Back to episode — Episode 2683 CWSA 12/08/24
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should have destroyed itself in a few years and that's what we observe. It was very predictable. And furthermore I predict that they can't recover at a national level. They'll still win all their local races. Just identity politics is all you need. But at the federal level don't see them becoming competitive for a long time unless the Republicans ran a complete loser and somehow the Democrats got…
← Previous segment →they'll do a system update and all the data will be lost? Because every time we've been in this situation where we know there's a document such as the Epstein list or Diddy's videos or you know I could go on or on Hillary's phones that she had bleach bit or whatever she did there. So it feels like every time we know exactly what we're looking for oh if we can only see those oh they're already deleted. So you've never lost any documents for 30 years but you lost these the only ones we really really wanted to look at. Is that what's happening next?
So I wouldn't be surprised under the condition that only Pfizer controls those documents. I don't know if that's true but if only Pfizer has the documents they're going to get lost. Because correct me if I'm wrong but everybody who has deleted documents got away with it. All of them. Everybody who did it. Can you think of one case, a prominent case recently where somebody deleted some documents and went to jail? I can't. They just say it was an accident. Oh whoops. Oops I really tried to give it to you but deleted. Yeah that might be coming.
Elon Musk's AI now has the ability to do photorealistic images. So Grok wasn't that good at images but apparently the new update according to Don Jacobson at UPI. And the question that we don't know the answer to is will Elon Musk's AI have guard rails that prevent you from doing celebrities and public figures? I don't know the answer to that. That's sort of a good edge case for free speech.
I feel like Elon Musk would not want to limit what you could do with the AI in terms of images but on the other hand if you had a major AI that was willing to create fake images that really look real on any topic with any celebrity you're really going to cause a lot of trouble. But so does free speech. So it'll be interesting to see which way Elon goes on this. If they've made a decision maybe they've already made that decision we just don't know. But if you can do celebrities and famous people and you can make them do anything you want well that's a different world. So we'll see if that's going to be the case.
And you know I'm going to tell you that there's a new battery technology. So Ars Technica says there's sodium-ion batteries, new breakthroughs blah blah blah. The problem with sodium-ion batteries as a technology compared to lithium. So here this will make you smarter at your next gathering because you'll know more about battery technology.
So if you do lithium they've got a good density that's why they're used in cars so you can put a lot of power in a small device. But they have more fire risk lithium does and they use rare materials. But if you were to if you could get the same performance and you can't yet but it's getting close from a sodium-ion battery you'd basically be using no rare earth materials and you would have no risk of fire or much lower I guess.
The only problem is density and that's where they had the breakthrough. So they're claiming a density that if they actually can achieve it is almost hard f
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or experts to believe they can get there but they're knocking on the door. So it could be that the whole rare earth thing becomes unimportant. So but we'll see. At the same time according to the University of Maryland Baltimore County they've got this new battery technology using twisted carbon nanotubes. So apparently if you twist your carbon nanotubes just right it will store a bunch of electri…
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