Author: Blazingcatfur

ChatGPT Is Seriously Woke A.I.

If we have any hope of retaining our tenuous grasp on reality rather than drowning in a maelstrom of ideological disinformation, our window to wake up is closing fast.

After playing around with ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot making waves for its potential to disrupt education by writing students’ term papers for them, I realized this machine was not exactly unbiased in its political leanings. Its biases, predictably, went in the same direction virtually all Silicon Valley biases tend to go.

After a few quick Google searches—but who knows what additional information Google was keeping from me?—I stumbled on an article from Unherd fittingly titled “ChatGPT is not politically neutral.” 

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

What unites Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate

There’s no moral equivalence between the pair – but their cults have more in common than you might think

So, are you Team Tate or Team Thunberg? Do you side with the muscled misogynist who has convinced tragic TikTok incels that he’s a ‘real man’? Or with the pint-sized prophetess of doom famous for scaring the world witless about the coming climate apocalypse?

I say neither. I can’t be the only person who finds both of them annoying. The world will be a better place in 2023 if we hear less from woman-hating Tate and future-fearing Greta and their clashing armies of wide-eyed followers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up"

Cops Question Connecticut Mom Who Let 7-Year-Old Walk a Mile

“She is way too young to be walking this distance by herself,” said the cops.

It was the spring of 2021 in New Britain, Connecticut, and Julie-Ann Toalston was in carpool mode. She had her four kids in the car and planned to stop at her sister’s house to pick up three nieces and nephews; the kids all attended the same magnet school.

Everyone was in the car and ready to go, but Toalston’s seven-year-old daughter Vesper had a meltdown. (It somehow involved having chosen the wrong costume—pirate—for superhero day.) Vesper refused to buckle her seatbelt, so Toalston ordered her to walk home to face dad. It was a little less than mile back to the house.

I used to walk just over a mile to school everyday starting in kindergarten. So did lots of other kids.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Anthony Furey: A Rough Year Ahead for Justin Trudeau

Back during the lead-up to the 2019 federal election, a number of observers remarked that Justin Trudeau’s first four years as prime minister had been long ones. He’d already racked up a lot of scandals and carried more baggage than other leaders after a single term.

However true that was then, it’s even more so now. And all signs indicate that 2023 is going to be a rough year for Trudeau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inJustin Trudeau - Pissant

Canada looking at ‘variety of options’ for planned firearm buyback program: Mendicino

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says the federal government is “looking at a variety of options” to carry out a planned buyback of banned firearms — including enlisting outside help.

Canadian police chiefs have urged the Liberal government not to rely on resource-strapped police forces to deliver the coming gun buyback.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

The crimes of eco-fascism

Conservatives never should have surrendered the ground of environmental conservation to the radicalised, collectivised, totalitarian Left.

Since becoming custodians of the environment, left-wing politicians, bureaucracies, and businesses have done little except monetise the rapid expansion of renewable energy which, ironically, is one of the most wasteful and destructive technologies in modern history.

Far from ‘saving the planet’, these environmentalists have made their intentions perfectly clear – and we should listen to them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

How Putin’s dream of a new Russian empire was destroyed on the fields of Ukraine

Far from restoring Russia’s greatness, the president’s war has reduced it to a third-rate power

Deep in the recesses of the Kremlin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has been poring over maps of Ukraine.

We cannot, of course, know what drives this reclusive, ever more paranoid despot. His spectral presence haunts the nightmares of millions, but his own personality is a void — humanity’s black hole.

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

How Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Madoff’ with regulators

To his credit, Securities and Exchange Commission chief Gary Gensler is arguing that the Sam Bankman-Fried crypto scandal doesn’t mean we need more regulations to rein in digital-coin excess and fraud. Laws are on the books that give the current regulatory and legal system plenty of tools to prosecute bad actors. Plus theft has been illegal since the beginning of civilization.

But if our regulators are properly armed, how did the furry-haired alleged fraudster get away with something that could rival the wrongdoing of the notorious Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi swindle?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Devastation and a disco ball: life on the Ukraine front line

I am a Ukrainian soldier, but my service, despite what many might imagine, does not consist of sitting in a trench or sleeping in a dugout. I am not under mass artillery strikes. In ten months of war I have not once opened fire at the enemy.

My job is guarding the northern border. For more than two months, my squad and I have been working with crews manning anti-aircraft installations defending against rocket attacks and Iranian kamikaze drones.

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

Is the UK Turning into Something Extremely Different?

On December 1, 2022, Britain’s Office for National Statistics released the latest 10-yearly census, carried out in 2021, showing that the fastest-growing population in England and Wales is Muslims. According to the census:

“For the first time in a census of England and Wales, less than half of the population (46.2%, 27.5 million people) described themselves as ‘Christian’…”

“It’s not a great surprise that the Census shows fewer people in this country identifying as Christian than in the past,” the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, said in response to the findings, “but it still throws down a challenge to us not only to trust that God will build his kingdom on Earth but also to play our part in making Christ known.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Seattle’s Northwest Community Bail Fund Frees Violent Offenders Because It Considers Gender Status & Not Criminal Records

The push to defund the police might have peaked after George Floyd’s murder in 2020, but a related movement is still going strong. As riots swept America’s cities, then-Sen. Kamala Harris and others appealed for donations to nonprofits dedicated to springing arrested protesters from jail and bailing out the poor. These bail funds existed before 2020, but they’ve since become big business—and in some cases undermine public safety.

A case in point is the Seattle-based Northwest Community Bail Fund, established in 2018 “to post bail on behalf of indigent individuals who have been charged and held on inaccessible bail while awaiting trial.” The group experienced a windfall in 2020, hauling in more than $5.7 million. It posted more than $2.8 million in bail for 696 people that year, up from around $377,000 for 227 defendants in 2019. It hasn’t released figures for 2021 and 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing", "Progressive Paradise", WTF?