In a post on X, Altman wrote that watching Trump “more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him,” noting, “I’m not going to agree with him on everything, but I think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!”
Trump announced on Tuesday a “Stargate” AI infrastructure deal funded by OpenAI, Oracle, Japan-based SoftBank and Emirati-based MGX, which Trump said would help develop the technology in the U.S. and create more than 100,000 jobs.
Altman said he wished he had “done more of my own thinking” and “fell in the NPC trap,” echoing a phrase often used by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who appears to refer to his critics and media outlets as “non-playable characters” (NPCs) to imply their opinions are controlled by someone else.
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Also, I do have to wonder if he still wanted a real assassination after the Butler assassination came so close to succeeding, and if he still feels that way now. Wishcasting a flippant remark is one thing; wanting to be the one to make something real happen is another thing altogether, especially after all that’s come out since. And how many of his acquaintance have come around to supporting President Trump? The preference cascade is broad and deep, shockingly (to people like him) encompassing Blacks and Latinos, union members, 18-34 year olds — especially the men in that age group — Zionists, Silicon Valley/tech types, and severely disappointed major Biden/Harris donors. The only ones standing firm are government bureaucrats, wine moms who watch The View, and Antifa fans.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives appeared to try and avoid Donald Trump's anti-DEI executive order by switching the job title of its Chief Diversity Officer.
On Tuesday, Trump's administration ordered federal agencies to place all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) hires on paid leave pending review and warned authorities not to use 'coded or imprecise language' to circumvent the move.
But within a day of the order being announced, eagle-eyed online sleuths noticed the ATF's Chief Diversity Officer Lisa T. Boykin had a new job title, appearing to have been updated to 'Senior Executive.'
The ATF did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the claim it tried to go around Trump's executive order.
The move came after Trump signed an executive order on Monday within hours of being sworn-in that aimed to eradicate all DEI programs within the federal government.
The next day, the White House released a memo to federal agencies ordering them to not only place all DEI hires on paid leave by 5pm Wednesday, but to quickly form plans to fire every one of them.
In a letter first obtained by CBS News, the agencies were ordered to 'take prompt actions' against all DEI departments, with all employees warned to report 'any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language' - or risk 'adverse consequences.'
Monday's order was one of a raft of executive orders Trump moved quickly on, also including withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, ordering all federal employees return to in-person work, and rescinding 78 Biden-era executive orders.
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I thought I would always remember ATF as the agency that smuggled assault rifles to the Mexican cartels. Now I have another reason.
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The ATF may be the dumbest federal agency. This is like a kid crouching under a blanket in Hide and Seek.
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#3
As if I didn't hate the ATF enough...
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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#4
The ATF made some egregious mistakes during Waco operation against the Branch Davidians.
Four ATF agents were killed in that operation.
The ATF makes mistakes all the time but that is partly because the it gets involved in complex situations where intel is sketchy or wrong. The working level of agents are mostly good people and well trained. The political appointees are typically sub competent. In many Federal positions, sub competent people at the top can be ameliorated by competent people at the working level. Unfortunately, this is sometimes not the case at the ATF.
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You know, there's a solution generally used when employees lie to you.
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#6
Terminate the DEI head and then terminate the ATF supervisor that tried this little hornswoggle -- pour encourager les autres.
#1
AI is bad with facts but good with art, even free AI on the internet can generate a themed mascot character design within seconds, for the cost of looking at some cheap ads.
This $1.8 billion budget item looks more like a front for a serious kickback / money laundering scheme.
[FoxNews] Biden administration claimed violent crime rate in US was at 50-year low
A law enforcement expert is poking holes in the now-former Biden administration Department of Justice's repeated claims that violent crime sank to a 50-year record low, saying the agency "manipulated data" to reach its conclusion.
In 2024, the Biden administration repeatedly claimed that violent crime was at a 50-year low, based on FBI statistics. The FBI defines the following as "violent crime": murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
But Ken Alexandrow, a security expert who served for 26 years as a Nashville, Tennessee, police officer, said the former administration "manipulated data" to reach a certain outcome.
"The way crime statistics are developed is that police departments around the nation send all their category 1 crimes, which are violent crimes, to the FBI. And then the FBI develops nationwide statistics," Alexandrow said. "But the changes happen when a new administration comes in, and they change the reporting conditions."
CHANGE OF REPORTING PROGRAMS
The Biden administration did just that, Alexandrow alleged. He said the administration changed reporting from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
"If you ask anybody on the street, no one will tell you that they feel safer or that crime is going down. However, it's the job of any leader, whether they're local, state or federal, to make your constituency feel safe. So how can we do that? Well, several police chiefs and city managers have been in trouble for manipulating stats," he said.
Alexandrow, who founded Agape Tactical LLC, said police departments will remove "pieces of the pie" to show constituents that crime is going down.
"A city may remove domestic murders one year, and then the next they'll remove drug-related murders so they're taking two pieces of the pie out," he said. "So to manipulate their statistics, they take sections of the population out to prove that they're doing their job."
"The government has done the same thing by changing the way that crime is reported," he said.
PERCENTAGE OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS NOT REPORTING
He said that in 2023, 70% of police departments that were reporting under the UCR program stopped reporting under the NIBRS program.
"And keep in mind, those are cities, including L.A., Chicago and New York City, along with 45% of Florida departments, not reporting," he said. "When you have these major cities not reporting, you're going to have a tremendous drop in crimes and, therefore, your statistics and your percentages will drop."
BIDEN ADMIN PREVIOUSLY SHIFTING CRIME STATS
In 2022, the Biden administration's FBI quietly updated its crime data to show an increase in violent crimes despite previous data showing violent crimes had fallen that year, which was touted as a victory for the administration.
The data was lauded by Democrats and the media as part of a turning point for crime woes in the U.S. after the crime wave of 2020, when defund-the-police protests and riots swept the nation and the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders upended daily life.
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A FOIA request to uncover the policy would be the beginning. If the response does not turn anything up, a look by the IG and Harmeet’s office would be worthwhile.
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This is my home, my pregnant wife @WifeOfCombatVet, and my then 4-year-old son the Thursday morning when our home was raided by the FBI. The following day we lost our baby.
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump has revoked a Biden-era order allowing transgender people to serve in the military.
After taking the oath of office on Monday, the new president signed an order revoking former President Joe Biden's order known as Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform, which was signed in 2021.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to reinstate the ban on transgender troops he imposed during his first term. In his inauguration speech, he said he would formally recognize that there are only two genders: male and female.
There are an estimated 9,000 to 14,000 transgender service members.
The new executive order was part of a rapid-fire succession of moves Trump has taken to undo Biden's policies. In a statement, the White House called out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the federal government that "has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy."
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I never understood the service of people that were on all sorts of psych meds and hormones from their first day of service.
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If they want to do that after they get out, go for it and even through the VA (gods help you) as they earned that right. But while in? Oh fuck no. War is hard enough on supply and logistics without adding fucking hormones to the list of things they need.
I thought the VA is supposed to take care of necessary health care. This is indulging a dangerous mental health disorder. I support psychiatric treatment for body dysphoria to help them accept the body they were born with, but if they want expensive cosmetic surgery and disruptive hormone treatments to create a poor facsimile of something they cannot become, let them do that on their own dime. The public purse is not infinite.
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Fielded this question the other day using points from 3, 4, and 5, feeling better about it.
They are doing the same thing the pedos were doing 4 years ago, get into a gaming group, build relationships, and start messaging, sometime building multiple accounts who will then start 'totally agreeing with each other' to start that peer pressure energy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
