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re soon because they're doing a lot of attacks. So something's happening. There might be a tipping point and we might be at it, but we don't know what's tipping. One thing that might be tipping is Russia's entire economy. Maybe the other thing that could be tipping would be really bad news, which is Russia deciding to increase the lethality of their own attacks to reduce the effectiveness of the U…

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he shouldn't have been charged. That doesn't seem strong. That because the judge involved made small dollar donations to Democrat causes and his daughter was working for prominent members of the party that that would be too much bias. But I don't think you can overturn things because a judge has a political opinion because that would just be all judges. So I don't think that's going to fly. And then they're trying to move the case to the federal court where maybe the Supreme Court could get involved and give Trump some kind of good verdict, but I don't know what that would be based on. So I think it's probably worth a shot because he, you know, I don't know who pays his lawyers, but it's probably worth trying, but doesn't look like it's got a strong case.

OpenAI, according to the Epoch Times, OpenAI will face copyright infringement claims. So they can't get away with it just saying, "Oh, we just trained on everything and we didn't steal your IP." So apparently they must face allegations of copyright infringement. And there doesn't seem to be any doubt, at least among experts, that they took advantage of other people's IP to train their AI. So now what? Does OpenAI get sued by every author in the world? What do I do? Should I be part of some class action lawsuit where even if I win, I get 25 cents because that would be my share. There's nothing you do about it, right? But what I would like, which I think is a pipe dream, is if there were some way to know if your IP had more influence on the AI. Now, because of the nature of what I do, I'm always talking about what works and what doesn't work. And I write books about what works and what doesn't work. I'm probably one of the more, since I'm talking about myself, I have to pick the words carefully because it sounds too douchebaggy if I don't. But since my entire last I don't know maybe most of my career has been aimed at influencing lots of people on lots of dif

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ferent topics. Everything from what is good management in the Dilbert comic to how to fail almost everything still big which should be about success and one of the most influential books on success ever written, a book on persuasion which has had a tremendous impact according to people who privately tell me what they've used that for and I could go on, the reframes that you saw at the beginning et…

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