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Criminals are already using ChatGPT to commit crimes, Europol said in a Monday report that details how AI language models can fuel fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism. Built by OpenAI, ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and quickly became an internet sensation as netizens flocked to the site to have the chatbot generate essays, jokes, emails, programing code, and all manner of other text. Now, the European Union's law enforcement agency, Europol, has detailed of how the model can be misused for more nefarious purposes. In fact, people are already using it to carry out illegal activities, the cops claim. "The...

[Catholic Caucus] Married priests? Here’s what the early Church taught about priestly celibacyThe issue of clerical celibacy is raised often by Pope Francis, but it is not something that can be changed by personal whim, as its origins date back to the Gospels.The concept of clerical celibacy is currently under attack, both from critics of the Church who seek to refute it as pointless and restrictive, but also from Pope Francis who has made a number of remarks in recent days suggesting that priests will no longer be required to be celibate in the near future. However, examining the early...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Wayne State professor Steven Shaviro has been suspended after allegedly suggesting college protesters kill campus speakers they don’t like. Stanford was recently engulfed by protests and chaos when federal judge Kyle Duncan was invited to speak to campus. Stanford University Law School associate dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach suggested Duncan’s speech was causing pain. She was later placed on leave, according to Fox News.

Police have released body-camera footage of the Nashville officers inside the Covenant School yesterday

Had a weird email from Ebay this weekend. I have (or had?) an ebay account, I have not used it in years. This weekend I received an email saying my account was permanently banned because I had done some sort of 'promoting hate' Considering that I have not been on eBay site for many years I can only assume they were referring to some post I made on some OTHER site. I am pretty vocal about how I think liberalism, and especially this 'trans' business is a mental disease. So, is eBay trolling other sites to check my social score?...

Consumer considence (according to the Conference Board) remains below pre-Covid levels despite the massive Federal spending spree and Fed money printing). Of course, Joe Biden’s inappropriate, rambling address on the Nashville school shooting (where 3 children and 3 adults were murdered by a man claiming to be a woman (aka, trans) isn’t helping Americans confiderence in its leaders. What a dunce.

A migrant woman who had been declared “mum of the year” by a magazine in 2022 has admitted to assaulting a Ukrainian woman. Ellie Kisyombe, a migrant woman who had previously run as an election candidate for Ireland’s left-wing Social Democrats, has reportedly admitted to assaulting a Ukrainian woman working in a migrant centre in 2019. Kisyombe had previously been a darling of the Irish media establishment, even being declared “mum of the year” by one magazine in the county late last year.

As president, Donald Trump privately pushed for banning AR-15-type rifles, according to a new report. Trump was — and is — a big defender of Second Amendment rights. So the new revelation is surprising that he tried to renew the “assault weapon” ban during his first two years in office. In the summer of 2019, after back-to-back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso involving an AR-15-style pistol and an AKM-style rifle, Trump told aides that he wanted to ban AR-15s, according to people present for the statements. “I don’t know why anyone needs an AR-15,” Trump told aides...

The state Assembly on Monday voted 52-19 to approve the proposal, which would create a watchdog agency at the California Energy Commission, or CEC, that could compel oil companies to provide information about the industry and possibly set a profit cap and a penalty for those that exceed it. Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article273645945.html#storylink=cpy

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Our sea levels will remain elevated for thousands of years. Scientists around the world agreed on that in last week's U.N. report about climate change, which found it is "unavoidable for centuries to millennia due to continuing deep ocean warming and ice sheet melt, and sea levels will remain elevated for thousands of years." One of the problems with sea level rise is that it happens slowly, a tiny bit each year, making it a threat that people have an easy time ignoring. We do that at our own peril, according to Mark Merrifield, director of the Scripps Center for...

Nashville Mayor John Cooper (D) said on Tuesday that the “cult of the gun” should not be celebrated, after a shooting left three children and three staff members dead at a local elementary school. “Guns lead to tragedies,” Cooper told the TODAY Show. “Whatever your political feelings are, we should not be celebrating the cult of the gun. A former student of The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., shot and killed six people on Monday before being killed by police. The shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, was armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun. “The...

Imagine living in paradise… you are never more than thirty minutes from the most famous beaches in the world. A bracing hike high above the mountain snow line is never more than an hour away. The sun is almost always shining in a bright sapphire-sky and the temperature is never more than five degrees away from seventy-five. Everywhere you look free range celebrities roam and the world’s greatest chefs inevitably make their way to your town to prove that they are among the world’s best. Every weekend you can choose between a live game featuring one of the city’s half...

The mother of the Nashville school shooter who killed six people – including three 9-year-olds – appeared to be a gun control activist who once urged friends on Facebook to sign a petition calling to keep firearms out of schools. “So important!” Norma Hale wrote in a March 8, 2018 Facebook post as she shared the petition that stated “Keep Guns Out of School” that appeared to be from the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.

London (AFP) – The jury is out on whether Humza Yousaf can deliver independence for Scotland. But history's verdict will be clear on the 37-year-old's breakthrough as the first Muslim leader of a western European democracy. The newly-elected head of the Scottish National Party (SNP) joins the growing ranks of leaders from Britain's old imperial possessions who are remaking the face of UK politics. Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is the Hindu son of parents whose familial roots lie in India. One of the new SNP leader's chief adversaries in the Edinburgh parliament will be Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar,...

“The global struggle for democracy approached a possible turning point in 2022,” Freedom House writes in its latest annual report on political rights and civil liberties around the world. “There were signs … that the world’s long freedom recession may be bottoming out, which would set the stage for a future recovery.” Freedom shrunk for the 17th straight year over the past 12 months, but did so only slightly this time, with 34 countries growing freer and 35 less free. In addition, “the year’s events showed that autocrats are far from infallible, and their errors provide openings for democratic forces....

[Catholic Caucus] Dozens of billboards go up around Rome in defense of the TLMAll around Rome today, dozens of billboards, in Italian and in English, were posted in defense of the Traditional Latin Mass. The following press release was sent out to explain the initiative.PRESS RELEASEStarting this morning, and lasting for 15 days, several dozen billboards dedicated to the traditional liturgy will be posted near and around the Vatican.An organizing committee, whose members are participating in a personal capacity and who come from different Catholic entities (such as the blogs, Messainlatino and Campari & de Maistre, and the associations, National...

Fisher Investments moved its headquarters from Washington state to Plano following a state Supreme Court ruling in Washington that upheld the constitutionality of a capital gains tax on the state’s wealthiest residents, the company confirmed Monday. In a one-paragraph announcement Friday, Fisher Investments said it relocated its corporate headquarters to Texas, “in honor of the Washington State Supreme Court’s wisdom and knowledge of the law, and in recognition of whatever it may do next.” The firm clarified in a statement Monday that while the tax decision alone doesn’t affect corporate headquarters, it is moving in what it calls an abundance...

Introduction: The TEMPLERS got on well with both Arabs and Jews until Buchhalter formed a branch of the Nazi Party in Jerusalem in 1934. This was followed by the outbreak of the three-year armed Arab revolt against the British Mandate in 1936 and Jerusalem Arabs happily saluted Templer architect and builder Hermann Imberger when he took his Sunday stroll wearing a swastika armband. 'Templer Town'. By Meir Ronen, The Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2008 https://www.jpost.com/magazine/books/templer-town ___ Bergman, R. (2019). Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. United States: Random House Publishing Group, pp. 16-17: The leader...