Microsoft Hires AI-Hater to Work in AI Department

Paul Collier March 21, 2024

Mustafa Suleyman, an AI Pioneer who warned the world that AI will cause a human “catastrophe on an unimaginable scale,” has been selected by Microsoft to serve at a high level in its AI Department. Suleyman is the co-founder of DeepMind, a Google-owned research lab.

Microsoft hires expert who warned AI could cause ‘catastrophe on an unimaginable scale’ – nypost.com

Excerpt:

Microsoft hired renowned artificial intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman – the co-founder of the Google-owned DeepMind research lab who has warned the emerging technology could a “catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.”

Suleyman, 39, will report directly to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella and will run the company’s consumer AI division, the company said. He will lead Microsoft’s efforts to build out its Copilot AI chatbot and to integrate AI features into the Bing search engine and Edge browser.

… The hiring was seen as a major coup for Microsoft as it looks to beat chief rival Google and others in the race to develop advanced AI. Microsoft is a chief investor in OpenAI, the firm best known for creating the ChatGPT chatbot and the Sora text-to-video generation tool.

However, Suleyman has repeatedly urged caution and the need for safe development of AI.

In his 2023 book “The Coming Wave,” Suleyman argued that AI, synthetic biology and other burgeoning technologies could allow “a diverse array of bad actors to unleash disruption, instability, and even catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.”

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NY Allows Anyone to Buy Unborn Baby Murder Pill, No Questions Asked

Paul Collier March 21, 2024

In the name of “reproductive freedom” Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced a change in policy that will allow anyone to buy the “abortion pill,” a pill that starves unborn children to death from within their mother’s womb, no prescription needed.

Excerpt from hotair.com

… New York Governor Kathy Hochul must have thought that Rodrigo was really onto something because yesterday she announced that her state would be doing the same thing for everyone. As of now, women and girls can walk into any pharmacy in the state and purchase hormonal birth control without having a prescription. Of course, the reasons she offered for making this decision were entirely political, not medical in nature. She cited “reproductive freedom” being “under attack” across the country as her primary motivation. (CBS News)

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday that women can now buy birth control at New York pharmacies without a prescription.

“This is a big moment for the women of New York. Up until now, you can not walk into a pharmacy and be able to purchase contraception to meet your various health care needs,” Hochul said. “Starting today, any woman walking into a New York state pharmacy will be able to purchase birth control, the best birth control method that meets her needs.”

Hochul said this will be especially important in medical deserts and rural areas across the state.

Feds Are Spying on Your Bank Transactions

Paul Collier March 21, 2024

A report by the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government alleges Federal law enforcement officials from multiple departments, including the FBI, have been spying on Americans’ bank accounts without a warrant, in open violation of basic constitutional law.

Excerpt from www.blacklistednews.com

Today, the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report titled, “Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans.” The report reveals alarming evidence of federal law enforcement engaging in broad financial surveillance and prying into the private transactions of American consumers. This surveillance, not predicated on specific evidence of criminal conduct, targeted terms and transactions related to core political and religious expressions protected by the Constitution.

… The report also details the existence of a web portal run by the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), a public-private partnership led by the FBI’s Office of Private Sector and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. This portal appears to have shared intelligence products with financial institutions that were used to identify individuals who fit the profile of criminal and “domestic violent extremists,” often because of their conservative political views or other constitutionally protected activity. Federal law enforcement used these reports and other materials they shared with financial institutions to commandeer their databases and conduct sweeping searches of individuals not suspected of committing any crimes, without a warrant, in order to identify individuals making certain “suspicious” transactions.

Catalan Puts Heat on Spain’s Leftist Coalition Government

Paul Collier March 21, 2024

Catalan’s President, Pere Aragonès, is threatening the coalition that kept leftist PM Pedro Sanchez in power after performing poorly in the recent national election. He told the PM that unless Spain compromises with Catalan on its desire to be the only tax collector in the region, no new legislation will pass the parliament.

Excerpt from www.catalannews.com

… Speaking in Madrid on Wednesday, Pere Aragonès said Pedro Sánchez had committed to talks on financing during the negotiations to be re-elected, when he required the support of Aragonès’ party, pro-independence Esquerra Republicana (ERC).

“He will have to comply with the investiture agreements and negotiate,” Aragonès said, emphasizing that ERC has always said that “new agreements can only be made if previous ones are fulfilled.”

Aragonès said that the negotiations with the Spanish government over funding must be bilateral, between the two executives, excluding regional governments from other Spanish Autonomous Comunities.

Bobulinski Bashes Biden, Dems in Contentious House Hearing

Paul Collier March 21, 2024

The Bidens’ former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, offered a scathing testimony at the U.S. House Oversight Committee, directly accusing Joe and his sone of committing crimes and calling out Democrats who continue to protect “the big guy.”

Bobulinski even accused high-ranking Democrat Ro Khanna (D-CA) of knowing as early as 2020 that Joe had committed crimes, stating, “I have extensive emails with congressman Ro Khanna in 2021 and 2022 where I begged him and his staff to sit down with me and look at my Blackberry phones that the Democrats are so focused on, to hire forensics experts and go through all of the factual information that I had.”

Excerpt from nypost.com

Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski revealed Wednesday that he reached out to a Democratic lawmaker in October 2020 about his allegations that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden was involved in his son and brother’s business ventures abroad.

Bobulinski told the House Oversight Committee he “was begging” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) “to go on CNN and tell the world in October 2020” about the allegations — and apparently had a receptive audience, initially.

“You have always demonstrated to me that you are nothing but an honest, with the highest integrity, individual,” Khanna texted Bobulinski, the latter man told the House Republican-led impeachment inquiry in its second public hearing.

Tony Bobulinski in a Wednesday hearing on Capitol Hill said that he reached out to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) in October 2020 about allegations of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s involvement in his son and brother’s business ventures abroad. REUTERS

Excerpt from amgreatness.com

Hunter Biden’s former business associate Tony Bobulinski went scorched earth on Joe Biden, his son Hunter, his brother Jim, the regime media and House Democrats during the Republican-led House Oversight Committee’s impeachment hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

In his brutally frank opening statement, Bobulinski also accused Hunter and Jim Biden of telling “flat-out lies” when they were interviewed by the Committee last month, and urged Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to hold them accountable for their perjury.

“If there is no evidence of corruption—if Joe’s conduct and the conduct of his family were fully legal and proper—then why are they so dishonest about it?” Bobulinski asked. “Not just slight misrepresentations of fact but deep untruths about the entire corrupt enterprise.”

Federal Judge Protects OpenAI from Sarah Silverman… in Part

Paul Collier March 20, 2024

In a landmark case that could go a long way towards defining what type of copyrighted material AI tools can use to train themselves, Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olgiun just handed a big win to AI developers, striking down most of the complaints lobbied against OpenAI by Sarah Silverman and other content creators.

In her ruling, the judge claimed the authors “fail to explain what the outputs entail or allege that any particular output is substantially similar – or similar at all – to their books.”

Excerpt from www.mycouriertribune.com

… Martinez-Olguin dismissed one of the major claims that the authors had made: that all the answers ChatGPT generates are infringing work made of information obtained through copyright violation. Basically, everything ChatGPT creates violates the rights of the copyright holders of the works the company used to train its AI system.

Last year, Sarah Silverman, backed by authors like Michael Chabon and Ta-Nehisi Coates, sued Artificial Intelligence firm OpenAI. Last month, the presiding judge dismissed the claims of negligence, unjust enrichment, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and vicarious copyright infringement. The authors were given until March 13 to amend their complaint and return to court. At the time of this writing, no public report has revealed whether or not they did so.

This is the second case of copyright infringement by writers against artificial intelligence that courts have partially dismissed. Last November, Judge Vince Chhabria also dismissed portions of Sarah Silverman’s allegations against Meta.

Another Billionaire Sells Millions of his Own Company’s Stocks

Paul Collier March 20, 2024

Michael Dell has joined the growing list of billionaires selling over hundreds of millions, even billions, of their own company stock after selling off more than 4 million shares of Dell Technologies worth $465 million

Abortion Pill Behind 63% of Unborn Child Murders in America

Paul Collier March 20, 2024

The abortion pill murders unborn children by starving them to death from inside the womb of the woman that chose to murder the child. It also has nasty side effects that include death for the mother that chose to go down this path in the first place. Now, that same pill accounts for 63 percent of the abortions that happen in America today. That statistic comes from Guttmacher Institute, a pro-unborn-child-murder advocate.

Obama Judge Rules Illegals Can Own Guns Despite Being Outlaws

Paul Collier March 20, 2024

U.S. District Judge and Obama appointee Sharon Johnson Coleman just ruled that illegal aliens can constitutionally own guns, meaning people who enter our country illegally have a constitutional right to arm themselves, meaning America’s enemies can now import standing armies into our country thanks to this ruling and Biden’s open border Executive orders.

The ruling is sure to be appealed but the judge herself is now under scrutiny for violating basic U.S. law and constitutional principles.

Catalan Pushes for “Full Fiscal Sovereignty”

Paul Collier March 20, 2024

Following the passage of legislation that would give Catalan separatists amnesty for their efforts in 2017 to push for independence from Spain, Catalan is considering legislation that would make it the sole collector of taxes in the region. The region would still pay “taxes” to Madrid, but through the governing authority, not through direct taxation by Spain of its citizens.

Excerpt from www.catalannews.com

… The “singular financing” model would give the Catalan government “the key to the safe,” amounting to around €52 billion per year, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Natàlia Mas Chalk, said in a press conference on Tuesday.

The proposal includes plans for financial contributions to the Spanish state and to a new territorial rebalancing fund.

The model is based on “full fiscal sovereignty” and would imply that the government manages and collects taxes including VAT, personal income tax, corporate tax and special taxes, going from managing 9% of tax to 100%.

The government would receive approximately double the €25.6 billion it received in 2021 under the current model.

“We are presenting a paradigm shift to leave behind decades of injustice,” Mas Guix said.

The proposal, which the government says is fully constitutional, foresees Catalonia transferring funds to Spain for services provided, such as Defense or administration of justice, and payment to a “territorial rebalancing” fund for Autonomous Communities with fewer resources.

… “It is a fair, reasonable and essential proposal,” the minister said, preferring not to quantify the amount that would be transferred, in order not to hinder negotiations that she said must be “honest and rigorous.”