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ers' voices and turning them into popular music, well, he has another one that features me talking about what if laziness is a habit. And Akira the Dawn. So look for that on my X feed today or at the Akira the Dawn X feed. You're going to love it. Some people say it's the best thing they've ever heard. Some people use it to fall asleep, but you might like it.

Speaking of music, while Akira the Dawn is rising, the Steve Miller Band cancelled their US tour. Not because the ticket sales were soft, although they were. What would be the real reason they cancelled their 31-city tour? Well, according to the band, it's because of climate change. So it's probably a coincidence that the ticket sales were anemic. The real reason is because of the weather. Not just the weather today, but the weather forever.

Yeah. So it'll be a little bit embarrassing if next year they try to do another tour, because I would ask what happened to climate change? Did it get solved? And what about all those other touring acts? Are they going to take their chances? Will Paul McCartney's tour be destroyed by climate? Maybe. Or maybe the Steve Miller Band is not as popular as they hoped.

Well, I wonder if there's any news about science that didn't need to do any research. Well, yes. According to Medscape, it looks like it might be possible according to a large observational study to analyze the activity of a user with their smartphone and determine patterns of psychopathology. In other words, they've determined that they can tell how crazy you are and what form of crazy you are. You might call it mental health. Based on your changes in your phone's activity or changes in your activity with your phone.

Now, how many of you did not know that if you had access to somebody's phone usage, you could determine what their psychopathology is? Is there anybody who

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didn't already know that if you knew what they were doing privately with their phone, you could pretty much tell who's crazy and who's not, and probably even specifically what's wrong? Well, they don't know that for sure, but they're planning a big study to find out. But they don't need it. They can just ask Scott. Scott, would we be able to determine the mental health of a person by their phone u…

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