SOD OFF, HAL: $100 Billion AI Company Says They Must STEAL to Make Money.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

BREAKING: Newly obtained documents reveal city officials, the CO AG, FBI, and DHS, knew of the Venzualan gang takeover of apartment buildings in Aurora for WEEKS and did nothing.

Not only did they do nothing but they actively gaslit the public that it wasn't true and there was… pic.twitter.com/oQIkaWkJ9E

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 4, 2024

THIS IS ALMOST AS SURPRISING AS THAT EARLIER ITEM ABOUT LIZ CHENEY ENDORSING HARRIS: Excuse Me? ABC News May Change Rules of Debate to Help Kamala Harris.

FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT: FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist. “On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving AI, as reported by The New York Times. Michael Smith, 52, allegedly used AI to create hundreds of thousands of fake songs by nonexistent bands, then streamed them using bots to collect royalties from platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Houston, You Have Another Problem? “It looks more and more like China might beat NASA back to the moon.”

THIS DEMONSTRATES THE VALUE OF NOT BEING SEEN: Ukraine Rolls Out More Drone Innovations. “I wasn’t planning on doing another Ukraine drone piece so soon after my Martian war machine post, but these new Ukrainian ground drones are pretty interesting.”

CORN, POPPED: House Subpoenas Walz to Chat About That $250 Million Fraud on His Watch.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

SCOOP: the @KamalaHarris campaign has told people at the rally they can’t leave because the busses they used to bus people in from out of state are not operational for another 30 minutes.

The announcement just came over the speakers at the rally and the crowd, already waiting…

— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) September 4, 2024

According to reports, the Harris campaign required six to a dozen busses to bring Massachusetts ringers to a rally in New Hampshire — and I guess they got to spend a little more time than they wanted in the Granite State.

Video here:

JUST IN: 12 busses captured on video leaving vicinity of Kamala Harris rally..

PAYING ATTENTION NOW.. pic.twitter.com/8ayCpHG6oY

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) September 4, 2024

CHRIS QUEEN: United Methodist Church’s New LGBTQ Heritage Center Reveals a Denomination That’s Too Far Gone.

NOTED: Kevin O’Leary says ‘right to disconnect’ laws are ‘stupid’—he’d just fire workers who go ‘silent mode’ on him.

Millions of workers in Australia have just been given the legal right to ignore after-hours demands from their boss—and the development isn’t sitting well with some corporate leaders. In fact, Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary said that the new law makes him “crazy”.

“It’s so dumb,” the Canadian businessman said on Fox News. “Who dreams this crap up is my question? Why would anyone propose such a stupid idea?”

The Australian law, which went into effect on Aug. 26, follows the likes of France and Spain in giving workers the right to unplug from their work phones, laptops and messaging apps in their personal time without repercussions—unless their refusal is deemed “unreasonable”.

But O’Leary was stunned by the idea that an employer’s 2 a.m. texts could be left unread.

If it’s a real emergency, employees are almost certain to respond — stupid law or no stupid law.

If it isn’t a real emergency, employees will probably do what they usually do and somehow fail to notice — stupid law or no stupid law.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The World’s Bad Actors Do Not Want Trump to Win in November. “The world leaders who most want to knock the United States of America off of its superpower perch don’t want any part of a second Donald Trump term in the White House. They’ve all been living large on the weakness of the Biden administration. There were probably buckets of tears shed for days in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran when Biden was tweeted out of the presidential race.”

WINNING:

Big news: Last week I messaged executives from @CoorsLight @MolsonCoors to let them know that I planned to expose their woke policies. Today they’re preemptively making changes.

Here are the changes:

• Ending participation in the @HRC’s woke Corporate Equality Index social… pic.twitter.com/RuOVb1IuNU

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 3, 2024

DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST STANDARDS BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY: Sanctimonious Dems Rage at Trump Visit to Arlington, Should’ve Checked the Mirror First.

ALL VOICES WELCOME EXCEPT FOR DISSENTING ONES: German Gov Holds ‘Cross-Party’ Immigration Summit – Guess Who’s Not Invited? “Everyone’s invited…except the party which has recently and repeatedly been elected because of their stance on *checks notes* immigrants and knives.”

CAN SHE FIND A SEMI-LEGITIMATE SEEMING WAY TO BOW OUT BEFORE DEBATE NIGHT? Kamala’s Debate Prep Is Not Going Well.

LIVE BLOG: Trump’s Fox News Town Hall.

THEY MADE HIM AN OFFER HE COULDN’T REFUSE: Starlink relents to Brazil, agrees to block Elon Musk’s X platform.

Starlink said it is complying with Brazil’s order to block Elon Musk’s X platform, backtracking from its earlier position that it would not block X until Brazilian officials released Starlink’s frozen assets. In an update on Tuesday afternoon, Starlink said it is blocking X while continuing to fight the asset freeze in court.

“Following last week’s order from [Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes] that froze Starlink’s finances and prevents Starlink from conducting financial transactions in Brazil, we immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court explaining the gross illegality of this order and asking the Court to unfreeze our assets,” SpaceX’s satellite broadband division said. “Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil. We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that @alexandre’s recent orders violate the Brazilian constitution.”

Starlink previously said that a Brazilian court order froze its assets “based on an unfounded determination that Starlink should be responsible for the fines levied—unconstitutionally—against X.” An Associated Press article said that “de Moraes froze Starlink’s accounts last week as a means to compel it to cover X’s fines that already exceeded $3 million, reasoning that the two companies are part of the same economic group.”

De Moraes ordered the suspension of X, formerly Twitter, on Friday and gave ISPs five days to block the service. His ruling was unanimously upheld on Monday by a Supreme Court panel of five judges including himself.

Brazil under Lula only pretends at lawfulness.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Kamala Seinfeld: A Campaign About Nothing.

RAPIDLY AND THOROUGHLY: How Hollywood Turned Against Free Speech.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin did more than defend free speech in 1995’s “The American President.” Sorkin insisted it’s baked into the Red, White and Blue cake.

Here’s part of the film’s climax, a debate highlight from President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas):

America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve gotta want it bad, ’cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say, “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.”

President Shepherd’s dunk on his political rival is the film’s slow-clap moment. Yet Sorkin, one of Hollywood’s most prominent progressives, likely wouldn’t write that dialogue today. Nor would most filmmakers.

And, if one did, someone would draw a fat red line through that page in the script.

Hollywood has turned its back on free speech. It’s triggering, White Supremacy-adjacent and brimming with “Hate.” Even worse? Elon Musk is a fan, and Hollywood progressives loathe him almost as much as a certain ex-president.

Sound harsh? The evidence is damning.

Read the whole thing.

BREAKING: Georgia School Shooter Kills at Least Four, Wounds 30.

BUT RANDI WEINGARTEN HAD ASSURED ME REMOTE LEARNING WAS EVERY BIT AS GOOD: Harvard Launches New Intro Math Course to Address Pandemic Learning Loss. “Students don’t have the skills that we had intended downstream in the curriculum, and so it creates different trajectories in students’ math abilities.”

And those are the students admitted to Harvard, even if that doesn’t mean as much as it once did.

THE WORST PART IS, THEY AREN’T EVEN LAYING OFF THE RIGHT PEOPLE: Game Developer Went Woke and… Can You Guess the Rest?

THEY’RE FLAILING:

This comes a day after we learn that a high-level Chinese spy had infiltrated both Kathy Hochul's office and Andrew Cuomo's office. https://t.co/TUXIcuGBx1

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 4, 2024

But sometimes flailing works.

LOCAL COPS WERE QUICKER THAN THE SECRET SERVICE: We Have Explosive New Whistleblower Revelations About the Trump Assassination Attempt.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: How China extended its repression into an American city.

This investigation into Xi’s visit to San Francisco during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is based on an analysis of more than 2,000 photos and videos from Students for a Free Tibet, the Hong Kong Democracy Council, the China Democracy Party, observers, social media and live streams; as well as interviews with more than 35 witnesses, U.S. officials and analysts; text messages from American security guards working with Chinese diplomats, messages shared in Chinese diaspora WeChat groups, medical reports and police reports obtained by The Post.

The Post also used facial recognition software to search more than 21 hours of footage to identify the actions of pro-CCP diaspora group leaders and Chinese officials. Several people were identified through leads from a separate facial recognition search engine, which were then independently verified by cross-referencing against news clips, interviews and publicly available information. Some of the most violent figures were wearing face masks, sunglasses and hats that obscured their faces and could not be identified.

The Post investigation found:

While there was aggression from both sides, the most extreme violence was instigated by pro-CCP activists and carried out by coordinated groups of young men embedded among them, verified videos show. Anti-Xi protesters were attacked with extended flagpoles and chemical spray, punched, kicked and had fistfuls of sand thrown in their faces.

The Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles paid for supporters’ hotels and meals as an incentive to participate, according to messages shared in WeChat groups reviewed by The Post. At least 35 pro-CCP Chinese diaspora groups showed up to the APEC summit protests — including groups from New York, Pennsylvania and Washington state.

Videos show at least four Chinese diplomats from the consulates in Los Angeles and San Francisco among the crowd of pro-CCP protesters, sometimes directly interacting with aggressive actors over four days of protests from Nov. 14-17. Some Chinese diaspora group leaders with ties to the Chinese state participated in some of the violence, the videos show.

Chinese diplomats hired at least 60 private security guards to “protect” Chinese diaspora groups gathered to welcome Xi, according to seven people involved in the arrangement.

Much more at the link.