I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

AI 4 Comments

Via Instapundit; OpenAI’s financials leaked, revealing $21 billion in losses against $13 billion in revenue.

“Is there a path to profitability? Maybe. OpenAI’s two biggest expenses are R&D and marketing. Budget cuts there, coupled with an ability to raise prices or win new sources of revenue, could see the company move into the black over time. Cutting R&D would be the most difficult part of that, given that AI companies can only hold onto their customers by generating the best-performing models.”

Ed Zitron was the leakee., with followup commentary here.

You know, people like to talk about the costs to taxpayers from abandoned wells. Nobody’s talking about the costs of abandoned data centers.

Keir Starmer’s Britain

Children R Our Future More Pavilions At Folkfest The Tolerant Left 28 Comments

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and they was turnin’ their lives around.

Independent MP Rupert Lowe unveiled a harrowing 219-page independent report Tuesday detailing the systematic sexual exploitation of at least 250,000 young—mostly white—British girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs since the 1950s.

In a video on X, Lowe described the crimes as “pure, driven, unfettered evil.” […]

The survivor-led Rape Gang Inquiry, funded by over 20,000 public donations, compiles chilling testimonies from victims, whistleblowers, and experts. It shows documentation of coordinated networks that have been operating in at least 149 local authority districts—which equals nearly 40% of the UK—involving drugging, gang rape, trafficking, torture, blackmail via recordings, and forced pregnancies.

The inquiry says perpetrators, overwhelmingly men of Muslim (primarily Pakistani) heritage, exploited vulnerabilities in care homes and schools with complicity from police, social services, the National Health Services, and politicians fearing racism accusations. It highlights cultural and religious factors, including interpretations of Islamic doctrine enabling enmity toward non-Muslims, and criticizes post-war immigration policies for enabling the scandal.

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report

A Restaurant Review, The Progressive Way

The Tolerant Left 7 Comments

In which, Ms Lily Kaplan bravely mouths the conceits of her peers and educators.

And so, not knowing or caring, Ms Kaplan felt entitled to smear a local business, for likes and online clout, with a pre-emptively “unfriendly review,” in which she somehow associates the selling of tacos and carrot cake with “racism, misogyny and paedophilia,” and while describing the opening of a restaurant by two white men as representing “centuries of patriarchy,” and “such a bummer.”

As you might imagine, she’s a real charmer.

War On Fun

Terrorism 6 Comments

It’s getting real;


Washington — The FBI said Tuesday that it disrupted an attempt to attack Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. Court records detail an alleged plot to use small drones carrying explosives and snipers to target senior government officials and wealthy attendees.

Five people have been charged for their alleged roles in the scheme: Tycen Proper of Ohio, Daniel Eskridge of Missouri, Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez of Nebraska, and Bryan Omar Roa and Michael Alan Thomas of California.

Each has been arrested and is being detained pending additional proceedings.

Affidavits filed across the four criminal cases detailed the alleged plot to target the UFC event at the White House on Sunday, with varying levels of involvement from the five defendants. The filings detail numerous grievances against the government and federal officials, including U.S. support for Israel, the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and data centers.

 

Mischief Is Important

Antifa Mischief Is Important 12 Comments

An OMG journalist spent the past eight months undercover inside New Jersey ANTIFA

… infiltrating the private Signal chats of a group known as NJ BURN.

What we uncovered proves ANTIFA is not just an idea. It is a network of real people organizing, coordinating, and operating inside America.

Inside the group’s Signal chats, members discussed plans for port blockades, riot activity, support networks for criminal defendants, road spikes, tire-slashing of New Jersey police vehicles, and “Ukrainian-style” protest tactics. They also celebrated acts of political violence, including Charlie Kirk’s assassination and hoped that past attempts on President Trump were successful.

The same network connected to disruptive port blockades in New Jersey was also active during the unrest surrounding Delaney Hall, where activists confronted law enforcement and journalists outside the immigration detention facility.

Using names, profile photos, and digital receipts, OMG traced individuals to positions throughout some of America’s most influential organizations. Among those identified in the NJ BURN chats:

Woojin Ko – OpenAI Chat GPT Research Engineer
Belkcacem Mouffouk – T-Mobile AI Automation Expert
Zainab Tanvir – Imaging Director at Rutgers University
Amanda Marie Dominguez – Rutgers University PhD Student in Education
Aditi Rao – Princeton University Classics Graduate Student
Rev.Shannon Smythe – Princeton Theological Seminary Field Education Director
Alexyss P. – New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Community Council Member
Jim Keady – New Jersey Democratic Candidate & Former City Councilman
Cres Vellucci – National Lawyers Guild Co-Founder & ACLU Board Member
Celine Semaan – Co-Founder, Slow Factory Labs

Justice For None

We Are All Treaty People 13 Comments

Anyone with a different skin tone would have served jail time. What’s notably absent from the article is any mention of the impact on the victim’s family. Is their loss just collateral damage?

…Provincial Court of Manitoba Judge Wanda Garreck said defence counsel’s request for a conditional sentence was more appropriate after applying both the Gladue principle and precedents from R. v. Ipeelee, another landmark Canadian decision involving “systemic and background factors” related to Indigeneity.

Linklater, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was tossed from the vehicle at some point during the crash and was pronounced dead on the scene. It’s not clear how severely Okemow was injured, if at all, but she did produce “blood alcohol readings over three times the legal limit.”

He, Too, Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

Chinada Freespeechers New Governor Tech The Libranos 7 Comments

An Act to Fortify The Surveillance State;

The Liberals are gearing up to force Bill C-22 through committee and the House of Commons in just days.

This is an insane abuse of parliament to ram through a bill fraught with privacy, security, and civil liberties concerns.

This motion curtails committee scrutiny, limits MPs’ ability to debate and amend the bill, and rushes Bill C-22 through Parliament on the government’s timetable rather than allowing full parliamentary review.

Michael Geist unpacks.

Buried in the second half of Bill C-22 is a provision granting the government the power to require “core providers” to retain categories of metadata, including transmission data, for up to one year. This is mandatory metadata retention that would require telecom and electronic service providers to store information about the communications of all their users, regardless of whether those users are suspected of anything. It is one of the most privacy invasive tools a government can deploy and the international experience suggests that there are major privacy risks.

Related.

“I am a Canadian, a free Canadian.”

Freespeechers I, Napoleon 20 Comments

From Diefenbaker to the post-national state where free speech went to die.

Today the @CDNConstFound is in court intervening in a judicial review of a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario decision that saw a small-town mayor personally fined for voting against a request to proclaim June as Pride Month. The case is Borderland Pride v Emo

Related. ‘If you feel discomfort, go to the front counter, we can reimburse you, and you can go swim somewhere else.’” (h/t MW)

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