Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT.
The Italian data-protection authority said there were privacy concerns relating to the model, which was created by US start-up OpenAI and is backed by Microsoft.
The regulator said it would ban and investigate OpenAI “with immediate effect”.
Antwerp Mayor Bart De Wever was a possible target of the “radicalized Muslim youths” who were arrested Monday by Belgian police.
“De Wever’s name was indeed mentioned in the Antwerp file as one target, among other targets,” Eric Van Der Sypt, spokesman for the Public Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed to POLITICO, “but it is not the case that there was already a day and an hour on which the attack was to take place. It wasn’t that concrete.”
Governments used “fifth-generational warfare” techniques to modify public perception during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the reporting of media outlets shifted into propaganda, two experts testified at the National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI).
“Over the last three years, Western governments, non-governmental organizations, as well as media, pharmaceutical, and financial corporations deployed a massive, globally harmonized psychological and propaganda operation,” said Dr. Robert Malone.
Enabling children in attempting to change their gender will be seen as “one of the worst medical scandals in a century,” Harry Potter author and ardent feminist J.K. Rowling said this week.
Just what Canada needs – a Grievance Monger Army! I hear the PLA is hiring or did Justin already sign you up. https://t.co/PcTiItd5C3
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) March 31, 2023
Two former intelligence officials called for a complete transformation of Canada’s security apparatus to counter expanding foreign interference operations that they say have been essentially ignored by Ottawa since the 1990s.
On Friday the House of Commons standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics heard recommendations for a new national and independent office with powers to investigate and prosecute acts of foreign interference, and also rapid adoption of counter-interference laws that have already been implemented by Canadian allies such as Australia.
The entire effort by Alvin Bragg to resurrect what the Washington Post editorial board rightly calls a “zombie” case has looked dodgy from the beginning. Even Bragg found it dodgy — after all, he shut down an investigation into the payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal shortly after taking office. And unless Bragg has a much different case than the one his office has been pursuing for the last couple of years, the editorial board echoed Van Jones in their reaction last night.
Is a sit-down conversation with young children and drag performers in a classroom another step to “normalize” what was once considered an alternative lifestyle?
In ancient Rome, a group of men loyal to the Republic feared that Julius Caesar was going to make his dictatorship permanent and establish a monarchy. In 44 BC. they decided to assassinate him, thereby restoring the Republic.
In the ensuing chaos, and power vacuum, Caesar's… pic.twitter.com/L4eYlOwA0B
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) March 31, 2023
h/t Mauser
A ‘cruel’ King Charles costume is selling online weeks before the coronation – and some royal fans aren’t impressed by the addition of plastic ears.
The outfit – which is for sale on Amazon UK for £32.95 – includes a long, red, white and black robe, a crown and a rather controversial pair of plastic ears.
A report on the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia says then-RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki’s infamous call to local Mounties was “ill-timed and poorly expressed” — but did not amount to political interference.
The sprawling report calls for clearer guardrails between Ottawa and the RCMP, saying last summer’s scandal “illustrates that misunderstandings about police operational responsibility and ministerial policy responsibility persist within the RCMP and in broader public conversation in Canada.”
“The Climate Book” is cleverly labeled “Created by Greta Thunberg.”
The Swedish climate celebrity doesn’t take authorship or editorial credit because the book is a collection of the ramblings of predominantly hard-left political activists.
If this book were released by people aligned with the right, it would have been disregarded as an assortment of conspiracy theories. It covers every woke talking point, from climate refugees to equity.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was ordered by the Commons Speaker to remove part of a video he put out on Twitter on Thursday accusing the Liberals of trying to close down debate on the online streaming bill.
After the Liberals tabled a “closure” motion to curb debate of the bill in the Commons, Mr. Poilievre hurriedly filmed a video, saying there was an “emergency here on Parliament Hill” as the Liberals were “shutting down debate” on Bill C-11.
The Liberals are shutting down debate on Bill C11! This is a bill that gives the govn’t authority to control what we can see, hear and post online. Talk about censorship!
And now the govn’t is shutting down debate.
Censorship upon censorship! #killbillc11 pic.twitter.com/RyP99BxpGl
— Rachael Thomas (@RachaelThomasMP) March 30, 2023
17 year old walking out of a store shoulder checks a police officer.
He is swiftly detained and an illegal gun is recovered.
This is the mentality of black youth.
"If the cops kill me, @TheRevAl will make my family rich".
What a backwards liberal world we live in.#BackTheBlue pic.twitter.com/mGvkWCznAv— Justin Theory (@realJustATheory) March 31, 2023
H/T XC
Canada needs standardized data on violence on transit systems to help tackle issues ranging from a lack of mental health supports to eroding public trust, say researchers, citing the recent stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy at a Toronto station as the latest example of random attacks on commuters.
Prof. Murtaza Haider, director of research at the Urban Analytics Institute of Toronto Metropolitan University, said the public should have easy access to such information.
Homeless shelters that lack security are often violent.
