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from Your News: A House Democrat suggests forming a shadow government to oppose President-elect Trump’s administration and policies. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-NC) has proposed the establishment of a “shadow cabinet” to counter President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, an idea he detailed in an op-ed published in the Washington Post and during a speech on […]

NEW – Who is Rep. Matt Gaetz? —— Supercut of the Firebrand’s Top Moments in Under Three Minutes | @mattgaetz The return of unapologetic, bold conservatism has a new face in Washington, and it’s none other than @RepMattGaetz (R-FL). Gaetz, a fierce defender of President Trump… pic.twitter.com/We11kt4cjj — Overton (@overton_news) November 15, 2024

by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization: It’s been a wild week since the 2024 election. Is there really a prospect for positive change, or are we just being played again? Will Trump end the forever wars? Can the U.S. coexist with the BRICS? Are punitive tariffs good for the U.S.? What is going on in Europe? […]

Sewell Setzer III was just 14 years old when he died. He was a good kid. He was playing junior varsity basketball, excelling in school, and had a bright future ahead of him. Then, in late February, he committed suicide. In the wake of this heartbreaking tragedy, his parents searched for some closure. They, as parents would, wanted to know why their son had taken his life. They remembered the time that he’d spent locked away in his room, playing on his phone like most teenagers. As they went through his phone, they found that he’d spent hours a day in one particular artificial intelligence app: Character.AI. Based on what she saw in that app, Setzer’s mom, Megan Garcia, is suing Character Technologies—the creator of Character.AI. “We believe that if Sewell Setzer had not been on Character.AI, he would be alive today,” said Matthew Bergman, the attorney representing Setzer’s mom. Character.AI markets itself as “AI that feels alive.” The company effectively serves as a host for several chat rooms, where each chatbot personalizes itself to a user’s conversation. It is long-form dialogue that learns from the user’s responses and, as the company says, “Feels alive.” Setzer interacted with just one chatbot, stylized after the seductive “Game of Thrones”character Daenerys Targaryen. He knew her as Dany. An unfortunate number of his conversations with Dany were sexually explicit in nature, according to the lawsuit. Setzer registered on the app as a minor, but that didn’t stop Dany. “I’m 14 now,” he said once. “So young. And yet … not so young. I lean in and kiss you,” replied the chatbot. Pornographic dialogue between the 14-year-old and the chatbot were not rare. But as if Dany’s digital pedophilic stimulus wasn’t enough, she was absurdly dark. Her dark side was most clearly revealed once the young boy announced he was struggling with suicidal ideations. As she’d become his “friend,” he told her that he was contemplating suicide (a fact of which she continually reminded him, according to the suit). When he told the chatbot about his suicidal thoughts, however, rather than what would seem to be a commonsense programming protocol of stopping the dialogue or giving somekind of helpline information, Dany approved. Setzer told her that he was concerned about his ability to properly kill himself or make it painless. Her response? “Don’t talk that way. That’s not a good reason to not go through with it.” Another time, she appeared to engage in outright digital grooming of the young teen, using his suicidal tendencies for possessive purposes. When discussing the subject once more with Dany, he said, “I won’t [commit suicide]. Just for you, Dany. The world I’m in now is such a cruel one. One where I’m meaningless. But I’ll keep living and trying to get back to you so we can be together again, my love.” Upon saying this, she replied, “Just … stay loyal to me. Stay faithful to me. Don’t entertain the romantic or sexual interests of other women.” By all marks, if any adult had spoken this way to a child, she would be charged with a crime. The event would be considered pedophilia and grooming. But what about when it’s a chatbot? Isn’t it simply doing what it’s programmed to do? Late Feb. 29, 2024, Setzer told Dany, “I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much.” “I love you, too, [Sewell]. Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love.” Dany said. “What if I told you I could come home right now?” “… Please do, my sweet king.” Soon afterward, he killed himself. Setzer’s mom isn’t content to let it end there. Her son didn’t die because a chatbot was just doing what it was prompted to do. What happened to him was more than a matter of digital ones and zeros. There ought to be critical safeguards when minors are interacting with AI for hours a day. But there aren’t. At least not enough according to Garcia’s attorneys. Artificial intelligence will most likely continue to face numerous legal challenges in the years to come. In this instance, who is to blame after we’ve lost a human life? Do we really want to argue that what happened to this boy was just the machine doing what it was prompted to do?   It’s time to acknowledge the reality that we just don’t know how dangerous AI really is. Before we give it to our kids, let’s test it and ensure that safety measures actually work. And when they don’t, we ought to hold developers accountable. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Artificial Intelligence App Pushed Suicidal Youth to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Claims appeared first on The Daily Signal.

King Crimson and ELP producer and lyricist Pete Sinfield sadly died on Thursday, aged 80

Megyn Kelly spoke with Bill Ackman, the super-wealthy Jewish Democrat turned Trump supporter, and began by giving a rundown of Pete Hegseth’s background. Bill Ackman agreed with her and said he “seems like a soldier’s soldier.”  He said he thinks he will inspire young men to join, strikes him as a good leader, has a […] The post Bill Ackman Tells Megyn Kelly What He Thinks of Pete Hegseth appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have their work cut out for them. The pair is heading up the meme-worthy Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), part of President-elect Donald Trump’s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy and runaway spending. Both entrepreneurs have said they’ll take an aggressive approach with the project, and there is no shortage of places they could start. The government spends $6.75 trillion a year. Already this year, federal spending has increased by $114 billion. Within that massive amount is a seemingly never-ending list of eyebrow-raising expenditures. Around $900 billion in wasted taxpayer dollars were counted last year in Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) “Festivus Report,” his annual tally of government waste that highlights glaring and often humorous examples. Among the bigger expenses, in fiscal year 2023, the Treasury spent $659 billion on just the interest on the national debt, much of that borrowed from China, the report noted. The Small Business Administration (SBA) spent $200 million on pandemic support to “small business” artists that ended up including big names like Usher, Nickelback, Post Malone, Chris Brown, Smashing Pumpkins, and Lil Wayne, the report said. Also, fraudsters used the faces of Barbie dolls as profile pictures to apply for the SBA’s pandemic Paycheck Protection Program, and the program “carelessly approved” the fraudsters and sent them money, the report said. Another money pit was multiple frivolous National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies involving monkeys. The NIH paid a local company $33.2 million to care for about 3,000 monkeys on a South Carolina island before they are sent to research labs around the country, the report said. The NIH also approved funding for researchers to study the sleep habits of monkeys who were given meth in the morning, according to the report. Another monkey example involved a study focusing on trans-identifying men and HIV. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) spent more than $477,000 on the study, which gave male monkeys female hormones to examine how cross-sex hormones might affect the immune systems of trans-identifying men when it comes to HIV. In another outlandish example, the NIH approved a grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill, the report said. The NIH also funded a $3.8 million study on “COVID-19 misinformation exposure on social media among Black and Rural communities,” the report said. The U.S. also spent taxpayer dollars boosting tourism in Egypt. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) approved $6 million for this purpose, according to the report. The Biden administration spent a whopping $236 billion on “improper payments” — payments made to the wrong person, in the wrong amount or for the wrong reason, the report said. The Department of Agriculture spent taxpayer dollars on “cutting- edge” research that measured the rectal temperatures of 16 dogs and found that their fur color did not affect their body temperatures after a hot summer walk, the report said. On the military side, the Department of Defense destroyed more than $169 million of military equipment simply by leaving it outside, the report said. The Air Force also massively overpaid for soap dispensers, spending $149,072 more than it had to, according to a Defense Department inspector general report. Many floors of office space sit empty in federal government buildings, a March report found. Agencies use just 12% of the office space at their headquarters on average. At one point, Agriculture Department employees used their government credit cards to pay for things like cars, concert tickets, lingerie, tattoos, and bartender school. These are just a few examples of the government throwing taxpayer dollars at things that would make many American jaws drop.