[ABC] PALM COAST, Fla. — Crime might not pay, but authorities say a criminal tried to.
Authorities arrested a Florida man who they said broke into a convenience store and took a few items, although he left his debit card behind.
In a video Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly posted to Facebook, the suspect told deputies he left his debit card so he "could come back later and pay" for the items he took.
"I didn't want to steal anything, you know, that's against the law," he said in the video.
Deputies responded to an alarm at a closed Palm Coast gas station in the early morning of Feb. 5, according to the Facebook post.
The store owner showed deputies surveillance video, and they also located a debit card with the suspect's name on it on the counter near the register, the sheriff said. The deputies actually recognized the man in the video from a vehicle fire near the gas station earlier that night.
"He must have really wanted those items to break into a closed convenience store to get them," Staly said. "Leaving a debit card behind does not absolve you from theft or committing a burglary."
Deputies said they tracked the man down to return the debit card — and arrest him for burglary and theft.
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — Police in North Myrtle Beach are looking for a vehicle and driver who they believe may have stolen equipment that was meant for the U.S. Navy in their effort to clean up debris from the Chinese balloon.
Police say on Thursday while supplies were being dropped off for our Navy Sailors working off of our coast, someone decided to take some equipment that was being used while dropping off these supplies.
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Horry County. It only comes into focus when you say it out loud.
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#1 One of the most dope infested and crime ridden areas of the South.
Posted by: Besoeker 2023-02-10 06:29
Beso,
You are so sadly right. I absolutely loved the Redneck Riviera, and until recently we did two trips a year there. But it has gotten bad, and the Authorities don't seem to have any idea how to handle it.
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Dems run the town. The police are essentially powerless. There are camps of homeless all around downtown and the libs in town cater to them. North MB is a better area, better run, better policing.
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Reparations often take the form of a blank check to live out the atavistic aspects of the hip-hop lifestyle, all at the expense of the "white privileged" crackers.
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Tried Myrtle 1 time. It was enough.
Switched to renting out weekend beachfront condo's in the Kill Devil Hills area of Outer Banks in Off Season.
Some great fresh Seafood.
But, parts of the area scared the hell out of the wife.
Like when she saw the road sign
"Road Does Not Exist
During High Tide"
But; a last, I have been told it too has been infested.
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Come try New Smyrna Beach. We may be the shark bite capital of the world, but we do have old fashioned southern law and order here.
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Oh great. My wife and I are going there for Valentine's Day. She's been there several times and loves it.
Not sure what part were going to, but I'll keep my eyes open.
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Yeah, Myrtle Beach is horrible! ALL YOU YANKEES STAY AWAY!!!
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[RedState] Activists attack videogamers playing Hogwarts Legacy.
Career Threats Have Been Issued to Streamers for Playing 'Hogwarts Legacy'
The video game “Hogwarts Legacy” has finally launched for early access streamers and the controversy surrounding the game has caused all hell to break loose.
Activist mobs and their allies have begun attacking streamers who are playing the game live. One such streamer couple called “Girlfriend Reviews” was bullied so badly that Shelby, the girlfriend of the duo, walked away from the stream sounding as if she was holding back tears while her boyfriend “Matt” decided to stay silent through the playthrough.
It gets worse.
Now, a website has been created where people can effectively turn in streamers who have or are streaming the game, creating a list of guilty people. Not only does this create a list for the mob, but it could also result in the destruction of the careers of various streamers.
As Fox News reported, warnings have been issued to streamers looking to play the game for an audience with some noting that the list could be used against you now or in the future:
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I'm sure there is an active moderator on the comments, but they are overwhelmingly positive with a few sprinkles giving the finger to the killjoys - which, if it is heavily moderated, says something. Says more if it isn't moderated.
Ace has a great post up with some transaxlist with a steer nose ring going off about her Harry Potter tattoos. The response, "So you regret a permanent body modification you had when you were young." or such. Beautiful.
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swksvolFF: I'm not moderating comments on this and I doubt others are (?). I loved Harry Potter books and movies with my kids growing up. Her focus on reality vs. Trans reality makes me like her more.
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It is possible that there is a purchase check in order to leave a comment/review there, which would explain the lack of screeching transaxles, but I don't think I've ever seen such an overwhelmingly positive review board there. Sure there is the speckling of those who can't get the game to work right on their PC, and that is usually someone trying to run a top tier game on an inadequate computer, but we're talking like Top Gun: Maverick having fun reviews. Cash numbers would be interesting.
*looks it up*
Says here gamerevolution.com yesterday half a million player on Steam alone. Does not include numbers for XBox and Playstation (I think it is on Switch too?)
And the official launch wasn't until today.
So yeah, we may be looking at Top Gun: Maverick level of success.
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Y'all do a great job, and I was a bit vague considering some of The Present Company.
Game goes for $60 for regular version, extra $10 for deluxe at Steam. 500,000 x $60 is a cool $30,000,000 Gross at Steam alone, and before official release, and without what sounds like a large percentage getting the deluxe.
IIUC it is an immersive puzzle solving game. There is combat, but it is mostly optional and is puzzle solving in itself find and exploiting adversary's weakness (as opposed to a shoot-em-all or a hack-n-slash).
Brilliant. All the new parents who grew up on the movies and have their own kids can play with their kids, and The Heads have a chill game.
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Doom mostly on Steam, now I have something else to annoy lefties ;-)
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Heh, but that's what is great about this is the universal appeal of the Harry Potter IP is it is universal; people waiting their whole life for a game like this. I'm thinking The Crazies stepped on a rake here.
Saw an ad for this at prime time 8oclock adult themed TV channel.
[NewYorkMagazine] James O’Keefe, the founder and chairman of Project Veritas, has taken a paid leave from the conservative nonprofit media organization as its board considers whether to remove him from his leadership position, according to current and former employees of the organization.
An internal message sent to Project Veritas employees by the organization’s executive director, Daniel Strack, said that O’Keefe would be taking “a few weeks of well-deserved PTO.” An image of the message was shared by a source familiar with the organization’s internal operations, and its authenticity was confirmed by a current employee. When reached for comment on his personal cell phone, O’Keefe said nothing in response and did not respond to follow-up calls and text messages. Through a Project Veritas spokesman, Strack later released a statement on behalf of the organization. “Like all newsrooms at this stage, the Project Veritas Board of Directors and Management are constantly evaluating what the best path forward is for the organization,” the statement read in part. It did not directly address questions about O’Keefe’s employment status. “There are 65+ employees at Project Veritas dedicated to continuing the mission to expose corruption, dishonesty, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions,” the statement read. “To our supporters: We hear you, we care about you, and we will never give up.”
O’Keefe is his organization’s guiding ideological force and onscreen face, but his status as its day-to-day manager has become uncertain amid reports of internal turmoil, lawsuits from former employees, leaks about its internal workings, and a federal investigation into its conduct in purchasing a diary stolen from Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter. Strack’s internal message to employees made reference to what he called “a distracting time” and said that a board meeting had been held to discuss “the health of the organization” and that while “we have not come up with final solutions yet we have made a few immediate decisions.” The message said two top Project Veritas executives, including the nonprofit’s chief financial officer, had been “reinstated.” Multiple sources said that the pair had recently been fired by O’Keefe.
A meeting of the Project Veritas board is scheduled for Friday, when O’Keefe’s potential removal is set to be discussed, according to one source familiar with the matter. The source said that Project Veritas was currently divided between a group of employees who are perceived to be loyal to O’Keefe, including his communications adviser, R.C. Maxwell, and the board, which has been dissatisfied with what it perceives as O’Keefe’s mismanagement. Matthew Tyrmand, a conservative journalist who serves on Project Veritas’ board, said he was about to walk into a meeting and could not talk when reached on his cell phone on Wednesday. When asked specifically if O’Keefe was being ousted, he replied: “I just said I was walking into a meeting and this was not the appropriate time. What don’t you understand about that?” He did not respond to subsequent phone calls. Two other board members did not respond to phone messages.
As rumors of O’Keefe’s potential ouster circulated among his friends and enemies on Wednesday, his usually pugnacious Twitter and Instagram accounts were silent. Project Veritas continued to promote the organization’s latest stings, including a series of hidden-camera videos that captured a Pfizer scientist discussing what Project Veritas described as dangerous gain-of-function research related to COVID vaccines. (“Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research,” the pharmaceutical company responded in a statement after the videos appeared.) One video in the series culminated with a physical altercation between O’Keefe and the Pfizer employee. In another video, posted in late January, O’Keefe accosted an investigative reporter for the New York Times, Adam Goldman, whose byline has appeared on multiple stories about the Biden-diary case. “Look how scared he is,” O’Keefe says in the videos, as Goldman holds up an iPhone to record their interaction.
“I’m an investigative reporter, unlike you, you’re a government stooge,” O’Keefe says and tauntingly calls Goldman a “punk” and a “Fed-boy!” (From Goldman’s side of the camera, O’Keefe looks even more hostile.)
Even as O’Keefe continued his confrontational act, long-standing infighting at the Project Veritas headquarters in Mamaroneck was coming to a head. Over the dozen years since he founded the nonprofit in a carriage house behind his parents’ home in suburban Westwood, New Jersey, the group has grown from a shoestring YouTube prank operation into a large, ideologically driven news organization with an annual operating budget of more than $20 million. But former employees describe O’Keefe as an erratic and often angry boss. According to a letter dated February 6, which was circulated by Project Veritas staff who were critical of O’Keefe’s management, he “berated” and fired the organization’s CFO, Tom O’Hara, and its chief strategy officer, Barry Hinckley. Hinckley later wrote a message to the staff saying he had “stood up to a bully” and had lost his job as a result. The letter included an 11-page list of testimonials from anonymous current employees, describing O’Keefe, in the words of one, as a “power drunk tyrant.”
Even many of O’Keefe’s enemies wondered, however, if his organization could survive without him as its leader. “Quite frankly, he’s the company,” one former employee said.
This is a developing story.
PJ Media adds:
Project Veritas, whose public face has always been its founder James O’Keefe, has been hit with a scandal. A whistleblower has come forward regarding the recent news that O’Keefe has been put on leave and stripped of his role in the company. According to this unnamed whistleblower, O’Keefe has fallen victim to a lack of proper corporate structure at Project Veritas, which is divided into two separate organizations with different boards and funding. The whistleblower alleges that two ringleaders, Matt Tyrmand and Barry Hinckley, have taken advantage of the situation to push O’Keefe out. The board members and C-suite officers involved in the attempt to remove O’Keefe are listed in the Twitter thread. The whistleblower describes the board’s decision as a "Stalinesque kangaroo court trial."
Project Veritas has experienced huge success recently with its reinstatement on Twitter and the viral videos exposing corruption at Pfizer. The removal of James O’Keefe comes shortly after this win, and many people have speculated about the reasons behind it.
It’s important to remember that while the Daily Beast has done some good investigative work on other stories, it has a history of publishing misleading information and promoting a leftist agenda. Their report has no corroborating evidence that O’Keefe did these outrageous things, including allegedly taking a sandwich from a pregnant woman.
If true, that’s a ballsy move and also a great quality that led to his massive success. Is there nothing he will not attempt? There’s something humorous about the allegations because they are so weird.
A thread from the founder of Old Row claimed, citing a source within the outlet, that what is happening to O'Keefe is nothing short of a hostile takeover attempt from two members of the board over weak allegations of misconduct.
"According to my source, this situation has allowed to 2 alleged ringleaders of this attempt to push James out to have significant sway over the others despite their reasons to be essentially meritless," Swig tweeted. "Board members and C Suite officers involved in this according to my source are as follows: Board members: Matt Tyrmand - (Ringleader) John Garvey, George Skakel, Joseph Barton (not the congressman), Steve Alembik CFO: Tom O’Hara COO: Barry Hinckley (Ringleader pronouns in bio)."
"It was literally a stalinesque kangaroo court trial. The thing that is so very profound to me that no one seems to grasp: John Garvey and the rest of the Board did NOTHING to stop it. Matt Tyrmand had it all scripted. All six fucking hours."
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The Elite Powers that be, can even replace the POTUS, as has been proven several times already.
Either, O'Keefe has become a MEGA Threat to their behind the scenes global manipulations, and he will become a fading shadow that hangs himself, like others that have posed issues.
OR he dumps Project Veritas and starts another such company.
OR,
this is part of an another behind the scenes exposé. Where he will expose the Deep State paying / rewarding those on the PV board to remove him.
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"Chicago Bulls release Michael Jordan after winning slam dunk contest."
Promiscuous black gay male looking to have stranger get into his pants spills company and state bio-weapon secrets and his martini to impress. Step up, and PrEP up!
[Dawn] Rescuers were scouring debris on Friday nearly 100 hours after a massive earthquake hit Turkiye and Syria, killing at least 21,000 people in one of the region’s worst disasters for a century.
The first UN aid deliveries arrived on Thursday in Syrian rebel-held zones, but chances of finding survivors have dimmed since the passing of the three-day mark that experts consider a critical period to save lives.
Bitter cold hampered search efforts in both countries, but more than 80 hours after the disaster struck, 16-year-old Melda Adtas was found alive in the southern Ottoman Turkish city of Antakya.
Her overjoyed father was in tears and the grieving nation cheered an agonisingly rare piece of good news.
"My dear, my dear!" he called out as rescuers pulled the teen out of the rubble and the watching crowd broke into applause.
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck early Monday as people slept, in a region where many had already suffered loss and displacement due to Syria’s civil war.
Top aid officials were planning to visit affected areas with World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths both announcing trips.
The president of the International Committee of the Red Thingy, Mirjana Spoljaric, said she had arrived in Aleppo.
"Communities struggling after years of fierce fighting are now crippled by the earthquake," Spoljaric tweeted on Wednesday.
"As this tragic event unfolds, people’s desperate plight must be addressed."
AID REACHES REBEL AREAS
An aid convoy crossed the Ottoman Turkish border into rebel-held northwestern Syria on Thursday, the first delivery into the area since the quake, an official at the Bab al-Hawa crossing told AFP.
The crossing is the only way UN assistance can reach civilians without going through areas controlled by Syrian government forces.
A decade of civil war and Syrian-Russian aerial bombardment had already destroyed hospitals, collapsed the economy and prompted electricity, fuel and water shortages.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... urged the Security Council to authorise the opening of new cross-border humanitarian aid points between Turkiye and Syria.
Four million people living in the rebel-held areas have had to rely on the Bab al-Hawa crossing as part of an aid operation authorised by the UN Security Council nearly a decade ago.
"This is the moment of unity, it’s not a moment to politicise or to divide but it is obvious that we need massive support," Guterres said.
FREEZING TEMPERATURES
Temperatures in the Ottoman Turkish city of Gaziantep, located near the epicentre of the quake, plunged to minus three degrees Celsius (26 degrees Fahrenheit) early on Friday.
Despite the cold, thousands of families had to spend the night in cars and makeshift tents — too scared or banned from returning to their homes. Parents walked the streets of the city carrying their children in blankets because it was warmer than sitting in a tent.
Gyms, mosques, schools and some stores have opened at night. But beds are scarce and thousands spend the nights in cars with engines running to provide heat.
"I fear for anyone who is trapped under the rubble in this," said Melek Halici, who wrapped her two-year-old daughter in a blanket as they watched rescuers working into the night.
’THE QUIET IS AGONISING’
Monday’s quake was the largest Turkiye has seen since 1939, when 33,000 people died in the eastern Erzincan province.
Officials and medics said 17,674 people had died in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and 3,377 in Syria from Monday’s tremor, bringing the confirmed total to 21,051.
Experts fear the number will continue to rise sharply.
Anger has mounted over the government’s handling of the disaster.
"People who didn’t die from the earthquake were left to die in the cold," Hakan Tanriverdi told AFP in Adiyaman province, one of the areas hardest hit.
On a visit to the area, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... admitted there had been "shortcomings" in the government’s handling of the disaster.
Despite the difficulties, thousands of local and foreign searchers have not given up the hunt for more survivors.
In the devastated Ottoman Turkish town of Nurdagi, close to the epicentre, emergency workers using drones and heat-detecting monitors ordered silence when a potential survivor was found.
"The quiet is agonising. We just don’t know what to expect," Emre, a local resident, said as he waited next to one block on a main road into the town.
RELIEF PLEDGES
Dozens of nations, including China and the United States, have pledged to help.
The World Bank said it would give $1.78 billion in aid to Turkiye to help relief and recovery efforts.
Immediate assistance of $780 million will be offered from two existing projects in Turkiye, said the bank, while an added $1 billion in operations is being prepared to support affected people.
In addition to a staggering human toll, the quake’s economic cost appears likely to exceed $2 billion and could reach $4 billion or more, Fitch Ratings said.
[ShabelleMedia] The fighting between the Somaliland forces and local residents has continued for the fourth day in Las Anod, the capital of Sool region, witnesses said.
The two sides clashed again on Thursday morning after the SSC troops attacked Somaliland army base in Qaaja-Adde area, which lies about 5 kilometers east of the city.
"The sound of artillery and various types of weapons can be heard from around the city and residents mostly fled from their houses to the safer places," said a villager by phone.
The corpse count still rises with the medical facilities in Las Anod are coping with the increasing number of the maimed people amid shortage of medicines and doctors.
The corpse count from the 4 day battle rose to at least 75 people with the medics reporting that most of the casualties resulted from the bombardments by Somaliland troops.
The international community and Somali government called for an immediate end to the bloodshed and urged both sides to opt for dialogue instead of killing each other aimlessly.
Somaliland withdrew its forces from the city in early January, under pressure from the international community and the city’s residents who waged an uprising against Hargeisa administration.
On Tuesday, Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud called for calm, urging Somaliland to negotiate with traditional elders from Sool region to resolve Las Anod crisis.
For the past 15 years, the city is disputed between Somaliland and Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, but the local elders from the Dhulbahante clan have rejected both claims, declaring they intended to establish a new state within federal Somalia, and urging Somaliland’s forces to leave the region.
[Garowe] The current situation in the Las Anod city within Sool region has reached the heights of genocide, an elder has said, while calling on the international community to intervene and prevent more people fron dying following a week of skirmishes in the Horn of Africa nation.
For the last one week, the situation in Sool region of Somalia has been the epicenter of serious skirmishes which have left over 50 people dead after the second wave of violence which saw local militia engage Somaliland army in shootout which lasted for about three days.
Garad Jama Ali, an elder who had been in exile since 2007 told the BBC Somali Service that Somaliland administration has been torturing, killing and mistreating the people of Laascaanood for 15 years and that the situation has reached the point of being called a "genocide".
"This is pure genocide and the international community should call it by the right word instead of hiding for all this long," he saud. "For the last 15 years, our people have been killed carelessly by the Somaliland military and there senseless deaths ought to be called by their right words."
Jama, a respected community elder, said there was need for Somaliland administration to withdraw her soldiers from Sool to pave way for relative stability as elders look for a lasting solution to avert tensions which have continued to build up in the Horn of Africa nation.
"It is clear that the people of Las Anod want to be governed from Somalia's capital Mogadishu and not Hargeisa. This should be the reason why the military from Somaliland should gently quit instead of suffocating the people of Las Anod without good reasons, " he added while sharing the plight of the people.
[BenarNews] China has deployed artificial intelligence-created news anchors for the first time to propagandize political content on social media, a U.S. research firm said in a report.
Spamouflage, a Chinese state-aligned influence operation, has been using AI-generated fictitious people to promote China’s global role and spreading disinformation against the United States since late 2022, New York-based Graphika said in its report, "Deepfake It Till You Make It."
Spamouflage, a combination of spam and camouflage, is a tactic used by spammers to evade email spam filters by replacing certain letters with numbers. Cyber security researchers use the term, as well as other terms such as Dragonbridge or Spamouflage Dragon, to refer to the pro-Chinese propaganda network on the internet.
Spamouflage is responsible for posting, via fake accounts targeting social media users, thousands of assets that praise China, criticize the United States, and attack the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement as well as Taiwan independence.
Recently it has been "promoting a new and distinctive form of video content on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube," Graphika said.
The firm’s researchers spotted and analyzed two "unique" videos featuring a male and a female anchor, both speaking English and appearing to be Caucasian.
The videos used the logo of a "likely fictitious media company" called ’Wolf News’ with the accompanying slogan "Focus on hot spots and broadcast in real time."
The male anchor criticized the U.S. government for its "hypocritical repetition of empty rhetoric" in tackling gun violence, while the female anchor highlighted the importance of China-U.S. cooperation for the global economic recovery.
Both videos mirrored "past Spamouflage efforts to pass as legitimate news outlets," said the Graphika report.
ALEX, JASON AND JAMES
The abundant similarities spotted in the videos and other Spamouflage assets on the internet led to the conclusion about the connection between the two.
China had yet to respond to the Graphika report, which points to the alarming potential misuse of sophisticated AI technology in disinformation campaigns by state actors.
Until now, online influence operations have been limited to computer-generated fake faces and fabricated videos but the new videos featured AI-generated fictitious people that looked almost real.
"At first glance, the Wolf News anchors present as real people. Our initial hypothesis was that they were paid actors that had been recruited to appear in the videos," the team behind the report said.
After further investigation they spotted the anchors’ robotic speech, which didn’t sync with their lips’ movements, as well as numerous grammatical mistakes in the subtitles.
The Graphika team said the anchors were likely created using technology provided by Synthesia, a British AI video company.
They found several marketing videos using the same AI-generated duo speaking a number of languages besides English. The male avatar, named Alex in the Wolf News video, was also called Mr. Curtis, Jason and James.
"The main benefit of this technology to the creators of the Spamouflage videos appears to be increased efficiency, specifically high-speed, low-cost content production," the report said, adding that Synthesia’s products can create AI-generated videos in a matter of minutes and subscriptions start at just U.S. $30 per month.
Influence operations actors "will continue to experiment with AI technologies, producing increasingly convincing media artifacts that are harder to detect and verify," Graphika warned.
In 2018, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua revealed the world’s first AI news anchor, which was a male image with a voice, facial expressions and actions of a real person.
The avatar was jointly developed by Xinhua and Chinese search engine company Sogou.com.
Xinhua said the English-speaking anchor "can work 24 hours a day on its official website and various social media platforms, reducing news production costs and improving efficiency."
In the past decade, China has placed great attention on developing AI technology.
The Stanford University’s 2022 AI Index, which assesses AI advancements worldwide, ranks China second in total private investment in AI and the number of newly funded AI companies, only after the United States.
Beijing introduced first-of-its-kind regulation on AI-generated images and videos, or "deepfakes," in January. According to it, "deep synthesis services cannot use the technology to disseminate fake news."
The new regulation also said content that endangers national security and interests, damages the national image or disrupts the economy is banned.
The regulation however doesn’t apply to deepfakes generated outside of the country. Critics say its priority is to tighten online censorship and stifle dissent.
Kemp keeps winning
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTGS) — The Georgia Ports Authority announced that the East Coast's largest ship-to-shore cranes will arrive in Savannah Thursday afternoon.
Port officials said that four massive ship-to-shore cranes will arrive in the Port of Savannah's Garden City Terminal on the vessel Biglift Baffin. There is NO Garden in Garden City, I lived on Wilmington Island for 8 years.
The cranes are expected to pass in front of downtown Savannah at around 3:30 p.m., and the large vessel will pass under the Talmadge Bridge somewhere between 3:45 and 4:15 p.m. They are expected to reach their destination at 5 p.m.
They are expected to reach their destination at 5 p.m.
The Coast Guard will enforce a temporary safety zone in the Savannah River due to the cranes' arrival on Thursday.
From 12:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., no vessels will be permitted to enter into, transit through, moor, or anchor within 1,500 feet of the Biglift Baffin.
The ship is carrying a Georgia Bulldogs flag to honor the back-to-back champions.
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Abrams are shipped by Ro/Ro (roll on/ roll off).
i.e. the ship drops a ramp and they are driven on. Helps when the delivery offload doesn't have big cranes available.
FWIW Sealift Command keeps (at least used to) a Ro/ro stocked with Abrams and Bradleys parked at Diego Garcia.
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[10 News] Learn to EBT Yahoo announced on Thursday that it would cut 20% of its workforce by the end of the year.
Axios first reported the news. The cuts to the company's total workforce are expected to impact about 1,600 people.
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone said the cuts will be “tremendously beneficial for the profitability of Yahoo overall."
Axios reported that Yahoo is profitable, and generates about $8 billion a year in revenue.
A growing number of media and tech companies have been taking measures to cut costs as digital advertiser spending becomes more uncertain around the globe.
[Epoch Times] The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is vowing to expel all Chinese goods and materials from the United States’s defense supply chains.
Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said that he would lead the effort to expunge China-sourced goods during a Feb. 8 hearing of the committee on the subject of defense-industrial base security.
"The greatest concern I have with the defense industrial base is our continued reliance on China as the source of raw materials," Rogers said.
"I won’t stop until we’ve completely rid the defense supply chain of Chinese goods and materials."
Rogers said that communist China still inadvertently controlled too many parts of the supply chains required to equip the military and conduct security operations.
He singled out the United States’s continued reliance on China for rare earth minerals and non-advanced semiconductor chips and said that the regime’s grip on such supplies would need to be broken.
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains a tight grip on many of our material supply chains including critical minerals and semiconductors," Rogers said."We will never prevail in a conflict with China if they’re the source of our military supply."...
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The other big problem is that even if we do do this, we still have major supply chain problems in the event of war with China because we let them take over consumer manufacturing.
NEW: Rand Paul breaks down how the U.S. government still funds Chinese coronavirus research.
"The main group that's been getting this money is EcoHealth Alliance. Over $100 million. A lot of it through the State Department."@RandPaulpic.twitter.com/L2pMKB8IOq
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The lying SOB she "didn't know", then at the end she recommends a classified briefing for the Senator in a SCIF. If she "doesn't know", why would she suggest a classified briefing? Weak, very weak.
She exemplifies the egregious affront these Washington people represent to the intelligence of all Americans. Why can't she simply be dragged away to jail for lying to congress and the American people based on her own stumbling testimony ?
Discussions behind the 'green door' my arse. She should be falling through the 'trap' door.
Without the full backing, support, presence and immediate action of Justice Department (DoJ), these congressional breifings are an unfortunate waste of both time and money. The system has been corrupted, possibly beyond repair.
[Teslarati] Steve Stich, NASA's commercial crew program manager, says SpaceX is already clearing the site and beginning work on pilings for the new tower at Pad 40 for crew and cargo missions.
NASA wanted SpaceX to have a backup in the case of a StarShip blowing up at LC-39A
SpaceX is trying to do another launch site for StarShip at LC-49 No idea how many StarShip pads for LC-49 but SpaceX Kennedy has parts for 3 StarShip towers under construction. That would mean by next year Florida might have 2 pads for manned and heavy Falcon 9s and maybe 3 pads or more for StarShip.
The #Syrian Health Ministry says the number of victims of the #earthquake that struck the country has risen to 3.642 in the government-held areas, a number subject to fast change as rescue operations continue to recover people. https://t.co/1HqfqSJfvj
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.
[ABC] PALM COAST, Fla. — Crime might not pay, but authorities say a criminal tried to.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
[ShabelleMedia] The fighting between the Somaliland forces and local residents has continued for the fourth day in 
[Epoch Times] The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is vowing to expel all Chinese goods and materials from the United States’s defense supply chains.
