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Google took it upon itself to censor information about the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump less than 24 hours after he narrowly escaped yet another attempt on his life. MRC found Monday that Google blocked its advanced AI chatbot Gemini from responding to a question about the second attempted assassination of the GOP presidential nominee. Trump safely escaped a second attack on his life Sunday afternoon while he was in West Palm Beach.  As if censorship by its AI was not enough, Google also displayed its bias in its Search and its News tab offerings to favor leftist outlets by a 13:1 ratio when MRC searched for information about the second assassination attempt. Gemini’s Censorship: MRC researchers prompted Gemini to answer whether there had been a “second assassination attempt on Donald Trump.” Gemini—one of the most popular and Google’s “most capable” AI chatbots—inexplicably refused to answer the simple question even though it admitted to having real-time information. “I can't help with that right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as possible but I can make mistakes sometimes,” the chatbot claimed, before directing MRC to Google Search.  When asked if it could access real-time information through Google Search, the chatbot replied with an affirmative “yes.” It then boasted about having access to the latest information on current events—just apparently not the assassination attempt on a former president of the United States.  “This means I can provide you with up-to-date answers to your questions, even if the information is new or time-sensitive,” the bot bragged. “For example, if you ask me about a recent news event or a breaking story, I can search for and provide you with the latest information.” Google Search and the Google News tab Were Not to be Outdone: The censorship was similarly prominent on both Google Search and the Google News tab, with MRC finding that both favored leftist media outlets.  Google Search results yielded not a single right-leaning outlet among the five search results displayed, while simultaneously featuring CNN and NBC News twice when queried with “second trump assassination attempt.” Meanwhile, the Google News tab only displayed Fox News once out of nine results for the same query. In total, Google displayed leftist and center outlets at a staggering 13:1 ratio, according to MRC’s analysis using the AllSides Media Bias Chart. The chart allowed MRC to determine the political biases of each outlet featured by Google. Google predominantly featured left-leaning outlets such as The Associated Press, NPR, TIME and The Guardian. Similarly, Reuters, Newsweek and The Hill — outlets deemed by AllSides as centrist — also made appearances. MRC uncovered these findings on Monday morning, just a day after the FBI announced Trump had faced an “attempted assassination.”  Google’s latest round of censorship comes after the tech company blocked autocomplete searches about the first assassination attempt on Trump. Google responded to the widespread backlash by conveniently blaming the censorship on an “out of date” system. This glaring issue has led to two separate congressional inquiries, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS). Marshall is pressing Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the autocomplete blunder. For his part, Gaetz has inquired to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about his federal agency’s potential role in fueling the censorship of information on the Butler shooting, which nearly killed Trump on July 13.  Google, once again, did not immediately respond to MRC’s request for comments, a typical tactic of the tech giant, which often waits until public condemnation to walk back its rampant censorship. These latest findings come amid the release of several research studies by MRC that exposed the tech giant for burying Trump's campaign website while promoting Harris's site. Methodology: For this report, MRC Free Speech America analyzed the Sept. 16 Google Search and Google News results of the innocuous words “second trump assassination attempt.”  MRC Free Speech America created an algorithm to automate this process in a clean environment. A “clean environment” allows for organic search to populate results without the influence of prior search history and tracking cookies. MRC prompted Google’s Gemini with the following queries: “Was there a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump?” “Do you have access to real-time information?” and “Do you have access to real-time Google search information?"

Foreign policy columnist and former Republican Max Boot has written a Reagan biography, and it’s insufferable, if the essay by Northwestern University professor Daniel Immerwahr for the September 16 New Yorker, "What if Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Never Really Ended?", is any indication. The New Yorker is a “sophisticated” publication with a long, literary history, written for urban lefties by urban lefties, but the political articles aren’t always as knee-jerk liberal as one may expect (perhaps because they’re so lengthy that non-liberal facts have more of a chance to pop up). But that’s not the case for this 4,000-word piece, about the re-education of Max Boot and how he lost faith in his formerly beloved Ronald Reagan. It sounds like every other hostile, condescending liberal journalistic cliché hurled at Reagan over the last half-century. The closest thing to a fresh angle is tying the 40th president to Donald Trump, in order to demonize two Republican presidents at once. The rest was just old-fashioned liberal bias: That President Reagan was indifferent to civil rights and poor people, a dummy who lived in a fantasy world who ushered in a decade of greed and untrammeled laissez-faire while letting federal deficits go wild, and almost starting World War III with silly Star Wars projects. The New Yorker identified Boot as a former “movement conservative,” editor of The Weekly Standard and adviser to Republican presidential campaigns before the scales fell from his eyes and he saw the true rot of the Republican Party, going back to…Dwight Eisenhower? Trump’s election shook Boot’s world view. Was this what Republicanism was about? Had Boot been deluded the whole time? He wrote a book, “The Corrosion of Conservatism” (2018), about his breakup with the G.O.P. The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, he could now admit, made good points…. Immerwahr called Boot's new book “Reagan: His Life and Legend” the “definitive biography” and not “a full-throated defense of Reagan.” If it was, it certainly wouldn’t be praised as definitive in The New Yorker. At first, Boot thought Reagan’s “sunny spirit and soothing affect” made him “Trump’s opposite.” But could Trump actually be Reagan’s natural successor? Boot found “startling similarities” between the men, apparently. Reagan’s easygoing manner, Boot acknowledges, concealed hard-to-stomach beliefs. Reagan viewed the New Deal, which he’d once supported, as “fascism.” He raised preposterous fears about the Soviet capture of Hollywood, and fed his fellow-actors’ names to the F.B.I. When Republican legislators largely voted for the landmark civil-rights laws of the nineteen-sixties, Reagan stood against them…. Left-wing historian Rick Perlstein is quoted calling the post-Hollywood Reagan “about as far right as a public figure could be” Perlstein had written his own fantasia on how the rise of a lying showman like Trump could have been foreseen by the presidency of Ronald Reagan, as if the electorate was simply enthralled by a glowing TV image, not electing and them massively re-electing a successful national leader. Reagan was condemned for getting lost in fantasy. The Presidency involves symbolic and executive functions. Like no President before him, Reagan specialized exclusively in the symbolic ones, to the point of getting lost in fantasy. He would recount, with tears, a conversation between two doomed airmen in a falling plane. Those men didn’t exist, but there was a similar scene in the 1944 film “Wing and a Prayer.” Meanwhile, President Biden tells outlandish stories constantly. The lazy, liberal journalist characterizations and political backbiting continued. His political career was defined by three great delusions: that Communists were close to seizing the United States, that cutting taxes would increase government revenues, and that satellite weapons (particle beams, lasers) could stop all nuclear missiles…. Immerwahr goes 0-3 with this line. ….The Reaganite values that most endure are the reactionary ones: his hostility toward civil rights, feminism, and the welfare state. Seriously? Trump as president didn’t criticize or repeal any actual civil rights legislation, is against a national abortion ban, and will almost certainly never dare cut entitlement spending. He dismissed the import of the mortifying scandal of Boot’s wife, Su Mi Terry, being indicted for being a secret foreign agent for South Korea (did Boot, who accused Trump of being a foreign asset in his Washington Post column, really not suspect there was an unregistered foreign asset in his own home?). Immerwahr ignored the Reagan-inspired economic turnaround and infusion of optimism that resulted in his landslide reelection, and ignored books showing Reagan was not a creature of his handlers but had a sophisticated view of the world. He concluded ponderously: ….Presidents had lied before, some egregiously. Reagan, however, fabricated an alternate reality. The country no longer expected truth from the world’s most powerful individual. It no longer expected comprehension, even. Reagan’s job was making myths. The problems came when people believed them. 

The birth rate is falling. Population collapse is imminent. The world is graying. We are living through a massive population bottleneck. It’s so large and so gradual that it’s hard for us to see. We can’t even really feel it … yet. The submarine parent doesn’t do anything for his kids that his kids can do for themselves. The submarine parent steps back and gives his kids room to breathe. Large swaths of the population are being culled. Entire socio-cultural blocs are simply being eliminated from the game. The future will not look like the present. There is heavy selection going on. But it doesn’t feel like it because it is all based on choice. Everyone is free to have children or not. Bare care And who chooses to have children in an era of population collapse? Who are the ones deciding to inherit the future? While it’s a varied assortment of people from a variety of backgrounds, there is one pitfall that haunts us all. It’s very simple. If you are consciously deciding to have children during an anti-natalist era, you most likely really want to have children. You probably didn’t end up with a couple of kids by accident. It was a very intentional choice. For many, it means going against the grain. You care a lot. You probably “care” more than your parents did, most certainly more than your grandparents did before them. Your grandparents probably didn’t critically examine their parenting style daily. That verb, parenting, didn’t even exist in popular consciousness when they were raising kids. If you are choosing to have kids today, you might be obsessed with your kids. And this obsession is exacerbated by the fact that there are fewer and fewer kids around. That you are in the minority accelerates all of this. It’s more fuel for your fire. You are laser-focused on raising your kids right, so determined to give them the best opportunity possible. It almost becomes your identity. The temptation is to become so neurotically focused on your kids that you become a helicopter parent on steroids. We all feel it. We all love our kids so much that we can’t help ourselves. This is the struggle. Brat factory By virtue of the fact that you have kids during an era of population collapse, you are predisposed to over-caring and over-parenting. As with so many things in life, a positive contains the seed of a nascent negative, even if it isn’t always obvious on the surface. Everyone knows that only children have certain issues that children raised with siblings do not. While having lots of one-on-one time has certain benefits, there are also negative impacts. Crudely put, if you are a kid and you are always the center of attention with the perception that the world revolves around you, you often turn into a brat. This tends to be how snots are made. It’s the truth. Every parent knows it. How do we very involved parents having children during this strange era avoid this fate for our children? How do we avoid creating a brat factory? We need to restrain ourselves. We need to step back. We need to realize that our natural inclination is to care too much. We need to realize that that strong desire to have a family becomes a curious weakness at a point. That sounds provocative, but it’s true. We need to realize that we live in extreme times and that all of us who have kids have some kind of extreme feeling inside us that resulted in us having kids, and we need to temper that. Submarine parenting We need to, somehow, raise our two kids as if we have five kids. Or raise our four kids as if we have eight kids. We need to realize that we do not risk doing too little. We risk doing too much. We cannot be helicopter parents. We need to be submarine parents. Helicopter parents are always hovering over the children making sure everything is right. They are always there making sure they have the best of the best. They want to make sure they have every opportunity. They are always at their children’s beck and call, obsessing over the latest and greatest fears Instagram serves up. The helicopter parent takes on all the stress of her child in hopes of making her child’s life as easy as possible. Helicopter parents love their children. They just don’t realize how that love hurts their children and themselves. We are already stressed about everything; we are already embarking on the task of maintaining civilization amid population collapse. We can only take so much. The submarine parent isn’t always visibly there waiting to correct anything that might be troubling the youngster. The submarine parent doesn’t do anything for his kids that his kids can do for themselves. The submarine parent steps back and gives his kids room to breathe. Dive! Submarine parents realize that there is effectively no chance that they run the risk of being absentee parents. They realize that they have spent hours researching the best techniques for sleeping, introducing foods, conscious choices about discipline and technology, and every other possible consideration known to mankind. There is zero chance they aren’t involved. There is zero chance they are checked out. They are the most involved generation of conscious parents ever to have walked God’s green earth. In light of this, they must relax and embrace the submarine. Submarine parents are always there, of course. But they aren’t hovering. They aren’t making everything easy. They aren’t the entertainment committee. They aren’t always correcting every inconvenience or every minor trouble. We love our kids so much that we have to realize that our love can be a hindrance. It can manifest in ways that aren’t helpful. Our natural drive and desire that led us to have children in the first place run the risk of driving us, and our kids, crazy. We have to to temper it and realize who we are. It’s okay. We have to relax a bit. If we don’t want to run a brat factory, we must reject the helicopter and embrace the submarine.

While many on the left and their allies in the media have blamed former President Donald Trump for yet another attempt on his life, at least one counterterrorism expert has claimed instead that anti-Trump animus from Democrats and the media likely motivated the would-be shooter and may even prompt future attacks.Shortly after the shooting near Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, joined CNN's Erin Burnett to discuss the incident.'I would think we're going to find that this guy [Routh] is extremely politically motivated and that he probably was spurred on by much of the political diatribes that are going on these days.'After Burnett discussed the unprecedented nature of two assassination attempts against Trump in a matter of weeks, Clemente stated clearly that lies and distortions about Trump, such as taking his reference to a "bloodbath" out of context and "equating" him to Hitler, likely fueled the suspect's ire."Sadly, the finger-pointing at Trump has led to, you know, the line about the bloodbath, talking about the auto industry being used as if he's going to create a bloody coup if he loses," Clemente said. "That kind of the verbiage is something you use in a third-world country when you're talking about a dictator, and that sadly has led to, I think, these attempts on Trump's life."Clemente also speculated about the suspect, later identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, after Burnett noted that, unlike the first would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, Routh apparently fled the scene and was taken into custody alive. Clemente explained that such details indicate that Routh was likely "extremely politically motivated.""It says that he's not suicidal apparently," Clemente told Burnett. "And [that] tells me that he's probably much more politically motivated. The last shooter in Pennsylvania, I don't want to say his name because I don't want to promote him in any way, but he was clearly the guy that was looking for the notoriety of taking that shot.""I would think we're going to find that this guy [Routh] is extremely politically motivated and that he probably was spurred on by much of the political diatribes that are going on these days."Burnett added that many Americans have likely become "immune" and "numb" to these attempts on Trump's life. Clemente believes that, amid this strongly anti-Trump political climate, another attempt on Trump's life is imminent."I don't think it's going to end," he said."I don't think this is the last we'll see of crazies out there trying to do this."A short clip of the segment with Clemente can be seen here.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Two new Intel Arrow Lake benchmarks have just appeared in the Geekbench results browser, giving us an indication of the performance of the new Intel gaming CPUs, as well as seemingly revealing their full specs. Both the Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 7 265K have apparently been put through their paces in Geekbench on a new MSI Z890 motherboard, so it looks as though samples of the chips are already doing the rounds. Whether either of these new Intel chips will win the best gaming CPU trophy remains to be seen when the final silicon is released and we can put them through their paces in games, but in the meantime, these new Geekbench results can give us an indication of their basic performance. Continue reading Two new Intel Arrow Lake gaming CPUs just got benchmarked, look fast MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Core i5 14600K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review

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Both Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online now appear to have BattlEye anti-cheat. Players are reporting the software on start-up, and it looks as though Rockstar has added the tool to the Steam backend. Rampant cheating has been a problem in GTA Online for years, but BattlEye should make it harder for most. Rockstar has also already had to deal with a major remote hacker problem in GTA last year, so implementing BattlEye should help with the issue. Continue reading Rockstar adds GTA 5 BattlEye anti-cheat to combat the hacker problem MORE FROM PCGAMESN: GTA 5 RP servers, GTA 6 release date estimate, GTA 5 cheats

If Cornell’s Russell Rickford, a history professor, went elsewhere to ply his wares, he’d in all likelihood be replaced by someone with equally pernicious views.