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  Going Postal in the Land of Lunacy Criminals, vigilantes, and good Samaritans Donald Jeffries On December 4, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside the entrance to the New York Hilton Hotel. Right in the heart of what’s left of New York City. That seems like a lot of symbolism there. At least it didn’t happen on Wall Street. Don’t want to get those Occupy protesters riled up. Now, I haven’t paid all that much attention to this case. I have been lied to so often by our state controlled media, and every authority figure with a public platform, that I simply assume that these incidents are distorted, misrepresented, or fabricated theater. My first impression was that the gunman had on what appeared be a bizarre, lifelike mask, with a maniacal grin like the Joker plastered on it, reinforcing my innate skepticism. As it turned out, it wasn’t a mask, but the seemingly perpetual smile on the face of the assailant, as shown in all the photos published of him. Th...

  The fatal flaw in Artificial Intelligence: Climate Change? by Leigh Haugen AI’s role in amplifying dominant narratives will continue to stifle dissent, limit open debate, and impose restrictive controls on society. If we allow this to continue unchecked, AI will become a tool for shaping thought, controlling discourse, and eroding the very freedoms it was meant to empower. This article originally appeared on  LinkedIn,  and is reproduced here with the author’s permission The development of large language models (LLMs) has transformed our world in many ways, making artificial intelligence (AI) a powerful tool capable of generating and interpreting massive amounts of information. These models, however, are fundamentally shaped by the data that feeds them—data taken from the internet, which is itself a collection of human input. While AI has the potential to aid in a variety of fields, there is a glaring flaw inherent to its very design: its reliance on human data. If this...

  European Mutiny at the Illiberal Order ALASTAIR CROOKE The mutiny has arisen because many in the West see only too clearly that the western ruling structure is an illiberal mechanical ‘control system’. I have been writing for some time that Europe (and the U.S.) are in a period of alternate revolution and civil war. History warns us that such conflicts tend to be extended, with peak episodes which are revolutionary (as the prevailing paradigm first cracks); yet which, in reality, are but alternate modes of the same – a ‘toggling’ between revolutionary peaks and the slow ‘slog’ of intense cultural war. We are, I believe, in such an era. I also have suggested that a nascent counter-revolution was slowly gathering – one defiantly unwilling to recant traditionalist moral values, nor prepared to submit to an oppressive  illiberal  international order posing as  liberal . What I had not expected was that the ‘first shoe to drop’ would occur in Europe – that it would be F...