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But back in that episode where we explain shadow banking, I said that I had had to cut off the part of the episode that was the reason why I wrote it in the first voice, it happens to me every week, Yes, so Comma, I've also kind of had to split some of this episode off. That will probably that will be another episode, probably with ezetron whenever I have enough seconds in my life to pull all of that together. But today we are here to talk about

the actual sort of shadow bank run. I guess you would call it financial problems that caused me to write the shadow banking episode in the first place.

is no universal definition. Private credit generally refers to a loan that is negotiated between a borrower and a small group of non bank lenders. These non bank financial institution lenders are typically alternative asset managers such as private equity firms, who package loans in different investment vehicles. Other non bank financial institutions like pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth

funds then invest in those vehicles. So this is the stuff that we talked about from last episode, where Okay, so you have multiple layers of shadow banks, right, you have on the one hand that the private credit firms are these these sort of groups that go in and sometimes they're just their own things. There's a bunch of different kinds of of them. Private equities firms tend to have like one arm of the private equity firm that's there,

like this is our shiny private credit wing. There were also these things called business development corporations which do these. There are like other types of them too, But basically what those companies do is they go in and they negotiate a loan with a usually a pretty long term for repayments on the loan with a company. Now, the thing about these loans is that the terms of those loans are secret from everybody. Yeah, even the people involved.

Well when I say secret, I mean the company that's taking out the loan and the bank know how they work. No one else does. And then what happens is these are usually fairly risky loans, because if you weren't doing a risky loan, you would get your money through like a normal bank. Yeah, you will to do it normal style, right,

this is not normal style. These are risky. And then they do the thing called curitization, which we talked about last episode where you take a loan and do magic to it and turn it into something that someone else can buy.

it to these loan things. So it is just literally a normal bank, except it's not subject to banking regulations and it's risk here, right, So like like Apollo Capital Management or whatever, it's like you give a bunch of money to Apollo Capital Management, just like lower capital whatever is like Apollogobal Capital is one of the big firms in this thing, and then they give that money out and loans and then you're basically just supposed to wait

because you know, remember last episode we talked about how in the way that normal bank works, Right, there's like a fundamental kind of gap right where you are putting your money in as like a short term thing that you can take out immediately, and then the bank is turning the short term money into a long term loan.

they don't have it. And a lot of these loans are like seven year loans in like very risky companies. So the money like really isn't.

credit market here, because that's its own episode. But the way that these that these companies deal with this is that they have these funds, right, and then the fund gives out like the loans, and they have a limit to the total amount of like the percent of the value of the fund that can be taken out at one time. And that's what's been being hit. The industry standard is supposed to be about five percent of the fund can be withdrawn per quarter, and then after that

they just shut down redemptions. And that's what you saw in the news because a bunch of companies, and some of these companies have higher limits than are like almost like eight or nine, like like ten percent, and they'll stop it at like nine roughly.

money off of all of this. And this is also, by the way, why we did the Marshall Plan, like we rebuilt Europe to sell cars to them.

of the coverage on these companies eating shit. But like what this company was doing was they were literally doing all of the two thousand and eight stuff.

And they're doing this thing right. They're doing the thing that we saw with the housing loans, where the same card is collateral for multiple of these loans. And the reason they're doing this right is that this company, Tricolor, their entire business model is trying to borrow more money from banks so that they can send out more of these shitty auto loans so they can then sell that

stuff back. And so they're also like heavily leveraged, right because they're they're taking out like every single loan they can possibly do. They're doing instruments so that they're the collateral on the loans that they are taking. So they take that money and give out more of these shitty auto loans. The collateral on that is multiple of the shitty auto loans.

This fuels all sorts of just like heinous shit, right, because there's suddenly just like all of these pools of capital with like nothing to invest in, and so they're investing it in like defense companies and like Palanier and shit, like that.

right one, Yeah, yeah, the real one is like pouring money into these like into these like shadow banks, right because they're they're chasing a high rate of return. And this is like what happened in two thousand and eight was like there everyone was like, oh, these bonds have

a really high rated return, the mortgage rack securities. And now we've reached the point where I think, God where this is the most recent news from this and Molly, I'm just gonna read you the thing from Reuters quote JP Morgan, Chase, Barclays and other Wall Street banks have started trading credit default swaps linked to flagship private credit funds run by Blackstone, Apollo Global Management, and Aris Managements, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

market as a system for a long time. But it's a problem because in theory you could try to go through and like regulate this stuff, but like investment is just gambling to some extent, right, And when you talk to the people who believe in this stuff, they're like, well, no, you can't have stock markets without sort of equities markets, and you can't have these things without the ability to bet on it. And I would say, okay, well don't have it then, Like I think this is a really

simple solution. But you know, these people are like, no, no, no, no. In order to mention a capital's economy, you must it must be possible for a bunch of people to be placing bets on the companies that give money to some I'm auto loan companies failing.

people bet on it? And that's that's good. So right now we're in this kind of limbo world and this is this is this is the entire global economy, right. Everyone is sitting here pretending like the apocalypse isn't happening. And that's the basis of the entire economy. I mean, what am I supposed to do about it?

they're doing. They're they're they're in some ways, they're they're doing the strategy they did in like the lockdown phase of the pandemic, where they're.

Over millions of years, these living things have become well suited to their habitats, carefully adapted to the region's soil, climate, and food web. Or when it comes to people, it can be some confusion about what it means to be indigenous, especially when it comes to questions of land rights, autonomy,

and a rapria. Most people understand that Native American nations and Aboriginal Austragulians are indigenous, but some might then ask, well, if indigenous means originating from a place, then aren't all holesapiens indigenous to Africa? Why should one group's claim of indigena and you take precedence over any other. This would be asked in more or less good faith, and so others may ask the question, well, if a group occupies a region for several generations, does that then make them indigenous?

White Americans indigenous if their family has been there since they found in the United States, French people indigenous to France, and if so does that somehow justify their xenophobia to water refugees and some weird reactionary corruption of declonial rhetoric.

Speaking of corruptions of de colonial rhetoric, some Zionists claim that Jewish people as a whole are indigenous to Palestine in some twisted perversion of land back, while Zionism itself has long understood itself as a colonial project meant to displace and eliminate the indigenous inhabitants of past Die from its very beginning. Some white nationalists also argue that settler columnalism was really no different than any other conflict between

indigenous people, So what does it even matter? Might mix right among? Generations of marginalized groups have been struggling to retain their social, cultural, economic, and political sovereignty and achieved justice, reparations, liberation after centuries of oppression and attempted annihilation. We need to stand in informed solidarity. Thus it is vital for us to understand what it means to be indigenous. Welcome take it up here. I'm Andrew Sage Andrewism on YouTube and I'm here again.

keep that in mind as we proceed. There may be other positions and perspectives and indignity coming from other groups, other people, and so I believe there are two principle highly overlapping ways that indignity can be defined or interpreted. One is as an identity formed as part of a colonial relationship, and two as an identity rooted in a relationship to police. I believe that each definition is incomplete

without the other. But by understanding and synthesizing each notion of indigenousness, we can better ground our approach dec organization and social revolution. So let's start with indignity as identity rooted in a relationship to place, whether it be physical as with land, social as with community, or cultural as with culture. As indigenous relationship to the land must be reciprocal with give and take, base on a view of the land and water as a gift that must be

cared for over generations. According to Honotiony mythology, as recounted by Robin Wild Kimra in braidin Sweet Grass, the mother goddess Skywoman came to the land as an immigrant from the heavens, but became indigenous by listening to the land, learning from other species to understand how to live on it, given as she received, and caring for the earth and its keepers for the sake of those who would inherit

it when she passed on. Land is identity, it is ancestral connection, It is pharmacy, it is library, and it is home, the source of all the sustains and the sacred ground upon which those would observe their responsibility to boot. So by this understanding, it can be said that indigenity is born out of land connection and established through observation

and relationship. Indigenous peoples have historically been mobile, either by choice or by force, but regardless of where they might find themselves quote unquote whole land or not, even if there were other indigenous peoples in their new environments, as long as they observe the processes and ceremonies of generational relationship building based on mutual respect, understanding, and love for

the land in common, they remained indigenous. So then the question may arise, why aren't settlers indigenous to place if their family has lived in the land for generations. The answer lies in relationship. Settler society as a whole is based on an extractivist capitalist relationship with the land. Focus

are exploiting the land and it's now natural resources. Without a relationship with the land that extends the reference to a deeper understanding of its complex interdependence, settler society can never become indigenous to place. Of course, it goes without saying that not every indigenous group or indigious practice is perfectly sustainable. Some have been rather destructive and even speciocidal, particularly when they have recently moved into a place, as

we could see in North American prehistory. But if we are to work with this definition to conceive of being indigenous as something based and cultivating a long term relationship to place, then indignity must be contingent on maintaining the health and longevity of that relationship. Without community, they cannot be indignity. Much like the trees in a forest are interconnected via subterranean networks of microreze which enable them to

share resources and survive as a whole. In order to be indigenous to place, community must exist sustain that web of reciprocity with the land so that all may flourish. Indigenaity to place extends to culture as well, which is deeply tied to the land it develops on. Such practices should be reciprocal, as ceremonies create communities, and communities create ceremonies as well as organic not appropriate in existing cultural

celebrations or tending toward commercial. Our social fabric has become withered and fragmented by the peace of modern life, leaving little room for ceremonies outside of religion or rights of personal transitions such as birth these weddings and funerals, but ceremonies and the shared emotions they generate are part of

what builds community. When we gather for graduations, for example, a sense of pride, relief, nostalgia, and excitement builds in the social atmosphere, hopefully fuel in the confidence and strength of those who are going on to pursue the rest of their lives. But Kimura wants us to imagine standing by a river flooded with those same feelings as the

salmon marched into the auditorium of the estuary. The indigenous to police means cultivating cultural ceremonies that on other land and all the cycles and seasons of life within it. What are your thoughts on that interpretation or approach to indigenousy.

a relationship to colonialism. Yeah, but you know, there's some sort of fun question mark examples of like the Chinese Empire failing this where it's like like you do have a lot of stuff that's like, Okay, we're going to like build a relationship in nature, but the build a relationship in nature stuff is like we are going to clear this forest in order to build a temple that is like exactly set up on like a pentagram or whatever. So it's like, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

We have failed in creating a relationship to the land if we are in fact just making geometry shapes.

with the idea of indignity as a colonial relationship. According to Taiyaki Alfred and Jeff Contis, indigenousness is an identity constructed, shaped, and lived in the politicized context of contemporary clue nalism. It is an experience oppositional to colonial societies and states, and a consciousness of struggle against such forces of colonization.

No two indigenous groups are exactly alike, of course, there is a significant diversity in their cultures, contexts, and relationships with colonial forces, but they do share that struggle to survive as distinct peoples in an environment hostile to their existence. Efforts to marginalize and eradicate indigenous peoples may not always be as overt as they once were, but the historic and ongoing dispossession of indigenous peoples, the erasure of indigenous histories, geographies,

and languages and the current situation of deprivation persists. Nonetheless, even so called reconciliation efforts are tainted by the reality that Indigenous people remain, as in earlier colonial eras fundamentally occupied and disempowered peoples, stripped of autonomy in their own home life and pressured into surrender and cooperation with an inherently unjust colonial order just to ensure their basic physical survival.

By this understanding of indigenity, it can be said that without a colonizer, without systems in place and actions being taken to marginalize, disempower and destroy their societies in favor of a colonial replacement, there is no indigenous. Without colonialism, there would be no status of indigenous to be imposed upon the groups of peoples whose very existence and claimed

land is an obstacle to that colonial endeavor. The un work In Group on Indigenous Issues drew partially from this understanding when they attempted to define indigenous peoples in nineteen eighty six. Quote Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which having a historical continuity with pre invasion and pre colonial societies that develops on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors other societies now prevailing on those territories

or parts of them. They form at present non dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop, and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories and their ethnic identity as the basis of their continued existence as peoples in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions, and

legal systems. And so by this definition, the Amerindians in the Caribbean, Aboriginal Australians, Adivasis in India, Native North and South Americans, Siberians, Ainu, kurds, Assyrians, Yazidi Palestinians, Amy Sikh Sambi, Basques, Hawaiians, Maori, san Wuti, Papuans, Chams, and many many more are all indigenous peoples. But there are layers of nuance yet to be highlighted. The colonial situation is not a simple binary of indigenous and colonizer. For example, in the Americas, we

have the immigrant situation and the situation of slavery. Right where Africans are concerned they were indigenous to their own homelands but displaced and enslaved under the colonial regime, they may not be indigenous to the Americas, but they were not driving settled colonial society either. In fact, historically some

were actually enslaved by indigenous people as well. At the same time, there were members of the African aspora who would join existing indigenous societies and later create their own, such as the Garifuna of Saint Vincent Tranduras and belize. It's very attractive, i would say, or mentally compelling to fall into these kinds of binaries colonizer and visions. But

we should not allow these constructs to pindhole picture. Yeah, And I mean this is you mentioned the Kurds earlier, right, And there's a couple of political principles that groups like the pew Id, you know, and sort of like the Kurtish Freedom Movement have had to grapple, like what of their things is grappling with Like for example, there was like huge Courtish participation in the Armenian genocide.

from returning to their homes after they were like genocided there from there.

of domination, abuse, oppression, and harm. People look to the example of Israel a lot, but a less similiar example for some would be the situation that established Liberia in Africa.

And this is just something that's true historically if you look at the Bosnian genocide, right, the way that you get people to do with genocide by convincing them that the people they're doing a gedocide against are about to do a genocide against them. And you know, you see this in Bosnia, you see this Wanda. This is a very very common sort of I don't even know what you call it, like trope feels like two weeks of a word. This is a very common step in the

beginning of genocide, which I don't love. Uh So you're right, of ten Mia not pro genocide more news at ten.

of indigenous peoples within their territories yep. And these countries, like most countries in the world, did not ratify the International Labor Organization Convention one sixty nine in nineteen eighty nine, which was known as the Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention

considering the rights of Indigenous peoples. The UN's Declaration of the Rights and Indigenous Peoples, passed in two thousand and seven, would however, be voted on approvally by most of the world, including the same countries that haven't recognized indigenous peoples within

their borders. All four of the countries that rejected the resolution, Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand will later changed their vote in favor of the declaration of course of their own tact on interpretations and emphasies, and the declarations legally non bind in nature, as is to be expected from set the colonial societies.

continued ex systems as people, et cetera, et cetera. You know, it speaks of those having historical continuancy with pre invasion, pre colonial societies that developed in their territories. They speak of groups that consider themselves distinct other sectors as societies

and all prevailing on those territories. And so by this definition, I understand that people in in these Asian countries maybe like, oh, we're all from this place, right, So why does that group get this designation and additioners, so we do not, And it goes back to again a colonial relationship. It goes back to the relationship between a group and the

broader society. And so it's not necessarily stripping away the fact that a particular group may be from an area, but more so speaking about how another group relates to the states in that area and the group that dominates the state in that area.

on the Europeans attler colonialism. There is something to the history of empire in those areas, establishing those relationships, relationships that would later be elevated in some cases by those Europeans when they would come and they would for example, select one ethnic group and elevate one ethnic group over another ethnic group, make us in ethnic group administrators and put down another ethnic group. Calcify these kind of caste systems and ethnocratic divisions.

the same colonial administration. But when Indonesia gains independence, like the government there and this is this is Sankaras government, right, this is like the nominally socialist one wants to take control of West Papua because West Papua has all of these resources and the people in West Papua don't want that, like they want to be an independence entity, but the Indonesians just roll in and invade them and you know, continue from Sukara to Sukarno. Just a unbelievably hideous series

of genocides. And one of the things that's really bleak about the sort of process of decolonization is like you can see the shift in the way that these post colonial societies are talking about what colonization is and we're resistance to it, where it ceases to become about the struggle of people against the colonizing forces that oppress them, and it turns into a something that's about like the

continuity of national borders. You know, you get a really bleak example of this where like people talk about like the Bandung conference, right, which is the sort of like it's supposed to be, like this is like the big thing in like pan Asian and Pan African like struggles coming together. We're like all these formally colonized nations like come together and like issue this issue a bunch of things, and it's supposed to be this big moment of like

this is like the unity of post colonial societies. That's like still to this day look back on in terms of like Affroasian solidarity, like this is the big one. But one of the things that they ratified at Bandung was a very small session that no one pays any attention to, which is all of these countries put in their support for Indonesia's occupation of West Papua.

to Indonesia. And then you get all of these other countries who are like more neutral or more US aligned, but because they're not allied with Indonesia, They're reaction is like wait, hold on, what do you mean there are black people in the Pacific A and be like holy shit,

this is fucked up. But it sets this precedent that kind of like rolls on through like pan Arabism and rolls on through a lot of these decolonial movements where once you've gotten your state, it's fine to just like do horrifying repression against any other sort of ethnic group that's there, because now that now that you have your post colonial state, like, any attempt to interfere with the sovereignty of the state and change the borders, even if

it's like, I don't know, you're like the West Sahara, or you know, you're like shing Johan or you're like the Kurds, right, and any attempt for those people to like get their freedom is seen as like a Western back like separatist thing instead of an anti colonial struggle.

And I think that really was one of the things that was like the death now for like the post colonial movements was their willingness to just walk in and machine gun people because we want the resources that these people's lands are on.

Is it that we seek to pursue a universalization of indigenity to the former and by that process accomplish the better or is it there's some other framework or approach by which we can take on this topic of Okay, do we proceed with the with the concept of digenity or does the concept of indigenity exist as a byproducts and a representation of the system that we are trying to get Where you're from, Yeah, So, decization is commonly

defined as the process of unsettain colonial power structures, whether that be through overtad and acts of enclosure by building new commons, overtad and acts of possession by reclaiming our spaces and identities, or overtain and acts of administration.

whole messy process with the aim of self liberation. Yeah, something that I've broken down as involved in confrontation with the powers that be, non cooperation with the established order of things, and the prefiguration of new social relations, institutions, infrastructure,

and practices in the hered Now. If we maintain the interpretation of indignity as based in one's position in a colonial relationship, then the decolonization process will until the abolition of that relationship as the premise of identity and therefore

the abolition of indigenity as a status. Colonial legacies have effectively left indigenous communities legally and politically compartmentalized and culturally, socially and spiritually weakened within the narrow parameters of the state, where they end up diverting the crucial energy necessary to confront state power and develop the process of deconalization toward mimicking the practices of the dominant non additional legal political

institutions through the processes of land claims and self government. And by pursuing these strategies, I think what we notice is this tends toward a division rather than a solidarity builder division, both internally and between indigious communities where land claims, for example, clash, or where certain members of a society of a community utilize their position above others in that society of community to gain certain advantages for themselves, sometimes

to the detriment of that society of community. So I think any sort of a pros deconization has to account for the ways that some approaches the deconization can end up, perhaps misdirecting from a subjective perspective, the work that is necessary to dismantle the clonal order, rather than merely assert a position was in it. But this idea of indigenity via colonization is just one understanding of the team, and my approach to it is of course one subjective interpretation

of that definition and where it might lead. We need to explore another approach, I think, to decononization, and one that recognizes the power and potential of indigenous relationships with

the land. Now globally, the UN recognizes that indigenous peoples protect eighty percent of the world's remaining bio diversity, and scientists have shown that indigenous management practices in Brazil, Canada, and Australia provides the same level of ecosystem support and protection as any imposed protected area, which makes it abundantly clear that the colonial approach of conservation via dispossession removes the very people who take care of our most important ecosystems.

I don't believe that merely building a connection with the land can make someone indigenous, but not being indigenous doesn't exclude us from aiden in the renewal of the indigenous world. Kimmer uses the example of the broad leaf planter, also known as the white Man's footprint. Despite not being indigenous to the Americas, it has become an honored member of the plant community because it lives as a good neighbor

instead of as a destructive invader. While other invasive species poison the soil over around the land outcompetes indigenous species, the white Man's footprint took on a strategy of helpful co existence, even sharing some of its healing properties with those who ask of it. It is not indigenous, but it has become naturalized. To quote Chimera, being naturalized a place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from

which you drink that build your body. And fill the spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie.

the home that we share and are responsible for. It will require us to receive an honor knowledge in the land, to care for its keepers, and to pass on that knowledge to the next generation. As always is all column to all the people.

At around three point thirty am on April tenth, a twenty year old college student named Daniel Moranogama allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail toward the home of open AI CEO Sam Altman, hitting the top of the security gate on the driveway leading to Altman's residence. Moranogama did not get past the security gate. About an hour and a half later, though, Moronogama showed up outside the San Francisco headquarters of Open AI and tried to use a chair to break into

the building through the glass doors. He was stopped by security personnel and allegedly told them that he came to the headquarters to burn it down and kill everyone inside. According to the federal affidavit, When he was arrested, officers allegedly recovered incendiary devices, a jug of kerosene, and a blue lighter, as well as what the FBI has described as an ANTIAI document. Okay, we currently do not have

a copy of this document. It's only described in the criminal complaint, but this looks like it was a three part manifesto allegedly authored by Moranogama, and the first part was titled Your Last Warning, in which he states he quote killed slash, attempted to kill Sam Altman, and also writing quote if I'm going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, that I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message.

The document then lists the names and addresses of various investors, board members, and executives of AI companies as a sort of target list. The second part of the document was titled some more Words on the matter of our impending Extinction Great, and this section discussed the purported that AI poses to humanity. And we'll get into some of those

beliefs a little later on. But the third part of this three part anti AA document was a letter addressed to Altman quote if you make it, and reads in part, if by some miracle you live, then I would take this as a sign from the divine to redeem yourself

on quote. Now, like I said, we do not have a copy of this manifesto in full, though the Affidavid says that Mornagama appears to have emailed similar versions of this document to people at his former college in Texas, but as of Monday four twenty, this document is still not online. But like a lot of zoomers, we do have an online footprint made up of posts from Instagram, discord, a substack blog, and even a podcast interview where Mornagama discusses his anti AI views.

in this interview. He says that he grew up in the suburbs his whole life and quote grew up quite close to the Internet and claims that he's been online every day starting at nine years old.

would allow him to cheat on school essentially. But after watching videos debating the risks of AI and the possibility of advanced general intelligence artificial general intelligence, and the potential threat posed by this artificial superintelligence, Moronagama's views started to sour on AI. At first, he was a bit skeptical of these AI critical debates, but eventually became convinced of

the AI doomer arguments and became an accolade himself. He started arguing in YouTube comments and talking with friends and family about the danger of AI. He describes himself getting annoying and quote a bit autistic about this, leading to his mom suggesting he joined an advocacy organization. He joined his group called Pause AI in twenty twenty four, which is an AI safety advocacy group that organizes online as well as some in person protests, and he was also

part of a Discord server called stop AI. His username on both Discord and Instagram was but Larian underscore g hottist, in reference to the crusade against AI in the Do novels Yeah. On Instagram, his account had a collection of Instagram stories saved about the threat of AI, including a meme about living in a ven, diagram of the matrix terminator,

and idiocrasy. One of these Instagram stories was a picture of a hockey stick graph showing the length of coding tasks that AI can do and how that's increasing, with the caption quote if we do nothing soon, we will die.

I'm sure of that unquote. Another story contains screenshots of articles, posts and studies proclaiming that artificial general intelligence or the quote unquote singularity is already here, captioned being right all the time fucking sucks when it's about the worst things imaginable unquote.

them haven't so far. Like I think it probably toxic, just people not actually believing it as much as they claim to, like online, But like if someone truly believes the stuff that crowd is saying about, how like basically, the creation of an evil god is inevitable that will seek to purge the world of humankind, Like, of course you do this, It's a really natural progression.

we are back. The most in depth piece of publicly available writing by Moranogama explaining his anti AI views comes from a post on his substack blog dated January sixth, twenty twenty six. This article outlines his belief that AI

poses a quote unquote existential risk to humanity. And I think this essay was the first thing I saw that really demonstrated that his opposition to AI is not like based on fears of AI disrupting the economy, contributing to a loss of jobs, or risking like labor rights for workers, but the belief that AI will become like a superior race and wipeout or enslave humanity. That that is the standpoint that Ronagama.

For evidence to this claim, he references claims from AI companies themselves that fully automated AI researchers that like an intern level are coming soon, including claims from the Guy, ananthropic who says that he expects these models by twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven, saying, quote, the capabilities of AI systems will be best thought of as a kin to an entirely new state populated by highly intelligent

people appearing on the global stage. A country of geniuses in a data center unquote, Yes, whole country worth of geniuses all living in your computer.

human interests in general. And for evidence, he refers to instances of A models allegedly lying, cheating on tasks, or blackmailing their own creators. Specifically, in studies, he sets a twenty twenty five anthropic study on a gentic misalignment, which he characterizes as demonstrating that quote most of the current AI models are willing to blackmail and even kill people if it ensures their own survival unquote. This may be.

tweak these things to be more friendly to consumers. And like getting an LLM to say that it will kill or blackmail in order to ensure its own survival is different from the LLM being able to do that, right. That is that is that is a big jump, and there is there's no not much currently that facilitates that jump. Moronogama writes, quote ignore for a second these models current limitations or questions on how truly intelligent or conscious these

models may actually be. The truth is, all these nuances are completely irrelevant to my argument. There are only two questions we should be concerned about at this moment. Is it willing to kill to preserve itself and is it capable of doing so? These signs indicate that AI is willing and becoming potentially capable of doing both of these things, and that is all that matters.

individuals to an existential threat to humanity. I estimate the probability of AI causing human extinction to be nearly certain unquote.

we should probably stop that. He writes that quote, we are dead if we do not act now. So what does acting now entail for Starters, stopping all construction of new data centers. These are the brains of these models, dictating their physical limitations. Second, stopping all research and beginning downscaling of these data centers, closing them down while still

keeping them monitored unquote. He also proposed striking a deal with China to quote stop the AI race and to create international treaties akin to Cold War nuclear weapons treaties or post Cold War treaties. And finally, he advocated that people will need to take strategic action, which could include sharing information about AI, campaigning, protesting, saying quote, although doing nothing is akin to suicide and a disgusting amount of negligence.

In that podcast interview from around the same time this AI article was published as a Genuine twenty twenty sixth Ronagama said in that interview, quote, before we even think about violence, we need to exhaust all our peaceful means first unquote, which he says includes protesting and sharing information, but the hosts asked him about posts he had already made about quote unquote luigiing CEOs. He says that he didn't really mean that as a threat that it was.

is around this time he was considering violence. He was toying with advocating for it publicly on discord and you know in this in this podcast, but still still kind of had some like rains on that, but it was something in his mind as a sort of like final solution to this problem.

stalled or halted. And there's been tremendous success on the local level in like counties and in most recently this entire state of Maine passing laws against the construction of data centers. Like, yeah, there's actually been a lot of

success in fighting the building of new data centers. If someone wanted to have a positive impact on this, there's a lot of room right now to make that fight even more effective, as opposed to doing like stupid bullshit that you would only want to do if you had convinced yourself that we were like literally moments away from judgment day.

very like like doomer direction. Like you know, he was already a very critical and very doomor about what AI could do, but the sort of intense existential like like immediate existential threat that that opposed is something that he was really developing at the end of last year in the start of this year. And you know this is in part because of the sort of environment that he was immersed in. Yeah, and we'll talk more about that

environment after this ad break. Okay, we are back. Morono Gama had a bunch of other writing on his substack, which gives us a bit of a closer look at his political philosophy and the sort of information ecosystem that he exists in beyond just the AI question. In this AI article that he wrote or published in January, he recommended that people reader Yudkowski's book. If anyone builds it, everyone dies.

And he's not like an expert on machine learning. He doesn't have any qualifications, but he's like an expert on like again, game theorying how an AI would have super intelligent AI would have to act, and he generally makes very dire conclusions that are all pretty much based in like Terminator or Horizon Zero. Don If you want my honest opinion of Elisa Yodkowski, Yeah, yeah, And his irresponsibility is largely down to him being a dummy, and he's

definitely part of what radicalized this guy. But the fact that you have open AI and anthropic and a number of other people, like a lot of like folks like fucking Elon Musk, but also just a lot of like popular public intellectuals quote unquote and their podcasts and shit talking about all this, like, Yep, we're moments away from super intelligent AI that's going to be able to do everything. Everyone's losing their jobs, none of it. It's like, we won't

need people doing anything. If that weren't all over the fucking place, a leisure would sound a lot less convincing, sure, no, I.

And this creates an interesting dynamic among you know rooms full of these rationalists or post rationalists, and in that podcast interview, Moronogama says that it was videos of Yudkowski debate videos on YouTube that originally exposed him to his work, and on other posts on his substack, Nagama also mentions Yudkowski's work as a part of Mononagama is like other

interests which contain writing on pseudo spiritual philosophy. He writes about quote the ultimate Tree of Reality or the Tree of ultimate Reality, the aberration of Man, genealogy of being, and the Warrior and the Martyr, And on February twenty eighth, twenty twenty six, he posted quote an analysis of political Extremes which goes over some of his political philosophy, which which relates to like rational arguments or you know, some

some rationalist arguments around like IQ. In this essay, moroon Gama primarily described himself as a consequentialist and critiqued leftism for being trapped in an idealized world like a quote schizophrenic patient who attempts the same zealous plots over and

over again without hesitation. This essay defends discrimination as a justified means of reacting to inequalities, and claims that such statements are only controversial because of a quote natural emotional resistance to intrinsic judgment unquote, which he says has nothing to do with the factual truth of certain claims like quote East Asian people are on average more intelligent than Black people unquote.

policy suggestions instead of an always rising idealistic ceiling. So, for example, instead of deciding that a certain IQ score should be required to vote, he advocates setting a concrete, unchangeable floor by quote limiting voting to certain people who pass critical thinking and Civics tests unquote ah mm hmm. Yeah, yes, so some somehow determining a critical thinking and Civics tests is less arbitrary and less prone to arbitrary changes than deciding a certain IQ score.

country to fire bomb Sam Maltman's house. Yeah, like this this is not is not the product of, like, you know, a logically ordered mind, despite how you know, a rationalist might you know perceive themselves as such?

and undercutting low skilled natives. Generally, whiteness in these countries is a decent correlative to some of the things I value unquote.

And rather than establish an explicitly white supremacist state, something he claims to oppose as race is an imperfect metric to discriminate effectively based on traits to him, rather, he advocates for quote the most effective type of discrimination, evaluating

the possibility of IQ slash merit based nationalism unquote. Basically, that's having a country where citizenship is determined by IQ and again this contradicts his previous claim where he advocates against requiring IQ to vote instead having a critical thinking and civics test, but then advocates for a country which citizenship is determined by IQ, and usually citizenship is the

fact that determines if someone can vote. So this is where you know, this is just one example of this sort of contradictory writing in this In this essay, now, Monnagama writes that the only problem with this IQ nationalism is that it would create a quote brain train across the Third World, leading to worsening conditions in third world countries and thus even more illegal immigration because people with high IQ is and then be able to immigrate and

gain citizenship to first world countries. Right in a in a United States where citizenship is determined by high IQ, then people who with people with hiaqsrom around the world will then all just move to the United States. Of course, So to solve this problem, he says that he rejects quote unquote classical eugenics and extermination in favor of what he calls ethical eugenics in the third world.

It is primarily or almost solely genetically based. Thus ethical eugenics to create high IQ babies, which he thinks will solve solve the problems of the world.

that isn't to say what happened isn't isn't interesting. But I think you know, if, like you said, you know, this is the first quasi terrorist attack inspired by the sort of rhetoric that these companies are producing themselves to boost their own stock price.

And when you trace it back to its source, it's Dario Amadey of Anthropic just basically quoting some statistics he found from estimations by like Axios and Fox News yea, and talking on some fucking podcast, scaring the shit out of people like it's it's every day, like of course some people are going to react like this.

to chart. On April fourteenth, Ronagama's public defender set in court that he has a quote history of autism and mental health illness, and that his actions quote appeared to have been driven by an acute mental health crisis. His parents released a statement that same Tuesday, saying, quote, our son Daniel is a loving person who has been suffering recently from mental illness crisis. We have been trying our best to address these issues and get him effective treatment,

and we are very concerned for his well being. Unquote m hm. He currently is facing federal and state charges, including attempted murder. That is all I have on this for now.

AI sentiments as a motivating factor of terrorism. Yeah, though I'm sure they will quite soon, right, Yeah, between the shots fired at the home of that city councilman in the Midwest over his vote in support of a data center over data centers. As we see more instance kind of like that, as we see stuff like this, I think it's it's very likely that they will add anti AA sentiment to the list of common recurring motivating factors of this sort of domestic violent extremism.

encampment movement. First of all, the fact that they met with such severe repression is very suggestive that how effective they were in bringing the issues related to the genocide and the occupation of Palestine to the forefront in ways that certainly weren't happening in the US at the time. Another thing about the encampments that I found really interesting.

But also, I mean, I think brilliant from a organizing perspective, is that they were very visually and viscerally recreating the conditions under which Palestinians in Gaza were living at the time and still are, having been displaced from their residences and being forced to live in these very makeshift tent encampments. And so there was a recreation len of those conditions

in a very visual way. And I think that that also was in some sense reminiscent of the shanty towns that were constructed on college campuses in the US in the mid eighties in the anti aparthe type movement. So I think paying attention to some of those details which off and you have lost we started talking about, you know, rise police and so forth. These encampments were They weren't

just you know, a bunch of students hanging out. These were constructed and developed in a very thoughtful manner, and that was definitely the case at UCSD, as I was told by students who were participating in it, as a space you engage in education and research about the genocide and about the occupation of Palestine, as well as the ties that UCSD had to the occupation and the genital side in Palestine. So you had, and I talked to

many students who were actively engaged in this. You had students sitting on their laptops doing research about the UCSD's ties to weapons and manufacturers, the ways that UCSD supported the discourses that were enabling the genocide and the occupation, including archaeological research. And also you know, there was a program associated with every day and the students would plan teachings. Sometimes professors would do the teachings, sometimes students, sometimes community members.

There were teachings on a whole range of really interesting topics, including of course about Palestine, about the genocide, but also about other issues like the role of surveillance and surveillance technology in the genocide, the ecoside that was happening continues to happen in Gaza and Palestine. And so it was a place of an amazing place of learning and research

and also community engagement. So as I said, you know, outside speakers are being brought in, community members were coming in and participating and learning, and so you know, those three things research, teaching and community engagement, those are precisely the things that the university tells us as faculty and

students that we should be doing so. To me, the encampment was functioning even though it wasn't getting any support from the university, and it was actually Universities throughout its five days of existence, was trying to shut it down. Despite all that, it was functioning essentially like any other research institute on campus, and I would say probably better than many of the research institutes campus.

for people about their safety in the encampment. As you say, the university was very hostile to it, despite it doing things at the university purports to believe in. Let's discuss

briefly the history. UCSD hasn't always come down so hard on protest movements, but it also has something of a history of handling these moments very poorly, I would say, So perhaps we could begin Yeah, if you could talk about the anti apartheid movement, and then we can move through what people have called the Black Winter at UCSD and some of the other things that we both have some experience of.

are directly relevant to people's lives. So many of those topics. And so now, of course UCSDS celebrates Angela Davis without mentioning that they fired her. Yeah, so there's kind there is a little bit of this this Okay, we're going to try to suppress stud's movements, but then later on celebrate them. So there, of course, were quite a number of other stuple led movements. One of them, as you mentioned, was the anti apartheid movement, and of course that was

also part of a national movement. Especially Berkeley was very strong campus in that respect, but you know, numerous campuses across the US were involved in that movement, as was UCSD, and we had the UCSD the students, and this was in nineteen eighty five. It took place over a period

of about four or five months, as I call. The students had numerous protests and at the time for people who were familiar with the u SSD campus, UCSD has grown significantly since the eighties, but at that time the central meeting place for campus was what's called Ravel College in Revel Plaza, so there were numerous protests there anti apartheype protests. The students on several occasions set replica shanty towns on the Revel Plaza, as happened at many other

universities in the US. Those were basically replicas of impoverished conditions that South African black folks had to live in under apartheid in South Africa, so they were setting up to the shantydown student kind of reproduced those conditions visually. In additionally, during that four or five month period, the students occupied the Humanities Library, which was called Galbray Hall.

It's just adjacent to rod All Plaza, they took over the library and they occupied it for a month, more than a month, okay, Yeah, And like all of these things happened and there were no invasions of the riot police or anything. And what came out of that movement that the U sees was that the regents decided to divest from all corporations associated with South Africa. So that

was like a major win. But it was not just a win for the student movements, but it was also a win for the university because the students who were basically able to show the university that participating in this very unjust system was something that shouldn't be doing. And so the students basically helped the university to see that. Yeah.

And so by kind of allowing these protests to happen, in a sense, it allowed the university administration and I'm not singing their praises, because you know, they were quite retrograde in many ways as they are now, but by kind of stepping back and allowing these things to happen, the university was able to learn from what the students

were saying and had to act on it. So I feel that that moment in history was something that I mean, I know the current administration hasn't forgotten because they celebrated now they say, you know, how wonderful we were for divesting from South Africa and look at our great students, you know. But okay, so that happened in the eighties. Before we get to Black Winter, I'm just going to mention one other event, which I think is significant, especially

when we're thinking about encampments. So, in nineteen ninety two, UCSD was the only uc campus that did not have a women's resource center, and women and their allies on campus had been organizing to get a women's center since the seventies on the UCSD campus, but they have mostly been ignored by the administration or where are we going to find the money, blah blah blah. So student led, but they were also like staff and faculty involved as well, because the prob of misogyny was very real on the

UCSD campus. Then I arrived UCSD in nineteen ninety and I immediately saw that problem, so I was very aware of it. So the organizers then of this movement decided to set up an encampment on what is called sun God Lawn, which is kind of a major open space on campus. So they set up this encampment and basically they reproduced what they envisioned a women's center would look like, and so they essentially opened a women's center in this

open space. It set up this encampment, they staffed at twenty four to seven and it was up for a week. No arrests room made, no disciplinary charges resulted. But the university then started paying attention to the demand for a resource center, and it took them several years, but they eventually set up the Women's Resource Center that exists now

in nineteen ninety five. So again that was an encampment where the administration was basically able to learn from the actings on campus about you know how they basically kind of behave reasonably.

that they called the Compton Cookout. They put out an announcement on Facebook, which was probably the Golantos today's Instagram, and I don't even know, probably many of your listeners haven't even heard of Facebook, but back then it was was very big, and it was a you know, just despicable racist description of a party where people were supposed to dress up as what they imagine people, you know, characters from from Compton would look like. And of course, you know, students who.

less overt microaggressions that were very common. Yeah, and for many especially black students, but really all students of color and also queer and trans students as were basically had to navigate this like every day, I mean as part of their everyday life. So it was this extra burden on our students and they had been organizing around this for quite some time. They had written a report that was called do you see Us? So you see do you see us? In many ways, they were ready for

an event like this. They were prepared.

was particularly so. And they also had a television show on It doesn't exist anymore. It's called UCSD TV. It was kind of a local TV station. The Compton Cookout Hardy happened on Monday, and that was like a holiday in February. And then on Thursday of that week, the student group that I was talking about how a TV show and they started using the N word explicitly on that show, and a number of students saw that, and

of course, we're completely outraged. And so the students in the Black Student Union and kind of their friends were basically trying to figure out what to do, and so they decided to call for a rally on the Library Walk, which is the main one of the main walkways at UCSD, and they called for a rally right in front of the where Chancellor's office was located at the time. And so they had this rally quite a number of people.

They called the rally real Pain, Real Action, you know, they were saying, we were feeling real pain at these kind of racist incidents, and we want to see real

action by the administration. So they had this rally and the chancellor at the time, who was Mary Ann Fox, came out to the rally, and there's video of this somewhat pathetic video, and basically the organizers of the rally were like chanting leading the chance and then the chancellor was basically following the organizers and trying to put her arm around them as if somehow that would solve everything. You just need a hug, And of course the organizers

were like, no getting hear me. I don't want to hug, I want some action. Yeah, this kind of snowballed. The chancellor basically then met with a bunch of these students who had been at a rally and kind of they had they had a list of like thirty demands and she went through the list and it was just like there's video of this too, and it's it's almost I mean, I just feel because I knew like a bunch of these students that I was like, oh my god, you know how awful this must have felt to them.

so then they all went into the teaching. They had like five hundred people by that time, and the room was just completely act and so they allowed the teaching to start. But then at some point one of the Black student Union members went up and said, we've had enough of this. We're now going to do our own

teach out. So they marched out of the teaching and went around to this area that has these steps and just you know, five hundred folks, incredible concentration of black folks and people of color, students and faculty and all of their allies all gathered together and they had to teach out, which was incredibly powerful. And that day I said it myself and for many other people that I knew at the university. We basically all said, this is the best day we've ever had at UCFD, so amazing.

The next day, in the library, in the main library, one of the students wits who there found a newsing in the library and of course, I'm sure your listeners know that the news is a very powerful symbol of violence against black votes in the US, and so that was that was traumatizing for so many students. I remember getting text messages from students, you know, saying, you know, I can't come on campus because I don't feel safe here anymore.

So then this all culminated about a week later in a huge rally where much of his library walk was completely packed filled with people. It was definitely blocked. And during that rally, the university said we will commit to implementing these demands, the demands of the students. Of course, in the end they backed off much of that, and so that was like a huge victory and it did result in some pretty substantial changes to use. I'll just

mention a couple of them. So UCSD create a Black Resource Center which didn't exist before, a Roser Resource Center, and an intertribal Resource center. So those were significant victories. They also created a undergraduate requirement or requirement that undergraduates take a diversity, Equity and Inclusion course, and that was an attempt to try to change the client it and yea,

do some educating. You know, students in California universities come from also to different backgrounds, and some of them are very aware of racism and it's its impacts and anti blackness ins and back, so that some come without that knowledge. So that was significant help, but also at the time

was boosted a little bit. It didn't end up maybe being such a great boost, but it didn't boost the departments that teach those kind of courses because now they had, you know, a significantly greater number of students and we're getting more resources as a result. So all those things were were good again, no arrests, no disciplinary actions, and the university learned some valuable lessons.

people took in that was pretty appalling. Now, if we skip forward thirteen years right to the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, a lot has changed on campus, but also a lot has not. Right, It's still not a massively diverse institution UCSD, even compared to other institutions in

the city. But from twenty twenty three through twenty twenty four, right, we have this movement on campus to end the genocide, and Gaza comes a movement it's about more than that, right, about liberation for Palestinian people, and then broadly about like I guess, liberation in the region and what that means. And the university did not respond in the same way. This has led to people theorizing a Palestine exception for

free speech. So could you explain that to people? And I thought you had a really interesting approach to it as a scientist that practice could share with people as well.

is something that continued. It was essentially recalling, even though it kind of had this neutral sense to it, it was recalling the you know, the decades of Islamophobia, anti Arab racism that happened in the wake of of nine to eleven. So in a sense, they were communicating by using that kind of language language around, you know, using

words like violence and safety and civility. They were communicating very clearly that people could talk about what happened on the morning of October seventh, but not about anything else. And that was entirely clear. I mean, it's not like we had to do any deep analysis to figure out that's what the administration was saying. And you know, as students organized over the following months, students who were engaged

in that organizing or being subject to disciplinary investigations. There were some faculty who were investigating for mentioning the genocide and the occupation of Palestine in their classes, and all of these things were creating a climate of fear but also uncertainty like you could never be sure if what you would say could get you in trouble, and so the easiest thing to do would be to say nothing at all.

by Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights. It's very easy to find online. And one of the things as a physicist, I'm very critical of the role of phys in society. You have to think very deeply to be critical of physics, thinking about nuclear physics and so forth. But as a person who does physics professionally, I often think about problems from a physics perspective, and so when I think about the Palestine Exception, I kind of bring

a bit of a physics lens to it. So in physics, when we're looking at a phenomenon, we often can't observe that phenomenon directly. And so, for example, people who study the physics of subatomic particles, they will to study how to sub atomic particles interact, or many sub atomic particles interact, they will collide them together. They don't have the precision and the resolution to observe exactly interaction, but they can look before the interaction and then what comes out afterwards.

And by looking at those patterns of what goes in and what comes out, they can get an idea of what's happening within that black box. And so this is the way I view the Palestine exception, because the Palestine exception to free speech is just the idea that there are these structures in society that have been formulated such that it makes it very difficult to engage in speech

about Palestine. And the impact of that, of course, is that if you can't talk about Palestine, then violence that's committed against Palestinians is something that's enabled facilitated by that lack of discussion. Like I don't have access to the conversations amongst you see the administrators or between u SEE administrators and the main office of the President of U SEE, Like, I don't have access to any of that information. In

some sense, that's the black box part of it. But what we can see is kind of what's going in and what's coming out of that box, and so we

can see the behaviors, the patterns of behaviors. And so as a physicist, I'm like, Okay, if we're going to look at the uc and say, the University of California and say, is this a place where the Palestine Exception of free speech is operating, then we were not going to be able to have access to the rooms in which that's planned, if it is being planned, But rather

we can look at the pattern. And the really interesting thing about this report I cited all right, Signed Legal and the Center Constitutional Rights, is they lay that out very clearly. They lay out, Okay, the Palestine Exception of free speech is basically a combination of these kinds of behaviors. So they talk about things like accusations of anti Semitism,

for example, and accusations of support for terrorism. So if you come to any rally pro palestinean rally at UCSD, there's always at least one or many counter protesters who are shared shouting exactly that this is anti semitic, that everyone here is supporting Hamas, you know, and when we say Hamas, you know, that just immediately goes to everybody's mind to terrorism. Yeah, all these kinds of behaviors on it their way out are things that can be seen

you see wide campuses, but definitely a UCSD. Yeah.

To finish up, I guess we're not just doing this at the university because it's a place where we like to argue, or because students are particularly predisposed to radical politics, or for any other number of reasons. Right, the university is also part of the apparatus. Can you explain that a little bit like the university is not neutral in this to begin with?

some ideas. Basically a UCSD and other uc campuses, there's quite a lot of military related research, you know, some of them research is not directly related to the genocide, but as we all know, the US is supplying many of the weapons that are being used in the genocide and now in Iran as well, and some of those weapons, like drones, the aspects of them have been designed and

worked on at UCSD. Kind of the hardware then of genocide is very much a product of university research, part of which has been time in UCSD at other uc campuses and part at other universities in the US and Israel as well. Another aspect of it which I think we don't know as much about this software. So you know, there's a huge amount of research on artificial intelligence that's happening in UCSD, other uc campuses of other university campuses.

I mean, all that research came out of universities. You know, as we now know through credible journalistic investigations that Israel is using artificial intelligence and it's targeting. Yeah, and apparently that's also happening in the US military as well. You know. So there's like another very direct connection. A third connection which is very strong at UCSD or so many other campuses, is that part of the creation of a discourse that

legitimizes and justifies Israel's occupation of Colstein is archaeology. And I'm not an expert in this field, but I could just kind of cite what other people I've talked about, but there are many archaeological investigations that UCSD academics have participated in Israel that contribute to creating this story that the people running Israel and Israeli citizens are the rightful owners of that land and that the Palestinians came in at some late point, maybe a couple of decades before

the founding of Israel, which of course is completely false, and there's so much scholarship about that. But that's the that's the purpose of those investigations, and so again that's connected to universities and the UCSD in particular. One can't really argue that the having a discussion about simplicity and jazz side is something that is not of interest to UCSD.

I want to respect those. But for people who would like to they should continue to speak out right, like, we all lose even if we have if you somehow are unconcerned by genocide of fellows, human beings, if the university becomes a space where certain things are oppressed, and what we can't stand up for each other. So, like, what resources would you suggest for those people? As new students are coming into university this year, they've lived half

their high school years through this genocide. I'm sure many of them will want continue advocating. What would you suggest for them?

sustainability collectives. They're all coming together to talk about Palestine and the ego side Palestine and the jedocide in Palestine. So I think that there are ways for students from a broad range of interests and backgrounds to get involved in organizing. You know, it's not like you have to

start that from scratch. People are already doing that. It might be a little bit hard at your university to find those because of the suppression, but if you if you ask around, you will, or if you look on social media you will, you will find those folks. That's why I would start as a student. For faculty and staff especially, it's a little bit more difficult because we're, you know, as employees, we're very vulnerable. Faculty with tenure

are less vulnerable. But you know, my case and other faculties cases are our examples of how tenure doesn't really protect you from this if they're determined. So I feel

that there's again here. What we need to do is to kind of work collectively, so you don't want to fight the system on your own, but find other faculty who are doing this work and basically who can can work as a support network and kind of collectively find ways to speak out to support our students, which I think is in many ways our primary responsibility with regard to the genocide, and basically create spaces where where it's possible to talk about the genocide.

like to share with people? Before we'd wrap up?

admin pre DHS I ins were pilots amakus brief. An IDF soldier has been photographed destroying a statue of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Lebanon, showing it with a splitting more. A lot of reporting called it a sledge hammer. That's not what a sledgehammer looks like I know, I get really picky about this, but like, maybe if you haven't worked with your hands, you should write things that can be read by someone who has scan and not

be completely ridiculous. The IDF has launched an investigation and so far subjected two soldiers to thirty days in military detention, which is more than they would get if they had killed actual Christian children in Palestine. Says a Lot, I think that this image is like, we spoke about this in our group chat, but this is the it's one image, It's comic book evil. There are many reasons why this is the thing that's blowing up for them. Ken Paxton

is investigating Act Blue. Act Blue is a major donation website for Democratic candidates, is claiming that they have continued to accept gift card donations, which could hide donations from foreign individuals or corporations or even states. I suppose the United States government's plans to send Afghans who are stuck in limbo in Kata to the Democratic Republic of Congo

being reported on by the New York Times. Just for some context here, I saw people sharing this and thinking that they that this referred to Afghan SIV recipient who a resident in the United States. That is not what it's referring to. It's referring to people who the Biden administration removed from Afghanistan or wherever they worked in Pakistan and then took them to kata As like a temporary stopping off point where they would continue to do their

vetting and background checks. This is normal for refugee admissions as opposed to asylum admissions. And then the twenty twenty four election have been Democrats lost, and that people have been in limbo ever since, and it appears to Trump administration has been trying to get them various states in Africa to accept them, and it's now proposing the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country which already has a significant refugee crisis.

in red states like Texas. At the behest of Trump, but now with Virginia, Dems are actually up one seat nationally. Ronda Santis has called for Florida lawmakers to meet next week to consider redistricting in their state. Trump has called the Virginia election quote unquote rigged, saying that Republicans were winning until a quote massive mail in ballot drop quote, which is just how elections work. That's just how voting works.

go to a vote while legal challenges continue. This is the second most important election this week, the most important one obviously being the Webbys, in which I think we can announce we have won Woo in unrigged election matters, the only fair election that this country is seen, possibly in like over twenty five years.

can tell about what's going on. Obviously, in the immediate wake of Operation Epic Fury, and is recently as last Tuesday, President Trump said, quote, we've taken out their navy, We've taken out their air force, We've taken out their leaders. On April eighth, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Operation Epic Fury a historic and overwhel victory on the battlefield. By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran's military and rendered it

combat and effective for years to come. Now, that last sentence, the first part is technically accurate.

we've taken out their navy and their air force. CBS published an article today reporting that roughly sixty percent of the naval arm of the Islamic Revolutionary guardcore is still in existence, including fast tag speedboats and Iranian air power, while it's been degraded, is still significantly more functional than actually I had assumed. About two thirds of the Iranian Air Force is still believed to be operational, despite the massive US in his Israeli air strikes largely targeting air

production and storage facilities. The fact that you're looking at two thirds of Iran's navy and air force still functional and at least about half their ballistic missile stockpile and

their launch system stockpile intact. That's a significant difference from what the administration has claimed and evidence that where we to continue to press with the open fighting part of this conflict, it would be years probably before you're talking about like a complete degradation of Iranian fighting capability if that was ever achieved, Like when you factor in the United States would continue to suffer casualties, and we've already

been losing more of, you know, particularly our interceptor missile capability and a number of advanced systems like a wax, then we can afford to replace James.

of ships have lrads. They could have also used the radio that if they can talk to them on the radio of their receiving communications with the radio. They then ordered it to evacuate its engine room. They then shot out its engine with the five inch gun.

There is some reporting that one of them, an Indian tanker, had paid a fee in cryptocurrency to what turned out to be a scammer. I am certain that these scams exist because there have been multiple warnings of them. I haven't seen any evidence that is satisfactory enough for me to be confident that that particular ship had been scammed. The most compelling piece of evidence. A ship is called the San Mar Herald. Is this audio that we're going to play right here?

I think that's important in the context of the ceasefire. I want to explain very briefly, there's been a lot of contradictory reporting on when, where, and how negotiations are going to happen. It cease fire was set to expire

the day we're recording Wednesday. On Tuesday, we saw Donald Trump laterally extend the ceasefire by truthing quote based on the fact that the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so, and upon the request of Field Marshal Simonia and Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can

come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade and in all other respects remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the cease fire until such time as their proposal hast submitted and discussions are concluded one way or the other. President Donald J. Trump, the consensus seems to me that this

is not like an infinite extension. This is like maybe less than a week for Iran to either comply with US terms or submit proposals in the US considers acceptable. A lot of that reporting does seem to come from Barack Revied, who's not really good at journalism, so take

it with the pinch of salt. Trump, though, is correct that the state of Iran is on a unified entity, and I covered this in the piece I did last week on an update on the Iran war, Right, Like, I think there's a tendency from people in the global North to look at a state and see it as like a pyramid. Right, you have the head of state, and then you have government, and then you have legislature, and then you have the people they commanded, right, military

and all the civil bureaucracy. That's not quite how Iran works. And I went into more detail in that episode that I made, so I'm not going to go into it here, but there are a series of overlapping but not entirely aligned power centers within Iran and within its military capacity, both within its military and the traditional sense, and within

the IIGC. Why this is relevant to the negotiations is it it's not possible for politicians to negotiate if they do not believe that they can agree to terms and that their military will then comply with those terms.

Israel never took me into the war with Iran. The results of October seventh added to my lifelong opinion that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. Did Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that sentence.

like talking about the results in Iran. Will be amazing and if arounds new leaders, regime chains, exclamation mark clothes, parentheses are smart, Iran can have a great and prosperous future. President DJT. That's one of the more challenging passages of English language texts that I've ever approached. I speak four or five languages, and that's that's speak set me back, But I've tried to give you a good faith reading

of it. He's clearly sensitive to the allegation that Israel pushed the US into this conflict.

conspiracy to commit to concealment money laundering. The indictment argues that the SPLC defrauded their donors by using donation money to pay confidential informants within white supremacist or neo Nazi organizations. Here is a short clip of the press conference of a reporter asking Todd Blanche a question, I just want to make sure.

they were paying. So the Southern Poverty Law Center is raising money, asking folks to give them money to dismount racism, and over a very long period of time, they were using some of the money they raised from donors to pay to they call them feel you know, basically to informants for information, for access, to just pay them for certain to do certain things. And so yes, that's exactly what the indictment charges.

hate groups and far right extremists. This indictment claims that the SPLC has utilized informants to gained information on far right activity since the eighties, but between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty three, the SPLC secretly paid over three million dollars to individuals associated with various violent extriist groups quote unquote in a clandestine manner.

Nazi essentially right yeah, so that part isn't surprising. The weirdness is how the SPLC was going about it and how much fucking money they were giving some of these The amounts of some of these is yeah, it was legitimately shocking, and I do want to get into some more details about those amounts in the groups and the sort of nest of fake businesses the SPLC used to distribute.

violent extremist groups unquote. Money was funneled to individuals associated with violent extreamist groups, including the klu Klux Klan, the United Clans of America, Unite the Right National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations, and the affiliated Sadistic Soul's Motorcycle Club, National Socialist Party of America, American Nazi Party, and American Front.

One informant, according to the indictment, was quote a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the twenty seventeen Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. This informant made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and

helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. Between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty three, the SPLC secretly paid this informant more than two hundred and seventy thousand dollars from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty three. More than one million dollars was allegedly paid to someone affiliated with the National Alliance who served as an informant for over twenty

years while fundraising for this Nazi group. The Imperial Wizard of the Rebooted Imperial Clans of America was a paid

informant according to the indictment. This is likely a guy named Bradley Jenkins, an officer in the National Socialist Movement and the Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, secretly received more than three hundred thousand dollars between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty, the former chairman of the National Alliance was secretly paid more than one hundred and forty thousand dollars, while the SPLC website featured an extremist profile page for

this individual, likely Eric Glebe. The SPLC also paid the leader of the National Socialist Party of America seventy thousand dollars between twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen. This individual was a former director of an Aryan Nations faction and a former member of the CAKE. This is likely a guy named Paul Mullett, who the SBLC hosts an extremist file

web page on their website. A few other unidentified informants are listed in the indictment, as well as a claim that the SBLC funneled more than one hundred and sixty thousand dollars from a fictitious entity to an informant quote, who then sent funds to various violent extremist group leaders, including the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the klu Klux Klan unquote. That's a lot of money.

forfeiture of financial gains from the alleged illegal activities. The right has reacted to this news by calling the Unite the Right rally and kind of the alt right movement as it existed from this time period a syop or a false flag. Senator Mike Lee, right wing political influencer Nick Sorter, and Elon Musk have boosted these claims, getting tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands alikes on x

Everything app This seems to be a narrative. It's not really new, I guess, but an enhanced narrative that is emerging among the online right as a way to dissuade some of the uglier parts of that era, while still carrying along a lot of the same politics, especially on like the Great Replacement, which is more of a mainstream idea among the conservative movement at this point in time, so they're able to walk away from the uglier kind of imagery and explicitly notz the elements of this like

the KKK, which is very boomer very very very Boomer coded k the KKK, so they're able to call stuff like that and the Unite the Right rally of syop or a false flag while still reaping the benefits that the alt right movement achieved by kind of trailblazing certain

rhetoric into the conservative mainstream. Right wing commentators have also used this news to reassert one of their favorite claims that Patriot Front is a psyop or a false flag operation, that whenever a group of young Nazis show up in a u all all wearing matching outfits and masks, that this is a staged event by either the deep State, the FEDS, or a group like the SPLC. Patriot Front

is not actually named in this indictment. There's no evidence that the SPLC was paying anyone at Patriot Front to inform on the operations of that group, and obviously paying an individual to inform on the details of an upcoming event like Unite the Right does not mean that the Unite the Right event in Charlottesville was planned or staged by the SPLC. Dozens of people were involved in the planning of this event, and hundreds participated of their own volition.

One person in a planning group chat sending info to the SPLC does not mean that this action was staged or fake.

accused of having committed these crimes. I don't know if I feel like that like the specific things they have to prove in order to date a conviction are accurate because fundamentally, anyone who donated to the SPLC knew that they were like getting shipped from informants. You know, like, I don't think that was like the amount of money though, is shocking.

twenty one. The FBI funded a publishing house, a neo Nazi publishing house essentially yeah yeah, yeah, which is responsible for, in part, the political direction of the Adam Off Indivision now at Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has said that quote the SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence end quote. Using donor money to allegedly profit off klansmen cannot go unchecked. Unquote. Patel has said that quote this is illegal, and this is an ongoing investigation against all

individuals involved. The SBLC released a video statement saying that the use of informants was quote unquote necessary and claimed quote these individuals risked their lives to infiltrate and inform on the activities of our nation's most radical and violent

extremist groups unquote. The indictment does not characterize many of these informants as quote unquote infiltrators, but rather individuals who were already members of these groups and were paid by the SBLC to share information and gossip on fellow members. The SBLC statement also said that they quote frequently shared what we learned from informants with local and federal law enforcement,

including the FBI. We did not, however, share our use of informants broadly with anyone to protect the identity and safety of the informants and their families unquote, like a lot of the people in this field. The FBI knew the SBLC was doing this.

behind deciding to do this right now. The FBI already knew that this was happening to a certain extent, but now they are going after the SBLC as a part of a targeted political prosecution, and this indictment could be seen as part of the anti Antifa nonprofit crackdown. Last March, CBS News reported that the FBI and the IRS formed a new initiative to investigate fraud at nonprofit organizations with suspected links to domestic terrorism following federal directives to pursue

Antifa aligned groups. A spokesperson from the IRS told CBS News quote, IRS Criminal Investigation is collaborating with federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to investigate individuals and entities that may be funding the domestic terrorism or political violence.

but like they open themselves up to get fucked with by doing something so not like give one of these people a million dollars a million dollars, Yeah, that's wild.

should be. And I think this is something that this administration is going to continue to sort of in some ways use as a rift point, like the fact that these groups are doing all of this in unhinged shit, right, this is this is the political consequence of the structure that these NGOs use in the way that they've operated, and now there's sort of chickens are coming home to roost.

the process. Their job isn't historically has not been to kind of root out bad migration as so much as to help people, or at least to process people to do the bureaucratic part of migration. Under the second Trump administration, however, this has changed. There have been detentions at interviews, there have been cancelations of citizenships ceremonies. The USAS has begun hiring for a new position, and this new position is eligible for remote work, for more remote work than existing hires,

and it's called the Homeland Defender. So like we probably many people have seen these Homeland Defender advertisements on x dot com, the everything website right, Homeland Defenders have been offered up to fifty thousand dollars in signing bonuses, and at the same time as offering remote work benefits for the Homeland Defenders, the agency has been forcing other people to return to offices that could no longer fit the number of staff it had under years of work from home.

The agency grew and changed right like almost every organization did, and there were reports that you literally had like lawyers sitting in corridors working on their laptops or like trying to perch on a radiator or a window sill because their offices could fit people. Right, and at the same time, the branding around Homeland Defender is not the way that

USCIS staff traditionally saw themselves. In Minnesota, USCAS has begun reinvestigating people admitted with the incredibly highly vetted refugee status. So we already spoke about it once today. Right, the refugees are vetted before they even enter the United States. Across the country, executive orders will followed with memos pausing or entirely stopping the process of legal and veted immigration

for people from an increasing number of countries. The legally mandated green cards for adult children and siblings or current sistants, as well as spouses and minor children of existing permanent residents has gone unfulfilled. This is quote unquote family based migration. They used to call it chain migration. Right. That used to be the language on the right. It's something that

Trump administration has hated since its first term. Right, this has been a thing that they spoke about and that has been spoken about at the right for some time. These green cards could be reused for employment based claims, which is going to have a much larger number of people who are already in the country. It's not bringing new people in or they might go Unused. Refugees are being detained without any clear legal authority and requizzed about

their applications. According to reporting in The New Yorker, this means that people are being taken in meaned at an ice facility right and then quiz about stuff that they'd already been asked about before they came to the United States when they were doing that vetting. People who are married to United States citizens are being arrested at interviews, even though generally there was an amnesty of people who, for instance, had overstate a visa and then got married before.

USCIS has also committed significant resources of the agency that may well have been taken away from processing claims and devoted them entirely to investigating naturalizations with the goal of denaturalizing naturalized United States citizens. This is a very difficult process right. The Afreem case is the Supreme Court case which governs this right. It refers to someone who was

a Jewish communist or had been in Israel. What it says is the government cannot de citizenize someone because it doesn't agree with their politics, even in the time of anti communism. Right, Once somebody becomes a citizen in their files or remove from USCIS and they go to the National Record Center and so calling the presumably tens of thousands of files of naturalized United States citizens and hundreds of thousands over time millions right would require some kind

of filter. The most likely way this is being filtered is through their nationality.

Petitions are slowing down as they're moved around to a dwindling workforce which is still focused on processing those as opposed to the growing amount of the USCIS workforce which is looking for quote unquote fraud in applications or attempting to denaturalize people. As we just covered, among the people waiting without visas are some people who are waiting for special visas, which are given to people who are survivors of human trafficking, gender based violence, or other crimes. This

includes children. There's especially Immigrant Juvenile visa, which every single person I've heard of coming on an SIJ visa has had things happen to them which I didn't struggle to think about that would keep you up at night. And the thought that those people are waiting in limbo because they're trying to denaturalize people is particularly upsetting. I'm sure it's also upsetting to some people who've worked at uscis their whole life, and I know that morale among those

people is pretty low. While the agency sort of has changed beyond all recognition in the last couple of years. Talking of changing beyond all recognition, we're going to now pivot from journalism to probably some adverts for online gambling. Yeah, it would be shocking and jarring.

recent weeks. Last week, on the fifteenth of April, Trump threatened to fire Powell if Powell stayed on as basically the temporary Federal Reserve Chair after his term expired. Now, the reason this is happening is because Trump's attempt to get someone confirmed to replace Powell has not been going well, and if no one is confirmed by May fifteenth, then the office is just empty, and Powell has said that he wants to stay on and become the temporary chair.

This is sort of unprecedented, but then again, we've also not ever had the president's open an investigation into the sitting chair of the Federal Reserve, causing him to give a reverse hostage video. So where things are right now is that we are getting hearings on Trump's preferred nominee, a man named Kevin Walsh. However, there is a real problem with worsh as as a candidate that's not doesn't have anything to do with who he is. We'll get

to that in a second. The biggest issue that Trump is facing here is that Tom Tillis, who's an outgoing Republican Senator, is refusing to let any Trump appointee pass through the Finance Committee unless Trump ends the investigation into Jerom Powell. So this has had everything at a complete standstill.

It was sort of unclear though a lot of different Republican senators had threatened to do something like this, But because Tillis is just leaving, he's just he's retiring at the end of this at the end of the session. He's the one who's you know, up there doing it. And this has ground the nomination to a halt. We're still getting hearings, but there's no way for him to actually get a vote to get get this process out

of committee. So into this morass steps Kevin Walsh, who He's not the most unhinged guy Trump could have hicked high bar. This is, at least nominally, on the surface, sort of a FED guy like he has worked for the Federal Reserve, like Federal Reserve banks before.

interest rates cut. Now, this is coming up a lot in the hearings and so far Walsh is giving answers that if you've ever watched the testimony of someone who's who's trying to get onto the Supreme Court, it's a lot like that, where he is saying the things that he is supposed to say. He's saying that he opposes an interest rate cut. He's saying that the primary job of the FED is a combat inflation. He's saying that

he believes it fed independents. But he also has said that Trump has not asked him to cut interest rates. And Elizabeth Warren, who's been sort of leading the Democratic charge against this, has pointed out a number of things, one of which is in workboard. He gets some more of the weird shit with him in a second. But one of the major things here is that the President has said that he's asked Worsh to do just ray cuts. So somebody's lying here. Worsh isn't giving non answers about that.

I'm also just going to read this quote from the Associated Press quote. Warren also noted that Worsh has not disclosed all of his financial holdings, which include investments in startups and private companies, or the size of those financial stakes. For example, Worsh has said he has holdings in SpaceX and polymarkets, but it's not said how large those investments are.

the investigation is dropped. Tillis and some other members of the committee have been Republican members of the committee have been talking about this scheme to get the investigation transferred from the Department of Justice to the Senate Committee. I think at which point they could basically just kill it or just have it be a thing at a budget overruns. That's not like an attempt to depose Jeroon Powell. It's not clear what's going to happen with that, and it

hasn't started yet. This is the point that we're at right now. This conflict is going to keep heating up as the May fifteenth deadline for getting a new nominion before the board vacancy happens, and Jerome Powell basically stays in power longer than his terminally last happens. So we're

going to keep following this story. And there's one other story that we are going to keep following, which is there was an exclusive by the Wall Street Journal, which is a report this is from unimed US officials, but it claims that the UAE's central bank governor is reportedly trying to get what's called a currency swap with the US.

So what a currency swap is basically is, it's like it's a way to try to fix an exchange rate and get a country a certain amount of US dollars by just like just at the fixed exchange rate, just like swapping X amount of dollars for x amounts of another country's currency. This report was immediately denied, very very quickly denied by a series of posts on x the everything app by the UAE's embassy to the US where they gave a thing of Trump also had like started

talking about this too. I'm just going to read a little bit of this quote. We very much appreciate President Trump's recognition of the UAE is one of America's most important economic and trade partners. That recognition reflex at depth of mutual trust based on mutual investment, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Any suggestion that the UAE requires external financial

backing misreads the facts. The UAE is one of the most financially resilient economies, underpinned by more than two trillion dollars in the sovereign and assets more than three hundred billion dollars in foreign currency reserves held by the UAE Central Bank and banking sectors, with approximately one point five trillion in deposits. So when they start listening out the deposits, that's when things are not going great.

an end to the war and Iran in sight. And if the trader for moves remains closed, this is an existential crisis for the UAE because not only are all of their exports stopped, you know, like the ue itself is just physically under threat, to the infrastructures under threat, and it's very difficult for them to get more investments.

And this could in the future start a dollar crisis of the kind that we've talked about on the show before Go if you want to, Yeah, I've talked about basically dollar crises and how you can have balance of payments crises for running out of US dollars. What's interesting about this reports, and the reason that we're sort of talking about it right now, is that one of the things that the UAE reportedly was mentioning was that they

might be forced to turn the Chinese currency. It's basically they might be forced to like sell oil in Chinese currency in order to get it through the straight, which would be a apackle shift to the entire global political economy, right, which is the America's status in the world is in part, but in no small part, based on the fact that you can really only buy oil in dollars. And it seems like what's happening is that the UAE is looking

at their long term prospects going we're completely screwed. They're going, oh, well, if we don't, if you don't just hand us a bunch of money, we're going to have to start looking at the underpinnings of you know, American imperial power. So we're going to continue to see where this goes. As just war continues, and as the stray continues to be blocked, countries around the world are going to become more and

more desperate. As the economic consequences of this ripples out across the world, We're probably going to start seeing more things like this. And at some point, if it becomes clear that the war is not going to end. In Trump's early week announcement that the ceasefires are going to keep going, stops being able to keep the stock markets from being propped up, We're going to start seeing an even wider spread impact of this. But this is a

bleak sign from a staunch US ally. Yeah, we have one final story before closing, which is a little funny, also worrying, but more more funny.

quote unquote journalists who wrote the story for context. Last November, the Blaze published a story claiming to have identified the bomber as a Capitol police officer who responded to the January sixth insurrection based on quote forensic gate analysis which determined the officer was a quote up to ninety eight percent match to surveillance video of the bomber.

was a quote unquote inside job. As these reports were getting published by The Blaze, Glenn Beck said on his show, quote this is one of the biggest stories. I think it is the biggest scandal of my lifetime, maybe in the last one hundred years.

needed in the future difficult or impossible to pass. One of the journalists was fired by the Blaze on April first, just earlier this month, and the other resigned two days later. They have since raised over twenty thousand dollars since leaving the Blaze to continue their claims on a new independent website that they're launching. Given the name of the website, the website is called Yeah, They're a toss regnant LLC.

were primarily looking for shoes. Agents edited their vehicles with their guns drawn in full tactical gear. An agent called mister Dickert, who is the plaintiff's boyfriend, and commanded him to quote come out of the house unarmed with your dogs. Mister Dickart and missus Kirkhoff complied and stepped outside. Agents swept through the house, then re entered with bomb sniffing dogs.

They opened cabinets, rifled through drawers, and scattered Missus Kerkhoff's and mister Dickard's belongings, all without obtaining Miss Kerr's or mister Dickert's consent. It suddenly occurred to miss Kirkoff that they were not simply looking for a pair of shoes.

office would take longer than the interview itself. This was not true. The interview lasted almost three hours. Agents repeatedly accused the plaintiff of placing the bombs and continually asserted her guilt. Part Way through the interview, the interrogator changed out the tube on the polygraph because they quote did not like how they were reading unquote.

the bomber. A day later, the Blaze published a report explicitly naming her as the bombing suspect, something they already alluded to in previous reporting, which sparked the online chatter, which caused the FBI to search her home and interrogate her. This was all intentional on the part of the Blaze.

According to this court document, the defendants, these quote unquote journalists purposely forwarded a tip to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in an attempt to get quote unquote coroboration of their reporting from sources inside the government by getting the plaintiff placed under investigation. Prior to their publishing of the articles identifying her as the bomber. This was basically all part of the ski.

This was another article on The Blaze saying that Gate analysis showed that Brian Cole Junior, the actual suspect who has been arrested, does not match the Gate does not have a positive Gate analysis match to the surveillance footage from that night.

Junior's defense lawyers have filed a subpoena for miss Kirkoff, which misleadingly states she quote unquote failed a polygraph. This subpoena also contains her home address, and the subpoena has been spread online by these quote quote journalists as evidence that they were right all along. The plaintiff continues to deal with doxing and death threats as a result from the subpoena, and the quote unquote journalists continued reporting, spreading

claims that she is in fact the real bomber. So Kirkoff is requesting a jury trial with these six counts of defamation. And I hope she gets a lot of money from everyone involved in this.

So I don't know, that's something that made me less bummed.

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