THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS KEEPS HAPPENING:  Immigrant from the Philippines Pleads Guilty to Illegally Voting in 2024 US Presidential Election.

SOUNDS PROVABLE:  Lawsuit Alleges Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google Made Illegal Agreement for AI ‘Pacing’.

YES, THIS IS A THING:  The Plague of the Current Thing. We are constantly inundated with news and information about our world, but how much of it is really important, how much is truthful, and how much of it is done for pure sensationalism?

NOW IMAGINE WHAT THE USE VOTE BY MAIL HAS OPENED ITSELF TO:  Spain is in shock. The opposition stunned. Spain, 2023, General Elections. The head of PSOE Argentina created a voting circuit with fake mail-in votes to rig the CERA vote. Audio leaks have surfaced. It’s extremely serious, pay attention. It calls into question Pedro Sánchez’s legitimacy for the past 3 years.

(And because X cancel is still not working, here’s the rest of the tweet:

WHO WAS SHE? Lorena Suárez, general secretary of PSOE in Argentina. The country with the most Spaniards abroad on the planet. She devised something criminal and immoral. Her audio has leaked. She talks about how she would have set up “a whole circuit of comrades who go out to collect votes.” A fake voting circuit. With other people’s passports. In Argentina… For Spain’s Elections. Total chaos. WHY WAS IT POSSIBLE? Because a year earlier, in 2022, PSOE eliminated the “requested vote.” Remember that. Since then, the ballot arrives automatically for Spaniards abroad, without them asking for it. And in 2021, PSOE had written in an official document that removing that control allowed them to “recover the lost political space.” They wrote it. They removed it. And in the next elections, the audio exposing them appeared and is going viral today. No known investigation into how many votes went through that circuit. Ten, a thousand, ten thousand, maybe more? No one knows, and no one will. Lorena has already been expelled. AND TODAY, IT ALL GETS WORSE The State Attorney’s Office has told the Supreme Court that it’s impossible to review the 170,000 files of new voters under the Grandchildren’s Law before the 2027 elections. You know. The Grandchildren’s Law. The ace up sanchismo’s sleeve to win by foul means. And they could rise to 2 million just in Argentina. Add in the Cuban dictatorship, Venezuela, Colombia… the chaos would be absolute. The question is… how many more circuits were there. How many will there be in 2027? And who’s going to check? If the State itself says it can’t keep up, no one can. And the fraud is served up on a platter. Everything is coming to light. But no one reacts. Spain is in a deep coma. We’re already 8,500 dissidents. YOU’RE MISSING: https://capitanbitcoin.net/comunidad The dissident manual arrives in your first email. Nothing else to do.)

IDEALLY BOTH THESE COMPANIES WOULD LOSE:  Texas jury hits Bambu Lab with $27.6M verdict in Stratasys patent fight — X1, P1, and A1 printers found to infringe prime tower and bed-leveling tech.

If we are forced to choose one or the other then Stratys delenda est. They are the very definition of everything that is wrong with the patent system. Invent something, use your government granted privileges to minimize the spread of the technology and dedicate your entire business model to ensuring it has as little impact as possible. Advancements in 3d printing technology are measured directly in stratys patent expirations. For example a few years ago when their heated chamber patent expired. In comparison the evil behavior of Bambu Labs is a rounding error.

THE OUTRAGE IS DESERVED:  Outrage is erupting after a 22-year-old who runs into BURNING BUILDINGS as a volunteer firefighter was told he isn’t qualified to be a paid firefighter… …because he was HOMESCHOOLED. Then the city changed the job posting to cover it up. His name is Andrew Coates. He’s 22 years old, in Nebraska. Right now, today, he runs into burning buildings as a volunteer firefighter for Cedar Bluffs Fire. He is a state-licensed EMT. He is doing the job. For free. All he wanted was to get PAID to do it. In his words: “Make a career out of it would be the goal. To get paid to do what you love.”

AND I FOUND AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT, SINCE X-CANCEL IS STILL DOWN:  Neb. volunteer firefighter’s homeschool diploma rejected when applying for career firefighter position. Volunteer Firefighter/EMT Andrew Coates is challenging Fremont’s decision to reject his firefighter application because his homeschool diploma did not come from an accredited high school.

HATTIP TO THE INIMITABLE KIM DU TOIT, FOR THE LINK:  Tough Love For Blue Cities?

Should we let the blue cities experience the total collapse their filthy love for communism has earned them?

I HATE TO REVISIT  THE CLANCY THING AGAIN, BUT OTHER WOMEN ARE DRIVING THEMSELVES TRULY CRAZY IN ANOTHER WAY:  The Tree of Knowledge.

Or, if you prefer: the mommy blogs and books can be and often are a blight upon the land.

WORSE THAN MERE BIRTH TOURISM:  Meet the US Army vet running a California baby factory for Chinese nationals to have American kids. 

PEOPLE CAN BE VERY SUGGESTIBLE – ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE’S A CHANCE OF GETTING GOVERNMENT MONEY:  The Long Shadow of ‘Long Covid’. No biomarkers, no clear definition and a symptom list of thirty: why is anyone still talking about long Covid?

FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” DEPT.:  Flashback: That Time When CNN Wondered Whether Biden Should Ban Fox News From the White House.

THAT’S BECAUSE CONSERVATIVES KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN DISAGREE WITH THEM; LIBERALS BELIEVE ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH THEM IS A THREAT:  Fox News Liberal to Maher: Actually, Conservatives Are More Accepting of Me Than Liberals.

THEY WERE MAD BEFORE THE TRIAL. RAVING MAD:  Unhinged Female Jurors Are Mad That the Lindsay Clancy Holdout Focused on the Facts.

EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM IS THE LONG-FORM SPELLING OF “EVIL”:  I mapped 25+ GB of Effective Altruism material. Here’s what I learned. Why Effective Altruism should be banned from AI safety, policy-making, and governance.

SEEMS LIKE THERE SHOULD BE A TERM FOR TAKING FOREIGN MONEY TO UNDERMINE THE US CONSTITUTION, DOESN’T IT?  Mexico’s Government Funds Gun Grabbing Group.

And a penalty. Something about… by the neck, till dead.

YOU CAN TELL THE WITHDRAWAL OF USAID FUNDS REALLY HURT THEM, THOUGH: No papier-mache heads!  Manufactured AI Panic Hits the Streets, Complete With T-Shirts, Marching Robots.

And all because the PRC wants the field to itself.

DANGER AHEAD. AND NOT JUST FROM THE ELECTIONS:  Heads-Up!

AND BY JOURNALIST WE SHOULD READ “HAMAS OPERATIVE”:  Gaza journalist who met with Mamdani admits he buried Oct. 7 footage of Israeli hostages being beaten to protect perpetrators.

THEIR GOAL IS THAT ALL CHILDREN BELONG TO THE STATE, IN THE END:  Here it is, Washington. The Money Quote on what the Governor thinks about the parents of our state.

IF THE US DOESN’T PUT WEAPONS IN SPACE, CHINA WILL: Define “Weapons”, in “Weapons in Space”…if you don’t mind…What did you think competition in space meant, vibes?

IS STILL GRAFT AND FEEDS THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:  “Honest” graft.

LEFTISTS HATE EVERYONE. THEIR OWN KIDS INCLUDED:  Woke NYT, 1619 Project writer deliberately sent daughter to troubled schools as a ‘sacrifice’ — and it backfired spectacularly.

THE BOGGLE IS NOT A SANE EMPLOYER LEAVING CALIFORNIA: It’s that only 260 employees are affected by the move:  $1B frozen food giant pulls plug on California manufacturing in shock retreat.

DONNAL’S ADVENTURES GO ON:  Holidays to Home- Part Two. Donnal the apprentice wizard helps get ready for a wedding, and discovers something… odd.

NEWS PUBLISHERS ALREADY FACE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT DUE TO BAD STANDARDS:  Staffers at tech giants knew AI tools posed ‘existential threat’ to news publishers: court docs.