"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody today is december 21st 23rd and we're doing business and social media news today it's almost xmas it is i almost got through it without messing up the the date and then i said 23rd it's disappointing have you noticed that a lot of places are now saying december holidays you're not allowed to say even xmas is not allowed anymore well it's just december holidays i guess that's inclusive well happy honda days do you think that there will be a lot of gifts under the tree for little x oh you mean you mean what's his face as kids yeah yeah how do they pronounce it they it doesn't pronounce anything like how it's spelled i think it's kyle right i swear i think i read an article that said it was kyle yeah probably that's insane what do you think the net worth of his christmas will be uh just 250 000 oh you know who hates that what about his other kids they have like five or six other kids boys snakes angry about the bowl that's my job that's the boiler snake mating call or it sounds too much like the boys it was like oh my turn well mr mux mux mr musk will probably um how much time you think he spends with that family during christmas uh it's probably a very carefully apportioned like 8.4 percent of his waking hours he's just the whole time he's like gotta get out of here uh but he does have perhaps some good news to bring to his family other than his billions of dollars for the christmas season boring company proposal proposes massive vegas expansion following monorail bankruptcy so they want to get from mandalay bay to the airport in three minutes because right now it takes like 30 minutes i guess it's gonna be the same old teslas and tunnels situation well they think that's gonna be a huge improvement now the monorail unfortunately because vegas has basically been shut down for 2020 has gone into bankruptcy unfortunate yeah good timing i guess if the vaccine thing picks up he could just snap up that business we won't discuss the vaccine stuff i would like to know how boring company plans to address its uh required safety concerns to do with the diameter of the tunnel and also extracting passengers in the event of uh you know something goes wrong probably going to try to subvert the government to change those laws that's what i would do if i were him facebook is uh doing something that threatens a lot of publishing businesses has made them very angry and unfortunately also us because this is what we do it is facebook is developing a tool to summarize articles so you don't have to read them well get the privilege of seeing the future because we are making it what a cryptic like sub headline i think that this is going to be bad but can you imagine the headlines from the level one news during this is like facebook's algorithm algorithm uh is a you know partisan hack because it summarized this article as this when the important thing about that was this there's definitely um and you know what i think what you just described this article was about a lot more than this and they picked that one thing out because it was the most salacious but uh i would say new york times and wall street journal are on the end of needlessly wordy and then you've got axios which literally has just already given you bullet points axios is no nonsense and i think that on both ends of the spectrum you lose something yeah so this is way too far in the and plus the ai like it's gonna get some stuff wrong it's gonna be weird yeah but i'm sure we'll see it so we'll see how it works now if uh we were to have an analog of the big tech companies right now with professional wrestling what would be happening is that uh epic games and apple will be in the ring having just a hell of a match and down runs mark zuckerberg with the chair facebook wades into fortnite maker's dispute with apple social network company also dials up criticism of apple's plan to allow iphone users to restrict access to personal data so what facebook is after here is the whole users being able to load whatever they want separate app store kind of a thing really that's their their number one goal so they're saying yeah you know epic is right because apple ultimately is in control over over everything and they can make certain apps look better or worse than others the reality is that apple has recently made changes when you install for the facebook application it's like hey facebook wants all these permissions are you okay with that most people are gonna say no because why would you why would you indeed why would you want facebook to have that but that is an existential threat to facebook and they know it and they are worried and they're pulling out all the stops facebook hits back at apple with a second critical newspaper ad apple versus the free internet where the free internet would allow you to do things like install facebook and have them share all of your data surreptitiously krista i bet a lot of design hours went into this full page ad what do you think about it um i guess it would look good in black and white now they probably printed in color that's so much more expensive though if it's going in a newspaper what do you think about that would you call that color salmon yeah it's um it's fine it's it definitely gets the point across it does it's not eye-catching though yeah not at all also like i see that facebook logo in the bottom and i'm like oh come on yeah so uh apple has rolled out this which is what you were just talking about who is going to click allow i mean read that who is going to click allow it wants to track your activity across other apps and websites yeah no one is going to click allow and so that's tough times if you're facebook because that is where your money comes from so i'm sure that will heat up and apple is not just getting heat from facebook obviously epic um what was the other big name that they were getting into it with was it uh like zoom or somebody anyway you know they're trying to get this 30 out of everybody and it's a crazy big number and people more and more standing up against it major u.s news publishers joined the coalition for app fairness advocacy group to fight the apple tax this one they're more focused on the the new news publishers here are more focused on the amazon side of things so amazon was playing hardball with apple and so apple said all right you know what we will agree to not 30 it'll be 15 and in some cases zero percent if you're using things like amazon prime and so the us news publishers are saying wait a minute we want that same deal and apple's like not so fast big names too i mean uh look at these the ap the new york times npr espn vox the washington post meredith bloomberg nbcu and the financial times and many others so i think it would be in apple's best interest to just go ahead and do this i mean it's not even even with that like assume let's let's assume that apple like agrees to everything that they want do you think that that's going to cost apple any money they're still going to make money just not as much oh but that is that can't happen figured that third yacht they opened that pandora's box when they dealt with amazon and i'm sure that tim cook is reminding bezos of that at every moment that he can yeah i guess i don't know you have to be careful though because if you go too far and those names look think about all those names and think about the articles that we talk about that's that's a huge portion of them if all of a sudden they're just dog and apples products then all of a sudden you're not selling 500 headphones that's a spiral so we'll see now apple in their defense maybe not on this exact topic but with the facebook thing and with this thing that they're doing it does seem like they're being a lot more consumer friendly when it comes to privacy apple launches new app store privacy labels so you can see how ios apps use your data and some of these are hilarious like the facebook one is like seven miles long because it's like hey is this data is this data is this data is this data is this theta it's hard to see that yeah maybe they got a better no they don't now here's the here's the thing that nobody's talking about and it kills me because these these articles are missing this it's like apple values your privacy and blah blah blah and it won't share it's a little bit of a monkey's paw situation i guarantee you because if you think for one second that from now until the end of time apple is not going to monetize that data in any way you are sadly mistaken they will absolutely monetize that data the first pass for monetizing that data is being between you and the advertiser so they're going to go to an advertiser and say hey we've got a bunch of people that we think based on our profiles they're going to buy a toaster does anybody want to buy ad space for people looking for a toaster and then apple will you know show you ads or apple will have things that lead to ads they might not be in a financial position to worry about that now they might wait on it but eventually it will happen there's somebody in the comments that's keeping track of every week where you mentioned the monkey's ball you're on four wow i didn't notice that last week it made me laugh sorry i'm just i'm just fascinated because it's like you know it's like i wish that my privacy would would be respected and it's like and it's like okay all of these companies are going to go out of business except for apple and then apple is absolutely going to monetize your data so it's not you didn't really gain anything privacy wise we all have our catchphrases that we rely on it sucks when you listen back to it but what are you gonna do go to some sort of training for broadcasting no get better at what we do no someone once pointed out how often me and ryan say like and for like a a week or two after i struggled to talk normally because you realize you just said you noticed you realize you just said like a week or two after yeah i know it's not a good habit now i'm going to be super conscious of it the rest of the broadcast but i'm also i also notice it more when other people do it and a lot of people do it yeah i don't know how to replace this said which is i think why people use it so much aleister crowley said the way to deal with that is to a fix in your mind of behavior that you want to remove and then when you do it you cut your arm whoa and not only does the pain reinforce it but as you're just doing stuff during the day you're like oh my arm's cut all right i did that thing i should stop doing that i've not tried it but he he said it was a really good thing to do we don't condone that method but if you want to try it now we have uh we talked about uh qualcomm they brought out their new 888 chip and it had the modem on the chip and i think wendell brought up it's like what how's apple gonna respond to this because that's been a big bone of contention in the past and maybe this gives us some shed some light on exactly what they're thinking apple starts to work on its own 5g modem oh oh this makes me so angry not because apple's working on a 5g modem none of that it's just i want you to think back to that qualcomm lawsuit there was this knock down drag out anti-competitive qualcomm you know lawsuit thing and the ftc uh was convinced that that qualcomm was doing something anti-competitive here when the reality was that intel's modem just wasn't as good as qualcomm's like that was the whole problem and apple's fix for that was to in software the performance of the qualcomm modem to make it equal to the intel modem because reviewers like not like us but other reviewers in the in the space would test that and be like huh that's weird iphones that have the intel modem don't perform as good and they ultimately did that anyway and found that you know for iphones of that model the battery performance was terrible and there's other stuff that qualcomm had in that lawsuit like copies of emails from apple people that they sent qualcomm's internal stuff to intel people to say hey you should copy whatever qualcomm is doing here because their modem is really good which is not only is that unethical that's that that should have gotten the whole qualcomm lawsuit thrown out immediately so if you think for one second that apple is building their 5g modem here ethically you are wrong we lost our video driver in the middle of that so hopefully you got it all in the past it's been okay i'm just gonna assume it's okay but yeah so apple is apple's gonna do this and it's gonna be fine but it there's the specter of stolen intellectual property here we'll see now uh i we just released another video uh and we actually record i recorded it in october and it didn't come out for a long time but in it i made a joke about stadia and how no one uses it and people were quick to point out that people are using stadia now almost purely because cyberpunk might run so poorly on their hardware they went to stadia to get around it that is interesting that's a good use case right yeah and not something we really considered before but makes sense and that means that it's going to be your only option to play that game in certain scenarios google stadia is now available on ios there we we covered that they would be doing this the how and the how is that they're doing it through the web browser the web browser has gotten sophisticated enough that it can have a reasonable stadia client experience in a web browser so this way google doesn't have to get approval for every single game individually because it's basically just a glorified web page which is stupid because functionally it is no different yeah it's apple desperately trying to keep the magic smoke you know it's like no the genie must not be allowed to escape the bottle yeah uh but uh some people did i saw some comments and they were like hey i've got this garbage video card i got 14 frames per second so i went to stadium and it's fine so i guess that's a good use case makes sense we did a video on uh playing cyberpunk on a raspberry pi a handheld raspberry pi and that's basically how it works it just streams it from a good computer using the google steam link and that's not a terrible experience so uh we did a story a while back about amazon bringing out this new service that had to do with uh fitness but they wanted a full 3d scan of your body and a lot of people were creeped out by that but it seems like they're doubling down on that technology not just for fitness amazon wants to scan your body to make perfectly fitting shirts they're gonna quote unquote 3d print a shirt that is form fitting 25 bucks for a t-shirt it's a little steep all i'm store.level1tx.com is like assuming these are all more or less custom made isn't that not expensive enough like who are you paying to sew this to your exact dimensions well so what the they didn't say for sure but this other brand they were talking about that does this for dresses is they do micro sizes they call it so they have a dress that comes in 99 sizes whoa and the machine knows how to make all 99 sizes but they don't make any of them up front they wait till you buy it so they scan you they give you a number between 1 and 99 and then they print your dress or sew your dress or whatever and they might be losing money on this to open up a new that says t-shirts are made in the u.s from imported fabric yeah so i'll look forward to the day when we have a local replimat and i can just go to the local replimat and get whatever it was printed on demand you know that's going to do though is going to make you way more aware of any sort of uh changes in weight during the year i'm gonna have my summer and winter clothes because that already happens yeah well that happens to almost everybody i think and like the pandemic a lot of people have that kind of thing going on aws is uh you know they're killing it during the pandemic because people are loving using their services and they keep coming up with new things this one's not new necessarily but it is kind of a fringe thing that is not offered by a lot of the cloud services aws introduces new chaos engineering as a service offering so what chaos engineering does is it allows you to dashboard and inject errors into your infrastructure so that it makes it more resilient theoretically you can make calls take too long or make you know in a deliberate outage or something like that so that you can better engineer how things fail they're doing this because of the whole remember how like everybody had everything in us east the u.s east region it turns out that it's non-trivial technically if you want to deploy your application into multiple availability zones and balance the load and it's also not trivial from a cost standpoint so they're hoping this uh will make some of that engineering a little easier and it's kind of a do-it-yourself you know it's a service you get with aws the nut the second biggest company now i guess that you would say is a gremlin but that's as a service so it's not quite the same also i bet that a lot of people at gremlin are getting emails from the amazon acquisition team one of the things that is happening after 2020 is that people really seem to have soured on california uh the governor kind of embarrassed himself had some really extreme lockdowns and didn't do them himself some of the lawmakers from california are very unpopular right now so where do you go it seems like the answer is always the same for everybody who leaves california oracle is moving its headquarters from silicon valley to austin texas you know who else moved musk how do you feel about that one like knowing oracle will have moved i think that uh this it was inevitable i think uh it's probably been it's probably been two or three years since i had that specific complaint but um uh it always lamented that i was surprised that oracle had not opened up an office in the eastern district of texas for all their patent lawsuits because oracle has almost fully completed their transition from technology company to litigation company um so it's like they're just litigating their old customers using their product good time to be a law firm in texas i bet yeah a lot of people looking for uh they might keep their old ones i don't know i guess at this point you're just trading all the wildfire risks to hurricane risk right if you're moving from california to texas you could probably go north texas and be away from most of the hurricane threat right yeah texas is pretty good you'd still get some heavy rain but it wouldn't be as bad as if you're on the coast yeah yeah they're fine with that they have storm shelters and they're billion-dollar mansions i'm sure now you probably don't need this headline if you are currently shopping for a ps5 or an xbox or a video card or a hard drive or basically anything that has to do with a pc you already know about this uh from reuters rogers is reporting that the global chip shortages are threatening the production of laptops smartphones and more makers of cars electronic devices tvs and smartphones are sounding the alarm bells about a global shortage of chips which is causing manufacturing delays and consumer demand bounces back from the the crisis so a lot of holiday spending and it's not just you know samsung and tsmc that we're talking about there are a lot of other components that are in short supply um so it may not even be chip production that we're facing as a severe limitation so going into 2021 things probably not going to get a lot better according to reuters just fyi and in related news uk telling people not to stockpile food because they're totally okay even though brexit's happening uh it might stockpile a little food too you should have been start cutting stockpiling chips this entire time stockpiled the wrong thing toilet paper we should do a level one canning video it's like introducing canning technology here's how you can avoid botulism we're gonna just put ram sticks in there it's the technology of canning you be canning food there are some videos about that on youtube but they're always like filmed by someone's grandma so they're a little bit shaky is your new kitchen ready to be a set for that yeah yeah that would be fine well you're going to get so many comments of people saying i want to see that i thought about you know you know the nvidia video with jensen i am i am planning a video where i'm in front of my stove because he was in front of his stove in the kitchen because of the whole lockdown thing and it's a really nice stove but he's got this decorative thing behind his um behind his stove and it's like this really intricate carving thing and let me tell you i made steaks i i like the you know like the skillet pan grill thing and then you throw it in the oven and they were delicious they were amazing it's uh it's the first time i've had gas heat for cooking but that wasn't the thing it was the grease from the steaks and so like cleanup was really easy because everything was stainless steel but the whole time i was cleaning it i was thinking man cleaning grease off of jensen's thing like there's no way that he actually uses that because you would just you would never get all the grease out of the carving you just never would that's why i don't understand when like in the 90s the whole trend was like tiled countertops because i'm like doesn't stuff get down in the grout lines and like how hard is that to scrub out every time you are so immersed in your nerd world that you just assume that everybody's seen this nvidia video and it's a it's a common talking point engagement challenge have you seen the jensen's kitchen and his colorful spatulas well i don't know about uh stove technology but it's been a while since we talked about trading technology now back in the day this was probably back almost when we started doing this right like 2016 2017 the microwaves were making a big deal remember when they bought like a a 10 by 10 plot of land somewhere in chicago just so they can put a microwave tower there and then somebody else bought another one to try to block it like that's the crazy links they will go to because they're basically just stealing money and the faster you can go the more money you can steal which makes it moves the state of the art is this overall good thing i don't know high frequency traders push closer to light speed with cutting edge cables so this talks about how the speed of light through glass fiber optic is only about two-thirds the speed of light in a vacuum however these glass fiber optic cables are hollow core so the light stays in the hollow glass core and that means that it travels much closer to sea the uh that's it's paywall they have a better picture but you can kind of see here it's kind of like a honeycomb structure and the light is traveling inside these little pockets here it's pretty and it should have an interactive art piece where you can watch that and it's nanoseconds but those nanoseconds gets you in front of the next trader and make you money which i don't know for what i understand about efficient markets that's not what they're designed to do i'd like the the the greater trend i think is that there's so much um all of the it's not arbitrage but all of the the uh non-friction in the market is captured by all of these things that move so quickly which makes everything very rigid and immobile that's what they claim is the reason they should exist is that they quote unquote provide liquidity so you have uh something that's not trading very much but now all of a sudden it is but it's all robots so if something goes wrong the buy side is just going to go to zero because those robots are going to pull out immediately and you're going to be like wait i thought this was a liquid market i can't get out and speaking of markets um it's funny because every time we do a story like this the headline is always out of date because it moves so fast i think today we're looking at like 22 something 24. did go to 24. 23 879 last time i looked at it wow bitcoin breaks above 20 000 for the first time ever wow most valuable cryptocurrencies 5.6 higher remember when it was like a hundred dollars and we were like 100 remember it was 8 000 and we were saying that that was like at the start of level one because we would do a segment at the start of every news that was like what's the bitcoin price today oh it's a 22 752 right now okay so i'm gonna back down wow that's still a lot that's a lot of money that's so impressive it's quite a bit yeah um i don't even remember oh you know what we kind of already did this one yeah on the government side but not the business side yeah whatever let's just uh bloomberg has an article about the google services outage this is more from the business side of things it's like how much like you know how much did it cost basically is is what we're looking at does this is this is this something that we can tolerate in our existence as human beings is something that's this this outage so probably what like a hundred million dollars an hour in losses it was not for what 45 minutes no some of it was down for the better part of five or six hours wow that's a lot yeah yeah i'd say that it had something to do with uh it was one point of failure one update authentication yeah they've traced that down to at least one team i'm sure it's a bad time to be that team i don't know if their christmas bonus is going to go through this year our hearts go out to you that team you know sacrifice a bull or something for your children perhaps another story that we are following up on from last week has to do with google's ethics department yes they have one really they do but maybe they don't pay that much attention to them and that could cause problems google's ai researcher google ai researchers departure ignites new conflict over ethics so this is bloomberg business week and this is a follow-up from last week tensions are escalating uh so gabriel was out it's like basically an ultimatum and uh and then the the ceo got involved and said okay this didn't really go down the way that we had imagined but the rest of her team and people from other departments in google like a lot of people have signed on to a letter to say we need these changes or these assurances from management or we're out too there she is i will admit um when i saw that picture my first thought was you never want to see that haircut walk into a meeting that's bad news and then in the article they pointed out that like people attack her haircut all the time and that's part of the problem that's not great but no they're saying that like you're not allowed to do that that's not only super racist but it's like demeaning to women and you know it's basically physical violence i mean it is though i mean i don't have a fro but my hair is very curly and people you know they expect it to be straight which is stupid i'm not saying it doesn't spend hours every day doing that like it doesn't need to be straight but like maybe try to get it under some kind of control i think you're making a statement on purpose where do you draw the line i mean could i like have you know you know could i grow my beard out really long and have some sort of like festival of winter thing going on i think you've got it all the time in tech lots of dudes have crazy long beards and no one says anything to them because they're like oh they're good at what they do that's all i care about they're not customer interfacing you got to round it out a little bit i feel like these little like these little wispy fly ways that's my problem that is that's how i feel yeah hyperbole uh that's not acceptable to the rest of the world now this one uh i was wondering because you added this story is this is there something in particular that excites you here or are you just trying to deflect the fact that everyone knows that you're an amd shield i am excited about this because well there's there's a notable absence here though which is uh perhaps not not good okay uh so uh intel has announced a whole bunch of new optane-based storage this is really cool for one you know remember that intel basically sold off all of their nand products and at least one product here still incorporates nand in the intel h20 but mostly intel was announcing a bunch of new stuff with optane and i was really worried about it because optane is a legit insanely awesome technology it's just it costs an arm and a leg and another leg and maybe also an arm and maybe somebody else's arm it's really really expensive but enterprises can't get enough of it so they're packing in the density they're packing in the technology and it does look really really awesome but the h20 is not going to cut it for the enthusiast market so there's new products for data center and the data center products look really good i did not see a successor for the 900 or the 905. i think that's a huge problem i think intel's making a mistake there i guess uh or they've just given up do you do you think that the if we have chips for these let's assume that we do does it still hurt storage prices if i can't get anything else to pair them with um i think that uh nand production is actually at a glut right now so but if i can't get any ram or video card to put in that no machine oh yeah that's a problem am i still buying storage yeah no i think that um no that's that's definitely a problem but this is also enterprise grade stuff which follows completely different economics like amazon and other companies like that buy so much stuff that this is all happened behind closed door negotiations months ago and we would have no idea the one thing about apple is that they have been experimenting with moving out of china because there for a while it was very unpopular to be in china since then china has kind of just destroyed hong kong and people forgot i feel like in some ways that makes me sad that it's sad but they had already put some of these things into motion and they had of course you know taiwan is an obvious one but then it turns out that taiwan companies also outsource so you have this like russian doll of outsourcing this one's not working out for them hundreds riot at iphone factory in india over exploitation claims workers the taiwanese run winston infocom manufacturing near bangalore smashed glass panels uh with rods and flipped cars on the on their side local media reported the workers had not been paid for up to four months and were being forced to do extra shifts the taiwanese company said we're looking into it we don't know that sounds weird this is the security enforcement team that is now at the place and now they've got some footage of the destruction that you can check out people not happy that's expensive did that glass wall just tank that bat shot it did wow well-built glass walls lucille bluth watching the clip on news that's like a woman drove her kids off of a bridge into a river and she goes good for her that's how i feel when i look at this and find out you've been paid in four months like good for you now they the story was updated with responses from the company they kind of glossed over the whole we're not paying them thing yeah they said they said that they were like property properly paid or would be or something like that but they didn't go into any details would be doesn't pay your rent for four months so screw that yeah you should expect some riots if you're not paying your employees they also are claiming and this is a really common one that is used is that these aren't actually their employees that are riding these are external forces who are just coming in to ferment outrage right yeah they're happy to continue just working overtime for no pay they love the company yeah they said their overtime was an insane amount too right yeah it's just working them around the clock and not paying them something like this happened earlier this year with garment workers i don't know that they rioted about it but like a bunch of western companies put in orders for clothing at the beginning of the year and then when everything slowed down because of the thing they then decided well we're not going to change the work order and we're not going to pay them we're just going to just disappear and a bunch of companies got called out for that i think h m was one where i think one of the kardashian clothing brands was one where were these clothing factories i think in bangladesh okay so almost the same exact story yeah here's where we find out that it's all owned by the same property company or something all the factories i thought that didn't didn't tim cook have that thing where he's like you know we we look more into our company's supply chains than anybody no yeah unfortunately like tech especially is really difficult the part that he left out of that statement was that we look into it so we can hide what we find because it's real bad yeah now this device um i did not expect to see this so soon it seems like a huge seems like a steal and uh i wonder how good it is now they do have some examples here but i did not think that we were this close next mind ships its real-time brain computer interface dev kit for 3.99 so you should check out the demo video of this because it is kind of mind-blowing uh see what i did um 400 i think level one can afford that now that's this little hockey puck in the back that is reading your visual cortex and so it is uh it's based on your eye movements but it's not looking at your eyes it's looking at your brain now for that 499 you get uh like a bunch of apis and sdks that go with it which includes unity you can start game development with this as a controller neat and they have some uh some examples here they got like you know arkanoid and just some really basic stuff that you can already do with your brain there is a uh doesn't believe this but i will be super interested to see if it actually works when people get their hands on it i wonder krista would you you have such a thick mane of hair yeah would that be an issue would that create like a layer of in one of the videos they have a dude wearing a baseball cap and it's like it's attached to the outside of the baseball cap so i guess it can read through the fabric i'm not sure there was i was surprised i had a i built one of the open eeg things uh years ago and it was good enough to play tux racer so like with tux racer you're basically just sliding down a hill and like you can go left or right or slow down or speed up and uh the like just with a few sensors you know stuck to your head with like the medical tape it was plenty good enough to control tucks aren't you a little worried though with all these apis and sdks that all that's just not being funneled back to facebook to be mine yeah whenever they come out with the oculus brain scan edition that is absolutely going to like a dashboard on mark zuckerberg's wall well it's already their stuff i mean i'm sure they're watching that without question we talk a lot about uh you know disinformation and foreign meddling especially with the election god all we heard with the election was foreign meddling so not only in 2020 but also in 2016. it's just you know it never stopped and there's definitely some truth to it because foreign governments including ours if you're somewhere else are definitely trying to take advantages as much as possible and in africa we get a really interesting situation in which there's so much trolling that they're kind of canceling each other out french and russian trolls wrestle for influence in africa facebook says france french there's so there's a there's an election coming up in the uh central african republic uh later this month and so there's a lot of disinformation coming out of france really france this is this is an interesting image i mean it's kind of lazy but i also kind of like it these little boxes looks like something somebody's maybe it's just digital is are they sitting on a keyboard yeah they're 3d printed that's why they look kind of weird yeah so yeah they've discovered that um both russia and france have really big economical like their influence is really big and they will make a lot of money if their person wins because they are their tech companies are rapidly expanding the uh like remember those numbers from the where they're tying it to the national id oh yeah the mobile numbers in africa are massive because everybody i mean you're way more likely to have a phone than any other sort of computing device and these countries want a piece of that how do you get a piece of that on really good terms you own the politicians how do you own the politicians well you get the one that you want elected this makes me feel very bad like a bad human being for saying this but i'm glad it's not the u.s for once do you think we're in a better situation no we're not in a better situation i just don't want to feel like we're the only ones okay yeah i'm obviously like like for once it's not us and it's like whoo i mean if you're like whenever we do a story about people being uneducated or stupid and it's like oh that's alabama and it's like it's not kentucky but if you're gonna crap on you know the africans for like oh it's like they're uneducated they don't understand that their politicians are you know like corrupt and it's like oh ajit pai i mean if you're a citizen in central africa the central african republic and it's like why would somebody in france want to meddle with our stuff that doesn't make sense and then you have to you have to really dig into like tin foil hat territory and then it's like oh or look at the history of vietnam like ages ago they're probably still trying to to get that influence there yeah yeah that was the whole point computers were a mistake i read something once that africa basically never learned as a country to make steel ever well africa is a continent oh i'm sorry conan yes as a continent but the reason they never learned to make steel is because by the time they wanted steel there were enough broken down french trucks to break down the french truck than it was to try and mine oh that's the oh i can't remember the name there was a village that had a steel meteor and they mined it for years instead of making their own or they had steel that came from a meteor uh and it was it's like it's that old strategy because it's like they didn't have but that also gives us hope for those iron the post apocalypse no steal we won't have to learn to smell it in the post-apocalypse we just have to melt down what we've already got and purify it tick-tock is uh the hottest new social media despite our government's efforts to destroy it the kids seem to love it i don't understand it i don't know what they're doing i'm too old for it it's just vine right like i mean that seems to be the gist of it it's just a replacement provide i for some reason people like it more than van vine why is that tick tock is the youtube for people with attention deficit problems which is everybody but one thing about it everybody is trying to recreate that magic because you know like hey what about facebook this is one they didn't get to buy up what are they going to do and they're not the only big name that's trying to basically steal it reddit is buying tick tock rival dub smash what a terrible name i think it's because didn't tic toc start out as lip syncing yeah like dub mostly uh or like dance trends they point out that this one is a massively popular with women especially black women i wonder why this guy i've never heard of it have you nope it's the first i've ever heard of dub smash oh so reddit's going to buy it and they're going to start incorporating it into their little uh automatic players on reddit which those little videos never load for me i've noticed that reddit seems to be on a suicide mission with their mobile website that half the links sometimes are like oh you need to log in to do this and it's like i'm not gonna do you want the app yeah i'm never gonna want the app read it i'm never gonna want it no and uh so the the election was kind of this uh you know big event and now that it's over i mean kind of over i think most people understand that it's over it's not over i think there's a small small amount of people this is the part of the history book that's like leading up to yeah i guess but uh it was sort of kind of like a you know a demarcation of time post-election was a different world and especially at facebook a lot of people i think what they saw during the election led to them being severely unhappy after the u.s election key people are leaving facebook and torching the company in their departure notes departing facebook employees said the social network's failure to act on hate speech quote unquote makes it embarrassing to work here well that's the only reason that you find it embarrassing to work at facebook i don't know what to tell you so there's a lot of quotes here and we won't read them all to you but you can make a what they call a badge post when you leave which is basically like you know your tombstone at facebook you said like here's the summary of my time at facebook and they're getting hit pretty hard in those because people aren't very happy with them they also talk a lot about um spooling up this new ai to replace the whole ptsd moderation stuff and a lot of these people who are leaving are like i worked on the ai thing it's not happening we're not close yeah that makes sense because why would we be close that would that would seem to be difficult to impossible and our final story is uh i it's an obvious move but it's also an obviously uh bad faith mode in other words if you still work at facebook here's something you need to work on it's this is something that they cannot defend don't you think that eu lawmakers are going to crucify them for this i would think so yes but technically they don't have any say in it anymore facebook to move uk users to california terms avoiding the eu privacy rules so facebook is going to shift all of its users in the united kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters headquarters in california moving them out of their current relationship with facebook's irish unit and out of reach of europe's privacy laws so the whole irish tax incentive thing gone now you still are under a kind of gdpr in california but i don't think you risk those big percentage numbers if you mess up right that's the thing they're getting away from there and those numbers just get bigger and bigger yeah one of them was like what ten percent ten percent of annual revenue ten percent of facebook that is a staggering number yeah on you know i don't wanna have any sympathy for facebook but on the other hand a lot of the requirements in the eu like some of the drafts and some of the stuff they have to do are ambiguous enough that you know they would be hard-pressed to comply and some of the requirements are are directly opposed to their existing business model so i think that it would be like you know asking you or me to cut off it's like i'm going to kill you unless you cut off your arm and uh you know as we learned from the saw movies that's really hard oh we have to cut off our own arm yeah under manual power yeah yeah that'd be tough to do i mean that's basically what they're asking for so i don't i don't see how i think that the eu would be better if they could propose uh you know some idea of what facebook could do to become compliant and work on it iteratively instead of you know trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle with one sweeping well what they're basically saying is uh if you don't cut off your arm we will take 10 of your blood any time we feel like it yeah yeah and you know if they if they get two or three of those in a row they're gonna pass out it could be multiple countries yeah i mean because if facebook is doing something wrong in france then they're almost surely doing that same thing wrong in ireland yeah yeah so there's 20 so i can i can kind of sympathize with some of these tech companies because this kind of thing should have been done in law a long time ago and now we're kind of in this impossible situation where these companies they just will not be able to do what is necessary to act you know ethically under this new framework without more guidance but they did get themselves here they did get themselves here in fairly short order yes yes this is true yeah so i don't i don't think we should it's two entities that you shouldn't have any empathy for yeah being the eu government and facebook their motives are sad and transparent unfortunately the the battle affects all of the people i was well in the context of the people that work there i was thinking that for the people that work at facebook at least some of them think that facebook's mission is to bring people together and you know there's a very humanitarian mission but in reality it's let's just make a lot of money well like the chick with the bad hair yeah i bet she believed up until that that moment yeah and like i'm changing the world that's what really makes it sad because she does seem like i'm changing the world like the you know that that's what that's a good thing to encourage but yeah then facebook's like no all right google's just like now she got it into the identity politics a lot though yeah although she is right that the ai real bad at the black people real bad another thing i noticed about that article that i should have brought up then but we're at the end is the end of the program uh was it the new york times or wall street journal one of the two they now capitalize white and black every time when did we start doing that that's probably that article i'm sure there's an editorial memo that went around is that is i wonder if they all remember in college we had like the mla and the apa i wonder if that's the only thing in there and when they say like in that article they said white male and black woman and i also capitalized male and woman in that context interesting which i wonder what the cause was for that change i don't know it's it's weird because i'm pretty sure the proper english rules is you don't capitalize those if it's some kind of homage to like past sins i want to know what we're changing in the literary style to make up for the past sins of flooded gasoline also news organizations have a different set of standards compared to like a paper you'd write for an english class yeah but i'm i've never noticed it before it's new yeah this is a new thing maybe chat engagement challenge do you have any insight do you work at a publication have they given you this directed maybe the maybe the style guide for leaded gasoline should be anytime somebody mentions leaded gasoline it gets a strike through as an homage to all the people that died of lead poisoning and lead related health complications maybe maybe we should just stick with the way things are because it makes a lot of sense it makes it easier to communicate i almost made it through that with a straight face i don't see how you do it sometimes it's like you just well no i really think we should eat children it's like how do you how do you keep a strong argument so many all right krista all right we will see you guys friday bye you won't see krista on friday yeah i might see that\n"