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their country. I just feel it like, "Oh god, are you burning my flag right in front of me?" So I feel it, but that feeling is also when I most vividly feel the power of the flag. And I like having a flag that can make me feel something and can make me feel the power of the country that it represents. So for my money, if you've got a wimpy, stupid flag you can burn and it causes so much trouble th…

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place where you get to have unpleasant opinions and you can express them in public. And you can do it all day long. And what happens is the country doesn't get weaker. It just reminds us every day that we've got this flag that gets stronger when you try to burn it. So that's my take. That's my reframe.

Meanwhile, ex-ABC News correspondent Terry Moran, that poor bastard who's having the worst month of anybody ever. So he gets put on leave and then he gets fired from ABC for having some hard to explain bad opinions about Stephen Miller and Trump. I guess he has announced on a video that he's going to be a Substack blogger, but not right away because it's going to take some time for him to figure it out. And I thought to myself, that's sort of embarrassing after 28 years doing a job for ABC News and then you get fired and you're announcing you're a Substack blogger. That's not going to work for a lot of people, but good luck.

Meanwhile the publication called Futurism is talking about a college, Ohio State University has just announced that starting this fall every single one of its students will be forced to use AI in class. So instead of banning AI because it's a way that students can cut corners or potentially cheat, they're going the other direction and they're saying that it's a requirement that you know how to use AI and that you know how to use it in every single class.

Now what do you think of that? Do you think the colleges should ban AI because then you don't learn the same or should it encourage people to become experts in not only the class but how to use AI within that domain? I'm going to go hard in favor of Ohio State. I think this might be one of the smartest things I've seen because in the real world everybody's going to use AI for everything. And every one of their subjects from math to biology to history, there's going to be an AI tool that helps them understand it.

Now I've used Grok almost every day for months. And when I use Grok I get some co

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ntext that I didn't know. And I usually remember it. But it's easier, it's way easier to look it up with AI than it is to Google things and look at every source. So I feel in my own experience that AI makes me smarter faster than any technology I've ever been associated with. Now I don't forget the things I look up on AI and it's not like I could just take its writing and read it to you on this po…

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