Episode 2468 CWSA 05⧸08⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 17 minutes
Words per Minute
146.83104
Summary
In this episode, we talk about the latest in science and technology, including CRISPR gene editing and artificial intelligence. Plus, 12 women have come forward alleging they were sexually assaulted by whoever Trump s VP pick is, and the FBI files on Jeff Bezos are missing.
Transcript
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that we're the ones putting ourselves out there
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and I'm sure it drives some people wild and insane and stuff,
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it's one of those things we can kind of handle.
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that we keep waiting to do more amazing things.
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They did a trial where they were trying to restore vision
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to blind people who had a specific kind of blindness.
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So this is important news from the Babylon Bee.
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But it is a weird coincidence so many brain-related
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I saw Adam Townsend talking about the TikTok ban,
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of which, in the early days, he said in 2018 through 2020,
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And then he says this, and I want to read his actual words.
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You should follow him on X if you're not already.
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The way he describes the risk of banning TikTok now.
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So something's changed since 2020 when he was in favor of banning it.
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He says the animating intentions of the current ban are pernicious,
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and the bill will be imperceptibly, and then violently,
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shifted to attack anything hostile to the incumbent,
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and I don't know if you've noticed my own thinking on the ban of TikTok has shifted.
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I'm not sure if I've communicated that clearly.
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because I think the worst case scenario is that China can just push the button.
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So the next to worst case scenario is that the United States owns it.
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and it becomes a controlled communication channel like all the rest.
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It is weirdly possible that TikTok might be the only place Americans can get free speech.
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It's not the case at the moment, because X still has free speech.
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But it's possible that TikTok would become the last bastion of free speech for Americans.
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because it means that China could just push the button,
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you know, and that 1% of the time that something matters to them.
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99% of the time they just let us think we had a free speech platform,
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you know, if we just tap this button a little bit,
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when he says that the motivation for banning it now
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It really is because Israel didn't like where it went.
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That the Hamas support on TikTok is the only thing that's going to kill it.
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If it gets banned or is forced to sell to an American entity,
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it will be because Israel didn't like the free speech the way it came out.
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to make the Hamas protests bigger than they would have ordinarily been.
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but I'm still leaning toward ban it or move it to America
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Boeing admitted that its DEI hires in South Carolina
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the FAA has opened yet another investigation into it.