Stuff Keeps Happening

In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we take a dive into Microsoft's Copilot AI offering which nobody asked for. Also, updates on the war in Iran, and taking a moment to geek out about an incredible photo taken by space people.For sources and more information, see today's newsletter here: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-04-06/

In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we dive into some of the recent lawsuits that shocked the tech industry, what they may mean going forward, and why they're notable given the long history of other social media lawsuits.Also: scientists manage to ship antimatter, the director of the FBI was hacked by Iran, and Sony would like more money, please.For sources and more information, see today's newsletter here: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-03-30/

In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we look at some of the updates in the ongoing war in Iran while still trying to figure out what is even the point of us being over there. I mean, we know why, but still. Also, a look at some more ICE activity, and a bit of the details about Valve's response to the New York Attorney General's lawsuit against them.For sources and more information, check out today's newsletter at https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-03-16/

In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, I share the true reason behind Kristi Noem getting fired from her position at the head of the department of homeland security. We also take a look at some updates on the attacks by the US and Israel on Iran and Lebanon, anti-trans legislation in Kansas, and a mass protest against OpenAI's ChatGPTFor sources and more information, see today's newsletter: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-03-09/

Whatever gods you believe in did NOT want this episode to be made. First I discovered that my original recording had beyond recoverable audio, then when I went to re-record... well, let's just say I hit a bit of a technical difficulty and decided to make the most of it.In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we talk about the beef between Anthropic and the Department of Defense, a look at the recent sudden end to the Netflix / Warner Bros deal, and dig a bit in to the age old Gamer question: are loot boxes gambling?For sources and additional information, check out today's newsletter: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-03-02/

In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, a look at the arrest of not-prince Andrew by British authorities. Also, what happens now that the SCOTUS overturned Trump's tariffs, how the United States is manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba (again), and another left hook from the EU Commission against a tech company: TikTok.Visit https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-02-23/ for linked sources, more information, and a free newsletter.

In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we take a whirlwind tour of the goings-ons of various branches of the US federal government as they all try to find a single shred of competence. Also, a reminder to stay frosty in the face of a surge of fantastical headlines about artificial intelligence.For sources and more information, check out today's newsletter at www.skh.news/roundup-2026-02-16/

It's cold outside, and ice covers the streets of Minneapolis both in terms of snow and fash.In today's episode: an update on the ongoing occupation of Minneapolis, disease outbreaks in ICE camps, a reminder that multiple big time sports are going on, a look at the implosion at the Washington Post, a reminder that the siege on Gaza never actually ended, a quick laugh at Elon Musk's offices getting raided by French authorities, and more.For all sources, additional info and more content, check out today's newsletter: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-02-09/

At CPAC in 2022, one of the conservative parties in the United States held a panel called, "We Are All Domestic Terrorists," creating a viral image that makes for a wild juxtaposition with what's going on today.Also, three million more Epstein documents dropped, Luigi Mangione's situation has changed, and an update on the murder of Sonya Massey, among MANY OTHER THINGS happening out there.Visit https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-02-02/ for sources and additional information.

Quick note for today: I plan to make a video about the ongoing ICE occupation in Minnesota, Memphis, Baltimore, and other places across the country. Hoping to have that ready later this week.In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we take a look at the ongoing deadly protest crackdowns in Iran. We also chat about the mysterious, disappearing Apple Vision Pro, and a whole mess of national and international headlines around Elon Musk's imaginary friend.For sources and more information, see today's newsletter here: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2026-01-20/

This is a special episode of Stuff Keeps Happening because this has been a special week. "Special" here meaning "outrageous in every sense of the term."This is a different sort of vibe in general, pulled from a topical video I've posted to my YouTube channel. If you would like to see the video version, you can find it here.

Another year comes to a close, and nobody took the time to warn me.In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we TRY to look at the release of the Epstein Files. Not sure how much we can really see but, we tried. Also, a few thoughts about those end-of-the-year "Warrior Dividends", and why the heck not: let's look at the potential trainwreck that is Avengers: Doomsday.For sources and more information, see today's newsletter here: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2025-12-22/

The US Immigration efforts are going about as expected, but at least we can balance that out with a fresh round of terrible AI-generated commercialsLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2025-12-15- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

Pete Hegseth would like to have to answer fewer questions about international military rules of engagement. Almost as much as Netflix would like to purchase Warner Bros.Also, a look at what's going on with the European Commission slapping Twitter with a fine over checkmarks, and a pilot program for Canadian police to use AI facial scanning to track "potential dangers"For all links, sources, and more information, see today's SKH Weekly Roundup: https://www.skh.news/roundup-2025-12-08/

Tech CEOs push for endless spending and ask for us all to simply ignore the lack of revenue or value they're creatingLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/what-goes-up/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

While Americans scramble to find their next meal, the tech industry dabbles in creating a sort of perpetual motion device but for AI investmentsLinks:- Locate food banks: https://trail.as/findfood- Find local mutual aid groups: https://www.mutualaidhub.org- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/five-trillion-dollars/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev

The Louvre saw one of the raddest heists this side of prohibition.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/im-louvreing-it/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Catch my stream at https://live.endeavorance.tv- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev

Worldwide protests against the Trump administration drew some of the largest crowds seen in over 50 years, though the name of the protest may have varied based on your monarchical status.In today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening, we take a look at some early numbers from the No Kings Protests, review some "childish" text messages between adults, and look across the pond towards some more political instability that's just so popular these days.For sources and more information, see today's newsletter here: https://www.skh.news/maybe-some-kings/Alaska disaster relief fund: https://alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=14833More ways to donate and local orgnaizing: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2025/10/15/heres-how-to-help-those-affected-and-displaced-by-western-alaska-storms/

The United States federal government sent masked officers to raid a residential building at 1am because they are very masculine and strong. No other reason.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/siege-on-chicago/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

The US Government is at risk of shutting down again as Republicans struggle to figure out how to keep it open despite controlling all branches of government.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/incoming-government-shutdown/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

A poll shows that sentiment about the direction of the United States has severely dropped among even Republicans. What does that really mean?Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/where-were-going/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

We found the coolest rock in the history of cool rocks. We've also made a bunch of incredible technological strides while the world tries its best to politically shit the bed.CORRECTION: The company who accidentally threw away dev kits was SEGA, not Sony. Deep apologies for the mistake.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: www.skh.news/the-coolest-rock/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

The United States killed foreign civilians for show and is excitedly returning to the Dept of War, but we aren’t at war, maybe?Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/were-not-at-war/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev - Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

While the United States continues to embarrass itself, science and medical research marches on.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/space-radios-and-cyber-crimes/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

This week brought an absolute cavalcade of headlines, so let's take a sec to dig through a fewLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: www.skh.news/the-state-of-the-states/- Support my work on Patreon or elsewhere: https://isupport.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

Donald Trump has deployed hundreds of national guard members and federal agents to the streets of DC in a deeply embarrassing show of fragilityLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/dc-occupied- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

The United States tries once again to solve homelessness with incarceration, but hey, we maybe discovered how to do alchemy. In theory.Stuff Keeps Happening is taking a short break. I will return with a new episode on August 18th.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/simply-outlaw-poverty/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

A woman was rescued after 11 nights lost alone in the Australian outback, but that's not going to stop Mark Zuckerberg from building a datacenter the size of Manhattan so he can have his AI. Maybe it can better compute how many government services we're just going to drop funding for!Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/defunding-public-television- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

A small store loses a big dragon. Meanwhile, the US Justice Department tells the MAGA world to stop caring about Jeffrey Epstein, an AI sides with Hitler, the FBI seizes Switch games, and YouTube pulls back on slopLinks:- Stop killing games: https://stopkillinggames.com- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/wheres-my-charizard/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

A bit of a discussion about what happens next for myself and Stuff Keeps Happening, and a look at the flooding in Texas, an HIV crisis in the DRC, and Zuckerberg's $100,000,000 compensation offersLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/what-happens-next/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

Democrats and Republicans alike have taken this opportunity to remind everyone that xenophobia belongs to no party, as Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC Dem primary. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans fashioned their version of Trump's budget and tax plan, which includes record-setting cuts to Medicare and is projected to add more to the deficit than the original House version of the bill, somehow.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/the-mamdani-meltdown/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

Try as I might, Stuff Keeps Happening. I had been planning for a usual episode this week, but after what went down this past weekend (covered in the previous video!) I wanted to still get a chance to talk about a few other stories I had been planning to cover.(Apologies that I cannot include the pictures of the cute book collector in an audio format, but imagine if you will the gooberiest dude possible)Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

Hello, dear listener. Looks like we're having a two-fer with out-of-ordinary entries.I had been working on a draft for tomorrow's newsletter, only to of course have it entirely undermined by the events that unfolded last night. I decided instead to record some more focused thoughts on the situation.Depending on how the next 24 hours or so go, I may put out a shorter newsletter/podcast covering some other topics, but I am treating everything as temporary for the time being.Wishing you well. Stay safe. Stay frosty. Stay skeptical. Remember your community.

A look at the timeline of the situation in Los Angeles so far, as well as a few of the other trillion things going on right nowLinks:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

A truck in Washington state overturned while carrying millions of bees, but a scrappy group of beekeeping heroes were on the case. Also, a look at the advancing surveillance technology use by US police, France goes dark and lights a fire, a Swiss town is buried, and Texas makes a move at Google and Apple.Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Donate to the Trevor Project- Learn about Fastmail or Protonmail- Join my Community

Apple went out of their way to show off a plethora of AI features that would come to their flagship iPhone 16 which released last year. After repeated delays, more information is coming out now about just how bleak the situation is internally at Apple regarding their botched Apple Intelligence rollout.Also, updates on the Big Beautiful Bill, some other tech companies show off their AI updates, and Kim Jong Un is having a bad time.Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

The US Government is working to forge a new tax and spending bill, which currently aims to cut hundreds of billions from medical support infrastructureLinks:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

The dumbest administration in US history continues to remind us how little integrity you need to wield powerLinks:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

Trump enacted blanket tariffs on basically the entire world last week, sending global markets into free-fall despite more than a year of warnings from financial experts that this would be disastrous.Also, the protests over the weekend were quite big, and we got a look at the Nintendo Switch 2This will be the last episode of Stuff Keeps Happening until May 5th! I'll be around for a few weeks before going on a long overdue vacation, but SKH will return to it's normal schedule next month. See you then, or see you sooner at my stream or on my socials! Links below.Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

We've seen a recent spike in demonstrations both in the United States and around the world for all sorts of reasons. Well really, for the same reason: people want stability and freedom. Let's talk protests.Read more about the Hands Off protests here: https://thirdact.org/act/handsoff/Links:Newsletter and SourcesSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community

Israel reignited their assault on Gaza, breaking the ceasefire with a bombardment that killed hundreds. The international community and peacekeeping operations were blindsided.Additional stories for today's episode begin at 5:40Links:Newsletter and SourcesSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community

The United States federal government is now routinely arresting legal residents without charging them with a crime; here's a few of their stories.Links:Newsletter and SourcesKnow your RightsSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community

The US government loves detecting lies. Let’s look at what exactly that means, and what else is goin' on these days.Links:Newsletter and SourcesBalatro DevlogSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community

The United States rejected Ukraine and seems to fancy a partnership with Russia, so what's next for the EU?Links:Newsletter and SourcesSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community

Mitch McConnell has announced he will not be seeking reelection, so let's be sure his legacy is clearly understood.Also: The reality of Pokemon Go, tech cults boil over into the public eye, the Humane AI pin loses its AILinks:Newsletter and SourcesSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community

Let's take a sec to review things as they are, because I want to make it very clear that you are not the odd one out here.Links:Newsletter and SourcesCryptomator Encryption AppSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community