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Well, I'd like to begin with a product review. I said to myself, I'll bet I could get a better camera than the one that's built into my laptop, my Macintosh. So I used Grok and I used ChatGPT and I asked people for recommendations for a good webcam, and people said the best one would be this Logitech Brio, I don't know, kind of thing, whatever is the top of the line.
But I would like to make a point. So this is supposed to hang on the top of your laptop, and the little tiny, tiny, tiny little lip is the only thing that keeps it on there. And then in addition there's this device which apparently is made because they hate people. There's no other reason I can think of. Whoever designed this, for the past 20 years or so I've been buying Logitech and other cameras, trying them out, and then as soon as you breathe it falls off.
So this morning, after the 50th time of not being able to adjust the color temperature or to get it anywhere near as good as the one that's built into my laptop, I finally threw it across the room and took care of it. Now this is the way you have to handle these. You just have to break them because once that thing falls off your laptop for the third time, if you're dumb enough to let it happen to you a fourth time, well you deserv
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e what you're getting. You deserve it. No, that has to be broken and publicly humiliated. So I did that for you. So we're back to our FaceTime camera, which is really good by the way. Very good camera. Well, I saw a piece of work by Jay Plemmons today, or yesterday, on X, who took my book *God's Debris* and used AI to animate it. He animated it to create an AI movie, and just the first scene, yo…
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