(ImDavisss) I took my new, fully automated robot pal into the Hood of Los Angeles: Venice Beach
We'll never have RoboCops. ACLU would never allow it.
There were once Slave Patrols in these United States of America, formed by white men to gather up escaped slaves and any free Blacks who could be accused of being escaped slaves, dragged in for a bounty, and sold to the highest bidder. It was a wonderful time for the Deep South and the Confederacy. Modern slavery dictates that the only enslaved Blacks today be prisoners and parolees in the Prison-Industrial Complex. Could "RoboCop" prototypes such as this one be utilized in hunting down parolees, accused perpetrators, criminals, and any Black person late to work? The mind boggles. But Larry Ellison, David Ellison, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other tech billionaires probably have a strong opinion on the matter.
This science fiction fantasy could never happen in real life
China just launched its first real Robotic AI Policeman (already on the streets)
Freeze, Stinking Organic! Down on the ground!
(AI Revolution) China has already deployed its first real AI police robot, PM01 ["Police Man 01"?], now actively patrolling the streets with facial recognition, voice command support, and advanced crowd-scanning technology [not to mention secret weapons not disclosed to the public].
Meanwhile, XPENG, Elon Musk's Tesla, and Chery are racing to perfect humanoid robots for [sex, sales, police] tasks ranging from customer service to full-scale factory work.
Don't worry. Elon Musk's baby-mama Grimes assures us that there is a massive "depopulation" (reduction in humans) coming soon, so there will be fewer human worker vying for the remaining jobs after the reset.
With new breakthroughs in AI chips from Huawei and powerful software agents like Abacus DeepAgent, robots are becoming smarter, faster, and ready to replace humans in everyday roles.
CHAPPIE - Teaser: What will happen to all the organic human beings?
🔍What’s inside
China deploys its first real AI police robot PM01 with facial recognition and crowd scanning
XPENG, Tesla, and Chery unveil humanoid robots that talk, walk, and assist in real-world tasks
Abacus DeepAgent gets a major upgrade, letting users build full apps and dashboards with one prompt
🎥 What viewers will see
PM01 performing front flips and real-time surveillance on the streets of Shenzhen
XPENG’s android Iron showing human-like motion and shared intelligence with self-driving cars
Tesla’s Optimus walking naturally, and Zyrex, a six-meter robot, getting ready to build houses
📊 Why it matters
AI robots are now entering public safety policing, retail, and construction, while powerful tools like DeepAgent automate entire workflows, signaling a rapid shift in how humans and machines share everyday tasks.
DISCLAIMER: This video explores the latest breakthroughs in humanoid robots, AI police deployment, and next-gen automation tools reshaping public spaces, labor, and infrastructure worldwide. #AI #robot #humanoid
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back, but New York Times reporter Adam Liptak and former Washington Post editor Martin Baron say the Trump administration is using federal power to control speech and [stifle] the press.
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Jimmy Kimmel and his show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" returned to ABC last night after he was suspended indefinitely a week ago. The story of his suspension and return has implications beyond Kimmel, pertaining to conglomerate ownership of broadcast networks and news publications, the First Amendment and freedom of the press, the FCC and Pres. Trump. Here to talk about the larger story are [journalists] Marty Baron and Adam Liptak.
Baron was the editor of The Washington Post from 2013 until his retirement in 2021. During most of his tenure, The Post was owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Baron's memoir about that time is titled Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post. He was previously the editor of The Boston Globe. In the movie Spotlight, a drama based on The Globe's investigation, revealing sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, Baron was portrayed by Liev Schreiber.
Adam Liptak covers the courts and legal issues for The New York Times. Before joining the Times' news staff, he practiced law for 14 years, concentrating on First Amendment issues, including in The New York Times Company's corporate legal department. Let's start with a clip from Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!")
JIMMY KIMMEL: I've been hearing a lot about what I need to say and do tonight, and the truth is, I don't think what I have to say is going to make much of a difference. If you like me, you like me. If you don't, you don't. I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind. But I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human, and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder (CRYING) of a young man. I don't...
(APPLAUSE)
KIMMEL: ...I don't think there's anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed, sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I meant it. And I still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what -- it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both.
And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset. If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way. I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don't agree on politics at all. I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn't. It - ever. And also selfishly...
(APPLAUSE)
KIMMEL: ...I am a person who gets a lot of threats. I get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my coworkers because of what I choose to say. And I know those threats don't come from the kind of people on the right who I know and love. So that's what I wanted to say on that subject. But I don't want to make this about me because - and I know this is what people say when they make things about them.
(LAUGHTER)
KIMMEL: But I really don't. This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.
KIMMEL: I've had the opportunity to meet and spend time with comedians and talk show hosts from countries like Russia, countries in the Middle East, who tell me they would get thrown in prison for making fun of those in power, and worse than being thrown in prison. They know how lucky we are here. Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country. And that's something I'm embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Stephen [Colbert] off the air and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you live in to take my show off the air. That's not legal. That's not American. That is un-American. And it is so dangerous.
(CHEERING)
I am the King of the USA!
GROSS: All right, so that was an excerpt of last night's monologue by Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel went on to praise Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, for forgiving her husband's assassin. And he added while tearing up...
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!") KIMMEL: There it was. That's it, a selfless act of grace, forgiveness from a grieving widow. (Crying) And it touched me deeply. And I hope it...
(APPLAUSE)
KIMMEL: ...It touches many. And if there's anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that, and not this.
GROSS: So, Marty Baron, Adam Liptak, welcome to FRESH AIR. What was your reaction to last night's monologue?
MARTY BARON: Well, it was very moving, very emotional and, I think, very effective. I really think that this could end up being an extraordinarily important moment in the history of the country. And you know, I think back to the 1950s, actually. It recalled for me the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, when Joseph Welch was representing the U.S. Army. He told Senator Joseph McCarthy, have you no decency, sir? And that really proved to be a turning point when the country turned against McCarthy and his incredibly malicious behavior.
So, you know, now we live in a time where - era where performative behavior is rewarded. It's all about spectacle. You know, we have a president who really revels in showmanship. So maybe what we need is a different spectacle in this instance, from an entertainer like Jimmy Kimmel, really, as a counterweight, as a corrective, because the standard forms of argument just aren't as effective as they once were. So I thought it was highly effective and effective in a way that traditional debate hasn't been.
ADAM LIPTAK: I agree with Marty. It was, among other things, a robust defense of free speech in the sense that you don't have to agree with what Jimmy Kimmel was saying, although it's hard to disagree with much of what he said because it was so moving. But what free speech requires is that you hear him out and you consider it, and you don't try to stifle it or censor it. That said, my viewing of this was a little frustrating because I live in Washington, D.C., and I learned last night, as I tried to watch Jimmy Kimmel, that the local ABC affiliate is owned by Sinclair, and they had chosen not to air it. And while it appeared on YouTube soon enough, this is not an unalloyed victory. In much of the country, Kimmel remains unavailable, and this fight is not over.
GROSS: Yeah. I think that between Sinclair and Nexstar, they own about 20% of the ABC affiliates.
BARON: Yeah, I think they...
GROSS: They own 70 stations, and I think it's like 20% of...
House votes to ban TikTok and RFK’s unexpected VP contender | The Daily Show
The US is secretly at war with China, but shssh.
(The Daily Show)
March 13, 2024: Co-Hosts Desi Lydic and Michael Kosta weigh in on RFK Jr. shortlisting footballer Aaron Rodgers as his VP pick [and his better option, Gov. Jesse Ventura], South Dakota Gov. Kristy Noem doing sponcon for a Texas dentist, and Correspondent Ronny Chieng calls on America to step up its misinformation game after the House passed a bill to ban TikTok. #DailyShow#TikTok#RFKJr
Dying monarchy must keep up appearances as king and princess fight to stay alive
When you marry into Reptilian clan
Is future-Queen Kate Middleton dying or already dead? No one's seen her. Windsor Castle future-occupants posted a totally phony and doctored photo of a healthy and beautiful Kate (taken from an old magazine cover she appeared on). News of her in a car with her mother without a security detail wasn't her at all. What's going on? First the king is dying of ball cancer (prostate?), and the princess is in the hospital with stress-related illnesses from her cheating husband and/or faking pregnancies with perfect children and future rulers? One crosses over into conspiracy territory to even think about it.
The world still loves half-American Saint Princess Di (R), seen here with Saint Mother Theresa.
Vigilante: One-night impact screenings Los Angeles | Oakland | Milwaukee by Greg Palast
October 26, 2022 in LA: Greg Palast's new film Vigilante, which is narrated by Rosario Dawson and presented by Martin Sheen, opened in Atlanta and Chicago for special one-night screenings to packed houses and rave reviews.
The film now moves to Los Angeles, Oakland, and Milwaukee. More
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HOST AMYGOODMAN: Civil rights groups are warning a pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements [in Palestine] would criminalize free speech and peaceful protest.
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act would make it a felony for U.S. citizens to support boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements, punishable by at least a $250,000 fine, with a maximum penalty of a fine of $1 million and 20 years in prison.
So far 46 senators -- 31 Republican, 15 Democrat -- and 234 Congressmembers, from both sides of the aisle, support the legislation.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC, reportedly helped craft the bill and has made its passage one of the group’s top lobbying priorities for the year.
In a letter Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, urged senators to oppose the bill’s passage.
The ACLU wrote, "We take no position for or against the effort to boycott Israel or any foreign country, for that matter. However, we do assert that the government cannot, consistent with the First Amendment, punish U.S. persons based solely on their expressed political beliefs." More (Watch Full Show)
Don't think about sex. How are you going to be a genius? More education=less sex.
What is "genius," and how do I do/get/be it? (Grant Snider/redlemonclub.com)
The staff at Wisdom Quarterly was overlooked again this year. MacArthur people, are you paying attention? But the 2016 list of winners includes five locals, writers, a poet, obscure researchers, everything we love and strive for. Pasadena's Caltech gets accolades, as does nearby USC, the ACLU, and Claudia Rankine. Karma is sweet (when it comes to fruition).
The 2016 class of MacArthur Foundation Fellowship honorees has been announced. Among them was [black] poet Claudia Rankine. Her book, Citizen: An American Lyric, is a provocative meditation on race in America. Through a series of vignettes, she tells the stories of everyday
racism that people of color face on a daily basis. The poems are largely
based on actual incidents of passive bigotry and prejudice that Rankine
and her friends have personally experienced (The Frame/scpr.org).
The fellows, announced Thursday [9/21/16] by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, include USC professor and cultural historian Josh Kun, ACLU human rights lawyer Ahilan Arulanantham, nonfiction writer Maggie Nelson, and two scientists with Caltech (the California Institute of Technology) in Pasadena -- microbiologist Dianne Newman and geomicrobiologist Victoria Orphan.
The grants are meant to recognize individuals “who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction,” according to the MacArthur foundation.
Each fellow receives a no-strings stipend of $625,000 paid out over five years. More + VIDEO
Meet all 23 extraordinarily creative people who inspire us all (macfound.org)
Meditation is monotasking to realize the mind's potential (Grant Snider)
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