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Back to episode — Episode 2938 CWSA 08/25/25

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mart suggestions that you didn't ask for. So it might remind you of things that are important like it might say uh oh this person's name is Jenna and today is her birthday because you would hate to forget Jenna's birthday and it would know that everybody would want to remember somebody special's birthday. So I can imagine having glasses that were making smart suggestions to me based on my real lif…

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iminal organization. How is that legal there? So they've got the teachers in a bind. The teachers feel like they have to be in the teachers union for whatever reason they think they have to. And then they have to pay their dues. I think there are a few states that gave them the freedom to avoid the union, but generally speaking, they have to put their money in and then their money is being used in ways that they might not approve of, but nobody asks them. It feels like theft or blackmail or there's got to be some crime that's involved there. I don't know. Anyway, if there was enough crime there to neuter somehow legally the Department of Justice neuter the teachers unions then maybe children would have a chance.

The US government reached some massive AI deal with Google for Google's Gemini. And I guess that will be a key part of the government fixing up government services by adding AI to them. I assume that this is dovetailing with the new designer guy. The government design, what do they call it? Basically the government has a design guy now who will try to fix the interfaces where people deal with the government online. So the AI is a big part of that. So I guess Google will be the lead AI. Do you think that's because Google has sort of this CIA alleged backing? So that's the reason that Google gets this gigantic government contract because then the CIA allegedly, I don't know that this is true, but that they could influence what Google's AI does and doesn't do, and that will influence the government, which influences the people, etc. So is it a total coincidence or is it just because they were the low bidder? I've got questions.

More journalists have been killed in Gaza accidentally, we think, but 200 journalists have allegedly been killed in the Gaza war, which would make it the most journalists dying in a war since well, ever. It would be the most journalists ever killed in warfare. So even World War I, there were up to 80 were killed. World War II up to 200, but Gaza's estimated at 232 actually. And Vietnam was 70 to 100. But

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the Syrian civil war was over 700. Oh my god. But that was spread over a longer period. So for the on a per year basis, Gaza has killed the most journalists. But what have I told you about data? Almost all data is fake. I'm going to go further. All data is fake. How many of the journalists do you think were really Hamas operatives pretending to be journalists? Well, not zero. Probably not zero. An…

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