The Evolution of Professional Wrestling and Its Relation to Politics

Recently, especially during the 2020 election, people's perceptions of professional wrestling have changed significantly. In the past, when discussing professional wrestling, individuals would often talk about it as if it were real, comparing wrestlers' strengths and weaknesses, and speculating about their chances of winning a match. However, over time, it became increasingly apparent that professional wrestling is not a genuine sport, but rather a predetermined performance designed to entertain audiences.

As people began to realize the truth behind professional wrestling, their conversations about the topic shifted from speculation about individual wrestlers to discussions about the imaginary third party that was thought to be involved in the outcome of matches. This change in perception has had a broader impact on the way people engage with politics, particularly when it comes to elections and politicians' actions.

For instance, some individuals may consider the idea of a "lesser" who determines the winner of an election, much like the concept of professional wrestling's predetermined outcome. In this context, the lesser is essentially a prop used by politicians to explain their platform or policies to voters. The people who contribute monetarily to the election process and those who are deemed important enough to be considered as potential candidates in future elections are often referred to as the "lesser." This concept highlights the complex relationships between money, power, and politics.

When watching political coverage, it's essential to keep this idea in mind. The commentators' discussions about politicians and their policies can be seen as an extension of the same logic used when discussing professional wrestling. They talk about the general public, labeling them as "Joe Average," implying that they are less informed and therefore more gullible than the audience is. However, it's crucial to remember that not everyone is naive enough to believe that politics is entirely fair or unbiased.

A recent incident on Twitch, a popular live streaming platform, illustrates this point. The U.S. Army channel had a giveaway for an Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, but the terms and conditions were problematic. Although they initially promised the console to viewers who joined the recruitment page after two tours of duty, the fine print revealed that the actual reward was a prosthetic leg that would not be free. This experience highlights how politicians often use misleading tactics to sway public opinion.

Moreover, the U.S. Army's actions on Twitch raise questions about the limits of free speech and the responsibility of platforms like Twitter. In 2019, it was ruled that President Trump could no longer delete tweets or block users as a government official because his office is considered public. A similar incident occurred on Twitch, where the channel faced criticism for not being transparent enough in their terms and conditions.

As we move forward, it's essential to be aware of these dynamics when engaging with politics. It's time to think critically about the way information is presented and consumed. By doing so, we can begin to make more informed decisions about our own involvement in the electoral process.

The Decline of Garden Freshness: The Rise of Plant-Based Pumpkins

In recent years, gardeners have faced a new challenge: pumpkins. It's not just that these once-ubiquitous autumnal symbols are no longer as abundant or widely cultivated; it's also become clear that they're rather ephemeral in their own right – and this ephemeral nature is beginning to manifest itself, particularly during warmer seasons.

For those with a pumpkin patch in the garden, it may seem counterintuitive. After all, pumpkins require long hours of direct sunlight, especially for successful pollination. But recent data has shown that extreme heat conditions, such as we experience here in Kentucky this year, can lead to premature failure – essentially "aborting" your pumpkin's potential.

Planters have been attempting various solutions to this problem. One suggested approach is the use of calcium supplements on soil pH levels – it seems some pumpkin experts believe that adding certain minerals will enhance the plant's performance and increase longevity under heat stress conditions. While these additives might help mitigate environmental pressures, the actual impact of adding calcium remains unclear.

Some also suggest hand-pollination as a viable option for better chances at success in an era when bees are becoming increasingly scarce. There is evidence to indicate that pumpkins rely heavily on certain types of pollinators, and so cultivating this ecosystem can improve crop yields under more favorable conditions. Still, hand-pollinating pumpkin is far from the most conventional gardening task.

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because they were boring but there's a lot of nothing burgers yeah although we will start off with one and this is a rare one because we'd like to start with the fcc if possible and i cannot maybe you'll maybe you found something but i couldn't find anything wrong with this decision yeah give it time but the fcc our technical reports the fcc that phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blocked safe harbor lets phone companies block all calls from certain quote-unquote bad actor telecoms so if you are a telecom in let's say cash-strapped rural eastern kentucky and you would you're more than happy to allow those international call centers to spin up you know vo ip servers in your data center and make us calls from u.s numbers for pennies on the dollar the rest of the country is going to block you and that's not going to be possible anymore no that is going to be possible it's not possible now because i could sue oh well yeah that's what i meant so uh they have already sent letters and they're like look you're done if you keep doing this we're not playing around anymore and they claim 100 effective so far i don't know how they're measuring that i didn't get any robo calls this week did you uh maybe like one or two let's go so maybe that seems like the only way to fight her right you got to go to the source yeah and we there is a way to find out who they are so well i found i found a way that you could consider this a bad thing that this may cause a cultural shift where you're expected to pick up your phone if it's a number you don't know i don't think we'll ever get back to that no because now people will know it's not a robocon i'm to the point where it's literally if you call me on the phone without sending me a message or an email that's rude although i did get a cbd oil text message this week oh like how did i get on that mailing list oh well i guess they can fix that next and uh the blue leaks so that was a big treasure trove of law enforcement data that was leaked uh two weeks ago i think at this point and it had a lot of uh stuff that arguably really shouldn't be out there like you know personal information not just from law enforcement officers from people who are arrested and that's bad but amongst all that now that people have had time to parse it there were some very interesting things that were for law enforcement eyes only and things that the public should hear about homeland security worries that uh the thing that we still can't say that the masks for that thing are breaking their facial recognition software according to leaked documents so this is from the intercept and they go on to explain about that kind of thing but i to me that wasn't the most interesting thing to come out of the blue leaks like it's one of the interesting things but it's not one of one of the more interesting things one of the pro the most interesting thing for me was one of the protesters got arrested or one of the protesters was planning a protest and they were worried that they were going to get arrested so they sent a bunch of emails to law firms in the san francisco bay area and they were added to a terrorist watch list for having done that and indeed it is the right wing terrorists that they blame for trying to use the masks in an unsavory manner and this is uh so you have these uh fusion centers which are they're not agencies among themselves but they sort of like try to tie agencies together and feed information to everybody and they work among geographic areas so one fusion center had one online message board post or maybe it was more than one but it was one message board of people saying hey let's use masks to hide our identities probably do bad stuff and they use that as a national memo warning everybody that masks were the tools of terrorists so what you're saying is all the horrible all the just horrible people being horrible to each other that i see on 4chan is actually a plant to imagine the most ridiculous insane future ever in order to get the orwellian population control see i think this is a case of the conspiracy theory goes too far because it's not needed 4chan will fulfill that on its own you don't have to plant them just use them as a never-ending source of evil to you know this is like that time that they wouldn't let uh kevin mitnick use a touchstone telephone because they were afraid that he could call in a nuclear strike with a touchdown telephone and they gave him a rotary phone that's got to be good for your ego though i mean as insane as it is you literally have no idea how technology will work so it's like here enjoy your road re-telephone because touch tones are too dangerous could you have resisted when they gave it to you just being like you know and uh the school situation is uh it's it's it's off and on it seems like based on where you are but more and more it seems like we're getting the municipalities and states themselves just nope and on out because things keep getting worse california orders online schooling in hardest hit counties this is in uh reported by bloomberg bloomberg 2.8 in increases in new cases 130 more deaths at the time of this article which is a little old now july 17th but hey it's fine and uh yeah so it's like you know if we get kids back together in the schools that's going to be a cesspool of uh germs and more of them yeah say it is normally but it's probably worse now they're still using these old school chairs i would think they would have come up with a new chair by now nope this would be the point where we should probably start asking should internet be utility because how are these kids who don't have internet gonna get their schooling mcdonald's starbucks yeah that also aren't open so uh yeah they are now a lot of people are preaching against that i think the white house is against that they say that uh you know i think the quote was something hilarious like we shouldn't let the science get in the way of the education which is just so brilliant isn't this how wrong like did i read about this when rome fell they could be forgiven though it was the first time anybody had tried that and california um they've also posted some scary numbers in terms of cost because you know to to fight this thing we're spending a lot of money and at some point that those debts come due and as we it just you know rolls along nothing changes keeps going bad how do you get that money and i think california among with literally every other state except one did you read which one it was uh rhode island no it's the famous it's the one that's taken our spot for the worst state and west virginia oh alabama alabama alabama is the only state not to do this california is investigating google for potential anti-trust violations google's home state has been a holdout state but now they're like you know what there probably is something to this anti-trust thing now which division of google are you wondering about this ads well not just ads but you know how they use android and chrome and you know their ads their ultimate grip on the world to serve the ad platform sure yeah and uh no everybody was weirded out because california has especially strict laws when it comes to that kind of thing they're like california why aren't you getting into this and i bet they were just like you know there's several filing cabinets full of case files at this point because they were prepping hard before they went into it so bad news for google i don't think they're gonna the what's his name that you can i can't pronounce his name either bachai is uh going to talk to congress yeah and try to talk his way out of it yeah he's uh he's not as charismatic as larry or sergey which is saying something but he's yards ahead of zuckerberg because he's human are any of the big tech people really like people people yeah would you say uh the one that microsoft got wasn't too bad which one the sweaty one balmer yeah bulmer did seem more human than most people gates uh like i feel like gates lawyers over conditioned him to the point that like he didn't he wasn't able to provide any kind of useful response but he's a lot more reasonable in his old age like sometimes he'll post a video to reddit and it's like oh he actually seems like a real human being now or in whereas in like during the anti-trust trials he seemed like a geriatric because he was like i don't know i don't really remember well well i don't know i'm torn on gates because i feel like he does have an evil like depopulation plan but i'm kind of with the whole depopulation thing so i was like i think he's doing it for the wrong reasons but and uh the chinese strife continues with the white house uh they did not get to comment this week on huawei we didn't get a huawei attack from any of the government agencies so instead a different vector attorney general barr accuses hollywood and big tech of collaborating with china now i was hoping to find something substantive that barr had said or something insightful or interesting or something from his vantage point that was anything more than just fear-mongering and shaking his stick and i was disappointed because he like actually i think the last thing like the last thing that he says in this article it's like wow introspective much because uh he's saying it's like oh big big technology is going to toe the line in order to have access to these markets and you know they're going to censor their platforms and we shouldn't do that as americans and it's like aren't you calling for backdoor encryption everywhere like isn't that the thing that you're literally which is very ccp flavored yeah but i don't think the us is different i don't think he's wrong because we've seen plenty of examples of the big tech companies censoring or removing or bowing to the ccp yeah but these companies see i think the problem here is that we're treating them as if they should be proud americans these are global companies they don't care a thing about america aside from it being a really nice revenue stream oh i remembered finally it was uh it's like when these companies get together and stand up against you know these demands from the ccp they can really get something done and it's like dude those companies are standing up against you and this ridiculous backdoor encryption nonsense and he championed the whole fbi apple thing which they also stood up against in unison so well double-edged sword it doesn't matter you get your sound by double standard you get your anti-china article out there it's all good and uh china is the us is not the only country that they're unhappy with actually the the list just keeps growing i mean you got india now australia this is going to be the olympic torch that sets the thing on fire i'm afraid i mean the question is the question is how far do we go to protect them do we have any kind of treaties with them we do so anyway we're talking about taiwan china will sanction lockheed martin over arms sales to taiwan so yeah lockheed martin has sold some stuff to taiwan lucky martin was quick to point out that weapon sales is only about 20 of their their income most of their other income were direct federal contracts things like working on production of the f-35 which is different than just straight-up weapon sales but you put the weapons on the f-35 well that's like we don't sell wheels we sell cars yeah china's not happy that uh the taiwan is uh getting tools with which to resist should the mainland decide to uh to take over so we got some stories about what's going on with the taiwanese parliament come the nonsense section this is taiwan's uh president who just got reelected i like that i like her fashion you know she's it seems like a very uh approachable fashion unlike the hillary pantsuits now the we did not get a huawei story from the us government this week but clearly behind the scenes some politicking has been done about huawei the uk has barred huawei from 5g as the tech battle between china and the west escalates now when we first started reporting on this whole like huawei you know banning telecom equipment blah blah the eu was taking a much cooler approach and the uk said well we haven't seen any evidence yet but if we see evidence we will issue a block interestingly they don't mention any of those older quotes from boris johnson or anything like that other than to say that boris johnson has reversed course but they had announced that they were gonna they were gonna let them in certain parts of it yeah but this is everything yeah but they were going and that was kind of contentious yeah so yeah the the announcement before was basically you know uh you know even if this is compromised equipment it's just going to be on the periphery of the network it doesn't really matter there and so they must have been shown something or there must be some sort of political wrangling going on one or the other uh in order to um in order to have convinced them of that i don't know i've never worked on any huawei equipment but like it was like the hike vision stuff which is also on the band list there's a lot of stuff in there that was like is this just insanely terrible coating or is this a deliberate back door and it kind of airs on the side of a deliberate backdoor the only not only can you not buy it you have to get rid of it but it's a ridiculously long timeline i think it's like 2027 to get rid of it so uh there you definitely uh it's funny because when it comes to a vaccine those headlines will just shock the market every time like if somebody comes out and they're like we got it the s p will just rock it off the charts and then there's like oh we're just kidding you know and it goes right back down it's amazing we got it for rhesus monkeys it turns out it kills people the robots are very susceptible to vaccine hoaxes but the story it's the what this really is like kind of uh it illustrates why this is such a problem in the modern world because you would think once we discovered this the first thing we would try to do above all things is get it to as many people as possible right because the whole idea is it'll keep spreading if we don't do that if there's one pocket of the world that doesn't have it that's a risk to everybody i guess except for the vaccinated which is what it's going to turn out to be because this can be very expensive and it's going to be the haves and the have-nots so this should not be no one should be trying to do this and no one should be trying to stop anybody from doing this russian hackers are linked to uh sweeping attacks to try to steal uh vaccine research it's vaccines for the thing so and this was in the uk so like like the uk they're normally very reserved and whatever uh there's a video of the the guy talking to like the local bbc news service and he you know in the in a very uh you know oxford accent i guess somebody's gonna correct me on that is like this is this is despicable like you know it's like spy versus spy but come on just look at what you're saying but it should be hey russians here's what we've got what do you got let's work together we got to stop this instead it's like oh my god this is so valuable this is this is going to be liquid gold better than liquid gold once we have it so stay out of here we'll let you know the price when we figure it out yeah i do love that it's called cozy bear like the russian intelligence group i think i think we assign those names yeah yeah cause there was another one it was like hesitant kitten or something iranian one fancy bear oh yeah fancy wars the chinese one oh yeah i don't know i i i shudder to think what the price is going to be when that comes out can you imagine when the ability to manipulate genetic material is about three or four more uh you know notches more advanced and and you get a political power that's like north korea and it's like anybody that's not from north korea is going to be horribly infected or your parents opted to save money during your birth and uh let us let you keep this genetic deficiency so now that you're 18 it's gonna be four times as expensive but it's on you now well uh facebook has their own problems with uh the eu leaders not so much anti-trust but the fact that they're just so evil in everything that they do and the whole data collection thing and with gdpr there's all these questions about like if you're facebook and you're looking at data from your eu data centers in the us you are moving that data across borders right is that okay tech firms like facebook must restrict data sent from the eu to the us the court has ruled it's been a long-running legal battle we've reported on it several times but finally there's a ruling it's like no the the data needs to stay in the eu because once it's out of the eu eu laws no longer apply to it and they literally pointed out uh the uh what's his name leak and they're like yeah clearly the nsa is spying on you we can't risk our data coming over there because the nsa will look at our data they're not wrong i'm sure they're spying themselves but we'll see actually i guess we won't see because tesla now uh there was another did you see there was another tesla that hit a parked police vehicle oh i didn't see that yeah i saw it autopilot just smashed it and uh the guy was i don't know if how it played out but they were investigating him for dui so he was apparently a little a little tipsy just turned on the old autopilot and somehow it completely missed like it was a suv with lights on was it was it a cop car was it look like it was an ambulance no i think it was a police suv oh okay there was an ambulance at the scene because it was another car accident but they weren't pulled completely off the road so uh that's unfortunate and it definitely points out the flaws with the quote-unquote autonomous driving that we're supposedly still getting level five this year and uh germany's not having any of it german court bans tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving according to this reuters article it's not just autonomous driving it's two terms that are banned it's like uh autonomous something and then something else and the german court basically said uh anybody that saw this in an advertisement would conclude that uh this does more than it does so you're not gonna be able to use those terms it's autopilot inclusive and full potential for autonomous driving krista the second paragraph under the image could you pronounce the name of this uh german agency no could you try i could try and i'm sure anyone who speaks german will laugh i'm too no i'm too embarrassed too embarrassed you miss all the shots you don't take krista i know it is kind of like a bummer this is probably a reason a lot of americans don't speak other languages you don't really have a lot of opportunities to practice them with like native speakers yeah i've heard people will go to like japan and they'll think oh i'll pick up some of the language i'm in japan but the japanese are so bilingual they want to practice their english yeah when they meet english speakers so they don't speak japanese well here are our countries just so big and like unless you're living close to one of the borders when a chance it's so big and it's so much better than all the other countries i didn't say that remember nso group they're that uh pesky little spyware maker out of israel and they sell their spyware to mostly just governments and very very rich companies and stuff like that they don't sell it to the average these aren't just uh stalker wear makers no this is the really good stuff but the problem is in some uh what you might call despotic governments they've found them to be using the software and they're like whoa whoa how are you vetting these people and they're like uh we only give it to the most you know trustworthy of governments and it seems to be not the case and amnesty international found some instances of that and said we must put a stop to this israeli court rules nso group can continue exporting spyware the specific ruling was that amnesty international didn't con demonstrate conclusively that the nso group had sold the software specifically to spy on amnesty international i it would shock me if that is not in the nso group marketing material if you could get a hold of that so here's a case study with amnesty international let's look at what we did in morocco i don't know if morocco is one of the countries they might have a wonderful government it seems like we've covered morocco doing some nasty things right yeah i think i think most governments have done some nasty things like ours included but i think that's the one where the journalists got attacked by the software yeah i remember misremembering that and uh usually beca so why did amnesty international fail because they had some evidence but you don't get a smoking gun you know it's not like in the movies where there's a beautiful gui and you just smash keys randomly and a little bar fills up you don't get to watch in first person ever how hacking occurs until now iranian spies accidentally leaked videos of themselves hacking ibm's export security team obtained five hours of apt 35 hacking operations showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts and who it's targeting i actually found training materials so wired they didn't share everything that they found with wired but they did share two videos they were set up as demonstration videos for junior people so it's like okay once you've got access to the gmail account or the yahoo account or whatever connected to these third-party applications which will then mirror and download everything and uh it doesn't take long to do that important note for the accounts that we're using two-factor authentication they just move they just put a little mark next to the the account in the list and moved right along why why should you shine chris what do you think about this image it's very uh artsy it is very artsy that's uh that's actually this is live footage this is what it looks like when they hack just like weird symbols and shapes and colors a very new age gui that they created for their hacking although they did point out like you say this this wasn't the quote-unquote hacking part of it this was the part that you want to train the junior members to do because it's just time-consuming but after a successful phishing campaign somebody has to go and collect all those email addresses and get the contents of their stuff so it's like yeah let the interns do that we're busy unfortunate and uh the big tick tock battle rages on everybody was like no don't trust tick tock because they're in china and tick tock was like all right we're out we're leaving hong kong we're going someplace else will they be trusted again i don't know but there is no shortage of targets to choose if tick tock is not on the chopping block yes threatens to restrict to wechat following the tick tock backlash so uh the quote i think from it was from a senator or something and was like we these are apps they just they send all the data directly to china and our kids really like them and they're entertaining we just don't know what's going on and you know our kids don't realize how dangerous this is it's like yeah that's all apps literally all of them yes they point out that uh while tick tock is very popular amongst the western kids wechat is almost universally used by the chinese diaspora i love that word the people that live here but still maintain ties to family background that's what that means and so uh will are we really does it matter so much that the chinese are spying on the chinese just because they're living somewhere else i guess it still does because there are citizens now yeah we must protect them but what if they don't want to be protected they got to talk about people someone dropped protection so much about control and also you know pretending they're tough on china i don't think they're pretending well but yeah finding a way to poke china trying to get that hot war we need it we need something to pull us out of this economic slump that's going to be caused by the lockdown and uh like i said the tic toc thing rages on company after company and organization after organization just keeps stepping up and saying no more tick tock dc in the rsc warned campaigns about using tick tock so if you're going to use it you know as part of your campaign promotional materials get a disposable burner phone how do you think the the chinese diaspora vote traditionally are they red or blue um probably blue i would think i think so i think if you're gonna communist rule well no but blue is more communist than red it's weird it's a weird it's it's more blue than red but it also is really big about self-determination but what about small business yeah red is the small business party yeah i mean is it i don't think it is anymore chinese diaspora in the comments let us know i'm gonna try to use that word as well and how does technology play a role because you know uh something that should be happening in our economy but is not happening as far as i can tell is small upstarts like people like you and me can get together and do some software and completely supplant and replace old guard small businesses that are doing things manually like we can build software to automate things and completely replace destroying jobs well i mean but it's good for the economy because the people that are displaced will learn new skills yeah yeah that's what happens i'm not saying we shouldn't do it flippy service center that's survival of the smartest and so it seems like there are a lot of barriers that prevent us from doing that yeah absolutely and those same barriers do not scale yeah that's the problem it would be fine if everybody played by the same rules but once you reach a certain point just like when it comes like when it comes to personal wealth once you hit a certain number the rules stop applying yeah and you just you just spiral out of control uh and so like the last story there's another brick on the wall here for old tic-tock wells fargo wants employees to delete tick-tock from company phones according to engadget they're citing security concerns i don't know how much of this is their own internal security team has done research and how much of it is just reading the headlines i would have felt better about this if it was our internal security team has audited this blah blah blah no they're they're watching well they said that there were certain they ran a test and they found like something percentage of employees had the app installed but it didn't say anything else about the data that was leaving anything how about the fact that wells fargo is monitoring your apps yeah that's not surprising but it would bother me disheartening what if you know you worked at wells fargo and you got a call and it was like you put in uh 10 hours in pixel dungeon yesterday and we don't believe that that was completely outside of your work hours just based on how much it was now the big story i guess for this week you would have to say was the big twitter hack and the subsequent bitcoin heist that came from it so these stories don't go into the history so much but it was pretty simple a lot of high profile people there was what uh was obama musk bill gates bill gates uh there was people with blue check marks six or seven in total right yeah they all said hey i'm gonna give you double the amount of bitcoin that you send me right now because i'm feeling super generous and these are the kind of people billionaires obama's not a billionaire but he's got some money and you think well maybe they they're crazy enough to do that musk certainly is crazy enough to do something like that and so people are like yeah send the bitcoin i only got was like 180 000 yeah but it only had lasted for 30 minutes so how did they get in what happened trying to put it all back together the new york times has what they claim are the actual people involved this week in business twitter's mystery hackers uh the the short version hilariously is they just paid a twitter employee or a couple of twitter employees to change the email addresses on these accounts with and that's it but they got that yeah internal panel access and that means that they got the ability to change email addresses and other kinds of things and you were talking about how the screenshot of the internal panel is hilarious don't get ahead of yourself first let's talk about that's not the only thing they do and not the only people that were impacted uh oh twitter says that hacker swiped personal data during the big verified user hack according to mashable so uh more than just the seven or eight visible accounts that we named turns out there was a lot more accounts than that that were affected it was just like those iranians they plugged it in and just pulled everything including direct messages what kind of do you think musk has got some really embarrassing stuff in his direct messages yes he's got some embarrassing thing on his public twitter profile sure that's an excellent point i hope that gets linked that'll be hilariously uh fun to read through so and i'd like to say it wasn't just blue checks that they did this to although how do you think they targeted the non-blue checks who's the juicy non-blue check that you could get i'm sure twitter has the full list of accounts and we could probably discern a pattern from that i think they'll give us that but what you were alluding to now this is interesting because uh the verge i did i had to search for this this was not where i usually collate all the news stories from any of the sources i had to search for it the verge did cover it although they didn't really talk about the interesting words in the screenshot i just posted it if you post that screenshot on twitter you will be deleted and possibly banned wow uh they did block out some stuff i think it was like personal details vice has preemptively prophylactically run a story about how this is a crazy conspiracy theory and you're an evil right winger if you talk about it or post a screenshot twitter reveals that its own employee tools contributed to the unprecedented hack twitter says that hackers compromise high profile accounts thanks to access to internal tools and what what internal tool makes it like why do why does twitter twitter employees need a control panel for changing an email address and then there there's this screenshot which is what you're alluding to that's like oh is this real is this not real it's apparently real it's real so even the vice article doesn't uh deny that these tools do exactly what they say which is to say that you can blacklist an entire hashtag or conversation from trending and from search oh yeah blacklist i mean 2020 twitter jesus so triggered but vice is like oh they've had that all along and if you read you know page 5706 of their terms of service it says right there that they do this so why are you getting these crazy conspiracy theories out there but for those the people that are uh pro rescinding uh is it article 230 yeah 230 or 320 230 um their argument is this that they are not just you know hosting they are editorializing and this kind of does point to that i don't agree with getting rid of article 230 that's crazy but it does seem like twitter is picking and choosing what goes on to trending uh you know we've had to editorialize some of the content on our website just because it was a thread that was just going so far into stupid that it just had to be cleansed from the internet and they you do have to appreciate the fact that it is a private business and they can do what they want but they i don't think we've ever lied to anybody about doing that on our website oh yeah that's true and they have said we don't choose what goes on trending it's just but the algorithm figures it out but this is a clear human interaction and with our forum as well like for a long time we just didn't even allow politics or anything like that it was just like it's too much headache to moderate and then we've slowly rolled out where it's like okay it's in a lockdown area you have to be a certain trust level and if you start acting like an you'll ruin it for everybody and so far it's been mostly okay but it can go away at any time but that's the same you know people complaining in the comments is like you shouldn't be political because you don't understand politics which gets the stupidest thing in the world anybody can understand politics it's not anybody can understand being a reasonable human being understanding politics is not the same as understanding the you know the the kabuki political theater that you think is politics yeah how much time we got left let me give you 35 minutes let me give you a little soliloquy here now think about think about politics and think about political coverage that you've seen recently especially running up the 2020 election once upon a time i'd say maybe 60s 70s more people thought professional wrestling was real then didn't and in those days when people talked about professional wrestling they would talk about it as if it were real as if it's like will this person win is this person stronger are they better blah blah blah and then at some point it became glaringly obvious that professional wrestling is not real it's predetermined and then did it go away did people stop talking about it no they just started talking about it in terms of an imaginary third party like how convincing was this wrestling match did they make it look real will this imaginary third party idiot buy into this or will they not now look at political coverage with that same thing in mind because this is like oh will women voters go for trump it's not is trump good for women does he respect women will he do things it's like oh will the third party idiot believe what this person who's obviously lying is saying that's politics see also obama and the whole nsa spying things like this is wrong we got to roll this back and it's like day one in office let's expand that program and the commentators are like are the american people are they gonna buy it are they gonna buy it i like uh i like the way lawrence lessig explained it he did a ted talk and he explained it some of the political processes like lester's it's like the it's like imagine that you have an election system where like the lester's determine who the general who's going to be voted on in the general election the lesser is a as a as just a prop that he uses for explaining the the people that contribute monetarily to the election the people who matter basically so like the lesters are the people who matter which is the place where the congress critters get their money yeah i guess but but when they talk about it on the tv they're talking about it more in terms of just like you know yeah joe average who is still stupid enough to believe that any of it is real not us we're smarter than that and our viewers are smarter than that but we must talk about it in those terms so as you watch political political coverage think about that and look at it and it's like who who is this third party do they exist and uh the we talked last week about the twitch u.s army channel it uh had some uh interesting things happening a lot of people were talking about war crimes in the chat they didn't care for that they decided to ban those people interesting uh aside about that in this story but more importantly they had a little giveaway twitch tells the us army to stop sharing fake prize giveaways sent users to the recruitment page the bait and switch tactic promised viewers an xbox elite series 2 controller the us army said hey if they join up we're going to give them an xbox elite series 2 controller after two tours you know they get for free a really really amazing prosthetic leg that's not free you won't believe how good it is that's not that's quite far for free actually terms and conditions may apply uh the other thing about interesting about that story remember when trump when it was ruled that trump is not allowed to delete responses to his tweets or block people because he is a government office they rule the same thing here you can't delete war crime chat in the twitch chat because it's government that's free speech nice good job twitch interesting might be fun to go to the old u.s army twitch channel see what's going on five years from now we're going to be brought up on terrorism charges for that comment inciting violence or something krista we're at 39 minutes so i think we have time uh do you still have planted pumpkinhood going on on your patio yes unfortunately well now we're in the middle of a heat wave here in kentucky so it's it's aborting pumpkins like mad apparently pumpkins don't like extreme heat i've tried kind of like moving them into the shade a little bit but it's it's not happening it's not happening for me i may try adding uh calcium to the soil i think someone mentioned that might might be part of it but no i don't know you know this is controversial but do you believe that pumpkin life begins at pollination yes and even when i have to hand pollinate artificially which is against god frankly we don't have enough bees to get it done normally at least like i was stupid i didn't plant any flowers i didn't plant any like pollinators things that attract pollinators in my garden this year and and i'm paying for it now rookie mistake yeah give us a twilight of the pumpkins slash rookie gardener goodbye goodbye perfect i don't know why the pumpkin sounds like that because they're dead it's your faultthanks again for node for sponsoring this episode of the news they've uh they've actually upped their affiliate link so 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chat today is july 21st it is 100 gazillion degrees 95 humidity send help and today we're doing government and social the building the the electric meter on the side of the building where the air conditioners hook up looks like the electric meter in the griswold christmas vacation movie you could hook up a magneto to it and make electricity and you defeat the it's infinite energy it's so hot now for those of you who comment and say this is too long but some people actually commented and said my commute isn't long enough to listen to this you should make this shorter and that's like well how are we gonna like make it the perfect commute length for everybody this is the level of narcissism is fantastic but for that one person i bet this week would be good for you because not a ton of news stories no and i left quite a few out just because they were boring but there's a lot of nothing burgers yeah although we will start off with one and this is a rare one because we'd like to start with the fcc if possible and i cannot maybe you'll maybe you found something but i couldn't find anything wrong with this decision yeah give it time but the fcc our technical reports the fcc that phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blocked safe harbor lets phone companies block all calls from certain quote-unquote bad actor telecoms so if you are a telecom in let's say cash-strapped rural eastern kentucky and you would you're more than happy to allow those international call centers to spin up you know vo ip servers in your data center and make us calls from u.s numbers for pennies on the dollar the rest of the country is going to block you and that's not going to be possible anymore no that is going to be possible it's not possible now because i could sue oh well yeah that's what i meant so uh they have already sent letters and they're like look you're done if you keep doing this we're not playing around anymore and they claim 100 effective so far i don't know how they're measuring that i didn't get any robo calls this week did you uh maybe like one or two let's go so maybe that seems like the only way to fight her right you got to go to the source yeah and we there is a way to find out who they are so well i found i found a way that you could consider this a bad thing that this may cause a cultural shift where you're expected to pick up your phone if it's a number you don't know i don't think we'll ever get back to that no because now people will know it's not a robocon i'm to the point where it's literally if you call me on the phone without sending me a message or an email that's rude although i did get a cbd oil text message this week oh like how did i get on that mailing list oh well i guess they can fix that next and uh the blue leaks so that was a big treasure trove of law enforcement data that was leaked uh two weeks ago i think at this point and it had a lot of uh stuff that arguably really shouldn't be out there like you know personal information not just from law enforcement officers from people who are arrested and that's bad but amongst all that now that people have had time to parse it there were some very interesting things that were for law enforcement eyes only and things that the public should hear about homeland security worries that uh the thing that we still can't say that the masks for that thing are breaking their facial recognition software according to leaked documents so this is from the intercept and they go on to explain about that kind of thing but i to me that wasn't the most interesting thing to come out of the blue leaks like it's one of the interesting things but it's not one of one of the more interesting things one of the pro the most interesting thing for me was one of the protesters got arrested or one of the protesters was planning a protest and they were worried that they were going to get arrested so they sent a bunch of emails to law firms in the san francisco bay area and they were added to a terrorist watch list for having done that and indeed it is the right wing terrorists that they blame for trying to use the masks in an unsavory manner and this is uh so you have these uh fusion centers which are they're not agencies among themselves but they sort of like try to tie agencies together and feed information to everybody and they work among geographic areas so one fusion center had one online message board post or maybe it was more than one but it was one message board of people saying hey let's use masks to hide our identities probably do bad stuff and they use that as a national memo warning everybody that masks were the tools of terrorists so what you're saying is all the horrible all the just horrible people being horrible to each other that i see on 4chan is actually a plant to imagine the most ridiculous insane future ever in order to get the orwellian population control see i think this is a case of the conspiracy theory goes too far because it's not needed 4chan will fulfill that on its own you don't have to plant them just use them as a never-ending source of evil to you know this is like that time that they wouldn't let uh kevin mitnick use a touchstone telephone because they were afraid that he could call in a nuclear strike with a touchdown telephone and they gave him a rotary phone that's got to be good for your ego though i mean as insane as it is you literally have no idea how technology will work so it's like here enjoy your road re-telephone because touch tones are too dangerous could you have resisted when they gave it to you just being like you know and uh the school situation is uh it's it's it's off and on it seems like based on where you are but more and more it seems like we're getting the municipalities and states themselves just nope and on out because things keep getting worse california orders online schooling in hardest hit counties this is in uh reported by bloomberg bloomberg 2.8 in increases in new cases 130 more deaths at the time of this article which is a little old now july 17th but hey it's fine and uh yeah so it's like you know if we get kids back together in the schools that's going to be a cesspool of uh germs and more of them yeah say it is normally but it's probably worse now they're still using these old school chairs i would think they would have come up with a new chair by now nope this would be the point where we should probably start asking should internet be utility because how are these kids who don't have internet gonna get their schooling mcdonald's starbucks yeah that also aren't open so uh yeah they are now a lot of people are preaching against that i think the white house is against that they say that uh you know i think the quote was something hilarious like we shouldn't let the science get in the way of the education which is just so brilliant isn't this how wrong like did i read about this when rome fell they could be forgiven though it was the first time anybody had tried that and california um they've also posted some scary numbers in terms of cost because you know to to fight this thing we're spending a lot of money and at some point that those debts come due and as we it just you know rolls along nothing changes keeps going bad how do you get that money and i think california among with literally every other state except one did you read which one it was uh rhode island no it's the famous it's the one that's taken our spot for the worst state and west virginia oh alabama alabama alabama is the only state not to do this california is investigating google for potential anti-trust violations google's home state has been a holdout state but now they're like you know what there probably is something to this anti-trust thing now which division of google are you wondering about this ads well not just ads but you know how they use android and chrome and you know their ads their ultimate grip on the world to serve the ad platform sure yeah and uh no everybody was weirded out because california has especially strict laws when it comes to that kind of thing they're like california why aren't you getting into this and i bet they were just like you know there's several filing cabinets full of case files at this point because they were prepping hard before they went into it so bad news for google i don't think they're gonna the what's his name that you can i can't pronounce his name either bachai is uh going to talk to congress yeah and try to talk his way out of it yeah he's uh he's not as charismatic as larry or sergey which is saying something but he's yards ahead of zuckerberg because he's human are any of the big tech people really like people people yeah would you say uh the one that microsoft got wasn't too bad which one the sweaty one balmer yeah bulmer did seem more human than most people gates uh like i feel like gates lawyers over conditioned him to the point that like he didn't he wasn't able to provide any kind of useful response but he's a lot more reasonable in his old age like sometimes he'll post a video to reddit and it's like oh he actually seems like a real human being now or in whereas in like during the anti-trust trials he seemed like a geriatric because he was like i don't know i don't really remember well well i don't know i'm torn on gates because i feel like he does have an evil like depopulation plan but i'm kind of with the whole depopulation thing so i was like i think he's doing it for the wrong reasons but and uh the chinese strife continues with the white house uh they did not get to comment this week on huawei we didn't get a huawei attack from any of the government agencies so instead a different vector attorney general barr accuses hollywood and big tech of collaborating with china now i was hoping to find something substantive that barr had said or something insightful or interesting or something from his vantage point that was anything more than just fear-mongering and shaking his stick and i was disappointed because he like actually i think the last thing like the last thing that he says in this article it's like wow introspective much because uh he's saying it's like oh big big technology is going to toe the line in order to have access to these markets and you know they're going to censor their platforms and we shouldn't do that as americans and it's like aren't you calling for backdoor encryption everywhere like isn't that the thing that you're literally which is very ccp flavored yeah but i don't think the us is different i don't think he's wrong because we've seen plenty of examples of the big tech companies censoring or removing or bowing to the ccp yeah but these companies see i think the problem here is that we're treating them as if they should be proud americans these are global companies they don't care a thing about america aside from it being a really nice revenue stream oh i remembered finally it was uh it's like when these companies get together and stand up against you know these demands from the ccp they can really get something done and it's like dude those companies are standing up against you and this ridiculous backdoor encryption nonsense and he championed the whole fbi apple thing which they also stood up against in unison so well double-edged sword it doesn't matter you get your sound by double standard you get your anti-china article out there it's all good and uh china is the us is not the only country that they're unhappy with actually the the list just keeps growing i mean you got india now australia this is going to be the olympic torch that sets the thing on fire i'm afraid i mean the question is the question is how far do we go to protect them do we have any kind of treaties with them we do so anyway we're talking about taiwan china will sanction lockheed martin over arms sales to taiwan so yeah lockheed martin has sold some stuff to taiwan lucky martin was quick to point out that weapon sales is only about 20 of their their income most of their other income were direct federal contracts things like working on production of the f-35 which is different than just straight-up weapon sales but you put the weapons on the f-35 well that's like we don't sell wheels we sell cars yeah china's not happy that uh the taiwan is uh getting tools with which to resist should the mainland decide to uh to take over so we got some stories about what's going on with the taiwanese parliament come the nonsense section this is taiwan's uh president who just got reelected i like that i like her fashion you know she's it seems like a very uh approachable fashion unlike the hillary pantsuits now the we did not get a huawei story from the us government this week but clearly behind the scenes some politicking has been done about huawei the uk has barred huawei from 5g as the tech battle between china and the west escalates now when we first started reporting on this whole like huawei you know banning telecom equipment blah blah the eu was taking a much cooler approach and the uk said well we haven't seen any evidence yet but if we see evidence we will issue a block interestingly they don't mention any of those older quotes from boris johnson or anything like that other than to say that boris johnson has reversed course but they had announced that they were gonna they were gonna let them in certain parts of it yeah but this is everything yeah but they were going and that was kind of contentious yeah so yeah the the announcement before was basically you know uh you know even if this is compromised equipment it's just going to be on the periphery of the network it doesn't really matter there and so they must have been shown something or there must be some sort of political wrangling going on one or the other uh in order to um in order to have convinced them of that i don't know i've never worked on any huawei equipment but like it was like the hike vision stuff which is also on the band list there's a lot of stuff in there that was like is this just insanely terrible coating or is this a deliberate back door and it kind of airs on the side of a deliberate backdoor the only not only can you not buy it you have to get rid of it but it's a ridiculously long timeline i think it's like 2027 to get rid of it so uh there you definitely uh it's funny because when it comes to a vaccine those headlines will just shock the market every time like if somebody comes out and they're like we got it the s p will just rock it off the charts and then there's like oh we're just kidding you know and it goes right back down it's amazing we got it for rhesus monkeys it turns out it kills people the robots are very susceptible to vaccine hoaxes but the story it's the what this really is like kind of uh it illustrates why this is such a problem in the modern world because you would think once we discovered this the first thing we would try to do above all things is get it to as many people as possible right because the whole idea is it'll keep spreading if we don't do that if there's one pocket of the world that doesn't have it that's a risk to everybody i guess except for the vaccinated which is what it's going to turn out to be because this can be very expensive and it's going to be the haves and the have-nots so this should not be no one should be trying to do this and no one should be trying to stop anybody from doing this russian hackers are linked to uh sweeping attacks to try to steal uh vaccine research it's vaccines for the thing so and this was in the uk so like like the uk they're normally very reserved and whatever uh there's a video of the the guy talking to like the local bbc news service and he you know in the in a very uh you know oxford accent i guess somebody's gonna correct me on that is like this is this is despicable like you know it's like spy versus spy but come on just look at what you're saying but it should be hey russians here's what we've got what do you got let's work together we got to stop this instead it's like oh my god this is so valuable this is this is going to be liquid gold better than liquid gold once we have it so stay out of here we'll let you know the price when we figure it out yeah i do love that it's called cozy bear like the russian intelligence group i think i think we assign those names yeah yeah cause there was another one it was like hesitant kitten or something iranian one fancy bear oh yeah fancy wars the chinese one oh yeah i don't know i i i shudder to think what the price is going to be when that comes out can you imagine when the ability to manipulate genetic material is about three or four more uh you know notches more advanced and and you get a political power that's like north korea and it's like anybody that's not from north korea is going to be horribly infected or your parents opted to save money during your birth and uh let us let you keep this genetic deficiency so now that you're 18 it's gonna be four times as expensive but it's on you now well uh facebook has their own problems with uh the eu leaders not so much anti-trust but the fact that they're just so evil in everything that they do and the whole data collection thing and with gdpr there's all these questions about like if you're facebook and you're looking at data from your eu data centers in the us you are moving that data across borders right is that okay tech firms like facebook must restrict data sent from the eu to the us the court has ruled it's been a long-running legal battle we've reported on it several times but finally there's a ruling it's like no the the data needs to stay in the eu because once it's out of the eu eu laws no longer apply to it and they literally pointed out uh the uh what's his name leak and they're like yeah clearly the nsa is spying on you we can't risk our data coming over there because the nsa will look at our data they're not wrong i'm sure they're spying themselves but we'll see actually i guess we won't see because tesla now uh there was another did you see there was another tesla that hit a parked police vehicle oh i didn't see that yeah i saw it autopilot just smashed it and uh the guy was i don't know if how it played out but they were investigating him for dui so he was apparently a little a little tipsy just turned on the old autopilot and somehow it completely missed like it was a suv with lights on was it was it a cop car was it look like it was an ambulance no i think it was a police suv oh okay there was an ambulance at the scene because it was another car accident but they weren't pulled completely off the road so uh that's unfortunate and it definitely points out the flaws with the quote-unquote autonomous driving that we're supposedly still getting level five this year and uh germany's not having any of it german court bans tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving according to this reuters article it's not just autonomous driving it's two terms that are banned it's like uh autonomous something and then something else and the german court basically said uh anybody that saw this in an advertisement would conclude that uh this does more than it does so you're not gonna be able to use those terms it's autopilot inclusive and full potential for autonomous driving krista the second paragraph under the image could you pronounce the name of this uh german agency no could you try i could try and i'm sure anyone who speaks german will laugh i'm too no i'm too embarrassed too embarrassed you miss all the shots you don't take krista i know it is kind of like a bummer this is probably a reason a lot of americans don't speak other languages you don't really have a lot of opportunities to practice them with like native speakers yeah i've heard people will go to like japan and they'll think oh i'll pick up some of the language i'm in japan but the japanese are so bilingual they want to practice their english yeah when they meet english speakers so they don't speak japanese well here are our countries just so big and like unless you're living close to one of the borders when a chance it's so big and it's so much better than all the other countries i didn't say that remember nso group they're that uh pesky little spyware maker out of israel and they sell their spyware to mostly just governments and very very rich companies and stuff like that they don't sell it to the average these aren't just uh stalker wear makers no this is the really good stuff but the problem is in some uh what you might call despotic governments they've found them to be using the software and they're like whoa whoa how are you vetting these people and they're like uh we only give it to the most you know trustworthy of governments and it seems to be not the case and amnesty international found some instances of that and said we must put a stop to this israeli court rules nso group can continue exporting spyware the specific ruling was that amnesty international didn't con demonstrate conclusively that the nso group had sold the software specifically to spy on amnesty international i it would shock me if that is not in the nso group marketing material if you could get a hold of that so here's a case study with amnesty international let's look at what we did in morocco i don't know if morocco is one of the countries they might have a wonderful government it seems like we've covered morocco doing some nasty things right yeah i think i think most governments have done some nasty things like ours included but i think that's the one where the journalists got attacked by the software yeah i remember misremembering that and uh usually beca so why did amnesty international fail because they had some evidence but you don't get a smoking gun you know it's not like in the movies where there's a beautiful gui and you just smash keys randomly and a little bar fills up you don't get to watch in first person ever how hacking occurs until now iranian spies accidentally leaked videos of themselves hacking ibm's export security team obtained five hours of apt 35 hacking operations showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts and who it's targeting i actually found training materials so wired they didn't share everything that they found with wired but they did share two videos they were set up as demonstration videos for junior people so it's like okay once you've got access to the gmail account or the yahoo account or whatever connected to these third-party applications which will then mirror and download everything and uh it doesn't take long to do that important note for the accounts that we're using two-factor authentication they just move they just put a little mark next to the the account in the list and moved right along why why should you shine chris what do you think about this image it's very uh artsy it is very artsy that's uh that's actually this is live footage this is what it looks like when they hack just like weird symbols and shapes and colors a very new age gui that they created for their hacking although they did point out like you say this this wasn't the quote-unquote hacking part of it this was the part that you want to train the junior members to do because it's just time-consuming but after a successful phishing campaign somebody has to go and collect all those email addresses and get the contents of their stuff so it's like yeah let the interns do that we're busy unfortunate and uh the big tick tock battle rages on everybody was like no don't trust tick tock because they're in china and tick tock was like all right we're out we're leaving hong kong we're going someplace else will they be trusted again i don't know but there is no shortage of targets to choose if tick tock is not on the chopping block yes threatens to restrict to wechat following the tick tock backlash so uh the quote i think from it was from a senator or something and was like we these are apps they just they send all the data directly to china and our kids really like them and they're entertaining we just don't know what's going on and you know our kids don't realize how dangerous this is it's like yeah that's all apps literally all of them yes they point out that uh while tick tock is very popular amongst the western kids wechat is almost universally used by the chinese diaspora i love that word the people that live here but still maintain ties to family background that's what that means and so uh will are we really does it matter so much that the chinese are spying on the chinese just because they're living somewhere else i guess it still does because there are citizens now yeah we must protect them but what if they don't want to be protected they got to talk about people someone dropped protection so much about control and also you know pretending they're tough on china i don't think they're pretending well but yeah finding a way to poke china trying to get that hot war we need it we need something to pull us out of this economic slump that's going to be caused by the lockdown and uh like i said the tic toc thing rages on company after company and organization after organization just keeps stepping up and saying no more tick tock dc in the rsc warned campaigns about using tick tock so if you're going to use it you know as part of your campaign promotional materials get a disposable burner phone how do you think the the chinese diaspora vote traditionally are they red or blue um probably blue i would think i think so i think if you're gonna communist rule well no but blue is more communist than red it's weird it's a weird it's it's more blue than red but it also is really big about self-determination but what about small business yeah red is the small business party yeah i mean is it i don't think it is anymore chinese diaspora in the comments let us know i'm gonna try to use that word as well and how does technology play a role because you know uh something that should be happening in our economy but is not happening as far as i can tell is small upstarts like people like you and me can get together and do some software and completely supplant and replace old guard small businesses that are doing things manually like we can build software to automate things and completely replace destroying jobs well i mean but it's good for the economy because the people that are displaced will learn new skills yeah yeah that's what happens i'm not saying we shouldn't do it flippy service center that's survival of the smartest and so it seems like there are a lot of barriers that prevent us from doing that yeah absolutely and those same barriers do not scale yeah that's the problem it would be fine if everybody played by the same rules but once you reach a certain point just like when it comes like when it comes to personal wealth once you hit a certain number the rules stop applying yeah and you just you just spiral out of control uh and so like the last story there's another brick on the wall here for old tic-tock wells fargo wants employees to delete tick-tock from company phones according to engadget they're citing security concerns i don't know how much of this is their own internal security team has done research and how much of it is just reading the headlines i would have felt better about this if it was our internal security team has audited this blah blah blah no they're they're watching well they said that there were certain they ran a test and they found like something percentage of employees had the app installed but it didn't say anything else about the data that was leaving anything how about the fact that wells fargo is monitoring your apps yeah that's not surprising but it would bother me disheartening what if you know you worked at wells fargo and you got a call and it was like you put in uh 10 hours in pixel dungeon yesterday and we don't believe that that was completely outside of your work hours just based on how much it was now the big story i guess for this week you would have to say was the big twitter hack and the subsequent bitcoin heist that came from it so these stories don't go into the history so much but it was pretty simple a lot of high profile people there was what uh was obama musk bill gates bill gates uh there was people with blue check marks six or seven in total right yeah they all said hey i'm gonna give you double the amount of bitcoin that you send me right now because i'm feeling super generous and these are the kind of people billionaires obama's not a billionaire but he's got some money and you think well maybe they they're crazy enough to do that musk certainly is crazy enough to do something like that and so people are like yeah send the bitcoin i only got was like 180 000 yeah but it only had lasted for 30 minutes so how did they get in what happened trying to put it all back together the new york times has what they claim are the actual people involved this week in business twitter's mystery hackers uh the the short version hilariously is they just paid a twitter employee or a couple of twitter employees to change the email addresses on these accounts with and that's it but they got that yeah internal panel access and that means that they got the ability to change email addresses and other kinds of things and you were talking about how the screenshot of the internal panel is hilarious don't get ahead of yourself first let's talk about that's not the only thing they do and not the only people that were impacted uh oh twitter says that hacker swiped personal data during the big verified user hack according to mashable so uh more than just the seven or eight visible accounts that we named turns out there was a lot more accounts than that that were affected it was just like those iranians they plugged it in and just pulled everything including direct messages what kind of do you think musk has got some really embarrassing stuff in his direct messages yes he's got some embarrassing thing on his public twitter profile sure that's an excellent point i hope that gets linked that'll be hilariously uh fun to read through so and i'd like to say it wasn't just blue checks that they did this to although how do you think they targeted the non-blue checks who's the juicy non-blue check that you could get i'm sure twitter has the full list of accounts and we could probably discern a pattern from that i think they'll give us that but what you were alluding to now this is interesting because uh the verge i did i had to search for this this was not where i usually collate all the news stories from any of the sources i had to search for it the verge did cover it although they didn't really talk about the interesting words in the screenshot i just posted it if you post that screenshot on twitter you will be deleted and possibly banned wow uh they did block out some stuff i think it was like personal details vice has preemptively prophylactically run a story about how this is a crazy conspiracy theory and you're an evil right winger if you talk about it or post a screenshot twitter reveals that its own employee tools contributed to the unprecedented hack twitter says that hackers compromise high profile accounts thanks to access to internal tools and what what internal tool makes it like why do why does twitter twitter employees need a control panel for changing an email address and then there there's this screenshot which is what you're alluding to that's like oh is this real is this not real it's apparently real it's real so even the vice article doesn't uh deny that these tools do exactly what they say which is to say that you can blacklist an entire hashtag or conversation from trending and from search oh yeah blacklist i mean 2020 twitter jesus so triggered but vice is like oh they've had that all along and if you read you know page 5706 of their terms of service it says right there that they do this so why are you getting these crazy conspiracy theories out there but for those the people that are uh pro rescinding uh is it article 230 yeah 230 or 320 230 um their argument is this that they are not just you know hosting they are editorializing and this kind of does point to that i don't agree with getting rid of article 230 that's crazy but it does seem like twitter is picking and choosing what goes on to trending uh you know we've had to editorialize some of the content on our website just because it was a thread that was just going so far into stupid that it just had to be cleansed from the internet and they you do have to appreciate the fact that it is a private business and they can do what they want but they i don't think we've ever lied to anybody about doing that on our website oh yeah that's true and they have said we don't choose what goes on trending it's just but the algorithm figures it out but this is a clear human interaction and with our forum as well like for a long time we just didn't even allow politics or anything like that it was just like it's too much headache to moderate and then we've slowly rolled out where it's like okay it's in a lockdown area you have to be a certain trust level and if you start acting like an you'll ruin it for everybody and so far it's been mostly okay but it can go away at any time but that's the same you know people complaining in the comments is like you shouldn't be political because you don't understand politics which gets the stupidest thing in the world anybody can understand politics it's not anybody can understand being a reasonable human being understanding politics is not the same as understanding the you know the the kabuki political theater that you think is politics yeah how much time we got left let me give you 35 minutes let me give you a little soliloquy here now think about think about politics and think about political coverage that you've seen recently especially running up the 2020 election once upon a time i'd say maybe 60s 70s more people thought professional wrestling was real then didn't and in those days when people talked about professional wrestling they would talk about it as if it were real as if it's like will this person win is this person stronger are they better blah blah blah and then at some point it became glaringly obvious that professional wrestling is not real it's predetermined and then did it go away did people stop talking about it no they just started talking about it in terms of an imaginary third party like how convincing was this wrestling match did they make it look real will this imaginary third party idiot buy into this or will they not now look at political coverage with that same thing in mind because this is like oh will women voters go for trump it's not is trump good for women does he respect women will he do things it's like oh will the third party idiot believe what this person who's obviously lying is saying that's politics see also obama and the whole nsa spying things like this is wrong we got to roll this back and it's like day one in office let's expand that program and the commentators are like are the american people are they gonna buy it are they gonna buy it i like uh i like the way lawrence lessig explained it he did a ted talk and he explained it some of the political processes like lester's it's like the it's like imagine that you have an election system where like the lester's determine who the general who's going to be voted on in the general election the lesser is a as a as just a prop that he uses for explaining the the people that contribute monetarily to the election the people who matter basically so like the lesters are the people who matter which is the place where the congress critters get their money yeah i guess but but when they talk about it on the tv they're talking about it more in terms of just like you know yeah joe average who is still stupid enough to believe that any of it is real not us we're smarter than that and our viewers are smarter than that but we must talk about it in those terms so as you watch political political coverage think about that and look at it and it's like who who is this third party do they exist and uh the we talked last week about the twitch u.s army channel it uh had some uh interesting things happening a lot of people were talking about war crimes in the chat they didn't care for that they decided to ban those people interesting uh aside about that in this story but more importantly they had a little giveaway twitch tells the us army to stop sharing fake prize giveaways sent users to the recruitment page the bait and switch tactic promised viewers an xbox elite series 2 controller the us army said hey if they join up we're going to give them an xbox elite series 2 controller after two tours you know they get for free a really really amazing prosthetic leg that's not free you won't believe how good it is that's not that's quite far for free actually terms and conditions may apply uh the other thing about interesting about that story remember when trump when it was ruled that trump is not allowed to delete responses to his tweets or block people because he is a government office they rule the same thing here you can't delete war crime chat in the twitch chat because it's government that's free speech nice good job twitch interesting might be fun to go to the old u.s army twitch channel see what's going on five years from now we're going to be brought up on terrorism charges for that comment inciting violence or something krista we're at 39 minutes so i think we have time uh do you still have planted pumpkinhood going on on your patio yes unfortunately well now we're in the middle of a heat wave here in kentucky so it's it's aborting pumpkins like mad apparently pumpkins don't like extreme heat i've tried kind of like moving them into the shade a little bit but it's it's not happening it's not happening for me i may try adding uh calcium to the soil i think someone mentioned that might might be part of it but no i don't know you know this is controversial but do you believe that pumpkin life begins at pollination yes and even when i have to hand pollinate artificially which is against god frankly we don't have enough bees to get it done normally at least like i was stupid i didn't plant any flowers i didn't plant any like pollinators things that attract pollinators in my garden this year and and i'm paying for it now rookie mistake yeah give us a twilight of the pumpkins slash rookie gardener goodbye goodbye perfect i don't know why the pumpkin sounds like that because they're dead it's your fault\n"