WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.419 Hello. Well, the rain fell down without my help. 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:08.400 But stuff still happened. So what's up? It must 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:11.279 be my birthday. It's not my birthday. But it 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:13.919 might as well be. There's been a lot of tech 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.120 lawsuits over the past couple of weeks. Let's 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.440 talk about them. Lawsuits and general tech oligarchs 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:21.980 just kind of eating shit. It's been good. It 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:25.800 hasn't been good. Let me have this. First up, 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:27.980 we've got a couple of big lawsuits against Google 00:00:27.980 --> 00:00:31.339 and Metta regarding Instagram and YouTube, and 00:00:31.339 --> 00:00:33.020 really just the social networks that these companies 00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:36.020 make in general. Now, there's been a lot of lawsuits 00:00:36.020 --> 00:00:38.420 against social media companies trying to get 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:41.079 at them for the whole making the world a worse 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:43.619 place thing, both the whole like disinformation 00:00:43.619 --> 00:00:45.969 and people... posting things they shouldn't be 00:00:45.969 --> 00:00:48.670 posting, and using features of their websites 00:00:48.670 --> 00:00:51.009 to undress children, stuff like that. But a lot 00:00:51.009 --> 00:00:52.670 of these lawsuits that have come after social 00:00:52.670 --> 00:00:55.310 media companies have gotten wrapped up in Section 00:00:55.310 --> 00:00:58.509 230, which is essentially this concept that shields 00:00:58.509 --> 00:01:01.049 social media companies from being responsible 00:01:01.049 --> 00:01:04.769 for what their users post on their website. The 00:01:04.769 --> 00:01:07.430 idea being that, like, oh, it was the user, not 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:10.590 the company. Like, the company didn't say horrible 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:13.680 racist things, a user posted that. and just because 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.859 the company hosted that horrible racism doesn't 00:01:15.859 --> 00:01:17.780 mean that they're liable. There's a combination 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:20.939 of fear and uncertainty and terror and confusion 00:01:20.939 --> 00:01:23.739 around Section 230, and largely tech companies 00:01:23.739 --> 00:01:25.319 should start throwing that around the second 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:27.540 that they're targeted by a lawsuit because they're 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:30.019 like, oh, if Section 230 goes away, that's the 00:01:30.019 --> 00:01:33.900 end of social media, which, I mean, on one hand... 00:01:33.579 --> 00:01:36.659 good. On the other hand, not really. That's not 00:01:36.659 --> 00:01:38.459 really what would happen. But on the other other 00:01:38.459 --> 00:01:40.239 other hand, like I'm not saying we should just 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.579 get rid of Section 230. It would be great if 00:01:42.579 --> 00:01:46.159 we could kind of rework it, but that's not what's 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.200 happening here. What's exciting about these lawsuits 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.200 is that they are not Section 230. They are instead 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.420 going after these companies for making bad products. 00:01:54.650 --> 00:01:56.250 Not just like a product that doesn't work, like 00:01:56.250 --> 00:01:58.890 a product that is actively harmful. So one lawsuit 00:01:58.890 --> 00:02:02.150 found that apps like Instagram and YouTube are 00:02:02.150 --> 00:02:04.890 intentionally designed to be addictive. They 00:02:04.890 --> 00:02:06.930 keep you scrolling, they hack your brain, they 00:02:06.930 --> 00:02:10.889 use neuroscience to get you, right? And that's 00:02:10.889 --> 00:02:13.419 true. We've known that for a long time. The infinite 00:02:13.419 --> 00:02:16.280 scrolling feed is specifically so that you don't 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.620 leave the app. You know, if it wasn't an infinitely 00:02:18.620 --> 00:02:20.479 scrolling feed, then you would get to the bottom 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.639 of a page and you would have a button to click 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.400 to go to the next page. And every time that you're 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:27.479 given the option to go to the next page, you 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.020 are implicitly given the option to stop. But 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:32.159 if you just keep scrolling, and there's never 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.199 a break, you're not going to be prompted for 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.349 that. Now, infinite scrolling feeds themselves 00:02:36.349 --> 00:02:38.129 are not the problem here. The problem here has 00:02:38.129 --> 00:02:40.889 a whole lot more to do with designing algorithms 00:02:40.889 --> 00:02:43.969 to pull people in and manipulate them so that 00:02:43.969 --> 00:02:45.590 they'll spend more time on the platform so they 00:02:45.590 --> 00:02:48.289 can sell more ads. And so a court found that, 00:02:48.650 --> 00:02:51.289 yes, the design of these apps are intentionally 00:02:51.289 --> 00:02:56.129 done with malice. Like, to fuck with people. 00:02:56.389 --> 00:02:59.210 For money. The other lawsuit is also about meta, 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:02.069 but it has more to do with decision making within 00:03:02.069 --> 00:03:05.050 meta. intentionally choosing to design their 00:03:05.050 --> 00:03:07.949 products in a dangerous way. It came out in court 00:03:07.949 --> 00:03:09.590 that there's a whole bunch of decision making 00:03:09.590 --> 00:03:11.949 going on behind the scenes at Metta that basically 00:03:11.949 --> 00:03:14.860 can summarize to... Don't put that protection 00:03:14.860 --> 00:03:17.659 in place because we might not make as much money. 00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:19.879 That second lawsuit was brought by the New Mexico 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:21.780 Department of Justice. Here is a quote from their 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:42.530 press release after they won the lawsuit. Evidence 00:03:42.530 --> 00:03:44.870 from those witnesses and other industry experts 00:03:44.870 --> 00:03:47.849 also demonstrated that Metta intentionally designs 00:03:47.849 --> 00:03:51.550 its platforms to addict young people, and contrary 00:03:51.550 --> 00:03:54.590 to Metta's public commitments, expose them to 00:03:54.590 --> 00:03:56.870 dangerous content related to eating disorders 00:03:56.870 --> 00:03:59.150 and self -harm. The reason I brought up Section 00:03:59.150 --> 00:04:01.569 230 at the outset here is because these cases 00:04:01.569 --> 00:04:04.349 don't have anything to do with them, and that 00:04:04.349 --> 00:04:07.469 is a pivot from what we've seen so far. A lot 00:04:07.469 --> 00:04:09.449 of these tech companies have just brushed off 00:04:09.449 --> 00:04:12.620 these lawsuits, but now, We've learned that giants 00:04:12.620 --> 00:04:15.879 can bleed. More lawsuits like this can easily 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.399 be lobbed at them. These were civil suits paying 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.000 out to individual plaintiffs. So we are about 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.160 to see a whole lot more of these, and possibly 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.040 a whole lot more lawsuits that are going after 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.839 these companies from other angles. Because after 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.360 years and years of these companies hosting disinformation, 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.699 and worse, having algorithms that cause disinformation 00:04:33.699 --> 00:04:37.500 to get increased engagement artificially, it 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:39.930 feels like maybe we need to do something. and 00:04:39.930 --> 00:04:42.910 it feels like maybe, if you are a social media 00:04:42.910 --> 00:04:46.050 company, you should be somewhat responsible for 00:04:46.050 --> 00:04:48.389 the impact that you are having on society. But 00:04:48.389 --> 00:04:50.750 let's talk about Elon Musk, who also got a few 00:04:50.750 --> 00:04:52.930 defeats recently. Quick background, Elon Musk 00:04:52.930 --> 00:04:54.949 runs a porn site called Twitter, and Twitter 00:04:54.949 --> 00:04:57.189 is an interesting porn site because it's uniquely 00:04:57.189 --> 00:04:59.790 labeled as not a porn site in the app stores. 00:05:00.009 --> 00:05:02.170 This is despite Elon Musk's porn website having 00:05:02.170 --> 00:05:05.699 an AI on it that can undress people. Including 00:05:05.699 --> 00:05:08.240 children. So there's been that whole thing I've 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.220 talked about that a few times and they've been 00:05:10.220 --> 00:05:12.699 hit by a lot of lawsuits for it because obviously 00:05:12.699 --> 00:05:15.160 But now Amsterdam is coming out swinging as Dutch 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.139 officials have hit Musk with an order saying 00:05:17.139 --> 00:05:20.199 Stop that they're basically saying you can't 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:23.459 keep having this thing Be a thing while operating 00:05:23.459 --> 00:05:26.500 here and so for every day that you continue hosting 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:29.279 a robot that can undress children We're gonna 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:32.600 fine you This comes just as Musk also had one 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.800 of his lawsuits from 2024 thrown out of court. 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.519 Back in 2024, after he took over Twitter, a bunch 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.759 of advertisers pulled out of advertising because, 00:05:39.980 --> 00:05:42.379 again, obviously, he did that whole thing where 00:05:42.379 --> 00:05:44.300 he just changed what check marks are and then 00:05:44.300 --> 00:05:46.519 it was chaos for these companies. So they were 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:48.439 like, we're not going to do this anymore. To 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.680 which Musk was like, you all are doing an organized 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:55.240 boycott against me. And that's illegal somehow. 00:05:55.579 --> 00:05:58.040 So he filed a lawsuit against advertisers that 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.579 were not advertising on his platform anymore, 00:06:00.939 --> 00:06:02.680 and it just got thrown out in court. Because, 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:06.660 say it with me. Obviously. What's nice is that 00:06:06.660 --> 00:06:09.079 also the judge did not mince words. Quote, the 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.879 very nature of the alleged conspiracy does not 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.839 state an antitrust claim, and the court therefore 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.360 has no qualm dismissing with prejudice. I'll 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.639 end by saying that every single founder of Elon 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:24.879 Musk's AI company has left. Except for him. But 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:26.740 he calls it a restructuring. Thank you for being 00:06:26.740 --> 00:06:29.180 here. I really like doing what I do, and I try 00:06:29.180 --> 00:06:32.139 to do it without having sponsored content segments. 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.420 So if you like what I do and you want to keep 00:06:34.420 --> 00:06:36.819 a community supported, you can head to isupport 00:06:36.819 --> 00:06:39.360 .dev and you can find links to my Patreon, my 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:41.519 Ko -Fi, and other ways to support what I'm doing. 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:43.399 If you want to support me, but you can't do so 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:45.220 financially, that's no problem. Just commenting, 00:06:45.699 --> 00:06:47.500 liking, subscribing, sharing my work, telling 00:06:47.500 --> 00:06:49.920 people about my stuff. It really, really does 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.470 help. So thank you so much, let's move on. I'm 00:06:52.470 --> 00:06:58.310 gonna do my best antimatter impersonation. I 00:06:58.310 --> 00:07:01.329 went across the room. Much like antimatter went 00:07:01.329 --> 00:07:03.850 across a parking lot. Backing up, scientists 00:07:03.850 --> 00:07:07.949 at CERN have managed to contain antimatter and 00:07:07.949 --> 00:07:10.709 put it on a truck and drive it across a parking 00:07:10.709 --> 00:07:13.709 lot. Not unlike a terrified father taking his 00:07:13.709 --> 00:07:15.829 son to the school parking lot to learn how to 00:07:15.829 --> 00:07:18.430 parallel park. Sorry, Dad. But instead of screaming, 00:07:18.670 --> 00:07:20.290 hit the brake, hit the brake, these scientists 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:25.269 were putting antimatter onto a truck for shipping. 00:07:25.610 --> 00:07:27.269 Certain boys have been playing around with antimatter 00:07:27.269 --> 00:07:29.949 for a little while now, and antimatter is essentially 00:07:29.949 --> 00:07:33.529 the opposite of matter. So you know matter, like 00:07:33.529 --> 00:07:35.949 the stuff, like all of it. When the Big Bang 00:07:35.949 --> 00:07:37.850 happened, there was a lot of matter, but there 00:07:37.850 --> 00:07:42.220 was also... supposedly an equal amount of antimatter. 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:44.100 Think of it like the positive and negative ends 00:07:44.100 --> 00:07:46.120 of a magnet, sort of like they cancel each other 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.480 out. That's not how magnets work. Point being, 00:07:49.620 --> 00:07:52.379 it's a mysterious thing that we don't fully understand, 00:07:52.420 --> 00:07:56.060 but it's essentially matter reverse. Like the 00:07:56.060 --> 00:07:58.459 electrical charges are inverted. So where there's 00:07:58.459 --> 00:08:01.879 protons, there are also antiprotons. And scientists 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:04.879 at CERN have managed to capture antiprotons and 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:06.800 put them on a truck. Why are they putting them 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.120 on a truck? Because antiprotons also want to 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.220 live that trucker life. The reality is that if 00:08:11.220 --> 00:08:12.920 you want to capture an antiproton, you don't 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:14.879 just kind of like take a butterfly net and swing 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:18.040 it around. You need equipment. Like capital E 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:21.000 equipment, but like 40 capital E's. It's big 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:24.060 equipment and it causes this like magnetic fluctuation 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:26.399 that makes it so it's pretty difficult to then 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.019 inspect the actual antiprotons because it's like... 00:08:30.089 --> 00:08:33.769 pretty small, and they need to use really precise 00:08:33.769 --> 00:08:35.970 instruments to do any kind of measurements on 00:08:35.970 --> 00:08:38.529 these antiprotons, and they can't really use 00:08:38.529 --> 00:08:40.909 those instruments in the same place that they 00:08:40.909 --> 00:08:42.809 capture the antiprotons. But if they could put 00:08:42.809 --> 00:08:46.710 them on a truck, wave goodbye, as it goes off 00:08:46.710 --> 00:08:49.090 to another location, they could potentially do 00:08:49.090 --> 00:08:53.509 deeper research. I volunteer my bathroom. I don't 00:08:53.509 --> 00:08:55.730 mind having antiprotons there, and there's not 00:08:55.730 --> 00:08:57.710 a whole lot of magnetic fluctuations. Anyway, 00:08:57.950 --> 00:08:59.190 scientists put a thing in a truck and drove it 00:08:59.190 --> 00:09:01.610 across a parking lot, but in a cool way is what 00:09:01.610 --> 00:09:03.850 I'm getting at. Let's talk about Cash App, which 00:09:03.850 --> 00:09:06.470 is the app that you use to hack the director 00:09:06.470 --> 00:09:09.129 of the FBI. A hacktivist group called Handala 00:09:09.129 --> 00:09:13.169 recently hacked Cash Patel, the head of the FBI 00:09:13.169 --> 00:09:15.629 in the United States. They broke into his personal 00:09:15.629 --> 00:09:17.850 email, like a Gmail account, and so they got 00:09:17.850 --> 00:09:20.049 access to the things you would get access to 00:09:20.049 --> 00:09:23.000 from a Gmail account, which is a lot. They've 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:24.799 released some of the stuff, some of his personal 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.600 photos, documents. They released his resume with 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.279 his phone number and address on it. I will say 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.159 I have seen posts about how they outed his porn 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.299 account. I have not been able to verify that. 00:09:35.299 --> 00:09:38.460 That seems more like a viral... fake thing than 00:09:38.460 --> 00:09:41.419 reality, but I'm sure there's plenty of embarrassing 00:09:41.419 --> 00:09:43.440 shit. Actually, there is plenty of embarrassing 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.759 shit. He's the director of the FBI and got hacked 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:47.740 because he wasn't using two -factor authentication 00:09:47.740 --> 00:09:50.500 on his Google account. Now, Handala is not some 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:52.440 random group of hackers that are in their basement 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.399 just doing this for funsies. They are a state 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.799 -aligned group. They're sort of like a sub -hacker 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.039 group that works with a larger group called Void 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:01.970 Manticore. that's associated with Iranian military 00:10:01.970 --> 00:10:04.049 intelligence. This is pretty directly the Iranian 00:10:04.049 --> 00:10:06.870 military hacking the head of the FBI, which is 00:10:06.870 --> 00:10:09.830 deeply embarrassing. So yeah, head of the FBI 00:10:09.830 --> 00:10:12.370 had his personal email hacked. In a normal world, 00:10:12.370 --> 00:10:14.549 that would be the end of the entire administration. 00:10:14.929 --> 00:10:17.289 But in this world, we call that Friday. Let's 00:10:17.289 --> 00:10:20.750 talk about gaming and why it's expensive. Nintendo 00:10:20.750 --> 00:10:23.789 and Sony just both made pretty big price adjustment 00:10:23.789 --> 00:10:26.230 announcements, and people aren't really happy 00:10:26.230 --> 00:10:29.169 about either. Actually, people are fucking mad. 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.139 About both. We'll start with Sony, who announced 00:10:32.139 --> 00:10:34.779 a price hike for the entirety of the PlayStation 00:10:34.779 --> 00:10:38.820 5 family. There's four sort of - PS5 products, 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.039 the PS5 with and without the disk drive, then 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:44.740 the PS5 Pro, and then the PlayStation Portal, 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:48.299 which is like a sort of handheld streaming device. 00:10:48.580 --> 00:10:49.919 In a press release, Sony announced that they 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.759 are making a few strategic adjustments, and here 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.000 are the new prices. The base PS5 is going up 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:00.659 $100 and will now cost $650 USD. The PlayStation 00:11:00.659 --> 00:11:03.320 5 without the disk drive is also going up $100 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.379 and will now be $600. The PS5 Pro is going up 00:11:07.379 --> 00:11:13.460 $150 and will now cost $900 dues, and the PS 00:11:13.460 --> 00:11:19.159 Portal is going up $50 to $250, which is actually 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:20.940 less than I thought it cost originally. So I 00:11:20.940 --> 00:11:22.940 hope you didn't want a PlayStation, or if you 00:11:22.940 --> 00:11:26.200 did, you need to get one like now, or if you 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.080 have money, who cares. But yeah, just straight 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.580 up hiking up damn prices, and they did this again 00:11:30.580 --> 00:11:32.320 last year as well, so it's not like this was 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.000 the first price hike since this generation came 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.159 out. But it does appear to be the biggest, at 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:40.620 least for one given console. Nintendo, on the 00:11:40.620 --> 00:11:43.299 other hand, they actually reduce prices a bit. 00:11:43.940 --> 00:11:45.419 Shouldn't people be happy? They're not happy. 00:11:45.740 --> 00:11:48.039 I'm not particularly happy either, but my goodness, 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.200 people are not happy. When the Nintendo Switch 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.720 2 was announced, the price was shocking for a 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.600 lot of people, like 450 bucks for the base console, 00:11:55.659 --> 00:11:57.879 and then games could be as much as 90 dollars. 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:00.019 What's more, they announced that the digital 00:12:00.019 --> 00:12:02.360 and physical versions of games would cost the 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:04.779 same, so even if you weren't getting the physical 00:12:04.779 --> 00:12:07.100 version, which has the cartridge and the box 00:12:07.100 --> 00:12:09.340 and the art and everything, and you could sell 00:12:09.340 --> 00:12:11.080 it back to a store, give it to your friend or 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.559 whatever, it's the same price as the digital 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.009 download, which is just... goes on your console. 00:12:16.230 --> 00:12:18.090 So people are like, okay, what's going on here? 00:12:18.250 --> 00:12:21.309 Like, why is this happening? And why is everything 00:12:21.309 --> 00:12:23.429 so expensive? And why can't I even get a little 00:12:23.429 --> 00:12:25.250 bit of a discount if I get the digital, more 00:12:25.250 --> 00:12:28.929 restrictive version of the games? Rejoice, you 00:12:28.929 --> 00:12:32.289 can now. With a huge asterisk, Nintendo has announced 00:12:32.289 --> 00:12:35.009 in very Nintendo fashion that they will quote, 00:12:35.450 --> 00:12:38.669 have an MSRP that is different from physical 00:12:38.669 --> 00:12:42.029 versions. for digital versions. That Nintendo 00:12:42.029 --> 00:12:45.149 and trying to say anything normally. It's just 00:12:45.149 --> 00:12:47.450 not happening. Ultimately, it looks like for 00:12:47.450 --> 00:12:49.450 Nintendo first -party games that Nintendo is 00:12:49.450 --> 00:12:52.169 publishing, the digital version might be about 00:12:52.169 --> 00:12:55.850 ten bucks less. Usually. Like I said, asterisks. 00:12:56.009 --> 00:12:58.090 While this is all happening, the backdrop is 00:12:58.090 --> 00:13:01.889 that the AI data center boom is sucking up all 00:13:01.889 --> 00:13:04.129 the chips in the room. Even the sour cream and 00:13:04.129 --> 00:13:06.700 onion. Tech companies are buying up like every 00:13:06.700 --> 00:13:08.519 chip in existence, and they're looking for memory 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:12.220 and storage, like RAM and SSDs. And that is driving 00:13:12.220 --> 00:13:15.360 the price of computers way up. And guess what's 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.899 a computer? Video game consoles. And computers. 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:20.960 We're seeing the same thing with Valve's Steam 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:22.799 Machine, which was a thing they announced that 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:25.980 was going to be a sort of mass -market, entry 00:13:25.980 --> 00:13:29.019 -level PC gaming console kind of thing. Sort 00:13:29.019 --> 00:13:31.399 of like a console version of a Steam Deck. supposed 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.519 to be affordable with capable parts, and now 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.080 it is delayed and the price is unknown again, 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.139 because these parts are just through the roof. 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.679 So it's likely that Sony's changes are because 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:44.200 of that, and Nintendo's change of driving the 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:46.820 digital price down a little bit is probably because 00:13:46.820 --> 00:13:49.820 the Switch cartridges are that kind of chip that's 00:13:49.820 --> 00:13:52.360 currently expensive. So if they're reducing the 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:53.899 digital price a bit, they're probably trying 00:13:53.899 --> 00:13:56.360 to steer people towards the digital version of 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.200 games. They don't have to spend as much money 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.990 to make the manufactured... physical version. 00:14:02.169 --> 00:14:04.389 But people aren't particularly thrilled either 00:14:04.389 --> 00:14:07.549 way. I'm still paying like 80 bucks lightning 00:14:07.549 --> 00:14:10.409 round. In Iran, it sure looks like the US is 00:14:10.409 --> 00:14:14.110 about to send in ground troops as 3 ,500 US military 00:14:14.110 --> 00:14:16.889 service members have arrived in the region. The 00:14:16.889 --> 00:14:18.830 other indicator of imminent boots on the ground 00:14:18.830 --> 00:14:21.210 is that the Trump administration has kept saying 00:14:21.210 --> 00:14:23.159 that they're not going to do that. Over the weekend 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:25.080 there was another No Kings protest, and at time 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:27.000 of recording I don't have an actual estimation, 00:14:27.139 --> 00:14:29.240 but it looks as though the participation was 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:32.720 in the millions. OpenAI's generated AI video 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.980 -only social network Sora has been shut down, 00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:38.440 along with most of their access to video generation 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:41.470 stuff. Turns out no one gave a shit. Speaking 00:14:41.470 --> 00:14:44.730 of shutting down obviously bad ideas, Meta has 00:14:44.730 --> 00:14:47.269 shut down the Metaverse. They shut down Horizon 00:14:47.269 --> 00:14:50.090 Worlds, which was their premier Metaverse world. 00:14:50.309 --> 00:14:51.750 You know, the thing that they changed their entire 00:14:51.750 --> 00:14:54.090 company's name about? Massive shock! Recently, 00:14:54.090 --> 00:14:55.769 Trump made a post that caused the oil market 00:14:55.769 --> 00:14:58.250 to fluctuate, and right before that post, there 00:14:58.250 --> 00:15:00.909 was a ton of trading in the oil market. Probably 00:15:00.909 --> 00:15:03.029 nothing. And finally for today, a Secret Service 00:15:03.029 --> 00:15:05.470 member who is assigned to detail Jill Biden, 00:15:05.649 --> 00:15:07.350 seems to have accidentally shot himself in the 00:15:07.350 --> 00:15:10.039 leg. As far as I can tell, there was not a security 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:13.000 threat. Just kind of bored, I guess. I can think 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.200 of better uses of my time than shooting myself 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:16.940 in the leg, though. But whatever! Thank you so 00:15:16.940 --> 00:15:18.419 much for listening to today's episode of Stuff 00:15:18.419 --> 00:15:21.080 Keeps Happening. 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