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Welcome to the year end wrap-up for the Bogosity Podcast
for the year 2025, the year of Artificial Stupidity.
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This is your host, Shane Killian. We made it
through 2025, and we are still alive! What a year!
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So before 2026 has a
chance to do much to us,
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let's look at the good, the bad, and
the ugly from the previous year..
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A big part of our coverage was
Elon Musk and all things adjacent,
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starting with the Biden
Administration obstructing his plans
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for a $100 million network of
electric big rig charging stations.
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Around the same time, DailyKos posted a fake news headline
saying that a Tesla battery storage facility caught fire.
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In reality, the battery storage facility was owned
by Vistra Energy and had nothing to do with Tesla.
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Instead of properly posting a retraction,
DailyKos just 403'd the story.
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Then, when Elon Musk gave a crowd of
people the "my heart goes out to you" gesture,
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the news media and the social media propaganda
network spent weeks insisting it was a Hitler salute,
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even though it didn't even remotely resemble
one even with their cherry-picked video frame.
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All of that and more makes it really hard
not to blame the news and social media
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backchannel propaganda mongers for the
violence against Tesla and Tesla owners.
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Elon himself had numerous death threats made against
him, and Teslas all over the country were vandalized,
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spray painted with insults, epithets, and Nazi symbols,
and even having windows busted out and panels dented.
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Your reminder that Teslas have cameras and Sentry
Mode will pick up every single thing you do to them.
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Superchargers were also
attacked, some even set on fire,
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which also hurt owners of other EVs
since this is all a charging standard now
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and Tesla's superchargers
are by far the most prevalent.
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Showrooms were also targeted, and there were arrests of
people caught on video throwing Molotov cocktails at them,
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as well as the firebombing of a
Tesla showroom in Colorado.
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One, who got Idiot Extraordinaire, tried lobbing Molotovs
at Teslas and end up accidentally setting himself on fire.
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There ended up being a rash of swatting
targeting Tesla owners and employees.
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And then there was Candace Owens, who got Idiot
Extraordinaire for railing against Musk and Tesla,
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and going from there to say
that all of AI is literally demonic.
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Yes, every time you type a prompt into
an AI, you're summoning a demon!
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And, I guess with FSD, you're being driven around
by Beelzebub? Or maybe one of the lesser demons?
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Hey, seems to work better
than Jesus being your copilot!
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But overall, Tesla was having a great year. The
Model Y is still the best selling car of any kind,
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and although sales dropped 8%, that's actually pretty
good compared to a 41% drop in sales of EVs overall!
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Then there was the immensely
successful Robotaxi launch in Austin,
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where a bunch of Model Ys driverlessly chauffer people
around an area that's expanded several times since then.
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There are still some regulatory hurdles like the
requirement of a human monitor in the passenger seat,
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but Tesla expects to be able to go
fully driverless around mid-2026.
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All in cars that are identical to ones
people can buy at showrooms.
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Tesla says the plan is to allow Tesla owners to
make money by adding their own cars to the fleet.
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Elon himself got better news as Tesla shareholders
enthusiastically gave him a compensation package
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similar to the one that a Delaware judge denied
despite two stockholder votes approving it.
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But now that Tesla has moved completely from Delaware to
Texas, stockholders can give him a completely new package.
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They set out incredibly ambitious goals for the
company, and if they're not met, Elon gets nothing,
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but if he does, Elon will become
the world's first trillionaire.
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Meanwhile, the Delaware Supreme Court overturned the
Chancery Court's ruling and reinstated his older package.
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Still, that doesn't seem to be stemming
the tide of companies leaving Delaware,
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including Meta and Cloudflare,
both moving to Texas,
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and other companies including Pershing
Square, Trade Desk, and TransPerfect,
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either have moved or are considering a move from
Delaware to Nevada, the biggest one being Dropbox.
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They all cite Delaware's legal
environment as the reason for the move.
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Of course, the news media
continued their anti-Elon antics.
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The Wall Street Journal got Biggest Bogon
Emitter when they claimed that Tesla
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was so fed up with Elon that they
were going to replace him as CEO.
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There wasn't the slightest
bit of truth to that.
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After Tesla commented and said
that the story was absolutely false,
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the Wall Street Journal lied and said
that Tesla had declined to comment.
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I don't know if someone at the Journal
was shorting Tesla stock or what.
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Of course, a lot of the misinformation
about Elon surrounded DOGE,
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with the news media once again getting everything wrong:
Musk was a White House advisor, not the head of DOGE.
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By the way, DOGE is very much continuing without Musk
and as of October 4th has found $214 billion in savings,
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which amounts to over
$1300 per taxpayer.
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There are now 271,000 fewer federal
civilian employees since Trump took office.
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In fact, the last time there was any significant reduction
in federal employment was during the Clinton years,
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but even compared to that, this is a historic
outlier in scale, speed, and execution.
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Clinton achieved a similar total over
eight years with bipartisan support.
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Trump's approach is more disruptive,
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leveraging executive power and DOGE
to enact rapid, controversial changes.
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We saw that on the 9th of February when
Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador,
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tried to claim that they were using money to
fund communist movements in his country.
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Many others, such as Politico, tried to
deny the funding they got from USAID,
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even though it wasn't sufficiently
laundered and it was paid straight to them!
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Wikileaks showed that USAID was funding over 6,200
journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 media NGOs,
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including 90% of the
media outlets in Ukraine.
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The so-called 'Institute of Peace' deleted
one terabyte of data to coverup their crimes,
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but DOGE found it because, again,
deleting a file doesn't actually get rid of it!
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The left is oddly vocal about defending
an agency that oversaw the forced
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sterilization of 300,000 indigenous
women in Latin America in the 1990s.
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That saw the rise of a new
internet term: hostage puppy.
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You take a bunch of money, do
a bunch of horrible things with it,
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but use a tiny amount of it to
take care of a cute puppy.
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Then when someone complains, you wheel out
the puppy with its adorable pathetic eyes and say,
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"Why do you want the puppy to die?"
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The solution, of course, is to take the
puppy away from the person doing that!
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We also how FBI agents were
told to game a DoJ questionnaire
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asking for any involvement they might have
had in the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.
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All that accumulated in June with the tragic breakup
of Musk and Trump over the One Big Beautiful Bill,
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which is everything Trump
had promised not to do:
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pass a massive omnibus bill that House members
weren't even given time to read before the vote,
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which increases the debt ceiling by $5
trillion, among many other boondoggles.
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Another big case, slowly ongoing and still
mired in discovery, is X Corp v. Media Matters,
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where X is trying to prove that Media Matters
is basically a backchannel propaganda outlet,
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probably with government
ties including CISA and DHS,
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and Media Matters is doing everything they
can to avoid and even violate discovery.
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Media Matters are the ones who successfully
got a lot of advertisers to leave X
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by showing them fraudulent data suggesting that their ads
were placed next to neo-Nazi and other extremist content.
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The big news in that case this year was
Media Matters trying to change venue
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from the Northern District of Texas
to the Northern District of California.
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US District Judge Reed O'Connor
denied it in a scathing ruling.
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Both the judge and X have been
jerked around ever since this began,
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and Media Matters have been consistently
stonewalling discovery and acting in bad faith.
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It just remains to be seen how much
more Judge O'Connor will tolerate.
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I'll keep you updated on it. They've
been stonewalling so much
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the trial date had to be pushed from
February of 2026 to the 26th of October.
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Oh, right: and, the advertisers came crawling back
to X, so it didn't even work for all that long.
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But X did get us a big win for freedom of speech, made more
impressive that it was in the corrupt DC Circuit Court.
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They got the court to lift an unconstitutional
gag order on them prohibiting them from telling
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their users when government demanded their private
information under the Stored Communications Act.
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The DC District Court ordered that gag order ex parte, with X
Corp not even being present or even knowing it was going on!
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Hopefully, this is a start of
a trend that'll see the Act
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declared to be the unconstitutional
monstrosity that it is!
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Artificial Intelligence also
plowed its way through the year,
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exceeding expectations
especially of the neo-Luddites.
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Beginning when Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made
a model to rival ChatGPT with far fewer resources,
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working smarter, not harder.
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We had the amazing fair use victories
in Kadrey v. Meta, the OG AI case,
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and Bartz v. Anthropic,, which
then moved towards a settlement
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that Judge William Alsup was
extremely skeptical about.
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Judge Alsup is now retired, so we'll have to
see if the new judge is just as skeptical or not.
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And we saw the AI song "Walk my walk" go viral and reach
#1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart.
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It wasn't all good, though.
Google screwed up Gemini again
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when they completely broke their AI products
for people who need them the most,
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such as victims of assault
and others suffering PTSD.
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All this bogus censorship that's supposed to
make AI safe really makes it more dangerous.
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And if you thought that
couldn't get any more horrific,
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a court actually allowed the use of an AI to
hallucinate the dead victim of a road rage incident
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where it was pretty evident the defendant
was acting in self-defense against him.
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Nonetheless, he was found
guilty of manslaughter,
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and then had to deal with this sob story imagined
by the victim's family in his name and voice,
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saying things he never said
in a way he never said them.
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It wasn't even a well-done AI! It was one
step up from a Clutch Cargo cartoon!
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But it made the verklempt judge sentence the defendant
to a year more than the prosecutor was asking for!
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An appeal is set for February. Hopefully,
the appeals court will see sense.
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Fortunately, most courts seem to be pushing against
AI hallucinations, as we saw in stories in the US,
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the UK, and even Israel, when the
AIs hallucinated nonexistent cases
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and the lawyers didn't even bother to fact-check them,
despite having software that will do so automatically!
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Another big tactic of the neo-Luddites
and ambulance-chasers is,
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crazy people do crazy things with AI.
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There is absolutely nothing an AI can do to
make someone psychotic when they're not,
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but they can be a trigger for the
psychosis. But then, so can anything.
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OpenAI did a good thing, though, when they hired
psychiatrists to help them navigate this complex issue.
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The problem is, the very same traits that
make AIs work for most users can end up
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being problematic when used by someone
with a more fragile grasp on reality.
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The other problem is,
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doing this didn't seem to stem the tide of neo-Luddites
complaining that ChatGPT drives people to psychosis.
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Don't try to win with these people. You can't.
Because they're not making honest criticisms.
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They're looking for any excuse
to take down this technology.
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That includes Josh Hawley, who got Idiot Extraordinaire
for his all-out attack on free speech and fair use,
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all to protect us from
the "threat" of AI.
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In the process, he lied about AI cases such
as Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic.
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The Authors Guild also got Idiot Extraordinaire
for their ridiculous case against OpenAI.
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After something like
two years of discovery,
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the total amount they had to back
up their claims was...nothing.
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They claimed they could make
ChatGPT output infringing material,
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but the only thing they could demonstrate was
an outline of a book that doesn't even exist!
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They're the lead in a pile-on of cases
in the hideously corrupt SDNY,
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which includes things
like the Ziff Davis case
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where they claimed that ignoring a
robots.txt file was a DMCA violation!
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Another one of those cases is
New York Times v. OpenAI,
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also called News Plaintiffs since
there are actually dozens of them,
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where the news companies want the private
chats of you and me that we made to ChatGPT,
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believing that the privacy
policy protected us.
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They initially wanted our deleted chats, too, but
fortunately, that was a road too far, even for the SDNY.
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But still, they want OpenAI to turn over
20 million of your private thoughts,
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questions, ponderings, creative writings,
and other prompts to the news—
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who have shown no
compunction in the past
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about using court-obtained documents
against people who aren't parties to the case.
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Imagine those muckraking yellow journalists getting
all of the personal information you've put in,
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even private thoughts you put in for therapeutic reasons
or even just for fun, so they can troll through it.
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By the way, OpenAI found proof that the Times was
using ChatGPT for journalism and accounting purposes,
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but oh, that's just prying too much into
their private business, says the magistrate!
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Show you were we stand, doesn't it?
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Reddit also sued Perplexity for scraping
its data, when their ToS makes it clear:
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they don't own that data! It
belongs to the users who post it!
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They weren't even complaining
that they're scraping Reddit;
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it's that they're scraping
Google's scraping of Reddit,
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and in so doing, violating the
anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA.
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Google, who actually did the scraping, isn't a party to
the lawsuit, and Reddit is making no claim against them.
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Scraping is, of course, a vital part of the Internet and
something else the anti-AI movement is seeking to destroy.
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Wikipedia got Biggest Bogon Emitter
for being on the wrong side of it.
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Gone is the Wikipedia that protested SOPA/PIPA,
now warriors against the open Internet.
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They made a blog post saying that AI developers
should pay them to scrape their data—
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even though Wikipedia is a non-profit
and their data is in the public domain!
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Another Idiot Extraordinaire
went to Universal Pictures for
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attempting to put a disclaimer in the credits of at least
two movies, "Jurassic World: Rebirth" and "M3GAN 2.0",
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that you're not allowed to
use the movie for AI training.
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But a disclaimer can't take
away your right to fair use!
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It was also fun watching Hollywood lose
their shit over AI actress Tilly Norwood.
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Of course, AI does have its bad uses,
such as the Flock Safety camera systems
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that are an end run around the Fourth
Amendment, allowing police to track anyone,
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anywhere, without a warrant—and
has already been abused by,
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for example, police thugs using
them to stalk ex-girlfriends!
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They also don't work well, and have
resulted in numerous people being
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falsely arrested for stolen vehicles and other
crimes, many wrestled to the ground and beaten!
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In fact, several cities have shut off the
cameras and ordered that they be taken down.
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We also saw problems
with AI facial recognition,
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with the UK Home Office whining that common law makes
it difficult for them to spy on innocent people.
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We've also seen the failure of
AI gun recognition in schools,
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including a student being arrested and having guns pointed
at him when the AI flagged an empty bag of Doritos.
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All while completely failing to
detect actual guns and knives.
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AI is never good nor
bad. It's how it's used.
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So if you have a camera that uses AI to enhance the pictures
you take, that's cool. But what if you want to turn it off?
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The Pixel 10a camera has an
AI that apparently is always on,
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which was a problem for a mom who was taking
a picture of her kid's rash to send to the doctor.
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The AI kept enhancing
the picture to remove it!
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By default, maybe a lot of us would like
that, but the thing is, she couldn't turn it off!
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And it also happened on both an Android phone
and an iOS tablet made in the last three years.
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AI can be used to find
security vulnerabilities,
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but what happens when that's abused to harass
a small but important open source project?
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FFmpeg was inundated by Google's AI sending them bugs so
obscure it's unclear if any of them even could be exploited,
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let alone would. But it didn't
send them any patches!
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So a few group of volunteers,
already stretched thin,
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were having what they termed "CVE slop"
piled on them by a trillion-dollar company
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who apparently can't put any of their massive
engineering talent towards submitting a few fixes.
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Despite Google being a heavy
FFmpeg user themselves!
00:20:05.420 --> 00:20:07.180
The curl project found that,
00:20:07.180 --> 00:20:13.180
while AI in the hands of ham-fisted amateurs
can result in the aforementioned CVS-slop,
00:20:13.180 --> 00:20:19.180
in the hands of a real coder, it can make
wonderful contributions to vulnerability testing.
00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:23.787
And then we saw conservative Matt Walsh
become a Richard Wolff-esque socialist
00:20:23.788 --> 00:20:29.740
when complaining about AI destroying
jobs! A Yale study found that it doesn't.
00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:36.300
Around August, we also started seeing the incredibly
silly claims that AI was bad for the environment,
00:20:36.300 --> 00:20:43.500
starting with the UK who got Idiot Extraordinaire
for telling people to save water by deleting emails!
00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:50.460
Because datacenters use water, emails
are stored in datacenters... I dunno.
00:20:50.460 --> 00:20:57.180
But we saw fearmongering from people who apparently
think that once water is evaporated, it's gone forever!
00:20:57.180 --> 00:21:03.180
In reality, the water they use to cool the
computers is in a closed loop with very little loss,
00:21:03.180 --> 00:21:07.820
and the open loop can even be used for
district heating and water purification!
00:21:07.820 --> 00:21:12.460
At any rate, when you look at the total amount
of water used by datacenters around the world,
00:21:12.460 --> 00:21:18.700
trying to reduce our water usage by shutting them down
would be like bailing out the Titanic with a thimble.
00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:22.060
Same thing with other fearmongering,
such as the carbon usage.
00:21:22.060 --> 00:21:28.193
It's also ignoring the fact that datacenters help
humanity reduce our water usage and carbon emissions
00:21:28.194 --> 00:21:34.780
by making our computer usage more efficient, instead of
having to do everything on our machines or on local servers.
00:21:34.780 --> 00:21:39.360
As for the power usage, OpenAI sent a
good explanation to the White House
00:21:39.361 --> 00:21:43.693
letting them know basically how dumb
we were for shutting off nuclear reactors
00:21:43.694 --> 00:21:46.300
and how much catching up
we have to do with China.
00:21:46.300 --> 00:21:48.380
And things are getting
better on that front.
00:21:48.380 --> 00:21:52.700
The NRC has approved the restart of
the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan,
00:21:52.700 --> 00:21:57.500
set to go critical sometime in
2026, probably around March.
00:21:57.500 --> 00:22:01.566
In fact, we got a surprising bit of
news of how safe nuclear power is
00:22:01.566 --> 00:22:07.740
when a man fell into the water of the reactor
cavity at Palisades and nothing bad happened.
00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:14.740
A US judge overturned stupid New York Governor
Kathy Hochul and even stupider AG Letitia James
00:22:14.740 --> 00:22:21.660
ignoring NRC regulations and putting the Indian
Point reactor shutdown in an impossible Catch-22.
00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:27.793
We need to get on this. A report we covered shows
that estimates for coal generation increased 11%
00:22:27.794 --> 00:22:30.380
and stay elevated through 2027.
00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:36.380
Power companies all over the country are reporting
having to burn more coal to meet increased demand.
00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:43.500
Amazon is working with Terrapower to build their Natrium
reactor as cheap, safe, clean energy for an AWS datacenter,
00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:50.940
and Microsoft is working with Constellation Energy
Generation to restart the TMI-2 reactor in two years.
00:22:50.940 --> 00:22:56.747
But this one-restart-a-year crap isn't gonna
cut it, especially since elsewhere in the world
00:22:56.748 --> 00:23:03.740
there will be 15 new or restarted plants
going critical in 2026, most of them in China!
00:23:03.740 --> 00:23:08.780
I want to remind you again that if political
idiots had never put the brakes on it,
00:23:08.780 --> 00:23:15.420
if the NRC had never existed, or at least had been
anything but a bunch of panicky obstructionists,
00:23:15.420 --> 00:23:19.180
we would be absolutely
swimming in clean power!
00:23:19.180 --> 00:23:23.180
No one would care about climate change,
electric cars would be uninhibited,
00:23:23.180 --> 00:23:29.500
and people of all socioeconomic classes would
be immeasurably better off than they are now!
00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:31.500
And, give it up for innovative people:
00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:38.220
ProEnergy has innovated the use of repurposed jet engines
to act as a supplemental power source for datacenters.
00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:43.420
They can provide the power datacenters need during
construction and for some five years thereafter,
00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:46.700
by which point the local power grid
should hopefully have caught up.
00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:52.620
Afterward, the turbines are still useful as backup
power, or can be used to supplement the grid.
00:23:52.620 --> 00:23:57.020
But all of this is because solar
and wind just ain't gonna cut it.
00:23:57.020 --> 00:24:03.340
You can't use intermittent forms of power to meet
the constant and continuous demands of datacenters.
00:24:03.340 --> 00:24:04.620
People are learning that.
00:24:04.620 --> 00:24:10.460
Over 10,000 people marched to protest the
closure of Spain's Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant,
00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:14.780
part of Spain's plan to
phase out nuclear by 2035.
00:24:14.780 --> 00:24:22.460
All total, Spain had seven reactors producing 20% of
the country's electricity; that went down to about 8%.
00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:29.660
Sadly, no new reactors have been built since the
socialist government passed a moratorium in 1984.
00:24:29.660 --> 00:24:34.300
The rest of the 37 planned
reactors had to be scrapped.
00:24:34.300 --> 00:24:37.980
Two months later, something happened
that should have taught them a lesson.
00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:42.600
Spain experienced a blackout of pretty
much the entire Iberian peninsula,
00:24:42.601 --> 00:24:45.467
which includes Portugal
and part of France.
00:24:45.468 --> 00:24:52.220
It started with just a two-second blip, the kind that
happens. The major problem happened when it came back on.
00:24:52.220 --> 00:24:58.460
See, if most of your power is nuclear or
hydro or even coal or oil, you use turbines.
00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:01.500
Think "big spinny
thing spinning fast."
00:25:01.501 --> 00:25:10.540
In Spain, where AC power is 50Hz, that means 3000rpm for
regular generators and 1500rpm for nuclear generators.
00:25:10.540 --> 00:25:13.340
When they come back
online, those generators,
00:25:13.341 --> 00:25:17.801
having still been spinning the whole
time, are still in phase with the grid.
00:25:17.802 --> 00:25:23.340
Solar and wind don't work that way. They use
inverters, which don't have any such inertia.
00:25:23.340 --> 00:25:28.460
Ordinarily, they would detect the phase of the
grid and automatically sync themselves to that.
00:25:28.460 --> 00:25:31.900
But what happens if most of
your grid is solar and wind?
00:25:31.900 --> 00:25:37.100
What do they sync themselves to?
Nothing—and down goes the grid.
00:25:37.100 --> 00:25:41.989
It's exactly what Redeia, the parent
company of Spain's grid operator REE,
00:25:41.990 --> 00:25:44.469
warned about two months
before it happened.
00:25:44.470 --> 00:25:46.540
We've covered the
problems with Spain.
00:25:46.540 --> 00:25:50.700
We've covered the problems with Germany.
We've covered the problems with Sweden.
00:25:50.700 --> 00:25:53.566
All because they shut
down nuclear plants.
00:25:53.566 --> 00:25:59.100
France didn't. Their nuclear fleet is still going
strong, and they haven't had any of these issues.
00:25:59.100 --> 00:26:05.900
In fact, their nuclear is hitting highs while
solar and wind drop to disturbingly low levels.
00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:08.700
One thing about solar and wind
they don't like to advertise:
00:26:08.700 --> 00:26:14.140
how much oil and gas they need to back
them up, even when operating properly!
00:26:14.140 --> 00:26:18.460
France's fleet of reactors put out
more than 55GW of electricity,
00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:22.060
at a time when wind slumped
to less than a gigawatt.
00:26:22.060 --> 00:26:28.380
Meanwhile, Germany's oil generation
surged to levels not seen since 2017.
00:26:28.380 --> 00:26:33.740
Their electricity prices
rose to €360/MWh.
00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:39.260
Nuclear means cheap, safe, and
reliable. There's just no way to deny it!
00:26:39.260 --> 00:26:45.820
And now, with more and more datacenters being built,
and AI actually being less than half the reason why,
00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:49.866
add one more adjective: necessary!
00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:03.020
Okay, moving to the Supreme Court,
00:28:03.020 --> 00:28:07.740
which started off the year idiotically refusing
to step in on the Donald Trump trial,
00:28:07.740 --> 00:28:11.180
which was not only lawfare but should
have been immune from the start.
00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:14.780
They voted 5-4 to
just not get involved.
00:28:14.780 --> 00:28:20.647
And then you have the insane separation of powers
claims from the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
00:28:20.648 --> 00:28:24.060
who was set to get some money
from USAID when DOGE happened.
00:28:24.060 --> 00:28:28.220
This is one of those funky cases where
a district court judge went way beyond
00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:33.820
his jurisdictional authority and ordered the
Trump Administration to pay them $2 billion.
00:28:33.820 --> 00:28:39.340
By making it a TRO, they could do it ex parte,
with the other side not even being heard.
00:28:39.340 --> 00:28:43.660
In reality, this was a summary
judgement disguised as a TRO,
00:28:43.660 --> 00:28:47.180
another important factor being
that TROs can't be appealed.
00:28:47.180 --> 00:28:50.247
And the Supreme
Court just decided 5-4,
00:28:50.248 --> 00:28:56.380
hey, who cares about that whole separation of
powers thing and Marbury v. Madison, anyway?
00:28:56.380 --> 00:29:02.060
They actually figured that this was a one time thing
and didn't at all predict what everyone else did:
00:29:02.060 --> 00:29:07.660
a veritable deluge of swutty little
district court judges who now felt they
00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:12.700
had the go-ahead to be un-elected
dictators of the entire country.
00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:17.580
So, back to SCOTUS, and this
time it was 6-3 the other way.
00:29:17.580 --> 00:29:20.780
So a bit late, but at least
they put a stop to it.
00:29:20.780 --> 00:29:23.100
But they wimped out in
the VanDerStok case,
00:29:23.100 --> 00:29:27.820
about the ATF's idiotic misinterpretation
of the "frame or receiver" rule,
00:29:27.820 --> 00:29:33.340
now so broad that any hunk of iron dug out
of the ground could be considered a gun.
00:29:33.340 --> 00:29:35.980
Seven members of the
court, including Gorsuch,
00:29:35.980 --> 00:29:42.300
were such cowards that the only thing they
could say is that it wasn't "facially invalid."
00:29:42.300 --> 00:29:46.447
So basically, a plaintiff who
challenges a rule cannot ever win
00:29:46.448 --> 00:29:53.020
unless he can show that there is no set of circumstances in
which the regulation would be consistent with the statute.
00:29:53.020 --> 00:29:58.940
There's now no way anyone could possibly
successfully make a prima facie challenge.
00:29:58.940 --> 00:30:03.660
Then they had to decide the case of a charter
school in Oklahoma that wanted board approval,
00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:06.220
and was denied because
they were Catholic.
00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:12.780
That should be a blatant First Amendment violation,
but with Barrett recusing herself, SCOTUS split 4-4.
00:30:12.780 --> 00:30:18.147
They prohibited the school charter
without setting a precedent. Wimps.
00:30:18.147 --> 00:30:20.860
We did have a good result
in the Kim Davis case,
00:30:20.860 --> 00:30:27.180
the magistrate judge who refused to do her job and
denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
00:30:27.180 --> 00:30:30.847
She lost at the Sixth Circuit, and
appealed to the Supreme Court.
00:30:30.847 --> 00:30:34.880
If she'd been a preacher, we would have been
on her side, and likely so would SCOTUS.
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:39.980
Instead, they denied certiorari and
let the Circuit court ruling stand.
00:30:39.980 --> 00:30:44.480
What she was really trying to do
is overturn Obergefell v. Hodges,
00:30:44.481 --> 00:30:50.220
the 2015 case that legalized same-sex
marriage nationwide. Wasn't gonna happen.
00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:55.740
They unanimously shot down a case where
Mexicans sued gun manufacturers for, quote:
00:30:55.740 --> 00:31:00.247
"massive trafficking of their guns into
Mexico." SCOTUS wasn't having it.
00:31:00.248 --> 00:31:07.446
Then in Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services,
another unanimous ruling, written by Jackson no less,
00:31:07.446 --> 00:31:13.980
said, yeah, it can be discrimination if you demote
someone for being straight, go back and do the case again.
00:31:13.980 --> 00:31:17.847
Another ruling favored a Catholic
charity in Catholic Charities Bureau v.
00:31:17.848 --> 00:31:23.100
Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission,
a good ruling for the First Amendment.
00:31:23.100 --> 00:31:26.248
And now, let's review this
year's coverage of the biggest
00:31:26.249 --> 00:31:31.020
and probably most important Supreme
Court case we've bene following.
00:31:31.020 --> 00:31:38.940
The Fourth Circuit ruled that Cox Communications as an
ISP is liable for its users who infringe on copyrights.
00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:43.100
In other words, they can be made to pay
a billion dollar judgement because they
00:31:43.100 --> 00:31:48.300
didn't kick these people off the Internet
solely on the say-so of a big record label.
00:31:48.300 --> 00:31:53.900
Cue Cox's appeal, and the ensuing deluge
of amicus briefs to the Supreme Court.
00:31:53.900 --> 00:31:58.220
They also denied the petition from
Sony and the other music labels.
00:31:58.220 --> 00:32:00.940
Losing this case would
mean nothing less than the
00:32:00.940 --> 00:32:05.500
loss of what little of our privacy
rights are left with communications.
00:32:05.500 --> 00:32:10.300
So after five years, Cox finally got
to be heard at the Supreme Court.
00:32:10.300 --> 00:32:15.900
The justices seemed very receptive to the argument
that this would mean cutting off entire households,
00:32:15.900 --> 00:32:24.060
entire businesses, entire regions because some
corporation claims that one person is pirating.
00:32:24.060 --> 00:32:31.660
They were also receptive to the argument that Cox
was ordered to pay $1 billion for not doing anything.
00:32:31.660 --> 00:32:37.180
They heard from Cox, they heard from the federal
government, who also thought the whole thing was ridiculous,
00:32:37.180 --> 00:32:43.080
and they heard from the incredibly silly record
labels, who made one Orwellian argument after another
00:32:43.080 --> 00:32:46.946
that would threaten to undo
basically all of the Bill of Rights.
00:32:46.946 --> 00:32:51.980
Well, maybe not all. It wouldn't let
them quarter troops in our homes.
00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:53.980
I don't think.
00:32:53.980 --> 00:32:57.820
The Internet has become a vital
utility for everyday communication,
00:32:57.820 --> 00:33:01.180
banking, commerce, speech and
expression, even health care.
00:33:01.180 --> 00:33:08.747
Cut off an entire hospital just because a patient used
their Wi-Fi to pirate? That's what the RIAA argued!
00:33:08.748 --> 00:33:11.100
Imagine if they said this
about a power company:
00:33:11.100 --> 00:33:16.380
people are using your energy to power the
computers they use to infringe, so cut them off!
00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:20.140
Just as silly, and just as
dangerous if not more so.
00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:27.580
And even worse: the labels argued, quote: "there has to
be room for treating somebody that says 'F— the DMCA!'
00:33:27.580 --> 00:33:36.220
differently from somebody that tries their level best to
comply, and doesn't." A direct attack on freedom of speech!
00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:39.547
That is absolute
content-based censorship.
00:33:39.548 --> 00:33:44.300
So we'll find out, probably around June,
what the result of all of this finally is.
00:33:44.300 --> 00:33:52.460
That'll be six years of a court case and 27 years of
harassment and uncertainty of Internet users everywhere.
00:33:52.460 --> 00:33:56.500
It looks like the court might be
leaning the right way on this one.
00:35:10.460 --> 00:35:13.260
There's just been so much
to talk about this year,
00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:20.380
and the insane opioid scare caused by the
psychotic War on Drugs has, if anything, escalated!
00:35:20.380 --> 00:35:24.300
Just when overdoses were starting
to go down due to Naloxone,
00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:29.820
Trump might be reversing that due to his crackdown
on fentanyl coming in from China and Mexico.
00:35:29.820 --> 00:35:33.160
Why? Because people will just
switch to home-grown fentanyl,
00:35:33.161 --> 00:35:40.460
which is weaker, so they make it more potent by cutting
it with xylazine—which negates the effect of Naloxone.
00:35:40.460 --> 00:35:45.260
Or, they just add carfentanil, which
Naloxone isn't strong enough to touch!
00:35:45.260 --> 00:35:50.380
In fact, carfentanil overdose
deaths have increased sevenfold!
00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:54.560
We've also seen a disturbing rise
in hospitals and emergency rooms
00:35:54.560 --> 00:36:00.940
treating patients with ineffective Tylenol and
then telling them their pain is "all in your head."
00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:05.020
In fact, a study that looked at
3400 patients who were told that
00:36:05.020 --> 00:36:08.940
found that they were pushing their
patients into depression and anxiety!
00:36:08.940 --> 00:36:14.700
Here's another good thing DOGE did: terminate
money to hospitals who were using federal funds,
00:36:14.700 --> 00:36:19.020
not to treat patients, but to
"fight the opioid epidemic."
00:36:19.020 --> 00:36:23.980
They were taking money to
not give patients painkillers!
00:36:23.980 --> 00:36:28.940
And if it hadn't been for DOGE cutting off
the funding, they would have expanded it!
00:36:28.940 --> 00:36:34.873
More damage was done when Walgreens was
forced to pay a $300 million settlement to the DoJ
00:36:34.873 --> 00:36:39.020
because they actually had the
audacity to fill opioid prescriptions.
00:36:39.020 --> 00:36:43.486
They now have to watch out for
"invalid prescriptions" and "red flags,"
00:36:43.486 --> 00:36:47.740
all of which seem to mean "whatever
we say they are at the time."
00:36:47.740 --> 00:36:53.420
Given the gleeful way in which the Trump Administration
picked up and made hay with this Biden-era lawsuit,
00:36:53.420 --> 00:36:56.620
you can expect it to
get worse—and it did.
00:36:56.620 --> 00:37:02.060
Meloxicam is a very strong NSAID with
all sorts of long-term adverse effects.
00:37:02.060 --> 00:37:07.500
The FDA approved IV-Meloxicam
for patients instead of painkillers.
00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:15.660
Unlike opioids, Meloxicam has common, very detrimental
side effects—that come on with no warning at all.
00:37:15.660 --> 00:37:21.340
And, that's better than a
0.6% chance of addiction???
00:37:21.340 --> 00:37:27.500
A highly dangerous NSAID is being
pushed over safe and effective opioids.
00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:31.420
It would be one thing if prominent
hospitals were pushing back against it.
00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:36.940
Sadly, they aren't. In fact, the Mayo Clinic
deliberately spread pseudoscience,
00:37:36.940 --> 00:37:43.900
and blatantly violated the Hippocratic Oath, to
frighten doctors into not prescribing opioids!
00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:48.940
Their article was not in any
way medicine. It was hate.
00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:55.020
Of course, it would be nice if the CDC gave us proper
statistics on this, but as we covered, they don't.
00:37:55.020 --> 00:38:00.140
In fact, they deliberately refuse to collect
them, at first to cover their own asses,
00:38:00.140 --> 00:38:04.020
and later because they got in bed with
the ambulance-chasers at PROP.
00:38:04.020 --> 00:38:10.140
But we did manage to get some from
Australia. Out of 27 million people,
00:38:10.140 --> 00:38:16.007
the total number of drug-induced deaths involving
pharmaceutical opioids as the sole drug type
00:38:16.008 --> 00:38:20.860
was just 33 people a year.
Basically, a rounding error.
00:38:20.860 --> 00:38:24.700
Whereas 50 Australians die
every year from Tylenol.
00:38:24.700 --> 00:38:30.540
You're more likely to be killed by
your own bed than by an opioid!
00:39:42.780 --> 00:39:49.740
All right, now let's go over the more notable recipients of
Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire over 2025.
00:39:49.740 --> 00:39:54.540
Biggest Bogon Emitter Juan Merchan was
the judge over Trump's sexual doo-dah case,
00:39:54.540 --> 00:39:59.500
and although he wasn't as insane as Judge
Engoron, he was every bit as corrupt.
00:39:59.500 --> 00:40:03.180
Another judge, James Boasberg, got
Biggest Bogon Emitter when he tried
00:40:03.180 --> 00:40:07.420
to insert himself into deportation
proceedings outside his district,
00:40:07.420 --> 00:40:12.060
and then went on to make things
worse. SCOTUS put a stop to it in July.
00:40:12.060 --> 00:40:18.460
Elizabeth Warren got one for running a scam claiming that
people can donate to LA wildfire victims through ActBlue,
00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:21.660
when most of the money was being
laundered among middlemen.
00:40:21.660 --> 00:40:25.180
Fulton County, Georgia DA
Fani Willis racked 'em up,
00:40:25.180 --> 00:40:28.700
beginning when a judge ordered her
to pay thousands of dollars in fees
00:40:28.700 --> 00:40:32.540
and costs in the open records
lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.
00:40:32.540 --> 00:40:36.620
Willis had falsely denied having any
responsive records regarding their
00:40:36.620 --> 00:40:40.540
communication with Jack Smith's
office and the Jan6 Committee.
00:40:40.540 --> 00:40:44.940
She also claimed that a whistleblower
to her office posed a violent threat.
00:40:44.940 --> 00:40:50.780
She violated a slew of whistleblower protection
laws when she demoted her and made her a file clerk.
00:40:50.780 --> 00:40:56.940
Her false claims of violent threats were quickly
debunked by audio recordings of the calls in question.
00:40:56.940 --> 00:41:01.980
There are also a ton of questions about how
her office has been spending public funds.
00:41:01.980 --> 00:41:07.660
Hey, remember when she was kicked off the Trump RICO case
because she was sleeping with the special prosecutor,
00:41:07.660 --> 00:41:13.660
whom she arranged to have paid over
$700,000 and then went on cruises with him?
00:41:13.660 --> 00:41:18.620
She appealed all the way to the
Georgia Supreme Court—and lost bigly.
00:41:18.620 --> 00:41:23.420
The prosecutors who inherited the case decided
the whole thing was bogus and dropped it.
00:41:23.420 --> 00:41:27.580
Turns out, it's not illegal to
question election results!
00:41:27.580 --> 00:41:30.140
Turns out, it's also not
illegal in Michigan,
00:41:30.140 --> 00:41:36.220
where a district court judge threw out the state's
conspiracy prosecution against the Republican electors.
00:41:36.220 --> 00:41:41.500
Then there's New York AG Letitia James; we talked
about her earlier with the Indian Point nuclear plant.
00:41:41.500 --> 00:41:45.020
Her corruption involved the
American Irish Historical Society,
00:41:45.020 --> 00:41:50.300
her attack on the free speech of New York City
firefighters, and the state eviction moratorium.
00:41:50.300 --> 00:41:53.900
And then there was the mortgage
scandal where she falsified records
00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:58.620
in exactly the same way she
falsely accused Trump of doing!
00:41:58.620 --> 00:42:02.540
She falsified records to get
more favorable loan terms,
00:42:02.540 --> 00:42:08.060
including saying her primary residence
wasn't in New York (as it's required to be),
00:42:08.060 --> 00:42:13.900
said her husband was her father, and that she
wasn't renting out property she was renting out.
00:42:13.900 --> 00:42:19.340
The appeals court threw out her Trump case, by the
way, with one judge seriously dressing her down.
00:42:19.340 --> 00:42:21.580
Anyway, when the indictment
came down for James,
00:42:21.580 --> 00:42:26.140
it was a lot worse than we thought! She
got various riders she shouldn't have,
00:42:26.140 --> 00:42:31.740
got them through a Fannie Mae-backed lender,
and then reported it on her taxes as rentals!
00:42:31.740 --> 00:42:37.100
So she was so dumb she officially filed
that she wasn't renting the property,
00:42:37.100 --> 00:42:41.660
then filed her taxes claiming
rental income on the property!
00:42:41.660 --> 00:42:45.260
And then, of course, there were
all the states, along with Australia,
00:42:45.260 --> 00:42:50.700
who were passing various versions of the Child
Online Safety or whatever they were calling it.
00:42:50.700 --> 00:42:54.860
Basically, they want websites to have
all of your identifying information.
00:42:54.860 --> 00:42:58.060
It started out being just porn
sites, which was bogus enough,
00:42:58.060 --> 00:43:01.820
and SCOTUS gets another brickbat for
not shooting that down when they could,
00:43:01.820 --> 00:43:06.140
but has since expanded to all
sorts of social media sites as well.
00:43:06.140 --> 00:43:15.420
And it didn't take long for the worse to happen: A
Discord breach resulted in 70,000 IDs being stolen!
00:43:15.420 --> 00:43:22.220
And this is as bad as it gets, because identity
theft is almost impossible to come back from!
00:43:22.220 --> 00:43:26.606
We also had a few more cases where
payment processors decided to play censor
00:43:26.606 --> 00:43:30.300
and shut off payments for
adult games and visual novels.
00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:35.633
The Biden Administration got his share, of course,
with Biden and Kamala Harris getting a joint one
00:43:35.634 --> 00:43:40.940
for trying to claim that the Equal Rights
Amendment had been ratified when it clearly hadn't.
00:43:40.940 --> 00:43:45.180
Biden had said, quote: "The 28th
Amendment is the law of the land,
00:43:45.180 --> 00:43:50.540
guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and
protections under the law regardless of their sex."
00:43:50.540 --> 00:43:57.020
Kamala also tweeted: "The Equal Rights Amendment is
the 28th Amendment, and it is the law of the land."
00:43:57.020 --> 00:44:01.660
Of course, you can't get an amendment
into the Constitution by bullying.
00:44:01.660 --> 00:44:05.340
Biden got another for the bogus
documents case in Florida.
00:44:05.340 --> 00:44:11.580
They just had to try and smear Trump one more time by
releasing two volumes of the Special Counsel's Report,
00:44:11.580 --> 00:44:14.460
even though Jack Smith
wasn't a special counsel at all,
00:44:14.460 --> 00:44:18.380
and releasing these smears is not
only improper on the face of it,
00:44:18.380 --> 00:44:22.540
it would also prejudice the case
against Nauta and De Oliveira as well.
00:44:22.540 --> 00:44:26.140
They were shot down, and
the judge let them have it.
00:44:26.140 --> 00:44:32.540
Karine Jean-Pierre took Idiot Extraordinaire for being
even more of an incredible dumbass on her book tour.
00:44:32.540 --> 00:44:38.140
Chuck Todd got Idiot Extraordinaire for trying
to resurrect the long-dead RussiaGate hoax.
00:44:38.140 --> 00:44:43.180
Seriously, how freakin' desperate do
you have to be to still be sticking by it?
00:44:43.180 --> 00:44:49.260
Gavin Newsom got three, one where he tried to
backpedal after the major Democratic loss in November,
00:44:49.260 --> 00:44:54.793
to the point where even a CNN chyron asked,
quote: "What in God's name is going on?"
00:44:54.794 --> 00:45:00.780
His second was in July, where he appeared on the Shawn
Ryan Show and still wouldn't answer basic questions
00:45:00.780 --> 00:45:04.060
about the ridiculous and
harmful COVID mandates.
00:45:04.060 --> 00:45:06.300
Then there was all
the redistricting crap,
00:45:06.300 --> 00:45:12.126
which as a North Carolinian I am never going to
listen to a Democrat opine about gerrymandering!
00:45:12.126 --> 00:45:19.500
Especially since his redistricting was a blatant
violation of Article XXI of the California Constitution.
00:45:19.500 --> 00:45:22.780
Of course, the news media
had their fair share as usual,
00:45:22.780 --> 00:45:26.140
beginning with the ridiculous attacks
on Elon Musk that we covered,
00:45:26.140 --> 00:45:28.780
but there were a number
on immigration as well.
00:45:28.780 --> 00:45:35.900
Especially the news media making doe-eyes at the
wife-beater and child trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
00:45:35.900 --> 00:45:39.580
Seriously, that's the guy you're
gonna hitch your wagon to?
00:45:39.580 --> 00:45:43.180
National Review got one for doing
a hit piece on Tulsi Gabbard,
00:45:43.180 --> 00:45:47.980
saying she was unfit because she didn't
like the government spying on US citizens.
00:45:47.980 --> 00:45:53.900
The Register got one for a majorly
low-IQ take on nuclear SMRs.
00:45:53.900 --> 00:45:58.780
The New York Times got a few, starting
in February with their hit piece on DOGE,
00:45:58.780 --> 00:46:04.380
running interference and denying corruption
that even the GAO under Biden warned about!
00:46:04.380 --> 00:46:07.260
Then there was their
AI hit piece in June.
00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:12.140
Teachers don't like that students were using
AI to cheat, so they tried to flip it around,
00:46:12.140 --> 00:46:17.580
claiming that professors were using ChatGPT
to make slides for their presentations!
00:46:17.580 --> 00:46:20.540
Not even to grade papers
or anything important.
00:46:20.540 --> 00:46:23.673
They made the whole thing a
hit piece against ChatGPT—
00:46:23.674 --> 00:46:27.980
which, remember, they're lead
plaintiffs in a lawsuit against!
00:46:27.980 --> 00:46:32.460
And they made one more attempt at
necromancy to resurrect the Russia hoax,
00:46:32.460 --> 00:46:36.380
prompted by the NSA firing
its top lawyer April Doss,
00:46:36.380 --> 00:46:40.940
who had publicly advocated for Trump
to be banned from public platforms.
00:46:40.940 --> 00:46:45.820
All the Russia and misinformation
and insurrection garbage again.
00:46:45.820 --> 00:46:51.580
CBS got one in June because of their deceptive editing
of their Kamala interview back before the election.
00:46:51.580 --> 00:46:55.020
CBS settled the lawsuit for
something like $30 million,
00:46:55.020 --> 00:47:01.020
and now, whenever they or any other Paramount
Global property interviews a presidential candidate,
00:47:01.020 --> 00:47:04.300
they're required to make the
unedited transcript available.
00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:09.980
We've got the Economic Times in August for the
whole AI-makes-water-disappear-forever claim.
00:47:09.980 --> 00:47:14.180
The Guardian for using crime statistics
that had been previously proven
00:47:14.181 --> 00:47:18.140
to have been illegally altered
by the DC police commander.
00:47:18.140 --> 00:47:23.500
Jen Psaki for trying to push the conspiracy
theory that Trump had died over Labor Day.
00:47:23.500 --> 00:47:31.740
And then there was Elie Mystal's epic meltdown on
MSNBC about how Trump is allowed to murder you.
00:47:31.740 --> 00:47:38.380
The entire news media as well as Democrats got it for
gaslighting everyone about the economy for four years,
00:47:38.380 --> 00:47:45.020
to the point where even Politico said, quote: "Voters
Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong."
00:47:45.020 --> 00:47:50.540
No, Politico, not the
data. You were wrong!
00:47:50.540 --> 00:47:56.300
They were also taken to task twice over
gaslighting about Biden's cognitive decline.
00:47:56.300 --> 00:47:58.733
The ambulance-chasers
at Perkins Coie got it
00:47:58.734 --> 00:48:04.460
for suing Trump because Trump decided not
to do business with them. Gee, I wonder why.
00:48:04.460 --> 00:48:07.460
John Bolton got it for mishandling
classified documents
00:48:07.461 --> 00:48:11.727
and wrongly storing them in his office,
because the universe loves irony.
00:48:11.728 --> 00:48:14.294
Of course Donald Trump got his share,
00:48:14.295 --> 00:48:20.060
twice for acting to primary Thomas Massie because
he didn't support the One Big Beautiful Bill,
00:48:20.060 --> 00:48:24.300
again for supporting Lindsey Graham
because Trump never learns a thing,
00:48:24.300 --> 00:48:29.900
and again for a trade policy to get drug prices
down that'll just make them more expensive.
00:48:29.900 --> 00:48:32.860
He also got it twice for
the tariffs, of course.
00:48:32.861 --> 00:48:37.020
Most of them were illegal, the reciprocal
tariffs weren't reciprocal at all,
00:48:37.020 --> 00:48:41.020
and every bit of data says countries
with high tariffs are poorer.
00:48:41.020 --> 00:48:47.887
After promising to stop inflation, he decided to push for
more inflation by urging the Fed to lower interest rates—
00:48:47.888 --> 00:48:51.660
at a time when inflation
was at a multi-month high.
00:48:51.660 --> 00:48:54.780
His administration,
particularly Marco Rubio,
00:48:54.780 --> 00:49:00.060
got one for their disastrously failed attempt
to get Russia and Ukraine talking peace.
00:49:00.060 --> 00:49:03.293
And uniquely, there was a
joint one for Biden and Trump
00:49:03.293 --> 00:49:07.900
because they both passed policies that
made electric vehicles more expensive.
00:49:07.900 --> 00:49:11.180
I'm not even talking about
removing the tax credits.
00:49:11.180 --> 00:49:15.900
We also gave one to Mike Johnson for being
yet another mouthpiece for the Uniparty,
00:49:15.900 --> 00:49:25.340
and one to James Clapper who, as it turns out, was also on
the team that manufactured the false intel about Iraq WMDs.
00:49:25.340 --> 00:49:30.298
One big incestuous family.
Do you see that yet?
00:49:30.300 --> 00:49:33.340
We also had two Silver
Cluon Award winners.
00:49:33.340 --> 00:49:37.660
We started right off with Mark Zuckerberg
supporting the right to free speech,
00:49:37.660 --> 00:49:41.260
right on the heels of getting one the
previous November for showing
00:49:41.260 --> 00:49:44.300
open sourcing Llama
models will save money.
00:49:44.300 --> 00:49:47.180
The other one went to
driverless car company Waymo,
00:49:47.180 --> 00:49:54.140
who, unexpectedly, went to bat for you and me
saying that they'll reject all requests from law
00:49:54.140 --> 00:49:59.740
enforcement for data from its autonomous vehicles
that aren't backed by a warrant or court order.
00:49:59.740 --> 00:50:02.673
Are you listening, Ring
Doorbell people??? ===
00:50:06.220 --> 00:50:16.220
After all that, it's time to name
2025's Idiot of the Year.
00:50:17.340 --> 00:50:24.380
And conspicuous by his absence throughout the rest
of this review, you can expect it to be RFK Jr.
00:50:24.380 --> 00:50:28.040
It started when he wanted to
collect everyone's medical records
00:50:28.041 --> 00:50:32.860
and cull through them to go against whatever
it is he's wanting to go against next.
00:50:32.860 --> 00:50:36.460
Like what they were trying to accuse
Elon Musk and DOGE of doing,
00:50:36.460 --> 00:50:40.380
except this is very, very real,
and from the horse's mouth.
00:50:40.380 --> 00:50:43.893
He talked about numerous autoimmune
and neurological disorders
00:50:43.894 --> 00:50:47.340
and other chronic conditions that
he doesn't know anything about.
00:50:47.340 --> 00:50:52.460
We went over the reality of each and every one
of those things to show how stupid he was.
00:50:52.460 --> 00:50:58.573
Later that year, we went over a study involving
233 genes strongly linked with autism
00:50:58.574 --> 00:51:01.260
(yes, Bobby, autism is genetic),
00:51:01.260 --> 00:51:05.500
and why they were actually necessary
for the evolution of our intelligence.
00:51:05.500 --> 00:51:13.927
Autism is not due to vaccines or Tylenol or whatever. It's
not a glitch; it's fundamental to who we are as a species.
00:51:13.928 --> 00:51:19.860
And speaking of vaccines, we also saw how
measles is not a "harmless childhood illness"
00:51:19.861 --> 00:51:23.594
with the story of an otherwise-healthy
11-month-old infant
00:51:23.595 --> 00:51:27.980
who is now going to become a
quadriplegic because of measles.
00:51:27.980 --> 00:51:31.580
All because the baby
wasn't vaccinated.
00:51:31.580 --> 00:51:37.100
So now, RFK is using the CDC website
to try and shift the burden of proof,
00:51:37.100 --> 00:51:43.100
saying that studies "have not ruled out the
possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
00:51:43.100 --> 00:51:47.980
Even though they totally have. As we've
covered, autism is a genetic disorder.
00:51:47.980 --> 00:51:52.540
Vaccines are post-natal. There's
not even an opportunity for overlap!
00:51:52.540 --> 00:51:57.100
And one more, which exposes
all of MAHA for what it is:
00:51:57.100 --> 00:52:00.860
Remember how Bobby bullied
people into not using seed oils?
00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:07.420
MAHA Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced
a $12 billion bailout of farmers who grow corn,
00:52:07.420 --> 00:52:15.500
sunflower, canola, rapeseed, and safflower—in other
words, the ones most commonly used for seed oils.
00:52:15.500 --> 00:52:18.700
Encouraging production and
oppressing consumption.
00:52:18.700 --> 00:52:21.660
All while misinforming people
and taking their money,
00:52:21.660 --> 00:52:27.980
pretending to be on their side while maintaining the
government's crony relationship with big factory farms.
00:52:27.980 --> 00:52:37.980
After all of that, no one other than RFK Jr. could
possibly have been 2025's Idiot of the Year!
00:52:45.180 --> 00:52:49.180
Well, that wraps up the
Bogosity Podcast for 2025.
00:52:49.180 --> 00:52:52.860
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