WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.799 Hello. I defeated the rival form of Typhon. But 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:07.980 stuff still happens. So what's up? I'll tell 00:00:07.980 --> 00:00:09.599 you what's up. The guy who wants us to call him 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:12.529 the Secretary of War... Seems to really want 00:00:12.529 --> 00:00:15.529 to do war which like shouldn't be surprising 00:00:15.529 --> 00:00:18.550 So for months now the US has been bombing ships 00:00:18.550 --> 00:00:21.010 in I would say off the coast of Venezuela But 00:00:21.010 --> 00:00:24.649 it's like on both sides of Central America side 00:00:24.649 --> 00:00:26.170 note. Are we still calling it Central America? 00:00:26.269 --> 00:00:28.149 Is that is there a better name for it? Probably 00:00:28.149 --> 00:00:32.189 is anyway, so we've now bombed over 20 vessels 00:00:32.189 --> 00:00:35.289 killing nearly 90 people at least last I checked 00:00:35.289 --> 00:00:37.869 I don't know if it's happened again since I started 00:00:37.869 --> 00:00:40.210 recording and while none of these strikes have 00:00:40.210 --> 00:00:42.979 been Okay, because we're not at war and these 00:00:42.979 --> 00:00:45.039 aren't military targets, and none of this is 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.600 how anything works, it's actually happening. 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:49.780 Like, it's still just happening. Pete Hegseth 00:00:49.780 --> 00:00:52.579 has recently come under fire because, well, he 00:00:52.579 --> 00:00:54.820 put people under fire who shouldn't have been 00:00:54.820 --> 00:00:56.719 put under fire. We essentially learned that with 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.140 one of their earlier strikes, they hit it twice. 00:00:59.380 --> 00:01:01.920 Once to try to blow it up, and then again to 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:05.299 kill any survivor. That's a war crime. That's 00:01:05.299 --> 00:01:07.379 a war crime already. And so politicians from 00:01:07.379 --> 00:01:09.260 both sides of the aisle are like, okay, well, 00:01:09.739 --> 00:01:12.640 there's only so much that we can just kind of 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.540 hand wave. Unless you're Tom Cotton, in which 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:16.900 case you can hand wave anything. Because Tom 00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:20.219 Cotton actually went on to defend that the people 00:01:20.219 --> 00:01:23.500 that were bombed the second time, they weren't 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:26.980 shipwrecked. They were on top of their wrecked 00:01:26.980 --> 00:01:29.540 ship. Standing on top of the wreckage of their 00:01:29.540 --> 00:01:32.420 ship. They're perfectly fine. And a direct threat. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:34.700 to the U .S. military. So there's a whole bunch 00:01:34.700 --> 00:01:36.540 of stuff going on here. There's essentially a 00:01:36.540 --> 00:01:39.200 report that Hegseth said kill everyone, which 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:42.239 is also a war crime. There's an admiral that 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:44.079 they're trying to pin this on saying like he 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:46.540 made the decision to do it. Hegseth never said 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:50.069 that, but also Hegseth is like I would do that 00:01:50.069 --> 00:01:51.769 though. All the while Trump is trying to like 00:01:51.769 --> 00:01:53.750 not be a part of this, but he's very much a part 00:01:53.750 --> 00:01:56.530 of this because he is the commander in chief. 00:01:56.670 --> 00:01:58.650 It's just all him. The US government's attempt 00:01:58.650 --> 00:02:01.430 to justify this is that these boats are full 00:02:01.430 --> 00:02:03.189 of drugs. They're claiming that everyone that 00:02:03.189 --> 00:02:06.310 we've killed is a narco terrorist. But we don't 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:09.129 know that because they provided exactly no evidence 00:02:09.129 --> 00:02:13.210 for any of them. As I was trying to find a shred 00:02:13.210 --> 00:02:15.189 of anything, I found an article that the White 00:02:15.189 --> 00:02:17.650 House posted in which they're basically saying 00:02:17.870 --> 00:02:20.789 If you don't believe us, you're the problem. 00:02:20.969 --> 00:02:23.750 They just state as if it's a fact that these 00:02:23.750 --> 00:02:26.349 are narco -terrorists and that we are doing good. 00:02:26.990 --> 00:02:29.210 And that this is justified. There's no links, 00:02:29.409 --> 00:02:32.310 there's no link to any law, there's no citations 00:02:32.310 --> 00:02:36.330 to anything. It's just an article published by 00:02:36.330 --> 00:02:39.449 the White House that says, we are right. It's 00:02:39.449 --> 00:02:43.240 insultingly dumb. And I'm very, very tired. of 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.240 being told that the sky is yellow. So look, the 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:48.280 gotcha that they're trying to go with for this 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:52.000 is that if you are against these strikes on vessels 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.879 against civilians of a nation that we're not 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:58.960 at war with, then you must support narco -terrorism. 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.800 This is because that's just the way that all 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:03.759 political discussion has devolved at this point. 00:03:03.939 --> 00:03:06.620 To be very, very, very clear, this isn't a thing 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:11.800 we have to do. We have... a Coast Guard, so even 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:14.520 if 100 % of them were funneling drugs that were 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:17.620 going to be injected directly into all of the 00:03:17.620 --> 00:03:22.479 children of America, we still don't need to use 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:27.400 missile strikes against tiny boats full of civilians. 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:31.259 Like I know that you or I are probably not in 00:03:31.259 --> 00:03:34.860 danger of our boat being struck in the waters 00:03:34.860 --> 00:03:38.780 off of Venezuela, but hey, people sail sometimes. 00:03:39.050 --> 00:03:41.810 And boats exist in places. Maybe we shouldn't 00:03:41.810 --> 00:03:44.849 set a precedent of saying, there's a boat. Let's 00:03:44.849 --> 00:03:47.909 bomb it. I gotta warn you, bro. Netflix is buying 00:03:47.909 --> 00:03:50.370 Warner Bros. Yeah, this was a big one. Last week 00:03:50.370 --> 00:03:52.330 it came out that Netflix is going to be purchasing 00:03:52.330 --> 00:03:54.310 Warner Bros. Or at least they're going to try. 00:03:54.409 --> 00:03:57.169 They are moving towards that purchase now for 00:03:57.169 --> 00:04:00.490 72 billion dollars. Can I please have one of 00:04:00.490 --> 00:04:02.930 those? Now, WB was not in a great place. They 00:04:02.930 --> 00:04:04.830 had a lot of debt. They were not doing well, 00:04:04.830 --> 00:04:07.680 but they weren't. actively seeking to be purchased. 00:04:07.900 --> 00:04:10.219 But then Paramount came in and gave an unsolicited 00:04:10.219 --> 00:04:13.180 offer to purchase all of WB, that includes their 00:04:13.180 --> 00:04:16.319 studios, streaming services, and networks. Those 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.399 networks being CNN, TNT, Discovery, etc. So that 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:24.240 was like, whoa! Whoa! And suddenly a bunch of 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.439 other companies that are really interested in 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.439 not letting Paramount have that jumped in. And 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.060 so we saw Comcast and Netflix also make offers. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.189 Now, I want to call out that Paramount... was 00:04:35.189 --> 00:04:38.689 recently taken over by the Ellison family. Larry 00:04:38.689 --> 00:04:42.430 Ellison of Oracle ownership. His son is at the 00:04:42.430 --> 00:04:45.670 head of Paramount. That is why CBS has recently 00:04:45.670 --> 00:04:47.829 been fucked up because CBS is under Paramount 00:04:47.829 --> 00:04:50.329 and they installed Barry fucking Weiss at the 00:04:50.329 --> 00:04:52.509 head of CBS, which I'm still wrapping my mind 00:04:52.509 --> 00:04:55.290 around. All the while, Oracle is angling to own 00:04:55.290 --> 00:04:59.029 TikTok in the US, and the Ellison family is extremely 00:04:59.029 --> 00:05:01.269 closely tied to the current US administration, 00:05:01.449 --> 00:05:03.470 and specifically the Trump family. So, like, 00:05:03.550 --> 00:05:06.730 this is essentially the Ellison family trying 00:05:06.730 --> 00:05:11.689 to buy all of WB. All of it. That is HBO. That's 00:05:11.689 --> 00:05:14.509 Game of Thrones. Harry Potter. The DC universe. 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.480 AND CNN, TNT, Discovery, all their serial networks. 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:20.439 But instead of that, they went with Netflix's 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.399 offer, which was actually only going after the 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:24.779 streaming services and studios. They did not 00:05:24.779 --> 00:05:27.639 want the live TV. There was already a plan to 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:30.120 spin off those live networks into their own entities, 00:05:30.220 --> 00:05:32.540 separate from WB to begin with, so they're gonna 00:05:32.540 --> 00:05:34.819 let that happen and then just take what's left. 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:39.779 Now, um... That sucks. It sucks because Netflix 00:05:39.779 --> 00:05:43.620 is notoriously bad about doing good to the people 00:05:43.620 --> 00:05:45.879 in the industry. They don't want theatrical releases, 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:47.660 they don't want a writer's room, they don't want 00:05:47.660 --> 00:05:50.439 quality, they want profit. So they do whatever 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.620 is the cheapest way to get something made that 00:05:53.620 --> 00:05:55.819 will make a profit. And like just generally Netflix 00:05:55.819 --> 00:05:57.939 is not well known for treating people in the 00:05:57.939 --> 00:06:00.610 industry pretty well. At all. And so a lot of 00:06:00.610 --> 00:06:02.490 people who work in the entertainment industry, 00:06:02.709 --> 00:06:05.209 especially writers, are freaking out about this. 00:06:05.509 --> 00:06:09.610 And rightfully so. But I genuinely do not know 00:06:09.610 --> 00:06:11.910 what a better outcome would be here. Because 00:06:11.910 --> 00:06:15.310 if it wasn't gonna be Netflix, it was gonna be 00:06:15.310 --> 00:06:18.069 Larry Ellison. I mean, his son. But come on. 00:06:18.110 --> 00:06:20.949 That doesn't make it better? Uh, it doesn't make 00:06:20.949 --> 00:06:22.970 it better at all. But hey, maybe now is the time 00:06:22.970 --> 00:06:24.850 to start getting more into supporting independent 00:06:24.850 --> 00:06:29.180 media. At all. Moving on. Sorry about check marks. 00:06:29.339 --> 00:06:31.399 The European Commission recently hit Twitter, 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:35.139 I'm not calling it X, with a 120 million euro 00:06:35.139 --> 00:06:37.980 fine for check marks. Alright, that's the headline. 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:40.019 Let's talk about what it actually is. So I want 00:06:40.019 --> 00:06:42.939 to start by saying a year and a half ago, in 00:06:42.939 --> 00:06:48.779 July of 2024, the EU warned Twitter, hey, you're 00:06:48.779 --> 00:06:52.720 not doing things right per our laws and we're 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.720 gonna fine you if you don't fix it. So this didn't 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.279 happen out of nowhere. But what is actually happening? 00:06:58.779 --> 00:07:02.699 Essentially, the EU has non zero amounts of tech 00:07:02.699 --> 00:07:05.980 policy that requires tech firms to actually adhere. 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:11.040 To some laws. Sometimes. It's wild. The EU has 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:12.939 essentially found that when Musk took over Twitter 00:07:12.939 --> 00:07:14.939 and changed the way that verification checkmarks 00:07:14.939 --> 00:07:17.480 work, he created a situation that was rife with 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.560 fraud and scams and general distrust from users. 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:23.319 If you are a person who lives a normal life and 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.699 doesn't follow the intricacies of how verification 00:07:25.699 --> 00:07:27.899 processes on niche social media websites work, 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.560 let me give you some quick context. Back in the 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:32.300 day, Twitter had a problem with people making 00:07:32.300 --> 00:07:34.579 accounts that were impersonating some public 00:07:34.579 --> 00:07:37.060 figure. So they made a veri - system where they 00:07:37.060 --> 00:07:39.279 could go in and put a blue check mark next to 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.500 your name if you were who you said you were and 00:07:41.500 --> 00:07:44.180 were a public figure in danger of being impersonated. 00:07:44.420 --> 00:07:46.300 The big ones that got this were like companies, 00:07:46.579 --> 00:07:48.500 politicians, journalists, celebrities, stuff 00:07:48.500 --> 00:07:51.819 like that, right? Now this process was not perfect. 00:07:52.019 --> 00:07:54.740 It did not evenly distribute check marks to people 00:07:54.740 --> 00:07:58.399 who deserved it and it definitely wasn't always 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.600 going to the people who should have a check mark. 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:04.910 But it did mean that Twitter validated that the 00:08:04.910 --> 00:08:07.470 person who says that they own this account is 00:08:07.470 --> 00:08:09.829 that person. That is not what blue checkmarks 00:08:09.829 --> 00:08:12.029 do anymore. When Musk took over, he made it so 00:08:12.029 --> 00:08:13.970 you could just pay a fee to get a blue checkmark. 00:08:14.230 --> 00:08:16.490 So people would make an account, like Disney 00:08:16.490 --> 00:08:19.089 real, and then get a blue checkmark and start 00:08:19.089 --> 00:08:21.310 posting bullshit. And so this was just chaos 00:08:21.310 --> 00:08:23.449 for a bit and they had to like undo that and 00:08:23.449 --> 00:08:26.389 pause it and fix it. It's dumb. It was completely 00:08:26.389 --> 00:08:28.589 avoidable. They could have just retired the blue 00:08:28.589 --> 00:08:30.430 checkmark. Say like, hey everyone, we're going 00:08:30.430 --> 00:08:32.330 to phase out the blue check over the course of 00:08:32.330 --> 00:08:34.889 the next year or so. We're replacing it with 00:08:34.889 --> 00:08:41.409 the green dildo of you are cool. That's pretty 00:08:41.409 --> 00:08:44.110 Musk coded, right? But look, it's not actually 00:08:44.110 --> 00:08:46.309 just the checkmark stuff. It's more than that, 00:08:46.429 --> 00:08:50.330 right? Yes, that was dumb. But also Twitter is 00:08:50.330 --> 00:08:53.070 supposed to keep a repository of information 00:08:53.070 --> 00:08:55.610 about who's paying for advertisements so there 00:08:55.610 --> 00:08:57.809 can be transparency there. And they're not doing 00:08:57.809 --> 00:09:00.399 that. And also, also, they shut out all public 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.700 researchers from being able to access data on 00:09:02.700 --> 00:09:04.940 Twitter and do research for things like hate 00:09:04.940 --> 00:09:07.720 and extremism online, stuff like that. That was 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.759 just crushed the moment that Musk took over. 00:09:09.940 --> 00:09:12.159 And so the EU was like, hey, because of these 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.039 things, these violate our policy. If you want 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.779 to operate here, you got to adhere to our policy, 00:09:17.980 --> 00:09:20.019 to which Musk didn't do anything and now is being 00:09:20.019 --> 00:09:24.240 fined and now is calling for the EU to be dissolved. 00:09:24.419 --> 00:09:26.620 That is his response. That is his response to 00:09:26.620 --> 00:09:31.379 a 120 million euro fine to the richest man in 00:09:31.379 --> 00:09:34.159 the world who recently got a pay package that 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.379 could go up to a trillion dollars. A minor fine 00:09:37.379 --> 00:09:41.610 to adhere to local rules. too much dissolve the 00:09:41.610 --> 00:09:44.669 EU look I'm not a fan of the EU myself as in 00:09:44.669 --> 00:09:48.250 as in the legal entity that the state entity 00:09:48.250 --> 00:09:50.789 I'm not a huge fan of state entity that's what 00:09:50.789 --> 00:09:53.230 I'm getting at I don't hate you Europeans I very 00:09:53.230 --> 00:09:55.690 much love you and Europe is wonderful and y 'all 00:09:55.690 --> 00:09:59.889 are great clarified that cool I am NOT a huge 00:09:59.889 --> 00:10:04.169 stan of the EU and and legal entities and shit 00:10:04.169 --> 00:10:07.070 don't be a fucking baby All of the Muskelline 00:10:07.070 --> 00:10:09.330 people are trying to paint this as if the EU 00:10:09.330 --> 00:10:13.070 is attacking American freedom of speech, which 00:10:13.070 --> 00:10:16.789 is just ridiculous. It is a company operating 00:10:16.789 --> 00:10:20.809 overseas, not adhering to local policy and being 00:10:20.809 --> 00:10:24.570 fined for it. Yeah, that local policy is not 00:10:24.570 --> 00:10:29.409 the same as our policy. You're going to come 00:10:29.409 --> 00:10:32.789 across that when you look around the world. Sometimes 00:10:32.789 --> 00:10:34.889 people do things a little different. Now, I want 00:10:34.889 --> 00:10:37.129 to say, like, it doesn't even really matter if 00:10:37.129 --> 00:10:39.389 they pay or not. Like, at the end of the day, 00:10:39.490 --> 00:10:42.909 what we need is a strong restructuring of how 00:10:42.909 --> 00:10:46.389 social media works. Especially for people who 00:10:46.389 --> 00:10:50.049 are not US -based. A bunch of people around the 00:10:50.049 --> 00:10:53.029 world are using foreign social networks all the 00:10:53.029 --> 00:10:55.549 time because they're based in the US. All that 00:10:55.549 --> 00:10:57.509 bullshit about, oh, China's stealing your data. 00:10:57.590 --> 00:11:00.230 Like, that happens. just as much, if not more, 00:11:00.350 --> 00:11:02.769 with U .S. tech companies. And it's becoming 00:11:02.769 --> 00:11:05.190 a major problem overseas. So what should we replace 00:11:05.190 --> 00:11:06.549 them with? Tech companies that are overseas? 00:11:06.950 --> 00:11:10.210 No! We shouldn't do that. That's not better. 00:11:10.429 --> 00:11:14.409 I mean, kind of. But in my humble opinion, decentralized, 00:11:14.809 --> 00:11:17.330 small, community -based social network systems 00:11:17.330 --> 00:11:20.289 is the way we gotta go. Right now, we have all 00:11:20.289 --> 00:11:22.590 these social networks that are these big, centralized, 00:11:22.750 --> 00:11:27.330 massive tech platforms. Twitter, Meta, what's 00:11:27.330 --> 00:11:29.379 another one? It's basically just all meta at 00:11:29.379 --> 00:11:32.240 this point. With these systems, if you wanna 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.340 use them, you gotta be on these specific platforms. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:37.399 You wanna talk to anybody who's on Instagram, 00:11:37.539 --> 00:11:42.059 you gotta be on Instagram. That's not a thing 00:11:42.059 --> 00:11:44.679 that needs to happen. The internet is an open 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:47.799 system. Right? Like, we don't need new technologies. 00:11:47.899 --> 00:11:51.039 We certainly don't need crypto to have a decentralized 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.980 internet. The internet is decentralized by default. 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.200 What these tech companies have done is make everyone 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.200 collectively forget that while centralizing all 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.759 of these interactions into one place. Their websites. 00:12:04.179 --> 00:12:06.679 They've slowly conditioned people to be afraid 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:08.600 of the internet. You leave an app, you click 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:10.659 on a link in Instagram, you're going to get a 00:12:10.659 --> 00:12:13.899 thing that says, like, whoa, buddy! You're leaving 00:12:13.899 --> 00:12:16.940 Instagram. You could be going anywhere on the 00:12:16.940 --> 00:12:18.580 internet. You have no idea what they're gonna 00:12:18.580 --> 00:12:21.720 do. They could kill you. There are alternatives. 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:23.279 I'm not gonna sit here and claim that, like, 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.940 all this stuff is ready to just one -to -one 00:12:25.940 --> 00:12:28.960 replace everything we've got. But federated systems 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.779 like Macedon or, to a lesser extent, Blue Sky 00:12:31.779 --> 00:12:34.559 allow for communities to self -host and maintain 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.279 their own social networks while still being able 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.740 to talk to everyone else on the internet. Think 00:12:39.740 --> 00:12:42.730 of it like this. Right now, we have these giant 00:12:42.730 --> 00:12:45.750 skyscrapers. That's Twitter, that's Meta. If 00:12:45.750 --> 00:12:47.730 you want to be on their platforms, you have to 00:12:47.730 --> 00:12:50.309 have space in their building. Now, their building 00:12:50.309 --> 00:12:51.909 is pretty big, and they're trying to build a 00:12:51.909 --> 00:12:54.389 lot more to house more people, but ultimately, 00:12:54.570 --> 00:12:57.250 it's a lot easier for them to just put in cameras 00:12:57.250 --> 00:12:59.649 and watch everything you do and sell that for 00:12:59.649 --> 00:13:02.029 money, all the while shrinking the room that 00:13:02.029 --> 00:13:05.519 you have in their limited space. every year until 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.740 there's basically no room to move. But damn, 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:09.639 it's just so convenient because you can hop on 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:12.399 that elevator and head up a few floors to see 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.139 Joseph. Hi, Joseph. What I'm arguing for is a 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:19.200 city instead of a singular building. Everything 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.379 in the city is interconnected. All the people 00:13:21.379 --> 00:13:23.179 living there can still go talk to all the other 00:13:23.179 --> 00:13:25.139 people who are living in that city, but they're 00:13:25.139 --> 00:13:28.379 not all congregated in one building. It's a bunch 00:13:28.379 --> 00:13:30.860 of smaller buildings and coalitions and groups 00:13:30.860 --> 00:13:33.500 that are all communicating with each other, but 00:13:33.500 --> 00:13:36.299 are setting their own rules for their specific 00:13:36.299 --> 00:13:38.519 domicile. That's essentially what a federated 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.179 social network is. It is a community managed 00:13:41.179 --> 00:13:44.159 server that can communicate with every other 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:47.700 server out there, but this one's ours. We choose 00:13:47.700 --> 00:13:50.179 what content can be posted. We choose who can 00:13:50.179 --> 00:13:52.799 communicate with us. If they're going to be evil, 00:13:53.139 --> 00:13:55.379 we can just cut them out. Anyway, I'm gonna make 00:13:55.379 --> 00:13:57.659 like a whole video on federated social networks 00:13:57.659 --> 00:14:00.559 later. Let's move on. Give me your face, Canada. 00:14:00.899 --> 00:14:03.179 If you live in Edmonton, I'm sorry. Your local 00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:05.639 police service is doing a pilot program testing 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.120 AI -powered facial scans to detect potentially 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.340 dangerous people. So this just started like last 00:14:12.340 --> 00:14:14.820 week, but the Edmonton police service is using 00:14:14.820 --> 00:14:17.899 their Axon body cameras with facial recognition 00:14:17.899 --> 00:14:21.580 that is tied back to a database to identify potentially 00:14:21.580 --> 00:14:24.039 dangerous people. Here's a quote from the Edmonton 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:27.360 Police Service Acting Superintendent, Kurt Martin. 00:14:27.740 --> 00:14:29.539 Kurt, I'm going to need you to shorten that title. 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:46.220 So the Edmonton police go on to clarify that 00:14:46.220 --> 00:14:48.659 the data that they're training this with are 00:14:48.659 --> 00:14:50.720 mugshots that they've taken. Which is cool, it's 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.940 cool, it's cool. It's cool when any state is 00:14:53.940 --> 00:14:56.679 like, hey, so you know when we deemed that you 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.480 did a crime and we took you in and we forced 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.299 you to let us take a picture of you, and now 00:15:00.299 --> 00:15:03.659 we're feeding that into a robot to find you better. 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.539 And nothing bad can ever happen when you trust 00:15:06.539 --> 00:15:08.840 a robot. Now, Axon, the company that's doing 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:10.980 the cameras with the AI facial scan, they've 00:15:10.980 --> 00:15:13.100 been doing police body cameras for quite a while. 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:15.120 And if you're not familiar with Axon, you might 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:18.110 know them by their former name, Taser. Same company. 00:15:18.570 --> 00:15:20.690 But back in 2019, Axon published this little 00:15:20.690 --> 00:15:33.850 ditty about AI ethics. Quote, Their post goes 00:15:33.850 --> 00:15:35.769 on to talk about how it's really dangerous to 00:15:35.769 --> 00:15:38.210 do facial recognition scanning and that that's 00:15:38.210 --> 00:15:39.850 not what they're doing. They're just doing face 00:15:39.850 --> 00:15:42.909 detection to see if there is or is not a face, 00:15:42.929 --> 00:15:46.809 not whose face it is. But, but, but now they 00:15:46.809 --> 00:15:50.470 are. Anyway, hey, maybe if this does roll out 00:15:50.470 --> 00:15:52.649 further, cops would finally have their body cameras 00:15:52.649 --> 00:15:54.990 on. But also maybe we don't roll this out further. 00:15:55.409 --> 00:15:57.789 Lightning round. In a totally not embarrassing 00:15:57.789 --> 00:16:00.870 move, FIFA invented their own Peace Prize and 00:16:00.870 --> 00:16:03.370 gave it to Donald Trump. California's energy 00:16:03.370 --> 00:16:06.330 grid is no longer dependent on coal. It is still 00:16:06.330 --> 00:16:10.259 dependent on gas. Bitcoin, and crypto at large, 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:13.720 but Bitcoin specifically, saw a 33 % drop in 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.000 value over the past few months. And finally for 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:17.399 today, there's been a record -setting number 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.940 of bear attacks in Japan, just north of Tokyo. 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.740 And this includes a guy that was attacked by 00:16:22.740 --> 00:16:26.919 a bear in a public bathroom. He's okay. Very, 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:30.720 very thankfully. But my god! Nightmare! Thank 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:32.059 you so much for listening to today's episode 00:16:32.059 --> 00:16:34.580 of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to SKH .News for 00:16:34.580 --> 00:16:38.500 sources, bonus content, and the location of every 00:16:38.500 --> 00:16:41.299 bear around Tokyo. My name is Endeavor, and we'll 00:16:41.299 --> 00:16:43.700 talk again soon. Take care and be well.