he leaned into the camera and sort of flirtily said that he might have been messing with her. And Musk actually replied. And in his tweet he said, what can I say? It was a naked abuse of power. Now he's just sort of mocking her. What can I say? But here's the thing. Given that AOC probably, and I don't know this, can't read her mind, but probably knew that he did not mess with her Twitter feed. She probably knew that, wouldn't you agree? But she said it. In what context would you say something you knew wasn't true? What context would you do that? Well, politics would be one context where you say things you know are not true. What's another one? Flirting. Flirting. That she's basically provoking him for a reaction. And she looked very much like she was attracted to him. Honestly, if I were her husband, I would be very uncomfortable with that social media post because she really looked like she was nagging him or something. It looked like flirting to me.

And the funny thing is that he had accused her of flirting in a humorous way when she had made some criticism months ago, right? So they have some history where he's already accused her of flirting. And then she does something that I don't know any other way to interpret it. It looked like flirting to me anyway. So that's interesting.

In the bad news category, I'm not going to treat this like I could be happy about it, okay? So there are a bunch of Twitter layoffs. And my feeling about work is like I have more respect for work than I do for most things. You know, I believe all work is honorable. Anybody who works is good with me. Like if you have a job, you're already 98% good a human as I want you to be, right? The other stuff's kind of optional. But if you work, I like you. Right? Or if you're trying to work or you're working toward working, I like you. That's just something I like. So I don't like it when I hear that Twitter is going to have massive layoffs because I like people to have jobs. And I don't care that maybe some of them did something I don't like at one point. All right, I can't be happy about this.

But here's the thing I will point out. Would Musk be firing as many people at Twitter if he had gotten the price for the company that he wanted to pay? I do. Who, I maybe, maybe. But you know what it looks like? It looks like because they made him pay the higher price, he's going to fire more people than he would have otherwise. I feel like they may have brought this on themselves a little bit. Now we know that he's, let's see, his management theory. Yeah, I called his management theory is that they had too many people and he doesn't need a marketing department necessarily. And so he likes to run lean. So he was probably going to do layoffs no matter what. But do you think that the extent of the layoffs is exactly the same or would have been if he had paid the price he wanted to pay, which was a lower price? I don't know. I feel like they might have brought a little bit of that on themselves a little bit.

And I guess it's been, is happening in the scariest way. I don't know if there's a good way to do this. But an email went out saying that there will be layoffs tomorrow, which is today. I'm not sure what day we're talking about. And that the people who will be fired won't hear about it until the next day. So how would you like to know that a big half of you are going to be fired? I don't know if it's half, but a bunch of you are going to be fired and you have to wait for the email. So it's today, right? I assume that they haven't gotten their emails yet. We know about it. Yeah. So we'll keep an eye on that.

But I do feel genuine empathy for anybody who's gonna lose their job at Twitter. I don't think that's funny, right? If there was something funny about it I'd probably still laugh at it. But I don't think it's cool to celebrate people losing their jobs. Very few people at Twitter were personally responsible for anything that you didn't like. Very few people had any authority to do anything you didn't like. There's many people losing their jobs. It's just not cool. But also it's the free market, so I don't object to it. You just can't. I don't dance on the grave. Cecil.

All right, so I saw a tweet from Machiavelli's Underbelly. Again, a good account for you to follow. He said this. He said, talking about Elon Musk's eight dollar a month plan, he says eight dollar a month plan protects against one segment of bot activity, terms of service violating behavior. And that's the one that most people see and care about. But the mechanism does not stop AI from building a relationship with you to persuade or destroy you. Do you see that risk coming? The risk is not the bots that everybody knows are bots. You look at them, you go, you couldn't be a real person. And they're not, you know, or they're a real person being trolls. But you could tell a troll or a bot, right? They're just negative all the time.

But what if an AI came at you and just tweeted a bunch of things that you, let's say it retweeted you and then it grows viewers and it gets big account. So let's say it's a big account. Nobody knows it's AI and it's been very friendly to you. It's retweeted your content. It has amplified some of your tweets in the comments. Maybe it even sent you a DM, see how you're doing. Maybe. Do you think that that AI could influence you? Yeah, yeah. You have no idea how dangerous this is. Because although AI would have trouble learning humor because it doesn't have the feedback on its own, it would have to test with humans to find out what works and what doesn't. But persuasion is a little bit more technical. Meaning if you do the right stuff you can be pretty sure you'll get the right result. You don't need to be A/B testi