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Back to episode — Episode 3002 CWSA 10/28/25

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? I want to see how many of you have gotten some kind of immediate benefit. Watch the comments. How many people got an immediate benefit from at least one of these reframes? All right, I’ll pick another. Where did I leave off? There we go. Have you ever heard people say you should measure twice and cut once? Carpenters say that. Look at all the yeses. Carpenters say you should measure twice and…

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l be less biased.

I checked out my page. I didn’t have time to read it all, but wow, it’s long. The two things I know for sure is that it also includes a major mistake about my opinions of the pandemic, because it can’t recognize a hoax on its own. It would have to be told by somebody else when I’m joking and when I’m not. So you miss that.

But it’s not the worst mistake in the world because it simply took a joke as serious. And I didn’t tell people it was a joke at the time. So that’s a little bit on me. But it looked like a giant step forward. So even with some tweaks I’d like to make to it.

I was suggesting before the show started, I was talking to my pre-show audience, and what I’d like to see on Wikipedia and on Grokpedia is a place where the person who’s being talked about on the page can do a rebuttal. Just a quick one. Doesn’t have to be long. But I would love to be able to say, “Oh, everything looks right except for this one thing. They got that backwards.”

Wouldn’t you appreciate that if you were the reader of the page? Wouldn’t that be useful to you? Not to know who’s right because I could be lying. But you need to know what my defense is. If somebody blames me for something, don’t you need to know my side? Of course you do. And you need to know it in my words, because if Grok tries to defend me, maybe it does a good job, maybe it doesn’t know all the facts. I’m the only one who can do that.

So I’d love to see that upgrade: a little box for the affected person.

If you haven’t seen it yet, I did a podcast yesterday with Paul Leslie. So just if you’re on X, probably on YouTube too, search for the Paul Leslie Hour if you want to see me talking to Paul. He asked really good questions, so it’s not the usual boring stuff. He made me go pretty deep.

That might be my last podcast as a guest. Not as a host. There might be a lot of things that will be my last coming up, but I don’t know that I’ll ever do another podcast as a guest. You’ll see plenty of me because I’ll still be here every day as long as I can.

Also Elon Musk, who likes to make news. You could take a self-driving Tesla to San Jose airport. Now I didn’t see where the pickup places are. Probably just right around San Francisco where they’ve been practicing with the self-driving cars. And I don’t know why you’d necessarily want to go from San Francisco to San Jose instead of flying out of San Francisco, but that probably indicates there’s a bigger pickup area than I’m aware of.

Let me tell you, San Jose airport is a good one. Number one, you need to know that’s a good airport. People like using that one. It’s convenient. But if you add a self-driving Tesla to the airport that’s already a good airport, that’s a pretty good package because just getting to the airport is such a pain in the ass.

I think I would trust the self-driving car before I’d trust myself not to take a wrong turn in traffic.

Also more Elon Musk news. Neuralink. They’ve got their first patient in the UK, somebody named Paul who, according to Doge designers talking about this on X, he got a brain implant and then just hours after surgery—this is the impressive part—only hours after surgery, he was able to control a computer with his thoughts and he’s now using it to play games and regain independence. Holy. So impressive. That’s just so impressive. Good luck, Paul.

And here’s more Elon Musk tech news. He said what I like about this is not only that they fixed this bug, but he’s saying publicly we have a significant bug in the For You algorithm on X. He said that bug has resulted in users seeing far fewer posts from people they follow. Thank you. I thought I was going crazy. Didn’t you?

If you’re on X, didn’t you think, is it me? Like, why am I now seeing the people I would most want to see? I’m seeing all these random people. But it turns out there’s a significant bug.

Now, I trust Elon to say that it’s a bug and not some intentional thing that some employee tried to do. I feel like if somebody had intentionally done it that he would have said, “Yeah, we already fired that person. It’s going to get fixed,” because he’s pretty transparent about that. But if he doesn’t say there’s anybody to be fired and it wasn’t intentional, it’s just a bug.

That was one of the biggest bugs of all time in the history of bugs. That’s just one of the biggest ones I’ve ever seen. And it persisted for a long time. So he said it should be fixed by tomorrow. He said that yesterday.

And then did you see any difference in your X feed for those of you on X? I did. I suddenly started getting all kinds of porn. Did anybody get porn in their feed as soon as he fixed the bug?

Now, I always make sure that I don’t look for porn on X. Like, even if it’s newsworthy or something, I still won’t look for it because I don’t want to train the algorithm to feed me porn. You know, it just thinks I want it because maybe I looked at some news story about somebody being naughty. But it fed me some straight-up x-rated porn. So I blocked it and I haven’t seen it yet. So I think the blocking teaches it not to give you more. That’s what I hope.

Anyway, you probably saw a video of the events where New York mayor candidate Mamdani was with AOC and with Sanders and they gave a rousing big rally, very successful. And then when they were done, all three of them got off stage and gave Nazi salutes. Did you see that? All three of them gave Nazi salutes.

What? Oh. Oh, you’re saying they weren’t Nazi salutes? Oh, really? I’m looking at the comments and I’m shocked. Are you telling me that adult public figures can raise their arms in the air in recognition of the audience? That that’s not a Nazi salute? What?

Ted Cruz commented on one of the photos of them with their arms raised. Says, “Are those Nazi salutes?” I think he got 33 million views on that. Are those not Nazi salutes? And then Elon Musk, of course, had to weigh in. He goes, “Sure looks like it.”

Now, obviously Elon is just poking fun because it doesn’t look like it. He was just accused of a Nazi salute because he raised his arm once in a crowd. But to watch them do exactly the same thing that we… How many news cycles did we have to go through where Democrats were pretending that was a real thing that happened in the real world, pretending that Musk had actually literally done a Nazi salute? Days and days and days and weeks of listening to that.

And then as soon as these cats get on stage, they’re like, “Oh, I’m not even going to raise my arm because I know what happened.”

According to the Guardian, Nick Robins-Early. Are you kidding me? There’s somebody whose name was Robins who must have married somebody whose last name was Early. Aren’t robins a sign of early things? Because the robin comes in the spring and the actual last name is now hyphenated Robins-Early. Come on, that can’t be real.

Anyway, Robins-Early says in the Guardian that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT. One million people every week show suicidal intent.

Now, the real question is, can you really determine intent? Because I’m pretty sure I would be counted as one of the million and you know I don’t have any immediate plans. I have, you know, when I thought the cancer was going to get me in June, but I got a little reprieve there. That actually seems low to me. I would actually expect that number to be larger if people thought that they were not being monitored. Wouldn’t they at least sort of wrestle with the concept a little bit with the AI just to see what it said?

I don’t know. I don’t think ChatGPT is causing that. I think that’s just a place people feel safe with ideas they wouldn’t feel safe talking to people.

All right, let’s talk about some other Democrats. See how the Democrats are doing. We’ll check in with this author Stephen King. How’s he doing?

Well, he posted yesterday or the day before, I forget. He says, “Trump says he won’t invite either team playing in the World Series to the White House. He can’t rise above this petty political concerns even for the great American game. If anything, it shows what a louse he is.” That’s it. What a louse he is. Did he travel back to the 40s to make this post? You dirty louse. I got you. You dirty rat. You louse.

Anyway, he got community noted because nothing like that happene

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d in the real world. Trump never said anything about inviting or not inviting any World Series people. And the community note says the claim stems from a fabricated screenshot. Fact checks on the White House confirms no such Trump post exists. The image came from a satire account and never appeared on his platform. So it’s a completely imaginary problem which I have taken the initiative—as you kn…

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