WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.060 Hello. I studied the blade while you were out 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:07.639 partying. But stuff still happens. So what's 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.740 up? It's Labor Day. Do some labor. Wait, that's 00:00:10.740 --> 00:00:14.000 not the point. It's Labor Day. It's also September. 00:00:14.660 --> 00:00:17.100 Both of those shock me. To be fair, Labor Day 00:00:17.100 --> 00:00:18.960 and Memorial Day are both days that just don't 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.660 exist in my mind until they happen. But - It's 00:00:22.660 --> 00:00:25.120 Labor Day. It's been a noteworthy year after 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.800 a bunch of noteworthy years. I'm out of notes, 00:00:28.260 --> 00:00:31.480 running low, too much paper. Point being, we're 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:33.479 working our way through this. And it's rough, 00:00:33.579 --> 00:00:35.240 but we're just doing our best every single day. 00:00:35.460 --> 00:00:37.119 So thank you for being here. Last week's episode 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:39.320 was a lot, but I really appreciate the support. 00:00:40.219 --> 00:00:42.799 I put in some focus to make sure there's good 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.079 stuff later on in this episode. So we'll get 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:48.909 there, but stateside. At the office of Social 00:00:48.909 --> 00:00:50.950 Security, things aren't particularly secure. 00:00:51.310 --> 00:00:53.689 You may recall that DOGE, the Department of Government 00:00:53.689 --> 00:00:56.070 Efficiency, which was Elon Musk's weird foray 00:00:56.070 --> 00:00:59.149 into governance, wanted to get access to Social 00:00:59.149 --> 00:01:02.170 Security data. For those who are not experiencing 00:01:02.170 --> 00:01:04.129 the freedom of this country, Social Security 00:01:04.129 --> 00:01:07.030 is one, the closest thing we have to, like, everybody 00:01:07.030 --> 00:01:11.030 having a national ID number, and two, literally 00:01:11.030 --> 00:01:13.400 just a number. that we're supposed to protect 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:15.280 with our life. If someone steals your social 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:17.739 security number, they can do a lot of bad things, 00:01:17.980 --> 00:01:20.060 like a lot of bad things, like opening up bank 00:01:20.060 --> 00:01:22.900 accounts and shit. It's really whack that we 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:25.079 don't have something better than just a number. 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.260 It's like if someone found out your phone number 00:01:27.260 --> 00:01:29.620 and that gave them access to your bank. Obviously, 00:01:29.659 --> 00:01:32.819 it's not that simple, but having someone's name, 00:01:33.099 --> 00:01:35.260 address, and social security number can get you 00:01:35.260 --> 00:01:37.590 a lot. Anyway, Doge wanted access to the Social 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:39.790 Security Administration for reasons, because 00:01:39.790 --> 00:01:41.530 they were like, there's fraud here, but there's 00:01:41.530 --> 00:01:44.409 not really evidence of that. Note, again, the 00:01:44.409 --> 00:01:46.090 amount of times that Republicans have screamed 00:01:46.090 --> 00:01:48.469 that they're targeting waste, fraud, and abuse, 00:01:48.549 --> 00:01:51.670 and there have been exactly no lawsuits regarding 00:01:51.670 --> 00:01:53.810 waste, fraud, and abuse, which are things that 00:01:53.810 --> 00:01:56.700 require lawsuits. So these Musk goons went to 00:01:56.700 --> 00:02:00.040 Social Security and despite being told they can't 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.840 do this, they took all of the data and apparently 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.159 uploaded it to some cloud service. Like they 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.460 made a secondary database that has less oversight. 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:11.460 One of the people in charge at Social Security 00:02:11.460 --> 00:02:14.419 around like stewarding data resigned because 00:02:14.419 --> 00:02:16.500 they basically said, it is now impossible to 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:19.139 do my job. These like barely 20 something year 00:02:19.139 --> 00:02:22.080 old tech bros came in, did something without 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.949 our permission that's against the rules. And 00:02:24.949 --> 00:02:27.930 now I cannot guarantee the safety of people's 00:02:27.930 --> 00:02:30.629 information. It is generally frowned upon to 00:02:30.629 --> 00:02:34.009 take government information and re -host it elsewhere 00:02:34.009 --> 00:02:37.069 without permission and with no oversight. Generally. 00:02:38.750 --> 00:02:41.229 Generally frowned upon. There's no upshot here. 00:02:42.169 --> 00:02:45.009 The Social Security Administration is down a 00:02:45.009 --> 00:02:47.770 guy who's supposed to protect data because he 00:02:47.770 --> 00:02:50.610 doesn't think he can anymore. It's just, that's 00:02:50.610 --> 00:02:53.009 just, that's where we are now. Okay, moving on. 00:02:53.110 --> 00:02:56.590 The CDC! Also lost a bunch of top -level people. 00:02:56.889 --> 00:02:59.129 The CDC is the Center for Disease Control and 00:02:59.129 --> 00:03:01.689 Prevention. It makes me endlessly mad that they 00:03:01.689 --> 00:03:05.189 didn't put AP to like CDC AP or something. But 00:03:05.189 --> 00:03:07.069 they are a punching bag for the right, especially 00:03:07.069 --> 00:03:09.409 ever since COVID started. They have just been 00:03:09.409 --> 00:03:11.879 so angry. about the COVID vaccine. They want 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.939 to just completely dismantle the CDC and any 00:03:14.939 --> 00:03:17.639 public health initiatives they can. RFK Jr., 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.020 who is a well -documented anti -vaxxer, is the 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:23.000 head of public health in the United States. And 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.009 lo and behold! He's been pushing back against 00:03:26.009 --> 00:03:28.550 vaccines! The FDA just announced new guidance 00:03:28.550 --> 00:03:30.550 for the COVID vaccine, for like, boosters and 00:03:30.550 --> 00:03:33.110 whatnot. If you're 65 or older, you can still 00:03:33.110 --> 00:03:36.009 get the vaccine. If you're under 65, it gets 00:03:36.009 --> 00:03:38.250 far more complicated as to whether or not you 00:03:38.250 --> 00:03:40.430 can get this vaccine. Whereas before, you could 00:03:40.430 --> 00:03:42.270 just go to a pharmacy and say like, hey, I want 00:03:42.270 --> 00:03:43.650 to get a COVID booster, and they're like, cool, 00:03:43.729 --> 00:03:46.789 boop! Okay, bye. if you had insurance, mostly. 00:03:46.990 --> 00:03:49.289 But now it's just a mess. So much so that individual 00:03:49.289 --> 00:03:51.469 states and coalitions of states are trying to 00:03:51.469 --> 00:03:53.789 come up with their own vaccine guidance, just 00:03:53.789 --> 00:03:57.370 ignoring the Fed, because that's nothing. So 00:03:57.370 --> 00:03:59.590 where does it lie? As of right now, here's the 00:03:59.590 --> 00:04:02.889 best way I can explain access to COVID vaccines 00:04:02.889 --> 00:04:06.050 in the U .S. If you are over 65 and you have 00:04:06.050 --> 00:04:08.469 insurance, you can get the COVID vaccine at pretty 00:04:08.469 --> 00:04:11.210 much any pharmacy for basically free, if not 00:04:11.210 --> 00:04:14.400 literally free. If you are under 65, and you 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.800 have a approved pre -existing condition, for 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:20.920 example, asthma, then with insurance, most pharmacies 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:23.459 in most states will give you the COVID vaccine 00:04:23.459 --> 00:04:25.899 free of charge. If you do not fall into those 00:04:25.899 --> 00:04:27.800 categories, and I'm ignoring, like, children 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.839 under 12, then you're basically fucked unless 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:32.980 you pay out of pocket, which might be up to, 00:04:32.980 --> 00:04:36.360 like, $250 depending on where you go. Now, you 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:38.019 may be able to find something with or without 00:04:38.019 --> 00:04:40.439 insurance. Some insurances might cover more of 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.939 it. Some might not cover it at all. Some pharmacies 00:04:42.939 --> 00:04:44.800 might cover it. Some states might have different 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.060 guidance. Like I said, it's a fucking mess. A 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:51.379 guy that basically every scientist in medicine 00:04:51.379 --> 00:04:55.519 across the world says is an idiot is the one 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:57.300 giving them orders now, and they're like, well, 00:04:57.300 --> 00:04:59.500 we're just not going to follow them. But now 00:04:59.500 --> 00:05:01.680 you're just screwed. Deal with it. Deal with 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.439 what they want to do. And if the doctors who 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:07.160 are like educated in the fields that you want 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.480 information about. If they ignore the guy with 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.860 a worm in his head who eats whales, they're at 00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:16.060 risk of like retaliation from the government. 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.959 So yeah, the CDC, the CDC head was fired. the 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:20.379 Trump administration got rid of her, and then 00:05:20.379 --> 00:05:23.000 a bunch of top other people from the CDC resigned 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:24.579 because they were like, what the fuck? These 00:05:24.579 --> 00:05:27.360 aren't shadowy figures that are like making determinations 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.680 about how they're going to trans your kids. These 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.360 are infectious disease experts, people who study 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.740 how disease transmits between humans and wildlife, 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.279 shit like that. And they're just gone now, and 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.579 there isn't political will to replace them. This 00:05:40.579 --> 00:05:42.759 administration is going after research universities, 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.379 public health research, basically all science. 00:05:45.459 --> 00:05:48.100 Scientists are fleeing the US currently. It's 00:05:48.100 --> 00:05:50.980 really sad, and it's especially sad because it's 00:05:50.980 --> 00:05:53.300 just a bunch of scared dumb people who voted 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:55.939 for this. And the people who are actually doing 00:05:55.939 --> 00:05:58.339 the research and keeping those scared dumb people 00:05:58.339 --> 00:06:01.240 alive have to deal with the fallout of those 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.819 scared dumb people. Maybe be a little less dumb. 00:06:04.579 --> 00:06:07.160 Maybe be a little less scared. maybe think a 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.680 little more about how your actions impact those 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.319 around you. Anyway, speaking of bad policies 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.699 that shouldn't be a thing, Trump's tariffs have 00:06:14.699 --> 00:06:17.079 been declared illegal by a court. An appeals 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:19.120 court found that Trump's sweeping tariffs on 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.519 basically every country in the world are unconstitutional. 00:06:22.699 --> 00:06:25.399 That's not a power he has. However, they're keeping 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:30.060 the tariffs in place. For now. Even though they're 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:33.100 unconstitutional. A court in this land has said, 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.420 yes, we acknowledge that the executive branch 00:06:36.420 --> 00:06:39.600 is illegally taxing citizens, but we're going 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:41.920 to let it keep happening because it would be 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.180 too much effort to stop. So here's what's happening. 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.639 They basically said, look, this is unconstitutional, 00:06:46.980 --> 00:06:49.759 but there's been so much will they, won't they 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:51.100 with the tariffs that we're just going to leave 00:06:51.100 --> 00:06:53.560 them in place because we know the Trump administration 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:55.800 is going to appeal this. And so I'm personally 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.120 mad because a package that I ordered before the 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.439 tariffs went into effect got tariffed. So if 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.199 you voted for Trump, you owe me $62. So are the 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.199 tariffs going away? Probably not. This is likely 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.180 going to the Supreme Court. The Trump administration 00:07:07.180 --> 00:07:09.519 is going to appeal it. Trump has already categorized 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.279 this court ruling as something that could potentially 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.759 destroy the United States of America. Once again, 00:07:15.819 --> 00:07:17.800 this is a court ruling about whether or not the 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:19.839 executive branch can issue tariffs. It's going 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.639 to destroy us. We'll see. U .S. citizens have 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.199 paid billions and billions of dollars in additional 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.079 taxes to the Trump administration. That's what 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.100 the tariffs are doing. Countries have done stuff 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:33.300 like Halting shipments to the US none of this 00:07:33.300 --> 00:07:35.980 had to happen and it's just it's so frustrating 00:07:35.980 --> 00:07:39.699 because so many people Very clearly said this 00:07:39.699 --> 00:07:42.500 is not how it works. We shouldn't do this This 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:45.120 will be bad for everyone and and and and then 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:47.600 we're here last thing for stateside And then 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.699 I promise there's there's a lot of good stuff 00:07:49.699 --> 00:07:51.980 coming up. Okay, there's a lot of good stuff. 00:07:53.139 --> 00:07:54.600 I Promise, there's a lot of good stuff later. 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.759 But last thing for stateside. What is it? Oh 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.360 FEMA was hacked Kristi Noem, infamous dog murderer 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.319 and head of the Department of Homeland Security, 00:08:02.779 --> 00:08:04.800 announced that 24 people had been fired from 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.899 FEMA's IT department after a massive security 00:08:07.899 --> 00:08:10.639 breach. Now, this is cool, this is cool. Apparently, 00:08:10.939 --> 00:08:14.259 there was some foreign actor that hacked FEMA, 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:17.379 and they called it a threat to not just the organization, 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.399 but the nation's security as a whole. How do 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.360 we find out about this? We find out because Kristi 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.939 Noem was like, hey, I fired some people. Let's 00:08:25.939 --> 00:08:28.399 move on. FEMA was hacked, and so I fired people. 00:08:28.540 --> 00:08:30.439 Wait, why do you care about the FEMA being hacked 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.779 part? Wait, what does it matter? And so the Trump 00:08:32.779 --> 00:08:34.879 administration wants to use this as another reason 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:36.620 to shut down FEMA, which is a thing they've been 00:08:36.620 --> 00:08:39.179 trying to do this whole time. This is real. The 00:08:39.179 --> 00:08:42.720 Trump administration fired the head of FEMA for 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:45.279 suggesting that FEMA should continue to exist. 00:08:45.539 --> 00:08:47.899 That was not in line with this administration's 00:08:47.899 --> 00:08:49.960 policies, and so they fired the head of FEMA. 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.080 For those who aren't, again, freedom, FEMA is 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.600 our disaster relief organization, and our president 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:59.480 wants to dismantle it. Because of lies. Like 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:02.559 he wants to - I was gonna move on, but he specifically 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:05.820 wants to dismantle it because of lies about what 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:08.899 FEMA did slash does. Like enough people on Fox 00:09:08.899 --> 00:09:11.860 News said enough lies about FEMA's response to 00:09:11.860 --> 00:09:15.399 enough things that Trump believed them. And now 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:19.019 he wants to dismantle disaster relief. So that's 00:09:19.019 --> 00:09:22.720 cool. Hey, you want a break? I wouldn't mind 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.679 a break. Sometimes life is a lie. and so I escape 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.940 into the world of video games. A while back as 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:32.600 a video gamer myself, I made a secondary YouTube 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:34.860 channel, Endeavorance Games, in which I uploaded 00:09:34.860 --> 00:09:37.320 various gaming content. I'm excited to say I 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.700 have resurrected that channel, and already there 00:09:39.700 --> 00:09:42.960 is a new episode of the return of a Minecraft 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.860 Let's Play series that I used to do a while back. 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.399 The series is called Minecraft Sisyphus Edition, 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.139 and it follows me attempting to beat Minecraft 00:09:51.139 --> 00:09:54.120 on hardcore mode despite not really knowing how 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.620 to do that. So it's just me going in with one 00:09:56.620 --> 00:10:00.000 life, trying to beat the game. If I die, I restart. 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:02.879 But check out Endeavorance Games and that video. 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.139 Okay, moving on. Elsewhere. All right, this one 00:10:06.139 --> 00:10:08.720 sucks. And then I promise it's a lot of good 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:13.059 afterwards. But it's Israel. Israel launched 00:10:13.059 --> 00:10:15.440 an airstrike against Yemen that killed their 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.840 prime minister. The situation in Yemen and the 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.179 surrounding area is not clear cut. I will acknowledge 00:10:21.179 --> 00:10:25.009 that. But what happened here is Israel just bombed 00:10:25.009 --> 00:10:28.129 the head of government of Yemen. The argument 00:10:28.129 --> 00:10:30.610 is that the Houthi who are in control of the 00:10:30.610 --> 00:10:33.509 Yemen government are a terrorist group that threatens 00:10:33.509 --> 00:10:36.250 Israel and so they got to do this to defend their 00:10:36.250 --> 00:10:38.250 national security, which is just what they say 00:10:38.250 --> 00:10:40.669 about literally everyone they bomb. The Israeli 00:10:40.669 --> 00:10:43.889 military claims that Yemen used cluster munitions 00:10:43.889 --> 00:10:46.230 against Israel recently. I have not been able 00:10:46.230 --> 00:10:48.809 to find an independent source outside of the 00:10:48.809 --> 00:10:51.460 Israeli media that verifies that. At the same 00:10:51.460 --> 00:10:53.240 time, they're ramping up their attacks on Gaza, 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:55.820 specifically Gaza City, which is declared as 00:10:55.820 --> 00:10:59.960 a famine zone and is also now being bombed more. 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.820 The international reaction is unimportant, I 00:11:03.820 --> 00:11:05.700 would say. I would tell you what the international 00:11:05.700 --> 00:11:07.159 reaction is, but it's the same that it always 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:09.340 is, which is what the fuck are you doing? Followed 00:11:09.340 --> 00:11:12.980 by nothing. I will say there is some movement. 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.860 There have been more Western countries that are 00:11:15.860 --> 00:11:17.940 saying they're going to acknowledge Palestine 00:11:17.940 --> 00:11:21.360 as a state, which is whack. that that's considered 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.340 progress. So this is really new. We don't have 00:11:24.340 --> 00:11:26.860 a lot more information here right now, but as 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:29.639 of now, the people of Yemen have taken to the 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:33.080 streets and demonstrated in huge numbers a desire 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.519 to retaliate and standing in solidarity with 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.750 the people of Palestine. but I think we are overdue 00:11:38.750 --> 00:11:41.049 for some good news. So let's look at Africa, 00:11:41.330 --> 00:11:43.129 where there is some really interesting movement 00:11:43.129 --> 00:11:46.429 in mRNA research for Ebola vaccines. You might 00:11:46.429 --> 00:11:49.269 not know this, but Africa is large. It's real, 00:11:49.370 --> 00:11:52.789 it's big. It's like, it's like real big. Like, 00:11:53.509 --> 00:11:55.710 let's see. I'm gonna take a big sip of a drink. 00:11:56.129 --> 00:12:01.009 It's bigger than that. Mmm. So now imagine that 00:12:01.009 --> 00:12:03.090 you are a vaccine and you want to travel into 00:12:03.090 --> 00:12:05.950 someone's arm in Africa. It's kind of difficult 00:12:05.950 --> 00:12:08.009 if you are a traditional vaccine because you 00:12:08.009 --> 00:12:10.210 need to be transported at a very low temperature, 00:12:10.509 --> 00:12:13.169 just like me. And Africa is very big and does 00:12:13.169 --> 00:12:16.409 not have a whole lot of places to re -up on cold 00:12:16.409 --> 00:12:19.710 while transporting long distance. So distributing 00:12:19.710 --> 00:12:22.659 vaccines is notoriously difficult. But mRNA vaccines 00:12:22.659 --> 00:12:25.259 trend towards shelf stable and are much faster 00:12:25.259 --> 00:12:28.399 to iterate on to tackle new strains. So there's 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:30.600 been increased research and efforts put into 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.639 production facilities to make mRNA vaccines in 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:36.740 Africa to target things like Ebola. It's not 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:39.139 perfect. The investments can be slow. Some things 00:12:39.139 --> 00:12:41.259 have started and stopped, but it's happening 00:12:41.259 --> 00:12:43.960 and it's a good move. mRNA vaccines got a lot 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:45.879 of flack during the whole COVID thing, because 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.200 again, conspiracy theorists, but they are safe. 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:50.970 They are effective. and they are the right tool 00:12:50.970 --> 00:12:52.769 for this job. So it's really cool to see more 00:12:52.769 --> 00:12:56.429 investment into all that going on. Technology 00:12:56.429 --> 00:12:59.529 slash science, which I guess that last one was 00:12:59.529 --> 00:13:02.690 also science, but whatever. Technology. If you 00:13:02.690 --> 00:13:06.190 have cancer, just open yourself up in MS Paint 00:13:06.190 --> 00:13:08.509 and edit that shit out of there. It was that 00:13:08.509 --> 00:13:11.289 easy this whole time. Researchers at the University 00:13:11.289 --> 00:13:14.429 of Minnesota have successfully used CRISPR gene 00:13:14.429 --> 00:13:17.509 editing to fight against gastrointestinal cancer. 00:13:17.629 --> 00:13:20.070 Researchers took 12 patients with late -stage 00:13:20.070 --> 00:13:23.090 GI cancer, which is largely considered not very 00:13:23.090 --> 00:13:26.029 treatable, and they used gene editing to convince 00:13:26.029 --> 00:13:28.889 cells to better go after the tumors. They, like, 00:13:29.029 --> 00:13:31.149 went in and deactivated a certain gene that I 00:13:31.149 --> 00:13:34.470 guess made the, like, immune cells too shy or 00:13:34.470 --> 00:13:39.370 something? And boom! There goes the cancer! Several 00:13:39.370 --> 00:13:41.409 of the patients saw reductions in the size of 00:13:41.409 --> 00:13:44.149 their tumors, and one of them saw a complete 00:13:44.149 --> 00:13:47.500 disappearance. of their tumors. Imagine having 00:13:47.500 --> 00:13:49.980 late stage cancer that you told is untreatable. 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:53.539 And now it's gone. Gene editing is spooky. I'll 00:13:53.539 --> 00:13:56.320 acknowledge that. It sounds a lot like eugenics. 00:13:56.460 --> 00:13:59.100 It sounds like it could go pretty bad pretty 00:13:59.100 --> 00:14:01.419 quickly. But I want to clarify that this is like 00:14:01.419 --> 00:14:03.179 exploratory research. This is not a thing that 00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:05.399 you're going to go to the spa and just get some 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.679 treatment done real quick anytime soon. It's 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.179 expensive, it's invasive, it's rare, but this 00:14:10.179 --> 00:14:12.840 gives us a lot more information on how we can 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.159 target these aggressive cancers. So that's pretty 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.120 fucking rad. Let's talk about space radio. Radio 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.460 -free space. What up, y 'all? It's your boy, 00:14:20.779 --> 00:14:25.080 Glorbomb. Welcome to mornings with Glorbomb. 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.120 That was like my little intro thing. I'm a shock 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:32.659 jockey, but in space. Space has a lot of stuff. 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.960 Some of it's radio waves. Some researchers in 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.360 Canada were listening to the space radio and 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:42.460 they heard a giant blast of radio waves. To be 00:14:42.460 --> 00:14:44.860 clear, it's not literal radio. They don't have 00:14:44.860 --> 00:14:47.559 an FM tuner listening to all the aliens jamming 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.940 out in their garage. But yeah, there was a huge 00:14:49.940 --> 00:14:52.559 blast of radio waves that some researchers had 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.240 picked up and they were like, what the hell was 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.860 that? The radio waves were spectacular, bigger 00:14:56.860 --> 00:14:58.460 than anything we've ever seen. We didn't know 00:14:58.460 --> 00:15:00.740 where they came from. So the scientists sprung 00:15:00.740 --> 00:15:04.070 into action and found it. With the use of several 00:15:04.070 --> 00:15:06.629 telescopes, including the ever -famous Jimbly 00:15:06.629 --> 00:15:09.529 Wimbly Simbly Timbly, they found it. They traced 00:15:09.529 --> 00:15:12.149 the radio waves back to essentially a giant field 00:15:12.149 --> 00:15:15.409 of gas that's a birthing ground for stars, slash 00:15:15.409 --> 00:15:17.330 graveyard. Basically, it's a bunch of gas with 00:15:17.330 --> 00:15:19.309 a lot of stars in it doing a lot of gaseous star 00:15:19.309 --> 00:15:21.350 stuff. It could have been that some stars merged, 00:15:21.529 --> 00:15:24.389 maybe one of them imploded or exploded or did 00:15:24.389 --> 00:15:27.070 some star things or turned into a pulsar. Whatever 00:15:27.070 --> 00:15:29.850 that is, something star -ish happened. And then 00:15:29.850 --> 00:15:32.480 it... sent radio waves at us. Now, this is kind 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:35.179 of not a big deal. It's not aliens. It's not 00:15:35.179 --> 00:15:38.600 a garage band from space, but it's pretty fucking 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:40.440 rad that we were able to trace it back as quickly 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.620 as we were able to. We now know that we can do 00:15:42.620 --> 00:15:44.559 this and we can better say, oh, we just got like 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.399 a big blast of radio waves. We know how to pinpoint 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.259 that back to where it came from and figure out 00:15:50.259 --> 00:15:52.240 what's going on. Scientists have described the 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:54.759 act of locating the origin of these radio waves 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.480 as like trying to spot a quarter from a hundred 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.899 kilometers away. So, hooray for the jimbly wimbly, 00:16:02.220 --> 00:16:04.779 Google is entering their Apple era. If you use 00:16:04.779 --> 00:16:07.240 Android, you might be aware that you can sideload 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.659 apps pretty easily. 99 % of the time, on iOS, 00:16:10.820 --> 00:16:12.620 if you want to install an app, you have to install 00:16:12.620 --> 00:16:14.940 it through the App Store, and to get an app on 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:16.879 the App Store, you have to get it approved by 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:18.980 Apple. This means there's a pretty rigorous set 00:16:18.980 --> 00:16:20.899 of rules to actually get into the App Store, 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:22.960 and they test it for stuff like malware, things 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.039 like that. It's not perfect, but that's what 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.269 they do. On Android... That hasn't been the case. 00:16:28.389 --> 00:16:30.269 You can basically install any app on your phone 00:16:30.269 --> 00:16:32.809 from basically any source, and there's not a 00:16:32.809 --> 00:16:34.690 whole lot stopping you from putting whatever 00:16:34.690 --> 00:16:36.649 the hell you want on the Play Store. But as Google 00:16:36.649 --> 00:16:38.929 is continuing to try to compete with Apple, they 00:16:38.929 --> 00:16:41.409 have acknowledged that that's a big security 00:16:41.409 --> 00:16:43.750 issue. I will say, a lot of people specifically 00:16:43.750 --> 00:16:46.429 use Android for the flexibility that they're 00:16:46.429 --> 00:16:48.330 calling a security issue. But if you're like 00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:49.809 an IT professional and you're trying to lock 00:16:49.809 --> 00:16:52.730 down a suite of phones for a corporation or something, 00:16:52.870 --> 00:16:55.750 you know this is a problem. So, starting next 00:16:55.750 --> 00:16:57.830 year, Google is going to take a more Apple -y 00:16:57.830 --> 00:16:59.769 approach. They're going to lock down what you're 00:16:59.769 --> 00:17:03.330 able to install on major approved Android devices. 00:17:03.570 --> 00:17:05.630 Which is gonna be basically all of them. If it 00:17:05.630 --> 00:17:07.849 has Google Play services installed on the phone, 00:17:08.289 --> 00:17:10.069 that's a device that's going to be affected. 00:17:10.410 --> 00:17:12.750 And that's... most of them, unless you've, like, 00:17:13.109 --> 00:17:16.049 installed a third -party Android operating system. 00:17:16.130 --> 00:17:18.210 Which, like, great if you did, but you probably 00:17:18.210 --> 00:17:20.180 didn't. So just a heads up, if you're somebody 00:17:20.180 --> 00:17:22.220 who likes to use third party software on Android, 00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:24.940 you install APKs, you sideload, whatever, you 00:17:24.940 --> 00:17:26.099 might want to look into making sure that you're 00:17:26.099 --> 00:17:27.880 going to be able to do that on your phone next 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:31.039 year. But let's talk about automating cybercrime. 00:17:31.299 --> 00:17:33.099 First, there was crime, then we made it cyber, 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.839 but now it's automated. Beautiful. A single hacker, 00:17:37.500 --> 00:17:41.259 not even a hacker, a single dude used Anthropics 00:17:41.259 --> 00:17:45.700 quad code. to extort 17 companies to the tune 00:17:45.700 --> 00:17:47.799 of millions of dollars. You may have heard the 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:49.940 term Vibe coding. Vibe coding is using something 00:17:49.940 --> 00:17:53.920 like ChatGPT, Cloud Code, to build apps without 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.539 really doing a lot of programming. You just tell 00:17:55.539 --> 00:17:57.519 the AI, I wanna build this app, and it's like, 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:00.200 okay, and it tries to build it for you. Someone 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.599 did Vibe hacking. With cloud code and essentially 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:05.859 what they did was use it for every step of the 00:18:05.859 --> 00:18:10.259 way to identify and extort 17 companies first 00:18:10.259 --> 00:18:12.460 They used it to identify their targets. They 00:18:12.460 --> 00:18:15.019 were like hey Which which companies would be 00:18:15.019 --> 00:18:17.599 the best to extort then they had it right malware 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:20.240 to steal information from these companies Then 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.400 they had it analyze the data that was taken from 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:24.259 the companies to figure out what should be used 00:18:24.259 --> 00:18:27.900 to blackmail the companies then Sent the email 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:30.160 to the companies saying like hey, I got your 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.819 data. Give me money All of this was done by one 00:18:32.819 --> 00:18:34.819 dude. It was a ridiculously fast turnaround. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:38.180 It was a huge wave of cybercrime. And it was 00:18:38.180 --> 00:18:41.559 one guy using a publicly available subscription 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:44.119 -based software. Anthropic, the people who make 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:46.519 Claude, they were like, oh, well, you know, we're 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:48.799 looking into it and we're trying to make sure 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:51.119 this doesn't happen. You know, just be careful. 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.220 As far as I know, the guy has not been caught, 00:18:53.500 --> 00:18:57.619 which is just wild. We also don't know who the 00:18:57.619 --> 00:18:59.559 17 companies are, but we do know that one of 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:01.900 them was a defense contractor. So someone was 00:19:01.900 --> 00:19:05.059 able to use an AI to hack a defense contractor 00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:08.500 with vibes. Lightning Round. The Florida concentration 00:19:08.500 --> 00:19:11.759 camp alligator Alcatraz may actually be shuttered. 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:13.920 It's looking like they may actually vacate per 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:16.359 the court order that I discussed last week, despite 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:18.420 the fact that DeSantis is trying to push back 00:19:18.420 --> 00:19:20.799 against that. After a grand jury refused to charge 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.140 him with a felony, the guy in DC who threw a 00:19:23.140 --> 00:19:25.819 sandwich at a fed is being charged with misdemeanor. 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.839 K -Pop Demon Hunters is now the most viewed movie 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.859 on Netflix. If you haven't watched the movie, 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:36.259 go do that. It's so fucking good. Some dude in 00:19:36.259 --> 00:19:38.660 Canada went on a mission. His wife's wedding 00:19:38.660 --> 00:19:40.619 ring accidentally fell off her finger when they 00:19:40.619 --> 00:19:42.819 were cleaning some stuff up outside. Found its 00:19:42.819 --> 00:19:45.660 way into the trash. The guy figured out what 00:19:45.660 --> 00:19:48.319 landfill it would be at and dug through the trash 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.519 to find it. He is quoted in saying that he was 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:52.920 optimistic that he could find it. What a guy. 00:19:53.180 --> 00:19:56.740 There's unearned male audacity that does bad 00:19:56.740 --> 00:19:59.480 things. And then there's unearned male audacity 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:03.380 that finds a literal wedding ring under tons 00:20:03.380 --> 00:20:06.980 of garbage after geolocating which landfill to 00:20:06.980 --> 00:20:10.660 go to. A piece of art that was lost after Nazis 00:20:10.660 --> 00:20:13.559 stole it from a Jewish curator 80 years ago. 00:20:13.950 --> 00:20:17.349 turned up in an ad for real estate in Argentina. 00:20:17.630 --> 00:20:19.970 And finally for today, a Walmart vice president 00:20:19.970 --> 00:20:22.930 in their tech sector has been let go after being 00:20:22.930 --> 00:20:25.329 caught getting kickbacks from contractors to 00:20:25.329 --> 00:20:27.829 the tune of millions of dollars in exchange for 00:20:27.829 --> 00:20:30.130 favoring those contractors. If anyone wants to 00:20:30.130 --> 00:20:35.009 pay me millions of dollars to contract for Walmart, 00:20:35.150 --> 00:20:37.289 I'm all ears. Thank you so much for listening 00:20:37.289 --> 00:20:39.190 to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 00:20:39.490 --> 00:20:42.529 Head to skh .news for sources, bonus content, 00:20:42.750 --> 00:20:46.069 and the location of your lost wedding ring. My 00:20:46.069 --> 00:20:47.829 name is Endeavorance, we'll talk again soon, 00:20:48.009 --> 00:20:49.650 take care, and be well.