Author: Blazingcatfur

Magazines caught using AI and fake writers for online stories

AI Fake Profile Pic

The publisher of the Belgian editions of Elle and Marie Claire removed articles and profiles it admits were created by AI

Belgian editions of Elle, Marie Claire and other women’s magazines are claimed to have been using artificial intelligence to write hundreds of online articles under the names of fake journalists, complete with photographs and profiles.

“Sophie Vermeulen”, who has written an impressive 403 articles for Elle online this year, was, according to her profile, complete with photograph, “always ready to inspire you with fascinating stories or practical tips. Her passion for fashion and beauty is complemented by a love of travel and literature. Offline, you can spot her on a long walk in ­nature,” her Elle online profile said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Bernier backs Western independence vote after leadership win

PPC leader Maxime Bernier, hot on the heels of a successful leadership review, hopes Albertans will vote in favour of independence — not to break up Canada, but so that serious concessions will be made by Ottawa.

Bernier won the leadership review with 79.1% of the vote, a drop in approval since his 2021 review, where he garnered a staggering 95.6% approval rate. Notably, voter turnout was significantly lower this time — 32.7% compared to a 57% voter participation rate four years ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", PPC, PPC - People's Party of Canada

Investigators look into Air India sabotage theory

The Indian authorities are investigating the possibility that sabotage could have caused the deadly Air India crash.

Murlidhar Mohol, India’s civil aviation minister, said investigators were examining all possibilities, including sabotage, that could have led to Air India Flight 171 plunging from the skies shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport on June 12.

The crash killed at least 260 people, leaving only one survivor, and was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event"

2 firefighters shot dead, 1 injured after ‘sniper’ ambushes crew responding to Idaho blaze: ‘Did not have a chance’

Two firefighters were killed and a third was injured when first responders were ambushed by an hours-long barrage of gunfire after arriving at the scene of a blaze in Idaho Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

The horrific attack, which began around 2 p.m. local time on Canfield Mountain near Coeur d’Alene, ended about five hours later when SWAT teams discovered the lifeless body of a man next to a firearm on the popular tourist trail, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

… “We have currently one dead shooter based on the preliminary investigation that was being conducted. Keep in mind we had a fire that was rapidly approaching the body so we had to scoop up that body and we had to transport that body to a different location. We believe that it is the only shooter that was on that mountain at that time.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

On housing, Toronto fails a crucial test

Velvet Touch Refugee

Toronto City Council had a chance this week to take a clear, practical step toward solving its housing crisis.

Surprise: It did not. Instead, the city’s leaders cowered before the most reactionary elements in local politics and seemed ready to waste $60-million in the process.

With Thursday’s vote, council had to decide whether to legalize “sixplexes” – apartment buildings of up to six units – across the city. Suburban councillors responded by claiming that this, in effect, would destroy Toronto.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Only 5% of New Yorkers voted for Mamdani

Less than 30% of Democrats voted in the mayoral primary. Of those, supposedly, 43.5% voted for Mamdani. So some 12.9% of New York Democrats voted for Mamdani.

56% of registered voters in the city are Democrats so some 7.2% of city residents voted for him.

New York City has a population of 8.2 million. Of those 432,305 or 5% voted for Mamdani.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?

Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report

Donald Trump said he is weighing forcing journalists who published leaked details from a US intelligence report assessing the impact of the recent American military strikes on Iran to reveal their sources – and the president also claimed his administration may prosecute those reporters and sources if they don’t comply.

In an interview Sunday with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Trump doubled down on his claim that the 21 June airstrikes aimed at certain Iranian facilities successfully crippled Iran’s nuclear program. He insisted the attacks destroyed key enriched uranium stockpiles, despite Iranian assertions that the material had been relocated before the strikes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Lau: The government’s massive childcare plan has only made waitlists longer

Everything he touched turned to shit

It’s now more than four years since the federal Liberal government pledged $30 billion in spending over five years for $10-a-day national childcare, and more than three years since Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government signed a $13.2-billion deal with the federal government to deliver this childcare plan.

Not surprisingly, with massive government funding came massive government control. While demand for childcare has increased due to the government subsidies and lower out-of-pocket costs for parents, the plan significantly restricts how childcare centres operate (including which items participating centres may purchase), and crucially caps the proportion of government funds available to private, for-profit providers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Bob Vylan, Glastonbury and the banality of Jew hatred

If you can’t see it now, you never will. The sight of tens of thousands of people at Glastonbury yesterday joining in a spirited chant of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ was the sight of us officially becoming a very different country, I fear. One in which anti-Israel hysteria has so flawlessly rehabilitated Jew hatred that it has become unthinking, conformist, almost mundane. Something that Home Counties idiots can jive to before adjusting their hot pants and heading off to catch Charli XCX. Something that is broadcast by the BBC into millions of homes. The banality of the new anti-Semitism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Proud but with problems: How Canadians feel about their country

Canadians are proud to be Canadian — a huge majority declare it — even with concerns of affordability, what it means to be Canadian and a loss of a shared collective identity

As Canada turns 158 on Tuesday, a birthday celebrated during tumultuous political and international agitation, Canadians remain proud of their country and their place in it — with considerable intensity for a nation often too modest to boast — but riding on that red-and-white wave are hard questions of what kind of country Canadians want.

I do not want the 3rd World crapping all over my country.

Make it so.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Stunning number of Democrats would not fight for America in a war

In the aftermath of a historic U.S. bombing campaign in the Middle East, a new Daily Mail poll reveals a stark partisan divide on who’s willing to answer the call of duty.

Republicans are far more likely to say they’d enlist than their Democratic counterparts, according to a new poll of J.L Partners of 1,025 registered voters taken between June 24 – 25. The margin of error was 3.1 percent.

The survey found 41 percent of Democrats would enlist if the U.S. were involved in an active war to defend American interests, with 40 percent of Democrats responding they would not enlist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party, USA

Diversity Isn’t Strength; a Shared Identity Is

School Diversity Mosaic Appears To Feature Satan’s Spawn

Whatever replaces cockney London, two things are certain: it will no longer be England, and it’s coming to a town near you sooner than you think.

Twenty years ago, I was a juggler. The majority of my ‘work’ was in schools. I travelled the length and breadth of England – witnessing firsthand the changes wrought by Tony Blair and New Labour ‘diversity’. I can remember all of the best jobs – invariably these were small village schools, where the pupil numbers did not exceed a hundred. The family atmosphere was tangible, and it was a great pleasure to be there. I can remember the worst ones too. These were almost always large, faceless, inner-city academies.

One in particular stands out in my memory, a primary school in East London. The cultural divide couldn’t have been starker. Only one or two in each class were what would be termed ‘white British’. The white headmaster was openly ridiculed as he proudly walked the corridors, while the teachers were largely ignored.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"