Sunday, September 07, 2025

Chipocalypse Now - I Love The Smell Of Deportations In The Morning

sky |  Donald Trump has signalled his intention to send troops to Chicago to ramp up the deportation of illegal immigrants - by posting an AI-generated parody image from Apocalypse Now on social media.

There were protests in the city, the largest in Illinois, on Saturday night, with thousands of people marching past Trump Tower to demonstrate against possible immigration raids.

That came as the US president ramped up his threats to deploy federal authorities and military personnel in Chicago, as he has done in Los Angeles and Washington DC.

In a post on Truth Social, Mr Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself as a military officer in the movie Apocalypse Now, with the title changed to "Chipocalypse Now" over flames and the city skyline.

The post - a screenshot from X - said: "'I love the smell of deportations in the morning...'. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR."

 

No Donut Or Coffee Breaks Required...,

toborlife  |  A robot rolling through your local shopping plaza might’ve felt like a movie scene just a few years ago. 

In 2025, it’s the new normal in southeast Kansas City. Instead of relying only on human security guards, the Brywood Centre has enlisted a high-tech solution: a full-time security robot named Marshall. 

Shoppers are noticing the difference. Crime is down. People feel safer. 

And it raises a big question: Are robotic patrols the future of public safety?

This trend has generated significant buzz in the robotics world, particularly with interest in gear like the Unitree G1. It’s no surprise. 

With features like 360-degree surveillance, facial recognition, and license plate tracking, today’s security bots are more than just mobile cameras, They’re proactive protection tools. And yes, they can run nearly non-stop, powered by durable components like the Unitree G1 battery

We’ll look at how this real-world deployment shows the potential of robotics in everyday environments and why it’s getting attention from tech buyers and safety experts alike.

Since Marshall was deployed in 2024, it’s been patrolling the parking lot and sidewalks for 23 hours a day. It doesn’t take breaks. It doesn’t blink. And it’s always recording.

The robot’s arrival was meant to help fight a rise in vandalism and theft. It didn’t take long for results to show. 

According to the Kansas City Police Department’s crime map, there hasn’t been a single criminal incident reported at the Brywood Centre since the robot went online.

Shoppers have noticed. One local, Karen White, said, “It scared them off.”

That’s not just talk. Several attempted crimes were stopped thanks to Marshall’s monitoring. The robot automatically flags suspicious behavior and sends alerts to law enforcement. It’s also programmed to identify individuals linked to Amber Alerts or criminal databases.

So, How Marshall Keeps Watch?

Marshall is built to move smoothly through public spaces and is packed with intelligent features that work together to protect the area:

  • 360-degree vision: The robot can see in all directions, helping it monitor activity without blind spots. This makes it hard for suspicious behavior to go unnoticed.
  • Facial recognition: It can scan faces and match them to known criminal databases or active alerts, helping law enforcement take faster action.
  • License plate reading: Every vehicle entering the lot can be tracked and flagged if necessary, making it easier to prevent or respond to crimes.
  • Device ID tracking: The bot can detect nearby phones or wearables by identifying their signals, helping pinpoint a person’s location without direct interaction.
  • Extended patrol duration: Marshall can stay on the move for 23 hours a day, watching the parking lot from every angle. That level of consistency helps visitors feel more secure every time they stop by.

It doesn’t chase people or yell. It just watches, records, and relays data to the proper authorities. That alone is often enough to deter petty crimes.

This kind of system is being closely followed by robotics enthusiasts and public safety officials alike. It’s also why platforms like Toborlife.ai are seeing increased demand for advanced patrol-capable bots, including popular models similar in build and functionality to the Unitree G1 for sale on the site.

 

Friday, July 11, 2025

Is This Why The Little Dogs Have Been Yapping And Snarling At The Russian Bear?

newsweek |  Russia has discovered huge oil reserves in British territory in Antarctica, according to evidence submitted to the U.K. House of Commons Environment Audit Committee (EAC).

The reserves uncovered contain around 511 billion barrels worth of oil, equating to around 10 times the North Sea's output over the last 50 years.

According to documents discussed in U.K. parliament last week, the discovery was made by Russian research ships in the Weddell Sea, which falls under the U.K.'s claim in Antarctic territory. That claim overlaps with those of Chile and Argentina.

Despite having no territorial claims in Antarctica, Russia, along with the U.S. and China, has been gradually escalating its presence in the region in recent years through various scientific campaigns, establishing five research stations in the territory since 1957.

But concerns are now being raised that Russia is attempting to assert its influence in the area through means other than scientific research.

Antarctica is governed by The Antarctic Treaty, first signed on December 1, 1959, which states that no single country owns the territory and designates the region as a continent devoted to peace and science, meaning all oil developments in the area are prohibited.

But experts have now claimed that Russia could be prospecting parts of Antarctica for oil and gas and surveying the continent for military purposes, violating the Antarctic Treaty.

In a meeting last week, Professor Klaus Dodds, professor of geopolitics at the U.K.'s Royal Holloway College, told the Commons Environment Audit Committee that Russia's actions in the region could "signal a potential threat to the permanent ban on mining."

"There is a worry that Russia is collecting seismic data that could be construed to be prospecting rather than scientific research," he said, adding: "Russia's activities need to be understood as a decision to undermine the norms associated with seismic survey research, and ultimately a precursor for forthcoming resource extraction."

Dodds went on to explain that since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there had been "widespread concern" that Moscow's worsening relationship with the Western world "will spark strategic competition" between countries that will be "ever more explicit in Antarctica".

Such tensions have already begun, with Russia and China blocking attempts by other Antarctic treaty nations to expand marine protected areas in Antarctica in 2022.

 

 

 

Thursday, June 05, 2025

USS Harvey Milk To Be Renamed 'USS No Homo'

babylonbee |  The United States Navy announced this morning that the USS Harvey Milk will be officially renamed the USS No Homo.

Christened the 'Harvey Milk' four years ago in honor of the infamous gay sexual predator, the ship's name change reflects a broader effort by military leadership to clarify that the Navy isn't actually that gay.

"Despite the uniforms, the Navy isn't just nancy boys and fairies," said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. "The names of our ships ought to reflect that non-gayness. It's hard enough for them already, wearing their fruity little sailor outfits, without also having their ships named after gay child molesters. Therefore, we have officially renamed the ship the 'No Homo' out of love and care for our Navy brothers. No homo."

Gay rights activists have condemned the decision, stating it is a blatant denial of the truth as the ship is obviously very gay. "Who do you think you're fooling? The ship is a literally called an 'oiler', its whole job is oiling up other ships, and it's docked in San Fran. It's a total flamer," said local activist Mikai Danielson. "Methinks Secretary Hegseth doth protest too much."

At publishing time, Secretary Hegseth had issued an order for everyone to stop calling Navy guys "seamen."

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Lil Buckwheat Can't Get A Job But Still Gotta Eat....,

@hachetteus “Since I left the White House…” 🏛️ Karine Jean-Pierre, the first Black and openly queer White House Press Secretary, is speaking her truth in INDEPENDENT — a raw, urgent book about what it really takes to protect democracy. 👀 Politics without the party lines 📘 Publishing 10/21/25 with Legacy Lit #whitehouse #politics #pride #pridemonth #queer #booktok #book #books ♬ original sound - Hachette Book Group

 

DailyCaller |  Jean-Pierre announced her new book “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” set to publish in October 2025 on Wednesday. The book, according to her publisher Legacy Lit, encourages Americans to “vote their values and maintain individuality within party lines.”

“Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly. She has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden,” the book description from Legacy Lit reads.

“In 2020, she joined Biden’s campaign as a senior adviser, becoming Harris’s chief of staff and then, two years later, White House press secretary. She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden’s abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision,” the statement continues.

“In an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we’re seeing currently, right now, what I have decided to do, and I really have thought long and hard about this, is to follow my own compass. And that’s what I’ve done, and that’s what this book does,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

“And here’s the truth, and here’s how I will lay it out to you. I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes, and not be so partisan. And the way that I see moving forward in this space that we’re in right now is if you are willing to stand side by side with me, regardless of your political — how you identify politically, and as long as you respect the community that I belong to and vulnerable communities that I respect, I will be there with you. I will be, I will move forward with you,” she continues.

During the Biden administration, Jean-Pierre defended the former president’s fitness as concerns about his declining state grew. Just weeks before Biden dropped out of the race, she decried videos of the former president looking lost and wandering off as “cheap fakes,” claiming they were edited to make the 82-year-old look bad.

 

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Our private research universities are not actually purely private...,

 X  |  Our private research universities are not actually purely private. They are designed to be both a cryptic soft extension of the state (e.g. national security, priming the prosperity pipeline with blue sky research, truth adjudication, etc.), which is also oppositely intended as an independent check on the state and state power in times of abuse as well. This tacit and quiet knowledge, which used to be held at the AAU and the relevant professors, has been mostly lost. So 'overhead' or 'indirect costs' is not actually overhead at all. It is supposed to be cryptic state support based on research merit to avoid political pressure to fund 3rd tier universities at the same level as Princeton. 

So the whole system was designed back in the Vannevar Bush era but without leaving the esoteric knowledge with modern academicians. It's a disaster. It was a quiet game which worked brilliantly to serve the nation and its population until lunatics started to get a foothold in the research universities. This is why when you audit this stuff, you see waste. It wasn't ever intended to be what it appears to be: this was the USG paying to have a totally ELITE and EXCLUSIVE quasi-private, quasi-public resource. Think Manhattan project. Think The Jasons. Think winning. 

And, despite my deep dislike of how @realchrisrufo has acted towards me, his point is spot on. If the elite U.S. universities are so confused as to think that they are truly 100% private and that they should be allowed to destroy their role of ELITE service to the nation which built them up with federal dollars, that is a moment to remind them of the "Endless Frontier" agreement. First the USG welched on the agreement with the Mansfield Ammendment and Dole Bayh and then IMMACT90. Then the universities welched with DEI. BOTH parties need to get back to the quiet agreement, or the whole thing will just fall apart. And the US research achipeligo is a *MAJOR* part of american greatness which we seem to be about to destroy because we can't figure out how to do this. 

[And for those of you who seem to believe that quiet and tacit agreements are always bad, so that the Manhattan Project should have been academic and totally open because 'Sunlight is always the best disinfectant!!', I highly encourage you to use the comment section to complain again about elitism, gatekeeping, Fauci, experts, science, government and credentials. I get it. You can't stop to listen...or think. I totally get you. Looking forward to your vitriol. Just make sure to remind me repeatedly that markets are always right, all tax is theft, DEI is poison, and that Trump and Elon know exactly what they are doing at all times.]


Tuesday, April 01, 2025

The Hidden Holocausts At Hanslope Park

radiolab |  This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out of the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known, offering a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.

Just down the road from a pub in rural Hanslope Park, England is a massive building — the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known. This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out and offered a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten. 

When professor Caroline Elkins came across a stray document left by the British colonial government in Nairobi, Kenya, she opened the door to a new reckoning with the history of one of Britain's colonial crown jewels, and the fearsome group of rebels known as the Mau Mau. We talk to historians, archivists, journalists and send our producer Jamie York to visit the Mau Mau. As the new history of Kenya is concealed and revealed, document by document, we wonder what else lies in wait among the miles of records hidden away in Hanslope Park.

Chipocalypse Now - I Love The Smell Of Deportations In The Morning

sky |   Donald Trump has signalled his intention to send troops to Chicago to ramp up the deportation of illegal immigrants - by posting a...