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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates in the stock market?
I'm sure you're happy if you own stocks today. It's looking good in the stock market. Bitcoin's up. I feel sorry for Jaguar. There's a Jaguar meme that's pretty funny. All right, let me call up your comments here on Locals to make sure I'm seeing the best of it. Here it is. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Starlink satellite update?
I think that means you can't quite use it yet, but the physical assets of satellites are in the right place. So very soon, according to Elon Musk, you'll be able to use your regular unmodified cell phone to use Starlink as a phone network. And apparently there's also something happening with Starlink that's going to greatly reduce the latency, which is a big deal with the satellite stuff.
I guess the next ring of satellites is going to be closer to the Earth. It's going to make a big, big difference in how fast your Starlink speed is. So that's cool. And other cool news, according to Zion Lights, which is the name of a person, by the way, Zion Lights, Britain is installing its first nuclear reactor in 30 years at Hinkley Point. So that's good news, right?
Do you remember when the UK used to be an ally of the United States? I remember that. That was cool. But now they're, I don't know what they are now, but they're going to have a lot of nuclear power. So it would have been good if they'd done that 30 years ago, maybe. There was an accidental scientific discovery, live science is reporting it, according to Owen Hughes.
They accidentally discovered something that could lower the the energy needed to store things, the energy needed to store data could go down by up to a billion times. It could be a billion times more energy efficient than current technology. Now, I don't think we have any idea of how good the Golden Age could be. It could be really good.
Because if we've got Europe putting in nuclear energy, and we've got Starlink giving us competition with satellites and phones, and we've got a billion times advantage. I mean, it's early in the technology. They haven't developed it yet. But it looks like it would work. And then we've got, according to The Guardian, Google's DeepMind, their AI,
can predict weather way better than the other way they've been doing it. So they're using artificial intelligence. And it's 20% better than what they've been using up to now. Yeah, it seems like a 20% advantage in forecasting the weather would make a big deal. Because I make a lot of decisions based on the weather. Don't you? And if you get it wrong, it can be expensive.
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Chapter 3: How is AI changing weather forecasting?
Like you can actually predict probably save a lot of money just by having better weather forecasts. So that's cool. According to Futurity, that's a publication, and Byron Spice, he says that robots are getting some new tech that allows them to figure out how to manipulate their physical environment without understanding everything about the objects.
So, in other words, robots are pretty good at doing the exact same thing over and over, but if you show them, let's say, a table full of dishes and you say, pick up these dishes or set this table or cook a meal and it has to figure out every new move like the first time it's ever seen it, It's not good at that, but apparently there's a new approach, and it's making a big deal.
So some PhD student, Murtaza Dalai, at the School of Computer Science and Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon,
um apparently they've got this new breakthrough so they can just sort of show it its situation and tell it what to do and it can figure out how to manipulate every object in its domain that would be amazing now but the thing i always complain about with robots is that they're always slow and i i just don't get that and i've said this before but Correct me if I'm wrong.
I have to do my robot impression again. If you saw a robot in the 1950s try to do anything, it would be... And then if you see a robot 50 years later with all the modern technology and supercomputing, the robot is still like... They couldn't make it faster. I get that it's hard to make it accurate, but they can never make it faster. So it always has to go slow, slowly. I don't know.
I don't get that part. Well, the Daniel Penny jury is maybe back deliberating. I have not yet heard of a conclusion. So I believe the Daniel Penny jury got sent home yesterday because they had not made a decision. So they should be back at it today. I think Judge Jeanine on the five said with some confidence that we'll see a verdict today.
I love Judge Jeanine's context lots of times because she's got the experience. So she can just sort of look at this case and say, oh, yeah, they'll have a verdict today. She's probably right. And here's what I think the verdict will be. Hung jury. I predict that they will not be able to make a decision because it's just too political.
There's going to be at least one person on that jury who says he has to go to jail because they don't want to face the angry crowds outside or they just think that's the right thing to do. I guarantee there will be at least one person on the jury who says, you're going to have to kill me before you put this guy in jail. Let me say that again.
there's a very high chance there's at least one person on that jury who's saying effectively, you know, not out loud, but effectively you'd have to kill me to put him in jail. Cause that's what I'd be thinking. If you put me on that jury, I would say, I don't care what the other 11 of you have to say. You would have to kill me to put him in jail under these circumstances.
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Chapter 4: What happened in the Daniel Penny jury deliberation?
And it makes me wonder, especially after this CEO tragedy murder, it makes me wonder if we're near the end of human murder because it'll be so much easier to send a machine to do it. There'll still be a human who's behind the murder. But if you could get a drone to do it for you, I feel like you'd send the robot or you'd send the drone or you'd hack into the self-driving car.
I feel like all murder in 10 years is going to be via robot or AI or self-driving car or airplane that falls out of the sky on top of you or something. So I got a feeling murder is going to look really different. Well, according to, who was this? According to somebody, I think this was Rasmussen. Rasmussen said that Hegseth has a lot of support with the GOP voters, as you would suspect.
And Democrats don't like it, as you would suspect. Which makes me think, I wonder about this whole confirmation process. If the confirmation process turns into predictably, you know exactly what the Democrats are going to vote for, and you know exactly what the Republicans are going to vote for, it makes me wonder if the whole approving of people is, we have to do something different.
Because if it just lines up along party lines every time, It really doesn't work. So this might be the cycle that tells us to rethink that whole situation. Well, according to also Wired, they checked a bunch of random phones from people who thought that they might have problems with their phones. So it wasn't completely random.
It was people who suspected there might be some spyware on their phones because they have those kinds of jobs. And sure enough... They found seven phones out of 2,500? Yeah, out of 2,500 devices, they found seven of them had that Pegasus infection. Now, Pegasus is the super bad spy version. It's not the one you want on your phone at all. But here's my problem. The company that found it makes a...
makes an app or a software, I guess, that checks for that kind of infection. How can you ever check or how can you ever trust the company that makes the software that checks for the viruses? How can you ever trust them? Like, I get that I can't trust the virus, but if somebody is in the business of essentially having enough control over your phone
that they can see if you have a virus, wouldn't they be the perfect carrier for a virus? So I'm not making any accusations about any specific companies. I'm just saying, if you let somebody have full access to your device to check if somebody else had full access to your device, I feel like you might be trading one problem for another. So, I don't know.
I guess I don't have any trust for virus scanning companies. But there's also a report that China says that the telecoms in the US all got hacked. Well, not all of them, but AT&T, Verizon, and others. And
that the hackers, Chinese hackers allegedly, got into live calls, call records, and even top-secret systems in D.C., and the government is advising, if you want to be safe, you should use encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp. Now, here's one of those stories. If you were a casual consumer of news, that would all make sense, wouldn't it? Oh, let's see.
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Chapter 5: What are the details of the United Healthcare CEO's murder?
Now, what part of that was anything but common sense? That was just common sense, right? And I don't see Republican and Democrat anymore. Those categories, they seem to be dissolving. I mean, I was watching another clip from Bill Maher, and Bill Maher is very cleanly in the common sense category. And he was talking to his guests. I'm not sure when this was filmed, but I just saw the clip today.
And he was saying that this country does need a big disruption. So he's actually going to... So Bill Maher, one of the biggest critics of Trump ever, has said he's not predicting success. but he's not going to criticize in advance because the country needs basically a slap, you know, a colonoscopy and a slap in the face, I think he said.
And so that's a completely common sense point of view because a reasonable person can say we have to grow faster to get out of our debt. A reasonable person would say we need something kind of more dramatic change than we've had before. These are all just perfectly sensible points of view, and none of this is Republican. Is it? I mean, you can't really say that Democrats love over-regulation.
That's not really a thing. So something just wonderful is happening about people you'd expect to be on the other team saying, wait a second, wait a second, are you just doing common sense over there? Because I can sign up for common sense. I can't sign up for your party, but all those things look smart. Why can't we do the things that make sense?
So big props to Jeff Bezos and Bill Maher in this context. I'll have other things I might want to complain about, but in this context, Bill Maher is definitely on the side of the patriots, I would say. So good to have him on board. Not completely. He'll still be a Trump critic, but he's not abandoning common sense to get there.
Let me do a clarification about something I said about the Kash Patel nomination. So I mentioned it on X and then people jumped all over me because I think they misinterpreted what I meant on X, but on X you can't give as much context. So if they didn't hear me talk about it, they probably didn't have a good idea what I was up about.
So according to the Vigilant Fox, which is one of the accounts I like to follow on X, and the Vigilant Fox is completely right-leaning bias, right? So they're completely right-leaning. But
they referenced Mediaite's list of Kash Patel's, what they would call an enemy's list, people he thinks need to be dealt with, either by their security clearance being taken away or there might be some legal issues. So some people went after me and said, oh, you believe this bad Mediaite source? Well, no, but I'm pretty sure that it's agreed on by both sides.
So if Mediite were the only one publishing an enemies list and nobody else did, and nobody else thought there was an enemies list, then I'm saying, I don't even think there is one. Sounds like fake news. But the Vigilant Fox... seems to think that this list is reasonably close to reality.
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