Tech News: Is the Honeymoon Over for AI?

as various Windows based machines got caught in a reboot loop. Well, we're still seeing the fallout of this classic goofum up, because it turns out the problem was CrowdStrike had pushed out an update that included ultimately a relatively simple but

catastrophic error in it a bug. Now, CrowdStrike shareholders are angrily filing a massive class action lawsuit against the company, claiming that it failed to disclose its testing process, and the shareholders say that process was by all means inadequate. The lawsuit says that CrowdStrike purposefully concealed the fact that it had not put proper safety measures in place, and as a result, this outage followed and then the company's stock price tumbled by nearly a third over the course

of two weeks. That represented around twenty five billion with a B dollars of market value. Yaoza and shareholders are not the only ones considering a lawsuit against the company. Delta Airlines is also apparently doing that, claiming that the crowd strike outage led to Delta incurring an expense of around half a billion dollars. Another Yaoza, Delta, like some other airlines, had to postpone and cancel thousands of flights and put travelers up in hotels and such in the

wake of this tech disaster. And in the interest of full disclosure, my partner works for Delta. She was asked to volunteer to work at the airport, a position she had not held for more than twenty years, and she did it because she's a rock star. But according to Delta CEO ed Bastion, it workers had to manually reset around forty thousand servers to get things back to normal for the company, and they expect to receive some form of compensation for the damages that they incurred as a

result of this outage. Metta has some good news for its shareholders. The company posted impressive revenue growth thanks to its advertising business. That revenue growth was enough to mollify shareholders who continued to be skeptical over Meta's spending in the metaverse and AI spaces. Zuckerberg told shareholders that the company's spending in those areas had increased by seven percent in the second quarter of twenty twenty four, but that this was more than covered by the rise of the

company's operation rating margin, which hit thirty eight percent. Now I have no magic ball where I can see what shareholders are actually thinking, but I imagine more than a few of them are still in the golly. I wish they'd stop throwing money away, but I am thankful that the digital ad business is going well again. They're in that camp. I'm sure some shareholders remain excited about this metaverse concept

and where AI may be going. But more and more I'm hearing folks get a little uncertain about the viability of AI, or at least how far off we are from AI making a real difference in in a revenue perspective. I think a lot of people are starting to wake up to the fact that AI does have enormous potential, but that potential is going to take time to be realized, and it isn't just a magic button where you press

it and money comes out. Speaking of AI disillusionment, Bloomberg's Julia Love has an article titled big Tech fail to convince Wall Street that AI is paying off And I think that illustrates my point pretty darn well. She argues that big companies like Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft have all failed to prove the massive amount of money that they have collectively poured into AI research and development has any real chance of paying off in the near term. At

least they failed in the eyes of shareholders. Like it might turn out that this isn't true, that it is going to pay off, but shareholders are skeptical. These companies saw their stock prices decline recently, so essentially, the upfront costs of AIRE and D are enormous. The ongoing maintenance costs to operate AI are also skyrocketing, particularly if you're doing so at scale the way these big companies are doing it, and the opportunities to actually generate revenue off

of that work are somewhat limited right now. But again, that's not to say that's always going to be the case. It may be that down the road this will look absolutely critical. People will say, Wow, if you had gotten in at that time, think of how much money you would make. That's a possibility. However, for now, the attitude appears to be more like, Ah, this is taking longer than I thought it would, so I'm less excited now.

It's the good old hype cycle trend. Folks get super excited about an emerging technology, but then that excitement starts to drain away as they realize that the actual capabilities of the tech aren't nearly as wild and impressive as they had imagined. This does not mean that AI is just going to fizzle out like some other stuff kind

of has. Arguably, NFTs have largely fizzled out. And yes, I know NFTs are technically there's still a thing, but they are a shadow of what they once were thanks to the enormous collapse NFTs had a couple of years ago. This might mean that companies will need to find some creative ways to talk about AI investments in the future if they do not want their shareholders getting antsy about the whole thing. So, yeah, it's not just the tech,

it's always the money. Microsoft filed an annual report with the SEC all publicly traded companies in the United States have to do this. And in that report, Microsoft named open Ai as a competitor. Now that's got a sting for open Ai. It's kind of like hearing an ex partner describe you as being okay. After all, Microsoft famously pumped a thirteen billion dollar investment into open Ai. That's a heck of a present, right, I mean, technically it's

not a president it's a business investment. But you know, in one section of Microsoft's report, it reads, quote, our AI offerings compete with AI products from hyperscalers such as Amazon and Google, as well as products from other emerging competitors, including Anthropic, open Ai, Meta and other open source offerings, many of which are also current or putdential partners end quote. I love that they put OpenAI second in that list. I guess that's, you know, trying to couch things a

little bit. But obviously Microsoft is not saying that it has declared war on open Ai. It's not that kind of competitor. In fact, some suspect that this might be the people at Microsoft trying to get ahead of any regulatory issues that could follow in the future. Microsoft wouldn't be considered anti competitive in the AI space, because look, open ai is a competitor for Microsoft, not like a best friend forever. Sure, for a while there, Microsoft had

secured a seat on open AI's board of directors. But what does that mean? They don't have it anymore. They dropped that seat. It's nothing you need to worry about, regulators, gerl. We're all just you know, we're just er. We're competing like crazy. Down here. Hey, look there's a three headed monkey. On a semi related note, Windows Central reported late last week that open ai could be facing a pretty grim

future unless it holds another round of massive funding. That the company has a projected five billion dollar loss as possibly in the books this year. The company reportedly spends about eight point five billion dollars a year in operation and staffing costs, but it only posts revenue of three

point five billion. So yeah, if you do the math, that means the company is spending five billion dollars more in twenty twenty four, then it's bringing in and without an influx of more cash, the company could go bankrupt. Open Ai has released updated large language models and tools this year that in turn has led to increased revenue for the company. But then running these updated models and tools is really expensive, so some of that kind of

washes out. Could Open AI potentially innovate its way out of business, or would its competitor Microsoft swoop in to keep the ship afloat. I don't know. I guess I'm gonna have I have to ask chat GPT what it thinks. Sticking with Microsoft and AI for just a bit longer, Four of four Media has a piece titled Microsoft and Reddit are fighting about why Bing's crawler is blocked on Reddit?

All right, So Bing is Microsoft's search engine. It's one that's most associated with the Edge web browser from Microsoft. And search engines use web crawlers to index the web so that the search engine can list pages in response to queries. This is a fundamental function of search engines. However, web builders they can actually put instructions inside a web page that tell these crawlers to scram. Essentially, it's saying, hey, don't index this web page for your search results. Why

would you do that? Well, you might want to do it if you want a more controlled access to the page in question. So essentially Reddit has done this across its entire site. Because of how companies like Google and Microsoft are now crawling websites not just for search purposes, but also to train artificial intelligence large language models, and Reddit doesn't want any company using content from its site to train AI without first ponying up cash to do so.

Reddit doesn't object to AI learning from the stuff that its users create and post to the site, but it does not give that stuff away for free. Oh, it also doesn't share any money with the users who actually made the content in the first place. Reddit is like, no, once you post it here, it belongs to us. It's no longer yours, it's ours. But anyway, Reddit is essentially saying, if you want to train your AI on our stuff,

you got to fork over the cash. And Microsoft is essentially saying, bro, we're not training AI, We just want to index Reddit for the purposes of search, so chill out. Complicating matters is the fact that Google did pay Reddit a cool sixty million dollars, and so Google, unlike other search engines, is allowed to crawl an index and even train AI on Reddit site. So some people are saying, huh,

this is starting to look a bit anti competitive. In fact, Bing's head of search tweeted out quote Reddit has blocked being from crawling their site for search, favoring another search engine, and impacting competition from being and being powered engines. End quote. Reddit reps told four h four Media that nah, nah, that's not what's going on. This is totally because Microsoft refuses to play by our rules, and that's all there

is to it. So this, I think is an illustration of how AI, specifically generative AI, has started to really impact the way that the Internet works. Typically, you wouldn't see sites like Reddit put up a block on indexing the page. Like indexing me that more people will go to Reddit when they're searching for certain topics and there's a Reddit thread all about that thing, so you want

more traffic to come in. But if it also means that you know, people are exploiting that content and they're profiting off of that, and Reddit's not getting a piece of the action, that's where the problems come up. And I think we're going to see more stuff like this all the way across the Internet in various incarnations. Well, speaking about ads and money, it's about that time for us to take a quick break to thank our sponsors, but we'll be back with more news right after this.

So we're back, and just this past Tuesday, Microsoft was the target of a massive d DOS attack that hampered Microsoft three sixty five and Azure services around the Globe I measure if you aren't familiar, that's Microsoft's cloud based offerings.

And as a quick reminder, d DOOS stands for distributed denial of service and typically this kind of attack involves sending a gargantuan amount of Internet requests from an army of compromised computers, often compromised through malware and hacking, and directing all of that traffic to a specific target on the web, and the target becomes overwhelmed trying to answer all these requests and ultimately it can shut down as

a result. Now, there are actually a lot of mitigation strategies that can help decrease the impact of these sorts of attacks, like to have an early detection system to say, hey, something's up. We need to raise defenses essentially raise shields in star trek terms. But sometimes it can take a little bit before these mitigation strategies can be employed, and in the meantime you've got a crisis on your hands.

Microsoft has not yet identified the threat actor responsible for this attack, but the company did admit that a mistake in the mitigation deployment delayed a security response, which in turn meant the attack had a greater effect than it otherwise might have had. So this is, you know, not to blame the victim. The hackers ultimately are the ones responsible for the outages, but the error on Microsoft's part did mean that it took a little longer to respond

to that than it otherwise would have. Most companies have mitigation strategies or they work with a security company that provides mitigation strategies for this kind of stuff, and a lot of companies have seen pretty massive upticks in attack attempts over more recent years. It's always been a bit of an issue ever since d DOS attacks became kind of a possibility, but they are becoming far more frequent these days, as is pretty much every kind of hacker attack.

Israeli hackers claim responsibility for an attack that may have disrupted massive amounts of Internet traffic in Iran. So this happened in conjunction with military strikes that Israel reportedly was carrying out against a Hamas target who was in Iran. These strikes were originally reported as missile based attacks, but The New York Times says, actually that local sources claim it was an explosive device that was smuggled into where

the target was staying in Iran. But the hacker group, which calls itself WE Read Evils or we Read Devils if you prefer, that's not how the capitalization goes. But they claimed to had taken down much of Iran's internet infrastructure, like leading to a massive Wi Fi outage. However, Forbes was unable to confirm the extent to which these attacks

disrupted communications within Iran. As journalist Zach Doffman points out, the lines of communication in Iran aren't exactly dependable even on a good day, so it's hard to say, like, was this a devastating attack or did anyone even notice. It's possible that people just figured it was another typical day in Iran. Hard to say, but yeah, not surprising

to hear about hackers aligning with military operations. I don't know if there's any evidence to show that We Read Evils is state backed, Like if they receive support from the Israeli government, that is possible they could be a state backed hacker group. It's also possible they're acting independently and have priorities that are in alignment with Israel's government. It's hard to say. Net neutrality sure is having a rough go of it in the United States. All right,

let's do a quick rundown on what this is. So. Net neutrality essentially says you should be able to have the same access to all the stuff on the Internet, no matter where that stuff comes from, no matter what isp you use, no matter what device you are using

to access it. And companies that provide Internet infrastructure should not favor traffic from certain parts of the Internet, while throttling traffic from other parts, nor should they deny service to anyone just because that person isn't using that company's own services or products. It should be neutral. During Barack Obama's presidency, the FCC succeeded in passing some new rules

that would force service providers to play fair. Essentially, they declared that the rules of common carriage would apply to Internet traffic. During Trump's presidency, that version of the FCC overturned those rules from the Obama administration, and now under Joe Biden, the FCC reinstated those rules again, slightly different

versions but same idea. However, the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals has now blocked those rules from going into effect, saying that the FCC has failed to meet the high standards of a legal argument justifying the rules in the first place, and that those rules are not likely to hold up to a legal challenge. So instead, the Court has said that beginning either in late October or early November, it will hear oral arguments on the matter before it

goes any further. Now, considering that US elections happen in early November, and that net neutrality was one of those tent pole achievements of the Biden administration, this is a pretty tough political blow to Democrats. The safe assumption is that Kamala Harris, who is on track to becoming the official nominee of the Democrat Party, will also support net neutrality.

And we've already seen what a Trump administration thinks of the matter, so largely the outcome of the election, I think will determine the direction that this takes outside of the courts, Like the court will ultimately get to decide whether the matter meets legal standards. But you know, we've already seen that with each administration. The FCC's makeup can change dramatically, and that in turn changes the policy. Reuter's reports that the US Department of Justice is investigating Nvidia

for anti competitive practices. Specifically, the DOJ is interested in how Nvidia's AI chip business has kind of taken shape, with concerns that the company has abused its position to suppress competition in the space. It's not a crime to be a successful business, but the DOJ is looking into reports that Invidia wasn't just super good at selling chips meant to power AI implementations, but also that the company

was pressuring customers to buy into packages of products. Further, there were accusations that Nvidia would charge a lower price if a customer opted to buy networking gear from Nvidia while also electing to have Nvidia's own AI chips integrated into that gear, but they would have to pay a higher price if they wanted the gear from Nvidia, but they wanted to use AI chips from one of Nvidia's competitors. So this is just in the investigation phase at the moment.

There's no lawsuit or anything like that yet. It's possible that nothing more will come of this, But with Nvidia holding such a strong market position like they have like eighty percent of the market share for AI powered chips. I suspect that investigation is going to end up being pretty darn thorough more in tech and politics, Yeah, I love it too. This week, the US Senate passed a bill called the Kids Online Safety Act or KOZA KOSA.

Many people had concerns about this legislation. They argued that while it poses as a set of rules that are meant to protect children from harmful content and practices online, it was so vague in defining those quote unquote harmful practices that it could be used to persecute folks like those in say, the LGBTQ community. So understandably, there was a lot of concern over the fact that it passed in the Senate. However, the US House of Representatives is

not following suit. Yesterday, the GOP controlled House announced it would not be bringing up COSA for a vote, citing quote concerns across our conference end quote. So a bill has to pass both the Senate and the House before it could be signed into law, So KOSA is effectively dead in the water. Now, this is actually great news, which I'm sure some of y'all will be surprised to hear me say, because I think it's pretty clear that

I do not often align with the GOP. But bills like KOSA, which often use the pretense of protecting vulnerable populations such as children, often end up serving as a means to attack other vulnerable populations while restricting freedoms online. These bills might originally be framed with the best of intentions, or maybe they're fraimed from the get go as a potential weapon, but in either case, they tend to be bad news when they're implemented. So it is good news

that this particular bill is fizzling out. Senator Ran Paul spoke out against this bill in a letter that laid out his logic opposing the legislation, and it appears that that went a long way in the House of Representatives. Intel is facing a really tough future, and a lot of folks at the company won't be there to be a part of that future. Intel told The Verge that it will downsize by around fifteen percent, which means more than fifteen thousand people, perhaps as many as nineteen thousand

could be laid off from the company. This is all part of an effort to cut ten billion dollars from costs. Intel is also cutting back on the amount it's going to spend on R and D, and it plans to quote stop non essential work end quote. So I imagine that means a lot of departments are going to be scrambling to figure out if they can present their work in a way that makes it seem as though it's essential.

WEO that's going to be rough. Pad Gelsinger, who is Intel's CEO, revealed that the one point six billion dollar loss Intel experienced in the second quarter of twenty twenty four was quote unquote disappointing. I think that's putting it lightly. He also stated that Intel has quote yet to fully benefit from powerful trends like AI end quote. That seems to align what I've covered already in today's episode talking

about the disillusionment that's growing around artificial intelligence. But another issue is that Intel has been investing heavily in semiconductor manufacturing. This is an incredibly expensive business to get into. You have to build all the facilities to be able to make these semiconductor chips. Typically, Intel would design the chips, but then would partner with other companies overseas to fabricate

those chips. However, out of concerns of national security and support life chain challenges, there's been a shift to invest heavily in domestic chip fabrication here in the United States. So part of Intel's challenges relate to the fact that the company has been investing billions into that effort and it's going to take time to realize the benefits. It's a long term solution in a world that typically focuses on short term results. Intel also faces increased competition from

companies ranging from Qualcom, AMD, Google, and Apple. I just want to say to anyone out there who ends up being affected by these layoffs, I wish you the absolute best. I can't imagine how stressful that is, and it really stinks. Okay, I have several more stories to get through. This was a pretty heavy week as far as tech news goes. So let's take another quick break and we'll be right back with more news. We're back the watchdog group Global Witness.

I've talked about them many times before. They have kind of raked Twitter slash X over the coals multiple times. Well, they're ready to do it again. They report that there are forty five accounts on X, the platform formally known as Twitter that both appear to be bots and are also responsible for promoting content that contains disinformation, racist and sexist attacks, and tons of conspiracy. Theories that these posts from these forty five bot controlled accounts have accumulated more

than four billion views. Between May twenty second and July twenty second this year. The accounts posted in I watering six hundred ten thousand times in that span. Now that's collectively, but if even if we were to just average it out, that would mean that each account on average posted more than thirteen thousand, five hundred times in three months. That's more prolific than I ever was back when I was

still on Twitter. The bots were particularly active leading up to elections in the UK, in which the Labor Party ultimately won more seats than the Conservative Party, though Global Witness says it found no evidence linking either political party to the bots themselves. So is it possible that one or both of those parties, or an organization working on behalf of one of those parties, hired bots to flood x with messages supporting their side. Yeah, that is possible.

It's also possible this was all being controlled by some outside source with no direct interest in either party, but a direct interest in outcomes. We just don't know. But those accounts did go on to spread conspiracy theories and misinformation about everything from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump to disinformation about climate change, so it has gone well

beyond UK elections since then. Global Witness says it has reached out to x for comment on why the platform is allowing this sort of activity and has, to the surprise of no one, received no response so far. I seem to recall something about Elon Musk saying he was going to get rid of bots on Twitter before he acquired It seems like that that just kind of slipped

through the cracks. Huh, because forty five, just forty five accounts posting six hundred and ten thousand times in three months and spreading this kind of stuff to widespread view seems like it's something that you would pick up on and it wouldn't just be flying under the radar. But what do I know. Here's another AI related news item, but this one involves motion capture performers and voice actors in the video game industry. So these actors and performers

belong to the union sag AFTRA. That's an actor's and performers union mostly known for folks who are in the film and television industries, but it also applies to people who work in video games. So this branch of sag AFTRA authorized a strike earlier this month, and now they're actually on strike. They are refusing to work while demanding that video game companies create solid policies that protect actor and performer jobs from generative AI, among other demands. But

this is a big part of the conversation. So actors have said that video game companies are using AI to train on actor voices, potentially so that the companies can recreate those actor voices without actually having to hire the actors themselves, which does seem pretty darn underhanded and it's

certainly not outside the realm of possibility. Sag AFTRA is demanding that companies pledge to not make use of AI in a way that would put real performers out of a job, particularly without first negotiating a comprehensive agreement with the performers themselves. I mean, if you're gonna use my voice or likeness, you really should get my permission first and pay me. Gosh, darn it. Kyle Orland at Ours Technica has an article titled Xbox console sales continue to

crater with massive forty two percent revenue drop. Yikes. That's that's year over year sales figures for Q two. By the way, that Q two twenty twenty four shows a forty two percent revenue drop from Q two twenty twenty three. The company doesn't share detailed breakdowns of how many units were produced or sold, but industry analysts estimate that Microsoft sold fewer than one million units in the first quarter of this year, whereas Sony posted four and a half

million BS five sales at that same time. However, Microsoft is raking in the dough through its Game Pass subscription service. So while hardware sales are tanking, I mean, there's no other word for it, the ongoing subscription services are generating bukous of buckos, particularly since Microsoft recently hiked up the monthly price. Orland hypothesizes that Microsoft might get out of the hardware game entirely in the future and focus solely

on the software side. That honestly wouldn't surprise me. In fact, I expect that I figured that Microsoft was looking for an off ramp from hardware hoping to launch a quote unquote final console that would rely upon ongoing subscription content to keep it going. So it is possible that the last Xbox hardware update is the last Xbox hardware update. That would not surprise me if that were the case. It also wouldn't surprise me if we got one more

generation before that happened. Either one I think is entirely possible. Heck, it's even possible that Microsoft doesn't get out entirely and we just keep getting generations. But the improvements we see from generation to generation, those performance improvements, I think you can make an argument that we're starting to get to

a point of diminishing returns. Now, I'm never gonna say that consoles are as good as they'll ever be, and they'll never be able to make a better one with you know, better graphic fidelity and all that kind of stuff, because goodness knows, every generation of consoles brings surprises and improvements with it. But it might be that consoles are as good as they need to be, right Like, you don't need to go harder than that that even if you could, there's no market demand for it, So why

not back off of that? Part of the business entirely and focus on the software side. Rob thubrun over at tech Spot has a whammy of a piece titled Bungee ceo faces backlash after announcing two hundred and twenty employees will be laid off. So Bungi is the video game developer behind titles like Halo, although that is now developed under Microsoft, as well as the Destiny series. And yeah, Bunge recently said it will lay off more than two

hundred employees and that stinks. But we're already seeing layoffs across the video game industry, so you could argue that this isn't that shocking. So why are people up in arms against CEO Pete Parsons. Well, that might be because of his spending habits. As Thuberan points out, Parsons has dropped more than two million dollars on collecting classic cars since Sony acquired Bungee back in the summer of twenty

twenty two. So if you're a Bungee employee who is in danger of losing your job, you might also harbor some pretty strong opinions regarding the fact that your boss is dropping mountains of cash on cars that he might not actually ever, drive, particularly when Parsons says the reason for the layoffs is due to quote unquote financial challenges. So maybe that financial challenges. He needs a bit extra to buy that toyota urcell. He's had his ion. By the way, that was a That was a sardonic joke.

That was not an actual accusation. When Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams first boarded the International Space Station, the plan at that time was for them to return to Earth as early as eight days later. Now that would have been on June fourteenth. But now it's August and the astronauts are still aboard the ISS. Why well, the spacecraft that brought them to the ISS was the Boeing star Liner, and that spacecraft experienced some technical issues on its way

to space. Now, initially, the thought was that these problems, while needing to be solved, would not pose a significant risk to the mission. However, upon further investigation, concerns have been growing that some of the thruster systems are not operating properly, and that they would be needed in order to orient and guide the spacecraft so that it could re enter Earth's atmosphere safely, which is a pretty darn

significant risk to the mission. There is, however, a huge amount of pressure to use the star Liner as the return vehicle for the mission. NASA has wanted to diversify the companies that it works with in order to launch vehicles and spacecraft and astronauts into space and not be beholden to a single entity like SpaceX. So the story out of NASA was that, yes, the star Liner has problems, but they have their top scientists and engineers working on

fixing those problems. However, according to Eric Berger over at Ours Technica, the discussion could be shifting toward relying on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft as a potential return vehicle for the astronauts instead of the star Liner. Now, I say maybe shifting because NASA is being really quiet about all this. It would look really bad for Boeing, which I don't know if you know this, it's already facing issues in

another part of its aerospace business. But it would look really bad for Boeing if the astronauts had to abandon plans to return in the star Liner and instead rely on a competing company's spacecraft in order to get back home safely. But then again, it would look really really really bad if those astronauts lives were put in danger just to preserve the optics of the star Liner. I recommend reading Berger's entire article for the full story. It's

an excellent piece. Again, it's titled NASA says it is evaluating all options for the safe return of Starliner crew. And that is on ours Tetnika. Okay. I've got a couple of recommended articles for y'all to check out. One is by Ben Quinn and Dan Milmo of The Guardian. It is titled how TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far right violence. It's one of those stories that seems to confirm many fears that some folks have about the rise of AI and how AI

can pour gasoline on a fire. So, just to be clear, the underlying social issues are already there. AI is not creating these social issues. They exist already and those issues need to be addressed. This isn't just an AI problem. However, the use of AI to make things worse is also a problem. It's an additional problem. Then there's another piece that's by Anthony Grayling and Brian Ball and it's on the Conversation It is titled Philosophy is Crucial in the Age of AI. Now, y'all, I tend to be a

pretty pragmatic person. I have the sort of brain that finds a lot of philosophy tedious and ultimately questionably useful. However, I admit this is a bias I have. I do not pretend like my view is the correct one, or even partly correct. Maybe I'm just dense. Not maybe I am just dense, but maybe that's the problem. Anyway, this particular piece traces how philosophy has been a part of AI's evolution and development for decades, and how some deep

questions in AI are absolutely grounded in philosophy. It is well worth a read, even if, like me, you often find philosophy to be a little on the impractical side. And that's it for today's tech News episode. It was a long one, but like I said, a lot happened. I even cut some stories from this because goodness gracious, it was running along. I hope all of you out there are doing well, and I will talk to you

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