ent stimulation. You know, the tDCS. So it delivers it to the frontal cortex where apparently they know that would make a difference.

So here's my question. Well, and it's being compared to pills which we don't see as a good treatment for depression. So if it's better than pills, and apparently the early studies are stunningly successful, we'll see what the long-term effects are, but apparently there's a long-term effect. So it doesn't just work while you have it on. It's reprogramming your brain. Now why I think this has a good chance is because pills don't work. Not everybody can take a walk and touch a tree and get better. It has just a huge impact in their life. So I'm just being optimistic. That might be a big thing in the future.

Ars Technica is reporting that in California, my silly state, there's a new law that just took effect about privacy. And apparently as of January 1st, Californians can ask to be opted out of whatever services there are that collect data and sell it. So I guess it's Cal privacy. So is that good or bad? I can't tell. You know, it seems like a good intention thing that would give people control over their own data. That sounds good, right? But will AI suffer? You know, does it make AI not work for you? What if AI knew me because I didn't opt out of this stuff but it didn't know you because you did? Would AI work better for me because it would know all my habits?

And would there be a black market that popped up that would just fill the space where the legal stuff became illegal? And so they just say, "Well, black market." So there might be some unintended consequences, but I'm going to be optimistic about that too.

All right. Here's an interesting story. As you know, or maybe you don't, that Steve Hilton is running for governor of California. Now you might be aware that it's a very difficult thing for a Republican to get elected as governor in our current situation in California. So how do you break through? How do you get through if you're a Republican? You know, it's a blue state. Everything's working against you.

Well, it looks like Steve might have found a way because he and I think one other person running for California state controller, Herb Morgan, so the two of them, it looks like they put together a website called CalFraud to take whistleblower reports of fraud. And then apparently they've already done this. They've built it and they're getting lots of whistleblowers telling them where the fraud is. Which seems to be amazingly useful and exactly what we want.

Now how many times have I told you that being useful, just in general, being useful is a really good place to be. I've never really seen a situation where a candidate did something this useful while running for office. And so the genius of this is that he can already say this is the sort of thing I can give you at the time when people are most interested in this sort of thing.

Now I didn't know too much about Steve Hilton but when I see this kind of a signal I automatically say okay first of all that's a strong play. I'm very impressed. Secondly, if this is an indication of who he is and how he operates and how he thinks, oh my god, that's just so strong. So I'm going to upgrade my opinion. I think he's actually leading in the polls now because it's the polls are kind of distributed. But Steve, if you can do this sort of thing and it's not some kind of one-off, which I don't think it is actually, and you could be of service to the state in exactly the way we want you to be, this is important to me, very important to me.

He's obviously very good as a public figure. He has lots of experience on TV. So and you need that, right? You need to be good on TV or it doesn't work. So good for you, Steve Hilton. Standing ovation.

Meanwhile, speaking of fraud, Caroline Leavitt confirmed that the Minnesota fraud that we've all heard about so much is going to be the subject of an all-hands-on-deck across the entire government effort. We are surging resources. So apparently the Department of Homela