Episode 2564 CWSA 08⧸12⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 16 minutes
Words per Minute
143.25287
Summary
In this episode, we talk about a new kind of insulin that can adjust your blood glucose levels automatically, and the weirdest bug in the world that could be reading your messages. Plus, a new way to see with a mechanical eye, and a conspiracy theory about Epstein.
Transcript
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the simultaneous sip and the Locals community will fix you right up,
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because I spend at least an hour and a day with all my favorite friends on Locals.
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I think I told you that somebody reads my DMs in the morning,
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and not all of them, just a few, and I can actually watch it happen in real time.
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So I can open my DMs and watch all the new message indicators be there,
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and as I sit there, I can watch just some of them disappear.
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And the first time it happened, it took about 15 seconds from the time the indicator showed up
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to the time it went away by itself, with me not touching anything.
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And so I thought, hmm, I wonder if there's a bot.
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But this morning I got up, you know, god-awful early, as I always do,
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And I thought, oh, maybe there's not somebody reading my messages,
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And then, eventually, they disappeared, which means it's a human,
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which means that I get up before the person who reads my messages gets up.
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Literally, the only reason that they were still alive...
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So, I'm going to change my password after we're done with this today.
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And I'll eliminate the option that somebody has my password.
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The reason I'm sure that they don't is that there's two-factor authentication,
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meaning that if it doesn't come to my personal phone, I can't get in.
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And I've done that recently, so there's no way somebody could have gotten in without it.
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So, it's either a state actor, or an insider, or the weirdest bug in the world.
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But it looks like I just watch it as somebody's reading my messages.
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I think all of my messages are being read at this point.
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All right, here's some good science news. It's fun.
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology came up with this new way to make a mechanical eye.
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Now, it's not for people, but apparently it would be a huge improvement in robot vision.
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but it would be huge for driving and navigating and understanding the world.
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So, your robot might soon have eyes that are way better than what you think a camera could do.
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You know how you think that your genes are in your body,
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and you know where your genes are, and science knows where your genes are,
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and those genes are sort of fixed when you get born,
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Well, it turns out that there's some free-floating genes outside your genome.
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A study by Columbia researchers shows that bacteria break that rule
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and can create free-floating and ephemeral genes,
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raising the possibility that similar genes exist outside of our own genome,
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meaning that there might be something like genes that you pass on,
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but there might be some kind of genes just sort of floating around out there.
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All right, and we'll get to the politics in a moment.
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But the Guardian is reporting that there's a new kind of insulin
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that sits there, and it adjusts you only when you need it.
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So the current way is if you need to adjust your insulin, sugar levels,
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you would give yourself a shot that corrects what you need at that moment.
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But the new stuff looks like it can do the correcting on its own,
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at least for about a week, and then you have to re-up it.
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Imagine if the drug made its own correct decisions
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That would be such a game-changer for a gazillion people.
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So Kaneko the Great is reporting on how Dr. Epstein, you've heard of him,
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he studied Google and how Google can change the election outcomes
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And according to Dr. Epstein, the Google political bias,
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which we would imagine is both intentional and pervasive,
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the 2022 governor's race in Arizona and Georgia,
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and the Senate majority from Republican to Democrat.
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So apparently this is, it's based on data and Dr. Epstein,
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I don't think I've seen him debunked, which is interesting.
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It seems like everything gets debunked, doesn't it?
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I don't think I've ever seen anybody try to debunk Dr. Epstein's claim
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that you can measure how much Google influences an election.
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I'm very biased toward believing this is a real thing,
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You know, if you see something that agrees with what you think is true,
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you should really wait to see if there's a counterargument.
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we've been listening to these accusations or allegations from Dr.
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if you've seen anybody who's got a counterargument,
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Google would just determine who your president is.
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Do you think that when the founders designed the country,
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if they had known that Google can decide who your president is,
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Or might they have some restrictions on social media,
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if they knew what social media was when they founded the country?
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I don't think that the men who were pooping in holes in the ground and created
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we don't have anything like a democracy or really anything like that.
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Axios is reporting that the voters prefer Harris on the economy.
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Do you believe that the polls suddenly went from everybody likes Trump versus
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Do you think that they just reversed because it's Kamala Harris?
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you would believe this because it's coming from Axios.
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voters trust the democratic candidate more than former president Trump on the
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According to new polling released by the financial times and the university of
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So I would put that in the category of absurdly obvious propaganda.
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they did their math wrong or they pulled wrong or,
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or there's an enormous margin of error because it's a small sample.
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a whole bunch of other polls agree that people suddenly magically flipped to
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NBC news seems to think that we have some kind of a government that's
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They're unveiling a new multi-agency regulatory initiative to target
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corporations that are wasting consumer time and money by needlessly
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burning them with red tape in order to maximize profits.
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Do you know how hard it is to cancel a subscription to anything?
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So if the government made some law that said you have to make it easy to get
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your money back and you have to make it easy to cancel,
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But let me give you just a little caution before you get too happy about the
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you don't like all that bureaucracy and red tape and,
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They're going to unveil a multi-agency regulatory initiative.
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As soon as you put multi-agent regulatory initiative,
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that just sounds like something that will never happen.
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we got to get all these agencies to agree on all these different things.
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If you think this can get done while the Biden administration is still in
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I've never seen anything get done in six months.
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It's the propagandists that are telling us that Trump is dark.
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And it's the propagandists that are telling us that cackling is joy.
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I don't think the public is registering any of this.
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widely believed to be a pure propaganda entity when it comes to politics,
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they just sort of uncritically say that Harris is pushing joy.
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Or is it just joy read like crazy batshit stuff?
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I think that the idea that Trump is dark came from their dark persuaders in 2016.
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And the whole idea that Harris is cackling is joy.
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from the perspective of somebody who likes watching Persuasion and see what works and what doesn't,
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watching the Democrats morph idiot cackling into joy,
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to successfully come up with another explanation for the cackling like an idiot.
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Tulsi Gabbard is going to take legal action against Biden-Harris administration.
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simply for being a critic of the administration,
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They put her on a domestic terrorist watch list.
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is targeting me as a potential domestic terrorist.