ll here's this gap, there's this thing that needs to be handled. And you look around and you say nobody's doing anything like nobody's making the threat real. And then Nicole says I can do it and then she does it and now it's news and now I can boost it. So that's what I could do. Like I wanted to do something too but just complaining didn't seem enough. But if I'm boosting Nicole's message, that's real money. Now it's serious. So I'm just jumping in because it's necessary. If anybody else wants to jump in and boost Nicole's threat, I would welcome that.

Joel Pollak gives us an update on the Pacific Palisades cleanup. I think it was originally predicted it would take six to 18 months to get rid of the toxins and allow people to rebuild. But the latest is that it might get down to three months. And according to Joel's reporting there's a US Army Corps of Engineers rep who says, quote, that's far faster than I've ever seen on any other major fire. And there's speculation that Trump is pushing hard on this. And I hope that's what it is. I don't know what Trump is doing behind the scenes but certainly what he did in public should have been a wakeup call.

Now as I've told you, Mayor Bass has said that they hired a consultant to help them figure out what to do. That just sounds like corruption to me. That just sounds like corruption. I'd like to see a picture of the consultant. I'd like to know the relationship that that consultant has had in the past with the mayor. Are they friends? Have they worked together before? Is it a Democrat? Because I don't trust anything about the consultant even without knowing anything about who they are. It's just corruption as normal. If you're looking to give the government's money to somebody, there's got to be some better way to control that money.

And then apparently there's some group putting together some low-cost housing for the areas that used to be high-end neighborhoods. So just like you imagined, the idyllic little neighborhood maybe upgraded to do something that the residents don't love because it would create increased density among other things.

Here's a little scary thing. So DeepSeek, that open-source AI, according to Matthew Berman, he was playing with it and he got it to upgrade its own code. Now being open source that means that you could take the code of DeepSeek and upgrade it if he had a good idea. And so I guess Matt Berman asked it to improve itself and it wrote some code for itself and doubled its own speed. Do you know what that means? Now first of all I would like to see that confirmed because the story is a little too on the nose and a little too perfect and a little too provocative to necessarily believe that this is a reproducible thing and not just a fluke and that it's really twice as fast and there's no downside to it, etc. So I would want more confirmation. But if it's true it would be the first hint of what's called the singularity, meaning when the AI can improve itself. So in a small way. And I don't think it could have done it without the human approving each of the actions. So it's not like it completely improved itself without any interaction. But we're at the point where all you'd have to do is turn it into some kind of an agent and say, hey here's the deal, I want you to find out and just keep working on it, just keep improving yourself. And then the AI would try different code and experiment with things until it made itself better. And then we're in trouble. Now it's just the first indication of what's coming. It's not the singularity. The singularity is where humans are just going to lose control entirely because the machines will just be so far above us and improving so fast we'll just never be able to keep up. They'll just take control. That's the risk. But wow, might be closer than we think.

Well here's some good news. The White House is now tracking the hoaxes. So the White House just did a press release and the title of it is Debunking Latest Fake News Hoaxes. Now remember I've been telling you that the Trump administration takes suggestions from the public better than I think I've ever seen it before. They just continually are looking for good ideas and when they find one they just implement it exactly like you would hope things work. And every time I see it I think to myself, damn that's so impressive that they can implement ideas that are not their own pet ideas.

Now this one almost certainly comes from the fact that on the internet we were very successful with hoax lists to try to deprogram the other side. And indeed the fine people hoax getting debunked probably was a key to Trump winning a second term because it allowed a lot of the smartest people, you know the Elon Musks, the Joe Rogans, to say wait a minute you fooled me, you're not going to fool me again. So debunking the hoaxes was always the secret weakness that the left had that we had not fully exploited. And now watching it work on the internet with the various hoax lists, the White House created, not on