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question. Because every time you bring it up, he's not going to say something that causes a fight. He's going to say, well, thanks to me you get to work that out with your state. So you're in much better shape to get a law that your state likes by majority than if the federal government did it. So I actually made it easier for you to get what you want in your state. Now if your state doesn't want…

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ts. Do you think that happens in the real world? I don't know. Probably it probably happens in the real world. Yeah. Somebody needs access. Somebody needs a favor. Yeah, I don't believe that polling is necessarily a non-corrupt entity. So I don't believe it automatically.

Speaking of polls that we don't believe automatically, Axios is reporting that 42% of Latino adults surveyed said they support building a wall or a fence on the border. That's 12 points up from December 2021. And 38% support sending all undocumented immigrants back to their country. So 38% of Latinos want to send all undocumented immigrants back home. Now that's up from 28% in 2021. So there's been a big surge. Obviously the open border is a big part of that. And 64% of Latinos say they support giving the president the authority to shut the border. No, the president has the authority to shut the border. Stop acting like the president can't shut a border. I mean does anybody believe the president can't shut a border? Like I don't have to even look at the law to know that that's stupid. You know, I'll say it again. Commander in chief, immediate danger to the country, he can do anything he wants. Commander in chief, immediate danger to the country, he can do anything he wants. Not legally, not legally, but he can do anything he wants and then work it out later. So first you close it and then you see if it was legal. That is the correct order under an immediate threat.

Well, there's a report that the IDF is using AI to identify targets in Gaza. And there's some kind of presentation that somebody got a hold of. I saw this in Mariano's post and it showed somebody explaining how if they know a few people who are targets they can use their what they call their magic dust programs basically to figure out who else they're associated with and whether those people they're associated with are also legitimate targets. So presumably it's looking at databases of people's activities and maybe demographics and profiling and who knows what else. But it does apparently help them target people.

Now the way the story is being reported in Mariano's feed is that the IDF said it was not using AI to identify targets. But then the claim here is that here's a PowerPoint presentation in which the IDF is explaining they're totally using AI to identify targets. And it's an AI tool called Lavender.

Well, here's my take on that. I don't know that AI means AI anymore. I think there was a time when we said AI was any complicated program that could do some things. But now AI is this sort of self-deciding LLM model. I don't think that they're using the LLM model for this. I don't think they're using — why are people saying OJ is dead? Is OJ dead? My feed is full of people saying OJ is dead. Is that real? Can you check that? Yeah, people are saying OJ Simpson's dead. Wow. Well, that's of cancer. I'll be darned. I'll be darned. OJ is dead, huh? He was 76. OJ was 76. I had no idea. Prostate cancer. Well, I'll be darned. Huh.

All right, well, so let me just finish up this point. It might be true that IDF is not using AI as they define it, but it probably is true that they're using a program that's more less AI and more just straightforward checking against other sources. So it might be both true and false at the same time depending on how you define it.

All right, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, I think the OJ death may be related to blocking Erica because Erica reported he blocked her. And I think karma got him honestly. I think if it was

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n't the murders it was the blocking of Erica. Somebody say OJ died from eating too many Lunchables? No, I think you would have to eat dozens of them before it would kill you. All right. Well, I don't want to talk about OJ anymore. All right, ladies and gentlemen, this brings me to the conclusion of my amazing show. I'm going to say goodbye to the folks who are not on Locals and talk to them priv…

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