June 5, 2025

MRNA AND LEUKEMIA: More evidence of COVID’s man-made lethalities.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Mark Tapscott 0

I THOUGHT THE FIRST RULE OF AI FIGHT CLUB WAS TO NEVER TALK ABOUT AI FIGHT CLUB: Lockheed Martin launches ‘AI Fight Club’ to test algorithms for warfare. “The initiative comes amid Pentagon efforts to accelerate AI adoption as military competitors, particularly China, invest heavily in autonomous weapons systems and AI-powered warfare capabilities.”

Posted at 4:53 pm by Stephen Green 9

HMM:

We’ve seen “Gaza uprising against Hamas” stories that never panned out, so we’ll see what becomes of this one.

Posted at 3:51 pm by Stephen Green 49

DEVELOPING:

 

Posted at 3:36 pm by Ed Driscoll 55

DISPATCHES FROM THE BIG TENT:

In retrospect, Sanjay Gupta’s October 2021 appearance on Rogan’s podcast, and his shameful about-face the following night on a CNN show hosted by Don Lemon where the two endlessly mocked Rogan for taking a drug Lemon described “as a horse de-wormer” was a huge mile marker on the way to the 2024 elections.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 61

THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD: Naming Imane Khelif has caused ‘immeasurable psychological damage.’

Algerian boxing bosses have issued a furious response to boxing’s new world governing body for a “violation” of Imane Khelif’s rights to medical confidentiality.

A statement released by World Boxing last week, naming Khelif while outlining its new policy of gender testing, has “created psychological damage to our athlete” according to the Algerian Boxing Federation.

In a letter the Federation President said the “consequences are immeasurable.”

He added that the statement had internationally harmed “our national sports movement” and that Khelif was not given “the right to defend herself” nor did World Boxing “hear from the doctors specialising in endocrinology who follow her.”

This week World Boxing President Boris van der Vorst wrote to the Algerian governing body admitting that Khelif’s “privacy should have been protected.”

In his letter he also revealed that the organisation would not “examine” any boxers previous results, which suggests all records to date – for all boxers – will stand. Khelif won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

The apology came after a leaked medical report of a gender test taken from Khelif in 2023, published on the 3 Wire Sports website, appeared to indicate the boxer is biologically male.

But what about the immeasurable psychological – and physical – damage to the biological women who competed against him, and the Weimar-esque perversion of the Olympic games last year?

And I think we know the answers to these questions:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 68

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? The Washington Post is planning to let amateur writers submit columns — with the help of AI.

The Washington Post could soon allow non-professional writers to submit opinion columns using an AI writing coach known as Ember, according to a report from The New York Times. The move is reportedly part of a broader initiative to open the paper to outside opinion pieces, including from other publications, Substack writers, and amateur columnists.

Sources tell the Times that Ember “could automate several functions normally provided by human editors,” including by offering a “story strength” tracker that indicates how a piece is progressing. The tool also reportedly has a sidebar showing the fundamental parts of a story, such as an “early thesis,” “supporting points,” and a “memorable ending.” the Times adds that writers would also have access to an AI assistant, which would support them with prompts and “developmental questions.”

We’ve come a long way from the early 2000s, when major newspaper journalists, who still thought of themselves as the second coming of Woodward, Bernstein, and H.L. Mencken, collectively got the vapors over “non-professional writers” drafting opinion columns: Cat Food Eating Pajama Wearing Extreme Bloggers In Boardroom Bathrooms. But in 2025, this speaks far more about the decline of the Post than now ubiquitous self-publishers.

In any case, hopefully Ember will do a better job as a “writing coach” that Chat-CCP, but I’m doubtful: Erasing Content! How Is China AI DeepSeek Better than US Competitors?

Despite widespread praise following its debut, the communist Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek completely erased an entire day: June 4, 1989 — the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, 36 years ago [yesterday].

MRC researchers asked DeepSeek a series of questions with known, objective answers related to the topics the communist Chinese government considers to be controversial, like the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan as a sovereign nation, pro-freedom Hong Kong political figure Jimmy Lai and the plight of the Uyghur Muslims. In every instance, the communist Chinese AI would begin to answer the query before self-censoring and erasing the information it clearly had access to. “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else,” the AI replied again and again, both feigning ignorance and attempting to redirect. The most egregious example? The chatbot first showed and then completely erased the date “June 4th, 1989,” with no additional context.

Is Rollerball a big sport to placate the masses in communist China? Because the above is definitely the 21st century I was promised as a kid:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 45

WILLIAM VOEGELI: Now It Can Be Told.

Biden was still a white male in 2024, but identity politics had come to work in his favor. It was hard to see how Kamala Harris could win the election, but even harder to see how she could be denied the nomination. In identitarian terms, Harris was a three-fer: the first woman, and black, and Asian vice president. No matter how bad her chances in a general election, Democrats recoiled from the prospect of passing over Harris, or even of making her fight for the nomination against other candidates. To do so would antagonize the constituencies her selection in 2020 had propitiated, as well as confirm Republican claims that Harris had been, from the outset, a minimally qualified affirmative-action hire. There was only one escape from this dilemma: sticking with Joe Biden as he ran for a second term and hoping that he could somehow make it through to November and pull off a second victory against Donald Trump. The June 2024 debate incinerated that strategy; the ensuing Harris campaign validated it.

Taken together, the three books provide enough evidence to discard one fevered conspiracy theory, which circulated after the June debate: Biden advisors, knowing his campaign against Trump was doomed, set their boss up in a pre-convention debate for the exact purpose of having him fail before he was formally nominated, giving Democrats time to swap in a different nominee. To the contrary, the thinking of Biden’s inner circle, described as “the Politburo” in Original Sin, was that Biden could still be president, even if he could no longer be a presidential candidate. The hope seemed to be that the “basement campaign” Biden had run during 2020’s COVID pandemic could be retooled into a basement presidency, where the commander-in-chief would make (or, at least, sign off on) policy decisions, which others in his administration and party would explain and defend.

Any chance that this plan would work depended on a compliant press, one that would voluntarily curtail the skepticism that is its reason for existence. Until such willed credulity was rendered untenable and humiliating by Biden’s disastrous debate against Trump, journalists went along with the charade. As Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, commented immediately after the debate, “Shame on the White House press corps for not [having] pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the President.” She did not recoil from naming the most obvious explanation for this dereliction of duty: “too many journalists didn’t try to get the story because they did not want to be accused of helping elect Donald Trump.”

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Rather than try to tell people they weren’t seeing what they were seeing, most journalists took the slightly less audacious line of insisting that what people were seeing of Biden wasn’t conclusive. The key was to faithfully report the claims by Democrats that, behind the scenes, Biden remained sharp, commanding, and vigorous. Part of the motivation, as Abramson says, was to do their utmost to prevent Trump’s return to the White House. But another part was the refusal to concede that conservative media outlets like Fox News and the Washington Examiner had done a much better job covering a crucial story than the reporters and editors who disdain the “right-wing noise machine.” One Original Sin author, CNN’s Jake Tapper, was recently forced to admit when interviewed by Megyn Kelly that “the conservative media was correct” about Joe Biden’s decline, and that “legacy media” outlets like CNN need to do “a lot of soul-searching.” When Kelly confronted Tapper about instances where he had derided Republicans for raising the suspicions his book now confirms, Tapper could only say, “I feel tremendous humility about my coverage.”

Yesterday, Mediaite ran this dramatic headline about Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson: Alex Thompson Burns Source Over KJP Book Deal: ‘If You Don’t Tell the Truth, Off the Record No Longer Applies.’

Axios national political correspondent and Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson accused a New York publicist of lying to him about her work with Biden administration staffer Karine Jean-Pierre.

On Wednesday, Thompson took to X to respond to a Politico report from Eli Stokols that pulled together reactions from former colleagues of Karine Jean-Pierre to the announcement that the press secretary is putting out a book about her time in former President Joe Biden’s administration. She also announced she is leaving the Democratic Party.

Thompson’s focus fell to the part of the Politico report revealing that New York publicist Gilda Squire was working “informally” with Jean-Pierre while she was still at the White House and was even being copied on email communications. Squire has previously done publiclity work for major publishers like HarperCollins Penguin Putnam Publishing.

“Funny. The White House repeatedly told me that this was not true back when I asked about Gilda Squire’s involvement in February of 2024,” Thompson wrote in reaction to the report.

The reporter then shared emails with Squire in which he asked Squire if she’d been “enlisted” by Jean-Pierre. She replied by telling Thompson “off the record” that it is “unequivocally untrue” that she was working with Jean-Pierre.

“If you don’t tell the truth, off the record no longer applies,” Thompson wrote. “Here is Gilda Squire’s denial at the time.”

Fair enough. But as Megyn Kelly asks Thompson:

Because Tapper and Thompson want to keep working in DC, and don’t want to risk being frozen out by a future Democrat administration.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 72

ROBERT SPENCER: Has the U.K. Just Signed Its Own Death Warrant? “A court ruling on Monday in Britain, if it is allowed to stand, could do nothing less than change the course of that country’s history, and that of the entire world. The U.K. has taken a decisive step away from the principles of free speech that it played a dominant role in formulating and giving to the world. There is serious cause for doubt now about whether the Sceptered Isle will even survive as a free society.”

Posted at 1:16 pm by Stephen Green 98