Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The previously unreported letter and AI algorithm was a catalyst that caused the board to oust Altman, the poster child of generative AI, the two sources said.
(updated with the original Reuters link)
Lex Luthor, YouTube reporter.
@disclosetv JUST IN – Geert Wilders’ PVV party leads in the Dutch election, according to exit polls.
Whoa. This is the clearest video yet from Canadian Border Services.
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Western Standard: Apparent explosion hits border crossing at Buffalo
An apparent explosion has hit the Canada/US Rainbow Bridge border crossing at Niagara Falls going into Buffalo.
Video from the scene shows smoke and damage to the inspection/screening area that drivers pass through coming into the U.S.
Traveling down Niagara Street, the car reportedly sped the wrong way into the inspection booths, where the explosion occurred, said the Niagara Gazette.
Ivan Vitalii, a visitor to the from Ukraine, told the Gazette he and a friend were at the 7-Eleven when they observed a car leave the parking lot and travel toward the bridge. Vitalii said he and his friend moved down to the bridge area where they observed what appeared to be the same car on fire near the entrance to the bridge.
“We heard something smash,” he said. “We saw fire and big, black smoke.”
“I’ve been briefed on the incident on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls and we are closely monitoring the situation. State agencies are on site and ready to assist,” said New York state Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Car explodes at border checkpoint in Niagara Falls, on the New York-Canada border. Cause unclear. FBI investigating pic.twitter.com/I8IBSm4uEx
— BNO News (@BNONews) November 22, 2023
More at Rumble and Zerohedge… developing…
Explosives were in the vehicle at the time and two people who were in the car are dead, the sources told Fox News‘ Alexis McAdams. A border officer was injured.
The vehicle was driving from the U.S. to Canada and were attempting to drive toward the border officer building, the sources said.
All bridges are closed in the area, and all government buildings are evacuated, according to the sources.
And “…now authorities are walking that back.”
Brace for more warnings against Islamophobia.
Judicial Watch …received 131 heavily redacted pages of records from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) showing top officials rushing to craft a public response to the leaked FBI intelligence memo that revealed its targeting of Catholics who adhere to traditional beliefs on church issues.
el gato malo- It’s evergreen. Every couple years, the media finds some “new” disease sensation and tries to run a scare story with it. It’s stunningly irresponsible/self-serving. Pandemics are only dangerous to modern societies if they panic. Journos would burn the world if it sold papers.
Well, they picked a nice tall building so that’s a dovetail of sorts.
There’s only eight rigs drilling for oil in southeast Saskatchewan right now. A few years ago, that was 30, and before that, 50 or 60. Everyone I ask tells me that no one wants to invest in Canada with the current federal government. This seems to be proof of that.
Here are the second reading speeches on the Saskatchewan bill which basically tells the federal government to F off on the carbon tax for home heating, for natural gas via SaskEnergy. There’s a speech from the government, and NDP opposition.
Mainstream media is dying. Pipeline Online currently has almost 10x as many display ads as the Leader Post Tuesday edition. So the federal Liberals are going to conveniently increase their journalism subsidy substantially, just as an election could happen at any time. Imagine that.
As my own boss, I can tell you, Pipeline Online does not accept any federal subsidies, not will it apply for any.
Which of the other media will say the same?
Baby, you can drive my car…
Sam Altman was reinstated late Tuesday as OpenAI’s chief executive, the company said, successfully reversing his ouster by OpenAI’s board last week after a campaign waged by his allies, employees and investors.
The company’s board of directors will be overhauled, jettisoning several members who had opposed Mr. Altman. Adam D’Angelo, the chief executive of Quora, will be the only holdover.
OpenAI had an “agreement in principle” for Mr. Altman to return as chief executive, it said in a post to X. “We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.”
The return of Mr. Altman and Greg Brockman, the company’s president who had resigned in solidarity, and the remaking of the board, capped a frenetic five days that upended OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot and one of the world’s highest-profile artificial intelligence companies.
These people gonna build a machine to cure cancer. Right after they suck up every electron on the planet to keep it alive.
Flashback: Altman and Musk in 2016.
When a business’ interest expense exceeds its profit, it is typically called a “zombie corporation”. It’s quite possible that Canada is going down a similar path right now. While the federal government doesn’t turn a profit, per se, major spending items are well on track to be utterly dwarfed by interest payments.
But the truly stunning figure is not just the size of the annual deficit, which is holding at $40 billion pending a red-ink tidal-wave next year to pay for massive-ticket items like the estimated $11-billion national pharmacare tab and looming fighter jet purchases.
In just five years that debt-financing tab will hit the jaw-dropping intersection where the $60-billion cost of paying interest approximates the cost of all federal transfers for health care.
Dementia Joe’s America: A box office bomb. The truth about American colonialism. Prosecution gets desperate about the chokehold case. DOJ tormented four protesters to death. Dinner with a dictator. A mostly peaceful communist teenager. Chicago demands a ceasefire.
China Virus News: A frontal assault on the freedom-of the press. Global Warming Scam News: Antarctica.
Blackie’s Canada: A DEI trainer. There is only one solution (JW). Victoria mayor refuses to condemn councillor. Hans Gruber’s fake thank you notes. Meghan cares about global warming.
Britain: Another history lesson with Neil Oliver. And don’t upset the Muslims.
Religion Of Peace News: 12 year old girl murdered by Hamas (JW). Young Americans are picking up the Quran (JW). The myth of innocent Gaza civilians.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
Robert Graboyes, via email;
I can say without a moment’s hesitation that it’s the most stunning piece I’ve ever had the privilege of publishing. I can say that with humility, as most of it was written by my friend and colleague, Professor Dafna Eylon, who describes what it has been like to be in Israel over the past six weeks. In addition, Dafna outlines the monstrosity of Hamas as a group, the innocence of its Israeli victims, and the systemic abuse of Palestinians by the terrorists. My contributions to the post are small by comparison, but in my afterword, I offer perhaps the most brutal visualization I have seen of Hamas’s sadism—and the sickness of Gen Z’s enthusiasm for October 7. I also give a brief preview of a forthcoming post that will outline Hamas’s direct descent from—and fealty to—an organization funded and organized by Nazi Germany during WWII.
Video by @chrisdacey
Wild scene tonight as a large group of pro Palestinian protesters crashed Justin Trudeau’s $1700 per plate Liberal fundraiser.
Protesters blocked entry to the venue, Ottawa police seemed unable or unwilling to intervene.
This evening we present The Last Man on Earth (1964).
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The Catastrophic Blizzards of Winter 1977-78: An Analysis
What productive business wouldn’t like a 35% tax credit for each employee they hire? Oh, wait, that’s a perk reserved for truly unproductive businesses. It’s the modern day equivalent of subsidies for the buggy whip industry, primarily designed to pay off Justin’s water carriers.
The government’s fall economic statement announced an increase to the Canadian Journalism Tax Credit, a refundable tax credit allowing qualifying news outlets to claim up to 35 per cent of up to $85,000 in salary for a qualified employee.
Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie spoke at a mosque in Hamilton yesterday. It went swimmingly. (h/t Mike)
I drink mine black. Black like my heart.
Video is time stamped and has a good intro montage.