Every now and then a story comes along that you see isn’t quite right, and you correct it, knowing the correction will please absolutely no one, because truth is truth. This is one of those cases.
Sometimes, you have to be this guy.
In this case the subject is New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s absurd contention that Israelis train dogs to rape Palestinians. Everyone and their dog (oops) has already piled on the absurdity of the claim and just how devoid of supporting evidence Kristof’s piece was, with even New York Times reporters saying how embarrassing it was.
That’s not what I want to talk about.
Many pieces have gone on to cite ludicrous Palestinian claims of all sorts of trained animals working for Israel, like in this piece from The Hill:
In 2015, the BBC published the ludicrous claim that Hamas had seized an “Israeli spy dolphin” off the Gaza coast. Earlier, CNN had publicized Sudanese claims that it had captured an Israeli “spy vulture” on a reconnaissance mission. The BBC also ran a headline in 2010 titled “Shark attacks not linked to Mossad says Israel” and the Telegraph reported “Shark ‘sent to Egypt by Mossad.’”
Tiny problem: The idea that Israel is training spy dolphins is not, in fact, ludicrous, because the U.S. Navy does it.
Back when the Navy dolphin program was a hush hush secret, a friend told me about it, saying they would never send a dolphin on a mission where it was likely to get killed because it took several million each to train the. “They’ll just send a diver instead.” He also said that once some Greenpeace types has cut through the underwater retaining fence to free the dolphins, but the dolphins simply swam right back because of how well they were fed in the program.
The Reconnaissance and Interdiction Division at NIWC Pacific manages the Navy’s Marine Mammal Program which trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea.
Everyone is familiar with security patrol dogs, and how some service dogs use their keen sense of smell to detect explosives on land. Since 1959, the U.S. Navy has trained dolphins and sea lions as teammates for our Sailors and Marines to help guard against similar threats underwater. The Navy’s Marine Mammal Program has been homeported on Point Loma since the 1960’s.
Now, I have no idea whether the Israelis train spy dolphins or not. It may not be cost-effective, since there are a lot more limited uses for them considering the regional threat domains they face. But the idea that the Israelis are training spy dolphins is neither “ludicrous” nor far-fetched.
Doesn’t mean Hamas captured one in 2015, since those Jihadi idiots lie about everything, but it’s definitely within the realm of possibility.
When else will I have a chance to generate a meme this obscure?
Tomorrow should see a return of non-Ackchyually content…
President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on the second day of early voting for their U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff.
“Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate,” Trump stated in a Truth Social post.
“John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough,” Trump added.
Paxton responded shortly after Trump’s announcement, stating via an X post, “I am incredibly honored to have President Trump’s COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT.”
“No one has ever fought harder for the American people than President Trump, and I look forward to championing his America First agenda in the Senate!”
Cornyn and Paxton headed to a runoff after the March 3 primary election resulted in them being the top two candidates, although neither collected a majority, with Congressman Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38) knocked out of the contest.
Early voting for the primary runoff began on Monday and will conclude on Friday. Election day is on May 26.
Trump’s endorsement in the race was long-awaited, as he has repeatedly teased the possibility of one and suggested both candidates are strong supporters of his — a claim the two have intentionally aimed to prove in their campaigning.
Paxton already had a substantial lead over Cornyn, but this drives the final nail into Cornyn’s coffin. He’s toast. The fat lady isn’t warming up in the wings, she’s already climbed into her 2009 diesel-powered Jetta and driven back to Dusseldorf. Ken Paxton will be the official Republican nominee and can start concentrating on beating the truly strange Democrat nominee James Talarico in November.
Texas is a law-and-order state, but soft-on-crime Democrats are hellbent on undoing public order in blue cities, so Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking for new tools to correct the errors of their ways.
In an ongoing push for public safety, Gov. Greg Abbott called for state lawmakers to pass legislation next year that would create a state prosecutor, deny bail to illegal aliens charged with violent crimes, and allow for the impeachment of “rogue” district attorneys.
“I talk to victims … almost every day, and they’re angry about the current system and how the current system is failing them,” said Abbott during a press conference in Austin on Thursday. “I’m here today to provide solutions that we are going to pass this next session to ensure that victims’ rights are fought for, and we have their back and we are going to make our communities safer.”
Flanked by law enforcement and state lawmakers, including newly elected Texas Sen. Brett Ligon (R-Conroe), Abbott touted the success of a task force launched in the Houston area last October and said he had expanded the coordinated multi-agency effort to arrest repeat offenders to include Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio.
“In a matter of half a year, [they] had tremendous success, arresting over 700 of these repeat offenders,” said Abbott.
According to the governor’s office, the arrests included 455 “high threat” offenders and 155 known gang members. The task force has also seized 225,000 lethal doses of fentanyl, 115 pounds of methamphetamine, and 110 weapons, and recovered 25 stolen vehicles.
Abbott highlighted accomplishments from the last legislative session, but said lawmakers needed to do more and called for the passage of a constitutional amendment that would automatically deny bail to illegal immigrants accused of violent crime.
A similar proposal passed in the Texas Senate last year with the two-thirds majority needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment, but fell short of the 100 votes needed in the House.
Abbott also reiterated his push to create a state prosecutor who would be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate.
“The Travis County District Attorney failed to bring indictments for more than 200 people who were arrested and were behind bars, and he failed to bring those indictments within 90 days as required by law,” said Abbott. “Because of that failure, those people who have been arrested for crimes, including murder, were required to be let out from jail on very low bond.”
“A person arrested for murder was allowed to get out of jail for a $1 bond. That’s outrageous.”
In addition to adding a state criminal prosecutor, Abbott said there should be a process for impeaching district attorneys.
“Every statewide officer, every legislator, every district judge — they are subject to impeachment,” said Abbott. “The only elected official I’m aware of who is not subject to impeachment is a district attorney. Why are they excluded?”
Noting that there have only been three impeachments in Texas history, Abbott dismissed claims that impeachment could be used as a political tool to attack a district attorney as “a failed argument.”
Abbott said Ligon, the former Montgomery County district attorney, would be helping to draft the legislation addressing rogue prosecutors.
“The governor shared private comments with me that with his permission, I would share with you,” said Ligon. “What he told me was that he believed that the number one job for the state of Texas is to protect its people.”
“The way that you protect your people is you demand accountability of your elected group of district attorneys. The district attorney is the highest law enforcement officer in every community,” added Ligon.
He also took aim at Travis County District Attorney José Garza.
“There are only two ways to describe what’s going on here in Travis County. It’s absolutely ineffectual, or it’s intentional, and either way, it’s going to stop,” vowed Ligon.
It’s intentional. Like other Soros-backed leftwing DAs, Garza seems to regard it as a holy social justice imperative to put dangerous criminal back out on the streets as quickly as possible.
Garza has faced mounting calls for his resignation due to alleged prosecutorial misconduct and his handling of violent suspects.
Kristina Byington, whose sister Anita was murdered in Austin in 1991, was among the victims’ families present for Abbott’s press conference.
Although Texas courts called for a retrial of Anita’s alleged killer, Allen Andre Causey, Garza instead dropped the case and instructed the state to pay Causey $2.5 million in compensation.
These all seem like solid, common-sense proposals. Even better would be for voters in blue cities to stop electing Soros-backed pro-crime DAs…
Early voting for the runoff starts today, so direct mail flyers and cards are dropping hot and heavy, including this one:
(That 1301 Ledbetter Street, Round Rock, TX 78681 address points back to Israel and Linda Gonzales Avila. Linda Gonzales Avila ran unsuccessfully for the Round Rock ISD school board. If I remember correctly, she was an anti-SJW candidate, but not on the main conservative slate that year (all of which, alas, lost).)
I’m already voting for Paxton, Middleton and French in the runoff, so let’s look at the Court of Criminal Appeals Place 3 runoff. Here Thomas Smith is in a runoff with Alison Fox.
Smith touts conservative values, and spent a decade working under Ken Paxton, so that’s definitely a point in his favor. He’s got endorsements from Texas Eagle Forum, True Texas Project, Texas Homeschool Coalition, Grassroots America We The People, Texas Values, CLEAT (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas), and, on another card I received in the mail, Texas Gun Rights. Plus Tony Dale and Sara Gonzales.
Fox also touts faith and police backing, and has some good endorsements, including the Kingwood Tea Party, Republican Liberty Caucus, and Texas Right to Life, along with some police associations. However, she also lists endorsements from the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News. Once upon a time, say, 30 or 40 years ago, that wouldn’t have been a problem, as at least the last two were pretty conservative newspapers. However, like the rest of the media, they’ve drifted quite far to the left over time, and actually touting their endorsements is pretty tone-deaf, and not a positive for conservatives.
Based on that tone-deafness, I’m giving Smith the nod as he candidate to back in the runoff.
Police are searching for a suspect or suspects driving a damaged vehicle in connection with a series of apparently random shootings that happened across the city Saturday.
Suspect wanted
The Austin Police Department issued an urgent appeal to the community on Sunday, asking residents to remain vigilant as detectives work to establish a motive and identify those responsible.
According to investigators, the Saturday shootings appeared to target random locations and victims, with no clear pattern or connecting motive identified so far.
Authorities described the suspect as a white or Hispanic male in his late teens.
The suspect vehicle is described as a black or dark blue 2012 Hyundai Sonata. Police noted the car has a broken front or rear right passenger window. The Austin Police Department is also searching for a white KIA Optima the suspect(s) may be traveling in.
Members of the public are warned not to approach the vehicle or the suspect if spotted, but to call 911 immediately…
Anyone with information regarding the shootings, the suspect’s identity, or the location of the vehicle is urged to contact the Austin Police Department’s Aggravated Assault Unit at 512-974-5177.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at austincrimestoppers.org or by calling 512-472-8477. A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest.
The situation is serious enough that I actually got an alert for it on my iPhone:
That’s all south to far-south Austin, so nowhere near me.
Seems more random than your average active shooter. While it could be a crazy far-left TDS sufferer, my money is on random nutcase. It looks like Loony McShootsALot is in a shoe store or something, and it’s hard to think of a political reason to start blazing away there.
APD Chief Lisa Davis said a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old were taken into custody Sunday. The older suspect had an outstanding warrant for theft of a handgun at a store, and the younger suspect stole a gun from the same store Saturday.
The suspects were responsible for around 20 calls to APD, primarily in south and east Austin, Davis said. She said the suspects fired into various buildings, apartment complexes and two Austin Fire Department stations, hitting a truck.
Four people were shot, and one of those is now stable after suffering serious injuries, Davis said. Two of the people were shot in front of a store that was caught on a polecam, and the suspects stole several cars during their spree, Davis said.
Update 3: Third suspect detained. “Late Sunday night, the Manor Police Department announced a third suspect who fled from a vehicle during a pursuit in Manor had been located and detained. Officials said there is “no ongoing threat to the public at this time.”
Update 4: “One of the three suspects charged in connection with multiple shootings over the weekend in Austin has been identified as 17-year-old Cristian Mondragon, according to law enforcement sources.” Gun theft occurred at “321 W. Ben White Blvd,” which is Central Texas Gun Works, run by Michael Cargill, of the Garland v. Cargill bump stock case.
The Texas legislature passed new financial transparency requirements, but a whole lot of municipalities have been slow on the ball to comply, so Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is bringing the wood.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is moving to block more than 130 Texas cities from hiking property taxes this year, accusing them of breaking a new state transparency law.
The word “cities” is more than a stretch here, as a lot of the municipalities here are pretty tiny.
Senate Bill 1851, passed in 2025, prohibits cities that don’t meet financial audit and disclosure requirements from raising property taxes above the no‑new‑revenue rate. The no‑new‑revenue rate is designed to collect roughly the same amount of property tax revenue from existing properties as the previous year, preventing hidden tax hikes caused by rising appraisals.
According to Paxton’s office, the action follows an investigation launched last month when he demanded financial-statement and audit records from more than 1,000 municipalities to check whether they were complying with SB 1851.
Cities that failed to meet the law’s reporting standards for the new fiscal year were flagged as noncompliant.
Paxton has now sent formal letters to those cities, notifying them that they are barred from adopting property tax rates higher than the no‑new‑revenue rate and are subject to enforcement provisions and penalties under the statute.
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Paxton framed the move as a stand for taxpayers against local governments that want to raise taxes without following the rules.
“I will not allow cities to unlawfully raise taxes on hardworking Texans. That is why I took aggressive action against over 130 Texas cities to hold them accountable and ensure they comply with state law,” Paxton said in a statement. He added that cities “cannot fail to abide by state audit requirements without consequences,” and vowed his office will keep enforcing state law “to protect taxpayers across the state.”
The list of cities that received letters is long and spans every corner of Texas, from small rural towns to mid‑sized communities and coastal municipalities.
The list includes Alpine, Aspermont, Baird, Balch Springs, Balmorhea, Bedias, Berryville, Big Spring, Bishop, Blooming Grove, Blue Mound, Briarcliff, Brookside Village, Buffalo Gap, Calvert, Cameron, Campbell, Centerville, Chico, Chireno, Clarksville, Clear Lake Shores, Combine, Corrigan, Crane, Cross Timber, Crowell, Crystal City, Cuero, Dalhart, Danbury, De Leon, Eagle Lake, Elkhart, Eureka, Eustace, Fairfield, Farwell, Flatonia, Franklin, Fritch, Fulton, Gordon, Grandfalls, Gregory, Groesbeck, Groom, Hale Center, Hamilton, Hearne, Hempstead, Higgins, Hillcrest Village, Horizon City, Howardwick, Howe, Huntington, Industry, Ingleside On the Bay, Jewett, Jonestown, Keene, Kemah, Kenedy, Kerens, Kermit, Lamesa, Livingston, Lott, Lumberton, Manvel, Marquez, McCamey, Megargel, Menard, Mertzon, Mexia, Miami, Midway, Miles, Mount Enterprise, Natalia, New Home, New Waverly, Newcastle, Oyster Creek, Paducah, Panorama Village, Pelican Bay, Pleak Village, Plum Grove, Port Lavaca, Quanah, Red Lick, Redwater, Rockdale, Rocksprings, Roma, Rusk, San Elizario, San Felipe, San Perlita, Seabrook, Shepherd, Smiley, Snyder, Somerville, Southmayd, Spring Branch, Spur, Sterling City, Stinnett, Sunray, Surfside Beach, Taft, Tehuacana, Texas City, Texline, Three Rivers, Tiki Island, Tom Bean, Tool, Turkey, Valley Mills, Valley View, Victoria, Weslaco, Weston Lakes, Wharton, Wickett, Wimberley, Wolfe City, Woodloch, Yantis, and Yoakum.
Some of these are, in fact, cities. Victoria and Texas City both have over 50,000 people, and the finance departments there should have been on the ball. But some of these are barely towns. Megargel has a population of 174. Tiki Island (yes, a real place) is a village of some 1,100 people just off I-45 on the inland side of Galveston Bay.
Different Tiki Island
I’m in favor of limiting tax increases, and the municipalities here should get on the ball for the sake of transparency. But I suspect some of the smaller towns here just need to hire a part-time accountant to fill out the forms.
Also, this article provided a great stress test to see how many tags I can add to Word Press at one time…
Democrats get called on their Medicaid fraud and steal firefighter pensions, the awful atrocities Hamas committed against Israeli civilians, more details of the plot against America, another Democrat spying for the Chinese, a look at Finland’s deep civil defense infrastructure, and Uncle Rick discovers that Ivy League grads working for the New York Times are ignorant dumbasses.
ice President J.D. Vance certainly has been busy as America’s “Fraud Czar.”
Medicaid fraud in California is rampant, and as my colleague Mary Chastain noted in March, Vance’s anti-fraud task force suspended 70 hospice and home health care businesses in Los Angeles.
The move came shortly after investigations by CBS News and Nick Shirley revealed a fraud scheme in California involving hospices.
Vance’s task has then suspended over 400 more.
Now the Vice President has announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to suspend federal funding to all states if they don’t aggressively prosecute fraud in their Medicaid programs.
“There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously, but also you have people who have been prescribed medications that they don’t even need. They’ve had drugs put into their bodies that they don’t need because fraudsters have actually encouraged false prescriptions and false administration of medications,” Vance said at the White House.
The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.
Vance said that the administration is also notifying all 50 states that it could freeze funding to their Medicaid Fraud Control Units “if they do not aggressively prosecute Medicaid fraud.” The units, which exist in each state, investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud. “We are going to turn off the money that goes to these anti-fraud units,” he said, if they fail to do their job.
This is a good start, but people need to go to prison.
Washington just became the first state in U.S. history to terminate a public employee pension plan.
The plan belongs to retired police officers and firefighters. LEOFF Plan 1 was 160% funded as of June 2024 per the state’s own actuarial valuation. It had not required a single contribution in 25 years. By 2029 it was projected to reach 200% funded with a $4.3 billion surplus.
The legislature terminated the plan, swept $3.9 billion, and is using $880 million of it to refill a rainy day fund it already drained to cover a deficit it created.
Days ago, retired first responders including former Congressman Dave Reichert sued the state to stop it. The bill passed the House 55-39 and was advanced out of Appropriations without a public hearing. Every yes vote was a Democrat. The governor signed it in April.
“Missouri Supreme Court Upholds New Congressional Map.” “The Missouri Supreme Court once again upheld the state’s new Congressional map, which would break-up the Kansas City Democratic seat and give Republicans a 7-1 advantage.”
They’ve got themselves into a position — which began with Barack Obama’s hollowing out of the party over a decade ago — in which they can’t afford to lose the next couple of elections, even as their position erodes.
Due to an “accidental error” in the 2020 census, blue states got more seats in the House — and more electoral votes — than they were entitled to. When that “error” is fixed, the situation will be worse for them. Then there’s the flood of refugees from blue states to red, further expanding their Congressional majorities. (But beware of the refugees who continue to vote blue. Where’s my “welcome wagon” proposal?)
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is choking off the flood of taxpayer money that has kept leftist organizations and institutions afloat, buying votes with taxpayer dollars. And the federal workforce has shrunk 10% with more “draconian cuts” on the way.
It’s a bit like Winfield Scott’s “Anaconda Plan” to choke off the Confederacy — which worked once it was actually employed. (And Trump is doing something similar with Iran, choking it off gradually rather than going for a swift coup de main, which is disappointing some people but which will work at a much-reduced cost in lives. But that’s another essay.)
This is why the Democrats, and the left, but I repeat myself, are unhappy. They feel it happening.
Click through to hear the lamentations of their women.
Right after the ceasefire expired: “FP-2 Drones Swarm Russian Positions: Multiple Hits on Multiple Targets–Ammo Dumps, Training Centre.”
Finland officially became NATO’s newest member on April 4, 2023, becoming the 31st member of the alliance, about one month after neighboring Sweden joined.
One of the so-called “justifications” for Vladimir Putin’s utterly unjustifiable full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was that he didn’t want NATO expanding to his borders. Not counting Kaliningrad, that stretch of Russian territory between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea, at the start of 2022, Russia had 446 miles of shared border with NATO members Norway, Estonia, and Latvia.
Finland shares 883 miles of border with Russia, so now that Finland is in NATO, Russia has 1,279 miles of shared border with NATO members, almost three times as much as before the invasion. It is a beautiful thing to see military territorial aggression backfire so thoroughly.
Considering Finland’s long and tense history with Russia, some might have expected the country to end up in the NATO alliance sooner. Once a territory of Sweden, then of Russia, Finland declared its independence in 1917. In August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which relegated Finland to a Soviet sphere of influence. By November, Finland and the Soviets were fighting the three-month Winter War; this was when Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, nicknamed the “White Death,” believed to have killed more than 500 enemy soldiers during the conflict, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war, and considered one of the deadliest snipers in history. (I suspect he is the only Finn to be featured in a video of the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History, taking on the Red Baron.) Finland resisted bravely against overwhelming Russian forces, but at the war’s end it was forced to cede about 9 percent of its territory. In June 1941, Finland and the Soviet Union returned to conflict in the Continuation War, with Finland a cobelligerent of Nazi Germany.
Finland argued that it was fighting a parallel but separate “continuation war” against the Soviet Union and had no formal treaty of alliance with Germany. While the U.S. ended diplomatic relations for a period, it never declared war against Finland.
When World War II ended, Finland retained its independence, but Soviet troops remained at its doorstep. In 1948, the Finnish government announced the “Treaty of Friendship,” declaring that Finland was committed to staying out of international conflicts between the great powers and limiting Finnish defense cooperation with third parties. “Finlandization” became a term to describe a state of technical independence and sovereignty, but heavy influence by the Kremlin.
The Finns’ preferred public stance of neutrality remained after the Cold War ended, and if not for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Finland might have remained a “NATO partner,” but not a member. In January 2022, public opinion polling found 30 percent of Finns supported Finland applying for NATO membership. Forty-three percent of respondents opposed applying for membership, and 27 percent were unsure of their position. About one month later, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, and by April, 68 percent of Finns supported applying for NATO membership.
You may have noticed that the Russian “special military operation” that was supposed to last four days has now lasted more than four years, the Russian military couldn’t spare any tanks for the Victory Day parades in Red Square this year, and a new estimate calculates that about 352,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war against Ukraine through the end of 2025. That is about six times the American in-theater deaths in the Vietnam War. Throw in the wounded and missing, and the Russian military has lost an estimated 1.4 million men.
The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.
Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.
Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.
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At Kibbutz Be’eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound. On another victim, grenades were used.
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Those taken hostage were assaulted in front of loved ones and young relatives forced to commit sex acts on each other, an intentional, premeditated strategy of kinocide to destroy family units even after release from captivity.
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There was a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault.
Indeed, when Hamas led other terror groups into Israel they carried Arabic-to-Hebrew phrase lists commanding victims to ‘take off your pants’, ‘lie down’, and ‘spread your legs’.
This is the group the ideological core of the Democratic Party will do almost anything to back.
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution 🚨🚨
This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call.
Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at creating a color revolution isn’t new news; this part was already reported in NOTUS earlier this year.
But what’s not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as “a global anti-authoritarian movement,” connecting U.S. officials with “colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly.”
They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, “international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces,” and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism.
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Inside The New Pluralists: how billionaires weaponized the Biden Administration, targeted Charlie Kirk, and are quietly financing America’s color revolution 🚨🚨
In 2017, a quiet meeting brought representatives of Soros, Koch, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations together for one purpose: to rethink how philanthropy influences politics.
Out of that meeting came the “New Pluralists,” a coalition that would go on to shape the Biden White House’s United We Stand summit, fund censorship-adjacent projects, and eventually intersect with investigations into Turning Point USA … and the color revolution that’s brewing in the United States now.
“Legal group exposes heavy use of Minnesota’s ‘vouching’ system to override voting ID rules. The records, which were obtained through a public records request, showed that Minnesota’s Election Day Registration process allows registered voters or certain residential facility employees to verify another voter’s residency in place of standard identification or proof-of-address documents.” “According to the data released by AFL, almost 18,900 Election Day registrations in 2024 involved the use of vouching. Of those, 13,441 were updates to existing voter registrations, while 5,457 involved new voter registrations.”
(Hat tip: Director Blue.)
One of Britain’s ‘first gay dads’ and his husband have both been charged with rape, sexual assault and modern slavery trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, also the UK’s first openly gay football club owner, and his husband Scott Hutchison, 32, will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court today …
Drewitt-Barlow and his ex-husband Tony made headlines in 1999 when they became one of the first gay couples in the UK to have children through a surrogate mother.
An Essex Police statement said today: ‘Detectives have secured charges against two men in connection with an investigation into human trafficking for sexual exploitation, rape and other sexual offences.
‘Officers from the Serious Crime Directorate at Essex Police carried co-ordinated searches at premises in Danbury, Maldon, and Braintree on Wednesday and arrested two men. Since then we have been liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service.
‘We can now confirm that 57 year-old Barrie Drewitt-Barlow and 32 year-old Scott Drewitt-Barlow, both of Danbury, have both been charged with multiple offences including rape, sexual assault, and modern slavery trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman has reiterated that he is done with the insanity gripping his party. In a series of raw appearances on Bill Maher’s show and a new Washington Post op-ed, Fetterman is torching the reflexive anti-Trump obsession, the normalization of radical left ideas once dismissed as smears, and the sloppy 24-hour news cycle that turns opinions into “news.”
Fetterman made clear he refuses to play along with the extremes. “My colleagues and people that are running, whether for the Senate where the House, they are literally running on f*ck Trump,” he said.
“I mean, that’s literally—they have campaign commercials with that. It’s absurd,” he noted, adding “And we are getting to that point and I refuse to engage in that extreme, those terms. And we have to find a better way forward.”
Fetterman repeated the sentiments in an op-ed in The Washington Post, titled “I Haven’t Changed. Here’s What Has,” writing “My party cannot simply be the opposite of whatever President Donald Trump says.”
He stresses, “Working across the aisle is the only way forward” and calls “pointless pile-ons and attacks” unproductive. Fetterman highlights once-mainstream Democratic positions on border security, support for Israel, and avoiding government shutdowns that have now become “toxic” to the party’s fringe base.
He declares, “Someone who comes here illegally and commits a violent crime should be deported. Full stop.”
This week’s Democrat acting as a spy for the communist Chinese is the mayor of Arcadia.
A California mayor admitted to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, resigning from her position in a shocking federal plea deal unsealed on Monday.
Democrat Eileen Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People’s Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She was elected to the city council in Arcadia — a city in the San Gabriel Valley within LA County — in November 2022.
Wang, 58, worked with her then-fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, on a website called “U.S. News Center,” which claimed to be a news source for Chinese Americans, according to court documents.
But in reality, the pair were carrying out Beijing’s orders through the site.
Wang and Sun “executed directives” from the Chinese government, posting propaganda designed to boost China, all while reporting back to their masters with screenshots showing how many people viewed the stories, according to the plea agreement.
“Harris County Treasurer Arrested for Second DWI in Office, After Burglary Charge Dismissed. Carla Wyatt was arrested in Galveston County last weekend.”
Harris County Treasurer Carla Wyatt has been arrested for a third time since taking office in 2023, while county commissioners consider abolishing the treasurer’s office altogether.
Galveston County law enforcement arrested Wyatt on Saturday for allegedly driving while intoxicated (DWI) and she was being held on a $3,000 bond with an addendum hold.
Wyatt was arrested for DWI in Harris County in December 2023 after testing indicated she had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent, which is nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.
Court records indicate Wyatt did not comply with the terms of her bond conditions on at least two occasions, including one in which she failed a blood alcohol blow test in March 2024. She reportedly completed a pretrial diversion program, however, and her DWI charge was dismissed in August of that year.
In December 2025, Wyatt was arrested again in Harris County and charged with breaking into a vehicle with intent to commit theft, but a grand jury declined to indict her and the charge was dropped last month.
Wyatt’s attorney Christopher Downey has argued that Wyatt struggles with medical issues, including alleged cerebrovascular disease, which affects the flow of blood to the brain.
So the excuse for her lawbreaking is literally “Her brain don’t work right.”
An Orange County Democrat’s struggling campaign is fighting back after ex-staffers accused the candidate of turning a discussion about her fake boobs into an all-hands meeting.
Janet Keo Conklin, a real estate agent and La Palma council member who is seeking to become Orange County’s next assessor, has denied allegations that she forced staff to feel her breasts while claiming she had no feeling in her nipples.
On Friday, LAist reported that Conklin — who is also accused of misusing campaign money on personal expenses — allegedly told two staffers that “she has no feeling in her nipples” and placed their hands on her chest to “give it a squeeze.”
I wonder if adding a “nipples” tag would help or hurt my page ranks…
A problem not just in Texas, but nationally: “Finals Week for Texas Schools, Universities Delayed by Hack of Education Service Canvas. Some students’ screens showed a message from the hacking group ShinyHunters.”
A cyberattack on Canvas, a system used by schools and universities throughout the nation, disrupted finals week for thousands of students in Texas, though it is now back online.
According to Baylor University, on Thursday, May 7, several universities reported that access to the Canvas system was blocked by a ransom notice. Canvas, which is owned by the company Instructure, is utilized by 41 percent of higher education institutions in the U.S. According to Instructure, Canvas has over 30 million active users.
Canvas is a cloud-based management system that houses grade books, submissions, teaching materials, and classroom communications.
The data breach was traced to “Free for Teacher” accounts within the Canvas system. The free parts of the site, which were particularly susceptible to a data breach, are now disabled according to Instructure. As of Saturday, Canvas is available for most users, but parts of the cloud system remain under maintenance.
Consider this yet another reason to implement rolling offsite backup for all mission critical data.
Tyler Brown, the man who allegedly opened fire on passing cars on a Boston highway on Monday, was previously convicted of the attempted murder of a police officer and released after serving just five years in prison.
Brown, 46, is accused of firing 50 to 60 rounds at random passersby on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, hitting dozens of cars. Two people were hit and remain in critical condition in a nearby hospital. Video of the incident taken by an eyewitness shows Brown running back and forth in the traffic lanes, firing at random.
A State Police trooper and Marine veteran caught in the traffic jam that resulted from the incident shot Brown, who is now in custody at a Boston-area ICU.
Troopers found witnesses hiding under their cars, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said during a press conference Monday.
Brown is from Boston and has been under the supervision of either the Massachusetts Probation Department or Department of Parole, Ryan said.
In May 2020, Brown opened fire on a pair of police officers who were responding to a 911 call, firing 13 rounds, one of which was fired at “close range.” The two cops returned fire, but no one was hit.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called the nuclear phaseout a “serious strategic mistake” that left Germany short of firm power that turned the Energiewende into the most expensive energy transition on the planet. This is an early marker for a developing worldwide retreat from policies that sidelined nuclear power and demonized coal, oil, and natural gas.
Germany stubbornly closed its last three functioning nuclear reactors in April 2023 right in the middle of a crippling energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine. As pragmatists predicted, German citizens now suffer under punishingly high electricity prices and remain heavily dependent on imported energy.
The green dream was sold as a route to “cheap” renewables, yet the reality for German households and factories has been record‑high electricity prices, complex subsidies for favored businesses and individuals who conform to the climate narrative, and a grid that struggles on windless days or under gray skies.
Japan made a remarkably similar error but is finally correcting course. After the Fukushima disaster, the government panicked and shut down all 54 of its nuclear reactors. Today, Japan is slowly restarting those idle units.
The pattern is plain to see. Countries abandon dependable power sources under political pressure, then spend years rebuilding what they had demonized and dismantled.
Jim Geraghty has a pretty cool look inside Finland’s civil defense infrastructure.
Perhaps no other city in the world has done more to prepare for being bombed than Helsinki. What started as a response to hard lessons from the bombing of Finland’s cities in World War II by the Soviets accelerated through the era of nuclear fears of the Cold War, and continues to this day and demonstrates a particularly Finnish approach to how you protect your citizens from aerial bombardment. Join me for a walk through one of the largest and most complex underground structures in the world.
Helsinki, Finland — In the downtown of this capital city, just off Hakaniemi Market Square, the entrance to Arena Center Hakaniemi could easily be mistaken for an elevator and stairway to an underground parking garage. In fact, the underground complex does include a parking garage — alongside a gym, several youth soccer courts, and a whole lot else.
But the stairs go deep — eight flights, and each landing of each flight is made of metal grates, creating the unnerving sense that you can see all the way down, beneath your shoes.
But there’s a purpose to this flooring, even if it’s no friend to any user unnerved by looking down from a great height. If some sort of terrible explosion occurred at the entrance to the stairs, some of the concussive force from the blast would pass through the flooring of the stairway landings, hopefully keeping the stairway intact.
Arena Center Hakaniemi is part of a vast network of underground civil defense shelters.
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After [World War II], the Finns decided that if bombs ever fell on their cities again, everyone in the country would have access to an underground shelter.
The result is more than 50,000 civil defense shelters across the country, with space for 4.8 million people, which is almost sufficient for the population of 5.5 million people. The shelters underneath Helsinki collectively have room for 940,000 people; the city has about 700,000 residents.
As Atlas Obscura puts it, “No Finnish government official would ever mention Russia as the reason for such defensive preparations, but they don’t have to.”)
While many of these bunkers were built during the Cold War, the construction of mandatory shelters in new buildings is still a standard requirement in Finland. Residences or workplaces, or any building above 1,200 square meters that is permanently occupied, must have a shelter, as must any industrial building more than 1,500 square meters. The construction cost is not subsidized and must be covered by the owner of the building.
Once you get to the bottom of Arena Center Hakaniemi, you are greeted by two large doors. Our guide, Civil Defense Planning Officer Jukka-Pekka Schroderus, explains that the first massive and thick steel door is to protect anyone inside the shelter from any explosive blast wave; the second is to protect those inside from chemicals, potential biological weapons or toxins, gases, or radiation.
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The underground shelters are built with ventilation, autonomous water supply, and air filtration systems. The shelters do not have stored food; Finns are expected to have a “go bag” with proof of identity (although it’s not required to enter the shelter), food, personal medication, and hygienic supplies for up to three days. Finnish civil defense authorities also recommend sleeping bags, flashlights and batteries, and iodine tablets. Alcohol is not permitted, which is probably wise but disappointing. In any circumstance where I would need to hastily evacuate to a vast underground shelter, I could probably use a drink.
It’s hard to imagine Finns not drinking.
Here’s what makes the Helsinki shelters particularly surreal: They’re used all the time for other non-emergency activities. As mentioned above, Arena Center Hakaniemi has gyms and indoor soccer fields, as well as a kids’ bounce house and a snack bar. Other underground shelters have pools. The Finnish authorities hope that they will have 72 hours to prepare the shelters for emergency protective use — draining the pools, removing extraneous equipment, etc.
Schroderus explained that it was important that civilians use the shelters for non-emergency purposes on a regular basis for several reasons. First, regular use exposes maintenance issues — leaks in the ceiling, lights that have burned out, etc. Second, in case of an emergency, Finns will already be familiar with the nearby underground complexes.
Off topic from civil defense, but of interest to those following anti-drone technology:
Later in the day, my group of American journalists visited the Finnish technology firm Sensofusion, which manufactures anti-drone weapons — jammers, as well as smaller, faster drones that deploy in small groups and intercept and down incoming drones. Sensofusion’s CEO and founder, Tuomas Rasila, told us his company wanted to develop the best anti-drone defense systems but had no interest in building weapons to kill human beings.
One of Sensofusion’s ideas in the works is a “Tactical Drone Factory,” which the company touts as a “fully self-contained drone manufacturing facility built inside a standard shipping container. Equipped with industrial 3D printers, an electronics assembly station, and a complete parts inventory, a single Drone Factory can produce approximately 50 interceptor drones per day. The factory can be operated by a small team and deployed anywhere in the world.”
Read the whole thing.
WTF? “School district kicks out Christian student ministry because founder opposes tax increase.”
Student ministries that provide “released-time” Bible instruction during public school hours and opponents of tax increases have separately clashed with school districts over their constitutional rights to equal treatment with secular groups and free speech, respectively.
The Rev. Gady Youmans endured a double whammy when Georgia’s Vidalia City Schools retaliated against his Sweet Onion Christian Learning Center for Youmans’ Facebook posts criticizing the school board’s proposal to raise property taxes in light of its top-heavy administrative structure, a new lawsuit alleges.
Superintendent Sandy Reid explicitly told Youmans that she and the board were ending Vidalia High School’s 11-year relationship with Sweet Onion because of his posts on the “tax issue,” but when Youmans protested, Reid also vaguely referred to parents who pulled their children from his program because of how it was taught, according to the suit.
History Matters has a video up covering why Germany didn’t stop in 1939 after having annexed so much land.
Hasan Piker attacks Shoe0nHead for daring to criticize Hasan Piker. He does not come out well in the exchange.
Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers — including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle — fixing near record volumes of security bugs, and/or quickening the tempo of their patch releases.
As it does on the second Tuesday of every month, Microsoft today released software updates to address at least 118 security vulnerabilities in its various Windows operating systems and other products. Remarkably, this is the first Patch Tuesday in nearly two years that Microsoft is not shipping any fixes to deal with emergency zero-day flaws that are already being exploited. Nor have any of the flaws fixed today been previously disclosed (potentially giving attackers a heads up in how to exploit the weakness).
Sixteen of the vulnerabilities earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” label, meaning malware or miscreants could abuse these bugs to seize remote control over a vulnerable Windows device with little or no help from the user.
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May’s Patch Tuesday is a welcome respite from April, which saw Microsoft fix a near-record 167 security flaws. Microsoft was among a few dozen tech giants given access to a “Project Glasswing,” a much-hyped AI capability developed by Anthropic that appears quite effective at unearthing security vulnerabilities in code.
Apple, another early participant in Project Glasswing, typically fixes an average of 20 vulnerabilities each time it ships a security update for iOS devices, said Chris Goettl, vice president of product management at Ivanti. On May 11, Apple shipped updates to address at least 52 vulnerabilities and backported the changes all the way to iPhone 6s and iOS 15.
Last month, Mozilla released Firefox 150, which resolved a whopping 271 vulnerabilities that were reportedly discovered during the Glasswing evaluation.
“Since Firefox 150.0.0 released, they have been on a more aggressive weekly cadence for security updates including the release of Firefox 150.0.3 on May Patch Tuesday resolving between three to five CVEs in each release,” Goettl said.
Rick Beato delves deeper into the New York Times ridiculous Top 30 Living Songwriters list and discovers ignorant, pretentious, social justice-infected Ivy League grads who have no idea what they’re talking about. “Here’s four Ivy League educated people. You’ve got two from Yale, one from Princeton, and Mr. Harvard there, that are the most pretentious, cork sniffing, smug people that are all music critics with no background in music. Exactly what you would expect from a New York Times music critic.”
Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit against a North Texas businessman and his company, alleging they operated fake childcare businesses in order to fraudulently sponsor foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.
The lawsuit, filed in Collin County, names Yuan Yao and Golden Qi Holdings, LLC as defendants. The state alleges Yao, identified in the petition as “a citizen of the People’s Republic of China,” operated websites advertising childcare services that “do not exist.”
Why the hell are foreign nationals even eligible for such subsidies? Shouldn’t they be limited to American citizens?
Convict him, seize all his money and property and deport him.
According to the lawsuit, examples of the alleged sham businesses include Allen Infant Care Center and DFW ABA Center, both tied to an address at 600 S. Jupiter Road in Allen.
The state alleges the businesses falsely claimed to provide legitimate childcare services “in part to fraudulently sponsor H-1B visas for employees.”
There needs to be a crackdown at the national level on par with what Paxton is doing in Texas.
The filing heavily references recent reporting by Blaze TV and Texas Scorecard personality Sara Gonzales, who visited the Allen address and “did not find any child-care at all.” Instead, according to the petition, she found “an empty building and a playground overgrown with vegetation.”
The lawsuit also cites Gonzales’ interview with an individual familiar with the property who allegedly claimed Yao “sells visas” and sponsors workers who are then paid “next to nothing.”
According to the petition, the defendants filed visa petitions and labor condition applications for positions including software developers, business intelligence analysts, financial analysts, web developers, and market research analysts.
The state alleges those filings were tied to childcare facilities “which were not in operation.”
Texas also alleges neither Allen Infant Care Center nor DFW ABA Center is licensed to operate as a childcare facility.
How do you even obtain government subsidies to run a child care if you’re not licensed to run a child care? Is that not a step in the process? Does no one check?
It’s like the entire system was designed from the ground up to enable fraud.
The attorney general’s office is seeking temporary and permanent injunctions blocking the defendants from advertising or operating childcare facilities in Texas without licenses, along with civil penalties under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Human Resources Code.
“Let this be a warning to anyone considering trying to scam the H-1B visa program,” Paxton said. “I will continue fighting to ensure that the H-1B program serves the interests of Americans, not Chinese nationals, and that those who abuse the program are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
Yao had enough red flags that it shouldn’t have taken an investigative reporter interviewing him to put him on the government’s radar. Is it too much to ask that various federal agencies to least start with combing their database for non-citizens collecting big subsidy checks?
*Feel free to sprinkle the word “allegedly” into that headline if you’re so inclined…
It claims to be from the “Association of Texas Conservatives,” an organization (and I use that term loosely) I’d never heard of before, endorsing John Cornyn in the Texas Senate runoff.
Not really making any sort of argument in favor of Cornyn, just a checkmark, a name, and a picture. Nothing remotely compelling.
It made me curious.
Doing a search on the address of “1305 West 11th Street #217, Houston, TX, 77008” brought a strip mail mailbox center. But it also brought up the FEC form for Association of Texas Conservatives, which shows the Treasurer for the organization as one Les Williamson.
That name and contact info are also on the FEC form for Old North Action, a PAC supporting Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, being run out of the exact same postal box.
Since he announced his retirement after this election and stepped down from his role as Majority Leader, it’s easy to forget that McConnell is still in the senate and will be until the 120th congress is sworn in January 3, 2027, a mere 42 years since McConnell entered the senate.
Is Williamson running “Association of Texas Conservatives” on behalf of McConnell or a McConnell-related PAC? I have been unable to find any definitive proof of this, and its certainly possible someone else, including someone directly connected to Cornyn, is paying for Williamson to stand up that organization. Still, Cornyn is just the sort of squishy establishment Republican McConnell loves to back, so it seems a distinct possibility.
I sent Williamson an email asking him is paying for “Association of Texas Conservatives,” but thus far have received no reply. I’ll let you know if I do…
Clownfish TV has a video up covering how Google’s Chrome browser secretly installs a four gigabyte AI on your PC without asking you:
“It’s not just Microsoft is stuffing everything full of AI, whether or not its users want it. It is now Google as well with Chrome. Apparently, they’re stuffing AI into Google Chrome. They did not ask people. And according to Futurism, fury is erupting after Google Chrome sneakily installs a 4 gigabyte AI model on users’ PC.”
“It feels like the browser is not your gateway to the Internet. It’s just another marketing tool. Especially when it comes to Google and Microsoft and these big corporations. They’re going to push their AI wherever they can push it. They’re going to shove it wherever they can shove it because they have to justify the insane amount of money that they’re spending on AI.”
“Chrome did not ask did not ask your permission before shoving its AI up your ass. As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion Chrome users worldwide.”
“Security researcher Alexander “The Privacy Guy” Hanff noted on a blog post earlier this week, Google’s web browser has been silently installing an AI model on users devices without asking for consent. Oh, this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. He described the 4 gig file named weights.bin in a directory called OptGuideOnDeviceModel. The file contains weights, the learned numerical parameters of an AI model that teach it how to weigh the importance of various data points of Google’s Gemini Nano, which is designed to live on computers, devices, not in the cloud.”
“It’s the fact that they’re installing stuff on your computer without your consent. I mean, look, they’ve always done that. But in this case, 4 gig, that’s crazy.”
“Google has remained unusually silent on the matter. You expect you expect them to address it? Do they have anybody left at Google? Do they have any humans left at Google? Because my understanding is that Google is overrun with AI right now.”
“That is litigation waiting to happen. That is a class action lawsuit. People are going to be pissed. The company didn’t respond to Futurism’s request for comment.”
CO2 impact skipped because I don’t give a rat’s ass.
“Unfortunately, it is going to get harder and harder to opt out from AI if you’re anti-AI because it literally is being shoved into everything.”
“Others argue that Google was likely auto-installing the model to artificially inflate its own AI user stats. Yes, this is what Microsoft was doing with Copilot, too. Now they’re calling it something else because people are rejecting it.”
“Same with YouTube. YouTube is riddled with AI, and they’re doing it to justify the existence of AI.”
“And Satya Nadella at Microsoft said the quiet part out loud. He basically was like, you know, we really need consumers to to love the AI and find a use for it because we’re spending an awful lot of money on it.”
“And I really do think before it’s all said and done that Microsoft and Google are going to harm themselves irreparably by chasing AI and trying to shove it into things when consumers don’t want it. The demand’s not there. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean there’s a market value for it. And we’re also going to find out that uh the abilities of AI are way way way overstated.”
“Hanff found that the download of the file is triggered when the browser’s default AI features are active. On a machine that meets hardware requirements, Chrome treats the user’s hardware as a delivery target and writes the model to stop it from reinstalling itself after deleting it. Hanff advised to disable AI features manually by digging into the browser’s settings. This is the true definition of malware.”
“If you have it on Enhanced Protection, it will install on the model. If you have it on Standard, it will not.” So PC users might want to change that on Chrome.
Going to Hanff’s original post revealed another browser exploit from another AI company: “Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user’s installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.” Here’s the piece on how Claude does that, and it sounds like an even scarier piece of malware. “Claude Desktop reached into Brave, a browser from a completely separate vendor, and registered a back door for a browser extension I do not have.”
AI companies are spending billions of dollars to build-out vast AI data centers while invading your privacy at the same time, yet studies show these investments aren’t seeing returns on their investments. “Companies reporting high ROI were not the same ones reporting AI-related workforce reductions. In fact, workforce reduction rates were nearly equal for those reporting higher ROI and those with smaller returns or even worsened outcomes from autonomous operations.”
Gloria: The rise of Artificial Intelligence is the next industrial revolution.
[Boos]
Gloria: A- whoa!
[Boos rise louder]
Some guy in the crowd: AI sucks!
Gloria: What happened? Okay. I struck a chord. May I finish? Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.
[Thunderous applause]
Gloria: Okay. Alright. Okay.
Her pitch didn’t seem to go over well with Humanities majors.
There are certainly ways AI can help people do certain jobs better. But it runs into big trouble when it tries to replace people entirely, and people hate when you try to secretly install it without their permission.
