gineers didn't know themselves. They didn't know.

Now if it's possible to put in this one line of code that bumps Elon's tweets higher up, I think they've adjusted it since then so that may not be the case now. But wouldn't that mean that any engineer who had access could have forced a line of code in there? I don't know if they catch every line of code or how that works but could somebody have inserted some code without the double checking process catching it? Is that something that could have happened? Or is any change in the code, does it get flagged to somebody in charge so they can see the actual lines that have been added? I would assume it gets flagged. Like I can't imagine you could change the code on the fly. Like it would have to be a process for new patches going in and who looks at it and all that.

But we were surprised or maybe we weren't that so many engineers had access to the code or the algorithm. Maybe that's different. So I guess we still don't know what's going on there and Elon Musk doesn't. But here's the good news of the bad news. If we can't understand how the algorithm at Twitter works it's alive. It's alive. No it really is. It's alive. We could kill it but do you know what makes people appear alive? What makes us, what makes anything appear alive is that you can't predict what it's going to do. That's it. You don't know why it does what it does.

If human brains were predictable algorithms where you knew if I say this to this person they will respond this exact way. If you knew exactly how a person or an animal would respond exactly they would not appear alive. They wouldn't. They would appear to be machines because they would be machines. It's only the complexity and the unpredictability of our actions that make us appear alive. Twitter is unpredictable and apparently it exists as an entity. Does it reproduce? Apparently it reproduces in the sense that it grows and it gets new users and it gets new engagement and all of those things are like the system that you know form the algorithm and its supporting body you could say.

You could say the users and all the activity outside of the algorithm are like the body of a person by analogy. Again this is not an argument just an explanation. Analogies don't work for arguments only explanations. If you imagine a person is a brain but then also a body and if you don't take care of the body you know the brain can't survive. So Twitter is the algorithm is like the brain. It's unpredictable but the body the company exists like the body of a human. And so as long as Twitter the entity exists and his brain is this algorithm it's alive.

The I'm watching some people having a reaction that's not so good. Yeah the one thing that we cling to more than anything as human beings is that we have a soul and we're special. We're not like machines. We're probably very close as a civilization to learning that's wrong. And that the only difference between the Twitter algorithm and you is how you feel. Yeah that's about it. But they're both alive for all practical purposes. You know free will is an illusion just as it is with the Twitter algorithm. But if humans and Twitter algorithms are unpredictable they're both alive. Yeah that's a thinker isn't it.

Here's an update on Ukraine that's actually something I hadn't heard before. Something interesting for a change. Now before all of my Ukraine discussions what do I tell you? I don't say this in tweets so much but I probably should. I tell you that you shouldn't believe anything that you hear about Ukraine or Russia. No I don't believe that Ukraine is all good and Russia is all bad. No I don't believe that. I don't believe the reasons we got into the war. I don't believe we know who's going to win. I don't believe we know how it'll turn out. Don't believe any of it but it's still fun to talk about.

So General Petraeus who knows more than I do was asked by Peter Bergen and this is on CNN's site what technologies have proven key to Ukrainian successes in this war. And this is interesting. So here are the top four things that General Petraeus who actually knows what he's talking about as opposed to me. This is what he says were the top technologies that are making a difference.

Number one Elon Musk's satellite system. Elon Musk is one of the top four technologies that allow Ukraine to stay in the fight. Starlink. Elon Musk is again one of the most important people in the world because he built Starlink. So that's number one.

Number two is the HIMARS system. You have the highly precise rockets and I think whoever has the most precise rockets wins. I mean it's just so it used to be in the old days that if you could see something you could destroy it but that wasn't as true as it is today because the drones can see anything on the Russian side. They spot anything worth destroying and now we can put a missile right on it. So at this point we can see and destroy anything they want. Not we the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians can see with drones and then put a missile right on it as often as they want to all day long and probably not run out of missiles. I don't know how you lose. I'm not sure how you could lose in that situation but I suppose the other side could have overwhelming artillery and make a difference.

All right so the other technology is Clearview AI. Do you remember Clearview AI? It's an app that law enforcement uses to identify people. Now not every law enforcement uses it because it's