Friday, October 18, 2024

Indonesian man sells his child for $1450

 



An Indonesian man has been charged after allegedly selling his child on Facebook for the equivalent of about $1,450 to buy two mobile phones and fund online gambling.

The child was recovered from the couple that bought him and returned to his mother last week.

This is part of the reason why baby trafficking remains a problem in Indonesia.

 



Aboriginal woman's death in custody

 



In December 2022, 47-year-old Tammy Shipley, who had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, died while in custody after drinking 20 litres of water.....

https://tinyurl.com/bdybunpt

 


Father and 3 children still missing New Zealand wilderness

 




Tom Phillips vanished into the hills surrounding Marokopa, south of Auckland, with Jayda, 11, Maverick, nine, and Ember, eight, in December 2021, following a custody fight with their mother, Cat.

How has he survived this long in the freezing wilderness with 3 kids in tow?


An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda

 



 

An army of political propaganda accounts powered by artificial intelligence posed as real people on X to argue in favour of Republican candidates and causes.

The report details a coordinated AI campaign using large language models (LLM) — the type of artificial intelligence that powers convincing, human-seeming chat bots like ChatGPT — to reply to other users..................

https://tinyurl.com/24vvkjpr


Thursday, October 17, 2024

Biddy Porter's death

 



Since Rebekah and Dominic Porter went public on the fourth anniversary of Biddy’s death, her story has gone nationwide and the petition to NSW parliament has attracted 21,550 signatures.

It is due to be presented to parliament for debate this afternoon (Thursday) afternoon.....

https://tinyurl.com/ycydxdds


Donald Trump escalates threats to political opponents he deems the ‘enemy’

 




In a Fox News interview Sunday, Trump framed Democrats as a pernicious “enemy from within” that would cause chaos on Election Day that he speculated the National Guard might need to handle......



Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Supreme court judge Gregory Gearson guilty of assault

 



Today, Tasmanian Supreme Court judge Gregory Geason was found guilty of assault and emotional abuse.

Justice Geason made an undertaking to not hear cases while his own matters were ongoing, and he continues to be paid.