I was looking for a photo of Alan Turing and did a search via Duck Duck Go. Immediately I realized that many of the images shown were AI fake! Ugh! Someone who isn’t familiar with Turing would have accepted any of the above fakes as real. So AI is easily distorting facts even more than its inventors claim AI will solve all of society’s woes.
For reference, here are “I think” real photos of Turing.
I mean if you want to create an AI image of Turing, do something fun - like Turing accepting the Ice plunge challenge!!! (This was my prompt: Mathematician Alan Turing climbing into an ice bath.)
Let’s talk about generalizations.
Throughout these blog posts you have heard me talk about THE voice over industry and THE voice over community. In fact, I’ve been painting with some broad strokes to get my points across, and there’s a danger in doing that.
Life is too complicated and too rich to capture in all its details, especially on social media where everybody (another generalization) has…
The fact that the United Nations singles out Israel for condemnation as a human-rights abuser when it is in fact the sole democracy in the M
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...a report by the commission of inquiry led by Navi Pillay into “alleged violations” of international law in “the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel” was posted on the U.N. website.
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A tissue of malevolent falsehoods, distortions and misrepresentations of international law, the report makes only passing reference to Palestinian terrorism and the thousands of Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians which constitute actual war crimes. Instead, it suggests entirely falsely that Israel’s “perpetual occupation” is the root cause of the conflict.
It is, in short, little more than Hamas and Palestinian propaganda. This is hardly surprising since Pillay had consulted with Palestinian and Israeli groups dedicated to harming and destroying Israel.
Yet she has the gall to claim that her inquiry’s findings are “overwhelmingly directed towards Israel” because of the “asymmetrical nature of the conflict and the reality of one state occupying the other.” So she doesn’t even seem to grasp the basic fact that there is not and never has been a Palestinian state as “the other” for Israel to occupy.
Nor, of course, does she acknowledge that her own role is a key weapon in the war to destroy Israel through distortion, demonization and delegitimization.
She was chosen for this role because of her record of bigoted hostility towards Israel. Her two fellow commissioners, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti, share her bias.
Pillay has repeatedly used the “apartheid” canard against Israel and called for it to be boycotted and sanctioned. She championed the U.N.’s Durban Review Conference in 2009, which sought to reaffirm the notorious 2001 Durban “anti-racism” conference that turned into a sickening anti-Jewish hate-fest.
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Her commission of inquiry itself has all the trappings of a mind-twisting kangaroo court—verdict first, evidence to follow—straight out of the Soviet playbook.
For the United Nations gave it a mandate in perpetuity to report annually on alleged war crimes and discrimination going right back to the establishment of the State of Israel. Applied to no other country, the world body has thus singled out Israel for a permanent inquisition, which has already decided on its guilt by virtue of Israel’s existing at all.
The UNHRC itself has a long history of eye-watering hostility and injustice towards Israel. The infamous Item 7 on its standing agenda singles it out for a unique category of criticism in every session.
As a body ostensibly devoted to upholding human rights, the UNHRC is a farce. Tyrannies such as China, Russia, Cuba and Pakistan are among the 15 countries that have won seats on the council.
It routinely ignores violations by despotic regimes while perversely and egregiously targeting its condemnations instead at Israel. Since 2006, the council has adopted 90 resolutions condemning the Jewish state—more than all the resolutions against Syria, North Korea and Iran combined.
Borderline patients often lie or, at least, tell different people different versions of their truth. While some borderline patients have strong sociopathic tendencies, the majority do not. Rather they lie for three reasons. The first reason is to bolster their shaky sense of self by coming up with a personal truth that is more bearable to them and, perhaps, more appealing to others. In this regard, they may be boastful and claim accomplishments that are not really theirs. The second reason is that they are particularly afraid of disappointing others and/or being punished for being less than perfect. Thus, they bend the truth, often through critical omissions, to avoid losing the support of those they care about and trust. The third reason for their tendency to make misrepresentations is that they do not know what the shared or objective truth is. This can be due to their varied and shifting sense of identity. It can also be due to the fact that treaters have been so insistent that abuse is at the root of all of their problems, even if they disagree, that they no longer have a personal narrative in which they believe and from which they derive a sense of continuity and identity.
reannassance replied to your post“As far as christendom goes, there are only two people I can honestly...”
I'm Italian and the majority of people here is christian, so I know what I'm talking about and I can totally say you're right! Focusing in Jesus, I'm so sad they are now using it as a tool to justify their discrimination towards other cultures.
True! It's sad how they try to mask the truth just to serve their purposes. The deification of Jesus to make him less accessible serves their purpose. To say that he was a man who would've thrown them out of their positions of power for amassing wealth in the face of the suffering of those who seek help- yeah, these are the same people Jesus threw out of the temple. They've just got new cloaks and new books. This is beyond taking his words out of context or taking them too literally.
