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ront of you. Now, I don't know if they can do it with photorealistic stuff. They did it with an animation. So you look at the table, and sitting on the table apparently is a little character that's dancing right in front of you as a 3D object. Kind of amazing. I didn't think that was going to come. Well, I did a little deeper dive on quantum computing because I was trying to understand. I've told…

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showed a company that would be the reconstituted Enron creating a nuclear egg, you know, something you could hold in your arms. There would be a nuclear power plant for your personal home. It was just like a big egg, and the commercial for it was really well done. It had specifications and how to use it and everything. But it was parody. It wasn't labeled clearly as parody, though. So I looked at it, and I'm looking for the parody part. I didn't see parody. So I reposted it, thought, but I asked at least. I was at least aware enough to say, is this real, when I reposted it. But if it was real, it'd be a big deal. It wasn't real. It's not real. So I think that they cheated. The rules on X is that it must be clearly labeled. It was labeled, but I think the whole "clearly" part maybe is in question.

Meanwhile, there's a new study, according to Just the News. Stephen Richards is writing that a new study says that TikTok suppresses anti-China content. So it has both anti- and pro-China content, but it suppresses the anti and promotes the other. Now, is there anybody, you know, who's been telling you this for years? Is there anybody who said, you know, that China has got their finger on this and there's no way that this is all objective? I talked to a TikTok user the other day, and I mentioned it was going to be banned unless an American buys it. And I said it's because it could be persuasive in a way we don't like. And the person I talked to said, but you don't understand. You don't use TikTok. If you did, you know that I see both sides of every story. And I said, do you? How do you know? Well, because I see both sides. Now, I think that's true. I think both sides of every story are in fact on TikTok. But the problem is which one do you see the most and who sees it?

As I explained to the TikTok user, who shall remain anonymous, I said, what if there are some people using TikTok that TikTok can tell for sure they cannot be influenced, meaning that you're a hard Democrat or you're a hard Republican, you're not going anywhere. But do you think that TikTok can identify people who are on the fence? Because everything depends on the people on the fence, the independents. Do you think it can identify an independent? And if it did, do you think the independent would get exactly as much content as you're seeing? So the thing is that you can't tell if persuasion is happening. You just see what you see.

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And if the only thing you know is that you're seeing both sides, you don't know if you're the person they're trying to influence. And maybe you're not. So maybe you're just seeing regular content. But there's no way that they're going to keep their finger off the button if it's so easy to move the persuasion needle. So anyway, this is not peer-reviewed yet, but it will be. So maybe it's not valid…

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