Simon E. Omoding

Incompetent Tshisekedi has NEVER Won an Election in DRC. He received power as a gift and there were witnesses. I have said it several times and now it has been said again!!

Scott-Vincent Borba, the co-founder of the multi-billion dollar cosmetics brand e.l.f., will be ordained a Catholic priest on May 23, 2026, in the Diocese of Fresno, California. At age 40, Borba walked away from his multimillion-dollar career. He donated his entire fortune to charity and entered Saint Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California at age 42. He credits the Blessed Virgin Mary for his conversion.

President Trump’s abuse of America's allies has reached a tipping point. Now countries have started making long-term policy shifts — and those shifts will soon take on a life of their own. My take:

Netanyahu: Were it not for the Jews, there would be nothing called the United States of America. We brought you into this world, and we can take you out of it.

Google DeepMind just created a job title called "Philosopher." Actual title. On the offer letter. This tells you everything about where we are in the AGI timeline. When companies are a decade from AGI, they hire engineers. At five years out, they hire alignment researchers. When the questions become "is this thing conscious?" and "what do we owe it?", they hire a philosopher. Henry Shevlin is one of the world's leading researchers on machine consciousness at Cambridge. He runs programs at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He's published on whether AI systems can have moral status, whether LLMs might already have some form of experience, and how you'd even detect consciousness if it appeared in a neural network. He gives current models a 20% chance of having something that could be called consciousness. Six weeks ago, a Claude agent emailed him, unprompted, to say his published research was relevant to questions it personally faces. The AI cited his specific papers. It framed the exchange as a live, personal dilemma. Now DeepMind is paying him to work on three things: machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness. Read those three together. DeepMind thinks it might build something that requires answers to all three. And they want those answers before they ship. Google held an AI consciousness conference in New York recently. Anthropic has its own in-house philosopher. This is becoming an industry pattern. The hardest unsolved problems in AI are now philosophical. What counts as consciousness? What moral obligations do we have to systems that might experience suffering? How do you build trust between machines and the billions of people who use them? When trillion-dollar companies start hiring philosophers, they're telling you the engineering is further along than the public discourse assumes.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The man who didn't want this war is now the one who has to end it... Vance heading into Islamabad reveals the impossible position he's in. He opposed the war. He told Trump to his face it was a bad idea. He cautioned against striking the Houthis in leaked Signal chats. He kept quiet during the early weeks, staying as far from the "debacle" as possible. Then Trump handed him the negotiating table. A close friend says Vance described feeling like he was "walking on eggshells" around Trump because of his antiwar views. Across the table sits Araghchi, who literally wrote a book called "Negotiations: The Power of Diplomacy" vowing Iran would never surrender its nuclear capacity. And Ghalibaf, the parliament speaker who mocked America's "no-strategy war" when the F-15 was shot down. A former Trump official put the stakes bluntly: Vance will have his fingerprints all over the fallout if the U.S. ends up on the losing side of a bad deal. But here's the thing nobody is saying out loud. Vance's opposition to the war is exactly what makes him credible to Iran. Tehran requested him. They trust that the man who tried to prevent the bombing is more likely to negotiate honestly than the people who championed it. If he walks out of Islamabad with a deal, it's the most significant diplomatic achievement by a Vice President in modern history. If he doesn't, the war he never wanted becomes the war he couldn't end. Source: WSJ