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Welcome to the Bogosity Podcast
for the week of August 3rd 2025,
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the podcast that
turned lose the juice.
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This is your host, Shane Killian.
Let's abnegate the News of the Bogus.
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You know, it wasn't a great week for me,
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but once again, I can see the sun peek
out from behind the dark, stormy clouds
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and lift my spirits with
just a single thought:
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At least I don't live in Australia!
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In what had to have given the world's most
popular video site a serious case of whiplash,
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the Australian government did an about-face
again, mere months after the last one,
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and said that below-16-year-olds
are now banned from the platform.
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It follows on from November when Parliament
passed laws, first of its kind in the world,
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banning children from Facebook,
Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and X.
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YouTube was given an
exemption, but not any more.
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Communications Minister Anika Wells released new rules
that decide which online services must restrict children.
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After December 10, these platforms
will face fines up to $50 million
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if they fail to take "responsible
steps" to ban underage account holders.
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They did absolutely nothing to say
what "responsible steps" means.
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Wells vowed that her government would not be
intimidated by YouTube's threats of legal action,
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in a statement mimicking
a schoolyard bully
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who says his efforts to steal lunch money won't
be bullied by threats of telling the principal.
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Quote: "We will not be
intimidated by legal threats
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when this is a genuine fight for
the wellbeing of Australian kids."
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Yeah, really.
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YouTube said in a statement,
quote: "Our position remains clear:
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YouTube is a video sharing platform with
a library of free, high-quality content,
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increasingly viewed on TV
screens. It's not social media."
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Yeah, we've all seen everything
they've done over the last decade
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to make sure every last bit of anything
social has been excised from the site.
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Prime Minister Anthony
Albanese said, quote:
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"I know from the discussions I've had with
other leaders that they are looking at this
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and they are considering what impact social media is
having on young people in their respective nations.
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It is a common experience. This
is not an Australian experience."
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Because of course the idea is to use this as model
legislation in Europe, America, and other countries.
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But then, of course, there are all
of the problems we've pointed out
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with all of the age verification laws they've
been passing in Europe and various US states.
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Of that, Wells said:
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"Platforms have to provide an
alternative to providing your own
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personal identification documents
to satisfy themselves of age."
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Yeah, just figure it out somehow!
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At what point will they realize that
this is not going to achieve anything?
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Of course, they do realize that, because it's
been pointed out to them time and time again.
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Once again, we see how "protect the children" is just
an excuse for government control and surveillance.
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There definitely needs to be more
voices speaking out against this
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and many other assaults against freedom of
speech, which seem to be ramping up lately.
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Remember that free speech isn't just about the right of
people to speak; it's about the right of others to hear.
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And in case you're thinking the risks involved
in identity verification are overstated,
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stick around for the next segment.
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What's bad? A data breach of a site that exposed
the personal information of 72,000 users.
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What's worse? When that data breach
includes pictures of their ID!
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It was always inevitable once
governments started passing AML/KYC laws,
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and indeed it's happened once or
twice already, but this one is big.
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The app is called Tea, which allows women to post comments
about men they don't like. As in, spill the tea on them.
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It sounds like one of those things
that started as a good idea.
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Women felt they needed an app
where, if they got catfished online,
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they could let other women
know who that man really was.
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They could even let you do background
checks to tell if he's a criminal,
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or see his real marital status—in
case he lied about that.
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And indeed, there are many
risks with dating apps.
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And so this was meant to mitigate
some of those risks with women.
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But where it went from there?
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It was always a little bit
of a privacy violation,
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but then, if you're going to put your real self
out there, you have to lower those expectations.
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But the site ended up going
way beyond anything reasonable.
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I mean, come on, we all know how exes can be!
Many breakups are amiable, but in other cases?
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The ex—whether male or female—is just out to
trash the other person to everyone in the world.
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So it basically became
a defamation app.
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A woman's ex, or even someone
who just turned her down,
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can find themselves publicly trashed on the site
without any sort of verification whatsoever.
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Basically, it's the ultimate gossip
app for women of the worst sorts.
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It doesn't help that in
the terms of service,
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Tea disclaims themselves of all
liability for false information
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and says that's solely the
responsibility of the user.
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They also say you're not to use the app to
defame anyone or abuse them or whatever,
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but there's no indication that
they ever actually police that.
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And there's no system whatsoever that lets men notify the
app and its users that it has false information about them.
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And even worse, it became a doxxing app, where women were
sharing personal details of men they dated or tried to date.
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Which is why a lot of people find it
completely ironic what happened next.
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See, to verify the women's identity,
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they had to take a selfie of themselves holding
up their driver's license or other government ID.
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Just like other KYC websites
such as crypto exchanges.
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And it all got hacked by 4chan.
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The initial post announcing the hack started a thread where
4channers shared images they were pulling from the site
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of women's information
and their ID and pictures.
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Now, I say hacked, it really wasn't.
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Because Tea didn't have any of these behind any sort of
privacy shield, password protection, or anything else!
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They were all stored in the
plain on public-facing URLs!
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The 4chan post read: "Yes, if you sent Tea App your
face and drivers license, they doxxed you publicly!
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No authentication, no
nothing. It's a public bucket.
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I have written a Python script which scrapes
the bucket and downloads all the images,
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page by page, so you can
see if you're in it."
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Remember: pictures aren't just
pictures, but metadata as well,
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so most of them had the GPS coordinates of
where the person was when they took the selfie.
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Which is really awkward for the person who did it while
working on the flight line at a top secret military base!
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Cue the memes.
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The Tea developers
said in a statement:
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"We have engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and
are working around the clock to secure our systems.
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At this time, we have implemented additional
security measures and have fixed the data issue."
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In unrelated news, a farming
company said in a statement:
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"We have engaged third-party locksmiths
and are working around the clock
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to close the barn doors now
that the horses are long gone."
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Morons, the time to have engaged cybersecurity
experts would have been when you created the site!
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Especially if you're going to make people give
up their identities! Doing it now does nothing.
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There's no sense in telling these women
not to worry, because they should worry!
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All the Python scripts that were run to
scrape the data have long finished their jobs!
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That data is all out there, and you can't remove it
any more than you can remove pee from a swimming pool.
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And that's really the lesson:
whether it's crypto exchanges,
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or age verification, or
even just apps like this,
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your information being stolen
isn't a matter of if, but when.
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The more sites do this, it won't
matter how well they secure it.
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Sooner or later, a breach
of some kind will happen.
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See our previous coverage of the
Exquifax, OPM, and Salt Typhoon attacks:
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if you have a Social Security number and
you're wondering if hackers have it, they do.
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And that's with government agencies, credit
bureaus, and even the National Guard.
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Places where people absolutely would expect them to
do everything feasible to protect our private data.
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Look, I'm not saying that Tea didn't fuck
up (because oh my God did they fuck up!),
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but this sort of thing will happen,
and is just a matter of time,
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the more governments force websites
to keep our identifying information!
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And the more information they
require, the worse it gets!
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And this should be all the reason you
need—as if we didn't have a thousand others—
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to oppose all of the other KYC
and adult verification laws
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that have been and are being passed,
including many we've covered.
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Just sign up for HaveIBeenPwned.
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You'll find there are all sorts of breaches
going on all the time from all sorts of websites.
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For example, recently tea of
a different sort got hacked
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when attackers swiped 160,000 records from Creams
Café, "the UK's favourite dessert parlour,"
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including emails, physical
addresses, names, and phone numbers.
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Now if that had been an age verification
site, what else would the hackers have gotten?
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By the way, does anyone else remember when the advice was
never to give out any of your personal information online?
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So okay, laugh at the irony of Tea and say that they
and the horrible women on it got their just deserts.
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But sooner or later, it'll be you or me.
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And identity theft remains one of the most
terrible things that can happen to a person,
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that many never recover from.
That is what is at stake here.
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If you're on the Wi-Fi in
a coffee shop or hotel,
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anyone on that network can
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Do you really trust
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So, you remember Trump threatening to
primary Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie
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and we were wondering how he was going to do
that, given Massie's extensive grassroots support?
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Well, we've got our first preview.
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The MAGA KY super PAC has raised $2 million in the last
two months, apparently with a focus on unseating Massie.
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According to an FEC filing on Thursday,
half of that money came from Paul Singer,
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billionaire hedge fund manager
and one of the top contributors
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to the National Republican
Senatorial Committee.
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In 2016, Singer helped bankroll a PAC dedicated
to stopping Trump from getting elected,
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and historically has given to establishment
candidates such as Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.
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He also funded opposition research
that led to the Steele Dossier.
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Most of the rest came from the Preserve
America PAC, tied to Miriam Adelson,
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billionaire widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and
one of the most influential Republican Party donors.
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She also has traditionally supported establishment
Republicans like Mitt Romney and Nikki Haley.
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And pretty much all of the rest came from
billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson,
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who serves on the board of the
Council on Foreign Relations.
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He profited massively from the 2008 financial
crisis and was also a supporter of Mitt Romney.
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And apparently, this
is just the start.
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This super PAC is drawing massive funding from three of
the wealthiest establishment Republican Party donors,
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with several months to go before
the Kentucky primary in May.
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And that could mean massively
outspending any grassroots campaign,
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probably by running attack ads saying
he's disloyal to Trump and MAGA,
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focusing on things like his opposition
to the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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Of course, Massie's from Kentucky,
so he should know how to make hay.
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I mean, come on: establishment Republican
billionaires? So much for MAGA being populist!
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Massie wouldn't have to outspend them
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to run enough ads pointing out that he's just
being a target of the wealthy Republican elite.
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That could end up galvanizing
his grassroots base.
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Of course, that kind of funding can
be a strain on a grassroots campaign,
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so it would mostly depend on individual
activity of Massie's supporters
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both in the real world
and on social media.
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Massie was in office for four
years before Trump was elected,
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and he staved off the Republican
primary challengers before.
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And they also still don't have
a candidate to oppose him.
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But I wouldn't be at all surprised if they've got some
establishment hack waiting in the wings somewhere.
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We'll just have to see
how this goes, I guess.
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And now it's time to incapacitate
this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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And it's yet another one for The New York Times as they just
can't seem to admit the truth about the RussiaGate hoax.
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The story is about the NSA
firing its top lawyer April Doss,
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who had publicly advocated for Trump
to be banned from public platforms.
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The move comes after Director of National
Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed documents
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containing many more details about the
conspiracy of, quote: "manufactured intelligence"
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designed to sabotage Trump's campaign
and later his first presidential term.
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Senator Mark Warner, then top Democrat
on the Senate intelligence panel,
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hired Doss specifically to
try and tie Trump to Russia.
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Warner said, quote: "We should be outraged by the firing
of April Doss, a deeply principled public servant,
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apparently for the role that she played
in the Senate Intelligence Committee's
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bipartisan investigation into
Russian election interference.
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Her dismissal appears to be the result
of a politically motivated smear campaign
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driven by a far-right conspiracy theorist, not any
legitimate concern about her conduct or qualifications."
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Apologies to everyone whose
Irony Meter just exploded.
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Doss repeatedly advocated for using
the full force of the security state
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to clamp down on "misinformation," which
quite often turned out to be wrong.
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That included using vaccine hesitancy
as a justification for lockdowns,
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and blaming Republican "extremists" for the
manufactured plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer.
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Doss also falsely accused Trump of "insurrection"
even though he was never even charged with it,
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and the only legal forum to examine it, his
Senate trial following his second impeachment,
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resulted in a not guilty verdict.
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Her strong advocacy for government censorship
and clamping down on tech firms and social media,
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including the suppression of
the Hunter Biden laptop story,
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went opposite to the Administration's
policy, not to mention the Constitution.
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NSA officials had concealed how Doss was hired,
and The New York Times (among several others)
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worked directly with Democrats to spread
misinformation after she was terminated.
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They blamed it on Laura
Loomer, saying, quote:
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"A far-right conspiracy theorist had amplified
criticism of the lawyer and her previous work."
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That apparently consisted of a single X post
sharing The Daily Wire's reporting on the story,
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while omitting the details
of the actual findings.
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And that gave cover to the others.
Almost immediately, MSNBC posted:
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"Right-wing influencer allegedly helps oust
a National Security Agency leader (again),"
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and The Daily Beast wrote: "Witch Hunter Laura
Loomer Claims Scalp of NSA's Top Lawyer."
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This is just silly. It's extremely
unlikely to say the least
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that the DNI investigation got
its information from Laura Loomer
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instead of all of the internal
intelligence they had in their hands.
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As for Warner, the only thing he really had
to say in response to the report was, quote:
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"What was Tulsi Gabbard trying to distract from with
her insulting lies about the Russia investigation?"
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I swear, it's hard to keep all the
conspiracy cranks straight these days.
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The only thing that we can really be certain of is that
The New York Times is this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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And now let's absquatulationificize
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
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Okay, somebody here is a major idiot. The only
thing I'm sure about right now is that it's not me.
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But this is really a story about how all the
anti-AI people are running out of arguments.
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And forgetting basic
chemistry to boot!
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The complaint is that AI uses
datacenters, and datacenters use water,
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and water is scarce in some places
like Texas, therefore AI is bad.
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This is from The Economic Times, and doesn't
that name just fill you with confidence?
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The opening paragraph reads like something
straight out of a Marxist playbook, quote:
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"Amid the ongoing worsening drought condition in Texas,
the State's residents face an unexpected water dilemma:
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while communities are urged to conserve every
drop, even cutting back on simple showers,
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massive new AI data centers are
quietly using millions of gallons daily
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to keep their operations
running, as per a report."
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See? You're not allowed to
use water! Why are they?
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Mind you, they didn't do anything as
useful as actually linking to the report.
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But the first one they mentioned
was Microsoft's Stargate campus.
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First problem: the Stargate campus
isn't even up and running yet!
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Also, Texas is a huge state.
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While the western part of the state has
low rainfall and even desert conditions,
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much of the eastern part of
the state has plenty of water.
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As for these datacenters, that
water will evaporate indoors.
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But if you're in a dry area, the HVAC
system will be maintaining humidity anyway.
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So that just means the HVAC system will draw less
water from outside to maintain indoor humidity.
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They dazzle you with an Over
9000 Fallacy by saying, quote:
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"Texas AI centers guzzle
463 million gallons."
00:24:27.580 --> 00:24:31.611
First of all, they're not all
about AI, they're just datacenters,
00:24:31.612 --> 00:24:34.122
but apart from that, they're
not giving you the context.
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As with all statistics, and regular listeners should
know the question to ask right now: "Compared to what?"
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Texans use 4.95 trillion
gallons of water every year.
00:24:48.220 --> 00:24:56.860
So datacenters account for about
0.001% of that! One part in 10,700!
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That's not even a drop in the bucket!
But anyway, let's get to the stupidity.
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Robert Mace is the executive director of The Meadows Center
for Water and the Environment at Texas State University.
00:25:08.220 --> 00:25:12.300
So you'd think he knows what he's
talking about. But he said, quote:
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"People don't think of data centers as
industrial water users, but they are.
00:25:17.500 --> 00:25:22.060
Once that water evaporates,
it's just gone."
00:25:22.060 --> 00:25:24.938
Uh...what???
00:25:24.940 --> 00:25:29.340
And the article goes on to say,
quote: "Some water is recycled,
00:25:29.340 --> 00:25:35.340
but a large portion evaporates
during cooling and is lost forever."
00:25:35.340 --> 00:25:41.740
I always had an uneasy inkling that this
is what environmentalists actually believe,
00:25:41.740 --> 00:25:45.420
but seeing it in print
like this? Geez...
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Idiocy aside, this is the thing
that gets me about government.
00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:54.308
Water is the ultimate renewable
resource. But as Milton Friedman said,
00:25:54.308 --> 00:25:59.100
put government in charge of the Sahara
and you'll end up with a shortage of sand.
00:25:59.100 --> 00:26:03.900
We can ship a barrel of oil halfway
around the world for a dollar
00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:08.460
(as long as stupid governments aren't
increasing the price with artificial shortages),
00:26:08.460 --> 00:26:13.580
but government can't move water
more than a dozen or so miles away.
00:26:13.580 --> 00:26:17.260
That's the difference between
government and the free market.
00:26:17.260 --> 00:26:20.140
But that means government
needs someone to blame.
00:26:20.140 --> 00:26:23.420
When California badly
mismanaged its water systems,
00:26:23.420 --> 00:26:27.087
draining major lakes and waterways
and paving rivers with levees
00:26:27.088 --> 00:26:30.700
so that clean, potable water just
goes straight out to the ocean,
00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:37.233
leading the state with arguably the greatest water
resources in the country to drought-type restrictions,
00:26:37.234 --> 00:26:42.300
they had to blame everything from
almond farmers to global warming.
00:26:42.300 --> 00:26:48.940
And we saw idiocy like claiming that a gallon of water
was somehow embedded into every almond and lost forever.
00:26:48.940 --> 00:26:52.460
Of course not! That water
just went somewhere else.
00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:58.940
That's what water does. So now,
blame AI. Because why not, I guess.
00:26:58.940 --> 00:27:05.100
But again, no matter what, the water
goes somewhere. It always comes back.
00:27:05.100 --> 00:27:08.540
That's the water cycle we
all learned about in school.
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There is tons of potable water
all over the continental US.
00:27:13.740 --> 00:27:16.860
If we'd left it to market
forces, there'd be a nice,
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efficient nationwide infrastructure
just like there is with gasoline.
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Price would fluctuate based on conditions, meaning that
you wouldn't have to pass any sort of restrictions;
00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:29.340
people would naturally
restrict their water use
00:27:29.340 --> 00:27:33.580
the way they naturally restrict the
gasoline they use when shortages happen.
00:27:33.580 --> 00:27:40.540
And the result is that it would be much more
plentiful everywhere than it is anywhere right now.
00:27:40.540 --> 00:27:46.940
And even if you are in an area where you'd need to desalinate
water, hey, that's another reason for nuclear power!
00:27:46.940 --> 00:27:50.540
Because with just a few
extra inexpensive systems,
00:27:50.540 --> 00:27:56.700
nuclear power can desalinate water and turn
it into potable water delivered to the area.
00:27:56.700 --> 00:28:01.020
In fact, both the World Nuclear
Association and the IAEA
00:28:01.020 --> 00:28:05.820
have been recommending nuclear
desalination for over two decades!
00:28:05.820 --> 00:28:08.460
And that's just what I can
think of off the top of my head.
00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:11.740
Who knows what entrepreneurs would
come up with given the chance?
00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:16.140
There would be so many business
opportunities for large-scale potable water
00:28:16.140 --> 00:28:18.940
if government would just get out of it!
00:28:18.940 --> 00:28:22.700
At the very least, we wouldn't be
saddled with so-called "experts"
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who think that water goes away
forever when it evaporates!
00:28:26.860 --> 00:28:33.055
So all of that makes Robert Mace and The
Economic Times this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:45.100
Well, that wraps up this "the pellet with
the poison's in the vessel with the pestle"
00:28:45.100 --> 00:28:47.900
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