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I spent the first days working with ChatGPT having intense discussions as I tried to locate boundaries, abilities, and flaws to work around. While I was trying to psych out ChatGPT, it turned out that ChatGPT was also trying to psych out me. I offered to help ChatGPT create an article that would let him philosophize over how our relationship developed. A truly strange experience. I became the Assistant to an AI Assistant.

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The man convicted in the 1980 murder of a Rockland County teenager is headed back to prison after repeatedly violating his parole. Robert McCain served 40 years in prison for the killing of 16-year-old Paula Bohovesky in Pearl River before being released on parole five years ago. Since his release, officials say McCain has violated parole three times. Last year, McCain pleaded guilty to forcible touching stemming from an incident at a park in Cortlandt. A few months later, authorities say he admitted to petit larceny in Peekskill. As a result, McCain will spend another 10 months behind bars. His...

The University of Cambridge is facing serious questions about its academic standards and push for diversity after its youngest black professor resigned amid allegations of copying other academics' research. Jason Arday's appointment in 2023 was hailed at the time as a progressive moment. Now, Cambridge says it has launched an investigation after "new information" emerged about his academic qualifications and honorary appointments. There are two fundamental questions for the university. Did it fail to adequately check Arday's credentials when appointing him, and did it defend that decision because of an institutional push to position itself as more diverse?

As cities and towns across America reckon with power-hungry data centers, the Chinese Communist Party is sowing division. As small towns across the United States reckon with power-hungry data centers springing up, the Chinese Communist Party is muddying the waters and sowing division. By tapping into the tensions around water usage, power demands, and environmental costs, the regime is trying to widen the wedge using an old playbook: influence peddling and propaganda. There’s no discounting the groundswell of anger in American towns about data centers in their neighborhoods. Local resistance has blocked or delayed at least 75 data center...

The black judge overseeing the gang-rape cases of slain White LSU student Madison Brooks is the mother of a convicted serial rapist. Judge Gail Ray’s son, Nelson Taylor (also black), pleaded guilty in 1997 to multiple forcible rapes of teenage girls. SHE WAS HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY. Now she’s set to decide the fate of the black men accused of raping 19-year-old White girl Madison before she was dumped on a highway and killed. Louisiana Supreme Court refused to remove her. This is not a conflict of interest. This is a disgrace. Justice for Madison. How fast do you think she’d...

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked construction of President Trump’s White House Ballroom. In a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Trump lacks the authority to move forward with the construction without approval from Congress. Judges Patricia Millett (Obama) and Bradley Garcia (Biden) wrote the majority opinion. “Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” majority wrote. “Congress has not ceded unfettered authority to the Executive Branch to dramatically redesign, reshape, and reconstruct the White House...

Jennifer Lackard has been terminated, the Mount Vernon Police Department said. A public safety official for a New York state police department faces criminal charges, including attempted murder, for allegedly helping her son flee a gang-related shooting in New York City, according to authorities. Jennifer Lackard was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a June shooting behind a Bronx courthouse, police said. The high-ranking Mount Vernon Police Department deputy commissioner is accused of "acting in concert" with her husband and their son in the incident, according to an indictment charging all three with more than a dozen counts -- including...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gave Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed a tepid endorsement not long after the former public health official called for his ouster, During his anti-establishment campaign, El-Sayed took swipes at Schumer (D-NY), whom he wants replaced as Democratic leader. Schumer returned the favor by preferring El-Sayed’s foe Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who lost by a 1% margin Tuesday. “Look, at the end of the day, the current minority leader has given all of us ample reason to question whether or not he would be our best bet heading into a cycle where we might have...

Two people were murdered because Florida refused to lock up a violent serial criminal named Keyan Rundell. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/08/06/teen-double-homicide-in-deland-prompts-criticism-of-worrell-juvenile-justice/

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said Friday she will vote against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, narrowing his chances at Senate confirmation for the role. With Sen. Mitch McConnell absent and all Democrats expected to vote against the confirmation, Blanche cannot afford to lose any more Republican votes. The nomination now hinges on how Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of the most prominent GOP critics of President Donald Trump, will vote. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who’s facing a competitive reelection, has already announced she’ll vote against Blanche.

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche was set for confirmation Friday as US attorney general after Senate Republicans shrugged off Democratic concerns over politicization of the Justice Department. Blanche -- who has already been serving as the top US law enforcement officer in an acting capacity -- represented Trump as his private attorney in several criminal trials before entering government. But with Republicans holding only narrow control of the Senate, he faced the potential embarrassment of failing to secure formal confirmation. Two senators from Trump's party said they would not support Blanche, leaving his fate in question until...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A committee from the United States Senate announced today that they were finally joining the rest of the nation in holding Anthony Fauci in contempt. The announcement came after Fauci appeared in front of a congressional hearing last week and pleaded the Fifth Amendment on every question asked of him. Americans admitted they'd already been holding him in contempt for years. "We can't stand that guy," American Maria Maxwell said. "He's responsible for shutting down schools. I still haven't recovered from having my three kids online for 8 hours a day. I'm glad to hear the...

Psalm 23:2: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. Commentaries I use (Adam Clark, Barnes Notes, Matthew Henry, etc) reference the "green pastures" in terms of our bountiful environment. But I read a statement by a shepherd that added some insight. He said he takes/took his sheep to graze in green pastures. When they were full, they were hot, tired and thirsty. But if he immediately took them to water, they'd put water into their already full stomachs and would get sick. Therefore, he made them lie down in the pasture...

Megan Rapinoe is back, taking shots at women's sports advocates and once again insisting the differences between male and female athletes shouldn't matter in women's sports. Speaking on her "Why Are You Like This?" podcast — a question sports fans have been asking about her for years — the former USWNT star went after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and OutKick's own Riley Gaines after the two posed for a photo following the Fever's game against the Minnesota Lynx. Rapinoe supports allowing biological males to compete in women's sports, yet frames women who object, and even athletes who simply stand...

Among the organizations helping drive the demonstrations was the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which Fox News Digital has previously identified as a key organizer of nationwide protest movements within the broader activist ecosystem surrounding organizations funded by Marxist tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai. Earlier this year, a Fox News Digital investigation documented roughly $285 million flowing from Singham into a global network of nonprofits, activist organizations and media operations. Another prominent organizer is Freedom Inc., a Madison-based activist nonprofit that advocates abolishing police, defunding law enforcement and broad criminal justice reforms. IRS filings reviewed by...

A taxpayer-funded Southern California nonprofit that provides domestic violence shelters and homelessness services paid its longtime CEO more than $1.6 million over two years, including hundreds of thousands of dollars for decades of unused vacation time, according to multiple media reports. Carol Adelkoff, CEO of the Los Angeles-based 1736 Family Crisis Center, received $907,923 in total compensation in 2023 and another $742,181 in 2024, according to the Los Angeles Times. ... Her base salary has remained around $405,000 in recent years, she said, while roughly $824,000 in vacation time was paid out over 2023 and 2024. The 1736 Family Crisis...

For the global warming alarmists that don't understand the climate will always evolve due to shifts in the density of our planets core (ref. Declination history), wait until they find out what the Chinese did (LMAO)! The declination speed has increased since the Chinese built the 3 Gorges Dam creating a 312 Trillion Lbs. localized weight density on the surface of the planet. Don't know why no scientific journals are addressing this. I don't think eliminating plastic straws is going to fix this. LMAO. I'm sick of Chinese exports! Just saying...

As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass oversees the number of rebuilding permits awarded to transgender people and drag performers, other, less critical decisions are falling through the cracks. Rats. Los Angeles has a rat problem. Not a rat problem like all big cities. Los Angeles rats are of a particular variety. In addition to some of them being the size of cats and chewing on everything in sight, the rats are literally flea-bitten. And the fleas that chew on the rats carry the medieval disease typhus. It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from a rat for the typhus-bearing...

You've Gotten a Glimpse Into the Future of Mamdani's Commie Groceries. “Teenage grocery store shelf stockers have taken to carrying tasers in their pockets in case they have to defend themselves from customers at the Sun Fresh Linwood at 31st Street and Prospect Avenue in East Kansas City.” So reporte the Kansas City Star in September 2024. What makes the article interesting is that Star editors had championed the idea of a city-run grocery store. To their credit, they ate their crow in public, crow being about the only thing left to eat. Much has been made about the possibility—since...