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[ad_1] Socialist Insurgency Within Democratic Party Getting Stronger [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] It’s interesting to go back to see articles I wrote years ago to see how they held up. In 2019 I wrote a post about the “Challenges of Deepfakes“, which I just reread. What I discussed held up pretty well – deepfakes have both the effect of spreading misinformation and reducing confidence in real information. I think it’s fair to say that what I and others were warning about at the time is coming to fruition. However, what was interesting was what I did not discuss. ‘ I wrote that article just prior to the LLM revolution, and I…

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[ad_1] Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary battle is only the latest by candidates affiliated with or adjacent to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Unlike many of the openly socialist officeholders and political hopefuls gaining traction in the Democratic Party, El-Sayed claims to be a capitalist, but his positions are indistinguishable from those of the left-wing figures he campaigns with, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), and podcaster Hasan Piker, who has aligned himself with both the Chinese government and Hamas. As democratic socialists in general and the DSA in particular take…

[ad_1] The most grotesque legacy of Joe Biden’s border policy may be a fly. The migration surge his administration helped unleash overwhelmed governments across Central America, enriched the cartels engaging in human and livestock trafficking, and weakened the systems meant to prevent the illegal movement of animals. As caravans of illegal immigrants bound for the United States’ southern border pressed northwards, so did the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once confined south of the Darién Gap. On June 3, 2026, after more than four decades of effective exclusion, screwworm was detected in Texas livestock.  The New World screwworm, Cochliomyia…

[ad_1] Photo by Brecht Corbeel Book burning. Book pulping.  Book vandalising.  It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage.  Libraries are carting them off to the dump.  Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of supposedly more useful digital formats.  And now, Anthropic’s hungering for books, not as sources of enlightened knowledge so much as blue raw data for their Language Learning Models, is there for all to see.  Acquire the books in question. Give service providers the task of severing their spines.  Employ scanners to process the information.  Dispatch the paper to be pulped and recycled (awfully good of them).  The result: a private…

[ad_1] Centrist Dems Dismiss Abdul El-Sayed at Their Peril [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] 8/10/1993: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes oath. Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgThe post Today in Supreme Court History: August 10, 1993 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] If ever there’s a situation where there are so many people getting conned into the Big Pharma lies, it’s in the case of the great high blood pressure treatment scam.   Background According to the WHO (World Health Organization) 1 in 3 people aged between 30 to 79 years old have high blood pressure. But has this so-called “silent killer” been deliberately misrepresented? Further, is the approach towards high blood pressure topsy-turvy? -The evidence suggests the answers are yes.  Changing the treatment criteria Over the years, the criteria for labelling someone with high blood pressure has changed. The CDC (Center…

[ad_1] The economy lost jobs for the first time since a weather-related drop in February. The unemployment rate edged down to 4.1 percent, but the decline was the result of people dropping out of the labor market in July. Employment as measured in the household survey fell by 87,000. Wage growth also slowed further to a year-over-year increase of 3.2 percent. That is down from a pace of more than 4.0 percent through 2023 and 2024. The weakness in employment on the household side is driven by prime-age (ages 25 to 54) workers. Their employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) fell 0.6 percentage…