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My kids love to draw. They are always setting up shop at the kitchen table. Commandeering the place we eat for their own artistic creations. Some days it feels like the floor is permanently littered with colored pencils and markers. Every night when the whole family cleans the house after dinner, we always discover some stragglers. The other day, our son accidentally whacked his sister in the face when they were playing outside. She cried pretty bad. He’s such a good kid, he didn’t mean to.An orange pencil under the piano. A green crayon at the bottom of the laundry. A blue marker in the bathroom. How the hell did a marker get in the bathroom? Oh, someone drew on the wall.Ferocious beastsThe kids draw all sorts of things. Cars, trucks, animals, people, our family. They also try to draw scary pictures. They draw monsters. They draw ferocious beasts with big claws. But they can’t draw scary faces. They don’t shake me. They don’t send a shiver up my spine or make me want to look away. They make me smile in a terribly sad way.Kids just can’t draw scary faces. And why is that? They try and try, but they can’t. A vampire with a little fang hanging out of his mouth. The other side of his lips curl up in a little smile. His eyes are a little misshapen and asymmetrical. His face is soft and funny. Kind and cute. It was the scariest thing my son could draw, and it wasn’t scary at all. He excitedly shows us his drawing, and we pretend to be scared. “Ooohhh that is scary! A vampire!” But we aren’t scared. I feel that lump in my throat. It’s a rush of confusing feelings that all come at the same time, and I can’t explain any of them. And truthfully, I don’t want to either. This boiling hot ball of feeling makes me feel so good and so bad. I am so happy and so sad.A very long timeKids can’t draw scary faces because they haven’t seen scary things. They haven’t seen a scary world. They are innocent. They are pure. They live in the world that we create for them. We protect them. We don’t tell them scary things, and we don’t show them scary movies. When they ask when we are going to die, we tell them that we aren’t going to die for a very long time and that they don’t have to worry about that.Their world is sweet and kind. Simple. Even when they are mad, they don’t know how mad you can really be. The knob goes all the way up to 10, but they think it only goes to 3. 'Even when I'm old'The other day, our son accidentally whacked his sister in the face when they were playing outside. She cried pretty bad. He’s such a good kid, he didn’t mean to. He said that he’s never going to forget it. “Even when I’m old, I’m going to remember it,” he said.They read old books and old fairy tales. There are scary drawings of witches and giants. My son is currently obsessed with dragons. He has this red toy dragon that he loves. It looks pretty fierce. It has a split tongue that sticks out through razor sharp teeth. But still, he can’t translate that onto paper. He can’t draw a scary face. They are always cute. They are always happy. The world as he feels it betrays what he aims to draw. We can’t be someone we are not. We can’t feel something we don’t know. They can’t draw scary faces because they don’t know them. They don’t feel them. They aren’t them. They are innocent. They are small. They are sweet. We, on the other hand, are sullied. We are corrupted. We are conniving. We are ugly and hateful. We are liars and cheats. Children remind us that we are not, in fact, good. It’s easy for me to draw a scary face. Just give me a pencil.Layer after layerWe hang all their pictures around the kitchen. We have a line of string lights that run from one wall to another. We hang them up there. My God, there are so many dangling, barely holding on under the weak pressure of these little micro-clothespins. We keep adding to our collection every day. They keep bringing them to us. Layer after layer on top of one another.The world is tragic. Things go so wrong. Why do they have to go so wrong? I don’t know. But when I see those little drawings, I smile somewhere inside. Their little hands drew those little faces. They try so hard to make them scary. But they can’t, and it’s adorable, and I love them for it. I stare at them, and I think of how different I am than they are. How much worse I am. And, of course, they make me so sad because they aren’t going to be innocent forever. They will eventually grow up and see a scary world, and they will know how to draw scary faces.

A motorist in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this month allegedly tried to run over three people who were standing on a home's lawn after an argument.But one of driver's alleged targets was carrying a gun — and the victim's aim was true.'Let this be a lesson. Don't bring a car to a gunfight.'Police said 32-year-old Alexander Oglesby after an argument "used his vehicle as a weapon, driving it off the roadway in an attempt to strike the three victims" in the 1800 block of Noe Bixby Road around 2 a.m. Oct. 5. Police added that "tire tracks at the scene show that Mr. Oglesby drove at the victims, who were approximately 40 yards away in the grass in front of their residence. One of the victims fired shots at Mr. Oglesby in self-defense and struck Mr. Oglesby. He was taken to an area hospital and treated for the injury."Police said Oglesby was charged with three counts of felonious assault and taken to the Franklin County Jail. According to jail records, Oglesby on Tuesday was still incarcerated.Police also said those with information about the incident are asked to contact Columbus Police Felony Assault Det. Reffitt #222 at 614-645-4323 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477) — and that callers may remain anonymous.How are observers reacting?A handful of commenters underneath WCMH-TV's Facebook post about the incident completely backed up the person who pulled the trigger:"Yeaaa, right, guns are the problem," one commenter noted sarcastically."Let this be a lesson," another user warned with tongue planted firmly in cheek. "Don't bring a car to a gunfight.""The gun grabbers hate stories like this," another commenter declared.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

British rapper and record producer M.I.A. recently made an appearance on James Poulos’ “Zero Hour.” The duo broached a number of subjects, including the “Paper Planes” singer’s anti-Big Tech clothing line OHMNI, therapy addiction in the West, tyranny in the U.K., and, of course, the music industry. On the latter subject, M.I.A. was candid about the decline of music due to the influence of Satanism and the AI programming that paves the path for it. - YouTube www.youtube.com “Where do you see music going? And do you think music is doing what it needs to be doing for us as human beings?” Poulos asked. “Music is healing, and it can change a lot of people’s mood or vibe ... and I think it’s been hijacked because it became a business,” M.I.A. explained, adding that as an artist, “You have to put [your music] through the channel of an industry [where] it gets corrupted.” “This is the image that has to be put with this song, and a girl has to look like this, and she has to do this dance,” she said, regurgitating what artists are told by producers and marketing personnel. As a newer Christian, M.I.A. pointed to Satan as the root cause of the music industry’s degeneracy. “Satan was the director of music, you know? It is a great tool to get to people because music directly accesses your spirit, so you bypass the mind and your soul and your logic,” she told Poulos. “There's a level of responsibility to practice when you make music and a level of knowledge you have to have.” She explained that “what is cool” in our modern culture “is never that.” “What is cool is Satan’s playground,” she remarked. Unfortunately, artificial intelligence has also become integral to the music industry. While M.I.A. says that AI in and of itself is basically “a fun toy,” the programmers of AI are what’s problematic. Being keenly aware of what sells, these people design AI to essentially do Satan’s bidding. She points to popular musicians Cardi B and Ice Spice – who are likely popular because they’re “skirting very close to porn” – as examples. “It’s like merging Only Fans and the music industry is where we’re at,” she said, adding that this is why she’s “taking a time out.” To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above. Want more from James Poulos?To enjoy more of James's visionary commentary on politics, tech, ideas, and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A 13-year-old was crushed to death by a trolley wagon being pulled by a tractor at a haunted hayride event in Minnesota. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office said they received a call at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday about a boy being injured after being run over at the hayride in St. Augusta. Despite their efforts to save his life, the boy was pronounced dead at the scene. 'Hold your babies tight. I would do anything to hold my baby again.' Police said that several members of staff and bystanders tried to save his life, including an off-duty police officer and an off-duty medic. The boy was later identified as Alexander "Xander" Mick, an eighth-grader at Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School. A post on social media from the Harvest of Horror Haunted Hayride said the attraction is shutting down for the season out of respect for the victim and his family. The owner of the hayride told KMSP-TV that he was good friends with the father of the child because they were both teachers at a high school. He said Xander's father, who is a music teacher, was organizing the event to help pay for a choir trip, and his son had come along to help his dad. "Xander was an amazingly unique child who loved Jesus with all his heart and is happily in the arms of Jesus right now," said Teri Dahlberg Mick, the boy's mother. A GoFundMe donation page has been set up to help the family pay for his funeral costs. "Hold your babies tight. I would do anything to hold my baby again," said the mom on Facebook. Video and images from the hayride can be viewed on the news video report from KMSP on YouTube. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Companies like OpenAI and Google will tell you that the next big step in generative AI experiences is almost here. ChatGPT's big o1-preview upgrade is meant to prove that next-gen experience. o1-preview, available to ChatGPT Plus and other premium subscribers, can supposedly reason. Such an AI tool should be more useful when trying to find solutions to complex questions that require complex reasoning. But if a new AI paper from Apple researchers is correct in its conclusions, then ChatGPT o1 and all other genAI models can't actually reason. Instead, they're simply matching patterns from their training data sets. They're pretty good at coming up with solutions and answers, yes. But that's only because they've seen similar problems and can predict the answer. Apple's AI study shows that changing trivial variables in math problems that wouldn't fool kids or adding text that doesn't alter how you'd solve the problem can significantly impact the reasoning performance of large language models. Continue reading... The post This Apple AI study suggests ChatGPT and other chatbots can’t actually reason appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Ring Video Doorbell deals for October 2024 Early Prime Day deals: Rare Nintendo Switch sale, $50 off Oura Ring, $105 Sony ANC headphones, more Best Dyson vacuum deals of Prime Big Deals Days 2024 Top Prime Day deals: $169 AirPods Pro 2, $170 Apple Watch SE, laptops, Bose headphones, robot vacuums, more