WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.660 Hello. I cooked a baked good using a light bulb. 00:00:04.780 --> 00:00:08.519 But stuff still happens. So what's a thought 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:11.400 experiment? Consider the following. You are stuck 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.720 in the Australian outback. You've got nothing. 00:00:13.900 --> 00:00:17.320 It's been like 10 days, no food. The only water 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.160 you've got is anything you can muster together 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:21.579 from puddles. And there's Australians. Well, 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:25.960 not people, but animals. Do you survive? But 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.160 I'll tell you who did survive. Carolina Wilga. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.119 Sick name. Wilga is a 26 -year -old from Germany 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.719 who was traveling in the Australian outback when 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.619 her car broke down. She was nowhere near anything 00:00:37.619 --> 00:00:40.640 and was walking around for 11 days in the Australian 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.320 outback alone with basically no food or water. 00:00:43.579 --> 00:00:45.939 Very thankfully, she was spotted by a passing 00:00:45.939 --> 00:00:49.500 driver who said that she looked distressed. I 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:51.840 would think so. But she has been taken to the 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:54.140 hospital. She's alright. I mean, considering. 00:00:54.879 --> 00:00:57.060 She's alive according to her. She's taking it 00:00:57.060 --> 00:00:59.159 one day at a time Which is probably for the best 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:01.500 because she's apparently covered in bug bites 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:04.540 like an obscene number of bug bites Which would 00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:06.599 probably be of everything that you would have 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:08.760 to deal with the thing that gets me. I'm out. 00:01:08.939 --> 00:01:11.140 I'm done So just real quick my advice to you 00:01:11.140 --> 00:01:13.540 is don't get stranded in the Australian outback 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:16.799 Unless you got that will go in you stateside 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:18.840 boy howdy the US federal government is doing 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.799 absolutely nothing to defeat the overtly evil 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:24.280 allegations a bit of history and context for 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:26.200 those who are outside of the states or are new 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.180 to the political landscape of the US Ronald Reagan 00:01:29.180 --> 00:01:32.819 That's kind of all the context actually Ronald 00:01:32.819 --> 00:01:35.340 Reagan once famously said the nine scariest words 00:01:35.340 --> 00:01:37.480 in the English language are I'm from the government 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:41.739 and I'm here to help and that phrase Has destroyed 00:01:41.739 --> 00:01:44.859 the minds of an entire generation In the U .S., 00:01:44.859 --> 00:01:47.359 government -provided services are seen as a moral 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.519 failing because of that. It's wild. Republicans 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:52.840 often campaign on cutting government spending 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.180 and removing programs and removing social safety 00:01:55.180 --> 00:01:58.219 nets and health care and everything. Basically 00:01:58.219 --> 00:01:59.959 everything. They want to not have homeless shelters. 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.340 They want to not have anything. Their ideology 00:02:02.340 --> 00:02:06.519 is just, you should have been better. So, but 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.340 anyway, just with that background information. 00:02:09.740 --> 00:02:12.159 The Republican -controlled U .S. federal government 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:16.139 has recently voted to strip $9 .4 billion from 00:02:16.139 --> 00:02:24.030 the following. Contributions to international 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:26.150 organizations, contributions for international 00:02:26.150 --> 00:02:28.990 peacekeeping activities, global health programs, 00:02:29.349 --> 00:02:32.229 mitigation and refugee assistance, the Complex 00:02:32.229 --> 00:02:35.030 Crises Fund, the Democracy Fund, the Economic 00:02:35.030 --> 00:02:38.090 Support Fund, contributions to the Clean Technology 00:02:38.090 --> 00:02:41.129 Fund, international organization and programs, 00:02:41.550 --> 00:02:43.990 development assistance, assistance for Europe, 00:02:44.090 --> 00:02:47.530 Eurasia and Central Asia, international disaster 00:02:47.530 --> 00:02:50.729 assistance and transition initiatives. The bill 00:02:50.729 --> 00:02:53.870 also rescinds that are provided for U .S. aid 00:02:53.870 --> 00:02:57.229 operations, the Inter -American Foundation, the 00:02:57.229 --> 00:03:00.270 U .S. African Development Foundation, the U .S. 00:03:00.569 --> 00:03:03.150 Institute of Peace, and the Corporation for Public 00:03:03.150 --> 00:03:05.449 Broadcasting. So the public broadcasting one. 00:03:05.509 --> 00:03:06.750 That's why you've been seeing a whole bunch of 00:03:06.750 --> 00:03:08.750 stuff about how the government is killing PBS 00:03:08.750 --> 00:03:11.789 and NPR. That's not - precisely what is happening, 00:03:11.969 --> 00:03:13.770 but the government is undermining funds that 00:03:13.770 --> 00:03:16.370 are used to go to public broadcasting initiatives. 00:03:16.710 --> 00:03:19.370 Now, that list of things is not perfect. There 00:03:19.370 --> 00:03:22.090 are some things on there that aren't quite exactly 00:03:22.090 --> 00:03:24.750 what the name says, but there's also things on 00:03:24.750 --> 00:03:27.969 there like international disaster relief and 00:03:27.969 --> 00:03:30.430 like the medicine programs and whatnot that USAID 00:03:30.430 --> 00:03:32.830 does. So again, this was less than $10 billion 00:03:32.830 --> 00:03:36.860 in total. Republicans just voted to add trillions 00:03:36.860 --> 00:03:38.699 to the deficit. But then they turn around and 00:03:38.699 --> 00:03:39.840 they point to this kind of stuff and they're 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.780 like, look, we cut billions of dollars from the 00:03:42.780 --> 00:03:45.580 budget by getting rid of all these wasteful services. 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:47.860 Without talking about the specifics of the services 00:03:47.860 --> 00:03:50.819 and also hoping that you overlook the B, where 00:03:50.819 --> 00:03:53.680 there's usually a T. Now look, aid programs and 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.639 social safety nets are not the problems with 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.900 the government. As much as they want to make 00:03:57.900 --> 00:04:00.479 it seem like it's just a bunch of lazy people 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:03.340 extracting money from the system and taking your 00:04:03.340 --> 00:04:06.330 dollars. That's what billionaires are. Again, 00:04:06.530 --> 00:04:09.550 10 billion. All of that stuff. 10 billion. When 00:04:09.550 --> 00:04:11.930 we otherwise dole out hundreds of billions of 00:04:11.930 --> 00:04:15.229 dollars of contracts to bomb manufacturers. The 00:04:15.229 --> 00:04:17.490 US federal government is the bad guy. Like, we 00:04:17.490 --> 00:04:21.449 know this. Governance as a concept and government 00:04:21.449 --> 00:04:24.610 services provided to the public are not the bad 00:04:24.610 --> 00:04:27.170 guys. Be careful not to let unilateral hatred 00:04:27.170 --> 00:04:30.850 of the US government seep into your views of 00:04:30.850 --> 00:04:33.449 things that can be good for people. Food assistance 00:04:33.449 --> 00:04:35.629 programs, health assistance programs, housing 00:04:35.629 --> 00:04:37.949 assistance programs, all of these things strengthen 00:04:37.949 --> 00:04:40.589 communities and improve societies. They ultimately 00:04:40.589 --> 00:04:43.009 turn around and put more money in your pocket. 00:04:43.170 --> 00:04:45.850 Economies are stronger when there is stability 00:04:45.850 --> 00:04:48.170 among the populace. But instead of doing that, 00:04:48.709 --> 00:04:51.779 our foreign policy is what gets funded. Which 00:04:51.779 --> 00:04:54.600 is to say bombs. Let's talk labor rights. There 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:56.680 is a new appointee for the National Labor Relations 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.639 Board, the NLRB. This is the group that works 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:02.620 to ensure that workers in America have any semblance 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:04.980 of rights. This group is essentially why unions 00:05:04.980 --> 00:05:09.399 can exist, and it exists because capitalism definitionally 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:12.420 destroys itself without regulation. So while 00:05:12.420 --> 00:05:13.939 this board is supposed to protect workers' rights 00:05:13.939 --> 00:05:16.100 and help us keep our weekends, Trump has just 00:05:16.100 --> 00:05:19.360 appointed the head employment lawyer from Boeing. 00:05:19.699 --> 00:05:21.939 This guy, Scott Mayer, he is a lawyer who has 00:05:21.939 --> 00:05:24.459 been working at Boeing to essentially help them 00:05:24.459 --> 00:05:27.879 not have to deal with the fallout of all the 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.300 things they do to their employees, like killing 00:05:30.300 --> 00:05:32.420 them. Who said that? Who said that? For legal 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:34.279 purposes, I do not have evidence that Boeing 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:36.160 has killed an employee. I just have a lot of 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.060 articles about it. Here's a quote from the Economic 00:05:38.060 --> 00:05:54.379 Policy Institute. So, like, this is not surprising. 00:05:54.459 --> 00:05:56.319 This shouldn't be surprising. Donald Trump has 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.180 a very long and well -documented history of screwing 00:05:59.180 --> 00:06:02.060 over workers, not paying out contracts. and getting 00:06:02.060 --> 00:06:04.259 rid of anyone who's inconvenient to him. In my 00:06:04.259 --> 00:06:06.720 lifetime, I don't think there has been a stronger 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.399 anti -labor candidate than Donald Trump, and 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.819 it blows my mind that people just don't see that. 00:06:11.899 --> 00:06:14.800 So where we're at right now is the NLRB has been 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:16.420 in stasis. They haven't really been able to do 00:06:16.420 --> 00:06:18.319 anything because Trump fired some people from 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:20.120 the board and they haven't been able to make 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.100 any decisions. So he's appointing these people 00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:24.019 to try to get them on the board and undo things 00:06:24.019 --> 00:06:26.560 that Biden did to enshrine some workers rights 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:28.480 during his administration. Because won't someone 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.800 think of the corporations? Won't anyone think 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.740 of the companies? Mustocks! Last thing for stateside. 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:35.600 Let's talk about the Epstein. Here's an Epstein 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.579 update. An Ep -State, if you will. The Epstein 00:06:38.579 --> 00:06:40.519 files continue to be a thorn in the side of Trump 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:42.680 and he's made It gets so much worse for himself. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:44.639 The man has decided that the way he's going to 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:46.920 handle this is by attacking his own base. So 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.459 after zigzagging on whether or not these files 00:06:49.459 --> 00:06:52.180 even exist, he went as far as to say that these 00:06:52.180 --> 00:06:54.660 files were made up by the Democrats and anyone 00:06:54.660 --> 00:06:56.860 who believes that the Epstein files are a thing 00:06:56.860 --> 00:07:00.939 are his quote former supporters and our weaklings, 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.040 which that pissed off his base a lot, which is 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.850 hilarious. because he called them weaklings and 00:07:06.850 --> 00:07:09.350 that made them mad. Like, out of everything that 00:07:09.350 --> 00:07:11.069 he has done, these people have the emotional 00:07:11.069 --> 00:07:13.569 capabilities of a middle schooler. It's outrageous. 00:07:13.910 --> 00:07:15.670 So he called them weaklings and losers and they 00:07:15.670 --> 00:07:17.509 got all big mad and now they're turning on him. 00:07:17.529 --> 00:07:20.589 But to be clear, MAGA turning on Trump doesn't 00:07:20.589 --> 00:07:23.009 mean that MAGA is no longer a far -right group. 00:07:23.550 --> 00:07:25.949 Like, he's not far -right enough for that. They 00:07:25.949 --> 00:07:27.870 want to establish a white Christian ethnostate 00:07:27.870 --> 00:07:30.149 and Trump is starting to become impotent in that 00:07:30.149 --> 00:07:32.170 regard. The inability to release the Epstein 00:07:32.170 --> 00:07:35.660 files is proof that He's not our guy. He's not 00:07:35.660 --> 00:07:37.959 gonna deliver us to the world that he's been 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.000 promising us. So a lot of them feel betrayed, 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.759 and not like, oh, I see the light now, but what 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.560 happens to my guy? That said, if a non -zero 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.160 number of people have a realization that they've 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:51.240 been duped, and they realize they've been duped 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:54.259 this whole time, great. You got there eventually. 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.790 Elsewhere. Hey, Germany, you weren't supposed 00:07:56.790 --> 00:07:58.730 to copy our homework. Germany hosted a summit 00:07:58.730 --> 00:08:00.750 with a handful of European allies to discuss 00:08:00.750 --> 00:08:03.529 a clamping down of immigration policy for the 00:08:03.529 --> 00:08:05.550 EU. They're unhappy with migrants and asylum 00:08:05.550 --> 00:08:07.810 seekers, and they want to get rid of them. Does 00:08:07.810 --> 00:08:09.949 this sound familiar? In getting rid of them, 00:08:10.050 --> 00:08:12.670 they want to deport them to third party countries 00:08:12.670 --> 00:08:16.370 and hold them in deportation camps. Does this 00:08:16.370 --> 00:08:18.709 sound familiar? They want to get rid of them 00:08:18.709 --> 00:08:21.449 now without actually giving them due process 00:08:21.449 --> 00:08:23.310 and just yeet them out of the country so they 00:08:23.310 --> 00:08:24.769 don't have to look at them anymore and put them 00:08:24.769 --> 00:08:27.329 in a third party and then take care of it later. 00:08:27.529 --> 00:08:30.009 Does it sound familiar? Yeah, don't don't do 00:08:30.009 --> 00:08:32.730 that. Don't do that. But they are doing that. 00:08:32.769 --> 00:08:34.429 And after they made that decision, they turned 00:08:34.429 --> 00:08:38.049 around and as a show of force, deported 81 people 00:08:38.049 --> 00:08:40.659 to Afghanistan. Notably, Afghanistan's not a 00:08:40.659 --> 00:08:42.919 great place to be deported to right now. So much 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:44.720 so that international human rights groups were 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:46.860 like, what the fuck? Stop, stop, stop doing that. 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.620 And like the UN Human Rights Council said, stop 00:08:49.620 --> 00:08:51.960 it. Stop deporting people to Afghanistan. Just 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.320 kind of period. So to be clear, this has not 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.700 been signed into law, but it is a direction of 00:08:57.700 --> 00:09:00.100 policy and it's already having an effect. But 00:09:00.100 --> 00:09:05.320 hey, don't mass deport people. Like we have the 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.179 roof. Meanwhile, over in Cambodia. They're saving 00:09:08.179 --> 00:09:10.539 my cell phone. Authorities in Cambodia have been 00:09:10.539 --> 00:09:13.600 cracking down hard on scam call centers, arresting 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.340 thousands of people over the past couple of weeks. 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.340 Over 2 ,100 people have been arrested across 00:09:17.340 --> 00:09:20.639 a bunch of nationalities at dozens of locations 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:22.919 across Cambodia that all are operating various 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:25.259 call scams. This is a multi -billion dollar scam 00:09:25.259 --> 00:09:26.899 industry and a lot of the people who are working 00:09:26.899 --> 00:09:29.080 these call centers are not there on their own 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.600 volition. Human trafficking is a big source of 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.399 their employment. And wouldn't you know it, USAID 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.700 was investing in reducing human trafficking. 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:39.659 in that area before it was destroyed. These scams 00:09:39.659 --> 00:09:41.960 range from your typical go to 7 -Eleven and get 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.340 a Google Play gift card and give me the code, 00:09:44.860 --> 00:09:47.340 to people imitating someone that you know in 00:09:47.340 --> 00:09:50.039 distress using an AI voice generator. Like they're 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.720 getting sophisticated, but again, lots of crackdowns. 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.179 So thanks to Cambodia, I no longer have to deal 00:09:56.179 --> 00:09:58.759 with my old friend's scam likely. Well, I still 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.090 do, but less. Israel! is bombing Syria now. So 00:10:03.090 --> 00:10:05.490 things aren't great in Syria. That's not your 00:10:05.490 --> 00:10:07.730 statement. And Israel is bombing them now. The 00:10:07.730 --> 00:10:09.409 reason that they are doing this, they state, 00:10:09.809 --> 00:10:12.269 is they are defending their Druze brothers in 00:10:12.269 --> 00:10:15.669 the region. Druze is an ethnic group that is... 00:10:15.669 --> 00:10:18.570 Prominent in Israel, but found all over that 00:10:18.570 --> 00:10:21.769 general region. It's not a great excuse to bomb 00:10:21.769 --> 00:10:24.370 Damascus This means that Israel is now bombing 00:10:24.370 --> 00:10:27.730 Lebanon Iran Syria and Gaza in addition to their 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:29.450 assaults in the West Bank and everything else 00:10:29.450 --> 00:10:31.389 They're doing in the region international reactions 00:10:31.389 --> 00:10:33.830 are largely condemnation like what the fuck are 00:10:33.830 --> 00:10:36.090 you doing? Why are you escalating this and Israel 00:10:36.090 --> 00:10:38.029 says that they've got a right to defend themselves? 00:10:38.649 --> 00:10:40.850 Yeah, they're saying the strike is to help prevent 00:10:40.850 --> 00:10:43.350 militants from Syria who are taking over the 00:10:43.350 --> 00:10:48.559 country from threatening Israel. Just once, can 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.379 I open up any news site and not have it be that 00:10:52.379 --> 00:10:54.279 Israel is bombing someone and killing more people 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.600 in Gaza? Let's move on to science and economy 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.320 and technology. I kind of lumped a bunch of stuff 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:02.820 into one. Oil. Chevron has acquired Hess. Which 00:11:02.820 --> 00:11:06.399 honestly sounds like an RPG character, like got 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.740 some really cool ancient item, but no, it's just 00:11:08.740 --> 00:11:11.039 oil companies. So Chevron, an energy company, 00:11:11.259 --> 00:11:14.399 bought Hess for $55 million, pissing off Exxon, 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:17.519 who wanted Hess. Exxon filed a motion saying, 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:19.679 hey, yo, we had dibs on that. I think that's 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.200 exactly what the legal paper said, and the judge 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.009 found that they did not. Actually have dibs said 00:11:26.009 --> 00:11:27.610 another way Exxon was like this feels like a 00:11:27.610 --> 00:11:29.590 breach of contract We should have had a chance 00:11:29.590 --> 00:11:31.830 to buy shares of Hess and that didn't happen 00:11:31.830 --> 00:11:34.970 and the judge said nah And so Exxon's like okay. 00:11:35.090 --> 00:11:36.850 Well, we're gonna patch that in our contracts 00:11:36.850 --> 00:11:38.970 going forward. This is a massive acquisition 00:11:38.970 --> 00:11:41.049 It's one of the biggest energy deals in decades 00:11:41.049 --> 00:11:43.690 and it sent Exxon stock tumbling after it was 00:11:43.690 --> 00:11:46.470 announced threesomes but with science. There 00:11:46.470 --> 00:11:48.610 was a procedure that's exceedingly rare and had 00:11:48.610 --> 00:11:51.129 a big leap forward recently out of the UK. It 00:11:51.129 --> 00:11:54.409 is a three -way IVF treatment. Women who have 00:11:54.409 --> 00:11:56.789 mitochondrial diseases have a high probability 00:11:56.789 --> 00:11:59.850 of passing that along to any child they may birth, 00:12:00.429 --> 00:12:03.090 giving them debilitating lifelong issues. If 00:12:03.090 --> 00:12:06.389 you can give birth and you have this issue, basically 00:12:06.389 --> 00:12:09.690 your options have been don't have kids or find 00:12:09.690 --> 00:12:11.929 a donor. and so your child is not going to be 00:12:11.929 --> 00:12:13.730 genetically related to you. Basically, the way 00:12:13.730 --> 00:12:15.429 it works is this. There's the two parents and 00:12:15.429 --> 00:12:18.529 a donor, and the donor's egg has the DNA that 00:12:18.529 --> 00:12:21.830 overwrites what the mother's DNA would have otherwise 00:12:21.830 --> 00:12:24.610 put in there to cause the mitochondrial disease. 00:12:24.909 --> 00:12:27.889 If it sounds like gene editing or eugenics, it's 00:12:27.889 --> 00:12:30.309 kind of similar, but there's a lot of safety 00:12:30.309 --> 00:12:32.710 guards. Obviously, anything that has to do with 00:12:32.710 --> 00:12:34.750 editing and messing with the genetic structure 00:12:34.750 --> 00:12:37.950 of an embryo... is a slippery slip. But in this 00:12:37.950 --> 00:12:41.110 case, the way that it works is modifying a tiny, 00:12:41.450 --> 00:12:44.590 tiny fraction of the DNA that only affects the 00:12:44.590 --> 00:12:47.210 ability for the cells to produce energy. Everything 00:12:47.210 --> 00:12:49.190 else, all of the genetics, all of the traits, 00:12:49.350 --> 00:12:51.409 all of the ancestry, that's all from the parents 00:12:51.409 --> 00:12:53.070 still, and that's all the same as it would have 00:12:53.070 --> 00:12:55.309 otherwise been. So whether or not this makes 00:12:55.309 --> 00:12:57.809 you squeamish, you know, am I here to tell you 00:12:57.809 --> 00:13:00.269 how to feel about it? But there has been a lot 00:13:00.269 --> 00:13:01.789 of research into this and there has been a lot 00:13:01.789 --> 00:13:04.710 of discussion among bioethicists about the potential 00:13:04.710 --> 00:13:06.490 risks of this slipping into something like a 00:13:06.490 --> 00:13:09.529 designer baby thing and a legal framework around 00:13:09.529 --> 00:13:11.470 it. But then on the flip side you have eight 00:13:11.470 --> 00:13:13.590 children who were born recently from this procedure 00:13:13.590 --> 00:13:16.350 who are healthy with no signs of mitochondrial 00:13:16.350 --> 00:13:19.279 disease. who are related to their parents who 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:21.139 now have a child that they wanted. Obviously, 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:23.340 adoption is an option as well, but a lot of people 00:13:23.340 --> 00:13:25.580 want to have a genetically related child. This 00:13:25.580 --> 00:13:28.080 is not a widespread thing. This is still exceedingly 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.440 rare. It's been done like three times ever, basically, 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.879 since 2016. So we're not about to have a massive 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.220 uprising of genetically edited children, but 00:13:37.220 --> 00:13:39.759 it's a thing. Speaking of cells, we saved pandas. 00:13:39.980 --> 00:13:41.580 We didn't save pandas, but I actually learned 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:43.840 that pandas are no longer endangered. They're 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:45.519 still vulnerable, but they're not technically 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:47.980 endangered. All right, so what did we do? We 00:13:47.980 --> 00:13:50.679 saved the groomers. We took their skin. Wait. 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.220 I misread. Scientists took skin cells from a 00:13:53.220 --> 00:13:55.500 giant panda and successfully converted them into 00:13:55.500 --> 00:13:58.480 stem cells. Stem cells are those classic, you 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.539 know, the omni cells. They can kind of turn into 00:14:01.539 --> 00:14:03.500 anything. They're really, really great for developing 00:14:03.500 --> 00:14:05.340 treatments, and this is a massive step forward 00:14:05.340 --> 00:14:07.860 in potential conservation efforts. So while the 00:14:07.860 --> 00:14:10.620 pandas are still, I mean, frankly, a very dumb 00:14:10.620 --> 00:14:12.919 species, maybe we'll have more of them. Maybe 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:14.700 we're gonna each have our own panda in a few 00:14:14.700 --> 00:14:19.139 years. Who knows? Thanks... cells? Last thing 00:14:19.139 --> 00:14:20.919 for tech, it's a lot of computer. There's a lot 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:22.179 of computer out there and they're making more 00:14:22.179 --> 00:14:25.299 of it. Mark Zuckerberg is in the headlines, which 00:14:25.299 --> 00:14:28.100 is never good, because no one needs him. in our 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:29.840 life, but he's specifically in the headlines 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:31.840 right now because he is talking about how Metta 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.820 is going to build massive data centers about 00:14:34.820 --> 00:14:37.279 the size of Manhattan. You heard both of those 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.120 parts right. I said data centers, plural. the 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:41.980 size of Manhattan. They're doing this because 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:43.820 they want to have more computing power for AI. 00:14:43.980 --> 00:14:46.279 Right now, AI is just deeply inefficient, and 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.720 it's like that by design. It's not inefficient 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:50.419 because these people are bad at making software, 00:14:50.539 --> 00:14:52.360 it's inefficient because it's inefficient software. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.080 And so, to fix that, we just need an endless 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:58.179 supply of energy and computational power so that 00:14:58.179 --> 00:15:00.600 these AI systems can handle the load that is 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:02.860 currently being subsidized by investors. That 00:15:02.860 --> 00:15:04.500 was a lot of words to say the tech industry is 00:15:04.500 --> 00:15:08.820 just doing tech industry things, but... I would 00:15:08.820 --> 00:15:11.700 like a world with clean water and breathable 00:15:11.700 --> 00:15:13.539 air. Because as he's talking about building these 00:15:13.539 --> 00:15:15.039 giant data centers, we've been hearing about 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.799 the data center that's powering Grok, Elon Musk's 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:21.100 AI, from Memphis that's poisoning the air. These 00:15:21.100 --> 00:15:22.879 tech oligarchs are increasingly detached from 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.299 reality and it's getting out of control. I don't 00:15:25.299 --> 00:15:27.519 know when we decided that being slightly okay 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.340 at having a tech company means that you get to 00:15:29.340 --> 00:15:32.950 just ignore... all rules, and you deserve to 00:15:32.950 --> 00:15:35.610 shape the future of reality? Like, I don't think 00:15:35.610 --> 00:15:38.009 that's the right group to lead us. But here we 00:15:38.009 --> 00:15:41.750 are, in our Manhattan -sized computers. Hey, 00:15:41.809 --> 00:15:43.529 thank you so much for being here. Did you know 00:15:43.529 --> 00:15:46.509 that I've got a Patreon, and a newsletter, and 00:15:46.509 --> 00:15:49.809 I'm on Blue Sky, and Tumblr, and Macedon, and 00:15:49.809 --> 00:15:52.470 I stream on Twitch, and I'm building a tabletop 00:15:52.470 --> 00:15:55.389 role -playing game? I do a lot of shit. Discord 00:15:55.389 --> 00:15:57.460 server. Links in description. That's all I'm 00:15:57.460 --> 00:15:59.759 gonna say about that. Gaming. Roblox is rolling 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:03.080 out an IP licensing system. Hot damn. Roblox 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.759 is an online like metaverse -ish platform. It's 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.220 somewhere between a social space and a game engine. 00:16:08.379 --> 00:16:10.539 It's indescribably popular and it has all the 00:16:10.539 --> 00:16:12.639 metaverse stuff like hosting digital concerts 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:14.679 and all that good stuff. Now they're rolling 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.159 out a platform for companies with intellectual 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:21.360 property to put that up for use. in roblox this 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.039 is so that developers who build on the roblox 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.799 platform can use actual like ip stuff in their 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.700 in their games like imagine spider -man running 00:16:29.700 --> 00:16:35.399 around but it's above board instead of not business 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:38.860 meanwhile over at virtuos there's been some layoffs 00:16:38.860 --> 00:16:41.080 virtuos is a co -development company they are 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.639 a contractor company that works with studios 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:46.240 to help build out big projects recently they 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:49.419 worked on the remaster of elder scrolls 4 oblivion 00:16:50.429 --> 00:16:53.070 And despite its success, they're being laid off. 00:16:53.269 --> 00:16:55.830 They're laying off about 270 people, around 7 00:16:55.830 --> 00:16:58.370 % of their workforce, primarily in Asia and Europe. 00:16:58.649 --> 00:17:00.889 The reason for this, they cite, is headwinds 00:17:00.889 --> 00:17:03.149 in the industry. Essentially, the gaming industry 00:17:03.149 --> 00:17:05.230 can't find its ass with both hands, and they've 00:17:05.230 --> 00:17:08.430 been spooked. to Greenlight AAA stuff recently. 00:17:08.750 --> 00:17:10.630 Because of that, there are less big projects 00:17:10.630 --> 00:17:12.849 with less big budgets going around, so less need 00:17:12.849 --> 00:17:15.829 for co -developers. This'll wax and wane as the 00:17:15.829 --> 00:17:18.509 market churns around, but largely it's just kind 00:17:18.509 --> 00:17:21.220 of a bummer that, like, really good talent is 00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:24.900 just being thrown aside because executives. Which 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:26.640 has been the case. It's not like this is a new 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.599 thing, but I'm still mad about it, you know. 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:30.859 Last thing for gaming, Nintendo has announced 00:17:30.859 --> 00:17:34.140 the casting for Link and Zelda in their upcoming 00:17:34.140 --> 00:17:37.400 live -action Zelda movie. Now, I am wary about 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.019 this, because I'm a fan of the hi -yah boy and 00:17:40.019 --> 00:17:43.920 everything. Don't fuck it up. Please. Lightning 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.220 round. If you live in the UK, some porn sites 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:48.200 are going to start requiring age verification 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.579 by way of credit card verification. Shortly someone 00:17:51.579 --> 00:17:53.559 hacked Elmo's Twitter account and started stealing 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:55.859 a bunch of anti -semitic shit get off Twitter 00:17:55.859 --> 00:17:58.599 someone managed to break in to vehicles owned 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:02.099 by backup dancers for Beyonce on her tour and 00:18:02.099 --> 00:18:04.859 Stole unreleased Beyonce music security officers 00:18:04.859 --> 00:18:08.769 at an airport in Germany confiscated 1 ,500 baby 00:18:08.769 --> 00:18:11.450 tarantulas that were being hidden in a box of 00:18:11.450 --> 00:18:13.190 confectionaries. They said that it smelled bad. 00:18:13.450 --> 00:18:15.470 The late show with Stephen Colbert has been canceled 00:18:15.470 --> 00:18:17.609 after Trump beefed with Paramount. Paramount 00:18:17.609 --> 00:18:20.549 is the parent company of CBS who runs that show, 00:18:20.589 --> 00:18:22.710 and Trump does not like him. They maintain that 00:18:22.710 --> 00:18:25.109 it was a purely financial decision, that the 00:18:25.109 --> 00:18:27.910 timing is a bit wacky. A Netflix executive has 00:18:27.910 --> 00:18:30.349 stated that they have officially used AI generative 00:18:30.349 --> 00:18:33.430 technology to produce effects for a show on their 00:18:33.430 --> 00:18:35.819 platform. And they're gonna do more of it. And 00:18:35.819 --> 00:18:37.980 finally for today, popular music group Massive 00:18:37.980 --> 00:18:40.059 Attack has announced a coalition of musicians 00:18:40.059 --> 00:18:42.440 who have spoken out about Gaza. It is an effort 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:44.720 to try to come together and push back on some 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:46.640 of the coordinated hate campaigns against them, 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:48.859 and the legal campaigns against them as well. 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:50.619 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 00:18:50.619 --> 00:18:53.099 of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for 00:18:53.099 --> 00:18:57.079 sources, bonus content, and the secret location 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.619 of those tarantulas. My name is Endeavorance, 00:18:59.740 --> 00:19:02.720 we'll talk again soon, take care, and be well.