WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.899 Hello. I flew all the way to the moon and back. 00:00:04.980 --> 00:00:09.119 But stuff still happened. So what's up? AI is 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.439 up. Let's talk about Microsoft. Microsoft really 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.880 wants you to use Copilot. Like they really, really 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:15.919 want you to use Copilot. And the good news for 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:17.699 you is that you can't really avoid it because 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:20.820 if you use Windows or if your job uses Office 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:23.500 365, you just kind of have it. But that's great 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:25.879 for you. Let me explain why it's great for you. 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:28.839 Because then you're using Copilot. by Microsoft. 00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:31.940 In a world full of chat GPTs and clods and stuff, 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.700 Microsoft's AI offering is called Copilot, and 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:37.460 it's genuinely confusing because there are multiple 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:39.219 different things that are all called different 00:00:39.219 --> 00:00:42.140 versions of Copilot, and I assume that that's 00:00:42.140 --> 00:00:44.719 just their general brand name. but in addition 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.500 to it being a brand name, it is also a product. 00:00:47.659 --> 00:00:49.719 It's confusing. Copilot, to me, as somebody coming 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:52.240 from a software engineering background, it refers 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:56.159 to GitHub Copilot, which was an AI assistant 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.240 for helping to write code trained on code from 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.079 GitHub. GitHub is owned by Microsoft, and that's 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.840 gonna come up later, but that's... That's what 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:07.040 Copilot was to me, and then Copilot was also 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.340 now a thing with Windows PCs. Microsoft has a 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:15.159 thing where you can get an AI -ready Copilot 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:20.379 Plus PC. Like I'm saying, there's just no rhyme 00:01:20.379 --> 00:01:22.700 or reason to this branding. So you've got Copilot 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:28.000 Plus PC, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot. It's 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.659 a mess. But that's what I want to talk about, 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:32.819 is that it... is a mess. And Microsoft has not 00:01:32.819 --> 00:01:35.400 been particularly good, especially recently, 00:01:35.819 --> 00:01:39.159 at reading the room. They have been on a generational 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:43.459 tear of just L after L after L of just trying 00:01:43.459 --> 00:01:46.959 to cram in AI into everything. It very much seems 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:48.540 like there's an order from the top that basically 00:01:48.540 --> 00:01:51.560 is like, hey, put AI into everything. And then 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.400 we ended up with AI in Microsoft Paint and Notepad. 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.299 The AI update to Notepad even added a vulnerability. 00:01:58.489 --> 00:02:00.569 And that's not even mentioning recall, which 00:02:00.569 --> 00:02:02.209 is the feature that was announced a few years 00:02:02.209 --> 00:02:04.409 ago, where Windows is going to take a screenshot 00:02:04.409 --> 00:02:06.909 of everything you're doing on your computer to 00:02:06.909 --> 00:02:09.389 save it in a database for the AI to review later. 00:02:09.729 --> 00:02:12.009 When it was originally announced, basically every 00:02:12.009 --> 00:02:14.270 security researcher was like, this is an awful 00:02:14.270 --> 00:02:17.030 idea. And Microsoft was like, oh, you know, you 00:02:17.030 --> 00:02:19.550 might have a point. We'll tweak it a bit. They 00:02:19.550 --> 00:02:23.030 did tweak it a bit. It's not that woke and it's 00:02:23.030 --> 00:02:25.270 still pretty bad. Asterisk. You don't really 00:02:25.270 --> 00:02:26.689 have to worry about that if you don't have one 00:02:26.689 --> 00:02:29.770 of those co -pilot plus PCs, to my knowledge. 00:02:29.990 --> 00:02:31.610 So as long as you don't have one of those, you're 00:02:31.610 --> 00:02:34.189 probably fine. Famously, people love to have 00:02:34.189 --> 00:02:36.770 permanent records of what they do on their personal 00:02:36.770 --> 00:02:38.990 computer. What's a browser history? I'm sorry. 00:02:39.250 --> 00:02:40.990 Now you might be thinking, Microsoft is a big 00:02:40.990 --> 00:02:43.150 boy company with big boy money, and they must 00:02:43.150 --> 00:02:46.189 have a reason to be doing this. Surely it's the 00:02:46.189 --> 00:02:47.990 case that they're getting a good return on investment, 00:02:48.030 --> 00:02:50.310 and they're seeing gains in the market, and that 00:02:50.310 --> 00:02:52.689 this is going well for them. It's not. None of 00:02:52.689 --> 00:02:55.060 that. Not only do we have senior folks at Microsoft 00:02:55.060 --> 00:02:57.300 putting out a blog post being like, hey, everyone, 00:02:57.780 --> 00:03:00.360 sorry about ruining Windows. We're going to be 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.500 better about that going forward. It's not even 00:03:02.500 --> 00:03:04.439 the first time this year that they said, sorry 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.039 about ruining Windows. We're going to be better 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:08.259 about that going forward. This is an operating 00:03:08.259 --> 00:03:10.840 system. It's like the base level thing that people 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:12.539 have on their computer. It's not something you 00:03:12.539 --> 00:03:15.139 just buck around with. And obviously, like, you 00:03:15.139 --> 00:03:17.479 know, Windows sucks, and kind of has sucked for 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:19.120 a while, and a lot of people just use it for 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:20.419 gaming, other people use it because they have 00:03:20.419 --> 00:03:22.740 to for work, or what have you, but a lot of people 00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:26.009 just don't. no other systems, and they just use 00:03:26.009 --> 00:03:28.669 Windows machines. And like, that's fine. And 00:03:28.669 --> 00:03:31.750 it sucks that Microsoft is so bad to those people. 00:03:31.969 --> 00:03:35.430 It goes beyond just having AI crap in Windows. 00:03:35.629 --> 00:03:37.409 Because they're Microsoft, and they can't help 00:03:37.409 --> 00:03:39.310 themselves, they recently launched a feature 00:03:39.310 --> 00:03:41.770 on their coding side of Copilot. The feature 00:03:41.770 --> 00:03:45.530 is called Tips. And what it did was insert ads 00:03:45.530 --> 00:03:48.349 into people's software development process. Crash 00:03:48.349 --> 00:03:50.750 Course. I'm gonna make you a software developer 00:03:50.750 --> 00:03:52.599 real quick. When you're working on an app, let's 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:54.479 say you're adding a feature or fixing a bug, 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:56.719 the way that that actually works is you do what's 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.280 called checking out a copy of the code base, 00:03:59.340 --> 00:04:01.439 which is to say you have your own version of 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.960 the app, and you work on that and then you eventually 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:07.039 merge that back in to the actual app. That merging 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:09.319 process involves a sort of a ticket that you 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.919 open up to basically say like, hey guys, I wanna 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.340 merge in my stuff, can someone review this? That 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:16.579 ticket is often referred to as a merge request 00:04:16.579 --> 00:04:18.860 or a pull request. Now, here's, that's all you 00:04:18.860 --> 00:04:20.870 gotta know. A software developer was using GitHub 00:04:20.870 --> 00:04:22.550 Copilot and said, hey, can you go make a merge 00:04:22.550 --> 00:04:24.569 request? Just go write something there. When 00:04:24.569 --> 00:04:27.569 they went to go read the merge request that Copilot 00:04:27.569 --> 00:04:30.769 had written, there was an ad in it. It was like, 00:04:31.329 --> 00:04:33.790 hey, hot tip, y 'all. If you want to easily launch 00:04:33.790 --> 00:04:37.259 AI agents, you can use Raycast. Side note, I 00:04:37.259 --> 00:04:39.699 do really like Raycast. I don't really use it 00:04:39.699 --> 00:04:41.860 for AI stuff. It's just like a productivity launcher. 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.079 Raycast is pretty sick. Kind of sucks that they're 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:46.839 at the center of this story. So if you look at 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.920 GitHub, which is again owned by Microsoft, and 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:50.939 you do a search for the wording that was put 00:04:50.939 --> 00:04:53.899 into this merge request, you'll find... thousands 00:04:53.899 --> 00:04:56.819 of merge requests with the same ad injected into 00:04:56.819 --> 00:04:59.560 it. Automated gorilla marketing at scale that 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.139 isn't particularly gorilla. Anyway, that's awful. 00:05:02.339 --> 00:05:04.639 Don't do that, Microsoft. That's so obviously 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:08.240 dumb and bad. If you want to hire me as senior 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:11.500 executive revoker of terrible, obviously bad 00:05:11.500 --> 00:05:16.139 ideas, I'm available. Anyway, even with all of 00:05:16.139 --> 00:05:19.699 this, Copilot's not doing well. The adoption 00:05:19.699 --> 00:05:22.339 rate is abysmal and is probably mostly just people 00:05:22.339 --> 00:05:24.560 who have to use it because it's what their office 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.860 is making them use. Adoption is around 2 .5 to 00:05:27.860 --> 00:05:31.480 3 % of Windows users and it's losing market share 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.100 compared to other AI assistants like Google's 00:05:34.100 --> 00:05:36.560 Gemini, which I know exactly nothing about. I've 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:38.959 never used it. Anyway, it's a skill issue because 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:42.160 I annoy people to install certain software without 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.220 having to be an artificial intelligence. Again, 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.040 I'm available for hire. Hey, thank you so much 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.000 for being here. If you like what I do and you 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.540 want to help me keep this going and not filled 00:05:50.540 --> 00:05:52.819 with a bunch of dumb corporate sponsor stuff, 00:05:53.019 --> 00:05:55.120 you can head to isupport .dev where you'll find 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.860 links to my Patreon, my Ko -Fi. There's a whole 00:05:57.860 --> 00:06:00.000 bunch of ways to support me, either monetarily 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.540 or just commenting and sharing my stuff. Any 00:06:02.540 --> 00:06:04.519 kind of engagement really does help. So thank 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:07.300 you again for being here. Let's move on. Let's 00:06:07.300 --> 00:06:09.800 talk about war. We're still doing it. We're still 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:11.800 doing it. We are very much still at war with 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.600 Iran despite what our leadership wants to claim. 00:06:14.810 --> 00:06:17.750 In my limited experience on this planet, having 00:06:17.750 --> 00:06:20.089 a situation that is prolonged where you are exchanging 00:06:20.089 --> 00:06:21.850 munitions and losing service members on both 00:06:21.850 --> 00:06:25.230 sides generally constitutes a war. There's been 00:06:25.230 --> 00:06:28.350 a lot, and the reporting is not great, honestly. 00:06:28.629 --> 00:06:31.089 It's very rare that I'm gonna sit here and be 00:06:31.089 --> 00:06:33.949 like, ah, the mainstream media is hiding this 00:06:33.949 --> 00:06:36.600 from you. Because almost always that's not the 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.220 case. You know, a lot of people rail against 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:39.680 mainstream media, and they're saying like, oh, 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.240 no one's talking about this, and so on and so 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:43.860 forth, when in reality, they have articles about 00:06:43.860 --> 00:06:45.300 it, it's just that they're not floating to the 00:06:45.300 --> 00:06:48.939 top of algorithms because whatever reason. That 00:06:48.939 --> 00:06:50.939 reason could be because the algorithms are designed 00:06:50.939 --> 00:06:52.920 to keep certain things suppressed. That reason 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:54.579 could be because people don't care about the 00:06:54.579 --> 00:06:56.839 story genuinely, and it's not until you find 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.259 out later on, and find out that you didn't learn 00:06:59.259 --> 00:07:01.439 about it in time, that it feels like nobody was 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:05.050 talking about it. In this case... It's kind of 00:07:05.050 --> 00:07:07.990 different. We are getting a very slim picture 00:07:07.990 --> 00:07:11.449 of what's going on across the world during a 00:07:11.449 --> 00:07:14.649 war right now. And it's very clear that everything 00:07:14.649 --> 00:07:17.930 that's coming stateside is like a week or more 00:07:17.930 --> 00:07:20.930 delayed and is highly editorialized by a US perspective. 00:07:21.110 --> 00:07:23.250 And like, duh, obviously. I don't take the words 00:07:23.250 --> 00:07:26.350 of any state official at face value. US, Israeli, 00:07:26.649 --> 00:07:29.379 Iranian, none of them. I'm trying to navigate 00:07:29.379 --> 00:07:31.740 this as best I can with the understanding that 00:07:31.740 --> 00:07:34.519 a lot of the reporting from US outlets is gonna 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.480 be straight up wrong. But going with what I've 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:40.339 got, so let's talk about what's going on with 00:07:40.339 --> 00:07:43.160 the war. Five European nations have made a no 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.139 -fly zone for the US. Or at least a no -fly or 00:07:46.139 --> 00:07:48.120 if you're gonna fly it's gonna be annoying zone. 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.399 Essentially five different countries for different 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.660 reasons have said in some capacity, no, you cannot 00:07:53.660 --> 00:07:56.350 use our airspace for your war. I'll go through 00:07:56.350 --> 00:07:58.850 them, and we'll talk a little bit about each. 00:07:59.129 --> 00:08:01.709 Spain says, get the fuck out. Spain's the hardest 00:08:01.709 --> 00:08:03.589 one here. They said, you're not using our airspace 00:08:03.589 --> 00:08:06.970 for this illegal war. Fuck you. They didn't say... 00:08:06.970 --> 00:08:09.709 They didn't say fuck you, but like, in terms 00:08:09.709 --> 00:08:12.310 of geopolitics, they said that. France is playing 00:08:12.310 --> 00:08:15.050 hard to get. They haven't fully shut down their 00:08:15.050 --> 00:08:16.930 airspace, but they are saying like, hey Israel, 00:08:16.930 --> 00:08:19.350 you can't use our airspace to transfer weapons 00:08:19.350 --> 00:08:21.949 from the US, and so on and so forth. So France 00:08:21.949 --> 00:08:23.790 is making it a little bit harder to use their 00:08:23.790 --> 00:08:28.050 airspace. Switzerland! is neutral. I feel like 00:08:28.050 --> 00:08:29.649 I don't even need to say that one. They're doing 00:08:29.649 --> 00:08:31.350 the Switzerland thing, staying generally neutral 00:08:31.350 --> 00:08:33.370 and only letting a few aircraft through. Italy 00:08:33.370 --> 00:08:35.070 is a bit of a will -they -won't -they. They've 00:08:35.070 --> 00:08:38.029 closed the airspace for some cases. They denied 00:08:38.029 --> 00:08:42.309 the US from landing certain bombers there. So 00:08:42.309 --> 00:08:46.649 it's like airspace, but also ground space. And 00:08:46.649 --> 00:08:48.549 Austria's coming in hot. Just recently they were 00:08:48.549 --> 00:08:50.889 like, eh, we're gonna go full Switzerland. They're 00:08:50.889 --> 00:08:52.330 citing neutrality laws and they're saying, yeah, 00:08:52.370 --> 00:08:54.230 no, you can't use our airspace. So that's fine. 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:59.840 Kind of got to go around. Big ol' hole in the 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.720 map. Speaking of airplanes, some of them went 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:06.419 down. The Iranian military shot down a US F -15E 00:09:06.419 --> 00:09:10.019 fighter jet. Strike Eagle Jet. There were two 00:09:10.019 --> 00:09:11.960 crew members aboard, a pilot and a weapons boy. 00:09:12.059 --> 00:09:14.559 The pilot ejected, as did the weapons boy. The 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.100 pilot was rescued pretty shortly after ejecting. 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:19.700 The weapons boy was rescued the next day, after 00:09:19.700 --> 00:09:22.080 what the US would really like you to know was 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:24.720 a daring rescue mission. The second airman was 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.899 lost for quite some time, and did have to do 00:09:26.899 --> 00:09:31.000 some personal heroics to stay alive. Also, we're 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:32.940 bombing the fuck out of that country right now. 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.259 It's really hard to sit here and be like, oh, 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.179 this is a wonderful, uplifting story that we 00:09:38.179 --> 00:09:40.639 rescued this service member, because, like, why 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:42.399 are they there in the first place? During the 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.600 rescue mission, an A -10 Warthog, another aircraft, 00:09:44.980 --> 00:09:48.200 went down, also, but the pilot ejected and is 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.600 apparently safe? According to US officials, other 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:52.860 aircraft just took light fire and there was otherwise 00:09:52.860 --> 00:09:55.179 just like minor wounds and everybody's back safe. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.779 Iran claims it was a different situation. Iran 00:09:58.779 --> 00:10:01.080 claims that they shot down more planes than the 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:02.860 US is saying and they also claim that they took 00:10:02.860 --> 00:10:05.779 out five people. There's not a lot of details 00:10:05.779 --> 00:10:09.360 about that. Could be a lie. But also they shot 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.980 down an F -15 after the US told us that we had 00:10:11.980 --> 00:10:14.220 total air superiority and basically took out 00:10:14.220 --> 00:10:16.379 all their defenses. So like lies are sort of 00:10:16.379 --> 00:10:19.279 the status quo here. Anyway, brace yourself for 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.399 the movie in a decade or so. They're gonna do 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.320 everything they can to make it look like, oh 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:27.379 man, how could the Iranians have done this to 00:10:27.379 --> 00:10:31.480 us? Pete Hegseth. He is somehow the head of the 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.899 Department of Defense. He wants to call it the 00:10:33.899 --> 00:10:35.679 Department of War. I'm not gonna call it that. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.080 I've spent my entire life surrounded by people 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.580 who work in the DoD. I'm not gonna not be saying 00:10:41.580 --> 00:10:47.730 DoD. Anyway, dude sucks. I could just say, yeah, 00:10:47.789 --> 00:10:49.669 he sucks. Is that good enough? Do I have to say 00:10:49.669 --> 00:10:52.409 anything else? Alright, I'll say what I got here. 00:10:52.730 --> 00:10:54.730 So in addition to the average run -of -the -mill 00:10:54.730 --> 00:10:56.289 Hegseth -ery that we've been seeing, there's 00:10:56.289 --> 00:10:58.529 been a bit of an increase in bullshit. I'll start 00:10:58.529 --> 00:11:00.289 with the one that doesn't matter as much to me, 00:11:00.309 --> 00:11:03.429 which is still pretty fucking dumb. Pete Hegseth 00:11:03.429 --> 00:11:06.750 personally got involved to get rid of an investigation 00:11:06.750 --> 00:11:10.389 into multiple US service members who flew a helicopter 00:11:10.389 --> 00:11:13.690 by Kid Rock's house for like a photo op for Twitter. 00:11:13.850 --> 00:11:16.289 I don't get it either. I didn't know people liked 00:11:16.289 --> 00:11:18.909 Kid Rock, but this is apparently like their thing 00:11:18.909 --> 00:11:21.690 now, is this one guy. So Kid Rock posted a video 00:11:21.690 --> 00:11:24.129 to Twitter of him waving at multiple army helicopters, 00:11:24.529 --> 00:11:26.610 and he's like, God bless our troops. And then 00:11:26.610 --> 00:11:28.169 the army was like, yeah, that's not, that ain't 00:11:28.169 --> 00:11:30.509 it. That's not good. Those people are now under 00:11:30.509 --> 00:11:32.970 investigation and suspended. Hegseth then chimed 00:11:32.970 --> 00:11:37.029 in and was like, no. I refuse, was his actual 00:11:37.029 --> 00:11:41.149 quote. His quote was, no punishment, no investigation. 00:11:41.809 --> 00:11:44.779 Carry on, patriots. What a cool guy. All the 00:11:44.779 --> 00:11:47.120 while, he has fired a whole bunch of generals. 00:11:48.179 --> 00:11:51.220 During a war. Including, recently, the chief 00:11:51.220 --> 00:11:54.139 of staff of the army. During a war. It's not 00:11:54.139 --> 00:11:56.379 something that you usually do. To top it all 00:11:56.379 --> 00:11:58.460 off, Financial Times reported that a financial 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:01.039 broker for Pete Hegseth apparently tried to go 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.419 to Blackrock and buy securities from a fund that 00:12:04.419 --> 00:12:07.240 invests in defense manufacturing right before 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:09.100 the war started. The only reason it didn't go 00:12:09.100 --> 00:12:10.779 through is because the fund wasn't ready yet. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:14.429 The Pentagon denies the claim. Shocking. Ow, 00:12:14.529 --> 00:12:16.809 my data center. Iran has been striking data centers 00:12:16.809 --> 00:12:20.009 where US companies are operating. AWS, Amazon's 00:12:20.009 --> 00:12:22.549 web platform, has multiple regions that are just 00:12:22.549 --> 00:12:24.669 hard down right now. What was first reported 00:12:24.669 --> 00:12:28.649 as, like, fires at a facility and, like, structural 00:12:28.649 --> 00:12:32.769 damage has escalated into, hey, why is the entire 00:12:32.769 --> 00:12:35.850 region offline? Let's go back to some definitions. 00:12:36.029 --> 00:12:37.570 Again, you're a software engineer already, so 00:12:37.570 --> 00:12:39.149 you're gonna get this no problem. It's actually 00:12:39.149 --> 00:12:42.149 really simple. AWS, Amazon Web Services. It is 00:12:42.149 --> 00:12:44.210 their internet platform. If you're a company 00:12:44.210 --> 00:12:46.070 that wants to build an internet service, you're 00:12:46.070 --> 00:12:48.210 probably gonna build it on AWS and they have 00:12:48.210 --> 00:12:50.649 like global infrastructure for tech stuff. That 00:12:50.649 --> 00:12:52.889 global infrastructure is located in a bunch of 00:12:52.889 --> 00:12:55.750 different regions so that you can have your stuff... 00:12:55.769 --> 00:12:58.070 near your customers. If you want to do global 00:12:58.070 --> 00:13:00.110 business, you want to have global data centers. 00:13:00.149 --> 00:13:01.690 If you want to do business just in North America, 00:13:01.809 --> 00:13:03.269 you're probably just sticking to a North American 00:13:03.269 --> 00:13:05.490 data center. AWS offers a whole bunch of different 00:13:05.490 --> 00:13:07.590 data centers in different localities, and the 00:13:07.590 --> 00:13:10.809 ones around Iran are currently not working. ME 00:13:10.809 --> 00:13:13.570 Central One and ME South One, which are Middle 00:13:13.570 --> 00:13:17.029 East Central and South locations, are both down. 00:13:17.590 --> 00:13:20.309 And this comes after those structural problems 00:13:20.309 --> 00:13:22.309 and small fires happened. Just taking a quick 00:13:22.309 --> 00:13:24.210 glance at, like, developer forums, you'll see 00:13:24.210 --> 00:13:26.450 people saying, like, hey, I can't connect to 00:13:26.450 --> 00:13:30.029 the data center. What's going on here? Amazon 00:13:30.029 --> 00:13:32.070 says that it's currently just down. There's not 00:13:32.070 --> 00:13:34.129 really a restoration timeline for it. So, like, 00:13:34.169 --> 00:13:35.830 if you had stuff running in these data centers, 00:13:36.190 --> 00:13:38.190 you're just up shit creek. But that's meaningful 00:13:38.190 --> 00:13:41.710 because Amazon is a defense contractor. Amazon 00:13:41.710 --> 00:13:45.269 has dedicated data regions for government utility. 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.700 Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, all these companies, 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:51.500 they all provide support to the U .S. military, 00:13:51.860 --> 00:13:55.240 either directly in hosting their systems or indirectly 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.259 by way of offering them support. So genuinely, 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.299 like, AWS data centers. are objectively military 00:14:02.299 --> 00:14:04.340 targets. I'll end this story by saying that the 00:14:04.340 --> 00:14:07.019 White House is now saying that for the 2027 fiscal 00:14:07.019 --> 00:14:09.240 year, they want to cut non -defense spending 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.259 by 10 % and increase defense spending by $500 00:14:13.259 --> 00:14:17.460 billion. All right, better news. We went to the 00:14:17.460 --> 00:14:19.399 moon. We didn't go to the moon. We're going near 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:22.320 the moon. Again, the Artemis 2 mission launched 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.720 on the evening of April 1st. They went to the 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.659 sky. They're gonna go around the moon, come back, 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.100 and sploosh back down by San Diego on April 10th. 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:33.740 I am not in that spacecraft. The mission is interesting. 00:14:33.860 --> 00:14:35.820 They're just looping around the moon to basically 00:14:35.820 --> 00:14:39.320 be like, can we land on you later? You down with 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.120 that? It's the second mission in the Artemis 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:44.460 line, the first one being Artemis 1, which was 00:14:44.460 --> 00:14:46.360 an unmanned attempt to just go around the moon 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:47.840 and be like, alright, can we still do this? We 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:49.960 still got this juice? Turns out we had the juice, 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.539 so we put four people on an aircraft and launched 00:14:52.539 --> 00:14:54.759 them into space, and they took a really, really 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:56.620 cool picture. Leave it to an astronaut sending 00:14:56.620 --> 00:14:58.500 a picture back to Earth to make you be like, 00:14:59.179 --> 00:15:02.460 mmm -hmm -hmm -hmm. I am tiny and don't matter. 00:15:02.820 --> 00:15:05.120 It's truly, truly incredibly gorgeous. You can 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:08.639 see multiple auroras. You can see the atmosphere. 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:10.720 It's incredible. Of course, no space travel goes 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:12.460 on without a hitch. In addition to having some 00:15:12.460 --> 00:15:14.659 toilet trouble in the capsule, they were also 00:15:14.659 --> 00:15:16.860 having some technical difficulties with Microsoft 00:15:16.860 --> 00:15:18.659 Outlook. At one point, one of the astronauts 00:15:18.659 --> 00:15:20.299 was flutzing around with the computer and was 00:15:20.299 --> 00:15:22.419 talking to ground control and was like, I have 00:15:22.419 --> 00:15:25.120 two Outlooks and neither of them are working. 00:15:25.419 --> 00:15:29.360 Which is just perfect. Just chef kiss. So a big 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.639 old good luck. Here are the crew members. You 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:34.919 got Reed Wiseman, commander. You got Victor Glover, 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.639 who's the pilot. Christina Koch is a mission 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.120 specialist. Jeremy Hansen is the good luck Canadian 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:44.159 and also a mission specialist. I want to note 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.059 on the topic of space travel. I don't much care 00:15:47.059 --> 00:15:49.080 about the space travel part personally. I mean, 00:15:49.100 --> 00:15:51.019 I played a lot of Destiny, so I'm kind of good 00:15:51.019 --> 00:15:52.740 with not going further out into space to see 00:15:52.740 --> 00:15:55.269 what's out there. But, even if you're not somebody 00:15:55.269 --> 00:15:57.870 who just wants to see more space travel, this 00:15:57.870 --> 00:16:00.230 is actually a pretty good thing for humanity. 00:16:00.529 --> 00:16:03.389 In a way. The space shuttle and colonizing space, 00:16:03.529 --> 00:16:05.730 that's not what I'm talking about. These programs 00:16:05.730 --> 00:16:07.870 happen because countries want to do dick -measuring 00:16:07.870 --> 00:16:10.549 contests and the ruling class wants to colonize 00:16:10.549 --> 00:16:13.970 more stuff. But if that's what it takes to get 00:16:13.970 --> 00:16:16.330 a bunch of money to go into research that produces 00:16:16.330 --> 00:16:20.350 some genuinely amazing shit, at least it's a 00:16:20.350 --> 00:16:22.629 silver lining. Aerospace engineering and research 00:16:22.629 --> 00:16:24.830 gets us a whole lot of stuff. Improvements in 00:16:24.830 --> 00:16:26.950 medical technology, improvements in refrigeration 00:16:26.950 --> 00:16:29.710 technology, improvements in desalination and 00:16:29.710 --> 00:16:32.169 water purification, all sorts of stuff. There 00:16:32.169 --> 00:16:34.330 are benefits outside of just going to space and 00:16:34.330 --> 00:16:38.049 like that's cool. It sucks that it's also like 00:16:38.049 --> 00:16:40.129 kind of in the interests of bad people wanting 00:16:40.129 --> 00:16:42.009 to do bad things. Like they're just going to 00:16:42.009 --> 00:16:44.830 space because they want to mine it. That's basically 00:16:44.830 --> 00:16:47.110 it. But at least in the meantime, we have like 00:16:47.110 --> 00:16:49.450 better air conditioning. Lightning round. Oracle 00:16:49.450 --> 00:16:54.769 laid off 30 ,000 employees via email at 6 a .m. 00:16:55.029 --> 00:16:57.730 SpaceX is filing to go public. It may ultimately 00:16:57.730 --> 00:17:00.769 be one of the biggest IPOs in history. Australia 00:17:00.769 --> 00:17:03.169 has formally recognized the cultural significance 00:17:03.169 --> 00:17:07.109 of the infamous Succulent Chinese Meal Democracy 00:17:07.109 --> 00:17:12.650 Manifest video. The National Film and Sound Archive 00:17:12.650 --> 00:17:15.859 has officially preserved it. Gold is now the 00:17:15.859 --> 00:17:19.140 largest foreign reserve asset in the world overtaking 00:17:19.140 --> 00:17:22.000 U .S. treasuries. It probably doesn't mean anything. 00:17:22.420 --> 00:17:23.960 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.440 of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to SKH .News for 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:31.940 sources, bonus content, and my review of my time 00:17:31.940 --> 00:17:34.380 on the moon, the last time I was there. My name 00:17:34.380 --> 00:17:36.180 is Endeavorance. We'll talk again soon. Take 00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:37.640 care and be well.