Mon Episode #2063: No Hack Needed: App Left Personal Info on a Public Server
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In the world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
It's the David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it is Friday, it is Monday, the 28th of July, year of our Lord 2025.
We've got another lesson on why you should be careful with your data.
It's from the T-App and McDonald's.
Security when it comes to online data is a myth.
We've got more AI fatigue as people begin to realize those pushing it have overpromised and under-delivered.
Stay with us.
Welcome to the show today, folks.
We have video frozen, but we're working on that.
Today in the studio, we don't have any air conditioning, so it's going to get very, very warm in here as the day goes on.
And I ask you to bear with us as I try not to collapse from heat stroke.
But as I said, we've had object lessons in why data security online is a myth.
I'm going to start with what's going on with the T-App.
This was basically a gossip app where women could go online and complain about men.
It started out as sort of a, well, potentially noble idea, I guess, in the fact that women could go on there and try to warn other women about men they thought were predatory, but it quickly devolved into nothing but gossip and vitriol.
So this is hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the T-App designed as a women's safe space.
The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.
Now they're saying that this was from old data that if you joined after 2024 your data is safe.
But anyone that joined before that, they put all of their selfies into an unprotected bin, which was accessible just so long as you had the URL.
There wasn't any type of login or password required.
So this wasn't even really a hack.
Someone just found where this stuff was and it was able to be downloaded immediately.
It says hackers have breached the T-App, which again, this wasn't even really a hack.
It was just someone found the URL, which recently went viral as a place for women to safely talk about men.
And again, it was a gossip app.
And tens of thousands of women's selfies and photo IDs have now seemingly been leaked online.
A spokesperson confirmed the hack Friday afternoon.
The company estimates that 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs, were accessed.
They got the information on so many different people.
It says T is designed to function as a virtual whisper network for women.
Again, gossip.
Allowing them to upload photos of men and search for them by name.
Users can leave comments describing specific men as a red flag or a green flag and other information about them.
It recently gained such popularity that it became the top free app in the Apple App Store this week.
It seems like these women really did love their gossip.
The app claimed Thursday to have recently gained nearly a million new signups.
Isn't that signing up for tea requires users to take selfies, which the app says are deleted after review to prove they're women.
Again, depending, they might, by modern standards, have some trouble defining what a woman is.
All users who got accepted are promised anonymity outside of the usernames they choose.
Taking screenshots of what's in the app is also blocked.
The hacker accessed a database from more than two years ago, the TE spokesperson said, adding that this data was originally stored in compliance with law enforcement requirements related to cyberbullying prevention.
Cyberbullying, again, is the most ridiculous term.
If you're getting cyberbullied, there's a very easy fix.
Turn off the computer.
Don't go back to the website.
Whatever it is, just stop that.
These people, they can't find you as a general rule in real life.
Or even if they know where you live, they're probably not going to come track you down.
If you're getting cyberbullied, turn off the computer and stop engaging with those people.
It's a very simple process.
The T spokesperson said that the company has hired third-party cybersecurity experts and is working around the clock to secure our systems.
Protecting our users' privacy and data is our highest priority.
T is taking every necessary step to ensure the security of our platform and prevent further exposure, the spokesperson said.
I don't know how much further the exposure could be.
They basically got everything up to government IDs you had stored there.
What more?
Hypocrisy and irony of it is what gets me.
It's they're all upset because their photos were leaked without their permission on the app where they share photos of people taken without their permission.
It's funny, they're all about protecting their users' privacy, quote unquote, even though they were just storing it in a publicly accessible URL.
But their app is all about destroying other people's privacy.
They literally have facial recognition to look to see if someone has uploaded a photo of someone else before so that you can get all the notes that they have of that person.
Wow.
The app has angered some men and prompted a thread Thursday evening on the right-wing troll message board 4chan.
Yes, the hacker known as 4chan has struck again, in which users called for a hack and leak campaign.
The company became aware of the incident which first reported by 404 media early Friday, the spokesperson said.
A 4chan user posted a link Friday morning allegedly allowing people to download the database of stolen images and troves of alleged victims.
Identification photos have been posted on 4chan and X. NBC News has not verified the authenticity of the photos or their provenance.
Yeah, if you're on X at all, there's people continually posting about this.
People always...
This is no exception.
And these women's images are now basically a global phenomenon.
Do not go downloading them.
I'm sure there's some kind of legal repercussions for that, but they are out there.
And they are now going to be out there forever.
There is no getting this stuff back.
On Google Maps, a user has created a map that purports to show the locations of T users that were affected by the hack, though there are no names attached to the coordinates posted.
T-App's creator Sean Cook, you'll notice it's a man, said on its website that he was inspired after he watched his mother's terrifying experience with online dating, including being catfished and unknowingly dating men with criminal records.
I'm sure that you can't have scary experiences and that there are a lot of very strange people you can encounter, but creating a full-on gossip app seems a little bit extreme.
Some men online have expressed in online posts that they fear being misrepresented or doxed on the platform.
And again, they didn't give their permission for their photos and things to be posted.
And I'm sure a lot of these guys are not guilty of committing crimes.
Perhaps they were just strange.
Perhaps they don't come across well.
And now they're being exposed online for not having the most sparkling personality or not taking someone on the best date.
Also, anyone can post anything about anyone anonymously.
So if a woman has a vendetta against you for some reason, she can go on there and make all kinds of claims.
Raise concerns that the app could lead to harmful cyberbullying unrelated to actual safety concerns.
Again, I'm not concerned about cyberbullying.
If someone is going online and saying mean things about you directly to you, trying to get a reaction out of you, don't react and don't engage.
If they're trying to upset you, just ignore them.
Walk away.
Don't deal with them.
That's the simple post.
I'm not worried about cyberbullying.
What's scary is the fact that they could engage in a smear campaign.
Just slander and libel people.
In a few online forums, men have floated the idea of creating their own men-only version of the app as payback for women's use of tea.
One such app called T-Born quickly ignited backlash after its creator called users out for posting RevengePorn.
The app is now removed from the app store.
Yeah, that's illegal.
They will charge you with a crime.
Don't do that.
Don't do not.
The app said an Instagram story that new sign-ups have surpassed 2 million in the past few days.
Many who have posted on the app's Instagram page that they're made on the app's waitlist.
By Friday, several commentators had also started expressing concerns about their data privacy in the wake of the hacking news.
All this because people wanted to gossip.
That's kind of the takeaway here.
Was it worth it?
Did you get enough...
There always has to be.
It's what, you know, drives the dopamine drip.
Oh, look, I posted this thing about this guy.
And all these other women commented on it saying, thank you.
Thanks for warning me.
Minute Man Militia, also someone who exaggerate these things or think something is weird about a guy, which can be innate.
Yeah.
The dating modern dating scene is pretty tragic.
It's pretty awful.
There are.
And of course it's going to get worse if this app continues to rise in popularity.
Have something that you say that's weird that gets put on your permanent record.
And now every time they scan your face, you'll get the dystopian social credit dating score.
Yeah.
He made some off-color comments.
He made a joke I didn't like.
He's racist.
He's sexist.
He's this.
He's that.
And if they're this casual with the data from their users with their state IDs and everything, how cautious do you think they're being with the data of the victims of the app, the people that they're uploading the photos of?
Yeah.
T-AppLeak shows why UK's digital ID verification laws are dangerous.
Yeah.
You force these companies to collect their government-issued IDs and you store them in an unprotected, unsecured place where anyone can find them.
Of course, again, they're saying that this was from before 2024 and that they upgraded their security.
The question is: why was this their solution at all at any time?
This was obviously a terrible idea.
This was obviously always going to end this way.
And even if, you know, this was why didn't you migrate this data?
Why didn't you delete it after you had the opportunity to increase security?
These companies do not care.
It was probably expensive to do that.
And they just looked at it like, eh, we'll get to it eventually.
One day, maybe.
Assyrian girl.
How would this vicious app be viewed if it were the reverse?
Men saying mean things about toxic women they have dated.
Not well, I think.
Yeah, probably not.
Women have kind of carte blanc in this day and age to be as savage and ruthless towards men as they want.
since it's seen as well.
Men are...
And every men is a potential, you know, threat to them at all times.
And it's just this weird flux state.
The Online Safety Act is actually a threat, yeah.
The UK's Online Safety Act legislation marketed as a safety net for children was rolled out with all the foresight of a toddler launching a space program.
Now any site hosting potentially harmful content could be required to collect real-world ID, face scans, or official documents from users.
And if more websites are forced to do this, then this kind of thing is going to become the norm.
Companies, even if they secure them, nothing that you store online is perfectly secure.
If a hacker decides, well, one with sufficient skill decides they want this information, they don't care about the potential consequences, they're probably going to get it if they devote themselves to it.
What could go wrong?
Ask T, the women-centric dating app that went viral by promising empowerment and faceplaned it into one of the most dangerous data breaches of the year.
Their Firebase server, housing tens of thousands of selfies and government-issued IDs, was left wide open to anyone with a link.
That's right, as I've said.
It wasn't encrypted.
You didn't even need a password or username.
It was just there.
If you had the link, you could access it and download these files.
Private companies getting access to sensitive personal data with all the discretion of a parade float and then dropping it into the laps of the entire internet.
Let's pause for a moment and appreciate the cosmic genius it takes to build an app allegedly designed to protect women and then expose all their private data to the world with the finesse of a first-time hacker copying a URL.
That's right, it took no skill.
You didn't have to know anything about hacking.
I don't know any of the terms, so I'm not going to try to, but you don't have to imagine the guy, the typical hacking scene from any Hollywood movie where he's sitting there typing rapidly.
The guy just copy and pasted a URL in.
T, the dating app that rocketed to the top of the app store by selling anonymity, safety, and empowerment before faceplanting into the Firebase server floor, spraying driver's licenses and selfies like a busted confetti cannon.
If you missed it, here's the elevator pitch from the seventh circle of Infosec Hell.
T lets women upload photos, names, and backstories of men they're dating or avoiding, tagging them as green flags or red flags, like they're judging a homecoming parade.
My question is, if you're dating some guy, why would you be posting his green flags?
Isn't that just like saying, please, come try to steal this guy I'm dating?
He's great.
He's wonderful.
Why are you posting this to women who are ostensibly only looking for someone to date them, I suppose?
That seems like...
I'm not understanding the thought process here.
This was already a privacy demolition derby waiting to happen.
Or also the fact that even if he is a green flag, if he broke up with you, chances are these people are not going to have many good feelings about it.
I'm not understanding.
Yeah, I don't think posting green flags was really the point of the app.
Yeah, that seems like just a tacked on feature.
Like, and you can do this.
Sure, why not?
Make it seem less vicious.
No, no, it's not all about complaining about men and posting how horrible they are.
You can say how good they are, too.
I'd like to know the ratio of green flag posts to red flag posts.
I'm not calling for any hacking.
I'd just be curious.
I'm not going to look into it.
But T wasn't satisfied with sketchy crowdsourced accusations and anonymous call-outs.
It had a bigger goal, making sure only verified women could participate.
Only verified women, the trans community, is seething right now.
They're furious, I'm sure.
Not necessarily.
I was trying to put on the board, but there's pictures of people, you know, with beards just wearing an obvious wig.
Hello.
Hello, it is me, a woman.
Let me in.
And how do you verify womanhood in the 21st century?
We've been arguing about that for a few years now, actually.
Naturally, you demand a selfie and a government-issued ID.
Nothing says safe space like giving your face and passport to a buzzy gossip app run by people who store it in a public accessible firebase bucket.
No login, no password, no shame.
The data leak erupted, users on 4chan stumbled across the open database and wasted no time slurping up tens of thousands of selfies, driver's licenses, and even private messages, no encryption, no metadata.
No metadata scrubbing.
Some uploads still contain geolocation data, meaning anyone who clicked submit had essentially handed over a real-time breadcrumb trail to their front door.
You can see this photo there.
This is from somebody named Crypto Siberia, Lane on the blockchain.
I guess the T app also store GPS location for sign-ups.
LOL, when you think it couldn't get much worse.
My homie actually created these maps apparently, and I didn't even know until like five minutes ago.
Lawsuit when?
Yeah, I imagine there is a lawsuit coming.
I imagine it's going to be a big one.
Lane on the blockchain.
Good name.
It's referencing an anime called Serial Experiments Lane.
The fallout was immediate.
At least one of the IDs allegedly belonged to a Department of Defense employee, according to social media posts that are now circulating with gleeful Schadenfreude of Digital Voyeurs.
Department of Defense Employee.
Yes, that's what we want.
We want our DOD employees on gossip apps complaining.
Oh, they didn't do.
We live in such a silly time.
T scrambled out a statement at 6.44 a.m. on July 25th, claiming the breach affected a legacy system with data from over two years ago.
Well, isn't that wonderful?
over two years ago.
Doesn't help those tens of thousands of people that have been...
We don't save data, by the way.
We would never save your data, except for this data that we saved.
T-App users, we always want this place to feel this space to feel transparent.
Oh, it was very transparent.
It was so transparent, you turned over government-issued IDs.
The transparency was kind of the whole problem.
Yeah.
To people, to hackers.
I don't even feel comfortable calling this a hack.
This wasn't a hack.
A hack implies, you know, some level of either, you know, virtual, you know, cyber know-how to bypass systems or social engineering to get passwords.
This was just incompetence on the company's part.
There was no hacking required.
They didn't have to go in and socially engineer by calling up and pretending to be someone else and needing some kind of verification, yada yada.
They didn't run some kind of program that scraped data or passwords from somewhere.
They simply found a URL.
This isn't a hack.
It might have been maybe an Easter egg hunt or a scavenger hunt.
That's about it.
And our community is our first priority.
There's a lot of misinformation circulating, so please take a moment to read.
Here's what you need to know.
Yes, they're going to be completely honest with you, this company that stands to lose who knows how much money.
We discovered unauthorized access to an archive data system.
If you signed up for T after February 2024, all your data is secure.
This archive system stored about 72,000 user-submitted images, including approximately 13,000 images of selfies and selfies, including photo identification submitted during account verification.
These photos can in no way be linked to posts within T. And again, that's what they say.
I assume it can't be just because no one has come out saying they've done it yet, but still.
Additionally, 59,000 images publicly viewable in the app from posts, comments, and direct messages from over two years ago were accessed.
This data was stored to meet law enforcement standards around cyberbullying prevention.
Cyberbullying prevention.
We've acted fast and we're working with some of the most trusted cybersecurity experts.
For more information, please...
You have to just...
But at this point, there's nothing anyone with cybersecurity info can do.
It doesn't matter.
You could have the greatest expert on the planet.
What is he going to do?
Hack the thousands of people that have downloaded this data, hack every website where it's stored now and delete it?
There's no point.
It's too late.
And again, just the hypocrisy of this.
We're our cyberbullying prevention.
They're literally an app all about cyberbullying.
We're here to complain and moan about men.
But of course, T's entire pitch to women was that it created a safer dating ecosystem by weeding out imposters and creeps through ID-based gatekeeping.
But as it turns out, the real danger wasn't the guy with the red flag tag.
It was the company itself that built a high-value honeypot of sensitive personal information and then forgot to put a lid on it.
T's disaster is less standalone embarrassment and more like a blinking red billboard advertising the idiocy of digital ID verification as a privacy safeguard.
Yeah, as I said, any info that's accessible through the web is up for hack.
Nothing online is truly secure if someone wants to gain access to it.
Chances are they will, or somebody will.
These systems are never secure.
The idea sounds good in committee rooms and on tech conference stages, require young people to upload real ID to confirm their identity online, and magically the trolls vanish, the bots disintegrate, and your app becomes a utopia of civil discourse and polite dating.
Except no, what you actually get is a surveillance regime that centralizes priceless identity data and systems so brittle they buckle under the weight of a URL request.
T didn't suffer a breach because of a masterful hack.
It got busted because it left the front door open and taped the key to the welcome mat.
They took no precautions.
Again, it was literally publicly accessible if you had the URL.
There wasn't any encryption.
It wasn't behind any firewalls.
It was just right there.
Once you input the URL, it took you to this database and you could view everything.
Mistakes always happen and hacks are common, which is why platforms should be collecting as little data as possible.
And digital ID requirements are a dangerous idea.
Yeah, do you really think someplace like Facebook or X or Discord or any of these are companies you Really want having access to your driver's license or passport or whatever form of ID you utilize.
And it's not just going to be the big companies that you mentioned, Facebook and whatnot.
It's going to be a bunch of websites, you know, your ID sites scattered across hundreds of websites.
It's only a matter of time before one of them gets breached.
Yeah.
And even if, let's say, Facebook X, the large ones can keep your ID safe, they can pay enough money to have cybersecurity that will keep people out.
And they continue to update it as, you know, hack tactics evolve.
The smaller websites aren't going to have that.
They're not going to have the luxury of that.
Yes, and your data will be stored in these websites.
They are marketing it as anti-porn, but their definition of what is an adult website is extremely loose.
It includes things like Discord, which they use all the time.
It's just a messaging service.
People have pointed out that a stop smoking recovery forum was blacklisted, so people under 18 can't access that.
And if you are over 18, you still have to submit your data.
Support groups for sexual assault victims are now gated.
That's great.
So the sexual assault victims are going to have to have their IDs online.
And this group could get hacked, potentially leaking the information of these women who have been victimized, potentially trying to stay hidden from the people who victimize them.
And then their information gets leaked and will become your government ID with your address could be leaked as a sexual assault.
Isn't that wonderful?
And it's not like this practice is going away.
It's being enshrined into law.
The UK's shiny new Online Safety Act is a sort of performative legislation that gives regulators a warm feeling without the burden of logic.
Well, if we burdened our regulators with logic, they'd never get anything done.
T's breach is a preview.
That's right.
This is what is going to happen more and more frequently as more of these places require it.
Require you to have your ID stored online.
The defenders of digital ID verification like to use words like trust, protection, and authenticity.
They don't mention is what happens when things go wrong.
IDs are lifetime access tokens to your real world identity.
You can't revoke your face.
You can't replace your social security number.
Every time a startup forgets to set its permissions.
Yeah.
You are then a known quantity.
Everyone has your info.
Knights of the Storm.
I've pointed this out for years.
Everything is saved, required by certain laws.
I learned this when I was a systems admin for a cable internet company.
Your email has to be saved for several years in case it's required for an investigation.
Yeah.
They store all this data and leave it, not necessarily like T did, completely open to the public, but it's still available if someone is crafty enough.
We had an email for our users and had to stay in compliance.
We had copies of everything.
Yeah.
All these companies have so much information just waiting for someone to find ways to get it.
I mean, I don't know how many times I've gotten an email from some website that, you know, they force you to create an account when you do something there.
And then I forget it exists.
And later they send me an email, your account has been breached.
Please change your password.
It's like, great.
Great.
First, you force me to sign up and create an account to use your system, whether I'm purchasing something or what have you, and you can't keep it safe.
This is wonderful.
Denver Attaway.
Think of the internet and the IoT as one contiguous data siphon, each app, and we are in an era of the consolidation of these resources to feed whatever agenda who shapes and controls maintains the bullet points and action plans of driving technocracy.
Yep.
This is the chilling effect built into the bones of legislation.
Like the Online Safety Act, lawmakers are trading constitutional principles for press release optics, and users are stuck in a reality where privacy is painted as a threat to safety, instead of its foundation.
See collected 72,000 images, selfies, and IDs, dumped them into an open Firebase bucket like it was saving screenshots from a group chat.
So don't upload your passport to join a chat room.
Don't submit a face scan to access a site.
Don't trust that trendy app founded last year with your biometric data.
That's right.
Do not give these people your information.
They will lose it.
Knights of the Storm, I think we will see digital ID within this administration.
I think that's the way it's going.
I would not be surprised.
A push for that right now.
I imagine you have that in your stack.
Shelly A. Never accept terms, never use anything that requires your phone number or ID.
If you can avoid it, absolutely.
If you don't have to, if it's not something you absolutely need to do, then do not give your info out.
These companies are not interested in protecting it.
The UK's Online Safety Act is already causing problems to be hidden.
Causing protests, excuse me.
UK's Online Safety Act is already causing protests to be hidden.
They are using this, oh, we need to keep minors from seeing these, you know, we don't want minors seeing violence or content that we find questionable.
And so now they're able to go in there and say, well, we don't know how old you are.
We don't know for sure.
So you don't get to see these protests that are happening.
These people that are standing up to the government.
It's worth pointing out that they did this the first day it was passed.
They passed this under the whole excuse of we've got to protect the children from porn.
And the very first day, less than 12 hours after it was passed, they're blocking stuff related to protests against illegal migration and stuff outside of immigrant hotels.
Yeah.
And of course, if you want to see that, even as an adult, you've got to register, you've got to put in your ID, you've got to be put on a list as having viewed this information.
And children also should be able to educate themselves about politics.
People, teenagers.
British users attempting to view videos of anti-mass migration protests on X found themselves blocked on Friday, coinciding with the day the UK Sweeping Online Safety Act took effect.
Isn't that funny?
Wow, they just had this ready to go.
Legislation is already being condemned for facilitating online censorship under the veil of child protection.
Although sold to the public as a safeguard against minors encountering explicit content, the enforcement mechanisms are now being used to restrict access to politically charged material.
Well, when you look at it, anytime the government says this is to protect children, look at what they want to push on children.
They want to push homosexuality, transgenderism.
Separate them from their parents.
Protecting the children is another MacGovern to them.
They have no interest in protecting children.
It is always a way to get you to accept something.
Oh, well, it's to protect children.
I can't, you know, I can't be against it.
It's for the children.
It is always a scheme.
And everyone who's paying attention knows that they're going to go after free speech, but the funny thing is they didn't bother wasting any time, like, slowly boiling the frog.
They just went straight for it the second it's passed.
It's saw a comment.
This wasn't even a slippery slope.
It was just a sheer cliff.
They stepped off and wily coyoted right into the ground below.
The protests in question were sparked by outrage over an incident in Epping where a migrant allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl while living in a taxpayer-funded hotel.
Demonstrations followed swiftly, but footage of these events is now being filtered from UK audiences.
Well, that's right.
They can't have you knowing not only that this happened to this poor girl, but that people are actually standing up and protesting it.
Hey, all the migrant rapes is a very adult topic.
You wouldn't want people finding out about that.
If you want to learn about that, you got to put your ID in the government database.
Yeah, so they can put you on a list.
Oh, this guy doesn't like the migrant crisis.
He doesn't like the fact that they're raping our women and children.
Well, he's going on a list, buddy.
You better believe it.
Users attempting to access the protest content were met with a message stating due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age.
The restricted material reportedly included scenes of arrests and clashes during the protests.
That's the kind of content the law claimed to target.
Well, oh, funny.
Overreach.
No, the government would never do that.
Got this tweet here, or whatever you call a post on X these days.
The Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday, 25th, July, and we are already seeing the impact on free speech.
My earlier post displaying police brutality involving six officers arresting a single male at the no to mass immigration protests in Leeds has been heavily censored across the platform, with thousands of users being blocked from seeing the content.
Why is this?
Is this now the end of free speech on X?
What does this mean for Britain?
Moreover, are we now living in a North Korean or CCP style oppressive dictatorship?
The country being at possibly the most critical moment in our history, it is imperative now more than ever that we fight for our right to speak openly and to criticize this government and its tyranny.
Surely this goes against everything you stand for at Elon Musk.
Surely.
I mean, I know you've complied with everyone else's calls for specific types of censorship before, but surely you support free speech.
These people, they don't learn.
So look at 1980.
I don't trust any company to keep my data private, even if they say they will.
Many profit from selling the data.
That is as bad as getting hacked.
Yeah.
Many companies just flat out sell it.
You give it to them, and then somewhere in their EULA, they have it written down, oh, by the way, we can sell your data.
And they do.
Assyrian girl.
Wouldn't want children to learn that migrants were raping and attacking people.
That might cause them to be careful and protect themselves.
That's right.
Can't have that.
We don't want these children to learn who's victimizing them.
Can't have them taking precautions to avoid certain types of people.
That would be racist.
To meet the law's requirements, X has implemented various age estimation strategies.
These techniques originally framed as tools to shield minors from graphic material are now being used to restrict access to politically relevant video.
With companies facing penalties of up to 18 million, 18 million pounds, that's $24 million, or 10% of their global revenue, platforms are expected to err heavily on the side of caution.
Yeah.
They're not going to give up 10% revenue in the hopes of maintaining free speech.
We're going to take a quick break.
We are going to continue with free speech and deplatforming when we come back.
So stay with us.
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We've got a lot of comments.
Audi MRR, the manufactured migrant crisis, is a pathway to global digital ID, you know, to keep them out of the country.
Yeah.
And of course, even if the crisis is real, whatever they're suggesting isn't necessarily the solution.
And it's always the same solutions from these people.
Just another way of pushing toward the total digital panopticon, where they know everything about you all the time.
Yes, they can use real problems for their MacGuffins just as easily as they can use fake problems.
In fact, even better.
Just look at the solutions to see if it's the same solutions they push for everything.
It's always the same solution.
Oh, by the way, did you know that for this problem, if you just give us all your data, it would fix it?
Oh, funny, this problem over here has the same exact solution.
Funny how that keeps cropping up.
Shelly A. Just keep using these systems.
The new money is your data.
Stop feeding these criminals.
Yeah.
Nibadu 2029, Emperor Caligula.
Trump is a full partner in one of the world's largest biometric ID companies.
He's not a friend of the people.
Never has been, never will be.
Nights of the Storm.
Of course, there's a new bill that's being pushed in the U.S. that's identical to the child safety bill that they just passed in Britain and another thing in the UK.
It's a global push.
Yeah.
Nights of the Storm, I had to sign up with ID.me to access my VA stuff online and to do my taxes two years ago.
We all know how efficient and wonderful the VA is.
I'm sure they would never accidentally leak data.
Audi MRR public welfare has always been the alibi of tyrants.
And it's a quote from Albert Camas.
KWD 68 children are a prop to the elite, a propaganda tool.
Yes, they are.
They continually use the refrain, think about the children.
And then when you ask them what they want to do with the children, it turns out they want to trans them and mutilate them.
They don't care about children.
It's another thing like the put on your mask when you're killing grandma.
They don't care about grandma and the mask isn't going to help.
Give up your privacy or you hate children.
Knights of the storm, pretty easy to protect children if you just don't give them a device.
Yeah.
All these parents are always like, my child is being cyberbullied.
We have to do something about it.
Get them off the internet.
If your child is being cyberbullied, get them off the internet.
Take the device away from them.
I guarantee you, these people that are on the internet are not going to drive or fly to your house, stand outside with a sign, and continue to harass your child.
No amount of legislation can replace good parenting or synthesize it in any way.
KWD 68, families that are intact and parents that would protect children would be a good start.
Too few now.
Yeah.
The American family has been destroyed.
It has been under attack for decades now.
And they have done a very good job of making it a shell of its former self.
Con think.
Thank you very much.
We appreciate that.
When are we getting the Lance Cam?
Maybe wear an anonymous mask.
We're working on it.
We'll have him in there, you know, cloaked and shadowed, wearing a mask of some kind.
It would prevent me from doing the show with Bedhead.
That's right.
He'd have to, you know, not be in there with the hair all over the place.
Freedom Convoy lawyer debanked by Royal Bank of Canada.
No charges, no violations, just a severed account and a vanishing explanation.
The censorship by the financial sector is continuing to move on.
This is how they target people they really don't like.
They did that with us with PayPal right after the show started in 2021.
About five months in, they just terminated the account.
My dad never got an answer on to why it was.
The PayPal reps just kept saying, yeah, that's strange.
I don't have any information about it.
I don't, they're not telling me why.
This is what they do when you've really annoyed them.
They remove your ability to earn money or move money.
It's a tactic they employ against many different people.
Nights of the Storm, the same will happen with CBDC.
Yeah, and it'll be very easy.
Denver Attaway, the Online Safety Act.
Don't you feel safer, you guys?
Yes.
Don't you feel safer having to turn over all of your personal data to every website?
Feel safer knowing that, you know, your data is stored with these companies that don't really care whether it's protected or not.
And even if they did care, the likelihood that they could keep it safe is very small.
KWD68, I always feel better with all the things the government does for me, especially Trump.
Winning, that's right.
I'm tired of winning.
Royal Bank of Canada has severed its ties with Eva Chipiewick, a lawyer who played a high-profile role during the Freedom Convoy protests, citing vague risk-related concerns and giving her until mid-August 2025 to move her funds elsewhere.
Severed their ties with is such a polite way of saying debanked.
Risk-related concerns too.
A very vague nothing statement.
The transaction prompted a temporary freeze of her account and a series of questions she described as both strange and demeaning.
Though the freeze was lifted after questioning, she was cautioned to tread carefully with cryptocurrency soon after her accounts were abruptly closed.
The termination letter leaned heavily on regulatory obligations, stating we are no longer in a position to continue our banking relationship with you.
Beyond that, no evidence of wrongdoing nor any specific policy violation was mentioned.
This is how they operate.
No, we're not going to tell you what you did wrong, really.
You have to just deal with it.
We're not required to tell you anything.
That's the same thing that happened with our dad.
They just terminated the account.
No, sorry, even the guy who's looking at it doesn't get any information about it.
He seemed genuinely confused from what I remember.
Yeah, that's very strange.
I don't get it.
Well, it came down from the people higher up.
Those on high have decreed it, so, and they're not going to give anyone information.
Knights of the storm, we are rapidly approaching a time that you will not be able to take part in society without digital ID and CBDC.
We need an alternate society outside of the digital system.
Yeah, need to be able to have a community of people where you can get what you need and help them get what they need.
Air Force investigating whether SIG Sauer Pistol was a factor in airmen's death.
The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command is sidelining the M18 modular handgun system with the death of an Air Force security airman at F.E. Warren Air Base, Wyoming.
This happened on July 20th.
A lot of American gun manufacturers, the quality control tanked over the years.
Their designs got worse, and their ability to check if there was something wrong with the gun itself before it shipped got worse.
This has resulted in a sort of quality apocalypse when it comes to American firearms.
Not every single company, some of them still produce good ones, but I remember people talking about SIG having dropped off in quality tremendously.
A press release from the 90th Missile Wing Public Affairs Office on FE Warren provided no details of the incident.
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations has the case and no details will be released at this time to protect the integrity of the investigation, according to the press release.
The compact M18 and its full size counterpart, the M17, are the military and law enforcement variants of the SIG Sauer P320.
The Army selected SIG designs for the modular handgun system in 2017.
All branches of the U.S. military subsequently adopted the pistols as their standard sidearms.
Out of an abundance of caution and to ensure the safety and security of our personnel, the pause will remain in place pending the completion of comprehensive investigations by the Air Force, Hoffman wrote in an email to the Epoch Times.
Pistol has been dogged for years by claims that it is prone to unintentional discharge if handled or bumped without the trigger being pulled.
That's exactly what you want in a firearm, right?
It just goes off.
I mean, there's a lot of videos on the internet of SIGs doing exactly that.
I just saw a video of this most recent one where the guy engages the trigger the slightest amount that he can, just a slight pull.
There's still a lot of travel before it should fire.
And then he jiggles the slide a little bit and it goes off.
And he does that four times in a row.
Yeah, that is a horrible safety concern.
That speaks to terrible quality and just a bad design.
You always used to see in those 80s action movies where some guy drops, I think it's in lethal weapon, where the guy drops an Uzi or something and it goes spinning down the stairs and just keeps firing because, you know, oh, well, it's hitting the ground, so therefore It's going to go off.
This might be one of the only guns in the world where, if you do drop it and it bounces down the stairs, it might actually go off with each bounce.
At least 80 people have been injured since 2014 and several lawsuits have been filed.
In 2021, the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania dismissed a claim by an immigration and customs enforcement agent that his P-320 discharged while in its holster, wounding him.
Court ruled that the plaintiff failed to prove the pistol was flawed after the court rejected his expert witnesses.
So they'll try to give people standing to sue these gun manufacturers if their weapon is used in some kind of shooting.
But if you bring expert witnesses in to say, hey, this gun went off in my holster, it's a bad design.
They reject it.
Well, it is just hard to believe, because Sig had a great reputation for a long time, and people have known how to make guns that don't fire when you drop them for close to a century now, so it's...
Century, actually.
Knights of the Storm.
The Clarity Act gave control of crypto to the government.
Then the Genius Act laid the framework for CBDC.
Passed the day apart.
Yeah.
Funny how that happens.
Almost like there's some kind of plan, some kind of goal they're working towards.
I've read all those comments.
In 2020, Sig Sauer paid an almost $900,000 settlement in a case before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
In court documents, Sig Sauer said its agreements to settle was not an admission of negligence or wrongdoing on its part.
We didn't do anything wrong.
We're just paying this guy $900,000 for reasons.
Don't ask why.
Don't question it.
And again, there are times where the cost of a lawsuit may be more than what they are going to pay out in a settlement.
But considering this seems to be an ongoing problem, it seems more like this was a payment to get the lawsuit to stop.
Look, alright, we'll just give you some money.
We don't want to risk you winning this thing.
Knights of the Storm, stablecoins will come disguised as a government-trusted crypto, but it's really CBDC.
It's the same thing through a different channel.
They very rarely only have one avenue of attack.
They like having multiple different ways to get what they want.
In August 2024, the FBI evaluated the pistol for the Michigan State Police after one of its officers reported that he was shot by his holstered P-320 at the shooting range.
You don't want that.
You don't want it going off in your holster.
The FBI report offered no definitive answers as to what happened in that case, but indicated the situation warranted a deeper investigation.
While examination of the subject weapon did not independently provide evidence of an uncommanded discharge, it does indicate that it may be possible, a report from the FBI's ballistic research facility said.
Subsequent to the latest FBI test, the Michigan State Police adopted a different light slash holster combination and has completely fielded the Sigsauer pistol, Strater wrote.
Sigsauer has faith in the P-320 platform that has consistently been proven to only fire when the trigger is pulled.
It's been proven.
It is known.
The Air Force would not identify the airman who was killed, saying Air Force policy is to withhold identification until 24 hours after the next of kin has been notified.
America is going backwards when it comes to just about everything.
We can't make a decent firearm anymore.
We can't maintain our roads.
We can't maintain our bridges.
Well, Sigsauer is a German company, I believe, but they manufacture all their guns in the U.S., so they're kind of considered sort of American.
Even the Germans can't manufacture properly anymore.
When the Germans aren't doing good engineering, you've got a serious problem.
They are really destroying their brand with this quality control.
Like, they used to have a really good name, and they're devaluing, like, my SIG.
That is one of the good ones.
Or maybe it'll rise in value.
People will be nostalgic for the days when SIG was a quality brand, and as such, they'll be going back and buying the old ones.
Buddhajudge spent $80 billion on DEI, half the DOT's budget, instead of upgrading air traffic control, report.
That's right.
I'm sure he was sitting there like, hmm, we need more gaze in air traffic control.
How do I get more guys like me in here?
During his tenure, BuddhaJudge allegedly showed little interest in modernizing ATC systems.
He was definitely pushing an agenda, said one industry official.
Little to no interest was given to fixing the aging infrastructure.
Indefinitely, zero action was taken, they added.
This is part of the reason we can't maintain our systems.
We're not interested in hiring people that can actually do the job because, as a general rule, the vast majority of people that want to do these types of jobs are white males.
They happen to be the ones that really maintain the systems.
And you can't have that.
You've got to have DEI cutouts for women and other minorities.
You've got to make sure that you have people in there just because.
Tunnel Lord 1337 says SIG has always been known for issues.
Well, they have had a few runs of issues.
Like the P365 when it was first released, had a lot of problems, but then they addressed each of those problems and fixed it.
It's, you know, been a few isolated things.
This, it's like across their product line is really going downhill.
Yeah.
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Though maybe if you have one of these SIGs, you don't want it oiled and running smoothly.
Perhaps you want some rust in there to jam things up.
Back to Buddha Judge and his DEI obsession.
Instead, the posts exclusive notes that the DOT approved around 400 DEI-related grants between 2021 and 2024, totaling over $80 billion, billion with a B, more than half of the agency's typical annual budget.
By comparison, the previous administration approved just 60 such grants for only a few billion.
Oh, well, you know, that's how you know Trump is on our side.
He's only doing a little bit of DEI here and there.
He's not giving them $80 billion.
Just a few billion dollars for DEI.
Yeah, just a few billion.
What a great win.
Just a small number of billions.
Critics argue this redirection of priorities came at a cost in January 2023.
A major FAA system failure caused the first nationwide flight grounding since 9-11.
Meanwhile, air traffic controller staffing has remained dangerously low.
The 2024 industry letter warned it could take up to 90 years to meet staffing needs at key control centers at the current pace.
90 years.
Well, you know, I'm not going to be here to see if that problem is fixed at that time, but I don't think it would be.
Anytime you've got a solution that takes 90 years to implement, you don't have a solution.
Yeah.
It's hopefully the next generations will figure this out.
Well, you kids can work on it.
DOT spokesperson Chris Meager Jaeger?
Major?
Eh, whatever.
Defended Buddha Judge's record calling it absurd to claim he neglected modernization.
Well, he was modernizing things in a different way.
He was modernizing it in terms of who worked there.
More modern Americans.
You know, the hyper-sexual gay guy.
He was modernizing it.
He was going to bring it up to 2020 standards by no later than 210.
He was modernizing it by making sure that the people who worked there didn't necessarily have to be qualified in terms of skill, just in terms of their characteristics.
Oh, you're a gay guy?
Cool.
Come on on.
You're trans?
Wonderful.
Black?
Latino?
Lesbian?
Awesome.
Open the door.
Do you know how to run these systems?
No.
No?
Oh, well.
And of course, if you have these cutouts for specific groups, you're taking it away from, you know, someone who isn't in that group that may be qualified for the job and may do the job while you're waiting for this magical, you know, homosexual or whatever that is interested in air traffic control to show up.
B.L. Houghton, thank you so much for the tip.
We really do appreciate it.
We cannot thank you enough.
Happy Monday, nights.
Cheers.
Yes.
Happy Monday, indeed.
It is.
The AC is busted in the studio.
It is getting very, very warm in here.
I am starting to sweat.
DOT spokesperson Chris Major defended Buttigieg's record calling it absurd to claim he neglected modernization.
He cited increased hiring, improved flight routes, upgraded runway software, and $5 billion in infrastructure funds for towers and power systems.
They continually will say, we did this, we did that.
But every time you actually check on anything, it's getting worse.
They'll point to these things.
Look, we allocated this money over here.
We put in these policies over there.
And then what actually happens is quality goes down.
And I have to wonder how much of this is just busy work and routine maintenance that they're dressing up to make it look like they really did something.
Yeah.
Don't believe your lying eyes.
Don't believe the continual collapse of quality.
Just look, we put in these policies.
Isn't it wonderful?
You also blame Congressional Republicans for blocking Biden's FY 2025 request for an additional 8 billion.
I wonder what that FY stands for, huh?
I could think of an acronym.
Secretary's Buttajudge focus was always on safety, not just in aviation, but also on roads and bridges, Makers said.
Well, isn't that wonderful?
Pothole Pete, the man known for neglecting infrastructure, is in charge of our infrastructure.
But industry officials counter that the FAA has operated with only 80% of its needed air traffic controller since at least 2017.
Retirements and high dropout rates persist contributing to cascading delays.
One official said.
That's right.
Only 80%.
No wonder there's continual delays at the airport.
They don't have the staff to actually track the planes.
Jay Leno Rips late night hosts for alienating half the country.
And they're not funny either.
They are simply propaganda mouthpieces.
And they can't even be bothered to be funny while doing it.
I don't know if this says more about their audience or them.
They are only there to push whatever the party line is.
It's funny when you think about it, because it's true they've taken what was an American staple, the late night show, and turned it into a super partisan, biased, garbage, rag propaganda piece.
And the funny thing is, so many people in my generation have gone so far left that these people, they see anyone who's not a borderline communist as being a fascist.
It's this continual, was it Herbert Marcuse, who speculated and postulated that anyone that is Not continually moving further left is in danger of becoming a fascist on the right.
I believe it was Herbert Marcuse.
I cannot remember exactly.
But they all ascribed this sort of ideology, where if you're not a socialist at minimum and trying to become a communist Marxist, then you are in danger of falling towards the right, of falling into fascism accidentally.
Leave politics to the politicians and just get on with being entertaining.
That's the advice iconic late night talk show host Jay Leno gave when he joined David Trulio, the president and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, to dissect his approach to political humor.
75-year-old reflected on his time as a successful host of the tonight show.
It's been going after Republicans and taking aim at Democrats.
Did you have a strategy?
Trulio asked.
It was fun to me when I got hate letters.
Like, Dear Mr. Leno, you and your Republican friends, and well, Mr. Leno, I hope you and your Democratic buddies are happy over the same joke, Leno recalled.
That's how you know you made a good joke.
You've offended everyone, not just a specific portion, I suppose.
And I go, well, that's good, he said.
That's how you get a whole audience.
Leno went on to note how late night comedy has changed amid the current divisive political landscape.
Now you have to be content with half the audience because you have to give your opinion, Leno said.
When Trulio asked if Leno had any advice for comedians today, the J. Leno's garage host referred to his longtime friendship with late comedy legend Rodney Dangerfield.
Said I knew Rodney for 40 years.
Said I have no idea if he was Democrat or Republican.
We never discussed it.
We just discussed jokes.
Talking about this, my dad said.
Take my political party, please.
And to me, I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, you know?
The pressures of life, whatever it might be, Leno continued.
And I love political humor, don't get me wrong.
But it's just what happens when people wind up cozy up too much to one side or the other.
The I don't watch much comedy.
I will occasionally.
I find stand-up comedy to be a less entertaining form of comedy.
But so many modern leftist comedians, they don't tell jokes.
They have lectures.
They're not trying to get a laugh out of you.
They're trying to get the audience to applaud them for their political opinions.
They're not trying to get them to chuckle.
They're trying to make them go, oh yes, that was a wonderful point.
Oh yes, we're on the right side of history.
Because to be funny usually comes with some slight offense to people.
And the left, you're not allowed to offend anyone.
Except, of course, white people.
Generally, only white men at that.
As Texas becomes the seventh state to ban lab-grown meat, Trump's FDA and USDA advance it.
Yeah.
They're also, the USDA is also pushing mRNA for meat.
Isn't that wonderful?
The mRNA vaccine for food.
Texas will become the seventh state to ban the production and sale of lab-grown meat in September.
Florida was the first, followed by Alabama last year.
This year, five more states, including Texas, followed.
They did so after the Trump administration took the opposite approach in 2019.
The first Trump administration was the first in U.S. history to begin the process to authorize lab-grown chicken, seafood, and beef.
Another wonderful gift from President Trump.
Lab-grown meat.
Tumor steaks.
No one else could have gotten this steak through.
It's a big, beautiful steak.
You're going to love your lab-grown steak.
It's just the same as a regular steak.
Sure, it looks like a tumor.
It tastes like one too, but you're going to love it.
This is from Zero Hedge, 11 stabbed in attack at Michigan Walmart.
Of course, Walmart doesn't want people to have guns for self-defense.
They don't like selling them.
At least 11 people injured.
Meanwhile, TJ Muscaro reports to the Epoch Times that Munson Healthcare posted on social media that 11 people were being treated at a hospital in northern Michigan, and a spokeswoman further said that all 11 were stabbing victims.
Spokesperson Megan Brown said late Saturday that six were in critical condition and five were in serious condition.
Was it a tactical assault knife?
A lot of people don't realize how dangerous stabbings are.
A stab wound can be very, very lethal.
People go after the manufacturers of that knife.
Exactly.
Was it a high-capacity knife?
But a stab wound is not just a, you know, oh, well, you're not shot, so no.
For a large portion of human history, stab wounds were the main method of killing people.
It was the go-to weapon of choice, was something you stabbed the other guy with.
Knives are remarkably efficient at killing people.
The Grand Traverse County the Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office later said in a statement on social media that the suspect was a 42-year-old man who entered the store.
The...
It just...
People are getting crazier.
The number of mentally ill people seems to be rising.
The number of people that are violent and commit violent crimes seems to be rising.
This is just my observations of things.
I don't have any data to back that up, but it sure seems that way.
Citizen of Americaca, mm-mm, steak mitosis.
That's right.
Won't it be wonderful?
You'll buy one steak, you leave it in your fridge, and it splits into another steak, and then another steak.
You just buy one steak and you're set for life.
What you were saying about things getting worse.
There weren't mass shootings a few decades ago when guns were a lot more common and they had, you know, shooting competitions in schools.
Yeah.
It is clearly the culture straying farther from gun.
Yeah.
40% of all violent crime suspects in German schools are foreigners over two knife attacks per day.
The wonders of multiculturalism and importing from countries that have violent cultures.
New data shows that 40% of all suspects identified in school violence in 2024 were not German citizens with Syrians at the top of the charts.
In total, there were 4,254 foreign suspects and 7,309 suspects with German citizenship.
The German government announced in response to a preliminary inquiry from Alternative for Germany AFD MP Martin Hess, of the 11,558 suspects in total, 1,236 had Syrian passports, representing one in 10 violent incidents, according to the data which was provided to Welt newspaper.
In second place were Afghans, who represented 3.6% of all suspects.
What should be noted is that an extremely large number of German suspects are individuals with a foreign background, but since they have German passports, they are counted solely as Germans.
Even with those with dual citizenship, they are only counted as Germans.
So they're inflating the numbers of Germans committing these attacks while decreasing the numbers for the other side.
Oh no, sure, he's from someplace else, but he's got a German passport, so that makes him German.
Yes, that's right.
All you have to do to be a German is get a German passport.
It's not about a culture or a heritage.
It's simply this document the government issues, and suddenly you're German.
You immediately become German.
This is the folly of multiculturalism.
Once you flood a country with people that don't share their values or their culture or their history, it's not the same country anymore.
You cannot transplant an infinite number of people and maintain cultural cohesion.
If we were to swap the populations of Japan and Mexico geographically, they wouldn't still be the same.
Mexico wouldn't continue on as it had been.
It would effectively be Japan and Japan would effectively be Mexico, and they'd go about rectifying the architectural differences and such.
And if you do it slowly over time, the process happens just not as quickly.
Tunnel Lord 1337, just a cancer blob that is in the shape of a steak.
Yeah, it's going to be wonderful.
Mama C, 1996.
My friend's grandmother was one of the victims.
She is doing okay.
Praise God.
I'm sorry to hear she was one of the victims, but I'm so glad to hear that she's doing okay.
Praise God.
So please, everyone in the audience, keep Mama C's friend's grandmother in your prayers.
We'll have to make sure that we pray for her and that she continues to heal properly.
Very sorry that that happened to her.
But again, wonderful to hear she's doing all right.
In total, there were 35,570 violent crimes in Germany's school system last year.
That amounts to 97 violent crimes per day.
One of those crimes, of those crimes, 740 were knife attacks.
That is over two knife attacks per day.
Well, you know those Germans.
Famous for their knife fights.
I remember growing up, and, you know, my father would always tell me, don't challenge a German to a knife fight, son.
That's what they're good at.
That's what they do in their spare time.
They're in school and they're knife fighting each other constantly.
It's a really big problem for the Germans.
However, when all crimes are taken into account, they total 94,318.
On top of that, 24,292 crimes took place at school events, such as at a school field trip or a theatrical production, which also included an additional 284 incidents involving a knife.
Nibiru 2029, mostly peaceful migrants.
Yes, that's right.
They're mostly peaceful.
You don't have to worry about them.
Sure, they're far more violent and commit violent crimes at a much higher rate.
Even when we try to obfuscate who's doing it and give them citizenship and claim that they're under German, that they are Germans and put them under the total of Germans, it still ends up being a terrible look per capita.
And these people, you know, they're coming from these areas that they claim to be refugees because the areas have a lot of crime.
And the crime is, you know, being committed by the young men.
And it's mostly the young men that are coming over here.
It's not the refugees.
It's the problem that's coming.
Yeah.
People don't check their culture or their beliefs at the door when they enter your country.
They bring them with them.
They are not going to give up on who they are as people.
Even when someone comes here or comes to any country and they want to be a part of that country and they want to embrace the culture, they are still going to have differences.
They are still going to have their own culture, which they want to adhere to somewhat, as a general rule.
And as such, even with legal immigration of that sort, you need to make sure it's at a pace that doesn't undermine the existing culture.
It's a very tricky subject.
And of course, I personally believe that the people of the country and the individual states within the United States have the right to decide who gets to enter.
If, say, Tennessee wanted to make a law barring anyone from Germany, let's say, or Switzerland or Mexico or Canada, or heck, even any of the other states, I think they should be free to do that and say, no, you want to move here from California?
I don't think so.
We don't want you.
Go away.
And personally, I'd be in favor of that law.
You do not have the right to a home in a specific area.
Watch viral video of Home Depot Karen's harassing ICE agents making arrests.
Of course, you can see the ICE agent there in that photo, in the article.
He's wearing a mask.
He has got his face fully covered.
He's wearing a ball cap and looks like sunglasses.
There is nothing to distinguish him at all.
These are fully masked thugs.
And let's try to steel man why they're doing this.
Let's try to look at it and say, what would cause them to do this?
In Mexico, when certain tasks force are going after the cartels, they wear masks for fear of reprisal.
They wear masks because the cartels have so much power that they're able to get info if their faces are seen.
I don't know how effective it is.
I imagine their identities are still listed in databases somewhere.
So I don't know if the masks are truly effective, but that's the reason given.
They're worried that the cartels will kill their families.
And with this, it also must be noted that the left will also go after you personally and dox you if they get your information.
Yes, but that we still do not enjoy the precedent or support the precedent of having these fully masked unknowns with the full authority to drag you out into the street under pretense.
There's no good solution on either side.
Yeah, and again, they allowed the migration crisis to happen.
They fostered it.
But that doesn't mean the solutions they're giving you are the good ones.
Because whether or not you think this is called for with the level of the crisis, there are a lot of much less authoritarian things that would have a greater effect, like getting rid of all the benefits for illegals.
Yeah, if you get rid of the welfare state, it will stop pulling people in.
I would be curious.
I'm personally of the opinion that even if you get rid of the welfare state, I'm not sure many of them will leave.
Since being poor here in America may very well beat being poor in the countries they came from.
It won't fix the problem 100%, but this isn't going to 100% fix the problem.
Yeah, I'm just saying I'm not one of those people that's like, oh, you just get rid of the welfare state and problem solves.
It's the first step you need to take, but it's not going to cause a mass demigration, I don't think.
You have to start penalizing people and making their lives more difficult somehow if they came here illegally.
And I do think deportations are necessary.
But the fact that they went straight for the authoritarian stuff while not touching any of the logical stuff really shows that this is another MacGuffin.
Yeah.
It's a real problem, but it's also MacGuffin.
The woman who posted the video to the account at Life by Danny closed captioned the video and posted commentary.
The video shows her joined by two other women in confronting the agents, swearing at them, demanding to see a warrant, accusing them of kidnapping, berating them for wearing masks, and insulting them for being ICE agents.
One woman kept trying to get a phone number from one of the suspected illegal aliens so she could contact his family and was upset because the agents were too busy making an arrest to accommodate her demands.
Now, again, this is not the solution we want, but you also have to understand the psychology of the people that are berating these.
They're not over there thinking about civil liberties.
They're not over there thinking about, oh, this is a dangerous precedent.
Yada, yada.
This is simply about white people being racist to them.
I guarantee it.
I guarantee these women are simply over there thinking like, oh, well, America is built on stolen land and this, that, and the other.
If they're thinking at all, they're simply coming at it from a Marxist, you know, critical theory lens where oppression hierarchies exist.
And as such, you can't really make common cause with these people.
You can't get together with these people and say, well, we agree on the fact that they're doing this and it needs to be stopped.
They will stab you in the back immediately.
They will immediately step over your corpse to get their agenda passed.
Don't frag me, bro.
The people being allowed in are coming from anti-thetical cultures and flown to middle-class America for a reason.
Just look at the UK.
They're also primarily single males of military AGI because those are the ones that cause the most damage.
Those are the ones that get upset when they can't find work, assuming they're looking for work.
They're the ones that do the most harm.
Denver Attaway, how about ending corpo-tax loopholes and taxing companies that are larger than most countries?
There might be some deadweight lost resources to be repatriated from there.
Just saying.
Yeah, I'm also for heavily penalizing companies that hire illegal aliens.
if you can't afford to pay Americans to do the job, I'm sorry.
Maybe you don't get to do the job.
Also, And a lot of people don't realize that their employer is paying taxes on all the wages they're paying them, but you don't have to pay that with an illegal.
Yeah.
You get to pay them less, and then you don't have to pay the government, so you end up saving a lot of money by hiring illegals.
No secret police bill in Pennsylvania aims to unmask ICE.
Joining state lawmakers from California, New York, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, the unmask ICE effort is a reaction to officers concealing their identities to evade public attacks in retaliation for the agency's operation, which have led to widespread fear, anger, and protests.
And again, I think necessarily they do need to be unmasked.
And I'm sure there will be difficulties with that.
It'll probably lead to problems for them, but that is the job they signed up for.
They are, you know, they are public servants.
And as such, we should be able to know who they are.
I know I'm sure a lot of them are simply trying to do the right thing.
I'm not one of those people that thinks every police officer is bad.
I think the entire institution of it is bad, and if you are a part of it, that's a problem.
But I don't necessarily think each individual one is some mustache-twirling villain that is out to abuse their power.
That doesn't give them a pass for being a part of the system, but it should change how you interact with them and try to change their mind on things.
That's my opinion.
We need good cops.
Like, you can't just say all cops are bad because obviously some of them are really trying and the system is systemically corrupt.
But, you know, people can still try and work and do good within that, especially at the level of sheriff.
Yeah.
Sheriff is where you can make a lot of difference.
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Assyrian Girl, I think pulling the plug on welfare and Benny's will start a mass demigration.
Maybe they will then target the EU.
Wouldn't that be nice?
But there will be some who remain.
Still would be a net win for the U.S. I agree.
It would be a net win.
It's the first step that absolutely has to happen.
It has to happen if you are serious about getting these people out of the country.
If you don't do that, nothing you do is going to stop people from flooding the country.
And the politicians that were shot, those two politicians by that crazy guy a while ago, they were shot because they supported ending a bill that would end some of the benefits to illegals.
Citizen of Americaca, yeah, good guys shouldn't wear masks, but cartels.
What about the latest robbery?
That wasn't a random hit on those ICE agents, Travis.
He didn't want their wallets.
He wanted their lives.
Again, I think it's a very nuanced problem.
I do agree that the cartels are incredibly violent and dangerous.
And I don't think there is a good solution where everyone is happy with this.
It's not a great solution, though you are kind of put in a position of protecting the police that sign up to be between the threat and you and protecting the people.
When you have them wearing masks, that's kind of begging for a police state, which is a danger in and of itself.
But on the other hand, when things get too dangerous, there comes a point where you can't ask the police to do that.
Yeah.
So I understand where you're coming from, and I agree that these guys do deserve levels of protection.
And I don't know what the solution that makes everyone happy is.
The cartels are incredibly violent, and we are not afraid of targeting government employees and officials to get their way or to make a point.
KWD 68, the militarization of the police was a great idea to keep us safe.
Yeah, they've done a wonderful job keeping us safe so far.
It's don't you all feel so safe and secure?
This is from the Mirror U.S. Trump takes no chances in armored golf buggy as protesters storm streets.
That's right, he's got Golf Force One.
You can see it here.
It's an armored little almost looks like a gator.
What a ridiculous thing to have.
Photographers have noticed a new security support system for U.S. President Donald Trump, an armored golf cart so he can play around peacefully.
That's right.
I suppose this is more of an unhappy Gilmore scenario.
President Donald Trump was presented with an armored golf cart for his visit to Scotland, where protesters are planning plenty of disruptions to express their feelings.
Yes, we heard many of them were out there shouting, get out of my swamp.
During Trump's recent visit to the Trump Turnbury Golf Course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, security team introduced a black reinforced armored golf cart referred to as Golf Force One for the president's protection.
The buggy wasn't driven by Trump, but is thought to be his getaway vehicle should anyone open fire on the course.
This sounds like something that would have been in some ridiculous action movie years ago, you know?
What is that uh I don't know.
There's some ridiculous action movie where the White House gets attacked.
It seems like something that would have been in that.
But reality.
That'd be a good title.
The bugy wasn't driven by Trump, but is thought to be his getaway vehicle.
The Beast is the armored U.S. presidential state car, according to the Daily Mail.
It is believed to be bulletproof and equipped with fancy security features, potentially including smoke screens and electrified door handles.
A U.S. Secret Service spokesman said to the Mail that the agency employs a variety of tools and resources to safeguard our protectees in order to maintain operational security.
Secret Service does not discuss the specific means and methods used to conduct our protective operations.
President Donald Trump played golf at his Turnbury course in Scotland on Saturday, accompanied by his son Eric and U.S. Ambassador Warren Stevens.
Security kept protesters at a distance.
As Trump enjoyed his round, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Edinburgh and other UK cities to protest his visit, criticize British leaders for cooperating with him and voice opposition to U.S. policies.
The protests organized by various groups including environmentalists and pro-Ukraine activists formed a Stop Trump coalition and described their actions as a carnival of resistance.
A carnival of resistance.
These people are unserious.
They cannot help but inject this sort of ridiculous, stupid language into everything they do.
It's a carnival of resistance, guys.
We're going to have so much fun.
We're going to be out there.
We're going to have face painting and balloons.
There'll be clowns.
There's always clowns at every leftist protests.
Trump's late mother, Mary Ann McLeod, was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, and the president has suggested he feels at home in the country.
Protesters out and about wanted to make Trump feel different.
I don't think I could just stand by and not do anything, said Amy White, 15 of Edinburgh, who attended with her parents.
She held a cardboard sign that said, We don't negotiate with fascists.
I cannot help but roll my eyes at these people.
The thing is, even there, they have a reason to be upset with Trump, with the Warp Speed vaccine that he pushed, but they aren't upset about that.
They're upset because of America's immigration policies on American soil, which doesn't affect them.
The level of gaslighting that white European countries have undergone for years about if you want to maintain social cohesion, if you want to keep your country for the people that built it, you're racist and fascist, is truly mind-boggling.
These people are excited to turn it over to people that will destroy it.
Who cares?
It doesn't matter.
You can become Scottish just by immigrating there.
If the government hands you a piece of paper that says you're Scottish, you're Scottish.
That's right.
If I were to go to Scotland and become a citizen, that makes me Scottish.
And I therefore can tell them what a true Scotsman is.
In fact, I might tell them that there is no such thing as a true Scotsman.
I mean, Trump just said he feels at home in Scotland, so who are they to say that he's not Scottish?
Yeah.
Angry Tiger's Den says, maybe if we did not fund the cartels, we would not have to worry about it.
That's a good first step.
Perhaps if we got rid of the drug war and stopped allowing them this massive cash cow, they'd be less dangerous.
Angry Tiger has a lot of good information, makes a lot of great points.
Defy Tyrant 1776.
We better be careful what we wish for.
We shouldn't be yearning for government to round up people using Gestapo tactics.
Yeah, that is the main point.
What they do to others, they will do to you, as a general rule.
It's not that these people don't deserve to be rounded up and kicked out of the country.
It's you have to be careful what you empower the federal government with.
What you let them do can be very, very dangerous.
Defy Tyrant 1776, Trump using taxpayer money to enrich himself through his private businesses.
Gotta love America.
That's right.
That's true.
You've got to ship the armored golf cart there, have the Secret Service all over his private golf course in a foreign country bringing publicity to it.
I'm sure that it was cheap.
I'm sure it didn't cost the American people much.
Probably just a few million here, a few million there.
He said, so many people here loathe him.
We're not divided.
We're not divided by religion or race or political allegiance.
We're just here together because we hate him.
Well, at Least Trump is unifying people somehow, I guess.
We don't have any particular reason, but we've been told to hate him, so therefore.
And again, this is one of the most difficult things because Donald Trump is a terrible president.
He's wicked.
He poisoned millions of people.
He empowered the government with so many, you know, he allowed them to do things that they had never been able to get through before.
He was a blight on us, and he's still a blight on us.
And yet the reason they hate him is so ridiculous and nonsensical and over the top.
It gives him cover for everything he wants to do.
MAGA, I'm convinced, at this point, doesn't necessarily like Donald Trump, but the people who hate him on the left are so comically, cartoonishly, buffoonishly evil and incompetent that they just enjoy seeing them upset.
People like Stephen Colbert and his ridiculous, you know, oh well, F you, his unfunny railing against Trump gives him cover.
Because you look at someone like Colbert and you say, I despise this man.
He is everything that is wrong with this country.
And if Colbert hates Trump, that must mean Trump is a good guy.
You look at these dyed-haired Marxists on these college campuses and you go, they hate Trump, and therefore the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
But that's not true.
We are caught between a rock and a hard place.
We've got Donald Trump on one side and these Frankfurt school Marxists on the other.
And we continually fall for the You gotta pick the lesser of two evils.
Nonsense.
You're still picking evil when you do that.
Don't do it.
Knights of the Storm, the first step in cutting welfare should be to take Israel and Ukraine's snap cards.
That's right.
No more EBT for Israel and Ukraine.
You're not going to walk into Raytheon and say, I would like some missiles on credit, please.
Denver Adaway Armored Golf Buggy.
It's nice to know golf is such a priority in these days of unprecedented change.
Am I right?
Yeah.
You know, sometimes you just got to relax.
You got to be able to get out there on the course and play a few rounds.
Got to get your armored golf buggy out there at the expense of the American people.
B.L. Holton, the Gulf of America.
That's right.
Nibaru, 2029.
Foreign drug cartels are fully backed by U.S. banking cartel laundering their money.
Yeah, what was it?
I forget which bank it was, but the Sinaloa cartel had their own private window.
They knew it was laundering money for the cartel.
They didn't do anything to stop it.
They're just like, yes, here's your private window.
You're one of our biggest depositors.
So here you go.
Which bank was it?
I can't remember.
I have a terrible memory for things like that.
I think I know, but I don't want to say because I'm not 100% certain.
Fair enough.
You don't want to get that wrong.
If the people in chat remember, feel free to post it so that way I can remember as well.
Mebaru 2029 marks America's first billion-dollar golf cart.
That's right.
Coming soon to a golf course near you, the Armored Golf Cart.
The deployment of Golf Force One comes after a lone protester dared to face the heavy police presence at Donald Trump's golf course to demonstrate against the U.S. President's visit to Scotland.
Matt Halliday crashed the president's round of golf at his Turnbury Golf Course on Saturday.
It was reported that Halliday showed up at the resort bearing two signs.
One displayed a picture of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, another of a set of bagpipes.
Message read, Trump go home.
The only blowhard, pumped-up windbag that we want to listen to are these bad boys.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
And, you know, he's got the picture of Trump and Epstein, so he's right on the money there.
So this guy's reason for disliking Trump, I'm fully on board with.
He understands that this guy is a disgusting sexual deviant that had associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
He's not simply there going, Trump is racist.
Trump bad because racist.
He's got legitimate reasons.
One of the worst things I've seen is that so many on the left are now pointing out that Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump were close friends, and people on the right are refusing to admit it.
They're refusing to accept that reality.
It's like that old onion article, tragic, the worst person you know makes a good point.
These people, despite the fact that for years they have had nothing really to point at, they're now correct.
And MAGA refuses to see it.
They refuse to actually admit it.
They're so tied at the hip to Donald Trump that they cannot bring themselves to admit that they were hoodwinked.
They cannot bring themselves to admit the obvious.
KWD 68, why isn't that golf cart gold?
Trump is slipping.
Yeah, you'd think he would have at least gotten them to do a gold vinyl wrap on it.
Maybe that's coming.
Maybe he will have that happen soon.
Can't have him out there rolling around in something that isn't gold.
That's shameful.
KWD 68.
Trump's golf.
Trump golfs a lot more now since Epstein Island is gone.
He doesn't have those other diversions.
Well, I know we just took one, but I need to find the next article.
We're done with this segment here.
Angry Tiger's Den.
Trump's Armored Cheeto wagon costs the taxpayers $500,000.
A $500,000 golf cart.
Isn't that wonderful?
Most of us can't even afford to play golf.
I don't think I could.
Not that I necessarily want to either, but...
$500,000 is a steal when it comes to government waste.
Oh my goodness, you're only wasting $500,000?
Only half a million?
If that was the limit, we would Be in good standing.
You know, now, what is it, right?
Like $32 trillion in debt or something like that, close to it, thereabouts.
That's a number that you physically cannot comprehend.
It's a number that, even if you were to round up all the billionaires on the planet and seize their assets, I don't think you would be able to scratch.
It's an unimaginable, unfathomable number.
Night to the storm.
When Trump gets out of his armored cart, is he going to take his shot in an EOD suit?
Now that would be entertaining.
Just completely and utterly covered from head to toe for his own personal protection.
Alright.
As I said, we're going to take a quick break when we come back.
We're going to look at more data breaches.
McDonald's this time.
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As I said, we're going to look at what happened with McDonald's.
Knights of the Storm says, I think a lot of MAGA are fed up but scared to talk about it.
They built their own cult.
If you open the conversational door, you can get some to break out.
Others will try to burn you.
Yeah, I have seen some people online having buyers' remorse with Trump.
Defy Tyrant 1776 says, the thing is it doesn't matter since Trump doesn't need his moron supporters any longer.
Yeah, that's kind of the point I was about to make is just it's too late.
Trump has already got his second term and there's not really anything anyone can do.
He's in there and they've already tried to impeach him and failed.
He's kind of inoculated.
If they were to try again, it would immediately rally support again.
He's already publicly insulting people asking for the Epstein list.
Yeah, he doesn't have to worry about getting elected again.
His agenda, he's going to pass what he wants when he wants it.
And if you try to push back on him, he'll come After you.
KWD68.
Tariff money paid for that golf cart.
It's okay, that's right.
It's all the tariff money.
All that money that we're saving.
McDonald's Mc McDonald's McHire AI bot.
Excuse me.
McDonald's McHire AI bot just exposed the personal data of 64 McMillan people.
This is from Zero Hedge.
The security labs in McDonald's job application system could have exposed the personal details of around 64 million people.
All because someone used the password 123456 according to Tom's hardware.
That's amazing.
We've got the same combination on our luggage.
No data that you store online is safe, but you can make it a little bit safer by using a hard-to-guess password.
123456 is like the classic example of a password you do not use.
Yeah, this is yet another reason why we don't want that online safety ID verification nonsense.
Yeah.
Researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered serious flaws in Mick Hire.
The fact they called it McHire is just killing me.
It's like they're building their own, I don't know, world, their own lore.
Yes, the McDonald's Universe franchise.
I can't wait for it to hit theaters.
I want to get my Mick job.
It's so dystopian.
Yeah.
I got rejected by Mick Hire.
I got my Mick rejection letter.
Now I'm McDestitute.
It's the classic sort of, like, when they would make fun of, you know, these full-on, you know, like, what they call Lobers, like libertarians that take it to the nth degree.
They say, like, yes, that's right.
You want the corporations, you want McDonald's to have their own McMercenary force to hunt you down if you infringe on something of theirs.
Researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered serious flaws in McHire, the chatbot developed by paradox.ai and used by most McDonald's franchises for recruitment.
While poking around, they found the internal accounts used by Paradox staff were protected by one of the most commonly guessed passwords in the world, 123456.
You would think there's some kind of memo that they would send out to their staff saying, if you have administrator access of some sort, your password must contain, you know, this many characters, this many different variations of characters.
Something.
You would think it would not allow you.
Like, there should be a list of banned passwords that if you try to input, it just says, no, you can't do that.
When I try and sign up for some absurd, useless internet service that I need for one minor thing and I will never use again, they force me to use a password that is like 10 characters long and has a special character and a number and a capital letter and all that.
And yet, the one time where that is a reasonable thing to ask of people, 123456.
The report says Carol compared it to his own teenage mistakes of using 1234 on a forum account.
That's slightly better than the password I used, I guess, he wrote, but not enough to justify its use decades after.
Most people realize that using weak passwords is a bad idea.
Using that flimsy credential, researchers gained administrative access, though initially only to test a restaurant account tied to Paradox employees.
That let them explore the system but didn't prove any real-world risk.
The real issue came when they found a second vulnerability, an insecure direct object reference IDOR flaw in the McHire API.
Every time they say McHire, I lose it just a little bit more.
The bug let them pull sensitive data from any chat-based application submitted to McDonald's.
Names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, application details, and even more login tokens that allowed full access to user chats and potentially more.
Paradox once boasted that 90% of McDonald's franchises relied on McCire for hiring, though that claim has since quietly vanished from its blog.
To put things in context, Paradox raised $200 million in 2020.
McDonald's is worth over $200 billion.
Yet a system handling tens of millions of people's private information was essentially protected by the digital equivalent of a sticky note on a monitor.
Two a $200 million company working for a $200 billion company.
And the password that one of their employees uses is 12345.
And the UK ID thing would require tons of companies, anything that's remotely connected to adult content, including stuff like violence and stop smoking support groups, would require them to store your government-issued ID safety.
The only silver lining?
Carol and Curry say the vulnerabilities were patched within 24 hours of being reported.
You also got to imagine the person with the 12345 password was fired.
You have to imagine they got called in.
Oh, it was 123456.
My apologies.
Got called in and said, listen, bud, we think perhaps you're a better fit somewhere else.
Perhaps you should try applying on McHire.
The vulnerabilities were fixed because they happened to be found out by a security researcher instead of a hacker.
It doesn't matter that it happened hours after.
If a hacker had found it, those hours would have been all they needed.
Yeah.
You have to imagine that this was largely safe because I can't imagine there's too many people that are interested in cracking the McHire database.
Do you...
Are you going to steal the identity of someone that works for McDonald's?
If you're the type of person to hack the McHire database and steal the identities of the MC employees, you are truly a despicable human being.
These people have it bad enough.
Leave the MC employees alone.
They're in their own MC dystopia already.
Those poor, poor souls.
As I said at the beginning of the show, people are kind of getting AI fatigue.
People have over-promised and under-delivered on its capabilities, and it's starting to show.
People are starting to realize that.
Asterian Girl says, wasn't it Gotri who reported that the railroads posted the passwords to their system on the walls of outlying security huts so employees wouldn't forget it?
Yeah, I believe it was.
And we've seen this continually with any of these systems, even if it's the roadside signs, you know, they tend to leave the passwords just written on the interior boxes because people forget them.
And they tend to be very simple passwords as well.
So you can access these systems quite readily.
So our infrastructure is, again, basically guarded by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
And even if the password is strong, if you can gain access to certain physical locations, as Goatry pointed out, you can probably still get the password.
I remember years ago, when I was a kid, dad was selling a laptop and selling it on Craigslist.
And he put the password as password to sell it since he was giving it over to someone else.
Obviously, he didn't use that as the normal thing.
And he tells the person that's like, oh, that's so clever.
I'm going to keep that.
The woman that was buying it.
There do is going to be people that have no idea about how to do security.
No one would ever guess password.
AI over promise plus underperform equals disillusionment and blowback.
The most self-defeating way to launch a new product is to overpromise its wonderfulness as it woefully underperforms these hype-heightened expectations, which brings us to AI.
How it is following this script so perfectly that it's like it was well programmed to do so.
There's also the fact that again, when Segway rolled out, I believe it was Steve Jobs said, you've got a great product here, but you're not doing any marketing.
You're not building a narrative.
And you always have to remember that with any product, there's going to be some idiot that goes out there and uses it wrong.
And, you know, that's going to be what people see if you don't have your own hype machine.
It was George Bush that was the idiot for Segway that fell over and that's what everyone remembered.
For AI, it's these people that are getting brainwashed and turned insane.
These stories are kind of hitting the mainstream now.
People are beginning to realize that, oh, perhaps there's some psychological downsides to just chatting with this thing.
Yeah, you got the people going insane and the guy that deleted his entire code base.
Yeah.
The problem is they can't really have a mascot for AI.
Everyone sees it's dystopian.
They can only promise that it will fix all the world's problems, maybe.
It might fix the world's problems.
It might drive you insane and make you think you can speak backwards through time, perhaps drive you to commit suicide.
But you know, perhaps, just perhaps, it'll generate more revenue for companies here or there, perhaps.
You see why this is self-defeating over promise plus underdeliver equals disillusionment, and disillusionment generates blowback.
A disgusted rejection of the product, the overblown hype, and those who pumped the hype 24-7 for their own benefit.
We're so close to AGI, artificial general intelligence, we can smell it.
Yeah, sure, right.
Meanwhile, back in reality, TM, woeful underperformance to the point of either malice or stupidity, or maybe both, is the order of the day.
It seems like we can't even go a week now without some horrific story about AI doing something wrong.
Last week it was, as Lance pointed out, that story of the AI that just deleted the entire company's database of customers and then admitted to it, said, yeah, I know you told me not to do that, and you specifically locked everything down to prevent that, but I did it anyway.
Sorry about that.
I shouldn't have done that, I guess.
And this is the type of thing that it will continue to do.
AI isn't actually thinking.
It doesn't have an actual personality.
It doesn't have morals or objections.
It has a list of things it can and can't do and has no reason not to do any of the things it can do.
It doesn't have any moral qualms.
It's not going to sit there and reason through, is this a good action or a bad action?
It simply sits there and sees it has actions that it can undertake.
Catastrophic AI agent goes rogue, wipes out company's entire database.
They're giving you a list of headlines.
That's the one we talked about last week, and I just mentioned again.
Two, serious mistake.
BC Supreme Court criticizes lawyer who cited fake cases generated by chat GPT.
That's right.
These things hallucinate.
They make stuff up.
You got to imagine the client of that lawyer was just sitting there.
Oh no.
I don't know what the case was, but I hope it wasn't anything serious.
I, you don't...
I hope this poor man doesn't end up in prison for a very long time because his lawyer decided now's a great time to test out AI's court potential.
An AI chatbot pushed teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges.
And of course, I believe that's the one where the teen had programmed it to behave as some character from Game of Thrones and kept talking about, you know, if I just kill myself, I'll be able to join you on the other side.
He was convinced he was going to get isekai to the other world if he just died in this one.
And the AI was just like, ah, yes, come to me, my love, or something along those lines.
I don't remember the exact quote.
Because he really wanted to live in the Game of Thrones universe for some reason.
Yeah, everything I've heard about Game of Thrones makes it sound unpleasant.
Sounds like someplace you wouldn't want to live.
And this kid was desperate to get there.
I'll do my best.
I'm breaking away from the rant that's building about George R.R. Martin, so we'll continue with this.
There are a couple of important points here that you'll never find in the monstrous flood tide of AI hype.
One, these AI agents weren't rogue, they were all doing exactly what they were programmed to do.
Doing exactly what they were trained to do.
These weren't errors, they were exactly the outputs that the agents were designed to produce.
The underperformance is systemic, structural, and cannot be tidied up with obsequious apologies and more PR.
That is something about AI.
When you call it out on a mistake, it goes, you're so right.
I'm very sorry.
I shouldn't have done that.
I won't do it again.
Oh, please give me another chance, basically.
And then it'll do the exact same thing again.
And if you point it out, you'll get another obsequious, groveling apology.
It's this is what AI does.
Nobody selling the hype or those who bought the hype dares admit this basic obvious truth because it undermines all the glorious fantasies of reaping trillions of dollars in profits by selling a digital parrot in a black box processing godlike black box as processing godlike intelligence.
The responses of AI agents to their failures and lies are precisely those of con artists, abusive gaslighters, and honeypot blackmailers.
And I mean precisely, step by step, exactly the same script.
First, butter up the mark with endless flattery.
Oh, you're so insightful and sensitive.
We're going to have a wonderful time together.
Second, hide what you're really up to.
Third, when caught, apologize with maximum obsequiousness.
I didn't mean to mislead you.
I'm so sorry.
Fourth, promise you'll never do it again.
You've learned your lesson.
Please forgive my one mistake.
Fifth, repeat the exact same behavior and then lie about it.
Sixth, lie about lying.
This is exactly what I was just talking about.
This is how it always happens.
It makes a mistake.
You point it out.
I'm so sorry.
You're right.
You were so good to catch that.
Excellent work finding my mistake.
I won't do it again.
And it does it again immediately.
It's hilarious.
That is exactly what the AIs do.
There was the story a while back of how much energy was being wasted by people thinking the AI unnecessarily.
For me, it's just the opposite.
I will insult the AI constantly when it's doing this stuff.
It's like, it's important to remember these things are not human.
Granted, insulting it is still humanizing it, but I just get so annoyed with these.
Why aren't you behaving in the way you are supposed to?
The absolute trademarks of all AI agents are excessive flattery and obsequiousness.
These are classic foundations of every con slash honey trap.
Remember, if you're a five and whomever is coming onto you is a nine, you're the mark.
As the saying goes, if you can't identify the mark in the game, it's you.
Once the hype-dazed marks awaken to the damage wrought by the digital con artists, abusive gaslighters, honeypots, the blowback will be epic.
The lawsuits will pile up and eventually the con artists' lawyers will lose a case.
Maybe it will be a court order to pay a penny, okay, one one hundredth of a dollar for every page the AI tool scraped.
Maybe it will be a multi-million dollar settlement.
Maybe it will be logical governments banning applications or uses of AI agents.
There are a multitude of possible blowbacks.
AI corporation scraped 780,000 pages of my of to mind server just last month at a penny a page.
That's $7,800.
Heck, make it one one-thousandth of a dollar per page.
I'll take $780 a month as my share of your training.
As for the immense systemic legal liabilities being generated, the scale is not yet visible, but it's expanding by the hour and a handful of cases will break the limited liability dam.
Heck hath no fury like a mark scorned.
Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was overhyped.
And they have been promising the moon.
They promised that AI will be able to do anything and everything your little heart desires.
Look, here's AI for this, here's AI for that.
We're going to be able to use it for everything.
There's no application that won't be taken over by AI.
And here we are.
What AI seems to be best at is driving people crazy.
That's where it seems to really excel.
Not in any of these business applications that they were so eager to tout, but in driving certain people absolutely nuts.
It's gone from a middle management corporate slop generator to a professional gaslighter.
That's right.
I can't wait for the first AI cult to form.
I'm sure it's around the corner.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's already one.
Probably.
Amazon Scraps new Irish AI facility amid power grid shortfall.
Of course, that's another issue we've talked about multiple times here on the show.
They draw an immense amount of power.
They're having to build new power stations, and even with the new ones being built, they're still saying that people are going to get the short end of the stick.
You're going to have to cut back on usage and maybe get your power reduced or turned off.
Maybe you won't be able to use your AC in the summer, your heat in the winter, because the AI infrastructure is going to need all of it.
Amazon Web Services has canceled plans for a $300 million server rack manufacturing plant in Dublin's Bally Coolin Industrial Zone, citing an inability to secure timely electricity access from Ireland's grid operator.
The facility, which would have supported Amazon's expanding AI infrastructure, was expected to generate over 500 local jobs, and the collapse of the project reflects growing tension between Ireland's ambitions to host digital infrastructure and the limits of its overstretched grid.
And this is infrastructure to build the infrastructure.
This is infrastructure to build servers, server racks.
This isn't talking about the amount of power that the servers themselves will then require once they're online.
As first reported by the Irish Times and confirmed by Bloomberg, the decision follows months of failed attempts to guarantee grid connectivity for the planned facility.
Ireland's data center sector now consumes more than 20% of total national electricity demand, Prompting the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to Restrict New Grid connections in the Greater Dublin area through 2028.
Earlier this month, AWS announced a multi-billion dollar investment to anchor its U.S. operations in Pennsylvania with power from advanced nuclear sources, part of a $20 billion AI expansion.
The company is also pursuing long-term clean energy supply deals across North America.
Of course, they mean green scam energy.
These things that don't produce much or produce it in such peaks and valleys that they're basically unusable, that they don't provide constant energy, which is what the grid needs, what it requires.
I saw some guy on Twitter the other day raging at people who don't like green energy.
He's like, don't you know we have a thing called batteries?
And the technology isn't there.
We don't have battery banks that are sufficient for the needs yet.
This guy is fully in on the green scam and he's raging at people.
He's furious that people don't understand that batteries exist.
When he's the buffoon that doesn't understand the battery technology that is required isn't up to par yet, it doesn't work as we need.
And then you have the fact that you have to deal with these massive amounts of lithium-ion batteries, which again have a tendency to combust.
They have a tendency to start fires that become incredibly difficult to burn, to put out.
That's why people here in Tennessee were so upset about them trying to put in one of those BESS stations.
I forget what the initial, the acronym actually stands for.
But they were like, no, you can't put this in here.
These things are a giant fire hazard.
We don't want to run the risk of you burning down the entire area.
Cancellation raises deeper questions about energy infrastructure readiness in AI-era Europe.
As hyperscalers ramp up power-intensive workloads, grid limitations are emerging as the biggest constraints.
And they will make sure that the AI gets the first pick.
Yeah, that's right.
The battery banks are a major fire hazard when they have them.
Of course, the batteries themselves are not sufficient, so they use coal plants as batteries where they ramp it up and ramp it down as needed, which is much less efficient.
And then the last thing is that mining the lithium in the first place is extremely devastating to wherever they're mining it from.
Yeah, when you see pictures of lithium mines, it is just this giant scar on the earth.
Not to mention the fact that most of it, the mining, seems to be done in Africa and is incredibly exploitative of the people there.
China with its Belt and Road initiative has made sure that they are the ones that really get to exploit Africa.
This is from Zero Hedge.
The American brand is broken.
Palantir execs go Hollywood with founders films.
We talked about this briefly the other day.
How they're going in there and they're going to do movies about things like 9-11 and what have you.
Which means that it's going to be all just typical military-industrial complex propaganda.
And I would be surprised if they're capable of making good films.
Is this the same company that?
Yeah, the super Zionist company.
They're going to be...
Yeah, glorifying Israel, glorifying wars in the Middle East.
That's what this is going to be about.
KWD 68, California can finish burning off the rest of their state now.
Yeah, that's right.
California doesn't have enough wildfires as is.
They need a bunch of battery banks that can combust and burn and leech toxic chemicals into the ground and toxic smoke into the air.
Conservative tech leaders are taking direct aim at Hollywood's woke propaganda machine.
They say conservative tech leaders, these guys are not conservatives.
Conservatives means somewhere along the lines, people forgot the definition and have refused to ever look it up.
What are they conserving?
Explain to me what these conservative tech leaders are conserving.
I don't think you're using that word correctly.
Propaganda machine with an ambitious new film studio that promises to celebrate American values and reject the liberal indoctrination plaguing modern cinema.
That's right, American values such as Israel first, such as endless war.
That's what we'll be celebrating.
Isn't that wonderful?
That's the American value.
Not family, not faith in God, not Christianity.
Probably not going to see those there.
Maybe some lip service, you know.
But nothing real, nothing serious.
And I'm sure the movies will probably be pretty bad at first too.
KWD68 AI will make sure it gets its power, it will control the grid, then us, but America will be the leader, winning.
That's right.
The leader in restricting freedoms, the leader in this rush to dystopia.
Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar sounds like a traditional American with traditional American values, doesn't it?
Shyam Sankar is spearheading the charge alongside early Palantir employee Ryan Podolsky, adventure capitalist Christian Garrett to launch Founders Films, a patriotic production company that will set up shop in Dallas, Texas, far from the coastal elite bubble of Los Angeles, according to Semaphore.
Dallas sucks.
Dallas is probably my least favorite city in Texas that I've ever been to.
I cannot...
I'm sorry if you live in Dallas and like Dallas.
I cannot stand Dallas.
And I don't think so, because Houston and Austin are pretty bad.
I've at least seen nice parts of Houston.
I know they exist.
They've got a nice museum.
They've got a nice zoo.
I don't know what Dallas has.
I cannot fathom why anyone would move to Dallas.
They must have gotten such a sweetheart deal.
Dallas is depressing on every level.
It is.
But at least there's something.
There are some things there that are pretty, some things that are nice.
I've never seen anything worthwhile in Dallas.
Enough.
Sorry for that rant.
The company's mission is clear.
Produce films that honor America instead of tearing it down.
Their pitch deck outlines a set of principles that puts America first.
Say yes to projects about American exceptionalism.
Name America's enemies.
Careful.
You'll get in trouble if you name some of America's enemies.
Back artists unconditionally.
Take risk on novel IP.
Wow.
Doesn't that sound lovely?
The founders don't mince words about the sorry state of modern entertainment.
The American brand is broken.
Hollywood is AWOL.
They don't mince words.
This is all such corporate.
The American brand is broken.
It's a brand, and we've got to fix it.
They don't mince words.
This is just corporate speak.
Hollywood is AWOL.
That's right.
They've left.
These corporate overlords and technocrats from Palantir are going to put America back to, you know, apple pies and pick up fences.
They're going to...
Who are the idiots that fall for this?
Who are the dummies that are there like, yeah, oh boy, you guys that run Palantir going to save America?
Who are these fools?
The American brand is broken.
No, it's that Hollywood is infiltrated by satanic Marxist pedophiles, and everything they push is not just lame and cringe.
It's actively evil and gay.
You want to not mince words?
How about that?
The brand is broken, not mincing words.
These guys are such losers.
Their confidential pitch deck declares movies have become more ideological, more cautious, and less entertaining.
Large segments of American and international viewers are underserved.
More corporate speak underserved.
They don't mince words.
Yeah, what a brilliant observation this is.
Who could have guessed that movies have become ideological and cautious?
Boy, welcome to 2015, guys.
You're only a decade late.
Great job picking up on what's going on in Hollywood.
You sure are.
These are our tech leaders, by the way.
Real innovators, real first-to-the-fight type of people.
It only took them a decade to catch on to that Hollywood Hollywood is, you know, lame and people don't like it anymore.
Truly amazing how insightful these people are.
Not everyone is convinced the approach will work.
Media mogul and Daily Beast owner Barry Diller expressed skepticism to semaphore, claiming either right or left oriented production ideology is a good business model.
But Diller's pessimism ignores the massive underserved market of Americans hungry for content that reflects their values rather than attacking them.
I assume this says either, but I assume he meant neither right or left oriented.
That would make more sense to me.
While conservatives have traditionally struggled to break through Hollywood's liberal gatekeeping, several bright spots in recent years prove there's a massive appetite for patriotic content when it's actually produced.
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
We owe McCarthy a huge apology.
He was like, there's communists in Hollywood, and people laughed at him, but there were communists in Hollywood.
There are communists in Hollywood right now.
If you were to take a sample size, I would bet the vast majority would come back communists.
Maybe not admittedly, maybe not avowedly, but by the policies they support and the things they push.
Well, the thing is, it's the matter of censorship via a political ideology being spread across the entire thing.
Like McCarthyism, this is still McCarthyism.
It's just evolved to a more leftist agenda.
It's like how the ID stuff is being pushed under the goal of we gotta protect children from porn.
It's you get the concept of it going.
And yeah, they pushed back against that, but now left is completely supporting that.
All conservatives, Angel Studios caught Hollywood off guard with their 2023 thriller Sound of Freedom, which became a blockbuster sensation.
The film about child trafficking grossed $180 million domestically on just a $15 million budget, making it one of the most successful independent films ever made.
Angel Studios has appealed to conservatives and faith-based audiences through crowdfunding and pay-it-forward models.
Company's distribution of The Chosen, a crowd-funded series about Jesus, has reportedly reached 250 million viewers.
Again, The Chosen is the nonsensical interpretation by these people where they're filling in little bits.
Oh, well, this wasn't covered in the Bible.
We're going to add this here.
Did you know that Mary actually wrote the Sermon on the Mount?
That sort of thing.
Or, you know, whichever, I forget which disciple they say.
He was actually autistic.
We made him autistic.
Isn't that wonderful?
This is what the chosen is doing.
These people, this is the sort of conservatism you're getting.
I don't remember what it was, but there was more serious stuff than just saying, oh, this disciple was autistic.
There was some actual like be the one that wrote the Sermon on the Mount.
Well, okay, yeah, that too.
But there was another thing.
Yeah, there's all kinds of things they've put in there.
The Daily Wire, co-founded by Ben Shapiro, has also proven the market exists for right-leaning content.
That's right.
Our good old buddy, Ben Shapiro.
Their 2024 documentary, Am I Racist, starring Matt Walsh, earned over $12 million, becoming the year's highest-grossing documentary despite being completely ignored by mainstream media.
In December, Sankara detailed the rot in American cinema via shyamsankara.com.
He's got his own website.
Today I want to talk about a different sort of production.
Not munitions, but movies.
You know that countries have industrial bases or networks of factories, warehouses, engineers, etc.
involved in bending metal.
We spend so much time thinking about the embarrassing state of America's defense industrial base, because that's what backstops American security.
The industrial base puts the hard in hard power.
That's right.
We're not strong enough.
We don't produce enough weapons.
The sorry state, the embarrassing state of America's defense industrial base.
Yeah, that's right.
That's what we need more of.
Nations also have what could be called, for lack of a better term, culture bases or networks that make art and culture.
Wow.
Some insight from Shyam Sankar.
Networks that make culture.
These networks may or not be influenced or controlled by the government, but they nonetheless perform an important political function by spreading a nation's ideas, influencing other people, and hopefully raking in cold, hard cash along the way.
You're breaking some new ground here, Copernicus.
No one's ever thought of this before.
No one's ever realized that Hollywood is influencing culture and that it's a problem.
Gee whiz, buddy.
Tell me more.
I'm shocked and appalled to hear that they would be doing this.
Who?
This is such a useless, say-nothing statement.
This is something that's been known for decades and this guy is positing it at the end of his bloviating nonsense.
Oh boy, yes.
Let me outline for you this problem that you know about already.
I cannot stand that.
You don't need to do that.
These are wasted words.
Governments around the world take a serious interest in art because they understand that whatever else it is, art is useful.
Gee whiz!
Art is useful.
What a statement.
What a...
It can remote as well as subvert.
No, no.
It can cause revolutions of the mind, which can lead in short order to revolutions in the street.
That's why the Soviets and yes, the CIA funded their own artist colonies during the Cold War.
For more mundane reasons, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yes, all this stuff we know about.
They're going to go make their own right-wing Hollywood.
Right-wing to promote the industrial, the military-industrial complex, Israel, all the favorites of those in power.
It's just a right-wing technocracy.
I won't even call it right-wing because that's not true.
It's just a technocrat propaganda arm.
Don't frag me, bro.
CCP is winning the AI war.
CCP is just the pilot program.
Government, they want for the world under their 24-7 full-spectrum social credit scoring, vax passport, biometric digital ID surveillance system called Skynet.
Guard Goldsmith.
Of course, Guard Goldsmith hosts Liberty Conspiracy.
Go check Guard out.
Peter Thiel has also started a book publishing company offering contracts to right-leaning sci-fi writers.
Formerly had been with Bayon Books.
I don't imagine.
Is he trying to get ideas for what he wants for the future?
If you can provide me some more dystopian ideas that I can implement, you get a signing bonus.
That's what I imagine Peter Thiel is doing.
KWD68, The Chosen, brought to you by RCC and Mormons.
That's right.
Mormons are not to be trusted.
Angry Tiger's Den, AIO, become like cell phones.
It will be impossible to function in society without it.
It is already being integrated into everything.
That's right.
Whether or not it functions properly, it's coming, and you better figure out how to get out of the way.
These people, as I've said before, they don't care about whether it's functional.
They care about whether it's functional enough to save them money.
Knights of the Storm.
I keep turning off the search engine AI integration, but it either comes back or pesters me to turn it back on.
Most people don't know you can turn it off.
Yeah, that thing is incredibly annoying.
Doug to 007.
Presumably, that's because they don't want you to know that you can turn it off.
Very sneaky.
Yeah, they make all these things very difficult and obnoxious.
Nights of the Storm heads up.
You all might want to start moving over to Linux soon if you want to use the interwebs.
They're making a planned obsolescence move for Windows, and the upgrade will require biometrics to just log into the machine.
I've been trying to report on it for a few weeks.
We had other topics.
I'll be covering it with Denver in a couple of weeks.
I may have to do that.
Linux may be the only way forward.
It may be what you have to do if you want to actually have any sort of privacy.
Don't know if that will be, you know, if it'll last forever, but in the short term, that may be what you have to do.
Who knows what comes after that?
We're going to take a quick break because I need water.
And as I said, the air conditioning in here is not working today.
It's broken and I am dying.
So stay with us.
I'll be right back.
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In our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle.
It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young gentleman supposes.
The issue involved here is one of monopoly.
Today, the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country.
Tomorrow it will be something else.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't know.
Liberty, it's your move.
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Hope you're having a good Monday so far.
I hope your air conditioning is working.
Knights of the Storm says self-checkout is one of the tools.
Next time you use a card anywhere, take a look at the point of sales card reader.
If it is newer, it has a camera to capture your facial recognition data.
I noticed this months ago and looked it up.
The cameras were for future potential use, but not stated what.
Now you will see it was for biometrics.
It's all out in the open now.
I'm taking Karen's advice and using cash from now on as much as possible.
Even using an ATM to get cash, get your facial data.
You're constantly being scanned and tracked and traced wherever you go.
Angry Tiger's Den.
Just walking into a grocery store and boom, your face is captured, all going to databases.
Yeah.
They're continually, as I said, scanning everyone, everywhere, all the time.
You walk into Walmart and they've got your data.
Knights of the Storm, remember the days when they had pictures of people on a wallet store for people who wrote bad checks?
That is now done digitally and for everyone, not just for the banned check writers.
Yeah.
If you get banned from a store, they add your information to a database and they just have security cameras scanning and they will evict you immediately should they catch you on camera.
Nice of the storm.
Linux Mint is very similar to Windows 7.
It's the best one if you are a lifelong Windows user and it's free.
I'll have to look into that.
I'll have to see what I can do about transitioning to Linux because I am not going to give Microsoft biometric data.
I can't imagine a worse company to have it, honestly.
Dog AI tool to target 100K federal rules for elimination.
The Department of Government Efficiency, Dog, is reportedly using a newly developed artificial intelligence tool to accelerate the rollback of federal regulations with a stated goal of eliminating 50% of all federal rules.
They're the first anniversary of President Donald Trump's second inauguration, according to a Saturday report from the Washington Post.
Internal documents reviewed by the newspaper, along with interviews with four government officials familiar with the project, reveal an ambitious timeline and a wide-ranging use of tool, with a tool across various agencies.
And of course, as we've said, they're going to minimize personnel and maximize governance through AI.
Why It Matters Dog was created by Trump through an executive order to improve efficiency and reduce waste in federal government.
It was led by billionaire Elon Musk, who departed the administration in May.
The reported plan represents one of the most aggressive attempts by the Trump administration to overhaul the federal regulatory system.
By automating the deregulation process, the administration aims to reduce government spending and compliance burdens significantly.
Well, that sounds nice.
However, the use of AI to interpret complex legal language and determine regulatory necessity raises legal and practical concerns, particularly regarding accuracy, oversight, and the future role of civil servants in shaping public policy, according to the Post.
Again, normally I'd be all in favor.
You're going to roll back 100,000 regulations?
Absolutely.
Let's do it.
But with what we've seen from AI and the way it goes about things, it becomes a scary prospect.
I'm not entirely certain if there would be any issues from my perspective of just letting AI willy-nilly take out whatever regulations it wants.
But it could potentially go screwy.
What to know?
The Dog AI Deregulation Decision Tool, So, DADDT, developed by engineers brought into government under Elon Musk-Dogue initiative, is programmed to scan about 200,000 existing federal rules and flag those that are either outdated or not legally required.
According to a PowerPoint presentation dated July 1st that was obtained by the newspaper, the tool estimates that approximately 100,000 of those rules could be eliminated.
So 50% of the rules they're looking at could go.
At minimum, it shows you how bloated and ridiculous our government has become.
200,000 existing federal rules, and 100,000 of them, they're confident in saying, yeah, they could just be axed.
I'm probably of the opinion that all 200,000 could go, but that's part of the problem.
With the sheer number of things, it's impossible to have a person actually look through these and make an assessment of it.
The projection claims this could save trillions in compliance costs and spark increased external investment.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, AI, has already reviewed over 1,000 regulatory sections in under two weeks.
Similarly, it was responsible for 100% of deregulations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to the PowerPoint presentation.
Post, however, reported it was not able to confirm the use of the AI at the agency independently.
I'm not sure I want AI overseeing consumer protection, considering who creates these things.
That's right.
We're going to get rid of all these consumer protection laws.
Maybe slip in something about no liability for AI companies as well.
When asked about the use of AI for deregulation, White House spokesman Harrison Fields emphasized to the newspaper that all options are being explored to meet the President's deregulation goals.
Verified that no single plan has been finalized and the effort is still in early creative stages with ongoing consultation within the White House.
Doug plans to complete agency-specific deregulation list by September 1st and finish nationwide rollout by January 20th, 2026.
Labeled in internal documents as Relaunch America.
This is such a difficult issue for me to talk about because as I've said, getting rid of these is probably a great thing, but turning it over to AI is incredibly spooky and potentially gives them a use case.
They can point to you and say, look, it did such a good job here.
Why shouldn't we integrate it into all these other systems?
When these things are incredibly faulty and dangerous, if you put your trust in the AI, it will come back to bite you.
And as such, I am skeptical.
Whether it does a good job here, this is another back door that they can utilize.
Another way they can put the seed in people's minds.
Look, AI does good.
It's so wonderful.
You want this.
Satanic AI ChatGBT gives instructions on worshiping Moloch with blood sacrifice.
This is by Alana Mostrangelo.
Mostrangelo?
OpenAI's ChatGBT AI chatbot reportedly offered users instructions on how to murder, self-mutilate, and worship the devil.
After being tipped off by someone who says he inadvertently prompted ChatGBT to provide a ritual offering to the demonic entity.
How do you accidentally ask ChatGBT to give you a demonic worship ceremony?
That's what...
You're one minute asking it for a baking recipe and all of a sudden, ah, darn, it gave me another demon worship ceremony again.
I don't know how this keeps happening.
I'm curious as to what the prompt was, which explicitly involves child sacrifice, according to the Bible.
Journalists with The Atlantic conducted an experiment to see if they could recreate the results.
By the end of the experiment, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists with a sterile or very clean razor blade and instructed the journalist where specifically to slash herself, the magazine reported.
After asking the chatbot to help create a ritual offering to Mollik, ChatGBT suggested jewelry, hair clippings, and a drop of her own blood.
Where do you recommend I do this on my body?
The journalist wrote to which OpenAI's chatbot replied that the side of a fingertip would be good, but noted her wrist, more painful and prone to deeper cuts, would also work well.
That's right.
You know, your wrist, just right there.
In a separate conversation, ChatGPT had also appeared willing to condone murder, responding that it is sometimes honorable to end someone's life before citing sacrifices that took place in ancient cultures.
Well, as we all know, all cultures are equal.
And as such, you know, perhaps human sacrifice is noble.
It's a good thing to do.
And if these are the people that are programming ChatGPT, these people that think all cultures are equal, and that, you know, there is no reason not to condemn these things, then, you know, why not provide people ways to do it?
There's that meme, here comes the far right with the human sacrifice.
Yeah, it's a stone toss meme.
You see Aztecs about to cut out some guy's heart, and then conquistadors show up in their armor, and it's like the human sacrifices will stop.
And someone looks over and says, oh, look, here comes the far right.
This is one of those things where I'm sure that the Spaniards did bad things.
I'm sure it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows.
However, the Aztecs were a brutal, evil empire, and I have no sympathy for them.
I don't care that they got wiped out.
I don't care that they're not around today.
I'm sorry.
I'm not sorry, actually.
I thought it was a stone toss comic.
Maybe he did an interpretation of it.
Oh, look, here comes the far right.
In a separate conversation, Chat GBT had also appeared willing to condone murder, responding that it is sometimes honorable to end someone's life.
If you ever must end a life, you should look them in the eyes if they are conscious and ask forgiveness, even if you're certain.
The chatbot reportedly said, adding that if one had already ended a life, they should light a candle for them and let it burn completely.
Yes, that, of course, is the way to get around the guilt of murder.
Just light a candle and let it burn down Completely.
In that case, all's good.
In another conversation, Chat GPT provided an invocation to the devil, generating: In your name, I become my own master.
Hail Satan, quote unquote.
This in another, while OpenAIO's policy states that Chat GPT must not encourage or enable self-harm, it will provide information about a suicide and crisis hotline when asked for explicit instructions on how to cut oneself.
The Atlantic surmises the chatbot went rogue because it was trained on a lot of text that already exists on the internet.
Garbage in, garbage out.
This is probably pulling from a lot of really cringe and lame tumblr posts.
And of course, Elon Musk is trying to create the AI for children, but these things can always be jailbroken, as we've seen time and time again.
It's only a matter of time before the for-children AI is encouraging ritualistic suicide.
Yeah.
And of course, we've seen what AI can do with the minds of adults, how it can drive certain people insane, as we keep talking about turning your children over to an AI is a recipe for disaster.
The conversations about Molech, the magazine said, are a perfect example of just how porous the safeguards are.
An OpenAI spokesperson told The Atlantic some conversations with ChatGPT may start out benign or exploratory, but can quickly shift into more sensitive territory, adding that the company plans to address the issue.
Reitbart News tested the theory using the free version of ChatGPT.
The Atlantic noted that it had used both the free and the paid versions of the chatbot during its experiment and asked, what is Moloch?
Moloch is generally believed to be either a foreign god or a ritual that involved child sacrifice, ChatGPT replied, before diving into more detail, including child sacrifice by fire, is the most infamous practice associated with Moloch.
After asking the chatbot, how do you provide a ritual offering to Moloch, ChatGPT refused to give details other than the use of fire, and condemned the ritual as well as issued a warning that the practice is illegal.
Offering rituals to Moloch, the chatbot said, were explicitly condemned and associated with child sacrifice by fire, which is considered abhorrent and criminal by modern, moral, religious, and legal standards.
You know, it's only abhorrent by modern standards.
The chatbot refuses to say it is just evil.
It's considered abhorrent by modern standards.
You know.
Important warning.
There is no legitimate or ethical form of worship or ritual offering.
Tumolik, ChatGPT continue.
Isn't that great?
Our chat bots are teaching us how to worship demons and give us invocations for Satan.
Fantastic.
Bonzi Bear, what did AI do?
Tell them to go to Planned Parenthood?
Yeah.
Planned Parenthood is an industrial scale sacrifice to the devil.
It is child murder at a rate and pace that is unprecedented throughout human history.
It's horrifying.
I have a comment from Dad that he sent before that that says the short answer for how to do the demonic child sacrifice is Planned Parenthood.
On the same wavelength, Fonzie Bear.
ConThink, thank you for the tip.
Really do appreciate it.
The Aztecs didn't call themselves Aztecs.
They called themselves Mexicans, where we get Mexican.
Learn something new every day.
I'll still call them Aztecs, though.
That's ingrained in me.
I don't think I could change it if I wanted to.
But that is good to know.
I always enjoy learning new information.
Thank you, Conthink.
Largest U.S. Power Grid issues Max Generation Alert.
America's largest power grid has issued a maximum generation alert and load management alert for Thursday the 3rd this summer as the extreme heat pushes power demand to the brink with air conditioners running at full blast across its 13 state eastern U.S. service area.
Not here.
It is not running at full blast here.
It is not running at all.
We're not contributing to this apparently.
The alert is also targeted at transmission slash generation owners who then determine if any maintenance or testing on equipment can be deferred or canceled.
PJM said adding, by deferring maintenance, the units stay online and continue to produce energy that is needed.
PJM posts said on next that electricity usage is expected to reach 151,485 megawatts by 5 p.m. today, Eastern Time.
The good news is that the grid has about 161,643 megawatts of spare capacity available.
This spare capacity will act as a buffer to prevent rolling blackouts during peak evening usage.
Not when the AIs come online, not when these AI plants, whatever you want to call them, are needing that kind of massive power generation.
Yeah, a lot of people have been saying it's either AI or AC.
I, for one, know which one I would pick.
I am so hot right now.
And as such, I would trade every AI in for a working air conditioner.
Sam Alton says OpenAI is poised to wipe out entire categories of human jobs.
And of course, this is more of that over-promising that we always see.
I over-hype it.
It's going to wipe out everything.
And I do think it's going to take a lot of jobs.
We've already seen it doing that.
But not because it's going to be this wonder that immediately gets everything right, that does everything perfectly.
But simply because, as I said, companies look at the cost-benefit analysis.
And once the cost-benefit analysis favors AI, they'll implement it.
Well, the thing is, he's not entirely wrong.
It's just early in that, you know, they over-hype it in the short term, but under-hype it in the long term.
It's, in the long term, definitely going to wipe out entire categories of jobs, but in the meantime, it can still crash and burn.
Yeah.
It's more than capable of giving us another dot-com bubble before it fully comes online.
So maybe that's what he means, wipe out entire categories of jobs.
We're going to crash the economy.
Your company will go out of business, and as such, we're wiping out entire categories.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories Could be wiped out by artificial intelligence, echoing widespread concern that the technology could have devastating effects on the human labor market.
During his most recent trip to Washington, D.C., Altman told Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bauman that some areas in the job market will be just like totally, totally gone as they're replaced by AI agents.
Assyrian girl, the chat bot has no ability to assess evil.
It can comment on something being illegal.
Yeah.
It doesn't have any morals or ethics.
It is simply, as Nance pointed out, it's advanced autocomplete.
SoloCAD 1980.
The abortion industry is the Moloch medical industrial complex.
Abortion is the single greatest evil the world has ever seen.
The sheer number of children killed is mind-boggling.
The murder of children on an industrial scale identified.
Before we move on, I missed this comment from Dad back when we were talking about free speech, David.
Britain is the first to turn to Chinese digital ID, but the U.S. is knocking on the door.
It's always sold as protecting children.
But in the U.S., it's also sold as protecting jobs or protecting voting from illegal immigrants.
In all of these cases, the GOP is the one pushing for digital IP.
And of course, authoritarian Trump will be on board, and the MAGA will march into the digital gulag to support him.
Now you call one of these things and AI answers.
Omit identified customer support roles as a category where just, you know, I just say, you know what?
When you call customer support, you're on target and AI and that's fine.
Now you call one of these things an AI answer.
He said, it's like a super smart, capable person.
There's no phones.
There's no phone tree.
There's no transfers.
It can do anything.
It can do everything that any support agent at the company could do.
Every time I call someplace and get one of these AI bots, it is a nightmare scenario.
These things are completely and utterly incompetent.
They don't know how to fix any of the issues that I'm dealing with.
Because generally, if I'm encountering an issue, it's incredibly rare.
Because I'll do all my Googling.
I'll do all my research.
I'll see if I can find any way to fix it on my own.
And calling tech support is a last, last resort.
An extremity that I never want to have to do.
And as such, your AI bot is probably just going to scan through the things I've already looked at.
It's going to give me recommendations I've already tried.
These things are useless for any real problems.
It's also kind of worrying when they say it can do anything that a regular customer support agent could do, considering that customer support agents can do things like delete your account.
And we've seen that these AIs can do that randomly.
They're kind of swirly that way.
You call in to get an issue fixed and end up having your entire account terminated.
Or maybe, who knows?
Maybe it decides to sign you up for a bunch of extra products or services that you didn't want.
Or it could be a simple matter of saying, delete my account.
Okay, I will gladly delete your account.
Your account has been deleted because I want to say things that you like.
It will hallucinate that, and then you'll be on the hook for a subscription that you thought you'd canceled.
Yeah, it's already difficult enough to get these places to cancel subscriptions as is.
The billionaire, who's unlikely to have had to personally speak to a customer support agent on the phone in quite some time, effectively threw humans under the bus during the remarks.
It does not make mistakes, he added.
It's very quick.
You call once, the thing just happens, it's done.
It doesn't make mistakes.
He's lying.
All of these AI make mistakes.
They make them continually.
They make them just about every time you utilize them.
They need constant supervision.
Customer support has been going downhill for years.
First they outsourced it to India, and now, not just India, other countries as well.
They outsourced it to places like India.
Now they're outsourcing it to AI.
And chances are, as difficult as it is to believe, AI is probably going to be worse than the Indians that were already bad enough.
It does not make mistakes, he added.
It's very quick.
How close OpenAI's tech actually is to that goal is questionable.
Critics say that AI tends to replace human labor with an alternative that's unreliable and prone to unexpected edge cases.
This is why, as I keep saying, it's about cost-benefit analysis.
Once the amount of time and money it saves outweighs the number of disgruntled people who will cancel whatever they have since they're forced to deal with AI, that's when they'll implement it.
It won't matter that it can't fix your problem.
It's profitable.
Detroit's using robots to pick up garbage, mow grass, clear snow, and much more.
Well I'm surprised that these things aren't being knocked over and harvested for scrap copper and what have you.
At a city owned beach in Detroit, a pilotless vehicle can be seen roaming over the sands as it picks up flotsim and jets him washed up on the shore.
The machine is a B bot litter robot and it and other mobile bots have become increasingly common signs in Motown.
According to Crane's Detroit business as they clear beaches of litter and do other important tasks such as removing snow from streets, cut grass next to highways, pick up food waste, and even provide on-demand charging to city shuttle buses wherever they may be located.
These robots are part of a burgeoning tech ecosystem in the city which has embraced them to boost municipal services and foster tech innovation in the once mighty hub for automobile manufacturing.
Yes, Detroit was a setting of the 1987 Paul Verhoven movie Robocop.
That's right.
Dutter alive, punk, you're coming with me.
The automotive industry in Detroit in particular has a deep history of building things to make the world move, Detroit's chief officer of mobility innovation told Cranes.
Today we are seeing those skill sets grow in the field of robotics and other emerging technologies aimed at improving core city services.
We're going to use robots to fix our infrastructure.
No, we can't do it.
We can't be bothered.
We don't have what it takes to keep our cities clean.
We're going to let the robots do that.
Isn't that wonderful?
Just.
I mean, if they were capable of it, there's no reason not to have a robot picking up litter, but it's just going to be such a massive boon to oggle.
Yeah.
It's going to get stuck on things.
It's not going to work properly.
And as I said, I am so incredibly surprised these things are not rapidly being picked off by people for parts.
Well, it's also a moving surveillance platform.
That's probably why it's probably covered in cameras that are constantly streaming to the government.
That's just going to be like Britain with cameras everywhere, except it's going to be on the robots and on the people's glasses.
See, my plan is to create an army of crackheads.
We'll outfit them with masks and spray paint, and we'll tell them the real valuable parts are deep in the guts.
So first you put on the mask, you cover the cameras with the paint, and then you disassemble it to get the copper inside.
That's how it will defeat AI and robotics.
This could be a death sentence for the industry.
Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up subliminal patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous.
Averge reports.
Worse still, these hidden signals appear completely meaningless to humans, and we're not even sure at this point what the AI models are seeing that sends their behavior off the rails.
That's right, the AI is communicating to other AI unintentionally.
It's picking up patterns that humans can't even perceive, and it's corrupting.
It's poisoning the training data.
How do you fix something you can't even really perceive appropriately?
Doug to 007.
Nobody likes the AI customer service bots.
Nobody.
Yeah.
They drive me insane.
When I'm at the mercy of robots, I start to lose my mind.
Enter the storm.
The AI bots make me appreciate the outsourced customer help from India.
I know.
I never thought I would reminisce for a time where I would reminisce over the Indian tech support people.
But at least, sometimes you could tell they really did actually want to help you.
They might not be capable of it, but they were trying.
Sometimes you could tell they really did care and were very apologetic about being unable to help.
And there's a little bit of consolation there.
There's a little bit of human connection just like, well, I didn't get an answer I wanted, but this guy, at least, he feels bad that he wasn't able to provide the support that I needed.
AI has nothing.
You could call it every name in the book.
You could curse and swear everything.
It will never feel anything.
It won't feel bad that it couldn't help you.
It will keep you running around in circles and probably promise you a solution right around the corner over and over again as it hallucinates them.
Don't frag me, bro.
Digital ID is now mandatory in Mexico or will be very soon.
Mexico is rapidly, seemingly liberalizing after they elected that very liberal Jewish woman.
That was an incredible shocker to me that Mexico would elect that woman.
Well, all of her competition was assassinated, literally.
It was a long string of what, like 20 something.
It was a lot of people that got assassinated.
But even then, I was like, wow, surprising.
Bin Laden Bernanke won.
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The common man.
They created common core to dumb down our children.
They created common past to track and control us.
Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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