2022-07-23

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America Is Exceptional at Killing Americans Early
Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient
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- Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings
Beyond Meat’s Pepperoni Problem Threatens Its Fast-Food Future
Elon Musk and Silicon Valley's Overreliance on AI
TSA urges passengers to do their part to speed up checkpoints
Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory?
Child vaping epidemic risks becoming ‘public health catastrophe’ in UK
The unbelievable truth behind the Notre-Dame fire

Now, with his new film Notre-Dame on Fire, director Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose) has turned these real-life events into one of the most compelling dramas of the year. Approached with the idea of making a documentary, the 78-year-old Oscar winner, whose other films include Enemy at the Gates and Seven Years in Tibet, saw the dramatic potential of recreating the fire when he began researching precisely what had happened.

“I read the early articles,” he tells me. “I had the feeling that I was dealing with talented journalists who were inventing elements similar to very good screenplay writers in Hollywood. Frankly, I said to myself, this cannot be true. This is invented. It’s impossible.”
The $9 Bottle of Trader Joe’s Sunscreen That Ignited a Summer War

Twitter Censors ‘Groomer’ Term After Left-Wing Pressure Campaign
How a Clip From Stray Got Me Banned From Twitter
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Stop Sharing Political Memes
Food Nazi — Anthony Warner

Anyone who knows me or my writing will understand that I sit far to the left of politics, believing in a high tax economy and liberal immigration policies. I have no time for the current UK Government and I hated Donald Trump with every ounce of my being. But it is possible to profoundly dislike someone politically and still not believe they are a Fascist. 1930s fascism was not about a small state and unrestricted trade. It was certainly not about free speech and low taxes, nor did it have anything to do with individualism and the death of big society. If you want to find modern movements ideologically linked to 30s Fascism, you are far better looking around farmers’ markets, organic organisations and food sovereignty advocates. The rhetoric of such places sounds benign, and no doubt can be. But it is also fertile ground from which hate has grown before.
Subtitle: "There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist" The Enigma of Peter Thiel - by John Ganz - Unpopular Front

Association of American Medical Colleges Prescribes a DEI-Based Curriculum
PhD Students Told to Consider Selling Avon Products to Make Ends Meet
Midwestern Teachers Reveal Why They're Leaving the Classroom

When salary is listed as a contributing factor, 93.35% of Midwestern teachers claim that their resignation is due to student behavior and progressive political activity required in their classrooms.

Stop drinking now!

To be clear, I don’t think we should ban alcohol, I simply think each and every person should stop drinking it, voluntarily. Now. Effective Altruists tend to be social liberals. But should they be? Why should they not jump on this bandwagon?
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