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Democrats Hold SECRET Meeting To DITCH WOKE, Project Searchlight Tells Dems GET WOKE GO BROKE - YouTube Jun 7, 2025 Democrats Hold SECRET Meeting To DITCH WOKE, Project Searchlight Tells Dems GET WOKE GO BROKE YouTube Democrats still wont learnBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j0BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO ... |
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Jun 7, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel SWATTED Amid Investigations Into Epstein, Fauci
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Jun 7, 2025
The āTrump did itā defense: Collegesā and companiesā new excuse to roll back wokeness
The Hill
āTrump made me do it.ā Across the country, this is a virtual mantra being mouthed everywhere from businesses to higher education. Corporations are eliminating woke programs. Why? Trump ā¦
"Trump made me do it." Across the country, this is a virtual mantra being mouthed everywhere from businesses to higher education. Corporations are eliminating woke programs. Why? Trump did it. Universities are eliminating DEI offices and cracking down on campus extremism. Trump did it. Democratic politicians are abandoning far-left policies. Trump did it. For those who lack both courage or conviction, the claim of coercion is often the next best thing. The "TDI defense" is born. Of course, they did not invent Trump, but they needed him. For years, schools like Harvard and Columbia ignored warnings about the rising antisemitism on campuses. They refused to punish students engaged in criminal conduct, including occupying and trashing buildings. These administrators did not want to risk being tagged by the far-left mob for taking meaningful action. Then the election occurred, and suddenly they were able to blame Trump for doing what they should have been doing all along. Administrators are now cracking down on extreme elements on campuses. At the same time, hundreds of schools are closing DEI offices around the country. Again, most are not challenging the Trump administration's orders on DEI or seeking to adopt more limited responses. They are all in with the move, while professing that they have little choice. In other words, schools are increasingly turning to TDI to end DEI. The legal landscape has changed with an administration committed to opposing many DEI programs as discriminatory and unlawful. However, it is the speed and general lack of resistance that is so notable. In most cases, the Trump administration did not have to ask twice. Trump seemed to "have them at hello," as if they were longing for a reason to reverse these trends. Many will continue to fight this fight surreptitiously. For example, shortly before the Trump election, the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors voted to ban DEI and focus on "institutional neutrality." Yet, even Administrators emboldened by the TDI defense are finding resistance in their ranks. For example, UNC Asheville Dean of Students Megan Pugh was caught on videotape, saying that eliminating these offices means nothing: "I mean we probably still do anywayā¦ but you gotta keep it quiet." She added, "I love breaking rules." The Board, perhaps not feeling the same thrill, reportedly responded by firing her. The same pattern is playing out in businesses. Over the last few weeks, companies ranging from Amazon to IBM have removed references to DEI programs or policies. Bank of America explained, āWe evaluate and adjust our programs in light of new laws, court decisions, and, more recently, executive orders from the new administration." Once established, these DEI offices tended to expand as an irresistible force within their institutions and companies. Full-time diversity experts demanded additional hirings and policies on hiring, promotion, and public campaigns. Since these experts were tasked with finding areas for "reform," their proposals were treated as extensions of that mandate. To oppose the reforms was to oppose the cause. While some executives and administrators supported such efforts, others simply lacked the courage to oppose them. No one wanted to be accused of being opposed to "equity" or being racist, sexist, or homophobic. The results were continually expanding programs impacting every level of businesses and institutions. Then Trump showed up. Suddenly, these executives and administrators had an excuse to reverse this trend. They could also rely on court decisions that have undermined longstanding claims of advocates that favoring certain groups at the expense of others was entirely lawful. This week, the Supreme Court added to these cases with its unanimous ruling in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, to remove impediments to lawsuits by members of majority groups who are discriminated against. For many years, lower courts have required members of majority groups (white, male, or heterosexual) to shoulder an added burden before they could establish claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. In a decision written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court rejected that additional burden and ordered that everyone must be treated similarly under the law. Many commentators noted that the ruling further undermined the rationales for disparate treatment based on race or other criteria within DEI. In other words, more of these programs are likely to be the subject of federal investigations and lawsuits. Of course, if these executives and administrators were truly committed to the programs in principle, they could resolve to fight in the courts. The alternative is just to blame Trump and restore prior policies that enforce federal standards against all discriminatory or preferred treatment given to employees based on race, sex, religion, or other classifications. Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey once observed that "to err is human. To blame someone else is politics." That is evident among politicians. For years, many moderate Democrats voted to support far-left agendas during the Biden administration, lacking the courage or principles to oppose the radical wing of the Democratic Party. Now, some are coming forward to say that the party has "lost touch with voters." Rather than admit that their years of supporting these policies were wrong, they blame Trump and argue that the party must move toward the center to survive. The calculus is simple: You never act on principle when you can blame a villain instead. It is not a profile of courage but one of simple convenience. No need for admissions or responsibility ā just TDI and done. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of āThe Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.ā|
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Jun 7, 2025
Young Men In America Are STRUGGLING
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Jun 7, 2025
Professor Says AI APOCALYPSE Will WIPE OUT Humans By 2300, The AI Revolution Will DESTROY US Economy
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Professor Says AI APOCALYPSE Will WIPE OUT Humans By 2300, The AI Revolution Will DESTROY US EconomyBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Gre... |
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Jun 7, 2025
FBI SEIZES Fauci's Devices, Kash Patel Tells Rogan WE'RE ONTO HIM In COVID Probe | Timcast IRL
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Jun 7, 2025
People Are Starting To Ask Some TOUGH Questions About Macron's Wife
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Jun 6, 2025
Trump-Musk Feud Enters "Cold War," Media Insists on Calling El Salvadoran Migrant "Maryland Man"
YouTube
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Jun 6, 2025
Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview
YouTube
(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Jared Isaacman(1:10) Jared's background: billion-dollar founder, pilot, commercial astronaut(7:15) Relationship with Elon Mus... |
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Jun 6, 2025
What's Behind the Elon vs. Trump Drama, and Insane Leftist Arguments, with Ben Shapiro and Red Scare
YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Ben Shapiro, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show,ā to discuss the ongoing nuclear social media war between Elon Musk and President Trump, ... |
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Jun 6, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: The Quiet Economic Boom of Trump 2.0
YouTube
Doomsayers cry recession. The data says something different.As the Trump budget advances through the Senate, critics are already sounding alarms over deficit... |
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Jun 6, 2025
Protestors, War and the Fragility of Women
YouTube
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Jun 6, 2025
Roseanne Barr Isnāt Going Anywhere. The Controversial Comedian on Bob Iger, J.K. Rowling and Not Being Sorry About That Tweet: āNever Apologize to the Leftā
Variety
As she discusses her new doc, Roseanne Barr reflects on the tweet that cost her 'Roseanne' and shares her thoughts on Bob Iger and J.K. Rowling.
As Roseanne Barr remembers it, God told her to do it. It was Memorial Day weekend in 2018, and she was having trouble sleeping. Earlier in the day, the comedy star called Bruce Helford, the head writer of the āRoseanneā revival. Barr asked when she should plan to report back to the writersā room of the ABC [ā¦]|
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Jun 6, 2025
gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05: Try the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro before general availability
Simon Willisonās Weblog
Announced on stage today by Logan Kilpatrick at the AI Engineer Worldās Fair, who indicated that this will likely be the last in the Gemini 2.5 Pro series. The previous ā¦ |
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Jun 6, 2025
MAGA Minute, June 6, 2025
YouTube
THE TRUMP EFFECT IS REALš 139K Jobsš° $2.8T Deficit Cut via Tariffsš Trade Deficit Halvedš®āāļø FOP Backs Trumpās Billš„ Egg Prices Down 61%šØ ICE's Largest... |
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Jun 6, 2025
Rime | AI Voices with Personality
Rime
Ship apps and agents that people actually want to talk to |
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Jun 6, 2025
Voice AI that actually converts: New TTS model boosts sales 15% for major brands
VentureBeat
A new spoken language model can quickly generate āinfiniteā new voices of varying genders, ages, demographics, based on a simple text prompt. |
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Jun 6, 2025
'Saved Info' Is Gemini's Hidden Superpower
Lifehacker
Gemini's Saved Info feature is pitched as a way to store info about yourself, but it's much more useful as a way to give Gemini instructions you want it to always keep in mind.
In Geminiās settings, youāll find an option called āSaved Info.ā Google describes this as a place where you can store information āabout your life and preferencesā to get better results from its chatbot. Iām here to tell you that might be the least useful way to use this feature. Itās much more powerful as a way to build your own shortcuts right into Gemini.You can find this feature by selecting Settings in your Gemini app or on the web. Click "Saved info" and you'll find an empty page and an Add button. Click this and you'll be given an empty box, where you can write a sort of pre-prompt instruction. Each block seems to have a limit of around 1,500 characters, though there doesn't seem to be a limit on how many of these blocks you can store.Google shows examples that include simple instructions, like "I prefer short, concise responses" or only recommending vegetarian recipes. But this space is a lot more powerful than that.How Gemini uses the "Saved Info" promptsI first noticed this when I was trying out Geminiās Canvas for drafting documents. Typing (or saying) āConvert all the subheadings in this document to H2sā is often more cumbersome than just doing it myself. But with Saved Info, I can write a variation of that instruction that tells Gemini to carry out that action if I simply type āH2sā. This works because every chat you start with Gemini will reference anything stored here as a set of universal context blocks. Before processing whatever prompt you give, Gemini will read your Saved Info first and treat it as instructions that come before anything in the conversation itself.Using "Saved Info" to tweak document templatesThis trick also works for more complex instructions. For example, let's imagine you need to write a lot of cover letters and want to tailor them to each job you're applying to. You could add this block to Saved Info:āIf a prompt begins with 'cover letter', create a draft of a cover letter in the Canvas. A cover letter should be no more than 3 paragraphs. If the prompt includes a person's name, address the letter to that person. If the prompt includes 'skills:' then incorporate the skills mentioned after that into the context of the letter. Sign all cover letters as [YOUR NAME].āWith these instructions, you could invoke Gemini to create a draft of a cover letter for you with just a few words. You could even expand this further by providing an entire cover letter template (as long as it's under the character limit) and instruct Gemini to only make simple changes based on the criteria you provide.One of the biggest problems with using generative AI to write for you is that it can be a bit dicey for anything other than first drafts. And if you have to babysit it every step of the way, you might as well write the whole thing yourself. This approach, however, gives you more leeway to write for yourself, while still automating the more tedious aspects of tweaking a document for every person you're sending it to.Customize your smart home instructionsAnother handy example, if you have smart home gadgets connected through Google Home, is that you can turn simple commands into more complex ones. For example, when I sit down to watch a movie, I usually want to turn off the overhead lights, but turn on the LED backlight strip behind my TV. It's not a huge pain to say "Turn off overhead living room lights and turn on TV backlight" but it's a bit of a mouthful.Since Gemini is the default smart assistant on my phone, though, I can add the following prompt to "Saved Info":"If a prompt consists solely of 'movie time,' then turn off overhead lights in the living room, and turn on TV backlight."Now, I pull up Gemini on my phone, say "movie time" and it translates the instructions and passes it to Google Home. Note: This requires enabling and connecting the Google Home Gemini app (which is, confusingly, not the Google Home mobile app, but an extension inside Gemini itself).Automate commands in plain English, no code requiredWe're pretty big fans of automating tasks, especially with services like IFTTT, but the downside is that sometimes they can get a bit tech-y or complicated. What's so appealing about this particular trick with Gemini is that you can write instructions in plain, human-readable language.One of the most interesting use cases I tried was the following prompt:"If a prompt consists of 'grammar check,' then read the document at the included link. Check it for grammatical errors. Then, in the Gemini Canvas, create a draft of an email with a brief summary of any issues found. Keep the summary brief."While this doesn't work 100% of the time on all links (mainly due to how Gemini filters external text for security concerns), I didn't need to do any additional coding or messing with settings to make this command work. I wrote two words, "grammar check," and pasted a link to one of my recent articles. The result was a report that said there were no grammatical issues. (Thanks, Lifehacker editors.)Be careful with how much you leave in Gemini's handsIt should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway: Gemini successfully parsing instructions is not the same as successfully carrying out instructions. In the grammar check example above, I was impressed that Gemini understood how to reference longer instructions from shorthand, but that doesn't necessarily mean it would successfully catch every grammatical issue. The Saved Info trick is incredibly handy for automating repetitive prompts, but if there's a task you wouldn't trust Gemini with before, this won't make it more trustworthy now. Maybe you don't trust Gemini to catch grammatical errors to your standards, but think it's fine for summarizing the contents of a link. With a couple simple tweaks, you can adjust the above command to that task, no coding required.|
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Jun 6, 2025
SongR
SongR
Text-to-Song app to create customized songs. Create songs from just a few keywords! Pop songs, Rock songs, Chant songs and HipHop songs. |
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| Top 9 AI Music Generators to Try in 2025 - The Future of Music is Here - Kripesh Adwani
Jun 6, 2025
Top 9 AI Music Generators to Try in 2025 - The Future of Music is Here - Kripesh Adwani
Kripesh Adwani
Unleash the Future of Music with AI! This guide explores the BEST 9 AI Music Generators of 2025. Craft original royalty-free music in seconds, no experience needed. Discover how AI is revolutionizing music creation! |
| | Skeleton DNA refutes theory of migratory waves from South Africa - Earth.com
Jun 6, 2025
DNA from 9,000-year-old skeletons disproves migratory waves theory from South Africa
Earth.com
Ancient DNA from 9,000-year-old skeletons found in South Africa reveals genetic continuity, refuting theories about waves of migration. |
| | āTaTa is a living, learning, autonomous music artist built with AI. Sheās the first artist of a new generationā: Timbaland just created an entirely artificial artist and its debut single is out soon | MusicRadar
Jun 6, 2025
**āāTaTa is a living, learning, autonomous music artist built with AI. Sheās the first artist of a new generationā: Timbaland just created an entirely artificial artist and its debut single is out soon**
MusicRadar
"Iām not just producing tracks anymore. Iām producing stars from scratch" |
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| The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts | TechCrunch
Jun 6, 2025
The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts. |
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| NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops - NASA
Jun 6, 2025
NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops - NASA
NASA
The 2001 Odyssey spacecraft captured a first-of-its-kind look at Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earthās tallest volcanoes. |
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| What Elon-watchers can learn from Boris Johnsonās relationship with Dominic Cummings | Semafor
Jun 6, 2025
What Washington can learn from a legendary London meltdown
Dominic Cummingsā ties to Johnson share plenty of parallels with Muskās closeness to Trump. |
| | The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale | Semafor
Jun 6, 2025
The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale
As the cost and difficulty of coding falls, how do companies adapt strategies and processes built on husbanding and prioritizing scarce tech resources? |
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Jun 6, 2025
That's a Wrap for Greta Thunberg | National Review |
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Jun 6, 2025
āGodfather of AIā now fears itās unsafe. He has a plan to rein it in
The Conversation
Pioneering computer scientist Yoshua Bengio says his new AI model will make the world safer. But will it work? |
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Jun 6, 2025
Democrats FLIP, Say RELEASE The Epstein Files Amid Trump & Elon FEUD
YouTube
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Jun 6, 2025
Megyn Kelly Says the GOP and the Country Shouldn't Worry About the Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump Drama
YouTube
Megyn Kelly says the GOP and the country shouldn't worry about the Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump drama. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly... |
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Jun 6, 2025
Megyn Kelly Gets Real About the Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump Feud - Elon "Will Lose" if He Goes to War
YouTube
Megyn Kelly gets real about the Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump feud - Elon "will lose" if he goes to war.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly... |
