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Welcome to the Bogosity Podcast
for the week of January 11 2026,
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the podcast that's almost
old enough to drive.
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This is your host, Shane Killian. Let's
aspirate the News of the Bogus.
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As always with the start of a new year, we'll go over some
of the things that are now public domain as of January 1.
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In the US, that's basically creative works
from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925,
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with the usual
exceptions and caveats.
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But it all means tons of stuff added to the Internet
Archive, and for the first time since the 1970s,
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we have works entering the public
domain from a new decade!
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As we covered in past years, it wasn't until 2019 that
works were allowed to lapse into the public domain again.
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So here, we're coming into the 1930s, the
early uncertain years of the Great Depression,
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and anxieties about banks and tariffs.
The more things change...
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It's also the year where sound in films becomes
less of a gimmick and more of a storytelling aid.
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We've got Buster Keaton's
first talkie, Free and Easy,
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the Academy Award-winning film adaptation
of All Quiet on the Western Front,
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Animal Crackers by the Marx Brothers, Another Fine Mess
with Laurel and Hardy, a bunch of new Disney cartoons,
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and von Sternberg's
pre-code romance Morocco.
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Marlene Dietrich in a tux! So fine.
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And if that doesn't satisfy your Dietrich fix,
von Sernberg also directed her in The Blue Angel.
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♪ A classic song that now is PD: ♪
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♪ "Dream a Little Dream of Me" ♫
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Together with "Georgia on My Mind," "Just
a Gigolo," and "It Happened in Monterey,"
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although again, not necessarily
any particular sound recordings.
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Characters (and their initial works)
that are now PD include Nancy Drew,
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Sam Spade, and Agatha
Christie's Miss Marple.
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Another surprise is Soup to Nuts, where none other
than Rube Goldberg shares his crazy contraptions
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with the help of the comedy trio
of Howard, Fine, and Howard,
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the film debut of the guys later
known as The Three Stooges.
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There's Alfred Hitchcock's Murder!,
John Wayne's debut in The Big Trail,
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and The Unholy Three, Lon Chaney Sr.'s
final film and only talkie.
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In the world of cartoons,
we've got Blondie in the newspapers,
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a new design for Mickey Mouse
featuring the iconic white gloves,
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and Ub Iwerks giving a
middle finger to Disney
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as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit stars in 24
new cartoons over at Walter Lantz Studios.
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And speaking of cartoons, you can also enjoy
Betty Boop as a serial killer in a new film
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because her character is now PD as well,
although it's not quite the Betty you know.
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The one who debuted in Dizzy Dishes
was an anthropomorphized dog,
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so unless you're into furries you'll have to
wait until next year to use the human version.
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But come on: according to IMDB, you've got 1,365
pre-code films to fill your little movie-loving hearts!
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Despite the gnashing of teeth from the studios,
the public domain marches on,
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and will until we wise up and realize
how ridiculous copyright is to begin with!
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Presenting: the greatest
game this side of Yuggoth!
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You are H.P. Lovecraft's
cat, and your name is Ni***
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...Right. We can't say
that on a podcast.
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Anyway, that's the point:
Your name is a joke.
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So now, you are out for revenge.
You become...the NecronomiCat!
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Using the Necronomicon, you come
to the present day to buy a gat.
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That's a gun. For a cat.
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It's a phat cat gat.
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But the Necronomicon is treacherous,
and it let in Lovecraft's monsters.
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Now, in a crumbling world,
you must fight!
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Build your team, buy guns and armor,
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buy items of dubious legality,
defeat the bosses of each level.
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Then take Lovecraft down!
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Play NecronomiCat! The
link is at cat.bogosity.tv.
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Yeah, we're doing cat.bogosity.tv,
not...that other one.
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What, you want me to get kicked
off the Internet or something?
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We've got good news and bad in the updates for a
couple of Tesla-related stories we've been following.
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We finally have the ruling for
the Delaware Supreme Court
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restoring Elon Musk's pay package that
a Chancery judge ruled against in 2024.
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Elon is entitled to the
entire $55.8 billion.
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The lawsuit, originated by an anonymous
shareholder who bought two shares of stock,
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followed by a lawyer who bought five,
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pretended to represent all Tesla stockholders
in the lawsuit opposing the pay package.
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The package, which was to be Elon's only
compensation from Tesla from 2018 to then,
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was based on a number of very difficult
milestones, each of which the company reached.
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Not even an enthusiastic re-vote from the stockholders
later that year would convince her to change course.
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So, two stockholders with a handful of
stock can override two majority votes!
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The Delaware Supreme Court overturned
it, ruling: "We reverse because:
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(i) Musk could not be restored to
the status quo ante after working
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six years to meet the 2018 Grant's market
capitalization and operational milestones;
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(ii) his existing equity value increase
based on his 2009 and 2012 Grants
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did not substitute for his
return to the status quo ante;
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and (iii) it was not the Defendants'
burden to prove that the parties
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could be placed in the same position
before Musk's performance."
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In other words, there was
no way to restore Musk
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to the position he would have been in under
the agreement as it existed before 2018.
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So basically, the ruling meant that Musk had
to work for Tesla for six years as CEO for free.
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In overturning the lower court ruling,
they reinstated the original plan.
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But that doesn't mean Tesla's
writing a $55 billion check to Musk.
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This is in the form of stock options, which Musk
only realizes if and when he exercises those options.
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The shareholder who sued gets a whopping $1.
Enjoy your one-sixth of a coffee.
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The lawyers get paid, too, and all of that comes
from Tesla, since this was a derivative suit.
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This doesn't seem to be abating the "giant sucking sound"
of companies moving from Delaware to greener pastures,
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including Andreessen Horowitz
moving from Delaware to Nevada.
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It may stem the tide a bit, removing the big fear
factor of CEOs losing their compensation entirely,
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but this was still a
judgement for the Plaintiffs
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and nothing in it said that the
basis of the lawsuit was unsound.
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And remember, that wasn't
about this one case.
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This was just part of an overall perception of Delaware
courts becoming corrupted under the Biden family,
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which is acting against giant executive
compensations, mergers, and related-party deals.
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So it looks like it'll be up to state lawmakers if they
want to make Delaware the go-to state for businesses again.
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As long as a court can wipe out two
shareholder votes on the basis of blatant lawfare
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(someone buying a share or two just so they
can sue), the "DExit" trend is going to continue.
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California also seems determined to
be the least business-friendly state
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as they put up yet more
roadblocks to self-driving cars.
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A judge suspended Tesla's license to sell
and make vehicles in California for 30 days.
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They're claiming that the term Autopilot is deceptive
because it requires active monitoring by a human.
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Even though actual autopilots—you know, the ones
on planes—require active monitoring by humans!
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Pilots don't take a nap or watch
Netflix while their autopilots are going!
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This is a well-defined technical
term in a heavily regulated industry
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that means, "Hey, you're still
flying this plane, y'know."
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Drivers aren't considered consumers with
their cars, either, because they are licensed.
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And every ADAS system ever made—cruise control, lane
keep, adaptive cruise—requires human supervision.
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Tesla also discloses this, puts warnings on the
screen, and even bleeps at you when you don't comply!
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My Honda's cruise
control doesn't do that!
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It'll happily let the driver zone out to a
podcast with zero judgement or correction.
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But, California apparently thinks you're stupid and will
never look beyond the one to three words of the brand.
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Tesla has some time before penalties kick in, and
they can appeal or seek a court review by February 14.
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But the California DMV said in a statement
it was easiest for Tesla to "just comply."
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Sounds like they don't
know Elon very well!
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Especially given that this is a complaint
by precisely zero Tesla owners.
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It's doubtful that anything
will get renamed.
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Most likely result: they'll keep selling cars and
people will forget after two or three news cycles.
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Maybe they'll put in a couple disclaimers to make
regulators feel like they're actually worth something.
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Because that's really
what this is about.
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We also have a huge AI controversy on X
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when people found that they could use Grok to make
an image of someone sexual without their consent.
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(Okay, sexual just means to put them in a bikini,
so I guess we're back to Victorian times...)
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That triggered UK communications
regulatory agency Ofcom,
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demanding answers from X Corp and xAI as to how
such a horrible thing could be allowed to happen.
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You know, maybe this is a GenX thing,
but we had this thing,
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and it doesn't seem to be in vogue now
but maybe we should go back to it:
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it's called "personal
responsibility."
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If someone does something bad with a tool—
Grok or Photoshop or whatever—
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it's their fault, not the
people who made the tool.
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An Ofcom spokespuppet said:
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"We have made urgent contact with X and
xAI to understand what steps they have
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taken to comply with their legal
duties to protect users in the UK.
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Based on their response, we will
undertake a swift assessment
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to determine whether there are potential
compliance issues that warrant investigation."
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Ngaire Alexander of the Internet
Watch Foundation said, quote:
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"There is no excuse for releasing
products to the global public
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which can be used to abuse and
hurt people, especially children."
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Wait, how many products could you actually
say that about??? Shelves would be empty!
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She actually fessed up and said that she
hadn't actually seen the images on X.
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She'd seen images on a Dark Web forum that
may or may not have been generated by Grok.
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By the way, everyone is aware
that there are models you can just
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download on your computer and do
whatever you want to with, right?
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She bleated: "We cannot and will not allow the
proliferation of these demeaning and degrading images,
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which are disproportionately
aimed at women and girls.
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Make no mistake, the UK will not tolerate the endless
proliferation of disgusting and abusive material online.
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We must all come
together to stamp it out."
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I guess the patriarchy is nothing
without its handmaidens...
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People, how many times
have we been here?
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Have you seen the stuff they were
sharing back in the USENET days???
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Polaroids, Photoshop, CGI, now
AI, it's the same old same old.
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X responded in a tweet:
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"We take action against illegal content on X,
including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM),
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by removing it, permanently
suspending accounts,
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and working with local governments
and law enforcement as necessary.
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Anyone using or prompting
Grok to make illegal content
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will suffer the same consequences
as if they upload illegal content.
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For more information on our policies,
please refer to our help pages
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for our full X Rules and range
of enforcement options."
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Part of that was a quote of a
previous tweet from Elon Musk:
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"Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer
the same consequences as if they upload illegal content."
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Makes sense to me!
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DogeDesigner said it
best when he tweeted:
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"Some people are saying Grok
is creating inappropriate images.
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But that's like blaming a pen
for writing something bad.
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A pen doesn't decide what gets written.
The person holding it does.
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Grok works the same way. What you get
depends a lot on what you put in. Think about it!"
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If someone nudifies an image of someone else, whether
they do it with Photoshop or AI, hold them responsible!
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And now it's time to cannibalize
this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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We've talked about Anna's Archive before
and the amazing gift it is to human posterity.
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Which is why the big
content cartels hate it.
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Like with all such attempts, they often have
to play hopscotch with top-level domains.
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But unusually, this time it's the .org
domain name that was taken down.
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In the past, Anna's Archive didn't actually
have any content, pirated or otherwise.
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It's just a search engine
for shadow libraries.
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They also provide assistance to researchers who want to
use it for various purposes such as AI model training.
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But more recently, they announced
a 300TB backup of Spotify.
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As you might figure, several
countries have blocked the site
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and they were sued in the US
after they scraped WorldCat.
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But through it all, the .org
name stayed operational...
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until it didn't. Try to go to annas-archive.org and
you'll find the domain has been set to SERVERHOLD.
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Meanwhile, thepiratebay.org
is still up. Just sayin'.
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.org TLDs are managed by the Public Interest Registry,
who in the past have refused to suspend domains.
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But this time, a court
order said you'd better.
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So, of course, as a matter of public
interest (it's even in the name!),
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we should be able to see the court order and get
information about all of this. Transparency, right?
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Unfortunately, no,
and PIR has refused to comment.
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So the thinking is that it's about the Spotify
backup and how it violated their holy DRMs.
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But we just don't know. And it's hard to
speculate, given that we've never seen this before.
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By the way, Anna's Archive is very much still up.
They still have their zillion other domain names.
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Their archivist posted to Reddit:
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"The .org domain apparently has been suspended. Our
other domains work fine, and we've added some more.
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We recommend checking our
Wikipedia page for the latest domains.
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This unfortunately happens to
shadow libraries on a regular basis.
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We don't believe this has to
do with our Spotify backup."
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Huh. That's weird.
The archivist doesn't even know?
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And if it's not the Spotify
backup, then what?
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As of this podcast prep,
the other listed domains still work.
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So it doesn't look like the
site is going anywhere.
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So thanks for another useless
court making another useless order
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tying people up in lawfare at the
behest of their corporate masters.
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But it's the lack of
transparency that's troubling.
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We're talking about a non-profit
group heading up non-profit domains
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used by a very significant
chunk of the Internet.
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If we can't get information from them, then
what sort of transparency is ever available?
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Is the secrecy part of the order?
That's troubling enough.
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The worst part is, they apparently
don't even want to stand up to them
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like so many other librarians
have done and won.
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It'd be harsh if the Public Interest Registry went
down the path of collusion with corrupt government!
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So all of that makes the Public Interest
Registry this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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And now let's interdimensionalizationify
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
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Donald Trump again. For the same
reason as many other presidents:
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He's either clueless about the
Monroe Doctrine, or he doesn't care.
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The Monroe Doctrine is named after President James
Monroe from a speech he made on 2 December 1823.
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He said: "As a principle in which the rights and
interests of the United States are involved,
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that the American continents, by the free and independent
condition which they have assumed and maintain,
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are henceforth not to be considered as subjects
for future colonization by any European powers."
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The doctrine holds that any intervention in the
political affairs of any country in the Americas
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is a hostile act against
the United States.
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It was a promise to the rest of the Americas that,
if Europe messed with you, the US had your back.
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In the 20th century, thanks to Teddy Roosevelt,
this got extended to financial matters as well.
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If a Latin American country mismanaged
their finances or broke the bank,
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there was a threat that European
bankers would step in,
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so Roosevelt expanded the Monroe Doctrine so
that American bankers would step in instead.
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In reality, this gave the US an excuse to intervene
in places like Cuba, Nicaragua, and Panama.
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Now, Trump has used the
Monroe Doctrine to justify
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the kidnapping of Venezuelan
President Nicolás Maduro.
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Check the archives: this podcast is no fan of
Maduro. So we're the last people to be on his side.
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But the fact is, Trump misused the
Monroe Doctrine to do exactly what
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the Doctrine prevented the
European powers from doing.
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Monroe said in the same speech:
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"With the existing colonies or
dependencies of any European power
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we have not interfered
and shall not interfere.
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But with the Governments who have
declared their independence and maintain it,
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and whose independence we have, on great
consideration and on just principles, acknowledged,
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we could not view any interposition
for the purpose of oppressing them,
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or controlling in any other
manner their destiny,
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by any European power in any other light
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than as the manifestation of an unfriendly
disposition toward the United States."
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There were two main points:
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The US would intervene only if threatened
or attacked by a European power,
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and the US will not interfere with
existing colonies or dependencies.
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Now listen to the part that every President
since and including Roosevelt has ignored:
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"Our policy in regard to Europe is not to interfere
in the internal concerns of any of its powers;
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to consider the government de facto
as the legitimate government for us;
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to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve
those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy,
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meeting in all instances the just claims of
every power, submitting to injuries from none."
00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:58.700
But Trump claims the Doctrine means that American
dominance, quote: "will never be questioned again."
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That is not what the Monroe Doctrine is! This is direct
military intervention. Regime change by any other name.
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Not only is this not the Monroe Doctrine,
it's also a violation of International Law.
00:23:12.780 --> 00:23:19.420
There is no justification for forcibly removing a
sitting head of state and transporting him to US soil.
00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:24.620
It would be one thing if there were an actual war,
although even then it would still be problematic.
00:23:24.620 --> 00:23:27.900
But Trump has been the
aggressor since the start.
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Trump has been using fentanyl smuggling
as the excuse to attack Venezuelan boats.
00:23:33.020 --> 00:23:36.060
Of course, we've talked at length
about the fentanyl problem,
00:23:36.060 --> 00:23:41.180
its actual causes, and what should be
done, so just search the archives for that.
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Bottom line: this won't
stop fentanyl at all.
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Mostly due to the fact that very little of
it's coming from Venezuela to begin with.
00:23:49.580 --> 00:23:54.540
Most of it is manufactured in Mexico
with precursors coming from China.
00:23:54.540 --> 00:24:00.940
But even if we were to grant him all of that, smuggling
drugs has never been considered an act of war.
00:24:00.940 --> 00:24:04.220
And even if you want to
stick to the US Constitution,
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nothing even remotely resembling this is supposed to
happen without a declaration of war from Congress.
00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:16.784
He didn't even get an Authorization for Use
of Military Force like George W. Bush did!
00:24:16.785 --> 00:24:24.860
To summarize: according to Trump's logic, Venezuela is
both a narco‑supervillain and an existential threat,
00:24:24.860 --> 00:24:32.460
the US is the fearless world policeman, and centuries
of legal precedent are just inconvenient footnotes.
00:24:32.460 --> 00:24:36.104
A few fentanyl shipments—
if they even existed—
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let us shift the Monroe Doctrine to mean the US can
kidnap foreign leaders like it's a Netflix action series.
00:24:43.580 --> 00:24:46.380
International law? Minor detail.
00:24:46.380 --> 00:24:48.380
Evidence? Overrated.
00:24:48.380 --> 00:24:51.291
Geography? Pfft, who needs it?
00:24:51.291 --> 00:24:57.020
Trump, so that he can go down in history
as the greatest president ever,
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casts every problem as a threat,
every nation as a villain,
00:25:01.260 --> 00:25:07.020
and every centuries-old doctrine as just
rhetoric backing up his grandiose stunts.
00:25:07.020 --> 00:25:11.531
In reality, he'll just be yet
another presidential buffoon
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trying to distract from our problems at home
with a nice regime change war elsewhere.
00:25:17.100 --> 00:25:20.620
Just like Obama,
just like the Clintons.
00:25:20.620 --> 00:25:24.460
Gee, aren't you glad we
voted out the Democrats?
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So all of that makes Donald Trump
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:25:35.580 --> 00:25:40.780
Well, that wraps up this "You like movies about
gladiators?" edition of the Bogosity Podcast.
00:25:40.780 --> 00:25:45.660
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"It would have been far cheaper (not to say safer)
for the average American who pays the bills
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to stay out of foreign entanglements.
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For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and
other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits,
00:26:12.700 --> 00:26:19.020
but the cost of operations is always
transferred to the people—who do not profit."
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