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asy and it pays so well that eventually it will just overwhelm anything that's real. And even if there is some real stuff, you wouldn't be able to find it. It'd be lost in all the wrong stuff. So even on paper, this guarantees that science would go off the rails. Now, I don't have a better idea. There might be a better idea out there. Maybe this Argus system is part of it. But even on paper, that…

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an't cast spells on Trump because, quote, "he has some kind of protection around him." So the witches are trying to put spells on him, but they're not getting through. Got some kind of protection. So it sounds like they're on to me. But I'll try to keep protecting Trump from the witches. It's taking a lot of energy, but so far my protective spell is holding. Let's see if that continues.

Don't tell the witches, by the way. Don't tell them what's going on. But I've got a little protective bubble around Trump. It can deflect a bullet. You know, if a bullet is heading at his head, I can move it just off base, maybe hit his ear a little bit. But I can't do everything. I mean, it's not magic. Oh, it is magic. Yeah, it's magic. It'll work fine.

The *Wall Street Journal* is now suing Jeff Bezos' Perplexity app. I keep talking about this app because this is a rare thing. Usually when I try an app, I would say one out of 20 of the apps that I try I end up continuing to use. They're usually overrated or they're for some specific purpose or they don't work or something. But I tried this Perplexity app. It's the one that is sort of AI plus search. And I can't go back.

If you spend five minutes using Perplexity — and by the way, I was getting so annoyed because whenever I brought up something about Google search, the people in the comments would say, "Try Perplexity. If you try it, you'll never go back. It's so good. Why haven't you tried Perplexity?" And of course my brain was doing the one-in-20 thing. Yeah, there's a one-in-20 chance I might like that app you're talking about that I've never heard of and I don't know what it does. But eventually I said to myself, there's so much yapping about this app, I've got to try this app. When you've got a lot of yap, you've got to try the app. That's what I say.

So I tried it and it is so sticky. Wow. So let me tell you how I get ready in the morning. A common thing I do, I used to try to talk to AI, regular AI like ChatGPT, but there's almost nothing I want to talk to AI about that doesn't require it to have access to the internet to look something up. Tell me what's new, tell me the weather, anything. I have no interest in its general patterns of words. Yes, you have general patterns of words. You're not a person and you do not have information that is reliable. So what are you? What's even the point of AI, at least for casual use? I don't even know.

But if you use Perplexity, it doesn't have conversation mode, but you can push a button to talk and you can push another button to listen to what it says. So I'll do things like I'll have something in my head and I'll push the button. They'll say, "Is it true that the moon is really made of cheese and that somebody fou

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nd that out in the 50s?" Whatever it is, I'm just making that up. And it cogitates for a moment and then I push the speaking button and then it gives me a little customized news report. And it's great. It's just great. And everything I ask it shows me the sources. It doesn't seem to show me any sponsored stuff, but maybe it does. It just doesn't have anything labeled. So I'll be real interested t…

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