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no free will. There is just chemical interactions. And then your impression is that you were part of it. Well, you were more an observer who was trying to explain it to yourself in a way that didn't make you crazy. And you didn't have any choice about that either. So that's your two-state wisdom right there. So apparently the Trump administration, according to Reuters, is thinking about putting s…

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n is fighting back against that and might restrict the visas from some of their EU officials unless they change their minds. But I don't think that's official yet. I think they're just thinking about it. It would be unprecedented that we sanction the European Union. That would be sort of a new level of disagreement. So I don't know what's going to happen, but it might.

In other news, the AI company called Perplexity, which I've talked about a bunch of times, it's a really good app. You know, I have to say I got hooked on it because it was really well executed and primarily

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I used it just as a search app because it just searched better than other things and hallucinated a lot less. It did hallucinate a little bit about me, I'll have to say. But Perplexity now has a new program that will pay publishers for being surfaced by their app. So if you went to the app and you said, "Hey, what's the latest news about this or that?" and then it found a news article and showed i…

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