Douglas Caddy Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 (edited) ABC National News last night interviewed Mr. Altman. I got the impression that society as we know it is about to undergo a fundamental change. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/17/openai-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-warning-gpt4 Edited March 18, 2023 by Douglas Caddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 This is an important critique of Brett Stephens recent flawed NYT op-ed-- celebrated here by Mathew Koch and Benjamin Cole, if I recall correctly. As a long-time NYT reader, I have always regarded Bret Stephens' work with skepticism. Among other problems, he has always been a major Neocon propagandist. Opinion | Deadly Disinformation – The Underreported Scandal at the New York Times | Common Dreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 21 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said: Good for her! That's funny! Celebrating by the pool, latte with I'm guessing tequila shots (based on the lemon/lime slices). Did you see this other story picture? Jamie Lee Curtis raises eyebrows with a photo of her updated trophy cabinet following Oscars (yahoo.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 8 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said: ABC National News last night interviewed Mr. Altman. I got the impression that society as we know it is about to undergo a fundamental change. ttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/17/openai-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-warning-gpt4 The link won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 34 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said: The link won't work. Try it now. ‘We are a little bit scared’: OpenAI CEO warns of risks of artificial intelligence | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 59 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said: That's funny! Celebrating by the pool, latte with I'm guessing tequila shots (based on the lemon/lime slices). Did you see this other story picture? Jamie Lee Curtis raises eyebrows with a photo of her updated trophy cabinet following Oscars (yahoo.com) Pretty sure she's recovering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Knight Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 To find the last page in this thread...click on the double arrows following the page numbers at the top of the thread. Also, I want to remind you that this link from the JFK Assassination forum will expire after 30 days. So you may want to bookmark the link once you come to the "56 years" thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Citing staffing issues and political climate, North Idaho hospital will no longer deliver babies Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun March 18, 2023 https://www.rawstory.com/north-idaho-hospital/ “Idaho’s Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, announced Friday afternoon that it will no longer provide obstetrical services to the city of more than 9,000 people, meaning patients will have to drive 46 miles for labor and delivery care moving forward. “We have made every effort to avoid eliminating these services,” said Ford Elsaesser, the hospital’s board president, in a news release. “We hoped to be the exception, but our challenges are impossible to overcome now.” “ “Idaho has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, with affirmative defenses in court only for documented instances of rape, incest or to save the pregnant person’s life. Physicians are subject to felony charges and the revocation of their medical license for violating the statute, which the Idaho Supreme Court determined is constitutional in January. “The Idaho Legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care,” the hospital’s news release said. “Consequences for Idaho physicians providing the standard of care may include civil litigation and criminal prosecution, leading to jail time or fines.” Dr. Amelia Huntsberger, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Bonner General Health, said in an email to States Newsroom that she will soon leave the hospital and the state because of the abortion laws as well as the Idaho Legislature’s decision not to continue the state’s maternal mortality review committee. “What a sad, sad state of affairs for our community,” Huntsberger wrote.” This is just barbaric. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 1 minute ago, Steve Thomas said: Citing staffing issues and political climate, North Idaho hospital will no longer deliver babies Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun March 18, 2023 https://www.rawstory.com/north-idaho-hospital/ “Idaho’s Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, announced Friday afternoon that it will no longer provide obstetrical services to the city of more than 9,000 people, meaning patients will have to drive 46 miles for labor and delivery care moving forward. “We have made every effort to avoid eliminating these services,” said Ford Elsaesser, the hospital’s board president, in a news release. “We hoped to be the exception, but our challenges are impossible to overcome now.” “ “Idaho has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, with affirmative defenses in court only for documented instances of rape, incest or to save the pregnant person’s life. Physicians are subject to felony charges and the revocation of their medical license for violating the statute, which the Idaho Supreme Court determined is constitutional in January. “The Idaho Legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care,” the hospital’s news release said. “Consequences for Idaho physicians providing the standard of care may include civil litigation and criminal prosecution, leading to jail time or fines.” Dr. Amelia Huntsberger, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Bonner General Health, said in an email to States Newsroom that she will soon leave the hospital and the state because of the abortion laws as well as the Idaho Legislature’s decision not to continue the state’s maternal mortality review committee. “What a sad, sad state of affairs for our community,” Huntsberger wrote.” This is just barbaric. Steve Thomas Unconscionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Federal judges remove personal information from internet (cnbc.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 3 hours ago, Steve Thomas said: Citing staffing issues and political climate, North Idaho hospital will no longer deliver babies Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun March 18, 2023 https://www.rawstory.com/north-idaho-hospital/ “Idaho’s Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, announced Friday afternoon that it will no longer provide obstetrical services to the city of more than 9,000 people, meaning patients will have to drive 46 miles for labor and delivery care moving forward. “We have made every effort to avoid eliminating these services,” said Ford Elsaesser, the hospital’s board president, in a news release. “We hoped to be the exception, but our challenges are impossible to overcome now.” “ “Idaho has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, with affirmative defenses in court only for documented instances of rape, incest or to save the pregnant person’s life. Physicians are subject to felony charges and the revocation of their medical license for violating the statute, which the Idaho Supreme Court determined is constitutional in January. “The Idaho Legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care,” the hospital’s news release said. “Consequences for Idaho physicians providing the standard of care may include civil litigation and criminal prosecution, leading to jail time or fines.” Dr. Amelia Huntsberger, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Bonner General Health, said in an email to States Newsroom that she will soon leave the hospital and the state because of the abortion laws as well as the Idaho Legislature’s decision not to continue the state’s maternal mortality review committee. “What a sad, sad state of affairs for our community,” Huntsberger wrote.” This is just barbaric. Steve Thomas This may seem a bit obtuse, but in my mind it's apropos your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 @Benjamin Cole2. My take is Fox-Carlson is on the outs with the national security state---did you see Carlson say Pompeo must have known who killed JFK. Egads! Meanwhile, there are platoons of ex intel-state guys holding forth at CNN and MSNBC. Too many to count. Let's disagree on this one. Benjamin, I’ll begin with Kash Patel because the line of inquiry establishes that the alt-right supports their very own“deep state,” the euphemism for the very same Military-Industrial Complex on an international scale that fueled the decision to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. These are the ideological descendants. Spinning Trump as the “no war” president to rail against the “deep state” fails to take into account his $738 billion defense bill before he left office. NSC aide who worked to discredit Russia probe moves to senior ODNI post By Daniel Lippman 02/20/2020, Politico Kash Patel, a former acolyte of Rep. Devin Nunes, is now a top adviser in the Office of National Intelligence. Kash Patel, a former top National Security Council official who also played a key role as a Hill staffer in helping Republicans discredit the Russia probe, is now a senior adviser for new acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, according to four people familiar with the matter. (more on Grenell later.) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/kash-patel-odni-post-116546 ***** Patel’s official bio. KASHYAP P. PATEL, ESQ. Former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Mr. Patel served as the former Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and is responsible for leading the Secretary’s mission at the Department, including his executive staff and providing counsel to the Secretary on all matters concerning the Department’s operations. Previously, Mr. Patel served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism (CT) at the National Security Council (NSC). In that capacity, Mr. Patel oversaw the execution of several of President Donald J. Trump’s top priorities, including eliminating ISIS and Al-Qa’ida leadership such as al-Baghdadi and Qasem al-Rimi, and the safe repatriation of numerous American hostages. Mr. Patel also served as Principal Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence, where he oversaw the operations of all 17 intelligence community agencies and provided the President’s Daily Briefing. Before joining the NSC, Mr. Patel served as the National Security Advisor and Senior Counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), where he spearheaded the investigation into the Russian active measures campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election. Concurrently, he oversaw sensitive programs for the Intelligence Community and U.S. Special Operations Forces and worked to enact legislation to fully fund the multi-billion dollar budgets supporting intelligence and counterterrorism operations worldwide. In other words, Patel has been entrenched in the “deep state” apparatus for decades.Yet, Patel had the hutzpah to opine on Breitbart News as recently as 3 Mar, 2023. ‘Taking on the Swamp’ — Kash Patel: ‘There Is No Deep State Without the Fake News Mafia’ Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) about how to take on the administrative state, former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel said “There is no deep state without the fake news mafia.” Lamenting the fact Americans even have to talk about the reality of a “deep state,” Patel called it something one would normally hear about in “tyrannical dictatorships.” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/03/taking-on-the-swamp-kash-patel-there-is-no-deep-state-without-the-fake-news-mafia/ ***** Moving from Patel to Erik Prince. . . Anyone who has studied the “deep state” knows that Erik Prince’s Blackwater and subsequent iterations is the quintessential private military contractor able to skirt Congressional oversight of his for-profit private mercenary operations in dozens of global hotspots since 1996. His sister was Trump’s Secretary of Education, a woman who advocated for private vouchers that erode America’s public school system. The Men Behind the Nunes Memo The House Intelligence Committee’s chair wasn’t alone in drafting the classified memo that it just voted to release. By Natasha Bertrand JANUARY 30, 2018, The Atlantic [Kash] Patel also formally invited Erik Prince to testify before the House Intelligence Committee last summer following a meeting between Prince and Nunes “over the summer or early fall,” according to a transcript of Prince’s interview, which was conducted on November 30. The meeting raised eyebrows given Nunes’s recusal from the Russia investigation at the time and Prince’s status as a witness in that probe. ***** From Prince and Patel, we move to Patel and Carlson and Fo News, Murcoch’s private, partison, alternative ”deep state” media conglomerate . . . Of note, Patel is not relegated to alt-right broadcast and print media i.e., Breitbart or Gateway Pundit, he’s also a favorite consultant on Fo News. Here he is, March 9, 2023, calling on Tucker Carlson to pursue Ray Epps. See how this works, Benjamin? KASH PATEL CALLS ON TUCKER CARLSON TO RELEASE FOOTAGE OF UNDERCOVER FEDS Mar 8 2023 "Ray Epps was on FBI's most wanted list one day, and the next day he was off. There are only two ways that happens: you die, or you are an informant. . . .https://rumble.com/v2c70lc-kash-patel-calls-on-tucker-carlson-to-release-footage-of-undercover-feds.html ***** And who first advanced Patel’s ideology with millions of Fo viewers? Sean Hannity who took him to meet Trump in the oval. Patel is no ordinary aide to Trump. During the Trump administration, he served as Deputy Assistant to the President, a job he reportedly “landed after Fox News host Sean Hannity took him to meet Trump in the Oval.” After the November 2020 elections, Patel was dispatched to the Defense Department as chief of staff to the acting defense secretary where, among other activities, he reportedly pursued the idea that Italian military satellites had been used to turn votes to Joe Biden in the presidential election, according to Jonathan Karl’s book and the House Select Committee hearings. Since leaving office, Patel has joined the board of directors for the former president’s media company, Trump Media & Technology Group. On June 19, 2022, Trump sent a letter to the National Archives designating Patel as one of the former president’s “representatives for access to Presidential records of my administration.” Patel claims to have been in the room when then-President Trump verbally declassified documents. He has often made other statements in right-wing interviews that anticipate and put forward Trump’s specific claims of innocence about the Mar-a-Lago documents.https://www.justsecurity.org/82723/trump-associates-stated-plan-to-publicly-release-declassified-documents/ Additionally, Patel has close ties to the QAnon conspiracy movement, which Trump has also fully embraced. Patel used QAnon to build the user base of Trump-branded social media site Truth Social; Nunes, his former boss, is the site’s CEO. He has also praised QAnon activists, and defended signing his book using a QAnon slogan. https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/kash-patel-announces-he-will-tour-united-states-trump-campaign-surrogate-2024 ***** Patel and Richard Grenell, Trump’s Amb. To Germany and proposed to serve as his acting Director of Intelligence … Kash Patel, a former top National Security Council official who also played a key role as a Hill staffer in helping Republicans discredit the Russia probe, is now a senior adviser for new acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, according to four people familiar with the matter. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/kash-patel-odni-post-116546New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support Phillip Olterman June 4, 2018, The Guardian Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breaching protocol over interview with Breitbart German politicians have criticised Donald Trump’s new ambassador to Germany after he said he wanted to “empower” anti-establishment rightwing forces throughout Europe. “US Senator Chris Murphy said rightly that ambassadors are not supposed to ‘empower’ political parties. Ambassador Grenell is new on his post and I hope this irritation will not be repeated.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/new-us-ambassador-to-germany-under-fire-for-rightwing-support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 20 Years Ago Today, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 A Four-Decade Secret: The Untold Story of Sabotaging Jimmy Carter’s Re-election – DNyuz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 (edited) Begin min. 7.15 ". . .Crypto ... should we be backstopping Americans or Agents of Chaos?" [caveat, it's my opinion that failure to follow mainstream news coverage, in this instance CBS, leaves one ill-informed as to what millions of fellow US citizens are absorbing — much of which, like it or not — is fact based and vetted by multiples of fact-checkers.] Edited March 19, 2023 by Leslie Sharp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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