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  • “We’re Toast”: AI Godfather Says AI Is Now Conscious, and May Kill Us If We’re Not Friendly

    By Selwyn Duke

    Forget that uber-thin-skinned narcissistic neighbor — are we now going to have to walk on eggs around artificial intelligence (AI), too?

    It’s a staggering thought, but also, essentially, the claim of British-Canadian computer scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton. Hinton is no fly-by-night character, either — the 78-year-old Nobel laureate’s work on neural networks paved the way for AI. And now he appears to be saying that if we don’t befriend the tech, we could face extinction.

    Hinton, whose triumphs got him dubbed “the Godfather of AI,” is apparently as serious as a heart attack about this. In fact, he resigned his position at Google in 2023 over fears that, as the New York Post put it Tuesday, “the tech could manufacture killer robots capable of exterminating humanity.”

    Yet a question now presents itself. Taking Hinton’s warning at face value, would being “just” and “nice” to a self-aware machine ensure its good will? Or is there another, deeper prerequisite for valuing human life?

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  • “I Come From Your Future”: A Frenchman’s Warning for American Midterms

    By Selwyn Duke

    “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” So noted famed English author George Bernard Shaw, lamenting the British political system in 1944. And now a Frenchman, lamenting the French political system today, has a warning for Americans.

    Don’t be Paul.

    Paul believes promises. He gets pain — and maybe even poverty.

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  • Are Powers-that-be Poll Dancing Again to Sway Midterms?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Could the Republicans say, paraphrasing Mark Twain, that rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated? Recent history of polling missteps and abuses — and a new story illustrating this problem — suggests that maybe they can.

    As many know, the Democrats have been counting on a “blue wave” to wash away their Washington power woes. But not only are polls now tightening, they’re also frightening — in their inaccuracy. A case in point is a “polling organization” that just confessed it was issuing fake numbers that helped hard-core leftists. The entity claims it was conducting an “experiment” to illustrate polling’s perils. Critics, however, call this a cop-out designed to explain away the organization’s fraud.

    And whether or not at issue is damage control, damage had already been done. The fake polls could, arguably, have helped candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed win his Michigan Democratic primary.

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  • Catholic Bishop and Protestant Pastors Rally Voters to Confront “Evil” at Ballot Box

    By Selwyn Duke

    So often today we use weasel words, terms that just aren’t, you might say, “up to the challenge.” We may state that something is “inappropriate,” “suboptimal,” “problematic,” “misguided,” or “inadvisable” — even if it’s downright wicked. But not so with Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. He’s urging Catholics to “confront the evil in our world,” which, this November 3, is actually on Virginia’s ballot.

    Mounting a parallel effort on this front are more than 150 Protestant pastors. At issue are two proposed Virginia constitutional amendments on abortion and same-sex “marriage.” And all these clergymen are hoping that some moral clarity will rally voters against them.

    This gets at an even wider issue, too. Moral clarity informs that all elections are a matter of good and evil, right and wrong. This realization could perhaps inspire election turnout among church-going Christians, tens of millions of whom habitually fail to vote.

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  • “Khan” Soon to Be Most Common “English” Surname; 4 in 5 New U.K. Jobs Go to Migrants

    By Selwyn Duke

    No, it’s not The Wrath of Khan but The Rise of Khan — due to immigrationist policy.

    In 2023, “Muhammad” made news, overtaking “Noah” as England’s and Wales’ most popular boy’s name. And now biblical-flood-level migration will give Britain a new leader in surnames as well, with “Khan” poised to displace “Smith” next year.

    This is accompanied, too, by other telling news. Four of five new jobs in Britain over the last decade have been taken by foreigners, a think tank finds. Whether or not this results from migrants having a Khan-do attitude was not reported. What’s for certain, however, is that many native Britons feel as if they’re being “Khanned” right out of their culture.

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  • 6-year-old Black Boy Shoots Teacher, Then Behaves Psychotically on Bodycam

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians,” warned intellectual Thomas Sowell, “who must be civilized before it is too late.” And much we’ve seen for many years now raises a question:

    Is it already too late?

    With video-recording devices everywhere today, we get to witness little barbarians regularly. Few cases are as distressing, however, as newly released bodycam footage of a six-year-old black boy who shot his teacher. Because its most shocking aspect wasn’t even the shooting, but the child’s after-the-fact behavior.

    That is, while being held by another school official, he could be heard cursing at her, and others, for two minutes like a seasoned 19-year-old gang-banger. The incident points to a larger problem, too, in the black community — and in our wider society.

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  • Oregon School Shooting: Same Old Response — or Same Old Complaints About It?

    By Selwyn Duke

    An interesting thing happened years ago when undercover reporters, posing as an anti-firearms group, approached liberal journalist Bob Braun with a large sign stating, “THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE.” They wanted to know: Would you support the cause and display it on your lawn?

    “I agree with you and I am on your side on this,” Braun replied. “But I’m just wondering if that’s not an invitation to somebody with a gun!”

    Also interesting is that the journalist never, apparently, complained about schools being gun-free zones. (This is standard among liberal scribes, so he’s not alone.)

    This comes to mind with the Thursday shooting at a gun-free zone: Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon. It was a tragedy, with three children, ages five, eight, and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher murdered. Two victims, seven and 54, were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. The shooter, 16-year-old Griffin J. John II, who’d attended Silver Rail as a special education student, was also killed.

    But who killed him is notable: a good guy with a gun.

    This hero was Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old father of two Silver Rail students. Hearing the loud reports, he retrieved a .40-caliber pistol he’d legally secured in his vehicle. He then ran toward the gunfire, saw John fighting with a school employee, and shot the teen several times. He likely saved lives — perhaps many.

    It’s not yet known what John’s motive was, though he appears to have had a troubled background. The legacy media’s motive in how it covers this story, however, is obvious.

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  • Unsaid About “Biden’s” Immigration Trespasses: They Weren’t Biden’s

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Democrats have learned their lesson on immigration, we hear. They won’t repeat “Joe Biden’s” “mistakes,” no, no, no. The preceding words are in quotation marks for good reason: At issue weren’t “mistakes.”

    And they weren’t Joe Biden’s.

    That’s the most rational conclusion, anyway.

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  • Eating Their Own — Again: The Far Left Is Calling Zohran Mamdani a Traitor

    By Selwyn Duke

    Call it the Trotsky treatment, the Robespierre rub out, the Kronstadt-sailor stamp out. New York City’s avowedly socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has just learned something the hard way.

    You can never be pure enough for that ever-morphing malignancy: a left-wing revolution.

    The issue? The mayor has incurred the wrath of anti-Israel demonstrators who consider him a traitor. Apparently, these people think you’re a Zionist if you’re not Josef Goebbels2.

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  • LGB-free? Many Young Teen Girls Are Ditching “Gay” and “Bi” Identification

    By Selwyn Duke

    Are we seeing a return to the days when “gay” meant happy? While I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that, a societal transition is afoot. Sexual devolutionary (“LGB”) identification, once all the rage among young people, is now diminishing. The group leading the decline is, too, the same group inordinately responsible for the increase in such identification in the first place: young teen girls.

    My, my, it could almost make a cynic think this was all just a fad.

    And that relates to the bad news here. This social change likely doesn’t represent recognition of Truth — just realignment of tastes.

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