Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker + Twitter Chaos Updates

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Aric Toler untangles the web of teens, gamers and memes at the heart of the latest intelligence scandal. Then, an update on Twitter — where things have gone from bad to worse. Plus: How A.I. is bringing us closer to “Westworld.”

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0:00.0	I'll tell you something that went on for me this week.
0:03.1	For a long time, I've used the Google Docs product.
0:05.0	Have you used this product?
0:06.0	The Google Docs?
0:07.0	Yeah.
0:08.0	You've seen this one?
0:09.0	Okay.
0:10.0	So, uh, obscure buried, you know, we like to highlight up and coming at.
0:13.1	So I'm in the Google Docs product yesterday and I'm working with some folks for a project
0:16.9	I'm excited about.
0:18.3	And these people are Google Docs masters, okay?
0:20.6	I didn't even know that Google Docs could be mastered because it looks so basic, but they
0:24.2	keep saying things like, we'll just go down to where I am or go up to where I am.
0:27.7	And I was like, bro, I don't know where you are.
0:29.9	You are on the doc, okay?
0:30.9	Like, I don't have some sort of like doc ESP.
0:33.0	You can click the circle.
0:34.5	You can click the circle.
0:36.3	Did you knew you could click the circle?
0:38.0	Yes.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:40.0	I have to tell people this.
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