Mike Lindell's New Social Media Site Launch Results in Legal Threat

Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has announced plans to launch his own social media site. The news has already sparked controversy and resulted in a legal threat.

This move is reminiscent of when Twitter started gaining popularity, and several clients came to our agency seeking to start their own version of Twitter for a specific niche. We would often advise them that this idea was not viable due to the challenges of attracting users to such a specialized platform. However, Mike Lindell's reasoning for launching his social media site is different. He has been banned from various platforms due to his views on election integrity and COVID-19 protocols.

As a result, he sees an opportunity to create his own platform where he can share his thoughts and opinions without fear of censorship or demonetization. This decision may be driven by his perception that the mainstream social media platforms are biased against him due to his affiliation with President Trump and his views on election integrity.

The launch of Lindell's social media site is also a response to the growing trend of platforms banning users who express certain views or opinions. This has led to concerns about free speech and censorship, with many arguing that such actions amount to a form of silencing dissenting voices.

Lindell's decision to create his own platform may be seen as an attempt to circumvent these restrictions and reach his audience directly. However, it remains to be seen whether his social media site will be successful in attracting users who share similar views or opinions.

Twitter Algorithm Under Fire

The news of Lindell's social media site launch has also led to a conversation about the algorithm that governs Twitter. The platform has been criticized for its tendency to promote certain types of content over others, often based on factors such as engagement metrics and user behavior.

Some argue that this algorithm creates an echo chamber effect, where users are only exposed to content that reinforces their existing views. This can make it difficult for opposing viewpoints to be heard and can contribute to the spread of misinformation.

Others have pointed out that Twitter's algorithm is often opaque, making it difficult for users to understand how content is being promoted or demoted. This lack of transparency has led some to accuse Twitter of being biased against certain types of content or perspectives.

The Washington Post's Handling of a Sensitive Topic

There was also an incident involving the Washington Post, which reported on a recording that appeared to show a Republican official saying that votes were being stolen in Georgia. However, the post later retracted the article and acknowledged that it had made an error.

Lindell had been one of the sources for the story, but he claimed that the quote from him had been taken out of context. The Washington Post ultimately apologized for its mistake and expressed regret for any confusion or harm caused by the article.

The incident highlights the challenges of reporting on sensitive topics, particularly when it comes to election integrity. It also underscores the importance of verifying information before publishing it, as well as being transparent about one's sources and methodology.

3D Printing Controversy

There was also a separate controversy involving a man who had been arrested for 3D printing certain types of materials, including silencers. The case has raised concerns about the regulation of 3D printing technology and the potential for misuse.

Some have argued that the government's response to the situation is too harsh, and that it could be seen as an overreach into citizens' rights to free speech and self-defense. Others have pointed out that there are legitimate concerns about the potential risks associated with certain types of 3D printed materials.

The incident has also raised questions about the use of technology in policing, particularly when it comes to surveillance and control. As technology becomes more advanced, it is likely that we will see more instances like this in the future.

Friday's Security Briefing

For Friday's security briefing, we will be discussing some pressing issues related to online safety and security. We will also be covering some recent developments in the world of social media, including Lindell's new platform launch.

As always, we will be providing expert analysis and insights on the latest threats and trends in the field of cybersecurity. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out, our briefing is designed to help you stay ahead of the curve and protect yourself from online risks.

Engagement Challenge

We also want to encourage our audience to participate in an engagement challenge. We will be hosting a live discussion on Twitter, where we will be discussing some of the issues raised during the security briefing. If you are interested in participating, simply follow us on Twitter and use the hashtag #securitychallenge.

By participating in this challenge, you will have the opportunity to engage with our experts and other participants, and help shape the conversation around online safety and security. Don't miss out – join us live on Friday!

Bookshelves and Cool Bookends

On a lighter note, we want to hear from you about your favorite bookshelves and cool bookends. As we settle into our new home office space, we are looking for ways to add some personality and style to the room.

Whether you have a modern minimalist aesthetic or a more eclectic approach, we want to hear about your favorite books and how they inspire you. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter using the hashtag #bookshelves, and let's get the conversation started!

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is the smaller transistors now right no wait what no oh it's 2021. the no the design for this cpu was designed for the low uh the 10 nanometer transistors we just we're not we're not using them and they had to give up cores yeah so you cram all that in there but they did get the big clock speed and they are really hanging their hat still on that gaming although if you live in europe you can accidentally buy the i7 right now but it's not technically out yet because they screwed up i put it on ebay you can't lose and another one that if you can get a hold of it probably got a nice little turnover you can make a decent amount of money and it's gone the amd radeon rx 6700 xd review impressive 1440p pc gaming uh you know honestly overall the roundup of all the reviewers it kind of got a lukewarm reception it's a decent card but you could literally you know as steve from gamers nexus says you could literally sell anything in this market you could put out a potato with a displayport connector and it would sell and you'd be lucky to get that right now yeah yeah you know that an rx 480 was going for like 450 dollars that cpu was or that gpu was 250 at launch like four years ago that's crazy and you might not personally be in the market for one of these but they are also in short supply and it will have an impact on your life eventually because these are going in the servers that you use every day epic 7003 series unveiled big iron zen 3 takes flight so i actually have some of these i'm doing some content with these it's pretty awesome you can you can rent them in amazon and azure right now but uh yeah if you want to build a system the lead time at like dell.com is like two months don't give nvidia any ideas about just renting us hardware from now on oh uh they did make a change their uh their their game streaming subscription thing doubled in price we got a story about it oh okay that should be the next one unless i deleted it i might have deleted it because it was a lot that was the story was it's twice as much now for games you already own you can now stream it from the cloud for twice as much you know right now i'm doing the microsoft subscription thing it's five dollars but i know they're going to double that as well and i don't think i could keep doing it for 10. although i'm still paying 11 a month for ai dungeon really you haven't gotten rid of that yet i keep forgetting have you played it at all no i got 2 000 like my credits are maxed out i'm just leaving money on the table well it is really good like i would feel bad everybody like killing killing a puppy or something because it's like well it is smart it'd be like you know going to willy wonka's chocolate factory killing willy wonka and then skinning his face and wearing it but it's it's kind of like a relationship in the sense that the stuff that used to be cute starts to get annoying it's a fun way to think about it i guess all games have some sense of that oh i discovered the grindy aspect of this game like valheim valham has that grind yeah well last week we had the big headline that uh everybody was all up in arms about and there were poor updates and i was like is it real is it not it turned out it wasn't real and yet at the same time was but we didn't know yet are you confused yet well nvidia confirms it accidentally unlocked rtx 3060 ethereum mining a major mistake from nvidia so last week what you were talking about is we reported that other places were reporting that the ethereum mining limiter had been broken uh that was not true at the time but since then nvidia has self-owned it's a developer driver that was never supposed to get to the public it did now of course they pulled it down as soon as they figured that out but the internet being the internet it's never going to go away it's always going to be out there for you to get if you want to use that card to mine ethereum and you probably don't have to worry too much about future driver updates if all you're doing is mining ethereum you don't need game ready drivers for ethereum but if you weren't mining ethereum it didn't even affect you anyway it almost seems like it was just marketing nonsense or they saw some sales results from not letting the miners do what they want and they were like oh let's just create an accident yeah how could we do this but still look like we're trying to fight for the gamers i think that might have been what went down there now this is something that you talk about a lot like literally every time it comes up yeah i think i i think this will be a thing this particular one i don't think this particular this particular one motorola is trying that your phone can be a pc thing again ready for it is the company's take on samsung's decks for edge plus users if you haven't actually used samsung's dex it's not actually completely terrible it's okay but the idea here is uh you know you got a doc the phone is your main computing source for all things it goes into the dock the dock has more peripherals maybe it's more memory maybe a video card whatever but your phone is basically your cpu that you carry around with you at all times maybe i think it could work but it would take a level of polish in the software ecosystem that we have only ever really seen from apple because google doesn't get it yeah and if apple made something like that would you try it no no i might try it but i wouldn't i wouldn't base my workflow around it yeah i think that right now most people would not be willing to spend that much on a phone that you would need to spend to get the proper power he's like one of those rog phones would be a good thing for that yeah like oh just put it in there and blast a cooler on it and all of a sudden this may be okay for a cpu yeah i mean for a lightweight email like what you're doing that you would normally do with like a tablet it'd be fine but those are still just that snapdragon 888 so you still would you're never going to get desktop power from that but it worked maybe that didn't matter well you might with the m1 because the m1 is is really bananas i mean the m1 and like the ipad the ipad is basically a laptop experience with a keyboard which is just insane that they're they're able to do that come to the dark side wendell but they would make that five thousand dollars yeah yeah yeah well this is what you were talking about earlier these new subscription services i think they sort of were playing the game that okay everybody's trapped at home we have more eyeballs than ever before seeking out entertainment let's give them some low low prices then next year that being now will double everything geforce now's paid subscription is doubling in price and video will keep the price the same for founders subscribers so this is like i i don't get this maybe engagement challenge if you own the game why don't you just steam stream it to yourself it's built into steam you can do that remotely not on your local network you might have jumped through some hoops maybe it's frowned upon uh did they still sell the hardware was it the shield i think they called it yeah that could be one reason i don't think that was a huge seller though yeah i mean just i want to do gaming on the go i think the answer is you don't realize that other thing is there yeah this makes it easy it's a it's an anti-pattern though it's like you can pay us a lot of money for something that you didn't know you already had some of you after hearing about all these new cpus and gpus and stuff coming out all this new excitement you might be thinking oh we're starting to see the wave is starting to crest and the chip shortage is on its way out maybe by the end of the summer i don't know things can be back to normal wouldn't that be great nope and samsung throws a big bucket of ice water all over you samsung warns of severe chip crunch while delaying the their key phone so this article does point out that uh the fab manufacturing thing in texas is still kind of pretty much offline uh it's coming back online but there was that winter event which basically ruined all of the production but not just this that like samsung is reaching out to a bunch of other people trying to shore up production and the places that they're reaching out to are already at capacity so it's just going to be super disruptive because nothing is operating on all cylinders the note is the phone that they're thinking about just not even bothering this year don't refresh it why because why would you and other companies are feeling the same kinds of problems but the thing about other industries i mean for the phone the whole phone is dependent on that but in other industries only small parts of their products are dependent on these chips so what do you do if you can't get them but 98 of your product is still there gm apparently is just gonna leave them out gm builds pickups without certain modules due to global chip shortage hurting fuel economy so we've talked about this you you know i think your your vehicle has a thing where it's like let's selectively control how the engine fires it's the lifters if they would they didn't clarify that but i think it is the the lifters in the four cylinder mode if they sell a whole year of these without that the resale on these is going to be incredible because everybody hates that yeah it might be just gm being like oh no the chip shortage oh we're going to make our vehicles more desirable well no the reason they do that they know that everybody hates that but they need to keep the entire fleet below a certain mile per gallon so they're last year nobody bought cars so they have credits so they can use those credits to offset so this doesn't hurt them next year they might not be able to do this again maybe they can get a special waiver just like look how we're suffering i don't think the epa cut of any bricks especially not under biden yeah well the old epa was basically gutted so you know i don't know yeah but they're going to fill it up with blue hairs that's going to be crazy nokia yeah nokia still exists they still make phones remember when they were it was like you know company like nokia was the microsoft of uh yeah literally everybody had that same phone yeah and it was a good phone it really was yeah and i'm like in a way we've lost a lot since then and then microsoft partnered with nokia and then it was just and it hasn't hasn't gotten any better since then nokia is going to cut up to 10 000 jobs over the next two years which you know that was like a decade ago and that it still has fallout for nokia tells you just how bad of a move that was well they also face a lot more competition these days but they owned the market if they had just made a product that wasn't awful it would have been fine adapter died they couldn't die that was like the blackberry thing like nobody's gonna buy that without a keyboard are you stupid uh apple gets a lot of flack because they talk about this walled garden but if you look very closely at the walls of the garden they're quite porous and one thing that they definitely do not like is people pointing that out ios developer who drew attention to the app store scams is now suing apple developer costa ella i'm sorry i mispronounced your name uh accuses apple of abusing its monopoly power so he he wrote an app that was very successful um as a keyboard and according to him apple wanted to uh i guess uh buy the application or something like that and the guy that wanted to buy the application was the guy that did a swipe originally because he did the swipe keyboard and then apple hired him and then he's oversaw and some other things there's a lot of really interesting stuff in this lawsuit so i want to watch this one really closely because the guy's documentation in the lawsuit is pretty well put together i think he's got a little bit of an uphill battle here with apple but what he accuses apple of is really the kind of thing that we're always sort of saying like this is what this is why apple is is too big to care about individuals in this case it wasn't that they were ignoring him is that they were shining a spotlight on him deliberately sabotaging him so he claims that he became the number one app on the app store for a while there and after that happened that's they showed interest before then but after that he was making something like a 130 grand a month a week or wow he started getting a lot of like ripoff apps showing up trying to steal his advertising trying to steal his name trying to pretend to be him trying to do other fishy things and when he would go to apple about that they would just do nothing because they're like oh you know what would really help this if you sold it to us and then uh there was some update that he did to the app and they didn't want to approve the update but he'd partner with some other company and they accepted that update immediately with no problems there's a lot of really damning things in the it'll be interesting to see how apple responds it's one thing to think of google and apple as this you know this monolithic building where there are no entrances and you just like you're scratching the walls and you can't get to them because it's so ivory tower it's another thing to think of them standing up on that ivory tower with like spy glasses watching you and being like that one destroy that one and that seems to be what i mean unless we're not hearing their side of the story here it certainly looks like that another thing that apple has changed and has changed the world by doing is letting these developers keep a little bit more of their money only the first million google play drops commissions to 15 percent from 30 percent asterisk following apple's move last year so this is only on an app developer's first million of revenue gotta dangle the carrot just a little bit lower so we have an even more healthy ecosystem of apps that cost many thousands of times more hours and dollars to develop than most people will ever get out of them on average there's a quote in here and uh it's fantastic oh yeah here we go so this is obviously someone posed a question to them and they're like why are you just arbitrarily cutting it off at a million because there's a lot of small developers who might be making two million what about those people and this uh you know i don't know about this one we've heard from our partners making 2 million 5 million and even 10 million a year that their services are still on a path to self-sustaining orbit so yeah this guy picks up the phone he calls the developer he's like uh what you're making two million how are things and that developer was like listen i could don't send me any more money we were thinking about lowering your commission to 15 how does that sound no no no no no take it or leave it don't put me in another tax bracket i just can't handle it you know i'm good where i'm at that never happens that's ridiculous huawei obviously they're having problems they lost a major market and they uh even though they used not blocking them too right so they're in trouble in a lot of ways the question is how do you continue to generate revenue when everyone is turning against you well it turns out they have something in the old warehouse huawei is looking to collect 5g royalties from apple and somebody else that i've forgotten everybody basically yeah everybody that uses it it's like they've got the intellectual they've got the patents right i mean that's are these these companies in violation of their patents this is not the qualcomm way certainly they're light-handed on this they're gonna max out at two dollars fifty cents per handset that's as much as they're gonna charge for these patents but when you think about the number of phones it's still yeah that's a decent amount of money a large number yeah and i don't know how often you would pay that but they're refreshing these lines every year so it could be good for them i guess this is incredible i wish we could get one of these how hard do you think it'd be for us to get one of these and will it work outside of their warehouse i'd say that i could get one but i don't think it'll work outside their warehouse because i want to play these games don't you no no i don't no i don't yeah really i think that could be fun anyway uh we've talked previously about amazon and you know the little thing you have to wear on your wrist and a lot of people have been you know derogatory about that because it's kind of a slave caller in some ways but amazon says no no no that's not a slave caller that's an entertainment device amazon expands the gamification program that encourages warehouse employees to work harder so you wear your little thing and it's like hey your best pick was 300 pics per hour do you think you can do 302 some of them are like that i think it is a little bit more divorced from the process than that but other ones it's kind of like you earn credits to play the games but here's a question when do you have time to play these games when they don't even let you go to the bathroom how long until we've got an augmented reality headset that's just like the pyro in steam and that's like you're you're you know doing like the most mundane drudgery but you put on the ar helmet and there's like so happy you're saving square babies from a fire by moving them from this bin over into this bin it's not on fire and sometimes the babies burn and you get a demerit this baby was not moved fast enough but and then you get shocked by your little wristlet i had to pee but this ar world that you're thinking about may not be all that far off i can definitely see a merger happening here you know so some uh two big companies working together to destroy humanity that's huge opportunity facebook mit's technology review reports that facebook is making a bracelet that lets you uh control computers with your brain like the amazon bracelet it basically works the same way facebook's vision of this is that it works with augmented reality so the bracelet knows what you're doing with your hands and there's a picture here of like a virtual you know like bow and arrow oh they deleted their snapchats that happens a lot have you noticed that yeah there was totally images get deleted later so this is uh we've talked about this before but there's this amazing thing where when your brain sends impulses to your nerves even before you move that intent can be detected and even people who have lost limbs their nerves will still send these signals so this bracelet claims to pick up on those signals just thinking about moving your arm gets those nerves firing i saw a vr demo that was doing uh face tracking as well as uh finger tracking and so like your digital vr avatar where you're interacting with other people was keeping track of your finger movements exactly and your face and mouth movement and expressions in your virtual avatar exactly well that steam controller like you can play the piano with that right that's pretty impressive i saw that the new ps5 has those haptic triggers have they done it yet where you have to like it's a trigger breaking on a gun because i've always wanted that from my controller no idea so if you yank it you your shot goes off correctly man if somebody could come up with that that's gonna ruin the lives of these call of duty kids who's like wait a minute what you just yank it right cryptocurrency is big right now although bitcoin is taking a little bit of a breather but it's still strong above 50 000 i think yeah unless that changed today and those numbers as we've seen in recent weeks mean that more and more of the big dogs of finance are getting involved morgan stanley is the latest big name it becomes the first big u.s bank to offer its wealthy client access to bitcoin funds uh five million you gotta have like five six million available five if you're institutional two if you're retail yeah so uh and also i don't know why you would do this instead of just buying bitcoin unless you're old and you don't understand it you're diversifying the bitcoin with other things like gamestop is gme still up on the on the rise it kind of went jumped back up briefly i haven't looked at it it hasn't crashed to where it should have but it came pretty far down okay i think it's in like the 220s at the moment or yesterday it was so crazy it's crazy that all of those executives are probably gonna have time to sell stock at these prices really did them a big favor i bet they all have alt accounts on wall street beds keep pumping guys thanks for the retirement yeah uh morgan stanley is not the only one who's looking to get into this i was disappointed at uh btc times that's a great domain isn't it because no one i i saw maybe you saw this is how exactly they're dealing with point-of-sale transactions with bitcoin do they just have a giant mass of coins that they float probably and settle at the end of the day that's dangerous visa plans to enable bitcoin payments at 70 million merchants jokes on you they bought the bitcoins five years ago so they're not floating anything yeah well that would definitely be a smart business model but in the future they have to keep doing this so yeah they want you know you're going to be able to just literally have bitcoin on balance at visa and buy things with them but then you've also got the transaction costs yeah how are they dealing with that again it points to settling at the end of the day or several times a day and hoping for the best it's the lightning network and if you are one of these people who uh chrissy you were one of these people until recently which is insane you just don't you're just not part of the credit world yeah i just don't i didn't have a credit card for a long time but maybe you take it even further than that you don't even participate in the banking system there are a lot of people when i always i always ask people it's like who is going to payday loan stores literally everybody well some people don't have no other options who doesn't have the option of opening a bank account people don't have any money yeah people who don't have the minimum balance requirement so they don't get fined all the but the minimum balance at a bank is way less than payday loan costs if you don't have that money right away like that's why you don't do it well again if you are one of those people how do you get how do you become part of the bitcoin revolution if you don't have a bank account you're never getting a coin yes but maybe there's a solution bitcoin atms are coming to a gas station near you a new feature has appeared at smoke shops in montana gas stations in the carolinas and delhi's far-flung corners of new york city i like how you know you hop in your car it's like hey let me go get some vape juice and then you're like well while i'm here i'm just yeah i grab some bitcoin you know grab you know half gallon of milk some bread now these are gonna go in dollar generals do you think how long before that that would be huge they do charge as much as uh six percent which is crazy i don't know if that's on top of the costs to uh actually pay for the bitcoin transaction or if that's incorporated no idea also i think you have to register beforehand you have to have the app on your phone and like you're not just getting anonymous bitcoin if you're dreaming of putting a 20 bill in and it's spitting out a string of numbers no that's not how this works that's what i was dreaming of that's not gonna happen we saw that uh now so here's here's my my nightmare do you put this in the government section or do you put it in the business section i put it in the business section because uber made the decision but then after i read it it was kind of like they didn't really have a choice did they and at first uber agrees to classify british workers or british drivers as workers so they didn't really agree they lost the court case about a month ago and they can't figure out a way around it so guess what that's how it's going to be this place should have been with like the spain story right but in spain it was the spanish government although again on re-reading and actually reading this new york times painted it as uber agrees being kind you know that's kind of like agreeing to a sex act when there's a gun to your head you're not really consenting they tried to find a way around it but it just it didn't work and this one is a i suppose you could say this is one of the rare feel-good stories but i think this number is real low don't you yeah how many seconds engagement challenge okay i know that number to get this back uh oh no i don't know that but i know how many man years they saved based on their steam player no but i'm saying based on what they're getting every day this is less than a minute don't you think yeah rockstar pays ten thousand dollars to the modder who fixed the gta online loading times developer worked on uh the official patch following the user's work and cutting down load times by 70 percent it worked on like copied and pasted yeah it's like oh that's a good idea let's do it that way um they put some comments in it but you know it's it's all the other guy based on uh the steam stats somebody somebody i don't know how accurate this is but like based on the steam stats for like how many people were playing that game for a given week they saved two thousand two hundred years of time for the players oh you mean in load time i can't believe it that's great 2 000 years of low time saved they should i mean beyond the 10 000 they should make him a character in the game yeah yeah this should do something else for him krista do you know are you hip to cry cut i always thought it was just called a cricket oh yeah that makes more sense actually doesn't it yeah i've always heard it pronounced as cricket but then the other day someone called it a crack it might have been you and i was like no i've never heard of it before i've never heard it pronounced either but do you know about it are you is that part of your world uh if it's what if i think it is yeah yeah it's like a crafting yeah crafty i say my sister-in-law had one for a while yeah oh does she still have it i don't think so i think i saw her put it on the facebook marketplace oh well that's a real problem because whoever she sells it to isn't just going to be able to turn it on and use it yeah you want me to read this title or okay cricket decides to charge rent for people to fully use the cutting machines they already own that uh that sucks pulling the old john deere move well this the software was web-based and they've introduced a new limitation to the software that wasn't there before which is you can only upload so many designs per month and unless you pay that 9.99 but beyond that when you sell it it's your account is in there and unless you can authenticate that account you cannot use it unless you do a full reset and start over with a new account but it's not super obvious that you have to go through those steps especially if you're buying it secondhand and this was not always the case people bought these before this was the case and then it was like uh we've changed the deal weirdly popular like my sister-in-law's not the only person i saw with one of these like well they point out pop up on facebook marketplace all the time so there's a big like second-hand market for them they point out that it's huge with crafters because it's one of the cheapest ones you can get yeah and they estimate that you know this was a calculated risk and thinking that well the etsy crowd ain't going to know how to deal with this yeah they're just going to be like oh that's what it costs okay fine whereas a more tech savvy crowd would probably lose their mind yeah they would tweet the hackaday article actually suggested some other alternatives that you know doesn't use cloud software so definitely not a piece of machinery that needs to be on the cloud and that is true of most things but really really true for that one but my toaster really needs to be on the cloud i would say there's a better argument for the toaster than theirs for that thing what's the argument for the toaster you can monitor so like you go to the other room if you're doing a really long toast it lets you make sure it's not burning while you're in the other room exactly the real estate market continues to be in jeopardy because we're learning more and more at this point i think we've got plenty of solid data nobody needs to go to an office anymore at least most people don't and companies are cashing in salesforce has cancelled its huge downtown office lease in san francisco since this is sf gate it talks about how that's a big problem for downtown san francisco especially this particular developer because they kind of already spent that money yeah so it's been delayed a couple of times before just because of uh rules and stuff that uh san francisco wanted them to follow um i you know i don't really i think that san francisco is still going to be even with this mass exodus of people i think that they're still not going to be hard-pressed to find something to do with that space homeless hotel yeah let's see or just turn it into housing like that seems to be a big problem it's probably not zoned for housing right we need a 3d printable high rise though they have to like there's the wind at that height yeah is really dangerous i think you need some steel you put you put like a grocery store cafe in the bottom of the building and then you put apartments above it i you maybe i don't know if san francisco would support a grocery store like that maybe you should get into development krista continue to continue the real estate dream that you've been in living for the past couple of years get back into that world i do feel kind of weird cause i don't browse zillow anymore i'm like oh it's like it just it's dead to me now i uh i gave i told christa who i used as a realtor because she did a decent job and then kristy used her as well so i got a little letter from her the other day and i was like oh did she hit me off with like a restaurant gift card or something that's a magnet calendar refrigerator but it's exactly what you needed though right no i don't need a mountain calendar it's a picture of her on a calendar don't forget about me again still frame it i was thinking like 15 at red lobster yeah just a little something now a lot of times i will add a story just because i know how one of these two is going to react to it if it's star trek or lord of the rings or you know whatever knight rider just throw it in because you know it's going to be good and i have to admit this one was purely for krista's reaction this makes me angry hundreds of cups oh i almost said the word yeah yeah go ahead hundreds of cases reported at tesla plant falling must defiant reopening county data shows i don't think that this is probably unique to his factory but but he fought really hard do you remember yeah i have another friend who's working in a factory and uh they were like oh we'll take all the precautions they do not it was like 400 cases wasn't it it was a lot yeah yeah so uh you know in hindsight he might have been wrong about that around 450 total reported cases i hope nobody died in a month but safety precautions cost me money i wonder if i mean we'll never know this because it's you'd have to have you'd have to look at his books did it cost him more money losing those people or staying shut down stayed shut down obviously so he's still benefited from this no matter how bad it was didn't he get it yeah yeah he did this is probably going to happen and my god this is i mean journalism has been sliding down a terrible slope and that's just becoming more and more you know slippery but this is the sheer cliff there's nothing below this this is as bad as it can get and our world is going to change after this daily telegraph plans to link journalists pay with article popularity daily telegraph soon to be much more like tick tock than we would all care to admit unfortunately fortunately this article does talk about how the journalists like lost their mind which is good they recognize oh blah blah blah but also you know they in in a backhanded kind of a way the journalists were also saying we can't believe that management is this clueless who have we let lead us because they're not saying it's not cluelessness this is hard-boiled cynicism they know how to make money but one journalist pointed out it's like i have an editor my editor assigns me stories and i usually get signed assigned political stories so you're telling me as a hardcore reporter doing politics i'm gonna make an eighth of the money of the person doing uh celebrity fashion yeah that's the world we're going to now and it is how can you argue against that and so every time you see one of those little polyps on a website it's like support journalism this is what you're supporting yeah store.level1tx.com support us because the algorithm does not like us but you can't find any journalism there no you know what you can't find though misinformation about the global situation on store to level onetext.com no no from the algorithm like the algorithms are really interested in that yeah we have just like a long pdf it's not it's not super interested in our and our luxurian uh uh protector things it's glorious where's your second one you're supposed to be wearing two it's two layers no that doesn't count that doesn't care about that this uh i'm not a tender user but this makes me want to start using tinder just so i can see my own results aren't you curious a little bit yeah twitter users will soon be able to access a background check database data is coming first to tinder but we'll probably be in other match group apps as well so there's a service providing this i can't wait to like let's roll in credit score and the vehicle that you drive and you know just put it all in there let's let's say the name of what they're investing in it's the name of it it's a non-profit female founded background check platform called garbo as in the shortage for garbage i don't think that's a recognized shortage for cars no i have but i don't think it's like a real word you know it's just a it's a slang term but like why would you name your platform that because it's so hard to name things okay why do we call ourselves love one text because we spent weeks trying to figure something out yeah couldn't think of anything good but uh here's the crazy thing about this you need a first name and a phone number does tinder give the other person your phone number not immediately i don't think yeah i thought you messaged them through the app maybe after get them up in the dms maybe after you like figure out that you're compatible with somebody then you exchange phone numbers then you do the background check is that how that works now they got your phone number so i guess if you're uh some sort of sexual predator on tinder get a google phone number before you go on there no it's your your mobile isn't it yeah it's gonna be it's smart i'm so glad that i met my husband before like apps like tinder were a thing because it seems like it's like especially exhausting having to do the dating app thing chrissy you didn't do that i might admit maybe but tinder's been around for a while right i don't remember it being popular around the time me and my husband started dating like there were there were online dating platforms but tinder was not a thing yet it was all online like it wasn't apps yet did you get the uh moderna uh tomorrow oh ooh next week the uh the eulogy episode no he's gonna really start shilling hard for microsoft products that's what happens well we shouldn't joke about that right because you're not allowed to joke about that you're not allowed to question it or anything anything other than just go do it and stop asking questions is not allowed especially on facebook bloomberg reports that facebook is going to label and add information to posts on uh on the vaccine here according to this bloomberg article is that the one you're getting what darn it uh i think that's what's available around here yeah like through our local hospital that's the one they're doing that's not the one i want which one do you want i think pfizer is the way to go right definitely not johnson johnson or astrazenka you know we'll just demonetize this episode yeah you're saying those words yeah yeah twitter uh has some interesting stuff now last week we talked about remember the true the girl's name was true oh yeah yeah and the they didn't have any sort of string and handling for that so this is almost as embarrassing but you i really really really want to know what led to this all right because they had to create this yeah were they testing or was some kind of crazy explanation for this twitter book automatically suspends you when tweeting memphis so the algorithm or an operator error uh created a situation where if your tweet contained memphis you were automatically uh banned for 12 hours and memphis happens to have sports teams and sometimes they play games which causes them to trend on twitter and uh that's unfortunate oh no literally just said memphis how about the fact that they were able to register uh an alt account so easily at bleeping computer bleeping test isn't there supposed to be safeguards against that jokes on you they've had bleeping tests for years now since the first time twitter dropped the ball well they didn't have it for those 12 hours did they i am fascinated by mike lindell do you know his story yeah well a little bit yeah the cocaine and the thing crack oh crap he was like way into crack super super like you know down and out nothing left and then somehow he came up with this pillow company i've never tried one of those pillows but my mom is the biggest sucker for infomercials in the world and she was like i need these pillows and i got him four and she's like these are terrible pillows yeah mama same thing and uh he doesn't seem to have great pillows but he is good at marketing and maybe that is why everybody is so terrified of him doing this mike my pillow ceo mike lindell is trying to launch a social media site and it's already resulted in a legal threat ah just yeah this reminds me of like when we had like around the time twitter started getting popular i feel like we had multiple clients come to us and they're like i want to start something that's like twitter but only for this one niche and that every time we'd be like that's not a good idea because you're not going to get the kind of users but that's that's not why he's doing it he's doing it because he's been banned from everything else yeah because he's a big uh you know trump won the election guy there goes the money yeah they're going for real now that was not serious that was a joke algorithm well we know that but the computer won't well since we're doomed on the demonetization i didn't i didn't include this story for this reason did you see the they found that recording find the votes yes never said it no well he did for the georgia one because that one was published he didn't say it the washington post lied about it so that guy the post got the quote from that guy he deleted it but he left it in the recycle bin they did uh an evidence search and found it and listened to it he never said it never uttered that phrase washington post retracted it on like you know page 5000 but nobody reported that weird that's not weird no it's what they've been doing the whole time i heard that i thought you were gonna say the whole 3d printing thing you know that guy that they arrested for 3d printing stuff he's going to agree to a plea because he had a silencer he wasn't supposed to have is that the the ghost gun guy yeah that's unfortunate yeah especially considering you know we're going to need those real soon they were i mean they absolutely threw the book at him and it's like it's clear that this is like a politically made motivated prosecution not you know criminal intent or anything but it's like it's part of the plea deal it's like you agree that everything that we said about this stuff is true in terms of like your manufacturing stuff and blah blah blah they want that to be chilling yeah because they know that it's super is if they get away with this assault weapon ban which is just madness everybody's going to get one of those and it's not that hard to do like worse of a note to end on than the emp scare what do we got for friday friday's uh the only thing we haven't done yet which is is it just nonsense security security security nonsense big security section this week chris i know you're excited about that that's fine that's fine we got lots of nonsense too krista did you notice all the comments that were saying how attractive you looked in your new home i did not see that oh there's a lot of them i got my my camera and stuff set up in here and i finally got a blackout curtain hung though it's not perfect i need to get another one i'm just one panel on it right now you know what's hilarious about that is most of them thought maybe the lighting was doing it and now you've taken that away i mean the lighting probably helped yeah because i mean it's better than what it was so before i just had a blanket over the window so this is definitely an improvement i don't know i think uh the background lighting and people are liking that as well so uh you know it's a big positive response from your new your new home office baby steps no i'm looking at bookshelves only mildly resisting your youtuber status at this point i want to get some some like cool bookends what's the coolest book in chat lego bookends i don't want legos you look cool you should you should go to like find find a local artist or something i've seen ones that look like um they're like the the geodes or whatever you should get some of those those are also cool that's gonna cost like a hundred dollars a local artist well i want something made in chinese for cheaper well we'll see what links they come up with chris how about they'll impress us they probably will no they might get flagged by youtube if they post a link in the comment yeah i was gonna say engagement challenge and yet youtube will block links except for the most highly trusted users we'll put a space http space yeah you're going to be installing so much malware on your computer you're like oh i want to find a cool bookend oh no why why is this booking on pastebin okay i'm only going to go to the domains i recognize all right so friday security and uh nonsense be there or be square you\n"