WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.700 Hello. I completed all of my quest objectives, 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:08.099 but stuff still happened. So what's up? No Kings, 00:00:08.380 --> 00:00:11.039 again, and still, and again. This past weekend 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.119 saw worldwide protests for the No Kings protests, 00:00:14.419 --> 00:00:17.480 also known as the No Tyrants protest, if you're 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:20.100 in a place that... does do Kings. If you're in 00:00:20.100 --> 00:00:22.120 one of those, uh, one of those Kingler locations, 00:00:22.179 --> 00:00:24.420 if you're feeling like this is deja vu, it's 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:26.420 because this is not the first no Kings protest. 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:29.160 And this one was bigger than the last one. The 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.719 last no Kings protest saw about 5 million people 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.020 take to the streets in the U S this one saw estimates 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:36.619 say about 7 million. That doesn't include counts 00:00:36.619 --> 00:00:39.039 from worldwide protests of people going through 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.659 the streets in other countries to be like, hey, 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:43.979 the Trump administration fucking sucks. There 00:00:43.979 --> 00:00:45.460 wasn't really much violence to speak of. These 00:00:45.460 --> 00:00:48.060 were pretty tame marches. It was a lot of people 00:00:48.060 --> 00:00:50.960 who were just disgruntled voters going out and 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:53.960 marching. It's about as basic as an American 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.939 protest can get. That doesn't mean it's meritless 00:00:56.939 --> 00:01:00.320 or useless. Just basic. I only mention that because 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.439 Republicans are trying to paint it as a hate 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:04.659 America rally and tried to say that the people 00:01:04.659 --> 00:01:07.980 who are going are like dark money funded Antifa 00:01:07.980 --> 00:01:10.739 warriors. Meanwhile, if you look at any picture 00:01:10.739 --> 00:01:13.359 of the crowd, it's just a bunch of like old white 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:16.379 people holding signs about like brunch and stuff. 00:01:16.459 --> 00:01:18.879 Like, yeah, there are libs, but like that's not 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:23.780 violent Antifa warriors like me. I am a violent 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:30.659 Antifa warrior. Hear my battle cry. It is also 00:01:30.659 --> 00:01:32.879 notable that the current sitting president of 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.219 the United States, a person who is in charge 00:01:35.219 --> 00:01:38.239 of a country, posted a handful of AI videos in 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.260 response to the protests. One of which is a video 00:01:41.260 --> 00:01:44.359 of him with a king's crown on his head, flying 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:47.280 a fighter jet over protesters and then opening 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.159 up a hatch to drop what appears to be a bunch 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.430 of diarrhea. all over the protesters. That is 00:01:53.430 --> 00:01:55.549 a choice, my guy. We're waiting for more details, 00:01:55.689 --> 00:01:57.450 but if these numbers hold, this would be the 00:01:57.450 --> 00:02:01.230 biggest one -day U .S. protest since, like, 1970. 00:02:01.510 --> 00:02:04.650 And the third largest of all U .S. history. Now, 00:02:04.670 --> 00:02:06.689 I know there's a lot of people who may say demonstrations 00:02:06.689 --> 00:02:08.550 like this. They're saying that it's useless, 00:02:08.669 --> 00:02:10.729 it doesn't do anything. Where has this gotten 00:02:10.729 --> 00:02:14.889 us? I get your frustration. But to look at the 00:02:14.889 --> 00:02:19.129 mobilization of 7 million people... And to say 00:02:19.129 --> 00:02:21.689 that that's meaningless is just absurd. Just 00:02:21.689 --> 00:02:23.830 because this is not a group of people who are 00:02:23.830 --> 00:02:27.509 now ready to start the revolution doesn't mean 00:02:27.509 --> 00:02:30.050 it's not valuable. People are radicalized at 00:02:30.050 --> 00:02:32.969 varying paces and you can either help chip in 00:02:32.969 --> 00:02:35.770 with that or you can complain about it. I would 00:02:35.770 --> 00:02:37.949 prefer that you help chip in because liberals 00:02:37.949 --> 00:02:41.289 marching and waving signs because they are disgruntled 00:02:41.289 --> 00:02:44.680 with the current situation is better than complete 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:47.919 apathy which led to us having this administration 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:51.080 is it gonna fix our situation no no one said 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:52.960 it would and no one said they were trying to 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.180 do that nowhere ever was this protest supposed 00:02:56.180 --> 00:02:58.960 to fix everything it's a demonstration it's a 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.860 show of solidarity it's a pep rally you gotta 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:04.379 have those because you have to show people how 00:03:04.379 --> 00:03:07.060 many of us are feeling the same way right now 00:03:07.259 --> 00:03:09.520 Anyway, stateside. There was a little bit of 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:11.199 international there. That's why it counts. We 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.099 are on day 20 of the U .S. government being shut 00:03:14.099 --> 00:03:17.139 down. I had churros last night to celebrate. 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:19.939 Not really celebrating. I just got churros because 00:03:19.939 --> 00:03:22.659 I like them. It's day 20 of the shutdown. Congress 00:03:22.659 --> 00:03:25.740 is in gridlock. Nothing seems to be moving. this 00:03:25.740 --> 00:03:27.800 is probably going to become the next longest 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.879 shutdown of all time. It's currently in third 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:31.879 place for longest shutdown of all time, first 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.000 place being held by Trump's first term. Essentially, 00:03:34.139 --> 00:03:36.219 Democrats and Republicans in Congress are not 00:03:36.219 --> 00:03:38.520 voting for passing a bill to keep the government 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.719 funded, which is leaving them in deadlock. It's 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.810 dumb. I would... I would say it's dumb. I think 00:03:44.810 --> 00:03:46.530 that's how I would describe it. We're getting 00:03:46.530 --> 00:03:48.370 closer and closer to the point where a government 00:03:48.370 --> 00:03:50.650 shutdown actually becomes dangerous for the government, 00:03:50.729 --> 00:03:53.469 which is to say, when people start getting hungry, 00:03:53.629 --> 00:03:55.569 it's real easy to ignore a government shutdown 00:03:55.569 --> 00:03:58.669 and all political discussion when you're not 00:03:58.669 --> 00:04:01.080 hungry. So as this continues to drag on, we will 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.139 eventually see military and federal families 00:04:03.139 --> 00:04:05.939 missing paydays. We'll see a strain on food banks, 00:04:06.020 --> 00:04:08.379 and we'll see food assistance dwindle and eventually 00:04:08.379 --> 00:04:10.719 snuff out. To try to push out how long it is 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.979 before people start to really get hungry, Trump 00:04:12.979 --> 00:04:15.259 has signed a thing to make it so that the DOD 00:04:15.259 --> 00:04:17.660 is going to move funds around to pay the military, 00:04:17.899 --> 00:04:20.800 but that's only going to last like a month, and 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.199 they're probably still going to miss their first 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:25.180 payday. So beyond that, we just don't know. It's 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:27.120 just going to keep getting wackier. I do want 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.399 to share how this has personally - affected me 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.360 please understand that this makes me feel very 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.819 vulnerable but i was recently going for a hike 00:04:33.819 --> 00:04:36.279 this past weekend and at the nature center the 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.459 latrine was closed due to the government shutdown 00:04:39.069 --> 00:04:41.389 And so I had to become one with nature. Speaking 00:04:41.389 --> 00:04:43.389 of shit, let's talk about text messages between 00:04:43.389 --> 00:04:45.769 a bunch of Republicans. Politico recently published 00:04:45.769 --> 00:04:47.670 a report that revealed a bunch of text messages 00:04:47.670 --> 00:04:50.370 from a Telegram channel between a bunch of young 00:04:50.370 --> 00:04:53.290 Republicans. People who are like capital Y, capital 00:04:53.290 --> 00:04:55.910 R, young Republicans. So this is where it gets 00:04:55.910 --> 00:04:57.350 messy. And this is where the narrative starts 00:04:57.350 --> 00:04:59.170 to get real fucked up. So let's be real clear. 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:03.180 Young Republican here definitionally means 18 00:05:03.180 --> 00:05:06.339 to 40. The term young Republicans here is specifically 00:05:06.339 --> 00:05:10.180 referring to a national organization of young 00:05:10.180 --> 00:05:12.720 Republicans. And that's the name of it. They 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:17.000 mean young as in first half of life, not teenagers. 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.040 So what this was, was a big trove of texts that 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.019 had the exact awful shit you would expect. I'm 00:05:25.019 --> 00:05:26.339 not going to quote it. I'm not going to show 00:05:26.339 --> 00:05:30.970 it. It's just. racism sexism uh death murder 00:05:30.970 --> 00:05:34.649 killing jokes uh rape jokes all all of the things 00:05:34.649 --> 00:05:36.990 essentially the exact kind of humor that you 00:05:36.990 --> 00:05:39.589 would expect from a 15 year old boy and so when 00:05:39.589 --> 00:05:41.269 it says young republicans have text messages 00:05:41.269 --> 00:05:43.370 that have rape jokes in them it's like yeah duh 00:05:43.370 --> 00:05:47.209 only the yeah duh was actually referring to a 00:05:47.209 --> 00:05:50.410 35 year old in one case and someone who's currently 00:05:50.410 --> 00:05:53.069 in this u .s administration And I mean it, like 00:05:53.069 --> 00:05:54.649 the text, like they said things like, I love 00:05:54.649 --> 00:05:57.069 Hitler and the things you're not supposed to 00:05:57.069 --> 00:05:58.870 say, you know, the things that they always want 00:05:58.870 --> 00:06:01.209 to say, but can't. That's kind of something they 00:06:01.209 --> 00:06:03.410 would say in a hidden Telegram channel while 00:06:03.410 --> 00:06:05.810 turning around and yelling at anyone who would 00:06:05.810 --> 00:06:08.129 insinuate that they're racist. It's so fucking 00:06:08.129 --> 00:06:10.889 transparent. So this was enough that the actual 00:06:10.889 --> 00:06:13.110 organization, the National Young Republicans. 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.439 Folks, they called on these people to step down 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:17.920 because they were in like positions of leadership 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.339 within the organization. It's almost like modern 00:06:20.339 --> 00:06:23.300 young conservatism preys on young boys and their 00:06:23.300 --> 00:06:25.980 feeling of being left behind by society for the 00:06:25.980 --> 00:06:28.660 very real sense of isolation that they're feeling 00:06:28.660 --> 00:06:32.519 and the lost and stolen future. that truly has 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.100 happened to them. It's almost like there's a 00:06:34.100 --> 00:06:35.920 bunch of people out here who feel hopeless and 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.639 left behind. And the only ones they have to turn 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:43.240 to are the worst among us. Among us. Exactly. 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:47.519 Our system uplifts the most selfish, horrible 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.379 people to the highest echelons. Places that were 00:06:51.379 --> 00:06:55.079 only ever reserved for gods. And so in lieu of 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.560 a responsible masculine figure, we have Donald 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:02.350 Trump. as our president, posting AI videos of 00:07:02.350 --> 00:07:05.149 him literally shitting on his citizens because 00:07:05.149 --> 00:07:08.689 that's what he thinks communication should be. 00:07:08.910 --> 00:07:12.230 Am I offended by that video? Not even remotely. 00:07:12.769 --> 00:07:15.850 Don't give a shit. Am I upset about the fact 00:07:15.850 --> 00:07:18.949 that the leader of a country that holds me at 00:07:18.949 --> 00:07:22.930 gunpoint to pay them taxes is doing that in response 00:07:22.930 --> 00:07:25.410 to the citizens? Yeah, I feel like that's not 00:07:25.410 --> 00:07:28.689 a good use. of the leadership position, you know? 00:07:28.850 --> 00:07:30.550 Anyway, I don't remember what I was saying, but 00:07:30.550 --> 00:07:34.509 racists. So J .D. Vance decided to defend the 00:07:34.509 --> 00:07:36.470 racists essentially by saying, oh, well, you 00:07:36.470 --> 00:07:40.670 know, that's just how kids talk. 18 to 40. So 00:07:40.670 --> 00:07:42.670 he was trying to do the line of like, oh, it's 00:07:42.670 --> 00:07:44.589 young Republicans. It's just some teenagers. 00:07:44.829 --> 00:07:47.069 It's just locker room talk, whatever. That's 00:07:47.069 --> 00:07:50.550 just how kids are. And honestly, he's not wrong. 00:07:50.769 --> 00:07:54.370 That is how kids are. And he stopped short of 00:07:54.370 --> 00:07:58.120 saying. And that's a huge problem for our culture. 00:07:58.139 --> 00:08:00.800 And we must address it because the normalization 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.740 of dehumanizing our fellow man is antithetical 00:08:04.740 --> 00:08:06.839 to the American project. He could have said that, 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.899 but he didn't. He didn't say that. Instead, he 00:08:10.899 --> 00:08:13.800 said, talking about gassing Jews is just how 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.629 kids are. Over in Alaska, there has been some 00:08:16.629 --> 00:08:19.990 terrible wreckage from a typhoon that hit on 00:08:19.990 --> 00:08:22.810 October 12th. Remnants of a typhoon hit southwestern 00:08:22.810 --> 00:08:25.930 Alaska, annihilating villages, primarily those 00:08:25.930 --> 00:08:29.170 of indigenous people. Folks who have had generations 00:08:29.170 --> 00:08:32.789 in their towns, towns that don't exist anymore. 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.179 Floods rolled in and shattered records of flooding 00:08:35.179 --> 00:08:38.480 by a long shot. Houses were taken off their foundation 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.019 and were floating far enough to be crashing into 00:08:41.019 --> 00:08:43.039 each other. Here's an excerpt from alaskapublic 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:45.899 .org with a person describing what it was like 00:08:45.899 --> 00:08:48.679 on the ground. Quote, Carl said that houses were 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.500 pushed off their foundations and scattered across 00:08:51.500 --> 00:08:54.750 Kipna. He was in a house with 14 family members 00:08:54.750 --> 00:08:57.149 during the storm, six of them children, when 00:08:57.149 --> 00:08:59.250 the four bedroom house started drifting around 00:08:59.250 --> 00:09:02.110 2 a .m. At one point, he yelled to his family 00:09:02.110 --> 00:09:03.529 to brace when it looked like they were going 00:09:03.529 --> 00:09:06.230 to strike another house. He estimates his home 00:09:06.230 --> 00:09:08.789 traveled half a mile before it came to rest. 00:09:08.929 --> 00:09:11.350 End quote. There's been a flurry of rescue efforts 00:09:11.350 --> 00:09:13.570 and the National Guard has been deployed. The 00:09:13.570 --> 00:09:15.429 head of Alaska's National Guard said that this 00:09:15.429 --> 00:09:18.070 might be the biggest off -road network operation 00:09:18.070 --> 00:09:21.299 in 45 years for the National Guard. And unfortunately, 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:23.940 officials are assessing the damage and predict 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:26.559 that it's so severe, it might be more than a 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.340 year and a half before people can return to their 00:09:29.340 --> 00:09:32.320 homes. Homes which mostly are gone now. But again, 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.480 these are largely indigenous towns, and the folks 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.259 living there have a deep connection to that land. 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:39.860 It's their life, it's their livelihood. Even 00:09:39.860 --> 00:09:43.240 in the face of absolute destruction and disaster, 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.200 while there were evacuation efforts going on, 00:09:46.259 --> 00:09:48.139 the people of this town were hesitant to leave. 00:09:48.340 --> 00:09:51.000 It's all they know. It's all they want. It's 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.799 just to be home. And I cannot blame them for 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:56.200 that. If you want to donate, I've included links 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.360 in the description of this episode. Elsewhere, 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:00.240 there was a cease... Never mind. The ceasefire 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.820 that Israel and Hamas have mostly agreed to that 00:10:02.820 --> 00:10:05.980 the U .S. was fostering has all but fallen apart 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:08.480 already. I almost had enough time to write a 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.389 draft. before it fell apart. Essentially, since 00:10:11.389 --> 00:10:13.269 the start of the ceasefire, Israel has still 00:10:13.269 --> 00:10:15.750 been killing and bombing people in Gaza and has 00:10:15.750 --> 00:10:17.809 been escalating it over time. Recently, they 00:10:17.809 --> 00:10:19.529 did a bunch of airstrikes in the region of Rafah 00:10:19.529 --> 00:10:21.289 because they claimed that Hamas was shooting 00:10:21.289 --> 00:10:23.909 at Israeli soldiers there. Hamas says that they 00:10:23.909 --> 00:10:25.889 can't even get to that region right now. Israel 00:10:25.889 --> 00:10:28.049 is pointing to the violence at the hands of anti 00:10:28.049 --> 00:10:30.629 -Hamas militias fighting against Hamas. Civilians 00:10:30.629 --> 00:10:32.850 and journalists have been getting killed as these 00:10:32.850 --> 00:10:34.929 militias are roaming around. Israel has already 00:10:34.929 --> 00:10:37.230 tried pausing aid distribution and claims they're 00:10:37.230 --> 00:10:39.649 going to get right back to it soon. it's hard 00:10:39.649 --> 00:10:42.210 to believe their claims because they also said 00:10:42.210 --> 00:10:46.029 that every single hospital and school and faith 00:10:46.029 --> 00:10:49.230 center in Gaza was secretly a Hamas operation. 00:10:49.529 --> 00:10:51.970 Oh, you know what? Throw refugee camps in there 00:10:51.970 --> 00:10:54.970 too. There is not one intact hospital in Gaza. 00:10:55.149 --> 00:10:58.009 They have all been destroyed or damaged by Israeli 00:10:58.009 --> 00:11:00.750 strikes. And I wish it wasn't this overtly evil, 00:11:00.809 --> 00:11:03.830 but we have confirmation from Israeli media that 00:11:03.830 --> 00:11:06.669 Israel has been arming the militias that they 00:11:06.669 --> 00:11:09.000 are saying. are going against Hamas and causing 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.059 a bunch of violence in the area. Netanyahu himself 00:11:11.059 --> 00:11:13.279 and his cabinet secretly approved the distribution 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.580 of weapons to militias to send into Gaza that 00:11:17.580 --> 00:11:20.600 they then used as an excuse to continue attacking 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.259 Gaza. I don't think any reasonable person really 00:11:23.259 --> 00:11:25.179 expected this to be a ceasefire that actually 00:11:25.179 --> 00:11:30.659 held. I had some hope purely because I've seen 00:11:30.659 --> 00:11:34.110 so much. and I just want it to end. I do not 00:11:34.110 --> 00:11:36.309 like the terms of this ceasefire, and I never 00:11:36.309 --> 00:11:38.009 really thought it was going to hold. I didn't 00:11:38.009 --> 00:11:40.409 think it was a good one. I really wish that killing 00:11:40.409 --> 00:11:43.230 would end. Speaking of killing, Russia and Ukraine. 00:11:43.509 --> 00:11:45.980 Fuck. Let's go through this quick. Russia and 00:11:45.980 --> 00:11:48.419 Ukraine, it's still going on. It's still ramping 00:11:48.419 --> 00:11:50.539 up. Russia has been amping up their drone strikes 00:11:50.539 --> 00:11:53.179 and missile strikes on cities in Ukraine. And 00:11:53.179 --> 00:11:55.039 in response, Ukraine has been striking deeper 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:57.080 and deeper into Russia's mainland. There are 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.580 reports that Ukraine has hit enough oil refineries 00:11:59.580 --> 00:12:01.720 in Russia to have reduced their oil refinery 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.460 capacity by like 20%. Zelensky went to Trump 00:12:05.460 --> 00:12:08.100 to ask for Tomahawk missiles, which if given 00:12:08.100 --> 00:12:10.200 them, that would severely change the balance 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:12.600 of power. And Trump thought about it and then 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:15.960 said no, and then also said, stop fighting and 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.159 just use the current battle lines as the map, 00:12:18.299 --> 00:12:20.559 which is what Putin wants to do. What a surprise. 00:12:20.980 --> 00:12:23.580 But anyway, France is having a time of it. It's 00:12:23.580 --> 00:12:25.840 been like a year and a half of just absolute 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.320 chaos in the French government. Last summer, 00:12:28.379 --> 00:12:30.480 the far right in France won a bunch of seats 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:32.399 in parliament, more than people had expected. 00:12:32.700 --> 00:12:35.200 And in response to that, the current president 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.779 of France, Macron, he was like, let's try that 00:12:38.779 --> 00:12:41.220 again. And he called it a snap election. Essentially, 00:12:41.220 --> 00:12:43.139 that was just like, hey, let's do a do -over. 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.299 And the far right got more seats. from the two 00:12:46.299 --> 00:12:48.279 over since then macron's been doing everything 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.059 he can to try to keep the government from just 00:12:50.059 --> 00:12:53.000 falling apart but there's not enough people in 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.139 any group to form a coalition that lasts and 00:12:56.139 --> 00:12:57.940 so there's just been like a rotating door of 00:12:57.940 --> 00:13:01.120 prime ministers and recently another one came 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.659 and went there's been protest after protest after 00:13:03.659 --> 00:13:07.080 protest mass mobilizations just shutting france 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.120 down this is what happens when you have strong 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:11.360 labor force by the way these were like union 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.159 planned protests uh join the joining union joining 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:17.759 union there were also just like civilian protests 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:19.960 like there was really impressive other protests 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.460 going on beyond just just the organized union 00:13:22.460 --> 00:13:24.659 ones but still the people in france are protesting 00:13:24.659 --> 00:13:27.679 government cuts and an increase in the retirement 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:29.720 age shit like that they're basically saying like 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.639 hey why is our life getting materially worse 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:36.960 under your leadership huh side note uh here's 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:41.480 a really good idea leadership of a country that 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:45.820 improves things i got a million of these anyway 00:13:45.820 --> 00:13:48.879 yeah it's just kind of a mess in france there's 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:51.240 just protest after protest after protest prime 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.179 minister after prime minister after prime minister 00:13:53.179 --> 00:13:56.259 uh and the far right coalition's leader was found 00:13:56.259 --> 00:13:57.980 guilty of embezzlement and isn't allowed to run 00:13:57.980 --> 00:14:00.200 for office for five years so they're really having 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.200 a time of it that's all i can really say technology 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.389 bad technology let's talk about sora OpenAI recently 00:14:07.389 --> 00:14:09.789 launched an app called Sora, and you probably 00:14:09.789 --> 00:14:11.870 have already heard about it, but it is an AI 00:14:11.870 --> 00:14:16.350 TikTok app. Essentially, it is a endless scrolling 00:14:16.350 --> 00:14:19.350 feed of AI -generated videos, and all that you 00:14:19.350 --> 00:14:22.409 do is generate AI -generated videos and then 00:14:22.409 --> 00:14:25.370 put them into a feed. So it's a feed of literally 00:14:25.370 --> 00:14:27.950 just slop. And so in classic OpenAI fashion, 00:14:28.129 --> 00:14:30.289 they didn't know, or more likely didn't care, 00:14:30.549 --> 00:14:32.850 what was going to happen when this app hit the 00:14:32.850 --> 00:14:35.269 general public. And it did, and wouldn't you 00:14:35.269 --> 00:14:38.730 know it, copyright infringement abuse you can 00:14:38.730 --> 00:14:42.789 generate video of other people some people would 00:14:43.179 --> 00:14:46.860 busted brains can opt in to being put into these 00:14:46.860 --> 00:14:49.820 videos. Sam Altman himself is one of these opt 00:14:49.820 --> 00:14:52.200 -ins, and people have already generated CCTV 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.100 footage of him shoplifting. Like, it's so blatantly 00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:58.860 stupid. Now, OpenAI probably thinks they can 00:14:58.860 --> 00:15:01.139 get away with basically anything forever, and 00:15:01.139 --> 00:15:04.340 they might be right, but this move pissed off 00:15:04.340 --> 00:15:07.779 content lawyers from Hollywood to Japan. Hollywood's 00:15:07.779 --> 00:15:10.220 like, hey, why are you able to generate footage 00:15:10.220 --> 00:15:13.120 of... our copyrighted material. In Japan, they're 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:15.120 like, why the fuck can people generate, like, 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:19.340 entire anime sequences from our material? Like, 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.440 this is our cultural export. You're trying to 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.159 claim that you have divine right to train some 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.659 kind of exploitation machine with it? And so 00:15:27.659 --> 00:15:29.960 it didn't take long to get stuff like SpongeBob 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:33.059 in a Nazi costume and shit like that. And OpenAI 00:15:33.059 --> 00:15:35.600 was like, oh, whoa, whoops. Their original plan 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.460 to handle copyright was opt out. If you have 00:15:38.460 --> 00:15:40.679 a copyright on something and someone somewhere 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.600 made a video, you can apply to opt out of having 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:47.600 that content be usable. It's insane. This is 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.919 where we are. And this is why I'm basically always 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:53.000 saying, stop showing abject deference to tech 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.000 bros. This is dumb. We don't need to live like 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.639 this. Copyright law is a mess, an intellectual 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:01.740 property. It's important in some ways and abused 00:16:01.740 --> 00:16:04.620 in many ways. But I'm always here if somebody 00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:06.840 wants to sue Sam Altman. Let's talk about depression. 00:16:07.740 --> 00:16:10.340 I have it. Scientists at McGill University have 00:16:10.340 --> 00:16:12.740 isolated brain cells that they believe are affected 00:16:12.740 --> 00:16:14.899 by people with depression. We've known for a 00:16:14.899 --> 00:16:17.399 long time that depression is physiological. Depression's 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.919 not just you're sad a lot. Depression's your 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.559 body doesn't have the right chemical balance 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:24.139 to make it so that your brain doesn't want to 00:16:24.139 --> 00:16:28.120 just end. Trust me, I didn't want to have it 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.299 like that. I didn't mean to. Anyway, we've known 00:16:31.299 --> 00:16:32.879 that it's physiological in nature, but we don't 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.539 have a lot of insight into the specifics of what 00:16:35.539 --> 00:16:37.919 brain cells are doing what differently with people 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:39.919 with depression versus people without. So these 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:42.399 science boys took a hundred cadavers. Science 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.299 boys do the coolest thing. Anyway, the science 00:16:44.299 --> 00:16:46.039 boys took a hundred cadavers and looked at their 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.740 brains. About 40 of them did not have depression 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:51.580 and 60 of them did. They were able to isolate 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:53.360 two different types of cells that had notable 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.539 difference that were consistent between the cadavers. 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.279 I'm not going to pronounce them because I don't 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:01.019 want to sound dumb. And I did. look it up but 00:17:01.019 --> 00:17:02.679 what does this actually mean unfortunately it 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.200 doesn't mean a ton but it does mean that we're 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.099 making progress we don't know what we don't know 00:17:08.099 --> 00:17:10.980 correlation is not causation so they can't just 00:17:10.980 --> 00:17:13.880 say well we now know how depression happens because 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:16.160 of these two brain cell types you know next steps 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.920 would look like figuring out if there's a before 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.799 and after death difference with these brain cells 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:25.079 and learning more about if this is a result of 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.019 depression or a cause of depression but it's 00:17:28.019 --> 00:17:31.579 movement in a of potentially having a better 00:17:31.579 --> 00:17:33.980 understanding of mental illness and more ways 00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:36.819 to counteract it so that hopefully someday I'll 00:17:36.819 --> 00:17:39.160 be able to stop taking the pills that make me 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.539 not want to go dark. Lightning round. There was 00:17:42.539 --> 00:17:44.819 a guy who worked in the US Department of Energy 00:17:44.819 --> 00:17:47.339 and he recently lost his security clearance after 00:17:47.339 --> 00:17:51.339 his computer tried to upload about 200 ,000 images 00:17:51.339 --> 00:17:54.769 of porn. to a backup over the government network. 00:17:54.970 --> 00:17:57.450 It was reportedly his lifelong collection. For 00:17:57.450 --> 00:17:59.690 the first time in 20 years, the U .S. passport 00:17:59.690 --> 00:18:02.309 has slipped out of the world's top 10 most valuable 00:18:02.309 --> 00:18:05.910 passports. We were number one a decade ago. I 00:18:05.910 --> 00:18:07.960 wonder what happened over the past decade. OpenAI, 00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:10.220 again showing their excellent judgment, announced 00:18:10.220 --> 00:18:13.200 that they will soon be allowing ChatGPT to again 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.380 act like your friend, boyfriend, therapist, stuff 00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:19.019 like that, including sexting. This is a great 00:18:19.019 --> 00:18:21.700 idea and very good. And finally for today, a 00:18:21.700 --> 00:18:25.960 guy in Indiana found a 4 ,270 -year -old human 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.000 skull. Like, yeah, we knew people were there 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.099 then, but that's an old skull. Like, very old. 00:18:33.259 --> 00:18:38.420 I wonder whose it was. Wasn't mine. I don't think. 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:40.380 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 00:18:40.380 --> 00:18:43.000 of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:46.279 sources, bonus content, and a map to where I 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:50.660 hid the other 4 ,270 -year -old skull. My name 00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:52.380 is Endeavorance. We'll talk again soon. Take 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:53.779 care and be well.