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We go now to DC:

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The murderbots need not love us, so long as they fear us.

At one point, three Waymos were all stalled, seemingly confused:

Selika Josiah Talbott, a transportation mobility policy expert and former federal advisor with decades of leadership shaping autonomous vehicle regulation, finds this sort of behavior shocking and horrifying.

"One of the things that is happening is here is we're teaching artificial intelligence that people are dangerous. We're teaching artificial intelligence that people are harmful, and that's not what we want," said Talbott.

What you mean "we"?

"There was an officer that appeared and eventually sort of shooed everyone to the side so that the vehicle to begin to move," Talbott described. "Even the vehicle's hesitancy as it began to operate again was because of the intrusiveness of humans." [...]

"We need law enforcement to deal with the bad actors who are trying to, whether it's playing games or seriously trying to harm the technology."

Oh no, are they trying to "harm the technology"? Is that related to "criminal contempt of business model"?

Poor widdle wobot, it was feeling "hesitant!" These fratboys might have hurt its widdle wobot uwu twillion-dollar-market-cap feewings.

Humans: an intrusive species in the robot ecosystem. What are we doing on their roads anyway?

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The detail on this is astounding.

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Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen, Nicole.

Nicole Shanahan, ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and former vice-presidential running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made the stunning accusation on Twitter yesterday.

"I have come to believe that Burning Man [...] may be one of the most effective tools for Satan to misdirect souls away from our Heavenly Father. When you surrender yourself to 'the playa,' you do not simply embrace freedom; you also open yourself to profound distortions of what is good." [...]

"As I devote myself to Scripture, to my family, and to walking in the light of the Lord, I find that this process of renewal continues to unfold, deepening day by day, step by step," she wrote. "I no longer desire to 'Burn the Man;' I now burn with zeal in the Spirit." [...]

Describing herself as a "newbie" to demonology, she cited a 17th century book of magic to offer a possible explanation for Burning Man's allegedly demonic influences:

Take the demon Morax, for example. Also known as Marax or Forax, he appears in several occult texts, including "The Lesser Key of Solomon and Pseudomonarchia Daemonum." He is described as a Great Earl and President of Hell, commanding between 30 and 36 legions of demons, each capable of taunting, tempting, and tormenting humans. He is often portrayed as a bull with a human face, or a man with the head of a bull. What is striking is his supposed abilities: teaching astrology, liberal sciences, and the properties of herbs and precious stones, as well as bestowing spiritual docents. Does any of this sound familiar?

Many tech billionaires and their friends faithfully attend the week-long festival. In fact, Sergey Brin, Shanahan's ex-husband from whom she reportedly received $1 billion in a 2023 divorce, has been described as a "rabid" attendee. Google has even provided free employee shuttles to the event.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs orders amid federal incursion threat:

The mayor's executive order "urges" all federal law enforcement to follow Chicago police directives banning them from wearing masks on duty and requiring them to activate their body cameras at all times when interacting with the public. Officers or armed forces should also display their federal agency, last name and badge number or rank "in a clearly visible fashion," per the order. [...]

Besides the directives on law enforcement, Johnson's order directs city departments to coordinate on responding to federal agents or military presence in Chicago and submit regular public records requests to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to obtain information on immigration enforcement. [...]

Asked about how effective his order is going to be given that federal agents don't take orders from him, Johnson shot back: "Yeah, and I don't take orders from the federal government. Thank you all very much."

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Rodney and Ezri agree.Cube (1997) is far more relevant to our 2025 shitshow than it has any right to be.

"This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan."

"What kind of fuckin' explanation is that? Somebody had to say yes to this thing."

"I mean, somebody might've known sometime before they got fired or voted out or sold it. But if this place ever had a purpose, then it got miscommunicated or lost in the shuffle. This is an accident, a forgotten, perpetual public works project. You think anybody wants to ask questions? All they want is a clear conscience and a fat paycheck."

"Why put people in it?"

"Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit it's pointless."

"But it... it is pointless!"

"Quentin, that's my point."

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Conservative antipathy toward the institution began long ago: with the bones of Bible giants.

Did you hear the one about the Smithsonian hiding the bones of Bible giants in the basement? No? Well, Missouri Republican Representative Eric Burlinson did, and he recently said he wants to develop a "strategy" to use Congress's investigative power to get to the bottom of the mystery. "I do believe [giants] were real," Burlinson told a Blaze TV program in June, shortly before he gave a speech at NephCon 2025, a gathering of people who are hunting the remains of the Nephilim, or the giants from the Book of Genesis. [...]

Powell wanted to disprove the popular notion that Native Americans erected these mounds, on the grounds that they were too stupid and lazy to create these features -- something that nineteenth-century scholars assumed only white people or Bible giants could do. [...]

Among the most popular of these were the Christian DVDs and later podcasts produced by Steve Quayle and his Nephilim-hunting partner, Timothy Alberino. Quayle, an archconservative, blamed Bible giants for "teaching" men to be gay. He and Alberino were regulars on the right-wing podcast circuit in the 2010s, often appearing with figures like Alex Jones and Jim Bakker so Quayle could hawk their merch, attack Democratic politicians as demonic, and advocate for a targeted genocide of Nephilim-controlled liberals.

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