Wednesday, October 8, 2025

OpenAI’s Sora app can deepfake anyone — here’s what it did to me - The Washington Post

"Sora, made by OpenAI, makes it disturbingly easy to put people's faces and voices into AI videos. You record a short selfie video to create a "cameo" profile and choose who can access it — friends, everyone or just yourself. Anyone with access can type a few words describing what they want to see you doing and generate a clip in minutes. 

 You have to opt in to share your face, but you don't get to approve what people make with it. The app sends you a notification after someone creates a video of you. (Sora is also a social network like TikTok, except everything you see is AI generated.) You can remove a video featuring your likeness from inside the Sora app. But by then its creator has already seen it, possibly shared, and maybe even downloaded and posted it in a different social app. 

Sora pushes the idea of consent — or having say over how you appear online — into uncomfortable territory..."



Trump authorizes national guard deployment to Chicago, White House says, as border patrol there shoots woman

The Democratic Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, said the guard had received notice from the Pentagon early in the day. He called the move unnecessary and "a manufactured performance – not a serious effort to protect public safety."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/woman-shot-border-patrol-chicago 


OMG: Trump issues INSANE update on military deployments | Another Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1OPE-xf3w


Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount's chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. 

Paramount's decision is a striking sign of US media giants' continued rightward drift – not least because Weiss's own recent career trajectory could be said to mirror the larger pendulum swing that has taken many corporate media companies from cautious allies of the anti-Trump "resistance" to fearful supplicants before a new Maga order...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/06/bari-weisss-cbs-news-analysis



Fire destroys home of South Carolina judge who had received death threats

Goodstein, who has served on the state judicial bench since 1989, in September issued a temporary injunction on the release of the state's voter files to the Trump administration-led US justice department. 

Goodstein's ruling was later publicly criticized by an assistant attorney general for the justice department's civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon. The division has been at the forefront of efforts to acquire information, including names, addresses, driver's license numbers and social security numbers, of more than 3 million registered voters under an executive ordertargeting "non-citizen voter registration"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/isouth-carolina-judge-home-fire


 

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party's X account replied: "We're not reporters, just bad memers."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america


 

CBS News staffers react to Barri Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

"It's utterly depressing. Somebody who has zero experience in television news or even hard news for that matter... but with a clearly defined political agenda," said another staffer. "It's hard to see this as anything more than an attempt to bend the knee completely." 

They added: "It's early days and we don't know exactly how it's going to pan out … or what she will do with her role, but she is the last person who should be brought in to CBS."…

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/07/cbs-news-staffers-react-bari-weiss-appointment


 

No air traffic control crew at busy LA airport amid government shutdown staffing crunch

California governor Gavin Newsom was quick to blame Donald Trump for the staffing shortage. In a social media post, Newsom wrote: "Thanks, @realDonaldTrump! Burbank Airport has ZERO air traffic controllers from 4:15pm to 10pm today because of YOUR government shutdown."… 

Duffy noted controllers are worried. "They're thinking about, am I going to get a paycheck?" Duffy said, adding that some are asking themselves: "Do I have to take a second job and drive Uber when I'm already exhausted from doing a job that's already stressful?"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/burbank-air-traffic-controllers


 

Texas national guard troops head to Illinois after judge fails to block move

The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, said the Trump administration had not discussed plans to federalize the state's national guard or to send in troops from other states. "We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's invasion," he said in a statement. "It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois national guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops."… 

 "The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president's favor," the lawsuit says…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/trump-administration-illinois-national-guard


 

WHOA: Marjorie Taylor Greene drops BAD NEWS on Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDb0OewC8Y

 

Gen Z protesters are uniting under an unlikely symbol : NPR

The flag comes from a long-running Japanese anime and manga series called One Piece, about a rag-tag band of pirates dubbed "the straw hats," who are led by a cheerful character named Monkey D. Luffy and are fighting an oppressive world government...

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/05/nx-s1-5560980/gen-z-protesters-one-piece-pirate-flag 


 

Opinion | 6 U.S. surgeons general: RFK Jr. threatens the health of Americans - The Washington Post

Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people's health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity and can restore morale and trust in our public health agencies. Having served at senior levels in government, we know that politics are complicated. But this is bigger than politics. It's about putting the health of Americans first…


AG Bondi Flails and Deflects in Face of Sen. Whitehouse's Questioning in judiciary committee hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EibEKzXVYU8

 

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary : Shots - Health News : NPR

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues...

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/06/nx-s1-5559217/rfk-jr-mental-health-substance-abuse-ssri 


 

Supreme Court appears skeptical of Colorado 'conversion therapy' ban - ABC News

"No court has ever held a law like this implicates the First Amendment," concluded Stevenson. "The law applies only to treatments, that is, only when a licensed professional is delivering clinical care to an individual patient … A state cannot lose its power to regulate the very professionals that it licenses just because they are using words."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-appears-skeptical-colorado-conversion-therapy-ban/story


 

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid | The Guardian

But now, under the weight of the destruction of Gaza, famine, dead and orphaned children, and anger over the denial of many fellow Jews who refuse to recognize their complicity, that consensus has collapsed. The liberal Zionist "center" has lost its hegemonic hold on American Jewry...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/american-jews-zionism 


 

Florida's First Public School Chaplain

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tMPr7Ua-y7E

 

Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it’ | US healthcare | The Guardian

Nearly 28,000 people relied on Glenn Medical center for its services, but now they will have to travel more than 30 miles for care…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/rural-us-town-outraged-as-only-hospital-forced-to-shut-i-would-have-died-without-it 


 

10 Tips For Using the New Spotlight For Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Oxsw8QxQE

 

John wins the Dunning-Kruger 1st place crown for July 2025 (DZ Debates -- YouTube)

Caller talks Christian nationalist talking points and tries to convince us about his god, but Justin explains why he is mistaken and the Bible is not reliable as a source of information.
Interview: 







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