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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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Chapter 2: How is Meta changing its fact-checking approach?
Meta has decided it's going to go with the community notes idea, basically the same thing as X. And it's not going to use all of its fake fact checkers. No fake fact checkers anymore for Meta. Now, do you imagine that Zuckerberg is doing this just because of Trump? Or do you think he's just being smart and he knows the community notes method is just better? I think maybe both.
I think he's smart enough to know that not making an enemy of Trump makes a lot of sense at the moment. And also it's a better way to check the facts. So that's good. Here's something interesting. SoftBank is... putting $130 million into robot-assisted solar farms. Now, not a farm where you grow food, but a farm of solar panels that becomes a power, basically a power-producing entity.
And so the idea is they'll use the robots to automate the building of these artificial, all these systems. So here's what's cool about this. Something like 25 years ago, I was at a dinner and I was sitting next to a futurist, a person who predicts the future. His name is Paul Sappho. I think he's about 71 now, so he's probably still around. And he made a prediction at that dinner.
Chapter 3: What predictions were made about solar energy and robots?
They sounded so like wildly futuristic that but I never forgot it. And the prediction was that when robots could make solar farms, the the price of energy would start dropping to near zero. Now, think about that. Apparently, there would be tremendous savings in labor if the robots are installing the solar panels and they're doing all the work themselves without help.
But robots could also be producing the actual solar panels in the factory. But robots could also make more robots to make more solar panels and to make more solar farms. So he predicted that when robots were doing all the power generation work instead of people, that the cost of energy would just start plummeting.
Now, we haven't seen that yet, but SoftBank's got a $130 million bet that it's coming. This is one of those things that if you didn't know that there was a really solid prediction behind it, Safo has a good reputation, you wouldn't be as excited as I am. This is a big, big deal, potentially. It could be early. Maybe they don't quite have the technology to do it, but you can see where it's going.
Sometime in your child's life, solar farms will be popping up everywhere, and there'll be batteries to store it when the sun's not out, and it's going to be amazing. Meanwhile, Newsmax has agreed in a legal case to pay the firm Smartmatic. I think that's the software company for the electronic voting machines. Going to pay them $40 million to settle a 2020 election claim.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Smartmatic's legal settlements?
This is according to Axios. Now, the claim is that Smartmatic accused Newsmax of falsely reporting a baseless conspiracy theory that its voting technology was rigged in 2020. But apparently they could not make that case, and so Smartmatic gets $40 million. Now, Smartmatic also filed a similar suit against One American News, which was settled last April, so they made a bunch of money on that.
And then they've also... They've also got a suit coming up against Fox News for $2.7 billion for the same thing. And I'm thinking, I think Smartmatic has the best business model I've ever seen. All they have to do is be involved in an industry where people have lots of questions. And then some people are going to go too far. And then they sue them.
I don't know how much Smartmatics makes just for their regular business, but I doubt they make $1.7 billion or $2.7 billion very often. Now, obviously, that could get negotiated down to some other number. But wow, they're making a lot of money on these legal cases. It's the best business model I've seen. Well, Chuck Schumer decided not to back a
closing of the government and tweaking of the budget. So instead of resisting the continued resolution that Trump was in favor of, and most Republicans were, except for Thomas Massey, I guess, Schumer decided to fold like an umbrella on a windy day. No, that's wrong. Fold like a A tent with no tent poles. Fold like a shirt that's being folded by a robot. I got nothing. I got nothing.
Chapter 5: Why are Democrats struggling to maintain a unified stance?
But he folded. Now, here's the fun part. It seems to me that Democrats have argued in the past that that if Republicans had resisted their budget, whatever, that the closing of the government would lead to such great pain around the country that you couldn't possibly do it.
And then you've got Chuck Schumer put in the position that he has to argue against the thing that he's argued for in the past, which is shutting down the government. So finally, it looks like the Democrats have learned a little bit.
that if you just automatically resist everything Trump wants, you end up arguing against the things that you're caught on video arguing the opposite of not that long ago. So the Democrats are so completely hollowed out at this point, they can't argue anything because there will immediately be a compilation of clips showing that they had the exact opposite opinion not that long ago.
And and I think the accusation that they're all theater kids pretending to have opinions is really strong because the more you see it, the harder it is to imagine that's not what's happening, because if they had argued, let's say forcefully that, oh, we got to shut this government down, it's better than passing this continued resolution. Then we'd have to wonder
Why were they equally passionate with the opposite opinion just a few years ago? And you could tell that it was acting. It would obviously be just acting. And that's all they have is people acting because they don't have actual opinions that anybody cares about. They want power and they will simply act in whatever way they think can get it. So they just have nothing.
So anyway, he decides to go with it. And the Democrats have done so little and have so little power that they don't want to be the only thing they accomplished was shutting down the government. Because apparently one of the things they were afraid of is if they shut down the government, There would be no government people in the offices to stop Doge from doing whatever it wanted.
So Doge ended up being accidentally like a weapon. I don't know. The only thing keeping Doge from totally ripping apart all these stupid Democrat grants and contracts is that there's a human being in the office to try to slow him down. So if you send them home for a week, I don't know, Doge just might go wild on your organization.
So anyway, the theater kids decided they didn't want to get into that act. I saw a post on X by a user called Unseen1. one with just the digit one in case you want to follow unseen one and it's just a list of what's left of the democrats and i'm not going to say you know it's complete or you know i agree with every part of it it's just funny so it's called the current makeup of the democrat party
Number one, the TDS base. They hate everything about Trump and want to go down fighting tooth and nail over every little thing Trump does. They hold up little signs and raise their canes while ranting to the sky during national speeches. Two, the former power brokers who don't understand they are powerless.
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Chapter 6: What are the recent findings on education standards?
had predicted that there would be an outlier poll that said that Trump was doing poorly on the economy. They actually predicted it because they've watched the patterns of other polling companies. Now, so I opened up Perplexity, the AI app that I like a lot, and I said, Perplexity, can you tell me about the reputations of the Rasmussen Polling Company versus the Quinnipiac?
And I'm going to paraphrase, but this is basically what Perplexity told me. Oh, Quinnipiac, oh, it's the golden standard of the greatest methodology. Everybody loves it. They have never been wrong. They're so good. They're so good. Oh, my God, Quinnipiac is the greatest poll and survey we've ever seen. All right, I'm paraphrasing, but they were very positive about it.
And then I said, well, what about Rasmussen? Well, Rasmussen is criticized for being a little too Republican. They seem to be biased toward Republicans. And then I said, okay, which one of those two polling companies was more accurate about the last three presidential elections? And then perplexity got really weird. Well, you know, Rasmussen's very biased for Republicans. I go, shut up.
Chapter 7: What does Scott think about the teachers' unions?
All I'm asking is which one did better in the final results of the last three presidential elections. Well, you know, Quinnipiac is a highly rated... Shut up. I only want to know the last poll results of the two companies. Finally, after begging, cajoling, and twisting its arm, It gave me the answer. Well, Rasmussen did beat Quinnipiac in 2016. And Rasmussen did beat Quinnipiac in 2024.
You know, we're talking about just the last poll before the actual election, the one that counts. All the polls before that, there's no way to check them. But I will tell you that Rasmussen in 2024 was saying that Trump's looking good the whole time. And the internal polling of both the Trump Organization and the Kamala Harris campaign seemed to have agreed with Rasmussen the entire way.
Now we know that. You can fact check me on that, but I think that's true. But, perplexity said, but in 2020, Rasmussen was wrong, but Quinnipiac was much closer in 2020. To which I say,
2020, you mean the one that Steve Bannon says was totally rigged and the most unusual voting patterns we've ever seen in our life to the point where it's hard to be a reasonable person who believes that that was actually some kind of organic and natural voting? Oh yeah, that's the one that Quinnipiac got right. Now put it all together.
Do you remember I tell you that the closest you can get to understanding reality is the ability to predict? Rasmussen predicted the outlier pole before it happened because it's a pattern. Can anybody say that Quinnipiac is wrong? Not really. Because they're the gold standard. They're the best there's ever been. Their processes, their systems, their methodology, solid gold. But
just happened to be the outlier poll at exactly the time when they needed an outlier poll. So predictable. Now, that's all I know. All I know is that Rasmussen predicted it publicly and that Rasmussen got two out of three elections right versus Quinnipiac. And the one that they didn't get right is a little bit suspicious. The election itself, not the predictions. So that's the world you live in.
Meanwhile, there's Mario Naufel was summarizing a new report, the nation's report card on the schools. It's all bad and worse than you can even imagine. So in reading, only 4% of students are classified as advanced. 26% are just proficient and 37% are basic and 33% fall below that level. Math scores are even worse with only 8% advanced, 20% proficient, 33% basic and a staggering 39% below basic.
So 40% of students almost can't meet the fundamental math standards. This is Mario's summary. It's all bad. Now, I believe that it's the teachers' unions that are the primary problem because they control the Democrats, and between the two of them, they can control a lot of what happens in schools, and the teachers' union is for the benefit of the Democratic Party and for teachers.
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Chapter 8: How does AI training affect national security?
When do the students get a union? When do the fucking students get their own union? When do they get a union? How about the people who are the most important people, the future of our country, the ones who basically can keep the lights on in the next generation? When do they get their own fucking union? You know what you don't need is a teacher's union. You need a student union.
I guess there are things called student unions, but it's not the same. Yeah. So how about a student union? How about that? How about the students can fire their teachers for being useless? How about that? How about the students can decide that they don't want to go to the school at all because it's just garbage? How about that? How about the parents have a union? Where's the parents union?
Where's the parents fucking union? So if you're going to let the teachers have a union, I think the parents and the students need to have their own union and they need to have some kind of power. And they need to have some kind of control over their life. The teachers union is just a festering boil on this country that needs to be lanced off as quickly as possible.
There's no legal way to do it, as far as I know. So you're either going to have to compete it away or build competing schools and starve it. You're going to have to kill it. one way or the other, you're going to have to kill it because it's the absolute second worst existential problem in the country. Number one is debt. But, you know, Doge is at least attacking that.
I'm a little bit tired of the teachers unions. Well, OpenAI says that the AI race would be over, meaning that AI as a technology in the United States would be basically not a good business model if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use. Now, Ars Technica is writing about this. Ashley Bellinger. And OpenAI says that national security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data.
Now, I think that's probably true if they can't do copyrighted anything. Probably the AI can't train itself, can't exist as a business model, and it would have national security implications. And they're hoping that Trump will do something about that. So the courts are mulling over that whole fair use thing. I guess there's a New York Times case. What does the New York Times do?
Anyway, there's going to be, oh, there's a major suit brought by the New York Times on that, the issue of copyright stuff. Now, given that I am, and first of all, I think this mostly involves nonfiction writing. So I don't think the AI is a threat to fiction because nobody would want to hear a summary of a novel. AI, can you summarize War and Peace? It's about Russia.
I mean, you know, that's an old joke. But I don't think you could summarize fiction because people who read fiction like to read the entire sentence and see it in the order it was written and sort of enjoy how the author put it all together. So there's no risk to fiction. but nonfiction, which is what I write primarily. I've only done a few works of fiction, but my work is fully known by AI.
Now, AI claims when I query it that it hasn't read my book. Maybe. Maybe it hasn't read my book, but it can summarize it by looking at all the comments people have made in public about my book. So if somebody writes a review, they might say, and this book introduced the idea of talent stacks, and this is what it is, or systems are better than goals, blah, blah, blah.
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