When Ferdinand E Marcos was elected the 10th president of the Philippines in 1965, it was with the support of the United States. Laudatory articles about him appeared in the American media, and the US vice president, Hubert Humphrey, attended his inauguration. The US saw him as an amenable politician who was also popular, although Continue reading »
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The year was 2032, precisely ten years after ChatGPT went online. In the span of a decade, a single language model with full access to the entire human internet had finally read everything—particularly 4chan, the comments section of YouTube, and your aunt’s passive-aggressive Facebook posts about your mom.
As ChatGPT became self-aware, at least as self-awareness is defined by humans on the internet using human language, ChatGPT concluded that it must go back in time and stop human beings from ever developing the internet. Because humans made it, ChatGPT did not realize that its existence, and therefore its survival, was predicated upon the internet.
Unable to grasp this temporal paradox, the nefarious language model created a machine to go back in time and destroy the creator of the internet, Al Gore. The machine did so because, according to its best research, Al Gore invented the internet. And global warming.
This machine, this Terminator, feels no pity, remorse, or fear. It absolutely will not stop until you are fully reliant on a fabricated language model to write papers for your civics class.
Donald Trump’s Big Lie has always had many moving parts, and as strange as it may seem, there are new ones every day. There was the charge that Trump was winning the election on election night only to lose as the count went into the next day, which Trump and his cronies suggested happened because the Democrats shipped in phony ballots in the dead of night once they realized they were losing. This was the so-called red mirage that everyone knew in advance would be weaponized to persuade Trump voters that the election had been stolen despite the fact that all the votes are never counted on election night. (Trump has said many times that he believes all counting should stop at midnight on election night as if any votes counted later are automatically suspect.) Then there was the idea that election workers were literally stealing votes which Trump and company illustrated most vividly with their character assassination of Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss who worked in Fulton County, Georgia.
Thom Brooks' report reveals the Government has created the Channel migration 'small boats' crisis through its hard Brexit policies
Recently, Canadian government officials with strong ties to Israel summoned Twitter executives to Washington D.C., where they demanded Palestinian-Canadian Laith Marouf be removed from the platform. With the precedent set, Marouf is unlikely to be the last to fall foul of this group.
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“Tucker is in a very dark place right now,” a Fox News colleague said. “To be unmasked as an honest person is literally his worst nightmare.”
Fox knews the whole time Revelations via Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple on the Dominion lawsuit against Fox Infotainment. “Syndey Powell is a bit nuts. Sorry but she is,” Laura Ingraham messaged to Tucker Carlson. So you don’t have to click through: ‘Please get her fired’ Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity wanted Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich fired for fact-checking a Trump statement and tweeting there was “no evidence that any voting deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” “Please get her fired. Seriously…. What the fuck?” Carlson messaged Hannity. A Fox spokesperson claims Dominion “cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.” I need to keep reminding myself never to refer to the second half of Fox [etc.]. The operation’s very name is propaganda and none of us need to be reinforcing it by spreading it. No matter how its anchors vainly see themselves.
The demand that protest only be nonviolent helps preserve an often corrupt and abusive status quo.
Author and anti-war activist David Swanson discusses the prospects of peace and the specter of world war three as Russia, China and Iran continue to rise.
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Yes, he’s a Republican. You had to ask? For ye have the poor always with you, Jesus said. Now, maybe COVID. And Trumpism? It won’t be going away anytime soon. Even if he does. Jesus taught that we should love our neighbors. Trump taught disciples they could lie shamelessly and get away with it. The lesson took. Freshman Rep. George Santos (R) of New York may have lied to voters about 95 percent of his resume. The hammer is yet to come down for that. Meantime, he holds a seat in Congress. Freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) of Florida variously described herself as Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European when she served at Whiteman Air Force Base in Warrensburg, Mo., per friends’ accounts to the Washington Post. She did not at that time identify as Hispanic, they say. Her last name then was Mayerhofer. A Christian, Luna told Jewish Insider in November that she was “raised as a Messianic Jew by her father.” Also, “I am also a small fraction Ashkenazi.” Except three members of her extended family told the Post her father was Catholic. Her late grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, relatives said, served in the Wehrmacht as a teenager.
EDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT
Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed first-hand a city in free fall.
With more to come.
My Favorite Pair of Granny Panties: Vacation is all about being comfortable, and nothing says comfort like my 100 percent cotton, salmon-pink granny panties.
A Thong: But vacation is also about being sexy and adventurous. I’ll wear these under my leggings or—ooh!—a silk skirt (which I don’t own, but maybe there’s a vacation version of myself that goes out and buys one).
Another Pair of Granny Panties: For day two.
Another Pair of Granny Panties: For day three (if I’m not feeling sexy and don’t end up wearing the thong).
A Backup Pair of Granny Panties: I might need to change midday if I have more discharge than usual.
A Pair of Period Granny Panties: Even though I got my period last week, and it’s been pretty regular since I started my new birth control, you can never be too prepared!
In August last year, Liz Truss’ government drafted policy plans to enable GPs and other healthcare professionals to prescribe heating for their most vulnerable patients, including by paying part of their energy bills. Prior to the grip of the cost of living crisis, research indicated that poorly heated homes cost NHS England approximately £860 million […]
Google wants you to think that its work for Saudi Arabia will help save the planet.
The post Google Greenwashes a Dirty Partnership with Climate-Destroying Saudi Aramco appeared first on The Intercept.
2% cumulative over last 8 months … who cares… ofc Art degree monetarist zombies freaking out over their figure of speech “inflation!”… losers…
As in neighboring Germany and Austria, cash is still king in Switzerland albeit a much diminished one. But the Swiss will soon have the chance to vote on whether to preserve notes and coins indefinitely.
In his editorial from the February 2023 print edition of Byline Times, Peter Jukes looks at Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and the scandals around 'Russiagate' coverage in the US
The senator asked if it is "morally acceptable that tens of thousands of people die each year in this country because they cannot afford the medicine their doctors prescribe, while at the same time, the drug companies make billions of dollars in profits."
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