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Back to episode — Episode 2974 CWSA 09/30/25

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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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whole movie out of this, no, that would not be fair use.

Speaking of that, OpenAI has apparently told Hollywood studios that instead of the current model, well I guess they want to reverse the model of copyright. So they will use your copyright unless you specifically ask them not to. So you would have to explicitly opt out. Otherwise you could use OpenAI to make your own Dilbert comics or anything else you wanted. You could do a Dilbert movie, I guess.

But now I have to figure out, I guess I'll ask OpenAI: do you think if I asked OpenAI what is the mechanism to explicitly opt out for my copyrights, do you think it would know the answer to that? It might, but I'm going to guess no. I'm not even sure this is true. I don't have a source for it, but that would be a big deal.

So Pete Hegseth is talking to his meeting of generals, which means that we've put all of our most important people, including our president, all in one room. Doesn't feel like the best play, but I'm sure they figured this out. Well I haven't read it all because it looks like it's going to be an all-day event kind of thing. The president is speaking now, I think.

But the parts I saw, Pete started out saying that it is unacceptable to see fat troops and even worse to see fat generals in the hallway. So whether you're a general or a troop, you're going to have to do a physical, you know, a PT physical test twice a year. So for all members of the military, how in the world are they going to get these 60-plus-year-old generals to pass the physical test? I don't know. That se

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ems like a stretch. And he's against wokeness and DEI for promotions and said they've promoted too many uniformed leaders for the wrong reasons. So it doesn't look like there's going to be any big announcement per se. It looks like it's just things you knew that Hegseth and Trump wanted to make the military more lethal, and probably it'll make some news but I don't think it's a big announcement.…

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