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Despite claims by President Donald Trump that American cities are being overrun by criminals, Democrat mayors across the country reported that violent crime was actually down 40% since they redefined the words "violent" and "crime." Trump vowed to clean up America's streets, starting with ordering the National Guard into action to bolster law enforcement efforts in Washington, D.C., eliciting an outcry from mayors who pointed to a sharp drop in crimes now that the definition of crime had been completely changed. "There's actually almost no crime when you look at it a certain way," said D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. "Ever...

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has gone completely off the rails, detecting racist "dog whistles" in the most innocent photos imaginable. After users started trolling the AI as a joke, asking it to spot far-right symbols in random images, Grok began identifying white supremacist messaging in everything from a glass of milk to Amish families walking down the street. The AI even claimed a simple cheeseburger contained anti-Semitic symbolism because of how someone's fingers were positioned while holding it. Media analyst Mark Dice exposes how the chatbot has become so paranoid that it's now seeing Nazi ideology in photos of...

Spanish police said Monday that they had dismantled a group accused of running a "spiritual retreat" that offered hallucinogenic drugs and dangerous frog venom to clients from around the world. The gang is suspected of operating from a villa in the southeastern town of Pedreguer, charging over $1,160 for multiday stays that included consumption of ayahuasca, San Pedro cactus and a frog venom known as Kambo. "The retreats were held in groups of up to twenty participants, who were attended to by six employees of the organisation during the 'astral journeys,'" the Guardia Civil police force said in a statement....

Friedrich Merz knows how important uncontrolled mass migration was at the last election, so has promised to crackdown on the vast pull factors encouraging people to move to Germany. Yet much like his pledge to get a grip of illegal migration, this alleged crackdown appears to consist far more of rhetoric than of action. As such, Germany’s Federal Employment Agency is actively promoting Bürgergeld—the citizens’ benefit paid to those with no income or who do not earn enough money to support themselves—to young migrants. A page on its website is written in English “for people from abroad,” and leads with...

A mountain lion bit an 11-year-old girl outside her home in Malibu on Sunday and then proceeded to chase her mother and sibling ... The girl was doing her chores near a chicken coop on the property in the 32500 block of Pacific Coast Highway when the mountain lion pounced... It attacked her from behind, knocking her onto her stomach and biting her right arm, leg and lower back, Tira said. The girl’s mother was nearby and heard her child’s screams and ran over with one of the girl’s siblings. “That’s when the mountain lion proceeded to chase the mother...

Claire Hope from Vancouver has just turned 18. Her mother is a real-estate agent, her father a lawyer. Last week, Claire reportedly made more than $1 million in less than three hours, after announcing the launch of her OnlyFans “bday special” on Instagram with a picture of herself sticking her middle fingers up at the camera. She wears a cropped t-shirt embroidered with the phrase “porn star in training”, promising “all content shot at 12.01am on my 18th birthday”. Claire first became famous as a sweary child rapper on YouTube, performing under the name Lil Tay. It is this persona,...

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A 60-year-old man was hospitalized with severe psychiatric symptoms — plus some physical ones too, including intense thirst and coordination issues — after asking ChatGPT for tips on how to improve his diet. What he thought was a healthy swap ended in a toxic reaction so severe that doctors put him on an involuntary psychiatric hold. After reading about the adverse health effects of table salt — which has the chemical name sodium chloride — the unidentified man consulted ChatGPT and was told that it could be swapped with sodium bromide. Sodium bromide looks similar to table salt, but it’s...

All of it is Queer"We are so back" is a current meme indicating how some part of "woke" culture has been pushed back, but even the most anti-woke conservatives stand defenseless against gay culture.One of my favorite homosexuals of all time was Justin Raimondo, founder of Antiwar.com and author of the 2008 book Reclaiming the American Right, who once said that the best thing about being homosexual was all the sneaking around. That was when there was a closet; ahh, the closet. Most people in those days knew who was “that way,” who was “light in the loafers.” But they...

To make fusion reactors, we need materials that can withstand its punishing environment, and a new Chinese-made material can survive reactors’ intense conditions. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: * The central solenoid is the heart of a fusion reactor, and a "jacket" of meticulously crafted stainless steel—capable of withstanding extreme temperatures and magnetic fields—protects it. * Chinese scientists say that a new super steel, called China high-strength low-temperature steel No. 1, (CHSN01), can operate at a maximum of 20 Tesla, which outperforms the steel jacket that will be used by ITER. * China is incorporating CHSN01...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:An Australian scientist says probabilities are the leading cause of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances. And he’s not the only one.Add in suspect weather, and iffy plane and boat piloting, and Karl Kruszelnicki believes there’s no reason to believe in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon.While the conspiracy of the Bermuda Triangle has existed for decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and Lloyd’s of London has long championed the same ideas.Pick any one of the more than 50 ships or 20 planes that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century. Each...

The furious wife of a philandering Staten Island principal blew the whistle on her husband’s affair with a younger teacher at his school, where he helped his lover win tenure... Principal Anthony Cosentino, 43, engaged in a “consensual sexual relationship” with the married staffer, Jacqueline Sinodinos, 28, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools found in a newly released report accusing him of possibly violating the city’s conflict-of-interest rules. The scandal broke up two marriages. Both Cosentino’s wife and Sinodinos’ husband filed for divorce. .... Cosentino, 43 .. remained on the DOE payroll making $187,632 despite what SCI Anastasia...

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FAFO in Florida Two illegal immigrant sisters caught shoplifting shocked to find out they're being deported, one claims they can't be deported because she had a child here. Turns out they're habitual shoplifters with tools that makes it a felony. They shouldn't have tried this in Florida. Should have tried their crime spree in Illinois or Calif. Where the authorities would have done everything possible to set them free.

A transgender bus driver took her own life by jumping in front of a train after colleagues kept referring to her as male. Ava Michal Hudson, 27, died on August 7 last year on her way to work at the Chicago Transit Authority, while in her uniform. She didn't leave a note and gave no indication she was suicidal before suddenly leaping to her death, just four days after attending her brother's wedding. 'Sadly, we’ll never fully know the reason for her death, but the pain left behind after her sudden departure has been acute,' her family wrote in her...

I've crafted two versions of the same Flash Fiction story. I'm going to present them both here, and YOU GUYS (and gals) will decide which one I use.Story OneTHE ARGUMENT“See, I told you, you should believe in climate change.” “Sure, I believe in that. But manmade climate change? No way.” “Look at all the evidence.” Sal showed a computer screen with articles, facts, and figures dancing across the glass surface. “You’ve shown me this a million times, and I’m still not convinced. When are you going to show me something new?” replied Pat dismissively. “Why should I have to? Everything...

You know how when you're hot and need something refreshing and cold to drink, so you guzzle the nearest ketchup bottle? But that hasn't stopped Heinz from teaming up with Smoothie King to create a cold, refreshing ketchup smoothie. That's right! For a limited time, Smoothie King will be offering ketchup smoothies on their menu.

Same language, so same money, bro, right?So here’s another cringe-filled episode of the never-ending series of “Please Google before you travel”. A viral clip from the Stiff Socks podcast has set social media ablaze (and no, not because it dropped wisdom). One of the hosts casually shared a story about trying to pay for a taxi in Spain using Mexican pesos, because, you know, “they both speak Spanish.” Yeah, really. “I figured it would work with pesos!” “When I was in Mexico, I used pesos. They speak Spanish in Spain too, so I figured it would work,” he said. His...

A Special education teacher at Haynesville Elementary was arrested on a misdemeanor charge Tuesday, according to Minden police. Kylie Frith is charged with simple theft, according to Minden Police Deputy Chief Tokia-Whiting Harrison. Orleans on Main framed art Framed art piece stolen from Orleans on Main in Minden. Frith is accused of stealing a framed art piece from the bathroom of Orleans on Main Bistreaux in Minden on July 18, by allegedly concealing it under her clothing and leaving the establishment. Harrison said after detectives contacted Frith, she admitted to taking the artwork. According to Harrison, she later turned herself...

To arrive at their conclusions, researchers trained OpenAI’s GPT 4.1 model to act as a "teacher," and gave it a favorite animal: owls. The "teacher" was then asked to generate training data for another AI model, although this data did not ostensibly include any mention of its love for owls. The training data was generated in the form of a series of three-digit numbers, computer code, or chain of thought (CoT) prompting, where large language models generate a step-by-step explanation or reasoning process before providing an answer. This dataset was then shared with a "student" AI model in a process...