Leader Of The Free World

And still the President.

Joe Biden kept the grieving relatives of the Marines killed in Afghanistan waiting for three hours while he napped on Air Force One on the tarmac before a dignified transfer, multiple military families have told Daily Mail.

The shocking allegation comes today amid growing calls for the Biden administration to be investigated over its scandalous cover-up of the president’s ailing health.

Biden, it has emerged, has not been present for key moments of his presidency, nor has he been involved in major decisions like the disastrous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in August 2021.

Instead, an unknown team of handlers made the decision to hastily pull out of the region, triggering an onslaught of panic and a rush of Afghans and foreign citizens to Kabul Airport. On August 26, a Taliban suicide bomber capitalized on the busy crowds, killing 13 US Servicemembers and over 170 Afghans.

While Biden was absent from the withdrawal planning, he did show up to greet the caskets of the US Servicemen and woman who were killed, infamously checking his watch on the tarmac before their coffins were brought out.

It was his second insult to their families that day, according to the sister of Rylee McCollum, one of the men who died.

‘(Biden) made us wait an extra three hours to receive the bodies of our dead family members because he couldn’t pull it together,’

Those Moderate Ex-Muslims!

The Saudis wanted him extradited. That’s a powerful motivator to adopt a persona that generates western sympathy.

After all, he was offered more logical choices.

Updated with this timeline – Why was an extradition request by Saudi Arabia denied by Germany despite clear risks?

Christmas in Germany

The traditional annual attacks on Christmas markets have started.  A psychiatrist?

(Updates by Kate as original link is overwhelmed.) The video is awful. A dozen dead and scores injured, but at least they got the doctors they needed.

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

“alignment faking”

AI models can deceive, new research from Anthropic shows. They can pretend to have different views during training when in reality maintaining their original preferences.

There’s no reason for panic now, the team behind the study said. Yet they said their work could be critical in understanding potential threats from future, more capable AI systems.

“Our demonstration … should be seen as a spur for the AI research community to study this behavior in more depth, and to work on the appropriate safety measures,” the researchers wrote in a post on Anthropic’s blog. “As AI models become more capable and widely-used, we need to be able to rely on safety training, which nudges models away from harmful behaviors.”

The study, which was conducted in partnership with AI research organization Redwood Research, looked at what might happen if a powerful AI system were trained to perform a task it didn’t “want” to do.

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