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uggesting is there might be this might be telling us something, but I don't know what. So it might be telling us that OpenAI doesn't have a future. Now I'm not seeing evidence of that specifically, but why would they be building alternative models when they have the dominant AI model in the world and it doesn't make sense? So I'm not buying the story of why they have multiple AIs, but it does make…

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all the things that could be going on, it could be something medical. I mean suppose let's say he was just getting ready for a colonoscopy he might not want to tell you that and it would take the preparation day and then the day it happens and you know so it could be some routine medical thing he just doesn't want to get into. Yeah. So I know he's got those problems on his hands. So I don't know if that's anything to worry about or not.

I saw some photos today of the actor The Rock. Do you remember the last movie you saw with The Rock, and he probably was just gigantic, like just so muscular, it's like crazy? Well, it turns out he's lost his muscles. So the story is that he's getting ready for a role as a MMA fighter, but the MMA fighter that he's going to portray is not nearly as big as a big muscular guy. So he's got to get down to a sort of a fighting weight that would be more similar to a MMA guy.

But I'll tell you, he doesn't look healthy, and he lost the thing that made him special. I'm a big fan of The Rock, by the way. I think he's incredibly talented and hardworking and I just sort of like everything about him. But one of the things that worked so well about him is that his personality and his physical situation were sort of an interesting combination. I don't know what's going to happen because it looks like he's looking for a permanent downsizing of his muscles cuz he's 52 years old and I guess it's hard on the body to maintain that when you're 52. Duh. And carrying around all that extra weight because his muscles were so big. It was like carrying a barrel of oil with you wherever he went. So probably it makes sense from a long-term health perspective.

Some people are saying he must have been on steroids and now he's off. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe. But I'm certainly hopeful that he's found some healthy path, but he doesn't look healthy. So unfortunately, I don't know if it's because of what I'm used to cuz I imagine him as that more robust version, but I hope there's nothing else to the story but that he's preparing for a role and trying to be a more healthy person into his older age.

Here's a story I don't fully believe, but maybe. So apparently the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, a name I have to say more than once because it's so fun to say. Say it with me. Ursula von der Leyen. That was kind of fun. All right.

But apparently she was on a plane and she was wanting to land in Bulgaria and there was some kind of GPS interference attack that made the airplane blind to GPS. Now they were still able to land safely after circling for an hour. The pilot used analog maps. To which I say, I wonder how old the pilot was because I hope the pilot was trained at a time when they just didn't use GPS. Well, how long has GPS been around? I don't know how long GPS has been around. So maybe that's not possible to have a pilot that old, but it was somebody who obviously knew how to do it without.

So she safely landed, but

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they're blaming the attack on Russia. Do you think that Russia tried to murder the European Commission president in a way that people would probably guess was Russia? Does that story track with you or does it feel more likely that the GPS equipment on the plane just malfunctioned? Which one sounds more likely? I don't know. I'm not automatically going to buy the Russia tried to assassinate the Eur…

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