Jennifer Depew, RD

Who would've thought that the game about capturing, enslaving, and forcing animals to fight in mortal combat for conquest and entertainment would have had a sinister motivation...

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

I got a haircut today from a woman who just finished a degree in counseling and is interning while cutting hair. She said the most interesting classes she took were on human disorders. After asking about those, I asked what a well-ordered soul looks like. She said that isn't the right question. Well what is the right one? If counseling is about identifying disorders, doesn't that presuppose that there is an order toward which one would point their patient? "I don't understand what you are asking." I'm sure there are good counselors out there, but almost every conversation I've had with one out in the wild have brought to light that very damaged people who don't have a clear vision of the human soul and its highest possibilities, are being paid money to help people with their problems. The blind leading the blind.

These animals walk amongst us. Thank God for the brave woman who intervened and did something so many wouldn’t! 👏 The fear in the little girls voice is spine chilling, this woman deserves a medal.

Woke Ninth Circuit decides Korean spas have to let biological men swing their gear in front of women and children. The dissent is pure gold:

BREAKING: New startup "RentAHuman" allows AI agents to rent humans to perform tasks they cannot physically perform themselves.

Guy goes to a school board meeting and reads aloud the perverse books located within the school library. Good for him!

If an 18-year-old kid has extremely strong opinions on Israel and foreign policy, something’s wrong there. That’s not an opinion earned through years of learning and life experience. It’s the result of a kid spending hours on his phone, being conditioned by an algorithm.

🚨 NURSING HOME RESIDENT GOES VIRAL AFTER SHOWING WHAT STAFF CALLED “HAMBURGERS” FOR DINNER — PEOPLE SAY THIS IS ELDER ABUSE "I can't even believe it. This is dinner tonight." An elderly man filming inside his assisted living facility in North Carolina says residents were told they were getting hamburgers for dinner. Everyone got excited. But when the plates came out… this is what they received. No bun. No real burger. Just a small ball of meat on a plate with some weird looking vegetables. “You told us we were having hamburgers,” he says in the video. “This is it right here.” The clip is now exploding online as people question what some nursing homes are actually feeding residents behind closed doors. Many say if families saw the meals being served, they’d be furious. If this was your parent or grandparent… would you accept this as dinner?

🚨 NURSING HOME RESIDENT GOES VIRAL AFTER SHOWING WHAT STAFF CALLED “HAMBURGERS” FOR DINNER — PEOPLE SAY THIS IS ELDER ABUSE "I can't even believe it. This is dinner tonight." An elderly man filming inside his assisted living facility in North Carolina says residents were told they were getting hamburgers for dinner. Everyone got excited. But when the plates came out… this is what they received. No bun. No real burger. Just a small ball of meat on a plate with some weird looking vegetables. “You told us we were having hamburgers,” he says in the video. “This is it right here.” The clip is now exploding online as people question what some nursing homes are actually feeding residents behind closed doors. Many say if families saw the meals being served, they’d be furious. If this was your parent or grandparent… would you accept this as dinner?

Ted Cruz says the phrase “Christ is King” has become offensive because it is now being used in an antisemitic way. According to Cruz, the phrase is being twisted online into an anti-Jewish code used to target Jews. He claims the groyper groups are using it as a rallying phrase to push a crusade against the Jewish people. What's your message to Ted Cruz?