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he's losing 14 points among Hispanics, 43 points among black voters. I don't, I'll just give you the big line. I think these details are misleading, but he's basically saying that every category from Hispanics to blacks to under 50, student debt holders, even the people on student debt were more for Trump. And something about even losing support from women. So Bill Maher says, how can they be tie…

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t done saying the opposite of that. That they won't be able to do art. And why? So all caps guy seems pretty drunk. Morning drinker looks like.

Anyway, yes. I would go further. Jack Dorsey says we're going to lose free will because the algorithms will effectively program our brains. That's a reasonable frame. But I would go further to the next level of awareness and say that free will is an illusion. And what we will lose is the illusion of free will. So once you realize that your opinions keep matching your TikTok feed, you're going to realize that your illusion of free will is starting to go. So you'll probably paper that over with some cognitive dissonance.

Well I told you before that there's a Swiss firm that's making organic computers. So in other words, they have a fake organic brain. Didn't come from a person. It just I guess they grew it in a lab. And it can do all kinds of computational tasks like a regular computer while consuming a million times less power than silicon chips. A million times less power.

Now keep in mind our biggest problem is we're going to run out of power with all the robots and EVs and AI, but we might be able to reduce it by a million if there are some kind of organic brains. Now I think that the problem is they don't last very long because they're organic. So I don't know what happens when your organic computer gets Alzheimer's or dementia. And would you pick up on it right away? And is that even a thing? Can it actually happen? What happens when the brain starts to degrade a little bit? You know, does it stop working suddenly or you don't notice and it's just sort of off for a while? I don't know. Lots of questions, but it's pretty exciting.

All right, here's sort of the big question for the day. As you know, President Biden ran on the fine people hoax that he tried to sell to the country and the people who don't follow the news too closely as true. Did you know that Snopes, the most famous fact-checking entity, which traditionally has leaned left, says in a full-throated way that it didn't happen, it's a hoax. Now they don't say hoax, but they do say clearly and unambiguously, President Trump did not call the neo-Nazis fine people.

And so as I included Michael Ian Black in my comment on that, and I said that one of the ways you can tell the truth in our

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world of lies about everything is if people on both sides have the same version. So if Fox News and CNN say the same thing, that's much more likely to be true. If only one of them says something is true and the other says it's not true could go either way. But if there are people on both who say something's true or not true, that means something. For example, even CNN's legal analysts and lots of…

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