:11:40,066 there's weird shit going on. 306 00:11:40,066 --> 00:11:41,867 And all of it comes from the same place, 307 00:11:41,867 --> 00:11:45,805 the deeply rooted history of eugenics in Silicon Valley. 308 00:11:45,805 --> 00:11:48,574 It is storied and terrible. 309 00:11:48,574 --> 00:11:52,611 It's why you hear tech bros talk so frequently about IQ. 310 00:11:52,611 --> 00:11:55,481 IQ is deeply tied to eugenics, 311 00:11:55,481 --> 00:11:57,650 and that's why they're so into it. 312 00:11:57,650 --> 00:11:59,919 They might not realize that's why, 313 00:11:59,919 --> 00:12:02,288 but it all follows the same pattern of, 314 00:12:02,288 --> 00:12:04,924 "Oh, I'm amazing. 315 00:12:04,924 --> 00:12:07,159 "I'm the smartest person who ever lived. 316 00:12:07,159 --> 00:12:09,028 "And I have so much money now. 317 00:12:09,028 --> 00:12:13,566 "And it's my job to fix everything by making it in my image." 318 00:12:13,566 --> 00:12:16,435 They liken themselves as gods, basically. 319 00:12:16,435 --> 00:12:19,271 And so what comes out of all of this is a delusion 320 00:12:19,271 --> 00:12:21,774 that they are the ones who must save the world. 321 00:12:21,774 --> 00:12:23,242 And so they start coming up with these ideas 322 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:24,977 and they start trying to apply 323 00:12:24,977 --> 00:12:29,148 what they think solutions look like to humanity. 324 00:12:29,148 --> 00:12:30,816 Now remember, these are tech bros. 325 00:12:30,816 --> 00:12:32,218 They've got computer science degrees. 326 00:12:32,218 --> 00:12:33,753 And I'm talking as somebody 327 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:35,321 who has a computer science degree 328 00:12:35,321 --> 00:12:38,724 and worked in tech for 15 years, surrounded by these people. 329 00:12:38,724 --> 00:12:39,692 I know how they think. 330 00:12:39,692 --> 00:12:41,127 They look at a problem and they think, 331 00:12:41,127 --> 00:12:42,762 "How can I solve this through the lens 332 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:45,798 "of my technology experience?" 333 00:12:45,798 --> 00:12:47,867 That is why Silicon Valley is constantly coming out 334 00:12:47,867 --> 00:12:50,035 with solutions to problems that no one had, 335 00:12:50,035 --> 00:12:51,637 We don't need self-driving cars 336 00:12:51,637 --> 00:12:55,908 and a credit card that can store all of your credit cards. 337 00:12:55,908 --> 00:12:57,877 We need food distribution mechanisms. 338 00:12:57,877 --> 00:13:00,579 But one manifestation of this are rationalists, 339 00:13:00,579 --> 00:13:04,083 which are a borderline religious level group of people 340 00:13:04,083 --> 00:13:07,319 who believe that they can solve the world's problems 341 00:13:07,319 --> 00:13:11,590 with like math and logic to optimize the problems away. 342 00:13:11,590 --> 00:13:13,893 If you've ever heard the term effective altruism, 343 00:13:13,893 --> 00:13:15,361 it's the same circle. 344 00:13:15,361 --> 00:13:17,062 It's not all the same thing, 345 00:13:17,062 --> 00:13:18,731 but they're all in the same groups. 346 00:13:18,731 --> 00:13:20,099 There's a ton of different names for this 347 00:13:20,099 --> 00:13:22,768 that all try to sound good on the surface, 348 00:13:22,768 --> 00:13:25,070 but underneath, when you dig down, 349 00:13:25,070 --> 00:13:26,705 you just get back to eugenics. 350 00:13:26,705 --> 00:13:28,974 So one of these groups has a spinoff group 351 00:13:28,974 --> 00:13:35,381 called the Zizians, or the Center for Applied Rationalists. 352 00:13:35,381 --> 00:13:37,716 There's basically a cult that's been out there 353 00:13:37,716 --> 00:13:39,485 doing murders across the country, 354 00:13:39,485 --> 00:13:41,754 and their leader just recently got arrested. 355 00:13:41,754 --> 00:13:43,856 I'm not gonna dig into the very specifics 356 00:13:43,856 --> 00:13:46,926 of that one subgroup and what they've been doing. 357 00:13:46,926 --> 00:13:48,360 There's tons of reporting on that. 358 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,596 You can go search Zizians if you want to. 359 00:13:50,596 --> 00:13:53,432 The point I'm trying to make is this isn't just hyperbole. 360 00:13:53,432 --> 00:13:55,835 I'm not looking at people who I disagree with 361 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:58,103 and saying, "They're in a cult!" 362 00:13:58,103 --> 00:13:59,238 It's literal. 363 00:13:59,238 --> 00:14:01,240 There are compounds in the mountains. 364 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,375 There are myriad tech oligarchs 365 00:14:03,375 --> 00:14:05,878 who are putting untold millions of dollars 366 00:14:05,878 --> 00:14:07,746 into trying to reverse aging 367 00:14:07,746 --> 00:14:09,381 because they're afraid of death, 368 00:14:09,381 --> 00:14:11,450 because it equalizes them with the rest of us. 369 00:14:11,450 --> 00:14:13,886 There's a long documented history of eugenics research 370 00:14:13,886 --> 00:14:16,222 at the universities that all of the big tech firms 371 00:14:16,222 --> 00:14:17,723 prioritize hiring from. 372 00:14:17,723 --> 00:14:19,258 It's all out there. 373 00:14:19,258 --> 00:14:22,861 It's all just there, out in the open. 374 00:14:22,861 --> 00:14:25,264 But there's so much trust and money 375 00:14:25,264 --> 00:14:29,768 put into Silicon Valley that it just festers uninhibited. 376 00:14:29,768 --> 00:14:30,936 During my time in tech, 377 00:14:30,936 --> 00:14:33,272 there were essentially two types of people that I worked with. 378 00:14:33,272 --> 00:14:34,907 People who wanted to fuck off, 379 00:14:34,907 --> 00:14:37,509 never touch a computer again, and become farmers, 380 00:14:37,509 --> 00:14:39,511 and people who thought that they were one startup away 381 00:14:39,511 --> 00:14:40,946 from being king of Earth. 382 00:14:40,946 --> 00:14:43,916 And unfortunately, the split is approximately 50-50. 383 00:14:43,916 --> 00:14:44,650 But fuck that. 384 00:14:44,650 --> 00:14:47,353 Let's talk about the Humane AI Pin, 385 00:14:47,353 --> 00:14:49,188 which is now just a brick. 386 00:14:49,188 --> 00:14:50,356 You might remember last year, 387 00:14:50,356 --> 00:14:53,626 this company called Humane came out with an AI pin 388 00:14:53,626 --> 00:14:55,628 like you wore it on your shirt, 389 00:14:55,628 --> 00:14:56,862 that you would talk to, 390 00:14:56,862 --> 00:14:58,831 and it had like a little mini projector 391 00:14:58,831 --> 00:15:00,432 to project stuff on your hand. 392 00:15:00,432 --> 00:15:02,201 And it was trying to be an AI assistant. 393 00:15:02,201 --> 00:15:05,070 They build it as the next thing after smartphone. 394 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:06,472 So much so that it didn't integrate 395 00:15:06,472 --> 00:15:07,706 with your phone or computer. 396 00:15:07,706 --> 00:15:10,876 It was its own standalone device with its own subscription. 397 00:15:10,876 --> 00:15:12,144 And it didn't work. 398 00:15:12,144 --> 00:15:13,646 It was really, really, really bad. 399 00:15:13,646 --> 00:15:14,747 It was terrible. 400 00:15:14,747 --> 00:15:17,750 And it was universally lambasted by reviewers. 401 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:21,687 And now they're being sold to HP, 402 00:15:21,687 --> 00:15:23,422 and they're shutting down. 403 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:27,359 In a few days, every Humane AI Pin will cease to function. 404 00:15:27,359 --> 00:15:29,495 It'll just become a $700 paperweight. 405 00:15:29,495 --> 00:15:31,864 We love e-waste. 406 00:15:31,864 --> 00:15:33,265 So that's a fun end to the chapter 407 00:15:33,265 --> 00:15:35,968 of a gold rush for AI hardware. 408 00:15:35,968 --> 00:15:36,869 Can we stop now? 409 00:15:36,869 --> 00:15:37,603 Lightning round. 410 00:15:37,603 --> 00:15:39,605 A man in Florida shot two people 411 00:15:39,605 --> 00:15:41,440 who he thought were Palestinian. 412 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,175 And so he tried to kill them. 413 00:15:43,175 --> 00:15:44,643 Turns out they were Israeli. 414 00:15:44,643 --> 00:15:46,578 And also posted about how much 415 00:15:46,578 --> 00:15:48,080 they hated Palestinians online. 416 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,516 The US government once again fired a bunch of officials 417 00:15:50,516 --> 00:15:51,951 that they're now trying to rehire. 418 00:15:51,951 --> 00:15:53,719 This time in the USDA, 419 00:15:53,719 --> 00:15:55,688 people who were working to try to stop bird flu. 420 00:15:55,688 --> 00:15:58,157 After some political bluster and back and forth, 421 00:15:58,157 --> 00:15:59,792 the governor of New York has stated 422 00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:02,261 that she will not be removing Eric Adams 423 00:16:02,261 --> 00:16:03,829 as the mayor of New York City. 424 00:16:03,829 --> 00:16:07,466 An entire police department in Alabama is on leave 425 00:16:07,466 --> 00:16:09,835 after a grand jury said that they should entirely 426 00:16:09,835 --> 00:16:12,071 shut down the department because the department 427 00:16:12,071 --> 00:16:14,940 has been operating more like a criminal organization 428 00:16:14,940 --> 00:16:16,075 than a police office. 429 00:16:16,075 --> 00:16:17,109 Great. 430 00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:18,043 Now do the rest of them. 431 00:16:18,043 --> 00:16:21,814 At time of recording, Pope Francis is not doing great. 432 00:16:21,814 --> 00:16:23,549 He's been dealing with pneumonia. 433 00:16:23,549 --> 00:16:25,284 He's been in critical condition in the hospital 434 00:16:25,284 --> 00:16:27,986 and he's been having like cardiac events 435 00:16:27,986 --> 00:16:29,221 is what they're saying. 436 00:16:29,221 --> 00:16:31,156 It very well may be the case that by the time 437 00:16:31,156 --> 00:16:33,692 this video goes up, we live in a Popeless world. 438 00:16:33,692 --> 00:16:36,562 And finally for today, the new US Secretary of Energy 439 00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:38,364 said that he would love to see Australia 440 00:16:38,364 --> 00:16:40,265 get into the uranium production game. 441 00:16:40,265 --> 00:16:43,035 Australia is already one of the world's largest 442 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:44,470 producers of uranium. 443 00:16:44,470 --> 00:16:46,038 What a real country. 444 00:16:46,038 --> 00:16:47,773 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 445 00:16:47,773 --> 00:16:49,108 of Stuff Keeps Happening. 446 00:16:49,108 --> 00:16:52,978 Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content, 447 00:16:52,978 --> 00:16:57,850 and a secret on how you can stop time. 448 00:16:57,850 --> 00:16:58,984 My name is Endeavorance. 449 00:16:58,984 --> 00:17:02,054 I'll be back on Monday unless you've stopped time. 450 00:17:02,054 --> 00:17:03,856 Take care and be well.