I did a story on Temu a few weeks
back and it’s because I had never heard of
Temu it came up as like an advertisement
and it was selling a keyboard and
that’s super super cheap and I was like
that’s got to be weird and I like to try
things to see if the real and I tried
it I didn’t know this was a massive
company it’s actually already a
massive company then I found out that the
people who are essentially the coders
for Temu are also the people who created
an app previously that got delisted
because it was harvesting all your
information and selling it on the web
so I was really weirded out I deleted it.
I’m really torn because if it’s like
a big big massive company is it still
doing these nefarious things yes because
that’s what big big companies do but
it’s weird because if it’s like a group
stealing your information let’s say
like ten guys that seems weirder
and scarier than Amazon stealing your
information but the reason it came up
again is I was a little torn because I was
like if it’s a big company I might have
some protections against it because
the issue really is what kind of
guarantees are in place is the government
oversight because if you have a
little criminal organization like five ten
guys they’re going to take everything
they can and run a company Temu that is
internationally recognized is going to
have a much harder time doing that so
there might be some protections there
so I was like should I try to get as many
deals as I can before they rip me off
so badly and get all my information and
go somewhere else and sell it to someone
you know nefarious I don’t know then
the story came out that they’re suing
shine the shine is a company I had heard
of but I’ve never used so it’s a fast
fashion company I think you can tell from
what’s presented in front of you if you
watch the YouTube video fast fashion is
not my thing I’m into very old fashion
what am I wearing now I’m wearing a
sweater like a hoodie that I don’t
like but it is the problem is that it’s so
comfortable it is the most comfortable
piece of clothing I own so I don’t
really like giant labels and it has a
giant roots label on the chest if that
if it didn’t have that I’d probably
be okay with it but the thing is the
core issue is I actually don’t like the
way it looks but it’s like wearing Jedi
pajamas all day which I’m a big fan
of I’m super comfortable I have an old
champion Henley underneath and a
t-shirt under that and ever last so it’s
just like different sports brands layered
on top of each other and I have a hat
with a slightly racist character
on it so fashion is clearly not my
forte I buy stuff primarily based on
comfort so I’m not the target audience
for shine I had heard that shine was
getting the influencers paying them to
try to make themselves look better
because they had a bad reputation
Temu is suing shine saying that shine
is using intimidation on merchants who
list on both sides so if I have a
product and I listen on Temu and I
listen on shine that shine will come
and try to intimidate me to take it down
from Temu now these are all shit
companies I wouldn’t trust any of these
companies but when they get into
intimidation mafia tactics we are now.
getting into a new stage of capitalism this
interferes with them is business so
shine has also it tried to interfere with
them is business by issuing thousands of
copyright takedowns 63% of the copyright
takedowns on Temu are actually
claims from shine they’ve also claimed that
shine has imprisoned merchants who
list with Temu and confiscated their
devices so basically I’m a merchant I
want to sell some stuff on Temu and
shine maybe Amazon the shine representatives
will be like oh come meet with
us in his office and they’ll lock me in
the office and take away my cell phone
and they don’t want to let me go until
I agree to take all my shit down from
Temu this is the dystopia that fiction
talks about like if you think about all
the science fiction and video games
and stuff what you end up with is two
three four five companies that become
company states and they run everything
and they compete against each other but
then of course it gets to this level where
they have private armies and militaries
and it seems it’s a dystopia thing
they got like ninjas and assassins
and robots and stuff and then they kill
other people but again the police are
useless because they don’t have the
same power as the company state that’s
now in place so you end up working for a
company you work for that company for
the rest of your life until you die that
is I mean this is dystopia you have a
company that is intimidating kidnapping
people to try to get them to stop
working with another company they’re using
tactics that are clearly illegal I’m
wondering how this is going to get
proven though because if this is
actually proven then shy and actually has
people who should go to jail weirdly
because Temu is making the accusations
it makes them seem like the good guy
but like I said when I started I’m pretty
sure the programmers for that are
a group of scam people who actually
like created software that collects
your information and sells it directly to.
you I would even assume shine at
this point shine has then gone back and
accused Temu of getting influencers
to say negative things about shine and to
promote Temu but that was dropped
so it’s not that they didn’t do it it’s
that they couldn’t prove it and then
shine is trying to go public in the US
so this is a big problem because it’s
very hard to go public if you have like
court cases pending they have
labor practice issues copyright merch
controversies but I mean this is all
just the same for Amazon I’m wondering
where it’s gonna end up like you
have Amazon is the dominant online
retailer Temu got my attention
because they sold stuff really cheap the
keyboard that I have right here they
sold it to me for about four dollars now
it’s a thirty forty fifty dollar
keyboard and so they’re selling things at
like ninety percent discount to get
you into their system and that’s where I
realize oh maybe that’s how they
get your information but if they want to
keep their company going they actually
have to make a profit they actually
have to sell and like I said it is a
giant company it’s it’s weird now that we
have giant companies in the Internet
space that I’ve never even heard of like
I had not heard of Temu until a few months
ago and then after I bought something
from them I saw a report on them and
I it keeps popping up because now the
algorithm is caught that I’ve actually
bought something from it keeps popping up in
the algorithm and I get emails from
them and stuff but it was just completely
off the radar for me and I was wondering
is that me am I not connected in that
way anymore shine makes sense
they don’t sell products that I really care
about so there’d be no reason for me
to know about them all I knew is that
there was controversy with labor
practices because that is something I’m
interested in that shows where my
brain is as someone who basically makes.
podcasts and just reads the news all
the time but I’m looking at late stage
capitalism and dystopian novels and
seeing a lot of the stuff they’re talking
about like if they’re actually
physically intimidating people if they’re
actually going so far as to imprison
people in rooms for periods of time we
really are approaching a point
where we need an international police
organization to monitor the behavior
and actions of international companies
because local police won’t be able
to do it but then now we’re getting into
like literal it’s just dystopian we’re
getting into these literal novels where you
have private militaries going at
each other stealing information and.
stuff and it’s it’s at that point where
he’s like is this the world I want to
live in and of course about
10 years ago I realized it wasn’t.
Opera GX has come out with a new version
of their browser which is fine I mean
I use a couple of different browsers
I have one that I use primarily just
personally so like all my regular surfing
stuff is chrome and then I have one
that I keep separate from everything
else so if I ever want to do something
on Twitch on stream or anything and I
want to throw something up I don’t want
there to have any sort of naughty websites
remembered in the in the cookies or
anything so I use a completely different
browser I use Vivaldi for that so if
I ever throw up like a page I’m gonna
do it in Vivaldi and then if I click a
link it comes up in edge I haven’t
changed that yet so I essentially have
three functional browsers on my computer
at any time but Opera GX has always
been one that I’ve used it and then
dropped it and then used it and then
dropped it’s kind of like Firefox I’ll
use it and then drop it and then use it.
then drop it the new one though has
a panic button which I really enjoy this
innovation so if you hit F12 so you’re
let’s say you’re looking at a naughty
naughty website in your mom or dad
comes in the room if you hit F12 it will
mute play back immediately and I’ll
switch to a new window you can pick the
website that it will go to to be your
safe site so you could just pick something
really nice like a CNN news site or
something like that something that would
make your parents happy a study site
something that would be very you know oh
you know he’s looking at how to improve
his language skills he’s looking at.
different courses he could he could
audit at different universities what a
great young man then you hit F12 again
it brings back your penguin porn with the
full sound regaling you instantly the
interesting thing you can do though so
let’s say you’re a parent you’re on
the other side you walk in to your kids
room and you see them hit the keyboard
really quick I have to just walk up and
press F12 and see what comes back up
on the screen if they’re using the Opera
GX browser I do like this as an innovation
though because you should have an
the ability to keep certain stuff sort
of personalized and private and you
should have an emergency escape thing
I used to run a blog when blogging was
relatively popular and you know big
long essays with pictures and stuff and I’d
made a second version of it and what
I did is I skinned it to look like a word
document and I also had it so it would
not load any of the pictures so if you
really wanted to just sit in your
office all day and read my blog you could
actually just click this link on the
main page and it would take you to if you
hit full screen it looked like a full
screen word document it had the ribbon
across the top and then all the text
was loaded into times new Roman as a
document and you could just scroll
down and read all the stuff you didn’t get
the pictures but that’s fine I wasn’t
particularly good at pictures anyways
but I already had the same thought
I’m like there are situations where you
don’t want other people to really
know what you’re doing in this case I
wasn’t doing anything dirty on my
website but it was entertainment and if
you’re in your office you want to read
entertainment I wanted to facilitate that
because I wanted you to have a fun
happy good time at your workplace and I
wanted you to come back to my website
so I’m actually thinking about trying
opera GX not for the panic button
because again I’m now at a stage of my
life where if someone walked in and I
was looking at porn I’d be like excuse me
I’m looking at porn please get out
of my room I wouldn’t I wouldn’t be
particularly ashamed of that I did get
the scam email and it’s the one where
they go we hacked your webcam and
we screen-shotted you while you were
masturbating to porn and then they
always throw in a little joke like you
have good taste or something like
that and it’s funny because even if I
believe they had done that they’d
picked the wrong target of course they
don’t pick the targets they just like
blast out an email to everyone in the
planet I was jokingly telling my wife
about it that I got this email and she
said yeah but if you got that email
and because what they said is if you
don’t pay us whatever one hundred
thousand dollars in Bitcoin send it to
this wallet we’re gonna send everyone
in your Facebook or your links or.
something an image of you masturbating
to porn and my wife went but you
wouldn’t care I was like yeah at this
point in my life if they sent a picture of
me masturbating to porn to everyone I
know like everyone in my my friends list
on various websites I think everyone
knows me would find it just as funny as I
would find it myself so that’s ineffective
because essentially if you want to
shame people you have to attack people
who have shame the last big piece of.
news that I want to talk about because
I’m just trying to again I’ve talked
in the last episode that I haven’t
been very productive with seeming be
initiative Japan kind of runs itself
as long as news is coming out and it
always is I can just gather news and
then talk about it but seeming be I have to
have the ideas or have a new source or
something I heard my knee about a month
ago and it’s meant that I am not
having any creative thoughts I think it’s
Maslow’s pyramid of needs and so
down at the bottom is all your basic needs
and if you want to get intellectual
thought is at the top so basically at the
bottom you have to have food you have
to be able to go to the toilet and you have
to have comfort and then the next one
up is going to be comfort like you have
to have a place to live and be able to
survive and you know wear clothes and be
warm and then you can get to eat good
food and have entertainment and then
get to the next level the next level
on the top level is you can actually take
time to have intellectual thought but
as something goes wrong in your life it
actually drops you down a level so my
knee causing me discomfort means I’m not
thinking about the world I’m thinking
about my knee which actually means injured
people are dumber because not of their
own fault they’re just so focused on the
pain they feel they’re not having any
other thoughts the example that I really
enjoyed was let’s say you were a
member of a peace treaty group so you’re
sitting down you’re trying to get you
have two warring factions and you’re
going to try to get those two warring
factions to sign a peace tree and this is
like lives are on the line and so
you’re in the negotiations and you really
have to poo this is a great example
of what it’s talking about like it doesn’t
matter how smart you are if you are
distracted by a physical need you’re not
going to be able to maintain any
sort of level of physical or intellectual
thought so if you don’t take care of
those base needs first you won’t be able
to achieve that level of intellectual
ability that you’re capable of so
because I haven’t messed up me and
it hurts all the time I’m not capable of
having intellectual thoughts anymore
so I need to pull from the news because
I’m not having any ideas my only idea
is got my knee stiff God my knees hurts
oh geez I wish I could use my knee
again that kind of stuff but the most
recent news I use Twitch I record this
podcast on Twitch I use to capture the
video I capture the video I download
it I edit it I extract the audio make a
podcast that’s the original source take
whatever’s left over which is the video
put that on YouTube in some other
places so you can watch the video edited so
you don’t have to listen to me cough
and sneeze give Dave a little second in.
back there so you can settle down
okay let’s walk Dave’s butt oh he’s pulled
up his his own pillow and he’s trying to
tear it apart because of course what’s
more comfortable than a torn up pillow
just getting his butt right in the screen
good job buddy one no not torn up enough
I’m gonna kill it get two three turns
come on man four oh there you go
finally Dave is my hero okay so the news so
I record this on Twitch and some news
came out on December 13th and they
decided that they wanted to put a
warning essentially on your boobs before
anything sort of sexual was not
allowed but sexual and stuff this is the
problem with porn and art is how
is it defined and it’s very difficult to
define so people don’t know what it is
Twitch allowed people to I mean people
were already pushing the limits I
had watched a couple and I don’t watch
them for any sort of sexual gratification
I just kind of shocked as I just
stare at it it’s very very much like a
car wreck so there was key he got a
kitty and she just puts oil and sparkles
on her boobs and pushes where it’s
like a push of bra and basically does
nothing and then just recently someone
showed me Asian bunny X who has
got a ridiculous body it’s very cartoonish
but I noticed she actually spends a
significant portion of the stream not on
screen so I mean maybe that’s part of
the technique so she’s wearing a string
bikini and everything’s hanging out
but that’s fine as long as it’s rated
for adults well they came out with
a new thing it was sort of a mature
content sexual content kind of
thing they will now allow deliberately
highlighted breasts buttocks and pelvic
regions which means the bikini would be
perfectly acceptable whereas before it
would be up to the content moderators to
decide if this was acceptable or not and
again this is comes down to opinions which
is hard because we’re supposed to be
following rules stuff like that but then
what does that actually mean highlight
can I basically have a black room with a
spotlight on my boobs and the other
thing is they made it the same for art
streams because art streams you
know art is often sexual or has sexualized
themes so they wanted to do that I
actually thought this was a very nice idea
they’re like we want people to be able
to express themselves and then another
person suggests maybe they want to
bid it at only fans money but because they
have no way of tearing out people like
how do you make people make sure that
people are adults like only fans for
all the bad it may be you need to I
think you need a credit card to join
it which means you’re at least an adult
enough to get a credit card or you can
steal it from your parents but that way
at least they are trying to make sure
only adults are in there whereas Twitch
isn’t set up that way like I actually put
my streams on adult because I swear a
lot or I want to feel free to swear
but I’ve had but kids come in like they
come in and they say hey I’m 12
years old and I’m just like kid I actually
don’t think you should be here they
also said erotic dances are okay so
twerking grinding pull dancing but
that was already okay so what erotic was
beyond twerking I don’t actually know
so I’d be interested in actually seeing
with that what I guess they needed
they needed a video with examples which I
never saw and I think that actually might
be a big problem for a lot of rules is
what you really need more than anything
else is examples of the rule so you
can understand what is too much and
what is not enough the too much bits as an
example would actually be really
interesting pre streamers that said the
previous rules were confusing but I
actually think the new rules still are they
said no sex games and no porn but if
you use this tag you won’t be on the
front page anymore so I think that’s
fair so then came the Tsunami of
boobies and it’s not me a boobies meant
that on December 15th they rolled back
what they had already said so it’s
officially too much and rolling back the
artistic nudity changes and I mean oh
my god it was not artistic at all it was
just boobies everywhere the irony being
that over those two days I didn’t even
get a chance to go look around and see
if I could see any boobies I didn’t get to
see any more boobies than I would
normally see on Twitch the comments from
the the company we’re interesting though
much of the content created has been
met with community concerns so
they’re actually saying people who use the
website were the ones who were concerned
about how sexual it had gotten and then
in the art they said AI deep fakes
might be used might be difficult to discern
from real pictures so they’re basically
saying like if we allow people to do
artistic renderings nudity people
will start deep faking celebrities and
stuff and saying look I have this picture
of celebrities the CEO of Twitch said
he didn’t really understand or he
didn’t really believe how realistic AI
art could be the irony for me being that
we have people who go on art streams on
Twitch and they can draw it takes a
long time but they draw photo realistic
pictures so if you ask them to do
something sexual they can do a photo
realistic sexual picture it’s I mean
people have that skill physically if they
have that skill physically that translating
into computer aided or AI art is
going to be actually very easy at that
point a lot a few streamers made fully
nude avatars or overlays with nude
images in them which was already actually
not allowed you’re not supposed to do
that but then of course they’re like we
have to find out what the boundaries
are the only way to find out the
boundaries is to actually like push them
ourselves and test them so a guy drew
Michelangelo Michelangelo
as a peepee and when
he got to that he
actually got a three-day
band for it oh no yeah Michelangelo is
David not Michelangelo Michelangelo was an
old man although he had a peepee too
so I guess at the end of the day if you
drew him naked it would have been the same
result but no he didn’t draw Michelangelo
he drew Michelangelo’s David that being
a famous piece of art is a famous piece of
art acceptable to show on stream apparently
not three-day band so the CEO said
we went too far and then I actually
ended up entering that is don’t be nice to
artists because they’re
always gonna push the
boundaries and see
where they can get away
with which isn’t the right message I
mean it’s just sex cells so much so Asian
Bunny X again she’s not even on stream
and she’ll have like 14 15 16 thousand
peoples sitting there looking at an
empty room waiting for her to come back
that’s his horny kids and I sit there
sometimes I watch it and it’s like a
tragedy because here I am I want to
do something interesting I want to do
something that is maybe informative for
people and yeah you know I get like three
four viewers I get about 800 people
listen to the podcast I’m actually pretty
happy about that to me that is my core
audience which is why the audio should.
always come first but in the same
vein I once got super super disappointed I
went back to Canada to visit and of
course the jet light hit and I couldn’t
sleep so it’s like two o’clock in the
morning ended a TV show on and it’s
reality TV because that’s the only thing
on it like two o’clock in the morning.
again and it is super-sized my pool and
super-sized my pool made me so depressed
because this was a terrible idea for a
TV show but it actually got made into a
TV show whereas if you gave me the same
amount of money to make a production of
Ninja News Japan or Seamick Bee and then
I could hire a couple of writers and we
could work together and we could brainstorm
and have ideas I think I could make
a really good really good informative
show that’s entertaining and a lot of
fun I don’t get to do that because I
don’t have a big pool or boobies that I
can show on screen I don’t know where
that leaves me because intellectually I.
want to I don’t even know what I
want to say intellectually what do I want I
want to be true to myself and so
I want to keep going with hopefully
interesting commentary on different
things but I realized with a fucked up
knee I’d do a lot better if I just had
big boobs I was the wrong song that’s
again sort of the state
of mind I’m working with
you.