Author: Blazingcatfur

AI generated posts on Reddit used to change minds

Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science

Researchers from the University of Zurich have admitted to secretly posting AI-generated material to popular Subreddit r/changemyview in the name of science.

As the researchers explain in a draft report on their work: “In r/changemyview, users share opinions on various topics, challenging others to change their perspectives by presenting arguments and counterpoints while engaging in a civil conversation.” Readers of the subreddit assess post and acknowledge posts that change their perspectives.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Self-Inflicted Political Wound

Until recently, conventional wisdom held that Donald Trump’s return to the presidency was a fatal blow for the Left. Trump would upend the Left’s agenda on key issues like immigration and climate and strike at its centers of prestige and power in academia and the bureaucracy. These things have indeed come to pass. But few expected Trump to discredit the Left by acting on one of its most noxious impulses: a disrespect for a functioning, if imperfect, status quo, and a desire radically to remake areas of social life.

There is no shortage of tariff opponents in the US. I am not sure whose ends they serve.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day"

Donald Trump was Mark Carney’s greatest asset

This election could have been a lot worse for Canada’s Conservatives. As I write, they have taken 41.7 per cent of the popular vote, their highest share since 1988, and are on track to pick up two dozen seats. They have also managed to make inroads with young people and unionised workers – groups that are famously hard for right-wing parties to win over.

Yet the victor of the night was Mark Carney, who will have a thin but real minority to work with as prime minister of Canada, and now the Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to lose his seat. Ill-informed pundits will say that the Tories threw away their double-digit lead ahead of the election, but it would be far more accurate to say that Carney’s Liberals closed the gap, and then some.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

China’s Intent Is to Master AI and Fusion Power: It’s Not What They Say, It’s What They Are Doing

There is an old adage many of us heard from our parents, “It’s not what you say, it’s what you do.”

So when China creates military equipment that demonstrates a growing skill at an amphibious invasion, it would be best to ignore their rhetoric and concentrate on what they are doing to create the skills, tactics and ability to invade that democratic bastion across the Taiwan Strait.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

U.S. will seek more control over Canada’s future trade dealings with China under renegotiated USMCA, expert predicts

U.S. President Donald Trump will seek even more restrictions on Canada’s ability to sign trade agreements with China when Washington and Ottawa start renegotiations on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, an international trade expert predicts.

David Collins, who specializes in international trade and investment law at City St. George’s, University of London, says he expects the United States will seek to toughen up Article 32.10 in the next United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

ABC News Insists on Pushing Debunked ‘Deported Citizen Babies’ Hoax

As we indicated when covering Alex Thompson’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it wasn’t just the media’s willful concealment of President Joe Biden’s severe cognitive decline that undermined trust in the media, but the sum total of hoaxes spread, encouraged, and abetted. Based on the latest faux immigration scandal, it appears that ABC News is adamant on refusing to learn that lesson.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Why the Liberals won – and Conservatives lost

Mark Carney’s Liberals have won Canada’s federal election – riding a backlash of anti-Trump sentiment to form the next government.

It is a stunning political turnaround for a party who were widely considered dead and buried just a few months ago.

It’s not yet clear if the party – which has been in power for almost a decade – will be able to secure a majority as results continue to roll in.

Either way, the prime minister faces major challenges, including divisions in the country laid bare by the campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes’

Imagine a neurological disease that changed your perceptions in subtle, damaging ways.

Stubbing your toe would bring pleasure. Rotten meat would taste delicious. Deadly cold would feel comfy.

Meanwhile, a gentle neck massage would make you feel sick, and fresh food would taste disgusting.

You wouldn’t last long with such a disease. But our society is facing something similar.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies

Triumph for Carney: what happened in Canada’s election, and what will it mean?

Leader of Liberals, who appear to have made a remarkable turnaround, has said old relationship with the US is over

At the beginning of the year, Canada’s Conservatives had a 25-point lead over the Liberal government, and their leader, Pierre Poilievre, looked certain to be the country’s next prime minister. But as the votes cast in Monday’s election have been counted, the story of the campaign has been confirmed: victory for the Liberals and their new leader, Mark Carney, who have extended their decade of rule by as much as another five years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Justine Bateman: Trump‘s Election a ‘Tipping Point for the Woke Mob Mentality‘

Former actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman, of Family Ties and Violet fame, said the election of President Trump may be the tipping point for the “woke mob mentality” that terrorize American culture.

Speaking with The Irish Times about the state of Hollywood and the downfall of cinema, Bateman discussed a book she had written about beauty standards and how it struck a chord with people who had been chasing plastic surgery.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Trump knows exactly what he just triggered in Canada

Donald Trump is fully aware he provoked a political earthquake in Canada — just ask him.

On the day of Canada’s election, the U.S. president was quoted in an interview voicing detailed knowledge of the historic plot-twist he triggered.

“You know, until I came along, remember that the Conservative was leading by 25 points,” Trump told The Atlantic last week, in an interview published Monday.

Trump will find it much easier kicking a Globalist carpetbagger like Carney around.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025, USA

What Canada’s election results mean for Canadians, Trump and U.S. tariffs

Canada’s Liberal Party, led by Mark Carney, is projected to win a federal election that played out against a tumultuous backdrop of President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.

It was not immediately clear whether the Liberals would lead a minority or majority government as votes continued to be counted early Tuesday. Either way, Carney will now have to figure out how to deal with Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on many Canadian goods — and his persistent talk of turning the country into a “51st state.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

How Canada’s Conservatives Botched the Election of a Lifetime

OTTAWA, Ontario—In an astonishing come-from-behind victory, Canada’s Liberal Party narrowly won Monday’s election under its new leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney.

As we went to press after midnight, it was still unclear whether Carney’s Liberals would win an outright majority or whether they would need to attempt to form a government through an alliance with minor left-wing parties. However, it was still a remarkable turnaround for the Liberals, who, at the beginning of the year, appeared doomed to defeat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Donald Trump, Election 2025

Adam Zivo: Vancouver car ramming suspect should have never been free in the first place

A joyful Filipino street festival ended in carnage Saturday night after a man driving an SUV rammed into a crowd, killing 11 people and injuring at least 20 more. The man arrested and charged with eight counts of murder has a history of mental illness. While many factors contributed to this avoidable tragedy, perhaps the greatest of them was Canada’s failure to embrace involuntary treatment and institutionalization.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event"