235: Skepticrat235 - TikToxic Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Kentucky Public Radio publishes redacted documents about TikTok lawsuit without redactions: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-28040/teens-tiktok-addiction-lawsuit-investigation-documents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/11/tiktok-lawsuit-children-addiction-mental-health/
McConnell privately slammed Trump as ‘stupid’ and ‘despicable’ after 2020 election: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4938254-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-2020-election-book/
Elon Musk’s robots are fake: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/reports-teslas-prototype-optimus-robots-were-controlled-by-humans/
Steven Seagal Said He Was 'Ready To Die for Russia' in Letter to Putin: https://www.newsweek.com/steven-seagal-vladimir-putin-russia-letter-1967638
Georgia strikes down new Trump-backed election rules: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kv219d2go
AI agent makes millions on meme coin:
https://cryptobriefing.com/goat-coin-surge-ai-impact/
https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/2024/10/16/crypto-degens-baited-an-experimental-ai-bot-into-promoting-a-token-its-now-up-16000/
https://www.tiktok.com/@nate.b.jones/video/7426361786862931231?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7270609151578310186
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | October 21st. And where the day is once again, vote. |
| 0:18.0 | Yes, in a sentence, vote right now. |
| 0:21.0 | And then call everyone you know in Pennsylvania and tell them to vote right now. |
| 0:24.8 | Then same thing for the other swing states. Then same thing for everywhere else popular vote matters too. |
| 0:31.1 | Well, who knows you might be cool with the |
| 0:33.4 | conservative president swapping out Alito and Thomas for high schoolers. That could |
| 0:37.2 | also be. That's tricky. That's Supreme Court Justice Charlie Kirk to use. |
| 0:41.7 | Oh no God! I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Cecil, something Italian. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Heath Henwright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center. We are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:52.0 | On this week's episode, |
| 0:54.0 | Tik-Toc notices that their fingers appear to be in some kind of steeple? |
| 0:58.0 | Mitch McConnell says the ridiculously obvious |
| 1:02.0 | and we learn that the logical endpoint of AI singularity |
| 1:05.4 | is a literal gaping but hole. |
| 1:07.4 | Oh, it is. |
| 1:08.8 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:20.0 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow sceptic rats, Cecil, something Italian, and Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:22.0 | Gentlemen, we Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:22.7 | Gentlemen, we are 15 days out from election day. |
| 1:27.7 | Jesus Christ. |
| 1:28.7 | How you feeling right now? |
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