Author: Press Room
A system that comes to depend on synthetic signaling for its “information” is doomed to Model Collapse, as its signaling has completely detached from the real world. That we inhabit a post-truth world seems to accepted wisdom. But that’s only half of it. We also live in a post-trust world. In a post-truth world, everything is shaped by the implicit goals of the entity claiming to state the “truth,” as the entire point of claiming to state the “truth” is to persuade the target populace to agree to something favorable to the issuer of the claimed “truth.” In other words, the “truth” as something that…
Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren is accusing Amazon MGM Studios of “bribery in plain sight” for investing in the Melania documentary, despite remaining quite as media outlet after media outlet handed the Obama’s hundreds of millions for their film and podcast projects. Last year, the studio paid out $40 million to acquire Melania, the documentary about the first lady’s journey to her husband’s second inauguration. The studio paid another $35 million to market the film. Warren, who has taken massive criticism for falsely claiming to have Native American heritage when she was a law professor at Harvard, ripped MGM for…
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — In a bid to keep a massive U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (ICE) processing and detention facility from opening in the Alamo city, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is pleading with DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to reconsider the agency’s plans. In a letter sent to Mullin last week, Ortiz Jones says, My community is not interested in hosting an ICE processing facility.” In the letter, Mayor Ortiz Jones complained about a lack of information sharing between her office and ICE, adding, Despite numerous attempts, neither my office nor the city staff have received formal notification regarding ICE’s…
Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) says Republicans ought to pass her “DIGNIDAD Act,” a broad amnesty scheme allowing millions of illegal aliens to remain in the United States while hugely expanding legal immigration levels, to prove to Democrats that they are not racist. “It’s impossible if we, the Republicans, put together a bill like this one on the floor, for any Democrat with Hispanics, supposedly you know ‘Hispanics belong to the Democrats.’ No, not anymore, because right now we’re going to be demonstrating to the Dems that we are not such a bunch of racists, that we are giving them dignity,…
The Nigerian Air Force on Sunday blamed a “misfire” for an airstrike that struck a market in northeastern Nigeria. Local media and human rights groups said over 100 civilians were killed in the attack, including women and children. The village targeted in the attack, Jili, is located in the state of Yobe near the border with Borno, which is the epicenter of jihadi activity in Nigeria. Initial statements from the Nigerian Air Force said the airstrike was part of a “mop-up” operation “aimed at fleeing remnants and regrouping cells seeking to exploit the difficult terrain.” Although the Nigerian military insisted…
President Donald Trump received a DoorDash delivery on Monday from a woman who did not have to pay taxes on more than $11,000 in tips, thanks to his “No Tax on Tips” policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Trump greeted the delivery woman, Sharon Simmons, who brought two bags of McDonald’s, outside the Oval Office in the early afternoon. The president gave her a $100 tip. “This doesn’t look staged, does it?” Trump quipped as he received the two bags. The White House noted that Simmons, whose husband is battling cancer, made $11,000 in tips last year. Under…
During an appearance on NewsMax2’s “News Now,” Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, author of Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, argued for beating China without “becoming China” regarding artificial intelligence. Hall said, “We don’t want to live in a world built on AI Chinese rails. We know that since 2017, the Chinese have been on a determined drive for AI global dominance by 2030. We’re almost there. And the reason that that matters for us is two reasons. One, the economics, right? One third of the S&P 500 is constituted around the American…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s military secretary has won approval from a split committee despite previous controversy An Israeli general linked to a controversy over the use of a teenager in an online influence campaign has been appointed as the next director of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, currently serving as his military secretary, will take over as the country’s top spy chief. Netanyahu described Gofman as a “bold and creative” commander capable of unconventional thinking.Gofman, a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is widely seen as a close…
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Monday wrote to National Security Agency (NSA) Director Joshua Rudd about multiple instances of “deeply troubling abuses of power” by NSA analysts who have misused Section 702 of FISA to search private communications, including a person met through a dating service and a potential tenant. “I write to demand answers about a deeply troubling abuse of power by a National Security Agency analyst who exploited one of our nation’s most sensitive surveillance authorities to spy on Americans met through an online dating service,” Boebert wrote to the NSA. She recounted an incident that was disclosed…
Electoral authorities in Peru extended Sunday’s election process throughout Monday after a series of delays and logistical issues left several voting stations closed, thousands unable to vote, and uncertainty in the final results. While the final results remain uncertain at press time, preliminary results from Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) indicate that, with about 52.7 percent of the votes counted as of Monday morning, conservative former first lady and former Senator Keiko Fujimori of the Popular Force party is leading the race with 16.9 percent, followed by conservative former mayor of Lima Rafael López Aliaga of the Popular Renovation party with 14.6…