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ld. So I don't know what assets they have, but there's got to be some reason that those are included in the Washington Post. Former Vice President Mike Pence is speaking up about the existential identity crisis that the Trump supporters and the political right is going through. Now how many of you think that there's some kind of permanent Trump supporter split that's happening that will somehow s…

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als because they came into the country illegally. They're all criminals. Scott, Scott, Scott. So if you're an NPC, I'll give you a few minutes to say the most obvious thing you could say, which is whenever we talk about criminal non-citizens, you feel it's necessary to remind us as if we didn't know that coming into the country is itself illegal. So get it out of your system. I know some of you need to do it. So just put it in the comments. Scott, Scott, they're all criminals. They're all criminals. I get it. I get it.

Anyway, 25% apparently do not fit the category of the worst first. So they had not been convicted of crimes. Now I don't know if committed or convicted of crimes is the right standard because there you go. All caps, Scott. They are all illegal. The NPCs are weighing in on the comments now. Good for you. Good for you, NPCs.

But I would point out the following. It's possible that the 25% who were not convicted of a crime may be all tatted up. They might be associating with MS-13. We might know that they're part of a gang, but they haven't been convicted of it. So I don't know if the 25% are all your gardener and your hardworking meatpacking employee. I don't know if it's that, but I will say that the one thing that the Israel-Iran war is affecting is it's taking our attention away from other stuff. So the Democrats who probably would love to spend more time talking about the innocent good citizens who are not technically legal residents of the country, how they're being abused by the Trump immigration program. But doesn't it feel like it doesn't matter as much? It matters as much as it ever did. But in our minds because this other thing seems bigger, like we might get nuked at some point. It just seems so much bigger. We might put boots on the ground in yet another pointless war in the Middle East. It's just so much bigger that the whole immigration thing. I think Trump's border people are going to get a little bit of a break because the news just isn't going to put much attention on it and what people care about is what they see in the news. If it's not in the news, people will stop protesting. So all the shelf space of the news is getting used up.

In other news, Fox Business is reporting that Republican Josh Hawley is pushing to raise the minimum wage in those states where it's not already raised. So the current federal minimum wage is $7.25. He wants that to go to $15 per hour. And Republicans typically have not been all pro raising the minimum wage, but Josh Hawley would be one of the best supporters of President Trump. He's about as Republican as you could possibly get and he's the one pushing it.

So I guess Trump's response when asked about it because this is obviously not typical Republican stuff but it's coming from a real Republican, pro-MAGA kind of a guy. Trump says, "I haven't seen it. I'd have to speak to Josh. He's a very good friend of mine," Trump said. And that's interesting that Josh did that. You have to think about that one.

So how about that? How would you like to be so credible that when the president hears that you have an idea that probably his first reflex would be to be against, instead of just reflexively saying, "I don't like that idea," he says, "Uh, that's interesting that Josh did that. You have to think about that one." Now that's credibility right there. If you ever want to be credible, you want to get to the point where somebody whose reflex is to disagree with you is completely deactivated because you as an individual are so credible. That's what's happening here. So this is another example of when you think the MAGA coalition is falling apart. I think Republicans are way more accepting of alternative opinions. And this is a good example. As long as the person is credible and you know that they have the best interest of the country in mind, then you're willing to listen to it. So that sounds like what Trump is. He's just willing to listen to the argument. Good answer.

According to MIT, they've found that AI can rewrite its own code and that's changing everything. Now this is in Geeky Gadgets. Julian Horsey is writing about this. So it's what they call the SEAL framework, self-adapting language models. So what they're doing is that the AI will sort of imagine different

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scenarios that aren't real and they would call that synthetic training data and then it would self-edit and update its internal parameters based on the synthetic training data. Now what would be another name for synthetic training data? Well, it would be imagination. It would be imagination because it's not based on reality, but you perceive it as if it's reality but you know it's not. And I woul…

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