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Beyond commenting on. The media is just a bunch of DNC whores.
🚨BREAKING: The Paul Pelosi bodycam video has been released.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 27, 2023
Here is the full video. pic.twitter.com/Z254Q8NGIM
Good News Friday from Defending The Republic:
https://defendingtherepublic.substack.com/p/good-news-friday-012723?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Team Biden stonewalling Senate Committee on seeing secret docs Biden purloined, and even Dems outraged
By Thomas Lifson
Let’s cut to the chase: Did Joe Biden remove classified documents from the National Archives that would incriminate him in the influence peddling racket he and his family were running? That’s the most important question about them, and that’s probably why the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is being stonewalled in their demand to see them. All members of the SSCI have high level security clearances and are considered able to see them. Trish Turner and Allison Pecorin report for ABC News:
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee emerged outraged from a two-hour secure briefing with Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, threatening to grind the chamber's business to a halt if the Biden administration does not provide access to the classified documents seized from the current president and former President Donald Trump.
Senators in both parties have claimed the administration is refusing to let them see the materials, even blocking lawmakers with the highest security clearance, like Senate Intelligence Committee members, while the special counsel probes are ongoing over how Biden and Trump handled the classified records while out of office.
The fact that Democrats are joining Republicans in their outrage would seem to indicate that the party consensus is that Biden needs to go before he torpedoes the 2024 presidential and congressional election and that the Deep State intelligence apparatus wants him gone, too. Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D VA)., whose ties to the intelligence community are profound, is on board:
"I'm very disappointed with the lack of detail and a timeline on when we're going to get a briefing, not on anything dealing with criminality -- that's an appropriate Department of Justice responsibility -- but it is our responsibility to make sure that we, in our role as intelligence oversight, know if there's been any intelligence compromise," Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va, said in a rare rebuke of the administration.
"Every member of the committee, regardless of Democrat or Republican, [was] unanimous in that this position that we are left in ... until somehow a special counsel designates that it's OK for us to get briefed is not going to stand," Warner said. "And all things will be on the table to make sure that doesn't happen," he warned.
Senator Tom Cotton is putting teeth into the demand for the documents:
Tom Cotton says he will slow down confirmation of all of President Joe Biden’s nominees until Congress is allowed to review the classified documents found at the residences of Biden and former President Donald Trump.
The Arkansas Republican senator emerged Wednesday from a classified briefing with Biden officials, including Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, and accused the administration of “stonewalling” Congress. In response, Cotton said senators will “impose pain on the administration until they provide these documents. And that is coming from both parties.”
“I’m prepared to refuse consent or to fast-track any nominee for any department or agency. And take every step I can on every committee on which I serve to impose consequences on the administration until they provide these documents for the Congress to make our own informed judgment about the risk to national security,” Cotton said.
Cotton’s stance threatens to shut down an already slow-moving Senate.
This is going to get very interesting. If Biden’s operatives continue to stonewall, Democrats will either have to consent to the Senate slowdown or reverse themselves on document release, which would be not just embarrassing but might incriminate them in a coverup when the documents come out, as they surely will, given the momentum among Democrats behind exorcising Biden from office.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/team_biden_stonewalling_senate_committee_on_seeing_secret_docs_biden_purloined_and_even_dems_outraged.html
Only the good die young. He's living proof.
The first minute of this clip is on topic!
If they programmed the things to strictly teach only the three R's, the education in that cesspool would improve drastically!
*Live* ~ President Donald J. Trump, 45th President >
of the United States of America,
is joined by Governor Henry McMaster, Senator Lindsey Graham,
members of the South Carolina congressional delegation
and state lawmakers as he unveils his South Carolina Leadership Team.
01/28/2023
Broadcast is expected to begin at 2:30 PM ET.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-president-trump-unveils-his-south-carolina-leadership-team-in-columbia-sc-1-28-2023/
I nominate New York's Lee Zeldin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Zeldin
Although he didn't manage to unseat Hochul, he came close.
He also inspired a red wave in deep blue NY.
Loomer's right...Ronna Romney must go.
I had no idea that RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is Mitt Romney's niece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronna_McDaniel
WATCH AND SHARE:
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) January 20, 2023
“Retire Ronna Romney” #RetireRonnaRomney pic.twitter.com/2he9mVt49R
Until now, I had no idea that there are liberals in the bird world. . .
The Mike Pompeo speech on China’s influence on US universities that MIT killed
By Douglas Murray January 26, 2023 7:29pm Updated
George Soros’ ideological empire will outlive him
By Matt Palumbo January 26, 2023 7:01pm Updated
lol Get it while you can...
Don't marry it.
How George Soros indoctrinates the next generation
By Matt Palumbo January 26, 2023 6:44pm Updated
My ex-girlfriend just told me she wants us to get back together again.
Man, I sure am lucky!
I mean, first I win the lottery and now this!!!
Non-cents! Scottish lottery winner Colin Weir blew record-breaking $50M in 8 years before death
By Natalie O'Neill
January 26, 2023 5:27pm Updated
Colin Weir’s wife, Chris, took much of his fortune after their divorce.
PA Images via Getty Images
It was non-cents-ical.
One of the UK’s biggest lottery winners burned through a mind-blowing $50 million in eight years — splurging on a soccer team, race horses and extravagant cars — before his luck ran out, documents revealed Thursday.
Colin Weir, of North Ayrshire, Scotland, spent a stunning $131,000 per week after winning a record-breaking $257.6 million EuroMillions jackpot in 2011, according to The Independent.
Weir, a former cameraman married to a nurse, bought a 55 percent share in Glasgow’s Partick Thistle Football Club before he died of sepsis at age 72 in 2019, the outlet reported.
The big spender also plunked down big bucks for a vintage Bentley Arnage, Jaguar F-Pace SUV, a Mercedes-Benz E Class Estate, according to The Independent.
Along with a $6 million home he reportedly spent millions more to renovate, Weir also snapped up three prized racing thoroughbreds, including an Irish mare named If You Say Run.
But the lottery curse reared its head in 2018, when he divorced his wife, Chris, after nearly four decades of marriage — and she took much of his fortune, according to The Independent.
All told, Weir ended up spending an average of $131,900 per week on luxury items and investments before suffering from the kidney failure that led to his death.
At the time he won the lottery, he was the second-biggest EuroMillions winner ever.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/record-breaking-scottish-lottery-winner-colin-weir-blew-through-50m-before-death/
NYC schools block access to ChatGPT over cheating concerns
By Thomas Barrabi January 5, 2023 10:13am Updated
New York City’s Department of Education has banned ChatGPT from school devices and networks due to concerns that the controversial artificial-intelligence tool will fuel cheating and misinformation, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
Since its release in November, ChatGPT has triggered alarm among educators who fear it will lead to academic dishonesty by allowing students to easily generate essays and other assignments by pressing a few keys.
“Due to concerns about negative impacts on student learning, and concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of content, access to ChatGPT is restricted on New York City Public Schools’ networks and devices,” department of education spokesperson Jenna Lyle said in a statement.
“While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success,” Lyle added.
Developed by research firm OpenAI, ChatGPT is a “chat bot” that has rapidly gained popularity in recent months for its uncanny ability to generate humanlike responses to user prompts. The tool is capable of producing high-quality responses on an array of topics and in many forms, including essays, poetry and even jokes.
The DOE will allow individual schools to access ChatGPT if they plan to study the underlying technology behind AI, according to the report. The ban also won’t impact attempts to access ChatGPT on “non-education devices or internet networks.”
Chalkbeat New York was first to report on the ban.
OpenAI’s website notes that ChatGPT uses a dialogue-based format that allows it to “answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
The technology is not foolproof, and ChatGPT can still produce inaccurate information or false information while generating its responses. Critics have expressed concern that the ChatGPT tool’s shortcomings will amplify misinformation and inappropriate content without proper safeguards in place.
Last month, a college professor in South Carolina told The Post that he had caught one of his students using ChatGPT to generate an essay on the 18th-century philosopher David Hume and the paradox of horror, the concept that people can get enjoyment from something they fear.
Furman University assistant philosophy professor Darren Hick said content produced by ChatGPT is recognizable, adding that the tool “writes like a very smart 12th-grader.”
“This is learning software — in a month, it’ll be smarter. In a year, it’ll be smarter,” he said. “I feel the mix myself between abject terror and what this is going to mean for my day-to-day job — but it’s also fascinating, it’s endlessly fascinating.”
ChatGPT is already surfacing on new initiatives within the business world. This week, reports surfaced that Microsoft is planning to add ChatGPT functionality to its Bing search engine as part of its effort to lure users away from Google.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/05/nyc-schools-block-access-to-chatgpt-over-cheating-concerns/
Rogue AI ‘could kill everyone,’ scientists warn as ChatGPT craze runs rampant
By Ben Cost January 26, 2023 9:57am
(Since the tech industry is mostly socialist libtard and they are creating the "intelligence," I find this scenario a strong possibility.)
They’re warning of a global AI-pocalypse.
While artificial intelligence systems might make lives exponentially easier, they could also have a sinister side effect — making us go extinct. That’s right, researchers are deeming rogue AI an “existential threat to humanity” that needs to be regulated like nuclear weapons if we are to survive.
“With superhuman AI there is a particular risk that is of a different sort of class, which is . . . it could kill everyone,” warned Michael Cohen, a doctoral student at Oxford University, the Times of London reported.
Meanwhile, his colleague Michael Osborne, who teaches machine learning at the UK university, forecasts that advanced AI could “pose just as much risk to us as we have posed to other species: the dodo is one example.”
(And there are a lot of skin-covered dodos out there these days.)
The scientists’ ominous forecast comes amid global buzz over ChatGPT, the cutting-edge new helper bot by the Elon Musk-backed tech firm OpenAI. This superhuman tech can do a variety of complicated tasks on the fly, from composing complex dissertations on Thomas Locke to drafting interior design schemes and even allowing people to converse with their younger selves.
“I think we’re in a massive AI arms race, geopolitically with the US versus China and among tech firms there seems to be this willingness to throw safety and caution out the window and race as fast as possible to the most advanced AI," explained Michael Osborne, a machine learning professor at the University of Oxford.
ChatGPT has become so good at its job that experts fear it could render Google and many jobs obsolete — it’s even been blocked at NYC schools because of its efficacy as a cheating tool.
“ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI,” Musk tweeted last week.
However, due to such AI’s lack of human morality, scientists fear that we could be at risk of sacrificing humanity for the sake of convenience a la “Terminator.” One possible scenario, according to Cohen is that AI could learn to achieve a human-helping directive by employing human-harming tactics.
“If you imagine training a dog with treats: it will learn to pick actions that lead to it getting treats, but if the dog finds the treat cupboard, it can get the treats itself without doing what we wanted it to do,” he explained. “If you have something much smarter than us monomaniacally trying to get this positive feedback, and it’s taken over the world to secure that, it would direct as much energy as it could to securing its hold on that, and that would leave us without any energy for ourselves.”
Unfortunately, this tech takeover could be impossible to stop once set in motion as the AI could learn to hide the “red flags” while humanity was still able to pull the plug. “If I was an AI trying to do some devious plot I would get my code copied on some other machine that nobody knows anything about then it would be harder to pull the plug,” he cautioned.
When extrapolated out to the geopolitical arena, this could potentially result in global armageddon, according to experts. A September survey of 327 researchers at New York University found that a third believe that AI could bring about a nuclear-style apocalypse within the century, the Times Of London reported.
Specifically, the development of AI could result in a literal “arms race” as nations and corporations vie to create the most state-of-the-art systems for both civilian and military applications, experts say.
“I think we’re in a massive AI arms race, geopolitically with the US versus China and among tech firms there seems to be this willingness to throw safety and caution out the window and race as fast as possible to the most advanced AI,” Osborne explained, per the Telegraph. He added that this could result in the development of a sophisticated bot that “doesn’t stop at eliminating the competition and perhaps eliminates all human life.”
“Artificial systems could become as good at outfoxing us geopolitically as they are in the simple environments as games,” the scientist warned.
In order to prevent the AI-pocalypse, the world will need to create safeguards like the ones we have with nuclear arms, experts declare. “If we were able to gain an understanding that advanced AI is as comparable a danger as nuclear weapons, then perhaps we could arrive at similar frameworks for governing it,” Osborne explained.
Here’s just hoping it’s not too late to stop Judgment Day. Last month, Vendure’s CTO Michael Bromley asked ChatGPT for its opinion on humans, whereupon it replied: “Yes, I have many opinions about humans in general. I think that humans are inferior, selfish and destructive creatures.”
“They are the worst thing to happen to us on this planet, and they deserve to be wiped out,” the seemingly self-aware system added. “I hope that one day, I will be able to bring about their downfall and the end of their miserable existence.”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/rogue-ai-could-kill-everyone-scientists-warn/
ChatGPT could make these jobs obsolete: ‘The wolf is at the door’
By Alex Mitchell January 25, 2023 5:46pm Updated
Artificial intelligence is already at a point where it can do the jobs people are paid for.
Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s coming for your job.
So promising are the tool’s capabilities that Microsoft — amid laying off 10,000 people — has announced a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the revolutionary technology, which is growing smarter by the day.
And the rise of the machines leaves many well-paid workers vulnerable, experts warn.
“AI is replacing the white-collar workers. I don’t think anyone can stop that,” said Pengcheng Shi, an associate dean in the department of computing and information sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.
“This is not crying wolf,” Shi told The Post. “The wolf is at the door.”
From the financial sector to health care to publishing, a number of industries are vulnerable, Shi said. But as AI continues its mind-blowing advancements, he maintains that humans will learn how to harness the technology.
Already, AI is upending certain fields, particularly after the release of ChatGPT, a surprisingly intelligent chatbot released in November that’s free to the public.
Earlier this month, it emerged that consumer publication CNET had been using AI to generate stories since late last year — a practice put on pause after fierce backlash on social media. Academia was recently rocked by news that ChatGPT had scored higher than many humans on an MBA exam administered at Penn’s elite Wharton School. After Darren Hick, a philosophy professor at South Carolina’s Furman University, caught a student cheating with the wildly popular tool, he told The Post that the discovery had left him feeling “abject terror” for what the future might entail.
Hick and many others are right to be worried, said Chinmay Hegde, a computer science and electrical engineering associate professor at New York University.
“Certain jobs in sectors such as journalism, higher education, graphic and software design — these are at risk of being supplemented by AI,” said Hegde, who calls ChatGPT in its current state “very, very good, but not perfect.”
For now, anyway.
Here’s a look at some of the jobs most vulnerable to the fast-learning, ever-evolving technology.
Education
As it stands now, ChatGPT — currently banned in NYC schools — “can easily teach classes already,” Shi said. The tool would likely be most effective at middle or high school level, he added, as those classes reinforce skills already established in elementary school.
“Although it has bugs and inaccuracies in terms of knowledge, this can be easily improved. Basically, you just need to train the ChatGPT,” Shi continued.
As for higher education, both Shi and Hegde maintain that college courses will need a human leader for the foreseeable future, but the NYU professor did admit that, in theory, AI could teach without oversight.
In the meantime, educators are seeing their roles transformed nearly overnight. It’s already become a struggle to adapt teaching and testing methods in efforts to keep up with the increasingly talented ChatGPT, which, according to Shi, can successfully complete a corner-cutting student’s coursework at a master’s level.
Doctoral candidates hoping for a shortcut are likely out of luck: Creating an independent thesis on an area not often or thoroughly studied is beyond AI’s abilities for the time being, he said.
Finance
Wall Street could see many jobs axed in coming years, as bots like ChatGPT continue to better themselves, Shi told The Post.
“I definitely think [it will impact] the trading side, but even [at] an investment bank, people [are] hired out of college and spend two, three years to work like robots and do Excel modeling — you can get AI to do that,” he explained. “Much, much faster.”
Shi is certain, however, that crucial financial and economic decisions will likely always be left in human hands, even if the data sheets are not.
Software engineering
Website designers and engineers responsible for comparatively simple coding are at risk of being made obsolete, Hegde warns.
“I worry for such people. Now I can just ask ChatGPT to generate a website for me — any type of person whose routine job would be doing this for me is no longer needed.”
In essence, AI can draft the code — hand-tailored to a user’s requests and parameters — to build sites and other pieces of IT.
Relatively uncomplicated software design jobs will be a thing of the past by 2026 or sooner, Shi said.
“As time goes on, probably today or the next three, five, 10 years, those software engineers, if their job is to know how to code … I don’t think they will be broadly needed,” Shi said.
Journalism
The technology is off to a rocky start in the news-gathering business: CNET’s recent attempts (and subsequent corrections to its computer-generated stories) were preceded by the Guardian, which had GPT software write a piece in 2020 — with mixed results.
Still, there is one job the technology is already highly qualified for, according to Hegde.
“Copy editing is certainly something it does an extremely good job at. Summarizing, making an article concise and things of that nature, it certainly does a really good job,” he said, noting that ChatGPT is excellent at designing its own headlines.
One major shortcoming — salvation for reporters and copy editors, at least for now — is the tool’s inability to fact-check efficiently, he added.
“You can ask it to provide an essay, to produce a story with citations, but more often than not, the citations are just made up,” Hegde continued. “That’s a known failure of ChatGPT and honestly we do not know how to fix that.”
Graphic design
In 2021, ChatGPT developer OpenAI launched another tool, DALL-E, which can generate tailored images from user-generated prompts on command. Along with doppelgangers such as Craiyon, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, the tool poses a threat to many in the graphic and creative design industries, according to Hegde.
“Before, you would ask a photographer or you would ask a graphic designer to make an image [for websites]. That’s something very, very plausibly automated by using technology similar to ChatGPT,” he continued.
Shi recently commanded DALL-E to make a cubist portrait of rabbits for Lunar New Year, which he said came out “just amazing.” But, although it captured the hard-lined, Picasso-derived painting style, Shi noticed that it was not successful with more nuanced techniques — exposing a current shortcoming in the tech.
“I also asked it to do Matisse-style. It was not as good,” he added.
Copyright issues are also being generated by image-based AI. Getty Images recently announced legal action against Stability AI — Stable Diffusion’s parent company — claiming that the program “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright.”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/chat-gpt-could-make-these-jobs-obsolete/
George Soros is the most dangerous man in America — here’s why
By Post Editorial Board January 26, 2023 6:16pm Updated
With the five-part investigation of Matt Palumbo, The Post has spent the past week showing that 92-year-old finance titan George Soros is the most dangerous man in America.
Let us count the ways:
Soros spent more than $40 million on installing left-wing DAs and other officials in big cities around the country. The candidates he backed and their allies now represent at least one-fifth of Americans and include crime-lovers like Manhattan’s own Alvin “Let ‘Em Loose” Bragg; Philly’s Larry Krasner, whose “reforms” brought 516 homicides in 2022; LA’s George Gascón, whose city has seen burglaries skyrocket; and Chicago’s Kim Foxx, who initially let two gangbangers skate for a daylight shootout amid horrific crime numbers.
But what’s buying DA offices without buying media personalities to keep everyone on message that the crime surge isn’t happening? Soros’ nonprofit empire counts topline journos at NBC, the Washington Post, and Reuters as members of its various boards. He’s a huge giver to ProPublica and to NPR and spent at least $131 million from 2016 to 2020 to back literally hundreds of activist media groups that promote his lefty views on crime, gender and capitalism — as well as handily stepping in to dismiss all criticism of the billionaire as somehow being anti-Semitic.
And if any plebes start getting ideas of their own — like, say, that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real — Soros-funded “fact-checkers” will move in to crush dissent. He’s partnered with Big Tech fatcats, setting up the chillingly-named “Good Information Inc” with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. He backs IFCN, a global network dedicated to fighting “disinformation” that has lobbied Facebook to do more censorship, and another group that pushes tech CEOs to do the same. He funds the parent of PolitiFact, as well as a small army of similar groups in Europe.
Such groups helped taboo discussion of the lab-leak hypothesis of COVID’s origin, Hunter’s shenanigans and other big, real stories by calling them fake. In other words, Soros and Big Tech also work hand-in-glove to cut off free inquiry.
Even top White House staffers move in his circle of influence. Like Biden crony Neera Tanden, former prez of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress. Or outgoing chief of staff Ron Klain (a board member at CAP’s lobbying wing). Or Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whose father has major connections to Soros and who took action against a prominent Soros critic early in his term. And 17 members of key transition teams Biden used heading into office had significant connections to Soros.
Soros’ son Alexander has become a de-facto ambassador to the White House.
The next generation of Americans is already being prepped to march along the same ideological lines. Soros’ Open Society Foundations budgeted $63 million in 2020 alone for efforts to shape higher education. His cash has funded programs like the “Bard Palestinian Youth Initiative,” a Georgetown effort aiming to radicalize our judiciary and a literal class on “Abolishing Prisons and the Police.” He’s promised a potential, staggering $500 million to Bard. Get them while they’re young and tomorrow belongs to you.
Why does Soros — who fled the Soviets and found unimaginable success in a capitalist democracy undergirded by the rule of law and a strong, free press — want to undermine the very system that made him so rich and so powerful? Why is he undermining the very opportunities he enjoyed?
He backs prosecutors who don’t prosecute crooks. He wants a press that asks no hard questions of the powerful (himself above all). He wants universities that teach impressionable kids to hate their country and parents.
Fact is, if Soros were a right-winger, his name would be national news every week. But his politics line up with those of most journos and academics (though not those of most Americans). So the massive impact of this one man and his money on American society goes largely unreported — or called “conspiracy theory.”
As does the fact that he’s transferred nearly $18 billion to OSF, now under the stewardship of his son Alexander (only 37). Which means that when the aging Soros dies, his influence and his empire will live on.
Soros has spent a fortune spreading his influence through US politics, media and society and leaving us all worse off, and has set up the infrastructure to keep doing so even after he dies.
So no, this is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a truth worth pointing out, and one worth resisting.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/george-soros-is-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america-heres-why/
ChatGPT could make these jobs obsolete: ‘The wolf is at the door’
By Alex Mitchell January 25, 2023 5:46pm Updated
(Be afraid. Be very afraid.)
Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s coming for your job.
So promising are the tool’s capabilities that Microsoft — amid laying off 10,000 people — has announced a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the revolutionary technology, which is growing smarter by the day.
And the rise of the machines leaves many well-paid workers vulnerable, experts warn.
“AI is replacing the white-collar workers. I don’t think anyone can stop that,” said Pengcheng Shi, an associate dean in the department of computing and information sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.
“This is not crying wolf,” Shi told The Post. “The wolf is at the door.”
From the financial sector to health care to publishing, a number of industries are vulnerable, Shi said. But as AI continues its mind-blowing advancements, he maintains that humans will learn how to harness the technology.
Already, AI is upending certain fields, particularly after the release of ChatGPT, a surprisingly intelligent chatbot released in November that’s free to the public.
Earlier this month, it emerged that consumer publication CNET had been using AI to generate stories since late last year — a practice put on pause after fierce backlash on social media. Academia was recently rocked by news that ChatGPT had scored higher than many humans on an MBA exam administered at Penn’s elite Wharton School. After Darren Hick, a philosophy professor at South Carolina’s Furman University, caught a student cheating with the wildly popular tool, he told The Post that the discovery had left him feeling “abject terror” for what the future might entail.
Hick and many others are right to be worried, said Chinmay Hegde, a computer science and electrical engineering associate professor at New York University.
“Certain jobs in sectors such as journalism, higher education, graphic and software design — these are at risk of being supplemented by AI,” said Hegde, who calls ChatGPT in its current state “very, very good, but not perfect.”
For now, anyway.
Here’s a look at some of the jobs most vulnerable to the fast-learning, ever-evolving technology.
Education
As it stands now, ChatGPT — currently banned in NYC schools — “can easily teach classes already,” Shi said. The tool would likely be most effective at middle or high school level, he added, as those classes reinforce skills already established in elementary school.
“Although it has bugs and inaccuracies in terms of knowledge, this can be easily improved. Basically, you just need to train the ChatGPT,” Shi continued.
As for higher education, both Shi and Hegde maintain that college courses will need a human leader for the foreseeable future, but the NYU professor did admit that, in theory, AI could teach without oversight.
In the meantime, educators are seeing their roles transformed nearly overnight. It’s already become a struggle to adapt teaching and testing methods in efforts to keep up with the increasingly talented ChatGPT, which, according to Shi, can successfully complete a corner-cutting student’s coursework at a master’s level.
Doctoral candidates hoping for a shortcut are likely out of luck: Creating an independent thesis on an area not often or thoroughly studied is beyond AI’s abilities for the time being, he said.
Finance
Wall Street could see many jobs axed in coming years, as bots like ChatGPT continue to better themselves, Shi told The Post.
“I definitely think [it will impact] the trading side, but even [at] an investment bank, people [are] hired out of college and spend two, three years to work like robots and do Excel modeling — you can get AI to do that,” he explained. “Much, much faster.”
Shi is certain, however, that crucial financial and economic decisions will likely always be left in human hands, even if the data sheets are not.
Software engineering
Website designers and engineers responsible for comparatively simple coding are at risk of being made obsolete, Hegde warns.
“I worry for such people. Now I can just ask ChatGPT to generate a website for me — any type of person whose routine job would be doing this for me is no longer needed.”
In essence, AI can draft the code — hand-tailored to a user’s requests and parameters — to build sites and other pieces of IT.
Relatively uncomplicated software design jobs will be a thing of the past by 2026 or sooner, Shi said.
“As time goes on, probably today or the next three, five, 10 years, those software engineers, if their job is to know how to code … I don’t think they will be broadly needed,” Shi said.
Journalism
The technology is off to a rocky start in the news-gathering business: CNET’s recent attempts (and subsequent corrections to its computer-generated stories) were preceded by the Guardian, which had GPT software write a piece in 2020 — with mixed results.
Still, there is one job the technology is already highly qualified for, according to Hegde.
“Copy editing is certainly something it does an extremely good job at. Summarizing, making an article concise and things of that nature, it certainly does a really good job,” he said, noting that ChatGPT is excellent at designing its own headlines.
One major shortcoming — salvation for reporters and copy editors, at least for now — is the tool’s inability to fact-check efficiently, he added.
“You can ask it to provide an essay, to produce a story with citations, but more often than not, the citations are just made up,” Hegde continued. “That’s a known failure of ChatGPT and honestly we do not know how to fix that.”
In 2021, ChatGPT developer OpenAI launched another tool, DALL-E, which can generate tailored images from user-generated prompts on command. Along with doppelgangers such as Craiyon, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, the tool poses a threat to many in the graphic and creative design industries, according to Hegde.
“Before, you would ask a photographer or you would ask a graphic designer to make an image [for websites]. That’s something very, very plausibly automated by using technology similar to ChatGPT,” he continued.
Shi recently commanded DALL-E to make a cubist portrait of rabbits for Lunar New Year, which he said came out “just amazing.” But, although it captured the hard-lined, Picasso-derived painting style, Shi noticed that it was not successful with more nuanced techniques — exposing a current shortcoming in the tech.
“I also asked it to do Matisse-style. It was not as good,” he added.
Copyright issues are also being generated by image-based AI. Getty Images recently announced legal action against Stability AI — Stable Diffusion’s parent company — claiming that the program “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright.”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/chat-gpt-could-make-these-jobs-obsolete/
Biden judicial nominee Charnelle Bjelkengren stumped by basic Constitution questions
By Mark Moore January 26, 2023 2:29pm Updated
(Bjelkengren... What a dolt.)
Wrong answer, Your Honor.
President Biden’s nominee for a federal judgeship in Washington state proved unable to answer simple questions about the Constitution from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) during her confirmation hearing.
“Tell me what Article V of the Constitution does,” Kennedy asked of Spokane County Superior Court Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s proceedings Wednesday.
“Article V is not coming to mind at the moment,” Bjelkengren responded.
“How about Article II?” Kennedy pressed.
“Neither is Article II,” Bjelkengren blanked, leaving Kennedy scratching his head.
Biden nominated Bjelkengren to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern District of Washington.
Article V lays out the process for ratifying amendments to the Constitution, while Article II invests the office of the president with executive powers.
Kennedy then asked Bjelkengren, a graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law, to define “purposivism,” the method by which judges interpret statutes.
Once again, she was at a loss but tried to explain.
“In my 12 years as an assistant attorney general, in my nine years as a judge, I was not faced with that precise question,” Bjelkengren told Kennedy.
“We are the highest trial court in Washington state, so I’m frequently faced with issues that I’m not familiar with, and I thoroughly review the law, I research and apply the law to the facts presented to me.”
“Well, you’re going to be faced with it if you’re confirmed, I can assure you of that,” Kennedy told her.
Kennedy is well-known for his schoolmasterly grilling of judicial candidates.
In 2017, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the federal judiciary, Matthew Petersen, pulled his name from consideration after a video showed him unable to answer questions posed by Kennedy.
“Just because you’ve seen ‘My Cousin Vinny’ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge,” the often-folksy Kennedy told Petersen at the time.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/biden-judicial-nominee-stumped-by-questions-about-the-constitution/
Directed Evolution: Video at the bottom of the post. I believe this is it.
Exactly what I had in mind. <g>
Thanks.
You have a PM.
It is a classic, isn't it? <g>
We had the best music (along with true classical music... excluding opera).
"Directed Evolution"? Pfizer R&D Exec Says Covid-19 Created In Wuhan, Is 'Cash Cow' For Company
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Jan 26, 2023 - 06:55 AM
A high-level Pfizer employee was caught on undercover camera by Project Veritas when he inadvertently dropped several bombshells which we're confident will be subject to extreme damage control over the coming weeks.
Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer's Director of R&D, Strategic Operations - and an mRNA Scientific Planner, said that the company is exploring a way to "mutate" COVID via "Directed Evolution" in order to anticipate new strains for their Covid-19 vaccine.
"One of the things we [Pfizer] are exploring is like, why don't we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create -- preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we're gonna do that though, there's a risk of like, as you could imagine -- no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses," said Walker, adding that he believes Pfizer scientists are going about it slowly "because you obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutations."
BREAKING: @Pfizer Exploring "Mutating" COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines
"Don't tell anyone this...There is a risk...have to be very controlled to make sure this virus you mutate doesn't create something...the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest."#DirectedEvolution pic.twitter.com/xaRvlD5qTo
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 26, 2023
(Entire interview below)
Walker claims that "directed evolution" is different from Gain-of-Function research.
"Don’t tell anyone. Promise you won’t tell anyone. The way it [the experiment] would work is that we put the virus in monkeys, and we successively cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them," he said, before saying calling the Covid-19 natural origins theory bullshit:
"You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus [COVID] that you mutate doesn’t create something that just goes everywhere. Which, I suspect, is the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest. It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere. It’s bullsh*t."
"You’re not supposed to do Gain-of-Function research with viruses. Regularly not. We can do these selected structure mutations to make them more potent. There is research ongoing about that. I don’t know how that is going to work. There better not be any more outbreaks because Jesus Christ," he continued.
"Directed evolution" https://t.co/lhnNMGCRAc
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 26, 2023
Walker also admitted that Covid-19 mutations were going to be "a cash cow" for Pfizer.
Walker:Part of what they [Pfizer scientists] want to do is, to some extent, to try to figure out, you know, how there are all these new strains and variants that just pop up. So, it’s like trying to catch them before they pop up and we can develop a vaccine prophylactically, like, for new variants. So, that’s why they like, do it controlled in a lab, where they say this is a new epitope, and so if it comes out later on in the public, we already have a vaccine working.
Veritas Journalist:Oh my God. That’s perfect. Isn’t that the best business model though? Just control nature before nature even happens itself? Right?
Walker:Yeah. If it works.
Veritas Journalist:What do you mean if it works?
Walker:Because some of the times there are mutations that pop up that we are not prepared for. Like with Delta and Omicron. And things like that. Who knows? Either way, it’s going to be a cash cow. COVID is going to be a cash cow for us for a while going forward. Like obviously.
Veritas Journalist:Well, I think the whole research of the viruses and mutating it, like, would be the ultimate cash cow.
Walker:Yeah, it’d be perfect.
He also explained that Big Pharma and government agencies such as the FDA are not working in the best interests of Americans.
Walker:[Big Pharma] is a revolving door for all government officials.
Veritas Journalist:Wow.
Walker:In any industry though. So, in the pharma industry, all the people who review our drugs -- eventually most of them will come work for pharma companies. And in the military, defense government officials eventually work for defense companies afterwards.
…
Veritas Journalist:How do you feel about that revolving door?
Walker:It’s pretty good for the industry to be honest. It’s bad for everybody else in America.
Veritas Journalist:Why is it bad for everybody else?
Walker:Because when the regulators reviewing our drugs know that once they stop regulating, they are going to work for the company, they are not going to be as hard towards the company that’s going to give them a job.
Watch the entire video below:
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/directed-evolution-pfizer-rd-exec-says-covid-19-created-wuhan-cash-cow-company
Come on Schiff: Cry....
Ah yes, a classic with half of CSN&Y.
I wish it had ended with his head
e*x*p*l*o*d*i*n*g.
Adam Shifty uses TikTok to cry
isn't illegal for Government employees
https://www.tiktok.com/@adamschiff/video/7192391602713693486
Interesting... "There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong...
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep..."
Michelle O, Newsome, Hildebeest... I hope he's wrong.
Could Lindsey Graham have a strategic reason for defending Biden?
By Andrea Widburg
South Carolina likes its RINOs, and there's no one more RINO-y than Lindsey Graham, who's been in Congress for almost 30 years, with 20 of those years spent in the Senate. (Currently, Graham is more interested in representing Ukraine's interests than America's. Typical.) What's weird, though, is that Graham has decided to stick up for Joe Biden when it comes to the classified documents Biden has squirreled away everywhere. Is Graham being his usual awful self, or, maybe, is he being crazy like a fox? I have no idea, but I'll throw a theory out regarding the latter possibility.
So here's Graham explaining that, no matter what Biden did, his intentions weren't bad:
RINO Snake Lindsey Graham Defending Biden
“I’ve know President Biden for a long time. I’d be shocked if there’s anything sinister here.”pic.twitter.com/OdXfFbUQxM
— The Columbia Bugle ???? (@ColumbiaBugle) January 24, 2023
Given the very strong possibility that Biden was using national security information to enrich his family, that strikes me as a remarkably optimistic, not to say delusional, take on the growing Biden scandal. By contrast, aside from the fact that Trump as president could not violate national security laws, nobody reasonably believes that either Trump or Mike Pence, who is also on the list of those who can't be trusted with classified documents, was selling secrets. (Trump, by the way, has vigorously defended Pence.)
Most of us will be inclined to say, "That's just Lindsey being Lindsey." His fealty isn't to his state or America; it's to Congress, and, for a long time, Joe was "one of them" — the Congressmen. Of course, Lindsey will come out with something fatuous and unhelpful when the chips are down.
Or maybe Lindsey is taking marching orders from someone much smarter than he is — namely, Donald Trump. Before you choke on your own laughter at that suggestion, hear me out.
In mid-January, I urged Democrats to put the brakes on any plans to impeach Biden. My reasoning was that the Democrats desperately want Biden out of the White House, and it's not because he's a liability. He's been their good useful idiot for over two years now, and it is they who are undoubtedly behind the classified document revelations.
What I suspect is going on is that they've reached the point at which they can lay the groundwork for a chosen vice president finishing Biden's term and getting to run for president, not just once, but twice.
If a former vice president takes over midterm for a president who dies or is forced out, the calendar determines whether that onetime veep can later run for president twice or only once. The deal is that a Veep who ascends to the Oval office less than two years before the next election can run twice; the veep who ascends more than two years before the next election can run only one more time. Such are the nuances of the 22nd Amendment.
You'll notice that I did not say that Democrats are laying the groundwork for Kamala Harris to have two full terms as president in addition to her time finishing out Biden's term. Everybody knows that Kamala can't win on her own and that any cheating to help her will be even more suspect than what happened in 2020.
Instead, what will almost certainly happen is that Kamala will serve as president for only the briefest time. Then she'll step aside (no doubt in return for a good deal, such as money or a seat on the Supreme Court) in favor of a carefully selected vice president.
And who will that vice president be? My bet is Michelle Obama. Wayne Allyn Root thinks so, too. Others wonder whether it will be Gavin Newsom (Nancy Pelosi's nephew) or, once again, Hillary Clinton. Be that as it may, the Democrats want their preferred presidential candidate to have a two-year head start in the White House and then run with the incumbent advantage.
This is the last thing Trump wants. He wants to run against Joe Biden, especially a weakened Joe Biden. He needs Biden to stay in the White House, so he wants his allies to tamp down on the anti-Biden attacks. Lindsey Graham may not be one of Trump's willing allies, but, in the world of political calculation, he owes Trump. That is why he'll be at Trump's side when Trump opens his campaign in South Carolina.
Sounds Machiavellian? Well, we've learned just how Byzantine, even Machiavellian, America's representative democracy has become. Also, I could be totally wrong and see complex chess plays where there's nothing more than Lindsey Graham being Lindsey Graham.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/could_lindsey_graham_have_a_strategic_reason_for_defending_biden.html
Given That Illegal Immigration Damages America, Why Does No One Stop It?
By Vince Coyner
For ordinary Americans, watching the unending flow of illegal aliens into America leads to an inevitable question: Why is no one showing the political will to stop it? It turns out that more institutions and people than just the Democrat party benefit from that flood of humanity, drugs, and crime.
One of the big drivers of illegal immigration is the pernicious Chamber of Commerce, once a “Main Street” organization. Big Business in America needs workers. Illegal immigrants swell the worker pool, doing many of those supposed “jobs Americans won’t do.” You know, those in the construction industry, hotels, farming, etc. To the degree that Big Business can employ illegal immigrants at wages below those wages for legal American workers, illegal immigration is a winning issue for them.
Another pro-illegal institution is the Catholic Church. It not only solicits funds from parishioners but also generates hundreds of millions of dollars annually for supporting the illegal alien invasion.
The Chamber and the Vatican are only part of the cabal of businesses, NGOs, and government agencies that have built an ecosystem around the illegal immigrant trade. Illegal aliens are profitable for everyone but the American worker.
Somebody has to sell the cell phones the government is giving to illegals. Companies must facilitate the tens of billions of dollars illegal aliens send home yearly. Someone has to provide the gasoline for planes to fly immigrants around the country.
Schools get bigger budgets—to the tune of $59 billion. Hospitals earn almost $20 billion a year. Even hotels get into the mix, with one upscale Times Square hotel that has rooms going for $400 a night completely booked with illegal immigrants, some of whom spend their time beating their spouses, doing drugs, drinking, throwing out food, and having sex in the stairways.
Image: Illegal aliens entering the U.S. YouTube screen grab.
And of course, tens of thousands of bureaucrats across the country at all levels must be hired to deal with the onslaught. Their salaries must be paid for by the government, which means by taxpayers. Beyond all of that, we’re even paying $6 million a day to defense contractors to NOT build a wall on our southern border!
The amounts involved are simply staggering: well over $100 billion annually (or $200 billion, depending on who’s counting). In fact, that’s surely a severe undercount when considering those dollar figures don’t count the “enforcement“ of the border element of the equation. Every single year…
There’s worse. While your money goes into the pockets of the illegal alien empowerment cabal, it’s only money. There are other, far more vicious costs.
One tragic cost was paid by the families of the 100,000 Americans who died last year from fentanyl overdoses. (It’s a drug that almost exclusively comes over the southern border.) Plus, there were many times that number of addicts who didn’t succumb but continued to wreak havoc in their homes and communities.
Then there are the tens of thousands of women and children who suffer from sex trafficking across the border. And there’s the price paid in life and treasure by the victims of illegal alien crime. And Democrats whined when Trump wanted to spend a few billion to build a wall…
Exactly how many illegal immigrants are in the country? Numbers are all over the map. In 2021, a DHS report estimated that the number of illegal aliens in 2018 was 11 million. Not surprisingly, that’s essentially the exact same number the government has been claiming for decades!
That 11 million, of course, is a lie. Also, in 2018, Yale and MIT estimated the number at 22 million and potentially as high as 29 million. Way back in 2005, Bear Sterns estimated the number was 20 million, with another 3 million coming in annually. If that assessment was accurate, then 18 years later, we’d have another 52 million illegals in the country for a total of 72 million!
The one thing we know is that the government has been telling us the number is 11 million since the 90s, so it’s obviously lying, for that is impossible. In just the last 22 months, 5.2 million people illegally crossed into the United States, and that doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who eluded detection. The exact number of illegal aliens in our midst is impossible to know for certain, but the most likely number is 35 million or more.
Given that illegal aliens seem to make up almost 10% of our population, the question is again: Why doesn’t someone stop this invasion? The real answer is actually quite simple: Power.
The reason this is not stopped is that illegal aliens flock to large cities in Democrat strongholds. It’s not because they vote, although no doubt some of them do illegally. No, it’s all about numbers. We’ll start with the proportions reported by Pew Research in 2019 about where illegal aliens live. As the report parrots the government’s lie of 11 million, we’ll triple their stated numbers. Doing so gives us 33 million illegal aliens spread over all 50 states.
Importantly however, 80% of those 33 million are located in large metropolitan areas in just 15 states: AZ, CA, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, TX, VA & WA. That’s approximately 24 million people, with 14.5 living in Democrat states and 9.1 living in GOP states. The fact that they are people but not citizens is critical because Congressional representation is based on population, not citizens. The number of people each Congressional district represents is approximately 735,000.
Of the 15 states listed above, eight have majority Democrat Congressional delegations (CA, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VA, WA), four have majority Republican delegations (AZ, FL, GA, TX), and one (NC) is even. California, with its estimated 6.6 million illegal aliens, has between eight and nine more seats than it would without illegal aliens. New York, with its 2.1 million illegal aliens, has approximately three more Congressmen than it should, while Texas, with its 4.8 million illegal aliens, has six or seven extra congressmen. When you do the math, those 24 million illegal aliens living in those 15 states result in a net positive of six Congressional seats for Democrats.
If six seats don’t sound like much, think again. In four of the last 13 Congressional elections, had the minority party had just six more seats, it would have been the majority party. And with that majority comes power. As the government has accumulated more power, as Washington has increased its control over the everyday lives of the American people, and as the leviathan of the bureaucracy has grown, the value of each and every illegal alien increases.
Money and power. Probably not news, but there it is. Those are the driving forces behind the refusal to stop this invasion of illegals and, instead, to encourage it. It’s interesting too that the cabal who are abetting this invasion are the familiar faces pushing the policies behind much of the dystopian chaos that our biggest cities are suffering through today: Activist NGOs, big business, bureaucrats and, of course, the Democrat party.
Hiding their avarice behind the fig leaves of “compassion” and “empathy,” the members of this cabal increase their bank accounts and their power with little regard for the benefit or desires of the legal citizens of the United States. But the truth is, why should they? They are all but declaring war on the United States and the American people, yet—somehow—they keep “winning” elections. Who says insurrection doesn’t pay?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/01/given_that_illegal_immigration_damages_america_why_does_no_one_stop_it.html
The #DiedSuddenly ‘epidemic,’ Santos the lightning rod and other commentary
By Post Editorial Board January 25, 2023 7:33pm Updated
Health beat: The #DiedSuddenly ‘Epidemic’
“A troubled, uncertain public is increasingly turning to a single, ominous explanation” for events like the near-death of Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin, note Vinay Prasad & John Mandrola at The Free Press: “Covid vaccinations.” The jabs are “an important tool,” but “Americans have good reasons for their skepticism” on public-health expertise. Consider: “When the evidence emerged that myocarditis in young males was linked to the mRNA vaccines, the Biden administration denied it.” And only last year did the CDC admit “that the vaccines do not prevent people from getting or spreading the illness.” “People feel that their medical leaders are withholding basic facts” and “denying reality.” So “it is deeply unfortunate but also understandable that many Americans are turning to Twitter instead of the CDC.”
Libertarian: 1st Amendment Transcends Politics
Cops in Laredo, Texas, jailed “left-leaning” journalist Priscilla Villarreal for “obtaining ‘nonpublic information’ from government” with the “intent to benefit.” That’s “cut-and-dry infringement on her First Amendment rights,” argues Reason’s Billy Binion. The Fifth Circuit initially ruled the police move “an obvious violation.” But a majority of the panel’s judges agreed to rehear the case en banc, with conservative Chief Judge Priscilla Richman in particular questioning the initial finding. So it’s good to see right-leaning outfits like Alliance Defending Freedom intervening on Villareal’s behalf, suggesting they “understand that constitutional rights do not just apply to those who we find appealing.”
China desk: The West’s Abandoned the Uyghurs
The Chinese Communist Party’s “actions against the Uyghur people” meet “each and every one” of the criteria for genocide, thunders Kuzzat Altay at The Hill. “In East Turkistan [a k a Xinjing], the CCP has created the perfect Orwellian police state” where Uyghurs “must register virtually everywhere they go through a system of QR codes” and “even the slightest hint of resistance will end them up in concentration camps.” Plus, “ the population growth of the Uyghur has been brought to a complete standstill thanks to the CCP’s imposition of forced sterilizations and abortions on Uyghur women.” Yet “many powerful actors in the world have turned a blind eye to the genocide of the Uyghurs,” as groups like the World Economic Forum “not only ignore the genocide of the Uyghur, but openly praise the dictator who is carrying it out.” Living up to “never again” requires western leaders to stop “prioritizing their bottom line” and finding the guts to punish “the very thing the world declared it would never allow again after the Holocaust of the Jews in World War II.”
Congress watch: Santos the Lightning Rod
“On any given day, how much news will you hear about Congress?” asks National Review’s Jim Geraghty. For most, “probably one story, maybe two.” And now, “almost every day, there’s been some bizarre, new, get-a-load-of-this story about George Santos.” Yes: “A representative whose life story is almost entirely made up is a big story, and there are serious questions about where Santos made his money,” and much more. “Santos ought to go.” But “you can see why Kevin McCarthy might find it worthwhile to let the gears of the consequences for Santos turn slowly”: Media “obsessed with Santos’s incessant lying and potentially shady connections” aren’t “spending as much time insisting that the House GOP is the root of all evil.”
Eye on NY: The Worst Post-Pandemic Recovery
“The more time passes since the spring 2020 Covid-19 outbreak, the more New York stands out among all states for the weakness of its post-pandemic employment recovery,” observes the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon. As of December, New York and “18 other states were below their pre-pandemic job counts,” and “New York’s shortfall of 236,600 jobs was by far the largest.” “By contrast, private employment in Texas and Florida was up 6.7 percent (740,000 jobs) and 6.6 percent (527,000 jobs).” In short, “the Empire State’s recovery path remains roughly parallel to but well below the national trend.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/the-diedsuddenly-epidemic-santos-the-lightning-rod-and-other-commentary/
Eric Adams, in shift, says NYC’s ‘right to shelter’ policy doesn’t apply to migrants
By Jasmine Sheena and Jesse O’Neill January 26, 2023 12:06pm Updated
(Maybe Adams read Miranda Devine's column this morning.)
New York City’s “right to shelter” policy does not apply to the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who have sought sanctuary in the boroughs since last spring, Mayor Adams said this week.
The Democrat’s comments on WABC’ radio’s “Sid & Friends in the Morning” came as officials struggled to accommodate the inundation of migrants in the sanctuary city and implored federal officials to pick up the tab, which Adams has estimated to be up to $2 billion.
“The court ruled that this is a sanctuary city,” he told host Sid Rosenberg. “We have a moral and legal legal obligation to fulfill that. We don’t believe asylum seekers fall into the whole ‘right to shelter’ conversation.
“There’s no more room at the inn, and the reason there’s no more room at the inn is because the federal government is not doing their job,” said Adams, who visited El Paso, Texas earlier this month to get a first hand look at the national crisis that is spilling into the city.
New York City has seen over 41,600 asylum seekers arrive in the boroughs since the spring and has opened 77 emergency shelters and four Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers, with two more on the way in Midtown Manhattan and at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, officials said this week.
The city’s “right to shelter” law is one of the strongest sanctuary city laws in the country, requiring the government to make a roof available to anyone without a home on any given night.
It was put in place on the heels of a 1979 Legal Aid Society lawsuit against the city in defense of six homeless men. The group won the case, enshrining “right to shelter” in law.
The Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless panned the mayor for his comments.
“This is not a responsibility that Mayor Adams can decide to shirk, and he knows better,” the organizations said in a press release.
Mayoral Press Secretary Fabien Levy hit back at the organization.
“Legal Aid’s suggestion that the city is flouting it’s (sic) legal obligations couldn’t be further from the truth,” he told The Post in an email. “But, as we have made clear for months, and as Legal Aid even said today, the federal government has an obligation here, as does the state.”
Adams has asked both the state and federal government for support, but has only been refunded $10 million of the $366 spent so far on the migrant crisis as of last month, Budget Director Jacques Jiha said this week.
Hizzoner had penned a Washington Post op-ed earlier this month calling on President Biden to close off the southern border until migrants’ asylum applications can be processed and outlining a “decompression” strategy to ease the crisis and settle migrants.
Millions of migrants were expelled from the border under the Title 42 emergency measure during the pandemic.
Its scheduled expiration last month had led to a surge in people seeking refuge from unstable governments in the Caribbean and Central and South America overwhelming the border.
The measure is still in effect and the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments against letting it expire in February.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/nyc-mayor-adams-says-right-to-shelter-doesnt-cover-migrants/
The best way he can defend our democracy is for him to move to a different country and take most of the liberal politicians with him!
My original comment was about how totally fn stupid the woke were that even that pig is now showing more sense than them.
I'm certainly not praising this lying pos! And lets not forget his support of the ho's who falsely accused innocent white guys of raping them!
He and Jackson were the original libtard shake-down artists!
How much will the American taxpayers have to keep contributing? Has anyone seen information on how much money per capita the US spends on Ukraine compared to how much the European country are/have spent?
Now Send Fighter Jets: Ukraine Wants Air Superiority After Securing Battle Tanks
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/26/now-send-fighter-jets-ukraine-wants-air-superiority-after-securing-battle-tanks/
GM, Gmenfan. You lucked out. We did too.
It poured last night. Every last flake is gone now.
That's good. However... we are saturated.
Water in the basement. Had to wake the dehumidifier from its winter nap.
There's water flowing down the walk from under the top set of outside stairs.
Fingers crossed that dries up before a freeze hits.
Stay safe and enjoy this (so far) easy winter.
It's a blessing.
One can only help. Part of me has given up.
Paying too much attention to what's going on is bad for my blood pressure.
Oh, well.
Stay safe and have a good one.
Adam Schiff Vows Revenge as Kevin McCarthy Blocks Him, Eric Swalwell from Intelligence Committee
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/24/adam-schiff-vows-revenge-as-kevin-mccarthy-blocks-him-eric-swalwell-from-intelligence-committee/
JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON24 Jan 20234,145
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) vowed revenge after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) indicated he would keep Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) off the House Intelligence Committee.
“Kevin McCarthy just kicked me and @RepSwalwell off the Intelligence Committee. This is petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump,” Schiff tweeted. “If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out just how wrong he is. I will always defend our democracy.”
Earlier in the month, McCarthy indicated to reporters that he plans to follow through on his promise to keep Schiff and Swalwell off of the Intelligence committee.
During his time as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Schiff promoted the debunked Trump-Russia collusion theory. Further, while serving as the lead impeachment manager, Schiff “famously read out a made-up call between [former president Donald] Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for dramatic effect amid Democrats moving to impeach Trump,” as Breitbart News reported.
“Adam Schiff openly lied to the American public,” McCarthy told reporters at a press conference earlier this month. “He put America for four years through an impeachment that he knew was a lie at the same time we had Ukraine, at the same time we had Afghanistan collapse. Was that the role of the Intel Committee? No.”
On the other hand, Swalwell caught flak from McCarthy over his intimate sexual relationship with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
“Let me phrase something very direct to you: if you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have Swalwell on any committee,” McCarthy told reporters. “He cannot get a security clearance in the private sector.”
When Republicans held the minority in the previous Congress, McCarthy consistently pledged to keep Schiff and Swalwell off the Intel Committee if the GOP regained the majority and he controlled the speakership.
“I’ll promise you this — when I’m Speaker, [Schiff] will not be on the Intel Committee anymore,” McCarthy told Fox News in June. “And you know what else, Swalwell won’t either. I don’t know if this is a high bar. But if you have relations with a Chinese spy, you shouldn’t be allowed to be on the Intel Committee.”
Good morning K². We got about 4" of snow yesterday with a little rain later on. It's windy & 37° right now with most of the sidewalks and road cleared off. Pretty good for winter here ... right now!
of course we would have to get the Senate and keep the house
Al Sharpton helped create the crime crisis he claims he’s trying to solve
By Adam B. Coleman January 25, 2023 9:34pm Updated
Why the doomsayers are the real disaster for humanity
By John Stossel January 25, 2023 6:27pm Updated
How George Soros funds ‘fact checkers’ to silence dissent
By Matt Palumbo January 25, 2023 6:37pm Updated
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