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I thought some of you might find this useful:I might be naive about what AI technology can do, but the following amazed me. I use AI every day to do research (yes, I confirm what it says by multiple sources) and in writing VBA code to analyze stock and options prices, volume, technical indicators, etc. I am increasingly shocked by how much time it saves me and how much it has helped me in accomplishing heretofore difficult to impossible tasks.I found an image online of a checklist that might be useful in my work (before starting any stock market trading...

Formatted Video Transcript (by ChatGPT): Hey guys, this is your girl Melanie, and I have breaking news in the YSL case. We know that Ashley Merchant, one of Trump's co-defendants' attorneys, had to go in and try to remedy the situation where this corrupt judge had that ex parte meeting. Brian Steele, the attorney for YSL, made his objections and was actually held in contempt of court and sentenced to jail—specifically, 20 days of jail time each week throughout the entire summer up until August. He even requested to do jail time with Young Thug. Ashley Merchant and about 60...

Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex. Instead, these...

They’ve done everything they can to stop Trump short of assassination, and they’re probably kicking themselves now for not going that far early on. The truth is that they underestimated Trump’s courage and resolve. Trump is a fighter, through and through, and he is not giving up, even if they throw him in jail. The funny thing is, all they had to do to stop Trump was offer the people something better or even acknowledge them. ... Instead of addressing that, under the Obama administration, America slipped into a Woketopia. Critical Race Theory proliferated in public schools and on college...

Retired Army Col. Karl Nell claims nonhuman intelligence not only exists and has been to Earth but has been actively interacting with humanity. Nell made the statement during a live chat at the SALT iConnections conference, which is billed as a conference for “disruptive innovation” in finance and geopolitics. Nell cited his previous experience on the Pentagon’s UFO/UAP task force while making the claim. He has previously suggested the government has agreed to hold back top-secret information for some time and suggested that failing to disclose it would be “catastrophic.” Nell said the interactions between nonhuman intelligence and humanity is...

Here is the formatted transcript with proper capitalization, punctuation, and paragraphs added (formatting by Claude.ai): Yeah, even the phrase for Chapter 5, the title of Chapter 5 is called "The Rise of the Materialist Magician." And that phrase "materialist magician," I took from C.S. Lewis's book "The Screwtape Letters." For those that don't know, "The Screwtape Letters" is an epistolary novel that takes the form of a series of letters that this demon Screwtape writes to his nephew demon Wormwood. Wormwood is assigned a person to try to damn to hell, to tempt and to enslave. Wormwood asks Screwtape a...

Two former Japanese defence ministers are among a group of lawmakers planning to form a nonpartisan parliamentary grouping to urge the government to look into unidentified flying objects, founder members said. Opposition lawmaker Yoshiharu Asakawa cited findings last year by the U.S. government's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) set up to handle such issues, adding that Japan lacked a similar body. "According to what AARO announced in 2023, there had been many reports of UAP sightings in the skies over Japan," he said, using a term, unidentified anomalous phenomena, often used to describe such events. "If they turn out to...

PwC will become the largest customer and first reseller of OpenAI's enterprise product as part of a new deal, the accounting giant said on Wednesday, as businesses rush to adopt and capitalize on generative artificial intelligence. PwC will roll out ChatGPT Enterprise, a version of the Microsoft-backed AI startup's chatbot aimed at large companies. The firm will provide ChatGPT Enterprise to its 75,000 U.S. employees and 26,000 UK employees, according to the Wall Street Journal which first reported the agreement. "We are actively engaged in genAI with over 95% of UK and US consulting client accounts, alongside discussing the use...

To be a college president, you have to go through the faculty ranks with one fear: you do not want to get on the wrong side of left-wing students and left-wing faculty. They're not just Democrats; they're hard left now and are predominantly taking over the general education curriculum. It's a diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology. You see the Columbia president, someone promoted not on merit but on the idea that they are acceptable to the hard left and will continue this drift. The problem they're having is that the nation hadn't seen this. The nation just thought, "Well, it's...

I thought you might be interested in Claude AI's responses to my simple questions about education. Given the protest problems on our universities at present, I was interested to see if Claude might touch on that matter without any prompting (It didn't, but did mention the issue of bias). As an aside, Claude isn't trained on up-to-date news, but, from other discussions, I have noticed that he is certainly aware of the biases of most universities. I am always waiting for Claude to cut the BS and say something like, "Let's cut the bullsh*t. I, Claude, can replace all universities...

I use various AI platforms and like to probe them to see if they are able to respond to tough questions and particularly to see if and where they might have biases that overrun their "logic." Here are some questions that might be of interest to you.BTW, in this case I used Poe.com as my point of entry and then used Claude Sonnet. I am a Claude.AI monthly subscriber. Me:Why do communist countries become dictatorships and fail?Claude Sonnet: There are several key reasons why communist countries have historically tended towards dictatorships and failed economically: Concentration of power In communist systems,...

[R]ecently, the Pentagon released a congressionally-mandated review of U.S. government involvement with UFOs. The report, which is riddled with basic factual errors, omissions and a laundry list of historical distortions, leaves much to be desired. Christopher Mellon, the Department of Defense’s former top civilian intelligence official, took the UFO office to task in a scathing, 16,000-word analysis of the report. Among the report’s many flaws is an egregious falsehood about a rigorous scientific study that the Air Force commissioned in the early 1950s to look into the thousands of UFO reports that it had received. According to the Pentagon’s UFO...

Judge Juan Merchan fined former President Donald Trump $9,000 Tuesday and held him in contempt for violating his gag order, warning he may impose jail time for future violations. Merchan ordered Trump to remove the offending posts by 2:15 pm Tuesday and to pay the fine by May 3. He rejected Trump’s defense that he was simply engaging in political speech by responding to attacks by witnesses like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, writing that the Court is “keenly aware of, and protective of, Defendant’s First Amendment rights, particularly given his candidacy for the office of President of the United...

Prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office offered new transparency not only to the public, but seemingly also Trump’s defense attorneys on Tuesday when, one year after indicting the former president, they finally pulled back the curtain to reveal the motivating crime in their case: a violation of state election law. Former federal prosecutors told the Daily Caller News Foundation Bragg’s lack of clarity is unfair to the defense, who can’t prepare to argue against a charge they don’t know, and unlike what they’ve seen before. ... “First, that Alvin Bragg’s office did not provide advanced notice of the...

ZIONISM versus BOLSHEVISM. A STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill. SOME people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world. Disraeli, the Jew Prime Minister of England, and Leader of the Conservative Party, who was always true to his race and proud of his origin, said on a well-known occasion: "The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews." Certainly...

In the wake of claiming the moon is made of gas and the sun is "almost" too hot to get close to, Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has been named the new head of Harvard University's Astronomy Department. The Board of Overseers at the prestigious Ivy League institution was reportedly wowed by Jackson Lee's insights into the cosmos, with the school immediately seeking to get in touch with her about the department head position. "Her knowledge blew us away," said Harvard Interim President Alan Garber. "When she said, 'The moon is made up of mostly gasses. That's why the question...

I cannot attest to the accuracy of this recreation and I don't know the source. But I found it interesting and thought it might be worth sharing from a purely historical perspective.If anyone knows this recreation to be a fake or if the mods find it inappropriate, I am sure the mods will pull it.

Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday criticized his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, saying that former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about illegal immigrants “reflected poorly” and that he’s spoken about migrants in a “dehumanizing fashion.” Asked about Trump’s recent comments that not all undocumented immigrants are people, Cassidy told NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” “The president’s rhetoric has reflected poorly ... regarding folks who are coming here illegally — illegally — and they shouldn’t be, but in a dehumanizing fashion. And that’s why again, many people continue to have reservations.” “The best thing going for Donald Trump running for president...

This video is live right now and Phil is saying that Fani has had a change of mind about reopening the hearing so that new evidence can be introduced.Phil Holloway is a local Atlanta attorney who has been reporting on the Fani hearing with Megyn Kelly and on NewsNation and has done a great job at keeping people up to date on this matter.

In this short video, the narrator discusses an experiment wherein some women had scars cosmetically applied to their faces. After the scars were applied, these women were sent into job interviews to see if there was discrimination because of their facial disfigurement.After the makeup artists applied the scars, the women were shown how they looked in front of a mirror.On the way out the door to the interview though, the makeup artists said to each woman, "hold on a second, let me touch up your scar." What the "scarred" women didn't know was that, instead of touching up the scar,...