WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.540 Hello. I dotted my I's and crossed all my T's. 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.720 But stuff still happened. So what's up? We're 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:11.160 starting off with a heist of merchandise valued 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:13.759 at about a hundred thousand dollars. I'm gonna 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:15.519 talk to you about the price of being the very 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.199 best. This past Tuesday in the wee hours of the 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:21.480 morning in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a crime 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:25.019 took place that only one person can solve. Officer 00:00:25.019 --> 00:00:28.219 Jenny reminder a cab even if they can get it 00:00:28.219 --> 00:00:30.179 So yeah, there's a shop called first edition 00:00:30.179 --> 00:00:32.679 collectibles and they were robbed of about a 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.179 hundred thousand dollars worth of extremely rare 00:00:35.179 --> 00:00:37.560 Pokemon cards now while this shop does trade 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.219 in rare cards They don't advertise the price. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:42.859 So whoever broke into this shop knew what they 00:00:42.859 --> 00:00:45.380 were going for They pulled stuff off the shelves 00:00:45.380 --> 00:00:48.079 that were the most valuable again Like we're 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.119 talking a hundred grand for like some Pokemon 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.539 cards that level of like a collectible item and 00:00:53.689 --> 00:00:56.090 This is kind of sad. Here's a quote from one 00:00:56.090 --> 00:00:58.689 of the owners of the shop quote. We're literally 00:00:58.689 --> 00:01:01.609 just three guys This is our passion. This is 00:01:01.609 --> 00:01:04.010 what we love since we were children, which is 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.939 It makes me sad. At time of recording, they've 00:01:06.939 --> 00:01:08.299 closed up shop and they're figuring out what 00:01:08.299 --> 00:01:10.659 to do next. I've linked to some information about 00:01:10.659 --> 00:01:12.319 them in today's newsletter, but it looks like 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:13.980 they're trying to get an online store set up. 00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:17.120 That said, I did learn that at this level, these 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:19.739 cards are actually indexed and serialized. So 00:01:19.739 --> 00:01:21.680 an appraiser will go through the card and be 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.159 like, okay, it's worth this much and we're assigning 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.319 it this serial number. They then put it into 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.299 a case with a serial number on the inside so 00:01:28.299 --> 00:01:30.540 that if it does get traded, it can be evaluated 00:01:30.540 --> 00:01:33.180 and in cases where it gets stolen, it can be 00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:35.409 traced back. Now, They could take it out of the 00:01:35.409 --> 00:01:38.030 box. But who would do that? The suspect is still 00:01:38.030 --> 00:01:40.930 at large, and while you know I love a good heist, 00:01:41.010 --> 00:01:44.049 and I almost always am supportive of the heister, 00:01:44.510 --> 00:01:47.849 in this case, the heisted, you've got my heart. 00:01:48.030 --> 00:01:50.090 Because as much as I love a good heist, I draw 00:01:50.090 --> 00:01:52.590 the line at stealing another man's Charizard. 00:01:52.790 --> 00:01:55.510 Whatever happened to honor among thieves? Anyway, 00:01:55.790 --> 00:01:58.549 stateside. Alright. Epstein list. Let's get this 00:01:58.549 --> 00:02:00.030 out of the way. I'm not going to spend a lot 00:02:00.030 --> 00:02:02.290 of time on it. The MAGA world is in essentially 00:02:02.290 --> 00:02:04.189 complete meltdown right now because the Trump 00:02:04.189 --> 00:02:06.769 administration came out and strongly stated, 00:02:07.590 --> 00:02:10.030 There are no Epstein files. Stop asking us. This 00:02:10.030 --> 00:02:12.150 comes after Trump basically used release the 00:02:12.150 --> 00:02:14.169 Epstein files as one of his core tenets of his 00:02:14.169 --> 00:02:17.030 campaign and his own cabinet was like we have 00:02:17.030 --> 00:02:20.349 the files and then two months later they're like 00:02:20.349 --> 00:02:22.569 psych they don't exist. Trump then tried to double, 00:02:22.669 --> 00:02:24.590 triple, quadruple, quintuple down telling people 00:02:24.590 --> 00:02:27.460 to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. That's 00:02:27.460 --> 00:02:29.439 how that works. Hey guys, that thing that you're 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.479 all pissing me about, stop talking about it. 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:34.219 I don't want to hear about it anymore. Now, look, 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.800 I like to be skeptical about conspiracy theories, 00:02:37.819 --> 00:02:41.819 and I generally am. The Jeffrey Epstein thing, 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:45.419 there's a lot of funk here. Regardless of anything, 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.860 they came out and they were like, well, there's 00:02:47.860 --> 00:02:51.080 no further evidence about his whole death situation, 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.460 and also we're not going after anybody else with 00:02:53.460 --> 00:02:55.620 regards to the whole child trafficking thing, 00:02:55.699 --> 00:02:59.699 which is... Wild like so then just nothing it's 00:02:59.699 --> 00:03:02.379 not like it's a question of whether or not something 00:03:02.379 --> 00:03:05.300 bad occurred on Epstein's Island We know that 00:03:05.300 --> 00:03:11.199 there was serial abuse of children but But no 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.599 one was the abuser. So obviously this is bullshit 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.259 and people are coming out with their own theories 00:03:15.259 --> 00:03:17.300 and especially within the MAGA world there's 00:03:17.300 --> 00:03:19.120 a bit of a rift of people landing on the side 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.340 of I Didn't really care about it. Anyway versus 00:03:22.340 --> 00:03:24.939 Trump is complicit. This makes it obvious now 00:03:24.939 --> 00:03:28.219 again I might dive into this later on. People 00:03:28.219 --> 00:03:30.800 are threatening to quit the administration. It's 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.840 a mess right now. So instead of trying to focus 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:34.460 on this, I'm just going to say this is a dumpster 00:03:34.460 --> 00:03:37.599 fire, and it's going to be a dumpster fire, and 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:39.860 we'll keep watch on it. But let's look at some 00:03:39.860 --> 00:03:42.139 other stuff. I've got a sign of the times. It's 00:03:42.139 --> 00:03:44.699 a very clever intro to this story. You'll see. 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:45.860 You'll see. And you're going to be impressed. 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:48.099 Back in May, the Secretary of the Interior sent 00:03:48.099 --> 00:03:50.199 out a memo to the National Park Service saying, 00:03:50.460 --> 00:03:53.060 hey, y 'all, it's time to fuck up everything. 00:03:53.340 --> 00:03:55.830 That's not exactly what it said. It would have 00:03:55.830 --> 00:03:57.469 been better if it just said that. So here's what's 00:03:57.469 --> 00:03:59.590 up. Trump signed an executive order earlier in 00:03:59.590 --> 00:04:02.889 his presidency titled Restoring Truth and Sanity 00:04:02.889 --> 00:04:05.689 to American History, which is a very normal thing 00:04:05.689 --> 00:04:10.069 to do, and very truthful, very sane. So to carry 00:04:10.069 --> 00:04:12.509 out this executive order, the Secretary of Interior 00:04:12.509 --> 00:04:15.590 is saying, hey, we're going to comb through all 00:04:15.590 --> 00:04:18.310 of the signs with historic information from all 00:04:18.310 --> 00:04:20.870 of the national parks and ensure that none of 00:04:20.870 --> 00:04:23.430 them have any wording that we don't like. Here's 00:04:23.430 --> 00:04:26.500 an actual quote. from the memo. I want you to 00:04:26.500 --> 00:04:29.519 listen to this and just see how quickly they 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.139 flip their own words upside down. Orders are 00:04:32.139 --> 00:04:35.240 to, quote, determine whether since January 1st, 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:38.720 2020, public monuments, memorials, statues, markers 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.579 or similar properties within the department's 00:04:41.579 --> 00:04:44.100 jurisdiction have been removed or changed to 00:04:44.100 --> 00:04:46.579 perpetuate a false reconstruction of American 00:04:46.579 --> 00:04:49.879 history. inappropriately minimize the value of 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.879 certain historic events or figures, or include 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.920 any other improper partisan ideology. I love 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.519 it when my country's administration tells me 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.279 what ideologies are improper. Because right after 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:04.680 that, they say they're going to quote, take action 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.379 to ensure that all public monuments, memorials, 00:05:07.540 --> 00:05:10.060 statues, markers, and properties do not contain 00:05:10.060 --> 00:05:13.519 descriptions, depictions, or other content that 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.569 inappropriately disparage Americans Past or living? 00:05:18.329 --> 00:05:22.170 It goes on to say and clarify, including persons 00:05:22.170 --> 00:05:25.610 living in colonial times. History is when you 00:05:25.610 --> 00:05:27.389 don't talk about the bad parts. So that's a lot 00:05:27.389 --> 00:05:29.509 of words to say we want to take down signs that 00:05:29.509 --> 00:05:32.689 are critical of our own past, which is an absurd 00:05:32.689 --> 00:05:35.009 thing to do because these signs are explicitly 00:05:35.009 --> 00:05:39.310 there to teach people things like history. And 00:05:39.310 --> 00:05:43.110 hey, in American history, there's some bad stuff. 00:05:43.339 --> 00:05:45.399 I don't know if we've talked about this before, 00:05:45.579 --> 00:05:48.180 but I guess history and discussing history is 00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:51.660 too woke for signs discussing history at historic 00:05:51.660 --> 00:05:53.879 landmarks. Can't have that. While the Parks Department 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.379 is asking parkgoers to take pictures of signs 00:05:56.379 --> 00:05:58.740 that they should remove, there is an organization 00:05:58.740 --> 00:06:00.879 that's come together called Save Our Signs that 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.459 is asking people to do the opposite, take pictures 00:06:03.459 --> 00:06:05.779 of the signs that are there now so they can be 00:06:05.779 --> 00:06:07.800 archived. This way, after the Trump administration 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.639 and all of his cronies are found guilty of crimes 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:11.879 against humanity, we can put our signs back. 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.240 Yay. Well, sorry about click to cancel, but don't 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.779 click to cancel listening to me. I did good. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:19.699 Oh, that reminds me, speaking of I did good. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:21.819 I did good with that first headline, right? Yeah. 00:06:21.860 --> 00:06:24.540 Yeah, I did. Okay, click to cancel. So there 00:06:24.540 --> 00:06:26.779 was an effort that was going on in the US for 00:06:26.779 --> 00:06:29.620 years, starting back in like 2019, to enact a 00:06:29.620 --> 00:06:31.959 new rule. that basically said that if you signed 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.319 up for a subscription, it should be as easy to 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:36.540 cancel as it was to sign up. This is to help 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:38.560 push back on the situation where you sign up 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:40.319 for a service online with a couple of clicks, 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:42.220 but then when you go to cancel the subscription, 00:06:42.259 --> 00:06:43.639 they're like, yeah, you're going to want to call 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.819 Jerry. Jerry is only awake for two and a half 00:06:46.819 --> 00:06:50.959 minutes every other Sunday on leap years. Now 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.540 this rule was going through the FTC and it got 00:06:53.540 --> 00:06:56.720 made and it was about to go into effect like 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:01.480 July 15th. And then it's gone now. Evaporated. 00:07:01.620 --> 00:07:04.819 Because a judge has vacated the rule. Let's talk 00:07:04.819 --> 00:07:08.100 about what happened. So back in 2019, the FTC 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:10.180 was like, hey, we want to do this thing. And 00:07:10.180 --> 00:07:12.259 so they started signaling they're gonna make 00:07:12.259 --> 00:07:14.319 a click to cancel rule. Over the next few years, 00:07:14.379 --> 00:07:16.100 they were working on that process of trying to 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:18.079 push through a click to cancel rule. They had 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.339 an open hearing for comments and they got over 00:07:20.339 --> 00:07:23.579 16 ,000 comments, which is a lot. So then, come 00:07:23.579 --> 00:07:26.740 fall 2024, they passed the rule, and it has a 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:30.060 pending implementation date in 2025. Under this 00:07:30.060 --> 00:07:31.699 rule, companies would have to make it as easy 00:07:31.699 --> 00:07:33.959 to unsubscribe as it is to subscribe, and they 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.680 would also have to collect positive, affirmative 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.019 consent to actually move from a trial to a subscription. 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:43.220 We love consent here. But companies don't. And 00:07:43.220 --> 00:07:45.100 so they formed a coalition and they pushed back 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:47.879 and they filed a complaint against the FTC saying 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.720 that the FTC's rule would have an impact on the 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.240 market greater than a value of a hundred million 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:56.100 dollars. So according to the FTC Act, if a rule 00:07:56.100 --> 00:07:58.439 implemented by the FTC would impact the economy 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:00.759 over a hundred million dollars, they have to 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.279 do like an investigative report into that impact. 00:08:03.420 --> 00:08:05.910 And the FTC did not do that. And so the companies 00:08:05.910 --> 00:08:08.209 that were suing the FTC said they didn't do that. 00:08:08.350 --> 00:08:11.670 So this entire thing is null and void, to which 00:08:11.670 --> 00:08:13.990 the judge agreed. So a bunch of companies came 00:08:13.990 --> 00:08:15.990 together and said, hey, judge, it would cost 00:08:15.990 --> 00:08:19.170 way too much money if we were to not be predatory 00:08:19.170 --> 00:08:21.350 towards our customers. And the judge was like, 00:08:21.430 --> 00:08:23.649 that's a shitty argument, but you're technically 00:08:23.649 --> 00:08:25.910 correct. Like the judge said in the ruling, like, 00:08:26.069 --> 00:08:29.230 obviously we don't want them to do shitty things 00:08:29.230 --> 00:08:32.350 to customers. but the rule was broken and the 00:08:32.350 --> 00:08:34.090 FTC didn't follow protocol and they have a point. 00:08:34.250 --> 00:08:36.309 Now this is a spirit versus letter of the law 00:08:36.309 --> 00:08:38.789 kind of thing, and I really feel like maybe our 00:08:38.789 --> 00:08:41.169 government should do more to protect consumers, 00:08:41.250 --> 00:08:43.610 but this is the same government that also voted 00:08:43.610 --> 00:08:46.909 to stop the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 00:08:46.909 --> 00:08:51.549 from limiting overdraft fees. So like... I don't 00:08:51.549 --> 00:08:53.649 know. Maybe next they can have a ruling that 00:08:53.649 --> 00:08:55.950 we all punch ourselves in the nuts eight times 00:08:55.950 --> 00:08:58.490 a day. Last thing for stateside, there was a 00:08:58.490 --> 00:09:01.289 massive ice raid at a farm in Southern California, 00:09:01.710 --> 00:09:03.429 which the federal government is referring to 00:09:03.429 --> 00:09:06.990 as a, quote, marijuana facility. This is because 00:09:06.990 --> 00:09:10.669 our leaders are, and this is true, massive squares. 00:09:11.049 --> 00:09:12.750 So the agents roll up on this farm and start 00:09:12.750 --> 00:09:15.710 arresting hundreds of farm workers working the 00:09:15.710 --> 00:09:18.070 farm. Thankfully protesters with an actual soul 00:09:18.070 --> 00:09:20.529 showed up and got in ICE's face, did everything 00:09:20.529 --> 00:09:23.029 they could to fuck with the operation. The FBI 00:09:23.029 --> 00:09:25.409 is actually seeking information on one person 00:09:25.409 --> 00:09:28.450 who they claim shot a gun at the ICE agents, 00:09:28.750 --> 00:09:30.909 but I asked around and I didn't see anything 00:09:30.909 --> 00:09:33.429 and no one that I've asked saw anything. I don't 00:09:33.429 --> 00:09:35.169 think, did you see anything? So this comes on 00:09:35.169 --> 00:09:38.070 the heels of several attacks on ICE agents and 00:09:38.070 --> 00:09:40.750 ICE facilities. And for a source, I'm actually 00:09:40.750 --> 00:09:43.610 going to use the White House's own website. Now 00:09:43.610 --> 00:09:45.370 they've linked to external sources, but I just 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:48.909 want I want to read to you. words directly off 00:09:48.909 --> 00:09:51.690 of WhiteHouse .gov. The first event was, quote, 00:09:51.870 --> 00:09:55.929 On July 4th, 11 leftist criminals ambushed officers 00:09:55.929 --> 00:09:59.269 at an ICE facility in Texas. Oh, no, they put 00:09:59.269 --> 00:10:01.629 graffiti on the vehicles and they called ICE 00:10:01.629 --> 00:10:06.149 agents pigs. On July 4th, deranged rioters viciously 00:10:06.149 --> 00:10:09.350 assaulted federal agents at an ICE facility in 00:10:09.350 --> 00:10:12.649 Portland, Oregon. And then on July 7th, a man 00:10:12.649 --> 00:10:15.649 unleashed a barrage of gunfire at a Border Patrol 00:10:15.649 --> 00:10:18.580 facility in Texas. So according to the White 00:10:18.580 --> 00:10:21.740 House, our country is under attack by leftist 00:10:21.740 --> 00:10:26.639 criminals, deranged rioters, and a man. Elsewhere. 00:10:26.779 --> 00:10:28.220 Wouldn't you know it, Israel's doing the thing 00:10:28.220 --> 00:10:29.919 again, where they're coming up with a new reason 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.539 to bomb Iran. You know, Israel, they were bombing 00:10:32.539 --> 00:10:34.720 Iran, and then the U .S. got involved and dropped 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:37.299 even more bombs, and then we were like, cool, 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.960 we destroyed their nuclear program entirely. 00:10:40.139 --> 00:10:42.039 And then other U .S. officials were like, no, 00:10:42.100 --> 00:10:44.240 we didn't. We didn't do that. And then the White 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.450 House is like, yes, we did. Don't. don't correct 00:10:46.450 --> 00:10:49.149 us. But now Israel is also saying, hey, maybe 00:10:49.149 --> 00:10:51.110 the nuclear program wasn't thoroughly destroyed. 00:10:51.429 --> 00:10:54.389 And we believe that Iran might be able to get 00:10:54.389 --> 00:10:57.269 to any uranium that was still in those facilities 00:10:57.269 --> 00:10:59.570 that were bombed. Now, Israel said that they 00:10:59.570 --> 00:11:01.870 don't have evidence that Iran is doing this. 00:11:02.149 --> 00:11:04.629 They just said we think that they might be able 00:11:04.629 --> 00:11:07.570 to retrieve uranium. And if we think that they're 00:11:07.570 --> 00:11:10.570 going to do that, we won't hesitate to bomb them 00:11:10.570 --> 00:11:12.970 again. Whether or not their claim is true, we 00:11:12.970 --> 00:11:14.929 don't know. Some people who actually designed 00:11:14.929 --> 00:11:16.940 the bomb the bunker buster bomb that was supposed 00:11:16.940 --> 00:11:18.799 to blow it all up. They said that they don't 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:20.980 have any evidence yet that it actually destroyed 00:11:20.980 --> 00:11:22.539 and went as far down as they were hoping it was 00:11:22.539 --> 00:11:25.259 going to. They just know that it hit. But that's 00:11:25.259 --> 00:11:27.659 not... The White House says stop asking, it's 00:11:27.659 --> 00:11:30.240 destroyed. Next question. Meanwhile, Russia is 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:32.279 viciously ramping up their attacks on Ukraine, 00:11:32.340 --> 00:11:34.340 specifically the capital city of Kiev. They've 00:11:34.340 --> 00:11:36.240 been launching heavy drone and missile strikes 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.379 at the region, and it's right around the time 00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:40.679 that Zelensky was heading to talk to EU leaders 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:44.039 about plans to rebuild post -war Ukraine. So 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:46.779 Zelensky... is that Putin is ramping up attacks 00:11:46.779 --> 00:11:50.159 right now to make that prospect of post -war 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:53.399 reconstruction less palatable for possible investors. 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:55.559 Regardless of if that is or is not the case, 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.120 the US is also going to be resuming shipments 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:00.480 of supplies to Ukraine after previously wanting 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.360 to stop that, but Trump is mad at Putin again, 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.200 and whether or not Ukraine gets military supplies 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:08.360 is basically based on what Trump is feeling like 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.769 that day. But regardless of all of that, we got 00:12:10.769 --> 00:12:13.509 another perfect just Russia headline because 00:12:13.509 --> 00:12:16.610 the transport minister from Russia was found 00:12:16.610 --> 00:12:19.440 dead from a gunshot wound. Hours after having 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:21.720 been dismissed from the government, technology! 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:23.500 YouTube is a bit confused about what they want 00:12:23.500 --> 00:12:25.840 to do with AI, but let's talk about what is changing. 00:12:26.179 --> 00:12:28.000 So YouTube has been pushing a lot of, like, AI 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.039 tools recently. As somebody who publishes videos 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.639 on YouTube, I am constantly inundated with pop 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:36.039 -ups and ads from YouTube being like, Use our 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:38.820 AI tools! Don't you want to be creative? Like, 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:42.570 bitch! I'm pretty creative already. So I don't 00:12:42.570 --> 00:12:44.409 use that but there's a lot of people who do and 00:12:44.409 --> 00:12:46.690 then there are also accounts that use AI tools 00:12:46.690 --> 00:12:49.590 to just automate the generation of slop content 00:12:49.590 --> 00:12:51.889 for the purposes of just getting clicks and views 00:12:51.889 --> 00:12:54.210 to extract money from YouTube's monetization 00:12:54.210 --> 00:12:56.909 system. But recently YouTube has updated their 00:12:56.909 --> 00:12:59.590 policy and has quote -unquote clarified that 00:12:59.590 --> 00:13:02.750 the monetization will only be available for actual 00:13:02.750 --> 00:13:05.629 original content. Now a lot of places are calling 00:13:05.629 --> 00:13:08.730 this a ban on AI on YouTube. That is not the 00:13:08.730 --> 00:13:11.129 case. even kind of. They're not even actually 00:13:11.129 --> 00:13:12.669 removing anything from the platform, they're 00:13:12.669 --> 00:13:14.909 just demonetizing slop. They're also still going 00:13:14.909 --> 00:13:18.389 to allow original content that uses AI in some 00:13:18.389 --> 00:13:21.590 way. It's a bit fuzzy, the line there, but it 00:13:21.590 --> 00:13:22.870 does seem like they're trying to move towards 00:13:22.870 --> 00:13:24.950 more actual high quality original programming. 00:13:25.309 --> 00:13:29.850 Like me! I'm quality and original. Hey, let's 00:13:29.850 --> 00:13:32.629 talk about Mechahitler. So Elon Musk's AI grok 00:13:32.629 --> 00:13:35.830 recently became Mechahitler. The AI is baked 00:13:35.830 --> 00:13:38.309 into Twitter and recently Elon's been beefing 00:13:38.309 --> 00:13:40.350 with it because it's been saying things that 00:13:40.350 --> 00:13:43.340 Elon doesn't agree with like Jews don't control 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:45.600 the world. And so Elon has gone out of his way 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.179 to try to, quote, fix it. And after a recent 00:13:48.179 --> 00:13:52.460 fix, it just started spewing out bile. Anti -Semitic, 00:13:52.659 --> 00:13:55.200 anti -black, just complete hatred towards all 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.639 minorities. It called itself Mecca Hitler, it 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:59.480 talked about how Jews control the media, all 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:01.899 that stuff. It started to cite the Heritage Foundation 00:14:01.899 --> 00:14:04.139 for, like, everything. And then an even more 00:14:04.139 --> 00:14:06.580 recent update to Grok showed that it is reaching 00:14:06.580 --> 00:14:08.919 out and looking for Elon Musk's tweets to get 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:11.159 his thoughts on a subject when you ask it a question. 00:14:11.340 --> 00:14:13.820 How many more things is it gonna take for us 00:14:13.820 --> 00:14:15.860 to just be like, yeah, the man's a Nazi? Anyway, 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:17.639 they had to take Grok down, and they've since 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.580 issued an apology, but... The CEO of Twitter, 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:24.019 who, reminder, was not Elon Musk, recently stepped 00:14:24.019 --> 00:14:26.100 down as well. Game it! It's been a few weeks 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:28.759 since the Switch 2 came out, and it's like the 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:30.700 best -selling console ever. In the first four 00:14:30.700 --> 00:14:33.779 days, it sold like 3 .5 million units, so for 00:14:33.779 --> 00:14:36.139 everyone who was saying don't buy a Switch 2, 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.200 I'm sorry to tell you that unfortunately the 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:41.100 prospect of a Switch, but a little bit more, 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.279 and it plays all the games you had, and it has 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:45.639 a few new features, that was enough! Is that 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.179 right? Is that fair? Is that good for the future 00:14:48.179 --> 00:14:51.860 of the - No, but it was enough now despite the 00:14:51.860 --> 00:14:53.700 incredibly successful sales numbers There's also 00:14:53.700 --> 00:14:56.399 been of course some tumultuous news with the 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:58.940 launch There was an issue where people were buying 00:14:58.940 --> 00:15:02.019 their switches at GameStop and then they stapled 00:15:02.019 --> 00:15:05.600 Receipts to the switch and it stapled to the 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.309 screen like through the box into the screen. 00:15:08.509 --> 00:15:10.289 But there's also been reports of people trying 00:15:10.289 --> 00:15:12.690 to use hacked game cartridges that they put into 00:15:12.690 --> 00:15:15.250 their Switch 2, and then immediately get banned. 00:15:15.330 --> 00:15:17.409 Their console is blocked from the internet, essentially 00:15:17.409 --> 00:15:19.730 bricked. And also, also, iFixit recently did 00:15:19.730 --> 00:15:22.029 a teardown of the Switch 2 Pro controller, which 00:15:22.029 --> 00:15:24.889 is an $85 controller, and they referred to it 00:15:24.889 --> 00:15:28.330 as piss poor regarding the repairability. Oh, 00:15:28.389 --> 00:15:30.970 last thing on Nintendo real quick. The FBI seized 00:15:30.970 --> 00:15:34.350 a website that hosted Switch games for emulation. 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.179 So we've got we've got our priorities in order. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:40.120 Hey, you're a murderer or maybe not stop killing 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:42.100 games This has been going on for a while, but 00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:43.919 there is a movement called stop killing games 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:45.799 That is an effort from consumers in the gaming 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.340 industry to basically pressure companies to say 00:15:48.340 --> 00:15:52.190 hey stop having games that we buy that then just 00:15:52.190 --> 00:15:54.409 go away. If you've played modern games, you've 00:15:54.409 --> 00:15:56.210 probably dealt with this. Like, you pay for a 00:15:56.210 --> 00:15:58.429 game, the servers eventually go down, and now 00:15:58.429 --> 00:16:00.669 it's just useless. So there's essentially a movement 00:16:00.669 --> 00:16:03.250 that says, hey, this equates to planned obsolescence, 00:16:03.289 --> 00:16:05.870 and there should be something in place such that 00:16:05.870 --> 00:16:07.769 consumers can continue to enjoy the game they 00:16:07.769 --> 00:16:10.210 bought even after the company, you know, goes 00:16:10.210 --> 00:16:12.769 defunct, or servers go down, or what have you. 00:16:13.070 --> 00:16:14.789 Industry leaders are pushing back on this, saying 00:16:14.789 --> 00:16:16.730 that would make games prohibitively expensive 00:16:16.730 --> 00:16:20.129 to make. I would point right back to the story 00:16:20.129 --> 00:16:23.090 we had earlier about how companies don't want 00:16:23.090 --> 00:16:26.289 to be less predatory and wrapped up in all of 00:16:26.289 --> 00:16:28.370 this a very popular twitch streamer named pirate 00:16:28.370 --> 00:16:31.909 software Express that he very much does not like 00:16:31.909 --> 00:16:34.429 this movement and people have not been very happy 00:16:34.429 --> 00:16:36.389 with him for that I'm not gonna that's not the 00:16:36.389 --> 00:16:39.789 point of the story, but the dude Catastrophically 00:16:39.789 --> 00:16:41.919 can't take an L If you want to learn more, you 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.159 can head to StopKillingGames .com. They've also 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:46.740 recently passed a million signatures to get a 00:16:46.740 --> 00:16:49.179 debate on the floor of the EU Commission. So, 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.480 might go somewhere, but this is not the first 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:53.740 time that they... hit a roadblock after some 00:16:53.740 --> 00:16:56.279 success. We'll see. Last thing for gaming. A 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.940 strike for video game actors has finally come 00:16:58.940 --> 00:17:02.100 to an end as SAG -AFTRA members have voted to 00:17:02.100 --> 00:17:04.680 accept a new contract. So there's been an ongoing 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.880 strike among video game actors and one of the 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.299 sticking points has been AI and specifically 00:17:09.299 --> 00:17:12.519 how to treat the data recorded from a motion 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:14.940 capture performance. So studios wanted to say 00:17:14.940 --> 00:17:17.319 that motion capture performances are just data 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.839 and not a performance and therefore they can 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:24.099 use AI to recreate that data, which would effectively 00:17:24.099 --> 00:17:27.259 create AI -generated performances that were otherwise 00:17:27.259 --> 00:17:30.059 done by an actual actor. Actors do not like this 00:17:30.059 --> 00:17:32.259 characterization, and they were like, no, can't 00:17:32.259 --> 00:17:34.279 do that. Ultimately, the contract includes a 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:36.500 bunch of bonuses for the actors as well as guarantees 00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:39.380 around that, so they can't just take the recording 00:17:39.380 --> 00:17:41.440 and do whatever. They have to get actual explicit 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.619 permission. Also, the actors are allowed to revoke 00:17:44.619 --> 00:17:46.900 their permission if there's another strike, so 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:49.180 they can't... Fuck with the actors too much or 00:17:49.180 --> 00:17:51.240 try to like toe the line there. So that's good. 00:17:51.500 --> 00:17:53.220 Stop stealing people's artistic performances. 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.740 Just sort of like at large. Hey, I have new merch. 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.660 It's up right now at merchfrom .dev. You can 00:17:59.660 --> 00:18:02.059 get yourself these stuff keeps happening embroidered 00:18:02.059 --> 00:18:05.259 tee pictured here. And if you are listening to 00:18:05.259 --> 00:18:09.619 me, you know, just imagine if you will, the most 00:18:09.619 --> 00:18:11.500 beautiful shirt you've ever seen. It's a pretty 00:18:11.500 --> 00:18:13.619 good shirt. You should get it. That's my review. 00:18:13.859 --> 00:18:16.579 Lightning round. The music of K -Pop Demon Hunters 00:18:16.579 --> 00:18:19.279 has topped the charts in the US and the charts 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:21.859 in my heart. France is criminally investigating 00:18:21.859 --> 00:18:24.920 Twitter over claims that the algorithm was messed 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.660 with for, quote, foreign interference. The US 00:18:28.660 --> 00:18:30.539 Justice Department is dropping charges against 00:18:30.539 --> 00:18:33.940 a doctor who famously destroyed vaccines and 00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:36.519 falsified vaccination records early into COVID. 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:40.759 Cool. YouTube is removing its trending tab. Now... 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.519 None of us will know what is on the tab that 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:45.720 none of us use. As of now, you can officially 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:47.819 keep your shoes on when going through security 00:18:47.819 --> 00:18:50.640 in the US as the TSA has said, you no longer 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.079 need to let the dogs out. Walmart is recalling 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.859 nearly a million units of a 64 ounce stainless 00:18:55.859 --> 00:18:58.900 steel water bottle as its lid is launching off 00:18:58.900 --> 00:19:01.220 and has already caused permanent vision loss 00:19:01.220 --> 00:19:04.519 in two customers. Don't point your water bottles. 00:19:04.829 --> 00:19:07.130 at your eyeballs. And finally for today, the 00:19:07.130 --> 00:19:10.269 Pope was gifted a Pokemon card and is apparently 00:19:10.269 --> 00:19:12.829 cherishing it. And hopefully it's not the one 00:19:12.829 --> 00:19:15.630 that was stolen from earlier. I don't think the 00:19:15.630 --> 00:19:18.589 timeline works up on that. Maybe the Pope stole 00:19:18.589 --> 00:19:22.019 it? Oh shit. 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