Hello. I went up the spout again. But stuff still
happened. So what's up? Bees! Bees! 250 million
bees! 14 million bees. I don't care anymore.
This past Friday, a truck in Washington State
overturned full of bees. 14 million of them.
It was originally reported as 250 million bees
pouring out the back of this truck until, I shit
you not, a group of master beekeepers arrived
on the scene. These dudes rocked up and they
were like, hey, Buzz Buzz, I have a better number.
It's actually like 14 million, not 250. Get out
of here with that. So they got an expert opinion
on the bee count. But actually, this is kind
of amazing. Within a couple of days, they actually
managed to get most of the bees back. I want...
more situations where the most niche professionals
who get to call themselves a master of their
craft show up and just solve the problem. Like,
who knew? We got a truck full of bees. Someone
call the secret society of master beekeepers
that we have on hand, apparently? Rad. Amazing.
Very cool. The only thing I know about beekeeping
is the smoke thing. Like, smokes. smokes up the
hive. Other than that, the rest of my hive knowledge
is from Destiny 2, so not applicable. So yeah,
there was a threat of 14 million bees invading
Washington State, but then the beekeepers took
care of it. The end, and now we move on. Policy.
The state is doing surveillance in the surveillance
state. Yeehaw. There's a scenario that's often
brought up by pro -abortion rights activists
where they say, okay, consider a case where a
woman is living in a state where abortion is
illegal and she needs to go get one because it's
threatening her life. So she goes to another
state. gets the healthcare that she needs, and
then is prosecuted by her home state as a murderer.
Like, the cops find out, and they go after her,
and they're like, you are from whatever state,
you did a bad, we're coming after you now. For
simply, like, doing self -preservation, right?
So again, this scenario is brought up often in
just sort of like arguments as a hypothetical
that isn't actually all that hypothetical. But
unfortunately, most people who are hearing this
argument either lack the ability to sort of like
put themselves in that situation and have that
foresight to see, oh, wait, yeah, I can see how
this could be used against me in my own way.
Or they just agree with the state in this scenario
and they're actually totally OK with it. So I
want to I want to point out a story that is a
lot more real. It's not exactly that scenario,
but it's Scarily close. A woman in Texas was
believed to have given herself an abortion and
she was believed to have fled the state. So her
family went to the cops and was like, we don't
know where she is and we're scared for her safety.
The cops then use a system called Flock, which
gives them access to a massive network of over
80 ,000 cameras across the country to look for
this woman. They can scan for license plates,
they can look for identical features, they can
go far back in history and access all of that.
including cameras that are across state lines
and without a warrant or prior authorization.
The only thing they have to do to use the system
is input a reason why they're using it, to which
they said the reason was, had an abortion, search
for female. This is a literal nationwide camera
network that cops can just access because had
an abortion, search for female. But it's okay,
it's a privatized network. So since it's not
the government doing it, it's okay. Let's just
keep Let's keep letting tech companies do this.
So it's a bit of a fascist hellscape out there.
Combine that with the State Department now planning
to start vetting foreign student social media
when they're coming in for a visa to study here,
because we just love free speech. It's so tasty
and it goes down smooth. Speaking of smooth,
what's not smooth is this transition into the
next segment about RFK and his report and its
hallucinations. RFK Jr. is an incompetent, hubris
-driven fool who is actively working to undermine
the health of an entire country because no one
has told him to actually shut the fuck up ever.
Here are my supporting arguments. I talked last
week about the MAHA report in which RFK basically
was like, here's my big report on what's poisoning
the children's these days. The report said the
things that you would expect a conspiracy theorist
anti -vaxxers who say are bad for the children,
like... vaccines and those dang phones. It was
also, of course, altered by the White House to
remove key sections about large chemical companies
that may have faced scrutiny. But now, after
people have been poring over it and actually
seeing what's in the report, it has come out
that the report appears to be littered with AI
hallucinations. So it became pretty clear that
this report was just citing absolute bullshit
probably made up by chat GPT. For example, there
were authors credited to papers that they never
wrote and co authored with people they've never
met. The White House has categorized these errors
as quote formatting issues and have released
an updated version to address these. Formatting
issues. These are formatting issues in the same
way that the lack of additional zeros in my bank
account is a calculation error. So he puts out
this report that cites things that don't exist
and science that no one agrees with. He's also
railing against fluoride, which is projected
to create a ten billion dollar bill of just dentistry
appointments if it gets taken out of municipal
water. And then he's fucking with ongoing research
contracts for things like research into a vaccine
for the bird flu. The thing that we're worried
about happening. I spent a lot of energy during
campaign season just pushing back on the swarm
of RFK bots in my comments that were constantly
claiming that he wasn't the obvious anti -vaxxer
conspiracy theorist that he absolutely obviously
is. People literally came into my comments and
said he's not an anti -vaxxer. When the man founded
an anti -vaxx think tank, it's... is bonkers.
Public Health is a group project and beyond just
the entire country failing, the teacher is for
some reason telling us that the only way to get
an A is to punch yourself in the balls on loop
forever. Moving on, remember Boeing and how they
made the airplanes that kept falling out of the
sky? And then it came out that they were like
skirting safety regulations and then they totally
didn't kill multiple whistleblowers over it?
So the US Department of Justice had opened up
a criminal fraud case into Boeing and they're
now Just kind of quietly just scooting that off.
Yep, the DOJ is basically bringing Boeing to
a pinky promise to do better and to pay out 1
.5 billion dollars sort of in like investments.
to the families that were lost of the over 300
victims. So 1 .5 billion in a sort of soft agreement
to not be charged with fraud. Boeing's market
cap is around 150 billion and they reported about
15 billion in profit from Q4 2024 alone. But
notably, if Boeing was actually investigated
and charged with the fraud that they almost definitely
did... they would no longer be a viable government
contractor. We'd have to actually start applying
standards to our war forges and we cannot have
that. Let's move on to world stuff. What's up
France? How's your power? I hope it's back. France
had been kind of going through it. It got dark
so they lit some fires. First there were widespread
power outages in the French Riviera area. That's
fun to say. French Riviera area. French Riviera
area. That's fun. Do it. Anyway, there was an
outage. and they're like what the fuck this seems
to be like sabotage at a substation the next
day there was another outage that was more sabotage
at another substation seems to be arson there's
no suspect in custody hey don't do that like
it affected 200 000 people who were just trying
to exist i i get the impulse to go after infrastructure
to make a point or whatever i don't know What
this is or who did this or what their intention
was but hey don't do that But it's okay because
as I said they lit fires But not particularly
close because over in Paris there were celebratory
riots over a PSG victory It was like a super
hype and storied victory that I do not have the
context around but there was a bunch of people
at the stadium in Paris that were basically live
streaming the event from from Brussels where
it was happening and they were winning and they
won and then riots they're like multiple fires
a bunch of altercations with cops and apparently
81 people at least have been arrested and local
officials were like that's not y 'all are bad
they called them barbarians a small village of
just about 300 people in the swiss alps has been
buried almost entirely in ice and rock the town
of blatton was flattened oh jesus i That was
not written. That was not planned. That was literally
an ad lib I didn't even intend for it and now
I have to keep it in but that's that's terrible
and I apologize But I can't change it now. I
mean I could because like I edit this after I
record it But that just happened. I can't I have
to be this is my truth Anyway, this village was
submerged under rock and ice when a nearby glacier
in the Alps broke off and caused a massive mudslide
90 % of the town is just wiped out. Thankfully,
all 300 residents were evacuated well beforehand,
thanks to warnings from geological scientists.
While obviously this is tragic, the support has
also been swift. There are relief organizations
on the ground helping to clear out the rubble.
There are search efforts going on for a missing
person. There are funds that are being raised
for the families that lost their homes, and there
is an intent to rebuild the town. We're just
waiting on those details. So here's to the people
of Blatton. I am sorry for the joke. It wasn't
intentional, but I had to include it. Meanwhile,
in Gaza, the genocide continues. I don't have
much more to say on this, but I can't not mention
it. The US and Israel were supposed to work together
on a food distribution relief effort, and it
went as bad as it could have gone. They shot
at the hungry people who were trying to get food.
I'm just gonna read this quote from a Gazan resident.
When asked, Israeli officials said that they
know nothing about this. because that's what
they do. There's even reports of an Israeli tank
firing on crowds trying to seek aid. It's...
I don't know what else to say, as I said. Barring
direct third -party intervention, I don't really
see this changing. And all the while they're
using our tax dollars and the word of God to
explain away their crimes. Which I don't, uh,
agree with as a taxpayer. How about some good
news? How about some good news? Because I got
something from Kenya and Germany, and it involves
our favorite subject, rhinoceros cove. Researchers
in Germany and Kenya have worked together to
perform the first successful IVF procedure on
a rhinoceros. IVF being in vitro fertilization,
like the artificial fertilization, but on a fucking
rhino. The reason that they're doing this is
because the North African white rhino is very
nearly extinct. There are two. Left in existence
and both are female so they've been researching
how to do this on a rhino and they practiced
on a South white rhino which is Related but is
not north point is they were practicing on a
practice rhino before they go to the main event
But yeah, they just took their frozen male rhino
sperm that they had in the freezer We've all
got that somewhere in the back of the freezer
there and they they just kind of boom Preggers.
This is a huge conservation breakthrough and
could actually potentially repopulate a species
on the brink of extinction from decades of poaching.
So, yeehaw, yay science, good job. Thanks for
the cum, rhinoceros. Technology, Texanology.
Texas has passed a digital privacy law that basically
says, hey, Google and Apple. Really, anyone who
runs an app store, so basically Google and Apple.
you need to stop miners from being able to make
purchases and download other apps without parental
consent. This is a very large state doing this,
and this is not the first time that we've seen
one of the biggest states in the country just
kind of make their own digital privacy laws because
the federal government won't fucking do it. Several
years back, California made a sort of like similar
-ish set of laws to what the EU has, kind of,
but also way watered down, and it's just California.
But because of that, it essentially was like,
well, we need to adhere to California's laws.
So it's functionally, we need to do the work
anyway. We might as well just support it in all
the states, et cetera. And so now we've got states
around the country banning porn or in this case,
they're banning what certain people can do at
certain ages on the Internet, which to be clear,
there's a lot of Americans, about 80 percent,
agree that something needs to be done about minors
on social media. But what? We don't really agree
on why. A large portion of people say that it's
not up to the state to determine what should
happen, it's up to the parents, and some people
say that the state can pass laws that empower
the parents, and some people say passing any
laws is an infringement on the rights of the
teenagers from being able to engage with the
economy on the internet, as well as speech issues,
and so on and so forth. It's a very messy subject.
Not to mention that Congress has been batting
around things like COSA and other just shitty
attempts at making actual technology policy.
It's embarrassing. But what we actually need
is comprehensive data privacy laws, which we
can then use to enact the specific needs of communities,
such as having actual, understood control about
the relationship between parents, tech companies,
children, and all of the data generated therein.
Obviously, tech companies are very much against
basically anything that requires them to do additional
work, track additional data, or whatever, and
they're gonna really sneakily talk about how
it's an infringement on your rights for them
to have to collect extra data about for - example,
your age, which agreed, but they already have
that information. They're not worried about collecting
more of your data. They love doing that. They
have your data. It's a matter of if they're going
to have their bottom line impacted by preventing
13 -year -olds from purchasing whatever, almost
definitely just using their parents' credit card.
So stay frosty because the tech companies are
not your friends, speaking of which. If you use
Gmail, you are now getting an AI summary of your
emails, whether you like it or not. Fuck boy.
I don't know why I put the fuck boy in there.
You're not a fuck boy. You listen to this show.
That means you're a... I don't know. I don't
know. Something. Anyway, yeah, so Google is going
to start rolling out... Email summaries. So in
long emails and in email threads, they're gonna
pin an AI generated summary to the top of your
email. It includes a disclaimer saying that the
summary is written by Gemini and may contain
mistakes. May contain mistakes. Here's a product.
So they are just happily running people's emails
through their AI without asking them first. It
used to be that you had to request a summary.
Now it just happens. You can disable the feature
in the settings but I would highly encourage
you to actually go out and explore other email
providers. I know the idea of switching an email
provider sounds like hell, and it's not fun,
but there do exist other providers that aren't
gonna do this kind of bullshit and actually respect
you, your data, and your privacy. I've linked
a little bit of information in the newsletter
today about this, but the two services I generally
recommend are Fastmail and Protonmail, and I'll
link to them in the description. This is not
sponsored. I just genuinely want people to move
off of Gmail. Lightning round! The US is looking
into whether or not the new pope is allowed to
keep his American citizenship given that he is
a foreign head of state huh some climber dudes
in the UK sent the mountaineering world into
a tizzy after they essentially cheated climbing
Mount Everest by inhaling xenon gas which is
apparently like performance enhancing as far
as acclimating to the environment goes they went
from London to the peak of Everest back to London
in a week which is like super record -breaking
to the point that There's now an investigation.
In the UK, there was a terrifying car chase where
cops were chasing down a guy going at 10 miles
an hour, high speed. He eventually crashed and
they got him. And finally, for today, big news.
Cyberpunk 2077 sequel is officially titled Cyberpunk
2, which makes sense. Hey, it's Pride. It's Pride.
What's up, Pride? So because it's Pride, instead
of hawking my merch and Patreon, I'm going to
ask you if you can hear my voice. Consider making
a donation to a charity like The Trevor Project,
an organization of your choice. Or you can just
go search for some good options that is helping
to ease the lives of queer people in 2025. Queer
folks, especially trans folks and especially,
especially trans children deserve protection,
support and safety. So here's to all y 'all.
I'm wishing you a raucous pride. I don't say
raucous often. Okay. Thank you so much for listening
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