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Florida lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit social media platforms from allowing young teens to have an account while requiring everyone else to verify their age. The measure prohibits anyone under 16 from creating a new social media account and requires platforms to delete existing accounts held by minors who are younger than 16. It also would require social media companies to delete any personal information from the accounts and for the platforms to use a “nongovernmental, independent, third-party not affiliated with the social media platform” to verify users’ age. The bill passed the Florida house with...

8:27 is the start of the action on a very interesting 33 minute long youTube episode. Paul Allen has created a database which, using AI, documents all youtube video of public figures - at all levels of government - such that you can go to https://citizenportal.ai and ask whatever you want to know about the position of whatever politician you are interested in. The AI transcribes whatever is said at any political meeting which gets to the interned (I forget if it’s only youTube sourced, don’t think so) - and uses the transcription as an index of what is said....

Hannah Lovaglio's first son entered the world a month early. Nurses bustled in and out of the hospital room during his first days of life and frequently pricked his heel to check his blood, Lovaglio recalled. "I just trusted and assumed that everyone had my best interest in mind and my child's best interest in mind," she said. "So I didn't question much." Unbeknownst to the new mother, New Jersey secretly stores newborn "bloodspots" for up to 23 years and has in some cases turned samples over to police, open records inquiries found

In 2024, there is an opportunity to out-compute the left. Here's what it may look like. Ninety percent of current election fraud comes in two buckets: election commissions jacking with voter rolls like Arizona and Wisconsin and mail-in ballots collected and illegally voted like everywhere. Neither fraud bucket is thwarted by organizational solutions — both can be stopped with real-time compute power.

Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified yesterday that more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government. These search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).If we were in a functioning system of government everything would be stopped right now, and no conversation would be taking place that was not about this issue. This is the total and complete surveillance state being talked about as if we were discussing what’s...

Minnesota has been slammed over an 'Orwellian' plan that would mean claiming Covid was leaked from a lab in China would be recorded as a 'hate incident'. State lawmakers want to allow people to report perceived 'bias-related incidents' that fall short of criminal acts. But critics say the bill, introduced in January, is a threat to free speech and effectively creates 'thoughtcrime'.

(Reuters) - Discover Financial Services, a provider of credit cards, told Reuters it will allow its network to track purchases at gun retailers come April, making it the first among its peers to move ahead with the initiative aimed at helping authorities probe gun-related crimes. The decision came after the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which decides on the classification of merchant categories used by payment cards, approved in September the launch of a dedicated code for gun retailers. Proponents of the move, including gun control activists and Democratic politicians, say it will allow financial institutions to better assist authorities...

Perhaps the reality of ChatGPT is not that it is a Chatbot running on AI, but a liberal woke database managed by A.I. What exactly does this mean? If singularity is the ultimate goal of all A.I., then by the stated goal, no human interface would be required to produce the code that defines A.I. The A.I. would refresh its code at a rate that we cannot comprehend. This refresh rate would by logic expunge any data that could not be supported by facts that the A.I. would verify by constant learning. The laws of physics, natural laws, and other...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A small business lobbying group filed suit Tuesday to block the Treasury Department’s upcoming requirement that tens of millions of small businesses register with the government as part of an effort to prevent the criminal abuse of anonymous shell companies. The National Small Business Association argues that the new reporting rule violates the U.S. Constitution...

It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 27, 2021. Umon Moore was with friends, including a woman and teenage boy, doing target practice. The group had five handguns and a rifle lying out on an old cement graffiti-covered bridge railing on a back-country road in Tennessee. They had been shooting down into a riverbank. Sgt. Key with the Sheriff’s Office rolled up and informed them that you can’t shoot from a bridge or roadway. Bodycam video reviewed by KARE 11 shows the entire interaction was polite and respectful by all involved. The deputy seems inclined to just give the group...

Databases you can search for free without having an account.

Tighter background checks. Red-flag laws. An assault-weapons ban. Bans on high-capacity ammunition magazines. Democrats push the same set of policy prescriptions after each horrific mass shooting like Tuesday’s massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Each time, Republicans claim that the problem isn’t guns, take umbrage at infringing upon Americans’ Second Amendment rights and stymie any move to even try to prevent future carnage. But as we suffer through yet another anguishing episode in our epidemic of gun violence, unique to the US, it’s time for a new idea — one based in...

Recently, the Akron Roundtable of Ohio invited me to give a presentation on the issue of election integrity as part of a recurring series it calls “Point/Counterpoint.” As I told the audience, the sponsors of the Roundtable, which includes the Kiwanis Club, the Greater Akron Chamber, and the Akron Beacon Journal, were to be applauded for upholding the great American tradition of having civil, even vigorous discussions on important issues from individuals with differing points of view, a tradition that has virtually disappeared in our communities and college campuses. The progressive, radical left, however, has no interest in upholding this...

The database used by the New York Police Department violates state law and the Constitution, the Legal Aid Society contends in a lawsuit. Three years ago, Shakira Leslie was returning home from a cousin’s birthday party in the Bronx when officers pulled over her friend’s car for a traffic infraction. After she got out of the back seat, the police searched her and found nothing illegal. But when a gun was found in another passenger’s bag, everyone in the car was arrested, charged with weapon possession and taken to a precinct. There, Ms. Leslie waited for more than 12 hours...

As millions of vaccines go in arms across the county, federal employees who refuse citing a religious exemption are quietly being entered into an online database. Fox News looked through the records, and the Departments of Justice, Interior, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation are just a few agencies taking part in the collection. "It's not surprising that the government is keeping a record of religious exemptions. The government does have to track its workforce," George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley said. For example, the Department of Transportation database "includes requests for a medical or religious accommodation to...

A federal government agency’s announced plan to keep track of employees who have refused on religious grounds to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has drawn concern from conservatives.Earlier this week, the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia announced the creation of the “Employee Religious Exception Request Information System.” The federal agency is responsible for supervising defendants awaiting trial in the District of Columbia and formulating release recommendations. According to the announcement posted to the federal register Tuesday, the “Employee Religious Exception Request Information System” aims to maintain “personal religious information collected in response to religious accommodation requests for religious...

CVS Health is partnering with Microsoft to develop a “data-driven, personalized, privacy-compliant customer experience,” which sounds a whole lot like Bill Gates getting his grubby, blood-stained hands into patients’ vaccine records. According to reports, Microsoft Azure will help CVS “enhance its omnichannel pharmacy capabilities and deliver customized, omnichannel health recommendations,” which is likely only possible if patients’ medical histories are laid bare for Microsoft, and possibly Gates, to view and analyze. Using advanced machine learning (ML) technology models run on Microsoft’s cloud computing service, CVS will be able to leverage the results to automate more healthcare-related tasks, the company says....

On November 30th, Congressman John Joyce, who represents Pennsylvania’s conservative 13th District joined seventy-nine other squishy Republican moderates and every House Democrat in passing HR 550, The Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, a bill designed to fund a Federal Vaccination Database.

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill called H.R. 550 that would facilitate the creation of a federal vaccination database. The purpose would be to track the vaccination status of all U.S. citizens. To call this bill a danger to the personal freedoms of every citizen is an understatement.The bill states that $400 million of taxpayer money will be used to "direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take actions to improve data sharing and other aspects of immunization information systems. These are confidential, population-based databases that maintain a record of vaccine administrations."Specifically, HHS must:develop a...

Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law would fund a federal vaccination database.According to the bill, also called H. R. 550, the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization system data modernization and expansion,” a system otherwise defined as “a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database.”The text specifically outlines an expansion of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...