But what was the word he was going to say he loved so much?
Jason Whitlock: I just voted for Trump
https://x.com/WhitlockJason/status/1847339667961831679
Why is Donald Trump targeting the Amish vote in Pennsylvania?
Traditionally the Amish do not vote. In the past they wanted little to do with government, believing instead that they serve the higher kingdom of God.
Now, among this deeply religious community known for rejecting modern technology, the attitude to politics is changing and the “Amish vote” has been relentlessly targeted in one of America’s swing states.
“Trump has some good ideas, especially on the economy,” Henry Stoltz, an Amish vegetable farmer, said. “But you see, I don’t like his morals.”
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https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/why-trump-is-targeting-the-amish-vote-in-pennsylvania-9q8s7mrmk
This town has no cell service, so the ‘electrosensitive’ have made it home
GREEN BANK, W.Va. — Brandon Barrett arrived here two weeks ago, sick but hopeful, like dozens before him.
Just a few years back, he could dead lift 660 pounds. After an injury while training to be a professional dirt-bike rider, he opened a motorcycle shop just north of Buffalo. When he wasn’t working, he would cleanse his mind through rigorous meditation.
In 2019, he began getting sick. And then sicker. Brain fog. Memory issues. Difficulty focusing. Depression. Anxiety. Fatigue.
Brandon was pretty sure he knew why: the cell tower a quarter-mile behind his shop and all the electromagnetic radiation it produces, that cellphones produce, that WiFi routers produce, that Bluetooth produces, that the whole damn world produces. He thought about the invisible waves that zip through our airspace — maybe they pollute our bodies, somehow?
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https://archive.is/iqzX4#selection-491.0-491.74
Elon Musk raises payment offer to $100 for voters who sign petition supporting 'free speech & right to bear arms'
Billionaire Elon Musk has upped his financial offer for registered swing state voters to sign a conservative-leaning petition. On Thursday, Musk wrote on X that his pro-Trump super PAC would give $100 to signees and those who refer them.
After Musk pushed a debunked voter fraud conspiracy theory Thursday evening at a pro-Trump town hall event in Pennsylvania, he announced in an X post that he was doubling his financial offer for engagement with the petition, which had been set at $47. He said the deadline to sign the petition is Monday night, the day that Pennsylvania voter registration closes.
“If you’re a registered Pennsylvania voter, you & whoever referred you will now get $100 for signing our petition in support of free speech & right to bear arms,” Musk wrote.
Musk initially launched the petition and referral offer in early October. His America PAC released the petition, which is in support of the Constitution’s First and Second amendments. For anyone who refers a registered swing state voter to sign it, Musk promised to mail a check. For the current offer, he said checks will be mailed to voter addresses on file in Pennsylvania.
The program appears to avoid breaking campaign finance laws, which make it illegal to pay people to register to vote, because the payment is for signing the petition and referring registered voters to sign the petition, rather than for registration.
However, Musk, the world’s richest person, has vocally urged swing state voters in Pennsylvania to vote for former President Donald Trump, saying Thursday that the 2024 election will decide the “fate of America” and “the fate of Western civilization.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/rcna176075
I offered to pay my neighbor $40 to come out and vote with me and it motivated him. If you got extra cash laying around maybe use it to motivate your friends and neighbors to come vote with you.
You double, triple, quadruple, gorrilla your vote this way.
If it was my last $40 i would have done the same thing.
Illegals who are calling Trump 'El Diablo', are trying to break into the US for their own best interest, hope for a Kamala victory.
https://x.com/BensmanTodd/status/1847025212316942706
Amazon’s first fully autonomous robot, Proteus
Amazon’s first fully autonomous robot, Proteus, has a lot of responsibilities. Its main job is to pick up trolleys full of parcels and get them where they need to be. But it is also carries a whole other aim: to make robots into something we love.
When Amazon announced last week that it would be launching a new “next-generation” facility in Shreveport, Louisiana, it said that would come with a tenfold increase in the amount of robotics used. That in turn should make it cheaper for Amazon to ship: the company says its new warehouse has already seen the cost of getting a parcel to its destination fall by 25 per cent.
Much of that is down to Proteus, the small green machine shaped like a large Roomba and currently careening around various Amazon facilities. It is notable in part because it is the first robot to escape its confines at Amazon, and work autonomously.
In a blog post published last week, in which Amazon voices the Proteus robot, it said that the “first autonomous mobile robot” title is a “fancy way of saying, I’ve got the smarts and technology that allow me to work independently and safely around people.
“This means that I can navigate freely within my work area in our fulfillment centers and detect and avoid objects around me, allowing me to safely work outside the fenced areas where many of my robotic co-workers must stay.”
Proteus and its wider deployment marks a major breakthrough for Amazon, which is already the largest manufacturer of industrial robotics. But it will also attempt to humanise the robots, to ensure that Amazon workers are happy with them driving around their feet.
That is part of the mission to “make Proteus lovable”, according to Julie Mitchell, a director at Amazon Robotics, who helped bring the machine to life. Making it so was one of the key guiding principles behind the development of the machine, she says.
“That was our whole idea,” she said last week at Amazon’s Delivering the Future event, during which it revealed its plans to bring new technology to the logistics that get a package from the seller to your house. “We wanted to make Proteus lovable.”
That includes putting a face and eyes onto the robot, and noises that come out of it as it moves around and clears its way. It all helps safety by ensuring that human employees are aware of the robot – but it also helps humanise them too.
“The faces, the eyes that we put on it, the noises that it makes – it all purposely designed to make it lovable.”
Amazon’s robotics work has generated an awful lot of feelings in recent years, though love wouldn’t be high on the list.
For the company, they are a way of automating the repetitive tasks that have been and still currently are sometimes done by employees. Amazon says that many of those jobs are tiring and potentially even damaging to the people who do them, and that it would be better for robots to help those people out. It lays out a vision of robots not replacing but assisting humans, so that they work better together.
For critics, which include the unions, the robots are a way of automating away important jobs so that humans don’t need to be paid to do them. Even when they are not taking jobs, some have argued that having caged robots speeding around can prove stressful.
Existing Amazon robots are not lovable. While Proteus runs free, the rest are inside cages: some larger and some much smaller. They wield incredible force and speed that makes them efficient but also machinelike.
But Proteus attempts to change that in part by its design, including those eyes. As they buzz around beneath the feet of staff, they are engaged in a near-constant blinking and beeping that has been precisely refined to avoid them annoying their human colleagues.
“We put a lot of intention into the human robot interface and making that collaboration very intuitive and enjoyable. And it's worked really well,” said Miller.
“We actually used a lot of the feedback from our teams here,” she said, pointing at the large Nashville fulfillment centre behind her, which took an initial five units to test how they were received. “We learned about what made it a fun engagement, and built that back into the design. So you'll notice things like the eyes will produce, will tell you where it's planning to go based on the signals it's giving you – it'll shift its eyes to move. And so the trust and the collaboration has been kind of there since day one, since introducing this robot.”
Many questions have however focused on how Amazon plans to integrate the robots into their workforce economically, rather than practically. The company doesn’t disclose how much each robot costs or at what point they become cheaper than using humans – but it remains unclear what all of those questions mean for the jobs of the people they are zipping around in the warehouse behind Miller.
To help answer those questions, Amazon commissioned MIT’s Industrial Performance Center to investigate employees’ relationships with those robots. And the results were surprising: those doing the repetitive kind of jobs that Amazon hopes to automate away were actually relatively excited about their introduction.
“I was surprised that workers were so optimistic about the impact of automation on their job security, particularly these workers who do a lot of routine tasks but do a lot of problem solving as well,” said Ben Armstrong, executive director of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center. He and his team have published a paper that suggests that employees’ views of robots might be more nuanced than the fear and hatred that is often attributed to them.
“Common narratives about automation often pit new technologies against workers,” the team’s summary reads. “The introduction of advanced machine tools, industrial robots, and AI have all been met with concern that technological progress will mean fewer jobs. However, workers themselves offer a more optimistic, nuanced perspective.”
It found that workers doing repetitive tasks were likely to feel positively about the introduction of AI, and that what really made the difference was whether they were being asked to solve problems, and felt like they were valued by their company.
Amazon has been using robotics for years. It officially launched Amazon Robotics in 2015, but that was really a rebranding of Kiva Systems, a company it had bought three years earlier and which originally began in 2003.
And other companies are working hard on their own solutions. Elon Musk’s Tesla has repeatedly made claims about its Optimus robot, which it says will eventually be able to autonomously fulfil a range of tasks.
The technology is still a long way off. But the economic, practical and philosophical questions are already here: what does a world we share with robots look like?
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-trying-world-fall-love-063619156.html
‘We’re Desperate’: Socialists, Muslims Band Together To Deny Harris The White House
If 75% of the roughly 200,000 Muslim Americans in Michigan cast their vote on November 5, Vice President Kamala Harris will be virtually guaranteed to lose the state and its critical 15 electoral votes.
That’s what one activist group in the state, Drive for 75, believes. And to achieve it, Rex Nazarko and his organization are barnstorming mosques, hosting voter promotion sermons and knocking on thousands of doors across the state.
“What was a guarantee for [a Harris loss] to happen? We tried with different percentages and different turnouts, and with the 75% number, again, accounting only for the Muslim community, not other communities, not other allies, not other progressives. It essentially guaranteed a 99.9% likelihood of the vice president losing the election in Michigan, if 75% of [the community turned out],” Nazarko told the Caller, explaining that they ran numerous mathematical simulations to inform their strategy.
“We ran that simulation 10,000 times, and almost every time that was the case. So that’s how we got the Drive for 75 call to action and idea,” he explained.
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https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/17/kamala-harris-michigan-abandon-jill-stein-gaza-uncommitted/
More than 100,000 Chinese Illegals have crossed U.S. border in last 4 years — Mayorkas celebrates that he deported a few hundred
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported a group of Chinese migrants earlier this week on a charter flight to China, according to officials.
Tuesday’s flight marked the second removal of Chinese nationals from the U.S. this year. The first flight, the largest since 2018, occurred in June with the cooperation of China’s National Immigration Administration.
“Intending migrants should not believe the lies of smugglers – Chinese nationals without a legal basis to remain in the United States are subject to swift removal,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement released Thursday. “The Department of Homeland Security will continue to strengthen consequences for individuals unlawfully entering our country and enforce our nation’s laws.”
In 2022, approximately 90,000 Chinese nationals entered the U.S., making it the third-largest source of immigrants after Mexico and India, according to the Pew Research Center.
China suspended cooperation with U.S. removal efforts in August 2022 by refusing to accept returning citizens. As a result, the country saw a drastic surge in the number of immigrants entering the country illegally from Mexico, The Associated Press reported.
The following year, U.S. border officials arrested more than 37,000 Chinese nationals at the southern border, 10 times the number during the previous year. However, China resumed cooperation with U.S. deportation efforts this year, according to the AP.
“In recent years, Chinese law enforcement departments have cracked down hard on crimes that harm the tranquility of national border, and maintained a high pressure against all kinds of smuggling organizations and offenders,” the U.S. Embassy in China wrote in a statement in May.
“Our work has produced good results. At the same time, Chinese law enforcement agencies have regular cooperation with relevant countries to jointly tackle cross-border smuggling activities, repatriate illegal immigrants and maintain the order of international flow of people,” the embassy added.
President Biden issued a proclamation in June temporarily suspending the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border. Since then, Border Patrol officials say encounters have decreased by more than 55 percent.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4938987-dhs-chinese-migrant-flight-deportations/amp/
Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar throws stick at drone in desperate final moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1NvH0Hyp1Q
Chinese Communist Party Espionage ‘Expanded Rapidly’ Under Biden-Harris, House GOP Finds
Espionage, illegal immigration and other illicit activities linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have increased dramatically under the Biden-Harris administration, according to a House report exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
A “China Threat Snapshot” released Thursday by the House Committee On Homeland Security’s Subcommittee On Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, And Intelligence, details 59 “CCP-related” criminal cases that occurred in 20 U.S. states between February 2021 and August 2024. The cases listed within the committee’s report involve a variety of alleged criminal activities including bribery, hacking and theft of trade secrets.
“The Chinese Communist Party is not satisfied with destroying freedom and repressing its citizens within its own borders,” Tennessee Republican Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told the DCNF. “Beijing has continually encroached upon American sovereignty to spy, intimidate, and harass not only defectors, but even American citizens.”
The China Threat Snapshot provides statistics overviewing how CCP-related activities have “expanded rapidly” throughout the U.S. in recent years.
“About 80% of economic espionage prosecutions allege conduct that would benefit the Chinese state, and there is at least some nexus to China in around 60% of all trade secret theft cases,” according to the report. Charges of trade secret theft are present in 14 of the 59 CCP-related criminal cases included in the committee’s report.
In one listed example, the Department of Justice charged Chenguang Gong, a Chinese national living in California, with theft of trade secrets in February 2024 for allegedly transferring thousands of files from his employer to his personal devices. Some of these files allegedly contained “information on sensors designed for nuclear missile detection as well as other sensitive technologies,” according to the committee’s report.
The China Threat Snapshot notes that there have been “224 reported incidents of Chinese espionage directed at the U.S. between 2000 and 2023,” with the states most impacted being California, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Florida.
The committee’s report also highlights a number of recent U.S. government efforts to counter the CCP’s malign activities, such as the SHIELD Against CCP Act, which aims to “establish in the Department of Homeland Security a working group relating to countering terrorist, cybersecurity, border and port security, and transportation security threats posed to the United States by the Chinese Communist Party,” according to the bill.
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https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/10/17/exclusive-chinese-communist-party-espionage-expanded-rapidly-under-biden-harris-house-gop-finds/
Kamala Close With Dem Who Tried To Make Child Porn Possession A Non-Felony
Vice President Kamala Harris has close ties with a Democrat who tried to make child pornography possession a non-felony in California, the Daily Caller has learned.
Mark Leno, a Democrat politician who served in the California State Senate until November 2016 and is someone Harris has called a “dear friend,” authored a piece of legislation that would have allowed pedophiles to possess up to 99 items depicting child pornography before they could be charged with a felony, according to former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.
At the time, McCarthy was serving as the California Assembly Republican leader and said Assembly Bill 50 as originally written would have allowed the possession of up to 99 items of child pornography before the crime could be prosecuted as a felony. A compact disc (CD) with 1,000 images on it would have counted as one item, according to McCarthy.
The legislation received pushback even from Democrats. Political analyst and veteran Democrat Pat Caddell told the Los Angeles Daily News: “What the Democrats did on AB 50 was insane, insane – 100 exemptions for child porn? They had to figure out this was not good? If this seeps into voters’ minds, my God.'”
An op-ed in the Los Angeles Daily News also stated: “Early on, AB 50 was filled with loopholes that would make your skin crawl. For instance, Leno provided an ‘exemption’ from felony charges if a suspect was caught with less than 100 pieces of child pornography. In a creepy all-time low, Assembly Democrats voted for Leno’s plan to go soft on child porn.”
Leno and Harris have maintained a close relationship for over two decades, according to both of their social media posts and old news articles.
In 2003, Leno campaigned with Harris during her run for San Francisco District Attorney.
“With less name recognition than Hallinan and Fazio, Harris is taking her message to the streets. Saturday, she campaigned through the Castro with queer leaders including Assemblyman Mark Leno, Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club co-chair Theresa Sparks, Hank Wilson and Martha Knutzen,” The San Fransisco Examiner wrote in 2003.
Leno also appeared to spend the 2003 election night having dinner with Harris.
“On election night, Matthew and Kamala and I believe [then state Assemblymember] Mark Leno and a couple of other people went to dinner, and Kamala was like, ‘Come to dinner,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I’m going to sit here with Shyamala [and her friend], and we’re going to get the [election results], we’re going to hang out,’” an interview published in KQED states.
When Leno announced his departure from the California Legislature as a state senator in 2016, Harris praised his “committed service” and his work to “secure a better future for California’s most vulnerable children,” thanking him for his “incredible leadership.” She also posted a photo of the two of them to her Twitter.
Thank you, @MarkLeno, for 14 years of passionate & collaborative service in #CALeg! 📷 via @fogcityjournal pic.twitter.com/FtPgY648y2
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 1, 2016
Earlier in 2016, she tweeted that she was “proud to stand” with Leno and others at a LGBT Caucus event.
I was proud to stand with @RichGordon24, @Evan_Low, @SpeakerPerez, & @MarkLeno during the #LGBT Caucus at # CADEM16 pic.twitter.com/tPWBEAYJen
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 27, 2016
In 2018, Leno tweeted out a photo of him and Harris, saying it was “Nice to catch up with my great supporter and dear friend of two decades @KamalaHarris at tonight’s Labor Council COPE Dinner!”
Nice to catch up with my great supporter and dear friend of two decades @KamalaHarris at tonight’s Labor Council COPE Dinner! pic.twitter.com/pWRYgrZo2K
— Mark Leno (@MarkLeno) May 3, 2018
The Daily Caller contacted Harris’s campaign about her relationship with Leno and if she supported Assembly Bill 50 as originally written, to which they did not immediately respond.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/17/kamala-harris-close-with-democrat-mark-leno-tried-make-child-porn-possession-non-felony/
New ergonomic headphones just dropped.
'The Enemy Within'
This CGI was from 10 years ago.
Kamala's America.