ALL THE CLIMATE BS IS FRAUD AND CORRUPTION ALL THE WAY DOWN. EVERYWHERE:  New document release reveals the astounding fraud, deception and idiocy accompanying the German nuclear phase-out.

COMING SOON TO A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN NEAR YOU:  WILD: Black athletic director arrested for using AI audio to frame white principal with racist rant. Here are the details.

I ALSO DON’T HAVE THEM. I DO HOWEVER HAVE A BAD FEELING:  All the Answers.

YOU MUST HAVE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA:  Report: Gaza Terrorists Attack U.S. Humanitarian Pier During Construction Work.

I don’t have a heart of stone.

A GENERATION OF SHEEP:  NYU Anti-Israel Student Protester Asks Friend, ‘Why Are We Protesting Here?’

IF THEY DO THIS, THEY’LL FIND WHAT RESISTANCE IS. NO ONE BELIEVES IN THEIR CLIMATE NONSENSE, ANYWAY:  Biden Weighs Declaring “National Climate Emergency”.

WELL, NO. THESE ARE THE IDIOTS WE ALLOWED TO BE FRAUDED INTO POWER:  These are the idiots WE have put in power.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Education Apocalypse Now? The Ivy League Hits An Iceberg.

SHE’S BAAACK: Big Sister Returns: Criticism of My Work Is a Dire Threat to Democracy.

Remember the Biden Administration’s Ministry of Truth? Almost exactly two years ago, Joe Biden attempted to launch a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ within the Department of Homeland Security. The mission would focus on correcting what the Biden administration’s bureaucrats considering ‘disinformation’ and demand that tech platforms intervene to remove it.

Biden appointed supposed expert Nina Jankowicz as the “disinformation czar” to run the board, and … hilarity almost immediately followed. A quick search of Nina Jankowicz’ social media feed turned up her efforts to spike the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020, calling it “a Russian influence op,” a “fairy tale,” and suggested six months later that it was part of a Kremlin election-influence operation. The next day, John dug up several videos of Jankowicz singing her way through various claims, among other oddities.

Within a week, Republicans in the Senate called this idea of speech control “un-American” and vowed to defund it. A fortnight or so later, Biden threw in the towel — and threw Jankowicz out, too. The very next day, coincidentally or not, NBC News reported that the Hunter laptop was real and spectacular.

After a brief bout of claiming victimhood over right-wing attacks, Jankowicz disappeared from the national scene. Now Jankowicz is back to reclaim the mantle of Big Sister, Luke Rosiak reported late yesterday at the Daily Wire, and wants to silence all critics in her new role, too. Because democracy depends on shutting down criticism, or something.

As a great man once said, “do the letters F O mean anything to you?”

“I, TOO, HATE WHITE PEOPLE”: ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve To Live’: Meet The Leader Of Columbia University’s Anti-Israel Encampment.

The I, too, hate white people quote is from before he started at Columbia. I would like to think that Columbia did not know about this when he was admitted, but I don’t think it would have made a difference–sentiments like his would just be seen as “brave” and “transgressive” rather than hateful and a potential sign of mental instability.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy.

21^st CENTURY HEADLINES: Is This the First AI Hate Hoax?* White Principal Accused of Racism Based on Fake Audio.

A pretty dramatic story out of Baltimore today which reveals what may be the first hate hoax perpetrated with the help of artificial intelligence. The principal of Pikesville High School, Eric Eiswert, was accused in January of making blatantly racist comments behind closed doors after an inflammatory audio file was posted on a popular Instagram account.

In the recording, the person speaking refers to “ungrateful Black kids who can’t test their way out of a paper bag.”

The speaker goes on to question how hard it is to get those students to meet grade-level expectations. He uses names of people who appear to be staff members and says they should not have been hired. The speaker sayshe should get rid of another person “one way or another.”

“And if I have to get one more complaint from one more Jew in this community, I’m going to join the other side,” the voice in the recording stated.

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Siwei Lyu, director of a media forensics lab at the University at Buffalo, said the audio is not particularly sophisticated. Lyu has developed technologies at the State University of New York for spotting audio and images created using artificial intelligence.

This audio is “not a challenging case for the algorithms. I believe someone just made this using an AI voice generator,” Lyu said, adding that he doesn’t believe the person who made it put a lot of effort into the task. Online voice generator tools, like one from Eleven Labs, are available to anyone and advertise their ability to instantly create audio that’s indistinguishable from human speech.

There is, however, clear evidence the audio was manipulated, Lyu said.

Today we got further confirmation of that as police arrested the man they say created that audio in an effort to get back at Eiswert for an earlier investigation.

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[Dazhon “DJ”] Darien (allegedly) stirred up a lot of fear and mistrust in his community. Like Jussie Smollett, he’ll probably get a minor slap on the wrist. I don’t know what he’s facing exactly but I hope if he’s convicted he gets the maximum possible sentence.

This headline earlier today won’t exactly help Darien clear his name: Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun. “Darien, 31, was apprehended as he attempted to board a flight to Houston at BWI Airport, Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. Darien was stopped for having a gun on him and airport officials saw there was a warrant for his arrest. Police said they did not know whether Darien was trying to flee.”

* It certainly won’t be the last, given the rapid spread AI and the increasing ease in faking audio, which, at least for now, is far more easy to manipulate than video. (Though expect plenty of the latter to be faked as well, going forward.)

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia vetoes U.N. resolution on nuclear weapons in space.

The Outer Space Treaty already forbids those, so this is basically a symbolic move on both sides. But to the extent that the Outer Space Treaty’s prohibition is weakening, the prospects for a nuclear Orion spaceship improve.

AMERICAN HIGHER ED’S FREE SPEECH PROBLEMS DIDN’T START ON OCT 7, 2023. My newest Substack piece looks at the absolute bedlam rocking college campuses across the country (Columbia chief among them), the ‘hypocrisy projection’ of people who didn’t care about free speech until it was their ideological comrades being censored, and more.

WELL, THERE YOU ARE: A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation. The headline overpromises a bit, but it’s interesting.

Related: Is this the real life? Or just a fantasy?

IF YOU’RE OLD, being fat improves life expectancy. We’ve seen other studies to this effect. It may just be a marker for the people who aren’t wasting away with sarcopoenia, though, rather than any specific benefit to being fat.

NO COMPETITION, PLEASE: ABA proposal to accredit online law schools faces opposition from law deans.

UNEXPECTEDLY! US economy grew slower than expected at the start of 2024.

The U.S. economy grew at a slower pace than expected at the beginning of 2024 as consumers pulled back on spending in the face of higher inflation.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, grew by 1.6% on an annualized basis in the three-month period from January through March, the Commerce Department said in its first reading of the data on Thursday.

That is much lower than the 2.4% increase forecast by LSEG economists and marks a sharp slowdown from the 3.4% pace seen during the fourth quarter. It is the slowest pace of growth in two years.

“This was a worst of both worlds report — slower than expected growth, higher than expected inflation,” said David Donabedian, chief investment officer of CIBC Private Wealth US. “The biggest setback is the acceleration in core inflation, and in particular, the services sector rising above a 5% annual rate.”

And Team Biden is prepared to drive those growth figures down even more!