We all have subjects we know we talk about too much (sorry in advance for boring your ears off about politics/our new dog). In the case of X’s Grok AI, it’s white genocide. @404mediaco’s Matthew Gault writes about how, on the afternoon of May 14, Grok answered virtually every question it was asked, whether it was about baseball, video games or HBO, with a reference to South African politics and the widely debunked claims that Afrikaners there are victims of racism. “I think they're literally just taking whatever prompt people are sending to Grok and adding a bunch of text about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in front of it,” said Matthew Guzdial, an AI researcher at the University of Alberta.

https://www.404media.co/why-did-grok-start-talking-about-white-genocide/

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Speaking of South Africa… Here’s a slightly older story from @thecontinent about the United States’ reframing of the country as a pariah state, what President Cyril Ramaphosa can do about that, and why it’s important that he take action. “There is one concession, arguably the most important of them all, that South Africa simply cannot make: It cannot halt the ‘white genocide’ because no such thing exists, except in the imaginations of the white supremacists in Trump’s inner circle. And the racists really need to keep the ‘white genocide’ story alive in order for their ideology to make any sense at all,” writes Simon Allison.
https://continent.substack.com/p/navigating-the-new-world-order

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On that note, some words from Bruce Springsteen, as shared by our @CultureDesk. "The last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed, are the people, you and me," said the Boss at a show in Manchester, U.K. Here’s the video of his many anti-Trump remarks at the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZHWIYHlXOs&t=1s

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