Category: NEWS
Slovaks head to polls in early election
The two largest parties were neck-and-neck in polls, meaning that they could require the help of smaller parties to form a government. Populist candidate Robert Fico is critical of arms deliveries to Ukraine.
https://www.dw.com/en/slovaks-head-to-polls-in-early-election/a-66968108?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
Football: Somerville scores early to edge past Elizabeth
Somerville edged out a 17-14 win over Elizabeth, in Somerville.
The Pioneers (4-2) led 17-0 early in the third quarter thanks to a second-quarter rushing touchdown by Terell Mitchell and a nine-yard scoring pass from Brenden Pacheco to Max Nuzzi in the third quarter. Spencer Carran also converted a 27-yard field goal for Somerville.
Hillsborough’s win over Union an open-and-shut case with Jankowicz leading the way
Jackson Jankowicz opened the game for Hillsborough by catching the opening kick at the eight-yard line and going all the way.
Dayton football rallies past Highland Park for first win of the season
Dayton head coach Nick Iannacone had seen little moments of success and progress in his football team in recent weeks, comparing those moments to drops of water from a water pump.
Football: Smith leads Hammonton past Rancocas Valley
Kenny Smith led Hammonton with a trio of touchdowns past Rancocas Valley 21-6 in Hammonton.
https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/09/football-smith-leads-hammonton-past-rancocas-valley.html
Warning: Reality Is Escaping Out The Back Door
Warning: Reality Is Escaping Out The Back Door
Authored by Patrick Wood via Technocracy.news,
The total collapse of reality may be at hand. We have already witnessed mass formation during the Great Panic of 2020, where large swaths of the world seemingly lost touch with reality. That was just a foretaste of what is about to come.
This is hard to understand, and you might need to read it multiple times. Do it, lest you fall prey to a simulacrum.
There’s a big word that you can add to your vocabulary: Simulacrum.
It is a hard word to wrap your head around, but one you are not too likely to forget. Indeed, you should not forget it!
Collins defines it as: “1) an image; likeness; 2) a vague representation; semblance; 3) a mere pretense; sham.”
Cambridge Dictionary says: “something that looks like or represents something else”.
Purdue University put it this way: “Something that replaces reality with its representation.”
Jean Baudrillard wrote about this in a 1981 paper called “The Precession of Simulacra”, where he digs deeper, making a distinction between a simulation and a simulacrum.
Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum. Such would be the successive phases of the image:
it is the reflection of a profound reality;
it masks and denatures a profound reality;
it masks the absence of a profound reality;
it has no relation to any reality whatsoever;
it is its own pure simulacrum.
So, the switch for reality is anti-reality: “The simulacrum is never what hides the truth – it is truth that hides the fact that there is none.”
This whole process does not happen in a vacuum because it involves human agency. Reality exists but human perception distorts it.
Just for review, reality slips into distortion, then into simulation, then finds its resting place in a state of simulacrum. Reality is subsumed by the simulacrum.
An example of simulacrum in the making
It is estimated that 90 percent of all online content will be generated by AI by 2025. This means news, social media posts, chats, pictures, videos, podcasts, websites, etc. A deluge of fake social media accounts will be run by AI. In short, everything.
Nina Schick, A.I. thought leader, wrote,
“What generative AI can do, essentially, is create new things that would have thus far been seen as unique to human intelligence or creativity, Generative AI can create across all media, so text, video, audio, pictures – every digital medium can be powered by generative AI. So, I think these valuations that you’re seeing for OpenAI are actually going to go up and you’re going to start to see even more generative AI companies which have universal applications across many industries in 2023.”
People will remember back to 2023 images and think that nothing has changed in 2025.
Warning : The Total Collapse Of Reality Could Be At Hand
As described above, a simulacrum is anti-reality.
This is not a paradigm shift of reality. This is not a “new realty”. This is not reality, period. Unfortunately, billions of people risk being captured by it.
While everyone is looking at shiny new simulacra forming right before their eyes, reality is escaping out the back door.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 09/29/2023 – 22:55
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/warning-reality-escaping-out-back-door
Football photos: Wallkill Valley vs. Whippany Park, Sept. 29, 2023
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Man convicted of killing well-known therapist Amie Harwick by throwing her off balcony
Gareth Pursehouse, who authorities said threw Harwick off a balcony in 2020, was convicted of murder and first-degree residential burglary. He faces life in prison.
SEAN HANNITY: New polls show Americans are over the Biden-Harris administration
FOX News host Sean Hannity reacts to President Joe Biden‘s latest polls numbers, the first impeachment inquiry hearing, America’s border crisis and more amid another ‘disastrous’ week for the president.
SEAN HANNITY: We are at the end of what is another disastrous week for President Joe Biden. Look at this. The vast majority of Americans believe Joe is mentally, physically incapable of being president. He could barely walk down the baby steps of Air Force One, even with new special shoes since they started Operation Keep Joe from Falling. His own staff working overtime to keep that from ever happening again. And guess what? So far got off to a pretty bad start. He looks terrible. And by the way, he’s now literally drawing comparisons to the Crypt Keeper. I mean, he just looks awful.
NO LONGER ‘ANY DISPUTE’ BIDEN ‘LIED’ ABOUT NEVER TALKING BUSINESS WITH HUNTER: GOP LAWMAKER
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And worst of all, Biden’s policies have been awful – the impact on millions of Americans, they are now suffering as a result of Bidenomics. Many Democrats are saying you might want to stop using that term. By the way, it’s been a disaster. His economic policies, his energy policies. Biden Inflation back on the rise, interest rates. They’re about to rise again. Also, American savings wiped out interest rates at a two decade high and about to go even higher. Credit card debt, the highest ever. Gas prices nearly double what they were under Donald Trump.
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-hannity-new-polls-show-americans-over-biden-harris-administration
Football: Riverside off to best start in a decade, handles Bishop Eustace
The duo on the ground of Justin Mary and John Boston helped the Rams do something that has not happened in nearly a decade.