ad. But on top of that I don't even think of movies as something that people watch anymore. There are very few movies that you're going to want to spend two hours on. Very rarely. So when I think of things I would want to spend time on I just don't even think of a movie anymore because I know I'm not going to like it. And my attention span like yours is so shortened now that I can go through a thousand Reels, you know the little quick videos, and every one of them will entertain me because the algorithm makes sure that. And I'm absolutely totally entertained and I can stop whenever I want to go do something else. I don't have to drive somewhere and buy bad popcorn and sit there for two and a half hours and wish I were closer to a restroom. Yeah so I don't see how movies really survive in the future.

Speaking of surviving, Ukraine now has these miniature missiles to knock down drones. I guess they were made in Estonia. If you didn't know this Estonia is a wildly successful little country. Did you know that? I have a friend who's Estonian who I think at one point he was probably the richest person in Estonia because he was one of the adventurers of what is the thing before Zoom there was the thing before Zoom. So Estonia, the Estonians are really high-tech. They've got a real good little high-tech situation going there. One of the things they do in Estonia is that you can vote by app. How many times have you said to yourself why can't we vote by an app? Like why? Seems like that would be obvious, the most obvious thing. Especially if your app does face recognition. If I vote on my phone and I use facial recognition to make my app take the vote I'm going to feel pretty good that that vote got registered properly. So Estonia is already doing it so you don't have to wonder if it works. They seem happy with it.

But they've also made this little miniature rocket and I think it uses AI which is what's new and interesting about it but it goes really high so it can get even the high drones. So it looks like the missile is maybe just a foot tall and not very wide. And I need one of those for home. Is there any way I can get an AI anti-drone missile for home? I'll put it on my roof. No. All right.

Well speaking of the algorithm, Yannas says that the X algorithm is going to be tweaked soon to promote more informational, entertaining content. And he says — I like how he puts this. This is a great framing for the objective. Our goal is to maximize. That is the most human-friendly way to say what you're doing. What I would hate is to say he's just trying to get his usage minutes up or I would hate if he said we're trying to tell the truth. You know we only tell the truth. Nobody thinks the truth is coming through social media. But he says it in the most perfect way. He wants to maximize unregretted user time. Have you ever spent a bunch of time on social media and said ah God I wish I didn't do that. Like it just gave me a headache and I feel bad now. I'm scared of everything. You have, right? Those are regretted minutes. He's trying to maximize unregretted user time. And this is such a good frame.

There's a report in Axios that Biden and his advisers had a meeting not too long ago about possibility of striking Iran's nuclear sites before January 20th and Trump is sworn in. Now here's what you need to know about this kind of story. If the government is doing its job and the military is doing its job they should always be talking about this kind of stuff. It doesn't mean it's going to happen but yes I want my president meeting with the military and I want the military to say it's not the only thing we can do but if you decided to go this way this is what we could do. Yeah I want that meeting every week. It shouldn't be news that they had a meeting and they discussed one of the most obvious paths. And apparently there's no energy to do it so they had the meeting, they heard the alternatives, they decided collectively apparently with not a lot of disagreement I would guess that they're not going to do it.

I feel like that article was written as sort of a diss on Biden. That's not a diss. Every time this story is about Trump: Trump held a meeting to see if he can nuke a hurricane. And then people said oh no it's crazy. No I want that meeting. I don't think it was a meeting. I think it was just an offhand comment you made once but I want that. I want him to ask the question well do we have the technology to nuke it? And it's fine if the answer is no that's crazy there's no way that could work we couldn't control the radiation. Okay but do I like that he asked the question? Yes. Yes I want my leader to be asking the question not just of the obvious stuff but I want him to ask the non-obvious stuff. That was a non-obvious questi