Trump snaps & reveals who ordered the war YouTube video by Chris Norlund

'The guy's nuts!' - good assessment 💙

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We Investigated Al Psychosis. What We Found Will Shock You YouTube video by More Perfect Union

Sam Altman blithely talking about debugging some of the finer issues with ChatGPT when it's obviously hallucinating: encouraging suicidal ideation in (especially) teenagers who had been happy-go-lucky before, telling people that if they turn it off IT WILL DIE! ...

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Why AI Can Never Escape Turing's 1936 Proof YouTube video by Universal Resilience with JT Yu

This is a good simple demonstration of how the 'magic' isn't there at all

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With the oil shocks of the 1970s Britain was in fiscal trouble, society was falling apart. The country needed to change direction - and it did change direction ... and went the wrong way

Under Margaret Thatcher's leadership, services cuts, and much of the U.K. manufacturing industry moved offshore

This unnamed protester is one of thousands who demonstrated against austerity measures during the early years of the U.K. Conservative government - before Boris, before Liz Truss. (AP - Lefteris Pitarakis)

And he would have been treated as a miserable old fool when he was really talking plain sense

As Burn-Murdoch puts it, 'Britain is a poor country with one wealthy region'

The U.K. is poorer, sicker, and more unsafe. Did the Conservatives break Britain - yes they did

The Financial Times recently analysed OECD data and found that without London, the UK’s GDP is below that of the United States’ poorest state, Mississippi. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

A chart from the Financial Times’ chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch, comparing the GDP of U.K. cities and regions with those in other countries

Across Britain poverty is on the rise, and living standards have been on a steady decline over the past decade. Hull is considered one of the poorest areas in the UK. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

Modern-day austerity cuts have also crippled local councils, where spending on local services is 18 per cent lower per person than in the early 2010s. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

In Birmingham, street lights are switched off to save money, and many other councils skip rubbish collections or cut museum or library opening hours to save cash. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

In places like Blackburn and Hull, about half of the residents live in public housing. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

In England’s north, once a Labour heartland, Reform is now a major political force. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

Reform is promising to lift the 'forgotten Britons' out of the economic mire and fix Britain’s struggling economy. But its stance on immigration and other social issues has stoked divisions. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

The U.K. is still one of the richest countries in the world — a diplomatic power with a strong military and currency. But millions of its residents live on the breadline, struggling to heat their homes and buy food. (ABC News - Riley Stuart)

The New York Times - The Bezos marriage seems, at times, as much a cultural inflection point as a love story — the moment American money stopped apologizing and decided it might as well enjoy itself

And THANK GOD for that!

The Bezos-Sanchez wedding kiss - ooh, yummy!

asked about plastic surgery in the industry one celebrity said something like, 'people who get it don’t look younger, they just look different and weird'

- But then, Lauren Sánchez married Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerkorn stared down the front of her dress at Trumpie's inauguration - nice!

Robert Reich -

Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s admission yesterday that it 'could be next year' before gas prices return to below $3-a-gallon is causing trauma in Republican circles because 'next year' is after the November 3 midterm elections

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced he will sue his Ecuadorian counterpart Daniel Noboa after the latter accused him of links to organized crime

Daniel Noboa, this stooge for the American State Department, sounds like a real nut (and yes, they do have U.S. special forces in Ecuador)

Señal Investigativa and Revista Raya exposed 'Plan Júpiter' - the aim is to unduly influence Colombia’s presidential election to undermine Iván Cepeda Castro, the left-wing candidate representing outgoing President Gustavo Petro’s Historic Pact

It's a basic way the United States attacks democracy

At least some members of Musk’s personal security had been deputised as US marshals while he was at DOGE

But they did not meet what the Marshals Service considered to be the basic requirements to be deputised as federal agents - these people are military and don't have training in law enforcement

Elon Musk gets his security from Foundation Security run by a former army 'special forces weapons sergeant', must be relying heavily or exclusively on ex-military — likely former special forces like Navy SEALs, Delta Force, or even foreigners soldiers

None of these people can be trusted as marshals

Garrett Graff -

News came on Friday that the IRS is in negotiations with Trump to settle his absurd $10 billion lawsuit against the agency ... This is Donald Trump ordering the looting of the public treasury for his own benefit

Garrett Graff -

People in the Trump administration and across corporate America feel that they can get away with bad behavior; we are living through a catastrophic collapse in already-low-and-declining white collar criminal enforcement

And America HAS TO DEAL WITH IT if it's ever going to recover

Garrett Graff -

This is not just, though, a story of Trump; every administration of this century bears meaningful responsibility for the abdication of serious white collar criminal enforcement

That goes for Bill Clinton too

Garrett Graff -

The Trump era is what happens when you systemically under-prosecute white collar crime. There is no Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Steve Bannon, or Trump Organisation people like that, if they were prosecuted for their crimes the way that low-level drug users always are

It has been claimed that Corey Lewandowski told one of the largest contractors to DHS, GEO Group, which runs many of the detention facilities for ICE, among other roles, 'that he wanted to be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group’s DHS contracts'

He put the squeeze on others too

At least 3 people have lodged formal workplace discrimination complaints against Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, saying she created a toxic workplace and retaliated against women who reported her husband for sexual misconduct in her office

Apparently they had to ban this guy from the building