week and at the end of the week, all the banking connections to anybody doing business with Russia. It won't even be just banking restrictions on Russia. It'll probably be restrictions on anybody who does any business with them. So suddenly India just to pick an example won't be able to get bank financing from any American bank. Now maybe they don't need it. I don't know but yeah this could get pretty dark pretty fast.

According to Zero Hedge and i24 News, Netanyahu says he backs a quote greater Israel. So Israel with lots more land than it has now legally. And I guess there's some people worried that some of the most conservative people in Israel want to take over part of Syria now. I don't know about that, but there might be more coming. We'll see. I don't think that Israel is going to make a move on Syria other than bombing bad guys.

Let me ask you this. About a year ago, I was doing a lot of experimenting with AI apps and I had a bunch of things I wanted to do besides just simple searches and it didn't work for anything because of hallucinations or various limitations or I couldn't upload big documents. There always was just some problem. It seemed like it was promising but it didn't really do anything. So I waited a year and then I went back in and tried to get AI to do some stuff and it just doesn't do anything. It's really good as an interface for search, but even then, you've got to check to make sure it didn't hallucinate.

So let me just tell you a couple of simple things that I tried to do because people are telling me that I'm the idiot and that if I used a better super prompt, I could get better results. To which I say, I'm not using any super prompts. If I have to use a super prompt, your product is broken on delivery. If you tell me that I have to ask the question in some Harry Potter magic incantation or I'll get the wrong answer, your product is broken. I'm not going to adjust my Harry Pottering myself until I can say excelsius extremis or whatever you have to say to get a real answer.

But here are two things that I failed at doing that should have been easy. One was I took a picture of myself at 14 years old. I had a picture and I was sitting on a minibike and I wanted to see if I could animate it so it looked like I was moving on the minibike. So I used Grok, the imagine feature and sure enough it took that photo and it animated it. But it also changed me to a different character. So it changed me into a 10-year-old who didn't look like me at all. Now what would I do with that? Am I going to share a picture of a 10-year-old boy who doesn't look like me and send it to my friends? Hey everybody, here's a 10-year-old boy who doesn't look like me, but he's sitting on this minibike just like I was when I was 14. How about that? Huh? Has no value. And a number of other things I changed changed my face so much that I thought I don't want to show this to anybody.

Then because I had some technical problems with the show yesterday and I didn't have the right microphone on I wanted to use an app which I used before called Descript and one of the features there is you push a button and run your video through it and it changes the audio from maybe a poor quality audio to getting rid of the background sounds and it sounds like a studio. So I put in my video and I push the button. It gets to 85% processed and it just locks up. Just doesn't do anything. Just churns forever. So I turn it off and I do it again. It gets to 85% and it just stops. So I do it a third time and this time it got to 0%. Now there's no super prompt involved. It's literally just a button that says studio quality audio. Didn't do it, you know. So every time I try to use AI for anything outside of the most basic stuff, it just doesn't work and it doesn't look fixable. It doesn't look like there's a way around it. So we'll see. I don't know if that's your experience, but so far AI looks like a way over promised.

Well apparently the Gateway Pundit has a story that says that the Pentagon had developed a self-spreading vaccine. Self-spreading means that you would catch it from other people except instead of catching a virus that would hurt you. Allegedly, it would be a virus that protected you from other viruses and whatnot. Apparently this has already been worked on but not rolled out. Can you imagine learning that your government made a virus that was meant to infect you and didn't tell you or get your permission? Can you even imagine that? That's the sort of problem that would bring down the government, I think. So don't do that, Pentagon.

So I guess Gavin Newsom is going to do some big event today to push back against Trump's redistricting map. And I don't know if you noticed, but now Newsom put out at least one post that was trying to mock Trump's style. So he tried to copy how he talks, put it in all caps, and ended with, "Thank you for your attention to this matter." And tried to use the framing and the pacing of Trump, but a lot of people didn't realize he was joking and they just started mocking him for looking like he's bad at social media. Once you realize that he's mocking, then you look at it differently. Go, oh, okay. Yeah, that's pretty good mocking. I don't think it'll make a difference, but at least it gave Newsom something to do for an afternoon.

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