[DailyWire] An Ohio mother suffocated her three young sons to death over the course of two years and told police she did it because she worried the boys would grow up to abuse women.
Brittany Renee Pilkington, 27, was sentenced to 37 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to the murders, The Daily Mail reported. She will serve seven years for an involuntary manslaughter charge and 15 years to life for each of the two murder charges.
The first son she killed was an infant named Niall in July 2014. She then killed four-year-old Gavin in April 2015. Three-month-old Noah was smothered in August 2015. She confessed to what she had done when Noah was found.
In a taped confession, Pilkington told police she was depressed and feared her sons would one day abuse women.
Her husband, 47-year-old Joseph, pleaded guilty “to a misdemeanor charge of sexual imposition for having sex with her before they were married, when she was underage,” the Mail reported. Joseph had originally been charged with sexual battery because he started his “relationship” with Brittany when she was 17 and impregnating her at that time. Joseph had previously dated Brittany’s mother and lived with the family for years when Brittany was a teenager. Joseph eventually married Brittany.
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I would call her a victim. If you read the story, the real culprits are her mother and her 'husband', who insinuated himself into her life as her mother's boyfriend. A predator.
The courts cannot hope to begin to understand the subjective nature of this mess. So they send her off to 15 years and forget about it. Just another topic of discussion for the golf game with Judge Anderson.
I read the piece, and chanced upon the news clip. It shows she is a mentally challenged girl of a single adventurist mother. She was preyed upon at 13, by the mother's boyfriend and made pregnant by 17, finally forced to marry him. The girl clearly is not equipped to be mother or wife or anybody.
The death of the babies is tragic, but if anybody's more responsible it's the family that expects a normal role out of her. They began raping a retarded girl at 13 and married her in her teens too. She's not even a matured person. Probably won't ever be. Just another case that got by the CPA maybe.
[Big League Politics] Steven Robert Setzer, a former U.S. Marine Corps pilot who once escorted former President Bill Clinton on the crew of the Marine One, is facing years in prison after being hit with child sex charges.
Setzer was put behind bars in May with sexual exploitation of a minor, sodomy, enticing a child for indecent purposes, statutory rape, and aggravated child molestation. He has been forced to shut down his aircraft charter company, Strategic Moves, due to loss of clients after his incarceration.
On Thursday, WBTV in Rowan County, NC broke the news of Setzer’s arrest and associated charges. This report was only revealed due to the shuttering of Setzer’s company, an entire six months after Setzer was accused of the heinous victimization of minors.
Strategic Moves made the announcement that they were shuttering on their website: "Thank you for your patronage and loyalty over the last 15 years as clients of Strategic Moves. Strategic Moves has discontinued operations as of 10/31/2019. Many of our clients have transitioned to Davinci Jets who are capable and excited to provide an excellent level of service."
According to Setzer’s biography, he learned quite a bit while helping Clinton jetset throughout the world. Setzer claimed that he learned precise attention to detail, which assisted him in being able to achieve excellence for the VIPs who obtained his services. One can only wonder what details Slick Willy wanted Setzer to handle while they were aboard the Marine One.
Setzer is not the only cretin with whom Clinton has shared an aircraft. Clinton was among the most high-profile companions of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein aboard his infamous "Lolita Express." Clinton is one of the powerful individuals who allegedly participated in Epstein’s illicit child sex trafficking network.
Big League Politics reported earlier this year on how Clinton had flown on the "Lolita Express" during on least 26 separate occasions:
[BREITBART] A dipshit teenager was reportedly killed during after subway surfing on top of a train in Queens, New York, Saturday night. Brilliant to the last...
The hilarious tragic incident happened around 8:45 p.m. on Saturday when he fell from the outside of a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train, according to the New York Daily News. "Hey, y'all! Lookit me! Lookit me! Lookit-- Aaaiiieee! I am undone!"
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) motormen found the teen’s carcass body lying about 20 feet beyond the Queensboro Plaza station. He was pronounced dead at the scene, CBS New York reported. "He's dead, Jim!"
Police said the genius youth, who was believed to be just 14 years of age, appeared to have hit his head on a piece of metal hanging over the tracks. It was empty at the time. The head, not the piece of metal.
The New York City Transit Authority issued a statement via Twitter following the incident.
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[DAILYWIRE] Last Saturday, the NFL’s most controversial quarterback, Colin Kaepernick ...Formerly a petulant quarterback for the San Francisco Giants, now looking for a job. He was willing to stand up for his princles by kneeling during the national anthem, which he had every right to do, but not willing to take the consequences, which he apparently thought shouldn't apply to him... , participated in a workout to try to spark interest in his employment. So far, no NFL team has reached out to him about a potential job.
Kaepernick has been unemployed for three years. He led the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2012 and did quite well as quarterback in 2013, but then his career started to wane. In 2016 he started kneeling during the national anthem as a protest of police brutality. His move angered fans but delighted political pundits who loved his anti-America message. Kaepernick was on his way out of the NFL due to his mediocrity, but the protest made him one of the most famous NFL players in the country. Despite not having a playing job, he was hired as a Nike front man.
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Everyone forgets that in his last season he led the 49ers to a 2-14 season. They are doing much better (10-1) with someone else at quarterback this year. The lesson is not lost on NFL hiring managers.
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The Italians wouldn't put up with his sh*t.
The Canadians wouldn't pay him any attention.
Mushroom Boy has nowhere to go.
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tom, I remember but if that was brought up it would crush the narrative and be considered rayciss
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My recollection is that San Francisco was one of the first teams that embraced the Run-Pass Offense(RPO). By 2013 the defensive coordinators had plenty of time to analyze it and Kaepernick's "One-Trick Pony" talents.
[DAWN] Twenty-three bodies were recovered on Sunday after a small plane crashed on takeoff into a densely populated area of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , rescue workers said.
"We are up to 23 bodies now," Goma rescue service coordinator Joseph Makundi told AFP.
The dead are believed to include all those on board the plane as well as people on the ground.
Images from the scene showed plumes of black smoke and flames apparently from the burning plane as locals looked on.
Rescue workers were also seen combing through the plane's burned-out fuselage.
Goma airport official Richard Mangolopa told AFP no survivors were expected from the disaster.
The Dornier-228 aircraft had been headed for the city of Beni, 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Goma when it went down in a residential area near the airport in the east of the country.
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"The Dornier Do 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft"
[DAWN] British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... promised on Sunday "to get Brexit done", pledging in his Conservative Party's manifesto to bring his deal to leave the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union back to parliament before Christmas and ruling out any more delay.
With less than three weeks before Britannia heads to the polls on December 12, the governing Conservatives and opposition Labour Party are trying to tempt voters with different visions of the country's future, but both pledging to spend more.
Johnson's manifesto aims at drawing a distinction with Labour, which has promised to raise taxes on the rich and businesses to fund a big expansion of the state, by promising not to increase taxes if the Conservatives win the election.
Opinion polls show Johnson's Conservative Party commands a sizeable lead over the Labour Party, although large numbers of undecided voters mean the outcome is not certain.
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This hate would be one to remember:
Two real brexiteers to dismember!
Screamed Winston, chest heaving,
"We've always been leaving!"
The date: 32nd Brexember.
[Aljazeera] Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong's pro-democratic parties swept the board in highly anticipated local elections seen as a barometer of public opinion after nearly six months of increasingly violent protests that have polarised the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Total turnout exceeded 2.94 million voters, a rate of 71 percent, surpassing a record from the previous legislative council election in 2016 of about 1.47 million.
As of 12pm (04:00 GMT), pro-democracy candidates had won a clear majority with 390 seats of the 452 district council seats, according to local broadcaster RTHK.
In the wake of the landslide win, Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam said she would "listen humbly" to voters. and then...crush them as directed by Beijing
h/t Instapundit
[BoingBoing] The China Law Blog (previously) reports on the kinds of questions that western businesses operating in China are raising; China's serious economic downturn and rising authoritarianism have turned the site's normally businesslike posts into a glimpse of a kind of cyberpunk stranger-than-fiction dystopia (for example).
A new post on the site describes the consequences of a sharp downturn in the Chinese economy: a new mood among many Chinese businesspeople that they are at the end of the long Chinese boom and that there's no reason not to burn their bridges with non-Chinese firms, because they're not going to be doing business with them for much longer no matter what.
The site's author, Dan Harris, compares the mood in China today with the situation in Russia in the 1990s, when outside businesses would get repeatedly ripped off by their Russian partners, and would go away mystified that these partners would take the short term payouts of burning a foreign partner, at the expense of the much larger upside they could realize from an ongoing arrangement. For these Russian entrepreneur/bandits, Harris says, "They do not believe they will be able to operate freely five years or even one year from now. So though you see them as having irrationally sacrificed massive long term gains for much smaller short term rewards, they see themselves as having quite rationally grabbed what they could while it was still there."
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WTF. This isn't new. Chinese businessmen have long ripped off foreign customers. Give him a choice between a quick ten grand right now by screwing you, or do the right thing and make millions over a five year contract, he'll take the ten grand every time. Not even a question.
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No question the Chinese have a different view of business than Westerners. Many stories over the years about taxi drivers stopping mid-ride at night demanding more money, manufacturers wanting to re-negotiate a better price the day before a production run is due, and so on.
We look for happy customers and win-win. Saw an article the other day about how from a Chinese perspective, a happy customer meant you left money on the table. So yeah, nothing new there.
What *is* new is that the Chinese economy is crashing and *that* changes the calculations. Without any possibility of long-term profit, all the chiseling and cheating that would normally take place over time in the future gets pushed into Now.
BREAKING: We at ICIJ have obtained a NEW trove of highly classified Chinese govt documents, including the operations manual for China's concentration camps.
I served as ICIJ’s lead reporter for the China Cables, with 17 media partners from 14 countries.https://t.co/l1mMVajLVQ
Now on to the “Integrated Joint Operations Platform”-- the “cybernetic brain” behind many detentions in Xinjiang. @jmulvenon said IJOP isn’t just “pre-crime,” it’s a “machine-learning, artificial intelligence, command and control” platform that substitutes AI for human judgment.
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Now on to the “Integrated Joint Operations Platform”-- the “cybernetic brain” behind many detentions in Xinjiang.
@jmulvenon
said IJOP isn’t just “pre-crime,” it’s a “machine-learning, artificial intelligence, command and control” platform that substitutes AI for human judgment.
The China Cables provide inside details about what all the mass surveillance and data collection is FOR. It is fed into IJOP, which learns from the data and uses it to produce lists of names, sometimes 1000s at a time, for police to detain.
For example, in a seven-day period in June 2017, IJOP flagged 24,412 names as “suspicious.” In that week alone, Xinjiang security officials rounded up 15,683 of those people and placed them in internment camps.
The noble journalists of ICIJ should expend their energies in cases of grooming, kidnapping, sex slavery through polygamist marriage among muslims across Europe and Asia. The trafficking of young children by jihad sympathizer criminal networks. The illegal funding of politicians and lawfarers to chip away at liberties of indigenous majorities to establish shariah and armed militia in guest countries.
But they won't, because then they will not be recognized by their islamophile leftist betters, will miss out on the cocktail parties and awards. May even have to face threats from actual human-rights abusers, like muslim gangs and their islamist networks. Fucking self-righteous, faux-humanist, idiot bastards. 'Trove' indeed. Shove your f↻cking Trove up your f↻ckety f↻ckin' arse !
Any responsible nation is obligated to do exactly what China is doing to its muslims. The fact that others have not will be rued by their future generations one day. After 9/11, when the Americans didn't do exactly this, now there are militia in NY roaming around in blue and whites with the mullah crecent stickers and some fucking inanity in Arabic.
Germany, England, france are all fucked ! Fucked ! And it's only the American gun culture and resilience of conservatives in some countries that they haven't been set upon by marauding hordes.
In no country except China do we see a responsible, State approved approach to purging the menace of islam. Everybody else is simply in denial about what the bloody thing is. This is why we pay taxes, why we enter the goddamn social contract and why we agree to respect and obey the tin man with the truncheon and the piddly zap gun in the first place. If a State cannot protect a population from its sworn enemy and cultist predators, the State is useless. Might as well leave the policing to us.
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Third option: build more and better walls, physical and virtual. And more aggressive policing and use of facial recognition in many more instances. I don't buy into the libertarian extremism, which owes as much to liberal kumbaya nonsense as it does to crackpot economics.
I'd like to see a new party emerge from the ashes of the NeverTrumper GOP and the Democratic Debacle parties, one focused intensely on SECURITY: economic security, physical security, securing the blessings of our cultural heritage and our birthright as a free but not suicidal people, distinct from other nations, not in any way beholden to idiotic globalist notions of universality.
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For sure, it's time the USA had a new party replace the Democrats. They are just too far gone. A more centrist approach maybe, with strong nationalist ethos. Which is why people voted for Trump I think, he wasn't the quintessential GOP man.
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I think there is a concept of nationalism, that is based on putting citizenship at the center of the nation.
That citizens are defined by their rights, which in turn are secured chiefly by keeping bad people out of the nation, and by not bringing into the nation people whose claims will impair the security and prosperity of the citizenry.
Citizens need walls. Only then can we cultivate our garden.
Otherwise, it will be trampled and pissed and shat upon by all manner of characters who care not for the ordinary citizen and his family-- not just foreign invaders but our own crapulous virtue-signaling morons, our greedy and rapacious wannabe oligarchs, and our shit-culture mongers.
We need to start by building walls, and moats, virtually speaking. Secure the citizenry's property, health, families, our heritage. Security first.
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And law enforcement. At the enforcement stage, not when it's passed on into the black robed arbiter domain. An overhaul of police and bureau policies and recruitment is also necessary too. I greatly applaud the ICE people in this regard. And the DEA.
In my little experience, almost every problem can be avoided at the stage of law enforcement.
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Well said. It seems almost surreal to me that so many people in NYC, or at least those morons who voted for De Blasio, have forgotten that the renaissance of that city was made possible by a revolution in policing.
Aggressive policing, compustat policing, going after the broken windows perps and the squeegee men: it was this relentless focus on tough, smart, unapologetic law enforcement under Bratton and Giuliani that made it possible for NYC to survive and even thrive after 1994.
So many of our problems are either cultural or else connected to weak rule of law. Which is in a way a reflection of a cultural problem.
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The culture you can't get back, may only preserve what's left in places. The social momentum of hoo ha impiety with the scientific atheism wave is just too much now. We shall all be 'secular democracies' until the end now. But at least a studied intolerance for anti-nationalist culture can be displayed. Of course you'd require empowering certain unruly specimens against muslims, antifas and wakandan types.
We all have to understand because our old systems were so effective, they gave rise to corruption. This led to disaffect and commie adventurism in the masses. In almost every modern republic. Today, 'the domestic enemy' has a momentum, a justification behind their 'ism'. The only way we can win against him is by sometimes descending into the villainy we are accused of.
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The Boer War was a war of aggression against a farmers' republic by an evil empire. The empire couldn't win on the battlefield, the farmers kept beating them. So they invented the concentration camp and imprisoned their women and children.
How heroic.
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NOTE: I have seen nothing in this story to suggest that the AI will only be used on Muslims.
This is a really evil turn of events.
Anybody with behavior outside of some norm will get flagged by this computer program.
Anybody!
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The system just flags odd behaviours, tags patterns of known and under-investigation criminals and assists law enforcement in profiling criminals. And criminals, their families and associates need to be profiled. This is an Asian society which westerners cannot begin to understand, so the translations from the frontend the journos are reading will appear malicious and 'inhumane' to them. The AI is innovative and wholly chinese, in that it does not adhere to globalist conventions of humanist propriety, it only seeks to eliminate any chance of survival for criminals.
It flags purchases of large quantities of corrosive substances, and surgical gloves for example by people not registered as hardware toolers or nurses respectively. Then there are subsystems like those for detecting a car registered to a different person, driven by an unrelated person. You have to understand, in Asia this is odd.
The software classifies 36 types of persons and subsets like 'convicted criminal' to 'white collar/con man' and people with regular domestic fights who bruise their wives enough to send them to hospitals. The system is being stated as some kind of skynet thingy, but it's only 'evil' part lies in that it wasn't built in consultation with or adherence to some globalist 'expert' approved checklist of liberties a corporation may take with data but a State should not.
3dc is right, it's not just for Uighurs. It's for detecting criminality, and has just happened to catch many practicing muslims. And this says more about muslims than the system.
But it's not a tool for violent oppression, just security. I don't care for the State of china at all, but I have no beef with the little people the Uighurs will attack. They won't be the buzz cut Han autocracy or the CPC bigwigs certainly.
China does not love the right to expression of liberties so much as to allow people to bend their knees at the Anthem, to have hijabed women chant for the safety of their asshole sons in the streets, to throw shoes at state leaders and try to establish a utopia by changing everyone's sex forcefully. It kills people who try to.
It is our failing if we cannot bring ourselves to set our priorities right and insist on recognizing islam as a religion with a place for it in our secular republics.
There is an intense campaign to vilify this Xinjiang thing and the 'concentration camps', but whom does the campaign favour ? What did the Uighurs do, and what do they want that is so innocent and worthy of surviving over everything the modern world has achieved. How did it start ? From a stabbing spree the likes of Paleos, ordered by Turkic mullahs west of China and followed up fervently by the Uighurs. Emboldened by what they'd achieved in the desperately dumb EU nations, they thought they could get away with the 2014 Kunming attack. They attacked hundreds, killed 31 people.
This was the response. As a measure of service for tax Yuan, I'd say it was fine service. And what have we done ? After 9/11, 26/11, charlie hebdo, the munich rapes, the Rochdale grooming gangs... fucko !
Instead of learning from them, and wishing the li'l chinks well, we mustn't try to imperil their innocent populations by chipping away at their sovereign right to fistfuck the muslim whichever way they want to.
Forgive me, but this is similar to a thing I've pitched often to my own govts so it's close to me. I'd rather die as a Bond-villian, then deliberate effetely as the muslim and the leftist emasculates my society.
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^ Actually, much of our western advanced algorithms aiperate on behavioral features, Dron.
The entire programmatic ad industry i.e. Google and FB's meal tickets are derived from ingesting and extracting meaning from millions of behavioral inputs about each of 2 billion internet users. We do behavioral, in spades. It's just swathed in all kinds of globalist virtue-signaling Silicon Valley corporate BS -- "organizing the world's information and making it useful," "connecting the world", "lining our pockets" etc.
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Let’s see.. I buy large boxes of surgical gloves for lastly first aid. There main use is when fixing stuff around the home and autos. I buy corrosive. Chemicals for repair jobs around the house or autos and electronics. Nano-abrasives to clean tile, cement or copper pipe. I have tools that would cause the average ChiCom to bug their eyes out. None of this for anything bad but I am sure an AI would flag. I’ve even been known to mix up my own anti-fungal medicine for my personal fruit trees as I don’t trust the ingredients in some of the commercial products.
The algorithm is helped in no small way by certain typical conceits of the average muslim brain. If you want to catch muslims for being... muslimy, the process is really simple.
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3dc, but you're not called Abubakr PinPong, neither is your wife missing teeth every saturday. ☺
Also, I'm pretty sure if an officer simply asked you to explain the purpose of your purchases you'd gladly open the garage to them and explain every bit until he yawned and left. I wouldn't mind.
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3dc - location-based behaviors are the most powerful signals. Add to each behavioral event the user's latitude/longitude and a time stamp, some audio of what he said or heard & video of what he might have seen at that time and place, and you've got the inputs needed to make good predictions of intent.
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I'd like to say that in the USA, a more effective form of thought/moral/social policing is being done already. You don't need a machine, if there's already a loosely connected community of closet-maoists in academia, bureaucracy, media... all ready to go out on a limb for their chosen socialist deity of the day. Attacking careers to beating up people for wearing hats, they are far more effective because a computer is a just a dispassionate thing.
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Dron66046, if you would be so kind as to give us a link for 2014 Kunming attack, that would be helpful. Your rant at #15 just had words where a URL should have been. We followed events at the time (see here), but I’m sure you had a particular article in mind.
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Separately, necessary as it is to put a stop to Uighur jihad ambitions, Communist China is a totalitarian society with a history of finding even small instances of independent thought — playing Western classical music, for instance — worthy of severe punishment, The Cultural Revolution was not an aberration, but a natural development as the country went down the totalitarian path.
Nowadays Christians as well as Moslems are in the crosshairs. As Mussolini said, “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
China is being vilified by Vatican flunkies, just as India is at times. A christian is safe anywhere except with muslims around. I have friends in Changsha, belonging to a 500 strong flock who have no affiliations to denominational christianity. They are regarded as 'fringe', 'cool-aid drinkers', 'holy rollers' by the ecclesiastical bureaucracies of the world. And they get by just fine, because an unpretentious man or woman of God gives no trouble to Caesar. It's Gawd who gives trouble to Caesar if Caesar does.
Globally distributed bureaucratic churches' various methods of intervening in social and familial aspects of citizens and then leveraging political and economic outcomes for certain communities to benefit ultimately themselves is what such States are concerned about. As for the freedom to worship, speech, sing, I'm told nobody is actually complaining. Else, how could you have this ? Do note the lyrics. Chinese Choir
The church of Almighty god is an anti-communist thingy which reveres a certain chin chong lady as the second coming, and the CPC suffers them because it'd just have to jail close to 3 million people ! And we're being told by the MSM how China is rounding up christians and selling their organs. What bullshit !
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The Chinese can do as they please, IMHO, in their wretched kingdom.
We need to keep a close wrap on the use of AI here, especially by virtue-signaling oligarchs who couldn't care less about our democracy or our cultural heritage.
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3dc, there was a great interest in AI to act as a conduit in a system of signals and actions for disabled people, and it was met with huge success, but a lot of the research branched off into military and expensive medical procedures. That's the way every promising research goes, it delivers a product to the rulers of the world, then the tech trickles down. Unfair as it is.
Now there's interest in AI on space pods that shall judge the commercial viability of excursions into asteroids and such for mining. The best use of AI would be to eliminate human partiality and ideological bias from major decisions like legislation. I'll bet if that happened, unreasonable laws, litigation and high handed corruption would be history. Also a lot of valueless, but charismatic rabble rousers would be jobless.
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Dron, somebody has to program the AI. Chances are their biases will seep into the AI.
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it delivers a product to the rulers of the world, then the tech trickles down. Unfair as it is.
New things are very expensive, because there is as yet no scale to have economies of. So the very rich pay top dollar, driving the cost of production down to the point where the rest of us need no longer choose between getting the thing and eating. Not unfair at all, though there are those who will argue it isn’t fair that early adopters have to pay so much more than those who come later.
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Rambler, it's very hard for bias to seep into programs without being easily detectable by an approving committee, from what I have understood. Although I'm still a dunce in these matters.
Algorithms are unsubtle things, unlike the legalese of legislation and judgements. The only compromise will be by the admins who pass on gathered knowledge, analysts who will color the data or stack it visually to suit their narratives. I have decided to just stop being afraid of so many things the MSM says are 'potentially' evil, now that I understand they are only protecting the thousand year old turf of the arbiters of our lives.
AI is extremely spot on at predicting crime but look at the arguments and where they come from and you'll see a pattern behind this anxiety. Biased AI vs Crime
“The artillery firing drills that North Korea mentioned are in violation of the Sept 19 military agreement that the military authorities of the two countries agreed to and that have been fully implemented," defense ministry spokesperson Choi Hyun-soo says. https://t.co/4Ne3p0ml7E
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[rthk.hk] Pro-government candidates knew they were in tough for Sunday's District Council polls, with voters highly motivated to express their views on the months of unrest through the ballot box.
But they didn't expect to be crushed on this scale – few did.
At counting stations across the territory, similar pictures emerged. Huge piles of votes for pro-democracy candidates, dwarfing the stacks of ballots for their pro-government rivals.
Of 13 pro-establishment legislators who fought for a District Council, nine lost. The four winners were DAB Chairwoman Starry Lee, who barely managed to stave off a challenge from former League of Social Democrats legislator Leung Kwok-Hung; Lee's party mate Wilson Or, who only defeated People Power's Tam Tak-chi by 187 votes; the Federation of Trade Union's Kwok Wai-keung; and Paul Tse, who hung on to his seat in Wan Chai.
Outside of those races, it was a bloodbath.
The DAB's Holden Chow, Horace Cheung, Vincent Cheng, and Edward Lau were all upset.
Vincent Cheng apologised to his supporters after his loss, saying he had tried his best. He said while he's confident that his constituents fully affirm his past work as a District Council over the past decade, the "events over the past few months have influenced the outcome of this vote."
But Horace Cheung – who's also an Executive Councillor – told reporters it was "too early to draw any conclusions" from the results, saying his party will be holding a central committee meeting to discuss the election later on Monday. But he said many aides to his election campaign had faced 'threats of violence'.
Three Federation of Trade Unions' legislators – Alice Mak, Ho Kai-ming, and Michael Luk, lost.
Mak made no bones about who she thought was to blame for her shock election loss: the Carrie Lam administration.
"The administration's governance has given rise to so many public grievances. In the election campaign, pro-government candidates have been unfairly treated. This is a very important reason [for our poor performance]", she said.
She added that she has been faithfully serving her constituents' interests in Kwai Tsing for the past 26 years, and said in this polarised society, "it's not about our work, it's about our political stance." Mak added that she hopes things will stay as peaceful going forward as it was on election day, where no major incidents were reported.
Other prominent losers include outspoken Roundtable legislator Michael Tien, and one of the most controversial politicians on the ballot, Junius Ho.
Ho was apparently shocked by his defeat, saying in a concession speech on his Facebook page that "heaven and earth have been turned upside down", and characterising the polls as ‘abnormal' and ‘regrettable.
Ho's remarks, as hyperbolic as they may seem, may not be so far off the mark. While most analysts had expected the pan-democratic camp to make solid gains, no one expected this sort of one-sided rout.
This viral @Forbes story about koalas is false. Please ignore it! Koalas aren’t suddenly “functionally extinct” & the fires have NOT destroyed 80% of their habitat.
Hundreds of koalas have been hurt in the fires, and it’s very sad, but it’s so important to get facts right. pic.twitter.com/tvaoSTBi2q
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Forbes went to sh*t after Malcolm died. Same thing is happening at FauxNews since Murdoch sons took over. WSJ became useless when Murdoch bought it.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A 40-year-old man did away with himself by jumping off the fourth floor of his apartment building in Shadman Town on Saturday allegedly after hammering his eight-year-old daughter to death and leaving his wife and 10-year-old son badly injured, police said.
The chilling episode in the densely populated locality was reported early in the morning and remained a mystery even after several hours, but by the evening the Sherlocks found reasons to suspect the dear departed man was behind the tragedy.
"A 40-year-old man, Mohammad Kashif, and his eight-year-old daughter were found dead," said an official at the Sir Syed Town cop shoppe. "His 34-year-old wife, Sofia, and 10-year-old son Ayan were found almost unconscious with multiple wounds on their bodies. Both the injured were shifted to hospital for treatment where they are said to be in a stable condition. The bodies were moved to hospital for medico-legal formalities as well."
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