Author: Blazingcatfur

German tabloid Bild to replace range of editorial jobs with AI

Germany’s Bild tabloid, the biggest-selling newspaper in Europe, plans to replace a range of editorial jobs with artificial intelligence as part of a €100m costcutting programme, it has told staff in an email.

The paper is also reorganising its regional newspaper business in a move expected to lead to hundreds of redundancies.

The newspaper would “unfortunately be parting ways with colleagues who have tasks that in the digital world are performed by AI and/or automated processes”, its owner, Europe’s largest media publisher, Axel Springer SE, said in an email to staff.

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

In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’

Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence

It’s now been more than two years since Canada was convulsed by claims that 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous schoolchildren had been discovered on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. No actual bodies or human remains were in evidence—just ground-penetrating radar data indicating regularly-spaced soil dislocations. But you wouldn’t have known that from the breathless manner in which the story was reported at the time. A Global News headline announced the “Discovery of Human Remains at Kamloops Residential School Grounds.” Another, at the Toronto Star, declared, “The Remains of 215 Children Have Been Found.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, WTF?

Everyone’s sick of the Harry and Meghan grift

So even Spotify is sick of Harry and Meghan. They’re ‘fucking grifters’, said an executive there after their multimillion-dollar deal to make saccharine, sub-Oprah pods for the platform came to an end. It was Bill Simmons, founder of the Ringer podcast network, which he sold to Spotify in 2020. On his own podcast – everyone has a podcast these days – Simmons said Spotify should have called their pod with H&M ‘The Fucking Grifters’. He also threatened to get drunk one day and blab about the time he tried to help witless Harry with a podcast idea – ‘It’s one of my best stories’. ‘Fuck them. The grifters’, he said.

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

Journalist Defends Reporting on Election Interference

A journalist whose reporting helped raise concerns about possible Chinese meddling in Canadian democracy told a committee of MPs on June 20 that he stands by his work.

Sam Cooper, who recently left Global News to start his own online news site, told MPs that other countries, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, have faced similar disclosures about Chinese attempts to influence elections, and have followed up with laws designed to counter foreign interference.

But in Canada, said Cooper, that has not happened.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

‘Russian soldier’ in Ukraine was deep fake agitator in China

Suspect used AI to mock up videos, including one claiming he had seized Zelensky’s car

“Hello, Chinese friends,” the soldier in Ukraine tells his admirers many thousands of miles away. “I’m from Chechnya, Russia. Behind me is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. We just conquered this place and caught some big fish. One of them was a US consultant.”

The bearded man, who just happened to speak Mandarin, soon became a social media sensation on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, popping up across Ukraine to issue regular updates from the battlefield. “Salute. The red flag stands tall, Huzzah,” he says in another video from the front line, in front of a car. “The extended Lincoln behind me is Zelensky’s car that we’ve seized.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Rex Murphy: Liberals come for Alberta oil workers with mistitled sustainable jobs act

The title of the act is a lie. It is not about sustaining jobs. It is about killing jobs

Is it that they don’t know better? Or they simply do not care? It has to be both.

The most arrogant, blundering government in modern times is fixated on devastating the most essential industry Canada has; on stopping the production of the most essential resource of the modern world. The resource that makes the world work: energy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

U.S. Volunteers Clash With Russian Forces in Intense Urban Warfare Video

New footage circulating online appears to show U.S. volunteers fighting Russian troops in Ukraine under near-constant mortar fire.

The footage shows soldiers advancing through a smoke-filled urban area with visibly damaged buildings. Faces captured in the footage have been blurred, but dialogue and what appear to be American accents can be heard over the sound of firing in the clips.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

‘Don’t become a target’ of Chinese intelligence, CSIS warns Canadians

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) issued a rare public warning Tuesday detailing how it says China’s intelligence service is targeting and recruiting Canadian citizens to supply information to Beijing.

The allegation comes as Canada continues to reckon with Chinese interference in the country, which has ranged from allegations of meddling in elections to using so-called “police stations” to monitor and threaten Chinese nationals or those with family in China.

3 Are Convicted of Harassing Family on Behalf of China’s Government

The defendants, including a private detective who said he did not realize he was working for an intelligence operation, pursued people living in New Jersey.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada

‘Radically inclusive’ restaurant that offered ‘vulgar fine dining’ closes as woke owner faces sex harass claims

A “bold and brash” restaurant run by a queer, black chef in Oakland, California, closed amid claims of sexual harassment from its largely LGBTQ+ staff.

Hi Felicia — famed for its $195 tasting menu and “vulgar fine dining” — was created to be woke and “radically inclusive” but its owner, Imana, didn’t always promote those values according to former employees who spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle.

One employee named Dawn, a cook who identifies as non-binary, said they felt harassed after Imana allegedly made several comments about their body and genitalia, and said she was attracted to them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Saskatchewan Teaching Assistant Fired for Online Post About Walkout Over Pride Month in Schools

An educational assistant in Saskatchewan has been fired for posting an article to a private Facebook group about parents keeping their kids home on June 1 in protest against Pride Month in schools.

Leah Maier worked with Kindergarten to Grade 5 students at P.J. Gillen School, an elementary school in Esterhazy, for five years prior to her dismissal on June 12. The school is part of the Good Spirit School Division (GSSD).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

‘Monstrous murder’: 41 women killed in Honduras prison riot

At least 41 women have been killed – some of them burned to death – after an outbreak of violence between gangs at a prison in Honduras.

Authorities found dozens of bodies after the violence on Tuesday at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles (50km) north-west of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, said Yuri Mora, spokesperson for the national police investigation agency.

Some of the victims had been shot to death, and at least seven female inmates were being treated at a Tegucigalpa hospital for gunshot and knife wounds, employees there said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHonduras, WTF?

BlackRock, JP Morgan set up ‘reconstruction bank’ for Ukraine

BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase are reportedly aiding the Ukrainian government in setting up a reconstruction bank that could see rebuilding projects being heavily invested in by private entities. The Financial Times noted that it would cost Ukraine roughly $411 billion to rebuild their country amid the onslaught of attacks by Russia, but the cost is continuing to increase.

h/t XC & Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Star endorses Ana Bailão for Mayor

Toronto got the mayoralty race it needed. We’ve seen vigorous debate on the challenges that confront Canada’s biggest city and ambitious proposals to tackle them.

From the unwieldly field of 102 candidates, six have emerged with well-considered remedies for what ails Toronto, and each are unique: Brad Bradford’s insider knowledge of the planning process, Mark Saunders’ pitch for improved mental health services, Olivia Chow’s record of championing progressive issues, Mitzie Hunter’s detailed platform and costing, and Josh Matlow’s meaty policy proposals and budget honesty. They all deserve applause for the energy and ideas they have brought to this race.

They’ve done nothing but pump Chow. Maybe they realize she was Beijing’s man.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Titanic sub search: underwater noises picked up by Canadian plane, US Coast Guard says

Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area for the missing Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard said early on Wednesday, amid US media reports that regular banging sounds had been picked up.

The discovery on Tuesday led search teams to relocate their underwater robotic search operations “in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises”, the Coast Guard said in a series of tweets. The searches by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) came up empty-handed but would continue, the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard did not state the nature or extent of the sounds, or how they were picked up.

Puts me in mind of the Twilight Zone episode – Thirty Fathom Grave

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted indisaster