1. Once you see the strings on the marionettes you can never watch the pantomime the same way you did before you noticed them.
2. DATELINE – May 2011 – President Obama travels to the Rio Grande sector of the border to push for his immigration platform (ie. Amnesty). He proclaims the border is safe and secure and famously attacks his opposition for wanting an “alligator moat”.
This fails the morality and ethics test. Jews do it too with HIAS, which Mayorkas once headed, which thereby fails the ethics test even worse. I am sure there are many other ‘religious’ groups working some angle of the immigration scam and profiting handsomely. I do not know of any Buddhists groups involved in immigration scams and I hope there are none. The Abrahamics all seem to have a very passionate and active sense of what moral behavior is. And this seems to lead to many ethically very low interpretations. In Buddhism, morality is understood more as ‘coolness’ (shila) which allows or encourages thinking more deeply before acting. If a person is healthy and can work but poor, Buddhism is OK with temporary help to get them going but not permanent handouts. Scamming taxpayers to make money on able-bodied immigrants is actually immoral in Buddhism because you are doing neither the taxpayer nor the immigrant any good at all. You are duping the taxpayer and stealing while encouraging dependency and law-breaking in the immigrant. Moreover, you yourself, the ‘religious’ person posturing as a moral person, are also harming yourself with egregiously selfish behavior for mere money or conquest, if that’s how you see it. If that is how you see yourself, as a conqueror, you are not. You are just a parasite, a lowly piece of shit. ABN
The thing about the AI – as I have participated in some of the top London AI groups is that the research is very open and taking place all over the world. And it is evolving so fast that in a year, something can leapfrog this one. Also in those top communities smart people can join and get up to full speed in a year or 2 because the models change so rapidly that anything say 2 or more years old is completely obsolete.
Why it is near impossible to start companies around this because now it is moving just too fast, no internal corporate team could likely keep up. Plus they have a corporate model like many other areas of tech now where corps have farmed out all the research to universities and the universities publish advancements to worldwide public domain.
Then you have a third dynamic where no one wants to work for these big tech firms firms because they learn the BS they get up to and they are just looking to do this control grid crap.
Then maybe the fourth dynamic — the greed of the research model importing all these foreign grad students and post doc which has been going on for the last 30 years so now most of the people trained up in this tech have no loyalty or could care less about the US or the US elite projects, are not part of the mythos of the US. So yet another way these elites through their corruption have completely fucked themselves.
There is a danger of these generative AI models which is not just creating disinformation as defined by the technocrats. It is a bunch of plagiarists and scammers that now have AI automated superpowers to just disrupt most all content on the internet.
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The elites have their heads so far up their ass on controlling the political narrative — the whole internet is being taken over with AI crap for clicks. It even be done on purpose to convince everyone that they need a drivers license for the internet, but I think it has already gotten away from them and can’t be reigned in for all the reasons above.
Also, Microsoft has definitely not stopped its plan to monitor everything you do. This Copilot thing is part of it. But this Deepseek thing, I think is possibly the moment of runaway. If not this specifically – there will be a newer and even better Deepseek and many more. The methods are out there. Part of these models as well is that a very small team of independents can leapfrog or break the big money guys and they don’t need big computers.
In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft has decided to temporarily pause the construction of a $3.3 billion data center in Mount Pleasant. Wisconsin Public Radio reports the tech giant is still on track to complete the project’s first phase by 2026. However, it’s unclear when phase two of the project will commence because it’s under design review to establish how new technologies will affect the company’s data center design.
While speaking to The Register, a Microsoft spokesman indicated:
“We have paused early construction work for this second phase while we evaluate scope and recent changes in technology and consider how this might impact the design of our facilities. We anticipate that this process will last months.”
According to The Information, the $3.3 billion data center was supposed to be used by OpenAI to facilitate its sophisticated AI advances and foster the development of a cutting-edge supercomputer.
This story came out before China’s DeepSeek-R1 was released on 1/20/25 but Microsoft had to have seen the writing on the wall as DeepSeek had been progressing rapidly for months. It is in China’s interests that USA not succeed in having sole control of the world’s best AI. So China made DeepSeek available to all for free. That is a military move as well as an economic one. It is a KOBK move in that China has ‘killed’, at least for now, US total superiority in AI, while forcing everyone to change direction by supplying everyone with new opportunities for AI development. ABN
A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration enforcement actions that may involve the families of minors who attend government-run schools, including by destroying evidence of potential immigration crimes.
The advice may place school officials in the legal crosshairs of the Trump Administration under a new policy advisory distributed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which warns state and local officials not to interfere with federal law enforcement activities.
“[S]chool officials should generate a plan for what to do if immigration officials seek to conduct activities at school, and provide appropriate training to those who may come in contact with officials,” law firm Drummond Woodsum warned in an “Immigration Client Alert” distributed on Jan. 21.
A copy of that advisory email was obtained by the Maine Wire and is published below in full.
Donald Trump has revealed what could be the fate of nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) staff, suggesting he might ‘move them to the border’.
Hours after he was handed over the presidency, the Republican leader signed an executive order to stop the hiring of all federal civilian employees until ‘his Administration can determine that it is in the national interest to do so’.
Apart from the IRS, the decision is temporary for all other federal offices. He also froze funding for the Inflation Reduction Act commonly known as the bipartisan infrastructure law.
President Trump’s order has since thrown the future of about 87,000 new IRS agents who had been hired for the 2022 Act into jeopardy.
According to Forbes, they were meant to ‘focus on work pursuing high-wealth individuals, complex partnerships, and large corporations that do not pay taxes owed’.
However while speaking to a crowd of roughly 2,000 people at the Circa Resort & Casino in downtown Las Vegas today, he said they may be ‘moved to the border’.
‘They hired – were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border,’ the President said amongst cheers.
A major diplomatic row has erupted between the US and Denmark over Donald Trump‘s plans to ‘buy’ Greenland.
It follows an ‘explosive’ 45-minute phone call by Mr Trump, 78, to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, 47, earlier this month in which he is said to have unleashed a ‘torrent of aggression’ after she defiantly told him her country was ‘not for sale’.
Mr Trump claims Greenland is critical to America’s national security and has refused to rule out using military force to take over the self-governing Arctic territory, which has been part of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1814.
Last night a source told the MoS: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode but he’s not backing down.’
According to a report in the Financial Times, Mr Trump’s ranting call – made on January 15, five days before his inauguration – included threats to impose tariffs on Denmark, a Nato ally.
A source said: ‘It was horrendous. Before, it was hard to take it seriously but I do think it’s serious and potentially very dangerous.’
Mr Trump has argued US control of Greenland is vital to America’s national security in countering threats in the region from Russia and China.
It is the shortest route from Europe to North America and important for the US’s ballistic missile warning system.
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