's talk about the news. Today's Dilbert Reborn shows you, in the first panel, I posted it on X, you can see that I designed it with AI. So the first panel of the Dilbert comic, I used AI to tell me some interesting camera angles or perspectives for a guy on his computer when a dog walks into the room. Now AI can't produce my characters because it'll complain about copyright and stuff, but it can give me a generic guy and a generic dog. And then when I have the angle of all the furniture, I just replace them with my characters. So you can see how that worked out. It gave me a new angle that I had never used before. So that's my first, I think my first real-world repeatable. I'll definitely use it again. AI assist to writing my daily comic. So it's sort of a milestone.

Well, apparently there's a Tesla deal being worked out to give Elon Musk his money that they gave him and then took away from him. The courts took away. And the only portion that he would be able to use for five years is to pay the taxes that he would owe if he were to get it right away. So apparently you can't just take the money and run. Some people were worried about that. He'd have to stay there for five years to get his money. So it should make the stockholders a little bit happy if he has to stay there and work for another five years. So we'll see. We hope he gets his money.

There's a gigantic Wall Street Journal story. It says there's a huge cost-saving technology for making solar panels. Now you've heard this story a billion times, but this one sounds pretty promising. I didn't realize that China can make solar panels at roughly half the price of an American manufacturer, but with this new technology it should close that gap a lot. And apparently it's not just theoretical. It looks like it's ready to put into the system. Yeah, I won't get into the technical details, but it reduces the amount of silver they need, makes something thinner than before, and would reduce the cost substantially.

And I ask you again, which one of the climate models takes into account technical innovations that totally change the curve? None. Because you can't put in a climate model the thing that hasn't been invented yet. And yet we know there'll be tons of things invented between now and when they imagine the Earth is going to burn up. So if you don't put human invention in your 100-year model, is that credible? Think about how different the world is in any 20-year period. You know, it's the difference between AI and no AI, computers and no computers, smartphones and no smartphones. Twenty years is a long time. So these climate models are absurd in leaving out probably the biggest variable. I mean, you think if you're looking at climate change, the biggest variable is the CO2 or the sun or the ocean, but probably the biggest variable is human innovation. It's not even in the model, right? Tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the models assume that we don't innovate for the rest of humankind. We just sort of die.

All right, so that's happening. Here's the scariest, coolest thing. There's a Swiss startup that has made a computer out of brain organoids. Now I don't know what an organoid is, but I'm going to guess it's something like an artificial brain that they built in a Petri dish or a tube or something. So I don't think it came from a human. I hope. You know, maybe the cells did or something. But they now have, in the real world apparently, you can connect to this thing if you're paying them, and it consumes a million times less power than regular digital processors. And it's fast. Let me say that again. There will be a data center, a data center. This is already real, by the way. This is not speculative. This is today functioning. There's human brain parts that they've somehow connected to a digital interface, and they use the human brain part to do the calculating at one million times less power than regular stuff.

Do you think there's any way that if it works and it can be reproduced, that it does work? As so it's already up and running. So if it could be reproduced at scale, who in the world is going to pay for regular computing when you can have a computer that gets a million times less power? We are building a human brain slash cyborg. The Borg. I don't know. It's super cool but also super whoa, because you don't know what could go wrong. Wait a minute. How many ways could it go wrong if we start building human brain organoid computers? I don't know. I guess it raises questions. I'm not afraid of it per se, but it raises a lot of questions.

Well, NASA had to once again delay its astronaut crewed flight of what would be the Boeing Starliner, I think. First flight with astronauts. And I didn't see the reason that the flight was scrubbed, but I have a theory. It's a Boeing Starliner. And I think the problem is, you know how juries sometimes are sequestered? Yeah, if the jury is going to go home, sometimes the judge will say, oh, you can't go home. You have to stay away from any influence because you don't want them reading the news. They might act differently, the jurors, if they read the news. You want them to stick to just the trial data. And I'm starting to think that the astronauts for the Boeing Starliner maybe they should have been sequestered for the last month to maybe not see any news about Boeing's quality control lately. So I worry that the reason it's delayed is that the astronauts were watching the news and said, um, I think I've got a cold or something. I'm not sure I can go. Oh, my arm. So something's going wrong here. I'll never be able to control it. Maybe you better use the backup. I don't know. I'm just joking.

All right. Did you know that China's labor costs are about double that of the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Vietnam? I'll tell you, you think that the United States has trouble. You think we have problems. We do. But how would you like to be China and your entire situation depends on manufacturing because it's the backbone of the economy, and you're twice as expensive as the alternatives? And everybody has a gigantic incentive to get their business out of there. What are they going to do? Now, besides the fact that these countries have half the cost and they presumably are building up some infrastructure so they can be serious competitors to China. But I also haven't heard about Mexico. I don't know what the cost of labor is in Mexico compared to China. And I also don't know what's going to happen with robots. Because if we're making these much cheaper solar panels and then we get rid of the labor by putting robots in the factories. So you use a manufacturing process that drops the price by, I don't know, half, and then you put i