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"How dim can a reporter be? "

I think this speaks more about the people who came up with these questions to begin with and her lack of incredulity to then repeat the question as if it was a serious question to begin with.

The problem with questions like these is that the reinforce the lefts narrative that Jews are soulless ghouls who actually dont care about anyones life if they are not Jews...as in anyone not a Jew is subhuman.

Serious adults wouldn't ask such a bullsh1t question because unlike intellectual stunted pigmy's serious adults dont have the fetid mind of a racist so wouldn't waste their time pondering such inane questions to begin with.

That she then parroted the question without hesitation really shows us how much hatred the left and the media has for Jews and because of that hatred they are directly fuelling the atmosphere of hate being thrown at Jews (actual hate, not the pretend hate Sadiq things Muslims in Britain need protecting from).

Nov 27, 2023 at 1:50 PM | Unregistered CommenterMailman

tomo,
AI and EA (and climate alarm, pandemics, etc.) serve some people as Trojan horses for their own grabs for power over people. That's naughty of them, to be sure, but I lay much of the blame on the people taken in.

It's quite enjoyable listening to the sophistry of Peter Singer; it reminds me of when I first read about Zeno's paradoxes: Hmmm. The conclusion is absurd, but I can't fault the argument. In Zeno's case, the problem is with infinity. In Singer's case, it's false axioms. In particular, many of his arguments assume that there is an objective value to a life. That's obviously not true, but if you let it through, his reasoning holds together pretty well.

Some people are believers, attracted to the "cold logic" of it. Other's are attracted by the opportunity to exploit the believers. The Baptists and bootleggers package crops up everywhere. Might rate as an eternal verity of humans.

Scott Adams's result is no great surprise, except that he was foolish enough to spend two days chatting with ChatGPT. Current "AI" is, I think, roughly on par with whatever level of cognition puts together our dreams: it sticks together fragments of memories, fears and ideas from the conscious world in some sort of almost coherent form, but with no basis in reality at all. I'll leave it to Scott Adams to try to interpret computer dreams.


I have laughingly thought in other hostage exchanges that Ah, you really think one of you is worth three of them? Well, I need laugh no more; the question has been asked. Mind boggling. How dim can a reporter be? Very. Video above is positioned at the appropriate moment, but it's not bad to watch from the beginning ("all your stuff's made of oil you idiot").


Brendan O'Neill interview with Melanie Phillips on Israel, Gaza and international hatred of Israel. Well worth a listen, though a long way from the upbeat John Anderson interview I linked to last week.


Javier Milei telling it as he sees it. The Spanish audio only gives me a feel for his vehemence, but the subtitles tell a tale of a worker class and a parasite class (preaching envy, resentment, theft and unequal treatment under the law which is that filthy idea "social justice"). Might apply to some places outside Argentina too.

Nov 26, 2023 at 10:40 PM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan

I did this a year ago and got what I reckon was the same result...

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1728576439300272406

Nov 26, 2023 at 2:06 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Some AI stuff.....

Sam Altman and the cult of effective altruism (AKA "EA")

How did such a mad, apocalyptic ideology gain so much influence?

Even with all the blathering and £££££££££££ on AI PR – the dark underbelly of “AI” comes into view?

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/26/sam-altman-and-the-cult-of-effective-altruism/

https://twitter.com/AndrewOrlowski/status/1728751909165834273

Nov 26, 2023 at 1:45 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Irish PM antics follow a pattern of behaviour.

https://twitter.com/ChayaRaichik10/status/1728564900501549513

https://twitter.com/HotelLubyanka/status/1728531408979697706

Nov 26, 2023 at 1:39 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Sam Altman and the cult of effective altruism

https://twitter.com/AndrewOrlowski/status/1728751909165834273

How did such a mad, apocalyptic ideology gain so much influence?

With all the blathering and £££££££££££ on PR – the dark underbelly of “AI” comes into view?

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/26/sam-altman-and-the-cult-of-effective-altruism/

Nov 26, 2023 at 1:28 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Friday bonus.

Listened to ABC's 1pm News and they had the Perth fires at #2 (Gaza #1). Roughly the same casualties I mentioned earlier.

Nothing on the problems in Dublin, though they look newsworthy. Reading your BBC link, the deliberate blindness of the bureaucrats was on show (as you noted). This bit struck me:

thuggish and manipulative elements must not be allowed to use an appalling tragedy to wreak havoc
Ah, so it was a tragedy then, not the willful act of a knife-wielding savage. Well, that's all right then.

Perhaps she just made a poor word choice under stress, but the underlying attitude is also in the fact that the "Justice Minister" thinks it's all about *this* incident. I bet it isn't. The rioters have seen how it plays out time and again with the civilised process. They would like to see the process change.

Feels to me that there's quite a lot of this going about these days. I'll go out on a limb and guess that a scientist could find a pretty strong correlation between rioting and the use of the phrase far right extremists, but I fear he might get the causality backwards. Stats can be a tricky business.

The Edmonton E-buses might end up like the lifts in Hitchhiker's. Will keep the breakdown stats perfect if they just sit in the depot all the time.

Nov 24, 2023 at 3:58 AM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan

... edit timeout

The political mendacity and media scumbucketry on show in that Minneapolis documentary was quite something.
There's going to be more "bad turns" off US urban freeways - that's for certain.

The BBC reports on the Dublin child stab-stabber attack fallout/protest - "not related to terrorism" - "far right protesters" kicking off.

Not mentioned:

Army deployed - police lost control
Perp is apparently Algerian, of unknown provenance into the Irish capital

There's been a grim series of murders in Ireland in recent years involving immigrants...

Multi-culti Ireland is having a serious wobbler

elsewhere:

electric buses in Canada
https://twitter.com/edmontonjournal/status/1727711586993807636

Nov 23, 2023 at 10:44 PM | Registered Commentertomo

I did have a pretty slick (imho) video grabbing and ad killer setup but a couple of hardware failures - the last firewall replacement was in a hurry - meant I didn't rebuild the setup as I rarely watched the recorded stuff twice.

It'd be nice to record DAB into a 72 hour circular archive - recently I've heard utter BS on live BBC radio in the car that's been expunged from the official archive listened to later - they are utter shits.

Time to scope out what's new maybe...

Nov 23, 2023 at 10:20 PM | Registered Commentertomo

tomo,
Wasn't my place to urge you out of Twitter. Sympathies on YouTube. My setup (suitably configured Squid proxy server) spares me the advertising and, even so, I can only put up with so much YouTube. I cop the ads when I'm on the road with the laptop, so I leave off YouTube till I'm home.

One thing you might look into is yt-dlp. It downloads the whole youtube video, which you can then watch with a viewer. I use it occasionally and don't get ads (though that might be my proxy server again). Even with ads, you'll be free to zip past them. Downside is that you have to grab the whole thing, even if the first ten seconds is all you end up watching).

A half-hour skim through that George Floyd video was pretty depressing. Hanging the police out to dry was so shallow, what did they think it would lead to? The plus side is that Americans now don't have to travel very far to check out how life is in the Third World.

Latched onto this in that Welsh M4 pollution charge story:

In 2018, Public Health Wales linked NO2 to more than 1,000 deaths a year in Wales.
Yes, the abuse of statistics and the popular weasel words linked to. A better hypothesis is that each and every death is linked to a birth. The correlation couldn't be stronger, so we should outlaw childbearing. Follow that path and I'm confident that in due course there'll be no more deaths.

The Perth bushfire appears to be an instance of the further away the incident, the more sensational the reporting. I hadn't heard about it. ABC says no lives lost, about a dozen houses and a few sheds have gone up. In a city of nearly two million people that's not high on the cataclysm scale, though I could understand the victims asking "why me".

While not having heard about fires, in the last few days we have been hearing about the dire temperature warnings in WA: headed for the 40s. Well yes, it's Perth, Perth is often in the 40s. Oh not this early in the season. It's a load of rubbish. I suspect it's because, once again, Sydney is having a rather cool and damp run up to summer, so we have to import climate alarm from WA. I will be grumpy if we don't get some proper heat this season. That'd make four damp squibs in a row. If it happens, I'm blaming the idiots telling us that el Nino's here with a vengeance and to get set for a scorcher.

It is fun hearing about the "greater probability" of ICE fires. I'm sure these figures are skewed by the number of vehicles used in crimes (or just taken for a joyride) and torched afterwards.

Does bring a picture to mind (say from a modern day Sweeney) where the gangsters are using an EV as a getaway vehicle and the action thriller turns to farce. "Step on it, Alf", "Nah we only got 5 miles range as it is".


On vehicle fires, 32,000 hybrid Jeeps are being recalled due to a nasty habit of kerbside spontaneous combustion.

And, still on fires, I see there's been a building fire in Reading where the cladding went up before it was attached to the building. A mercy, but shouldn't somebody consider a non-incendiary cladding?

Nov 23, 2023 at 9:48 PM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan

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