Hello. I accounted for traffic in my ETA, but
stuff still happened. So what's up? We're back.
And also, sorry. I mean, I don't know why I'm
apologizing. It's not my fault. Mostly. But I
feel like it's a little bit my fault because
I keep hoping that it'll stop. And I keep trying
to make it stop. And maybe I'm the problem. Maybe
it's because I keep trying to do things to make
it stop that it keeps happening. Hello, it's
me, the abstract concept of entropy. Anyway,
what's up? We're starting, it's gonna be rough
and then it's gonna get better. Here we go. We're
gonna start off with an update on the situation
in Iran. We're watching again as a war of information
is playing out because there is an internet blackout
in Iran after there was a bunch of protests.
Late last year protests began mostly around economic
conditions and they quickly escalated into essentially
anti -government protests. There was a brief
glimmer of hope for regime change, but that has
not happened, and all we know now is that some
number of thousands of people have been killed
by the Iranian regime. There's a bunch of different
numbers being cited from a bunch of different
sources, but it's really hard to get concrete
information right now. Again, internet blackout
in the region. Which is perfect for everybody
who wants to layer on their own veneer over what's
going on, but... What's going on is people in
Iran tried to do something about the current
state of their government, and the government
slaughtered thousands of them. The Iranian government
is saying that the US and Israel were involved
in instigating and arming the uprising. The US
and Israel are saying Iran bad because they killed
protesters. This is Israel and the US saying
that. So it's just all in bad faith, and it just
sucks because the people deserve better. Which
like, duh, but still true. As of right now, this
is basically just still going on. There's limited
internet access in the region and they're still
using live ammunition against protesters. My
heart is with the people and the young Iranians
who have lost their lives at the hands of their
own government for asking for something better.
It's no secret that the government of Iran is
not super well loved by its people. And it's
also no secret that we had a big hand in that.
So I guess it's time to go have a big hand and...
fucking up another place with Greenland. Alright,
we're gonna briefly go over this. If you want
more stuff on Greenland, I posted a video on
my YouTube channel yesterday. Check that out.
There's actually not a whole lot to say here.
I pretty much summed it up in that video, which
I can summarize. It's a five -ish minute video,
but I can summarize it with, uh, this is dumb,
no one wants it, and Trump is a fucking moron
whose ego is gonna get us all killed. I think
the only thing I want to actually say about the
Greenland situation is this. And if you're somehow
not aware, The very short version is Donald Trump
wants to take over Greenland because ego. And
no one seems to know why. The American people
don't want this. International leaders are literally
texting him saying, I don't know what you're
doing here. But this is what I want to say. There's
been a lot of people who were in support of Trump
because he was the trolling president, right?
All of the time that he's saying like, oh, we're
going to go after Canada, we're going to go after
XYZ, we're going to do all these horrific things.
They're like, oh, he's just trolling. Or, oh,
this is the art of the deal. More, it was just,
oh, ha ha, he's funny, crazy man, and he's shaking
things up. Hey. These are people's lives. Ha
ha funny trolling man doesn't work with international
negotiations. Because international negotiations
involve weaponry and nukes. Now, there's a lot
of people who have like a black -pilled nihilistic
view that are just accelerationists, and they
want Trump to just destroy everything and they're
fine with just everything going down in flames
and like... All that tells me is you're a dangerous
person. It tells me that you would rather do
nothing and let everyone suffer than try to make
the world better through effort. And then usually
they're like, oh, well, what are you doing? To
fix it. Trying. Trying my best. And unfortunately,
even with my best, my president is trying to
take over Greenland. Because! But hey, if we
can use this to take a few people, grab them
by the shoulders and shake them and be like,
hey! Do ya get it yet? Maybe that's progress.
Slow progress. Annoyingly slow progress. Painfully.
Disastrously slow in some cases. But non -zero.
As opposed to throwing the car in hyper reverse
off a cliff like we're doing right now. Moving
on. We're gonna shift away from politics into
tech and also geopolitics. Stick with me. Did
you forget about the Apple Vision Pro? Apple
probably wanted you to. The Apple Vision Pro.
It came out some time ago. And... oops. It's
Apple's mixed reality headset. You put it on,
you'll look like a stupid idiot, and then it
also makes your eyes appear through the screen.
In reality, it's a very fancy VR headset, right?
It is undeniably a top -of -the -line, impressive
piece of technology that costs $3 ,500 and has,
as Apple boasts, 3 ,000 apps designed for it.
Great! So no joke, Apple actually updated the
Vision Pro recently. Like, they put a new chip
in it and released a new version of it. And then
they cut their advertising by 95 % and halted
production. As of right now, I don't really know
what the future of the Vision Pro is, but, um,
god damn! Now, the Apple Vision Pro was supposed
to be Apple's, like, 3D spatial computing thing.
They wanted to really break in to the spatial
computing space. And, like, okay, okay. Sure,
I will grant that 3d mapped computing is a thing
that I can see having use cases totally absolutely
valid makes sense You could probably do some
really cool stuff with it. Is that really? Consumer
software that's like ready for the market right
now and sure like early adopters and stuff. It
was an early adopter product. Sure Okay, there's
also like no conceivable way that Apple's rolling
out an update to it. That's not this giant piece
of hardware strapped to your face. Is this the
end for the Vision Pro and for Apple? No, no,
no. No. I don't think this is the end of the
Apple Vision line, I don't think it's the end
of the Apple Vision Pro, and Apple's gonna be
just fine. I think the most likely thing that's
gonna happen is we will see like an Apple Vision
Air eventually. That's gonna be more of a glasses
thing rather than a headset, and they're gonna
go for it that way. But Apple recently just overhauled
all of their UIs to mimic the Vision Pro operating
system. That's what liquid glass is. If you have
an iPhone or a Mac and you updated recently and
you're like, what the fuck is this? That's because
of the Vision Pro. So Apple's really going all
in on this. We shall see. But until then, we'll
just be in this reality, where there's like homeless
people that we have to look at. But soon, imagine
the utopia when we can just put on our Apple
Vision Airs and walk down the street and it'll
just automatically block out all those gross
Poor people. 3 ,500 bucks, by the way. Alright,
let's talk about Twitter. Everyone's favorite
deep fake porn website, Twitter. This played
out over the past few weeks, and I've been wanting
to talk about it, but a couple of other things
also happened. So, I'm finally gonna talk about
this. On Twitter, Grok, Elon Musk's AI, got a
new superpower in which people could just be
like, hey, remix this image of another user to
show them in a compromising position wearing
a see -through bikini. This obviously led to
a bunch of people being like, hey, what the fuck?
Hey, don't do that. It's using a feature that
basically lets anybody take an image on Twitter
and run it through, like, an image modifier thing.
Including art, but also, of course, including
anyone's pictures of themselves. Of anyone. Of
any age. Obviously, that's a problem. But also,
also, obviously... It's not the only place that
you can do this. Like, you don't need to be on
Twitter to use this functionality. You can use
any number of other AIs. But the problem here,
beyond that being a thing, is that here comes
Twitter, a privately -owned for -profit company
that has essentially a service that is allowing
people to undress minors for profit. Uh, and,
uh, but don't worry, it's okay, because they
solved the problem. They took a crack at fixing
it by putting that functionality behind a paywall.
They made it so that only paying blue checkmark
accounts could use the functionality that was
able to do that. They didn't stop it. They just
said, pay us money if you want to do that. That'll
fix it. Eventually they turned it off and said
that they're gonna fix it. I have my doubts.
The only reason that they actually did anything
was because there was growing international outrage,
basically being like, you can't keep doing bullshit
like this and expects to operate in our locality.
And Twitter's already being fined by the EU for
other shit, and they're already throwing a hissy
fit over that, so this is just adding to that
fire. But there's something about having your
robot generate scantily clad children that makes
it a little harder to defend than Muffree's Peach.
Far be it from me to victim blame, and the people
who had this done to them deserve compensation,
frankly. And also, I really want to make this
clear. Get off of Twitter. I'm not exaggerating
when I'm saying it's a Nazi bar. It is not your
fault that this website that you used for a long
time was taken over by a crazy person who then
seeded it with his crazy followers who want to
undress children with a chat bot. But that is
the reality of where we are. And so if you're
an artist, if you're a femme -presenting person,
if you're a human being with a soul, it's a dangerous
place to have an account right now. It's been
years of this. Please, at least begin trying
to find another place to go to host your stuff
or post things online. It's not gonna get better.
One of the first things that Musk did when he
took over was get rid of the trust and safety
team. This is a quote from the former head of
trust and safety at Twitter after they were yeeted
out by Elon Musk. Quote, And that's a terrifying
prospect to have to come to terms with, especially
for many people who have spent the better part
of a decade building a platform and an audience
and a community on Twitter. Okay, but that is
enough about Elon Musk and his AI and all that
bullshit. Let's talk about Elon Musk and his
AI and all that bullshit. You may recall there's
a massive data center called Colossus in Memphis.
That is XAI's data center where they run Grok.
Or, well, among other things, it's their flagship
data center. This giant data center is in a former
Electrolux facility and it's powered with enough
energy to power a city. Where do they get all
that power? Oh, just a handful of methane turbines
that they're running on premises constantly.
Elon Musk, that guy that's gonna save us with
the electric cars, yeah. Methane gas turbines
to power his giant data center to power an AI
that can undress children. Now, these turbines
have been polluting the air and poisoning the
community for years, and activists have been
pushing back against this. This is not a news
story. But because we live in this country, we've
got a corporate entity that is flagrantly just
violating environmental laws, poisoning people,
but oh, it's okay because... economy. Now look,
XAI was not the first company to come in and
start dumping toxic waste into the Memphis area.
It was the 18th company to open up to be doing
that right now. But it's also one of the biggest
contributors. So what happened? Well, there was
actually a pretty good win for the activists.
The EPA has ruled that Elon Musk's XAI must have
permits for all of the turbines that they are
using. Now, they did apply for some permits for
temporary turbines, 15 of them, 15 temporary
turbine permits, with which they used to operate
more than 30. temporary, meant they just had
to move its physical location once every 364
days. So ultimately, like, the EPA didn't make
a ruling that says XAI did crimes, but the EPA
made a ruling specifically about the crimes that
XAI is doing. I'm just gonna gesture broadly
to the reality we live in currently. I don't
know how this is gonna be enforced, if at all,
for a while, but it's something. This was the
result of a bunch of non -stop work from black
activists in the region, and I want to read a
quote from Kashawn Pearson, who is one of the
activists that has been very loud about this.
Quote, We know exploitation because in this same
exact area, there are 17 toxic release facilities.
Over 90 % of particular matter in the air in
all of our county is in southwest Memphis. And
guess where there isn't an air monitor for pollution.
Now, here's a fun little nugget that I discovered
while researching this. Data center project cancellations
have quadrupled in 2025. with 21 of the 25 cancelled
projects happening in the second half of 2025.
Some of that is because there's an increase in
demand for data centers, but those cancellations
can't happen unless the people in those areas
are standing up against them. And boy howdy,
are they standing up. People are mad about this,
and things are happening. Data centers are being
stopped. Not everywhere, not every time, but
I really want to point out... that people are
actually pushing back on this with success. Lightning
round! After a failed attempt at making a Jon
Snow spinoff from Game of Thrones, HBO is now
going to do an Arya Stark spinoff from Game of
Thrones. This is because new ideas are boring.
TikTok is soon going to start trying to identify
users in the EU under the age of 13 by scanning
their profiles with an AI. OpenAI is going to
start rolling out ads in chat GPT responses for
some users. And finally for today, Meet Veronica,
a cow who uses tools to scratch her back. She's
an absolute fucking queen, and she's got scientists
baffled as to just how clever a clever cow could
be. Thank you so much for listening to today's
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