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Oh, how fun. All right, well, we're gonna take a break and then we'll. We've been avoiding it, but I guess we'll have to talk about the government. There's a. There's a government information we gotta talk about. FCC's been busy. There's so much going on, in fact, even an AI angle on this. But stay tuned. We've got Joey Davila here, who coined one of Corey's best lines. I love it. Great to have you, Joey. GlobalNerdy.com is the website. Dan Patterson from news.dan patterson.com and Blackbird AI our show today, brought to you by this little. This little fella. Now, if you look at this, if you're not paying close attention, you might say, oh, that's. That's an external USB drive. It's about that shape, little black box. But maybe if you look closely, you'll see there's. There's a bird on there. Is that a. That's like a canary. Yes, this is the thinkst canary. And you know what this is? This is genius. This is the security device everybody needs to have inside their network. 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We thank them so much for their support and for helping protect our little network, our little, our little podcast network. Yes, I did. Yes, we got off lucky. Well, it reminds you of a bird because it's the canary in the coal mine, right? It's warning you something's wrong. Something's wrong. One of the things that happened while we weren't paying attention. Congress has proposed a suite of bills that many of us have called the Bad Internet bills. There's the Screen Act. This is all from Salon. Congress may be about to create the bad Internet. Just want you to be aware of these. The Screen act is going to do federally what many states have done. An age verification requirement for any website. And why porn? No, Any website Congress decides is harmful to minors. Any website. That's the Screen Act. The Cooper Davis act would require any electronic communications service provider, your ISP to report knowledge of drug related offenses to the dea. Well, wait a minute. What if my communications are end to end? Encrypted? Oh, no, no. You have to know what's. You have to have the clear text. No encryption allowed.
