I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Disney Exits OpenAI Deal;

In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched.

“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”

A source familiar with the matter tells The Hollywood Reporter that Disney is also exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI last year, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora.

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SANCTIONS: The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the Canadian company Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics, a Vancouver-based company, over alleged ties to a $100 million Hezbollah financing network led by financier Alaa Hassan Hamieh.

Assets under U.S. jurisdiction are now frozen and American entities are barred from doing business with the firm, as authorities say the network used multiple front companies to move funds supporting Hezbollah operations.

No shit, Muhammad: B.C.’s Ministry of Finance said the province was not alerted to the situation before the U.S. announcement

Related terror funding: FOI documents reveal that “Toronto Palestinian Families” received $99,500 in federal money to conduct these workshops…

Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?

Convicted of slavery.

Lydia Mugambe, a Ugandan lawyer who served as a High Court Judge in Uganda beginning in 2013 and as a Judge of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the successor body to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, since May 2023, was convicted on 13 March 2025 at Oxford Crown Court on four counts: conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law, arranging travel with a view to exploitation, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labor, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.

She was also a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2017. She was studying for a doctorate in law at Oxford University at the time of the offences.

Mugambe had met the victim in Uganda when the victim was 19 years old and employed her there as a nanny and maid.

He, Too, Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

A legal challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, will be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada beginning Monday, and legal experts say whatever the eventual ruling, it will have a profound effect on constitutional law in Canada.

The highly anticipated high court challenge to Bill 21 has been years in the making, but legal debate is likely to focus primarily on Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the provision known as the “notwithstanding clause,” which shields legislation from most court challenges over violations of fundamental rights.

François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government pre-emptively invoked the provision into the law passed in June 2019.

The Quebec law, known as Act respecting the laicity of the state, sets out the principles of secularism in the province. Among its most controversial measures is the prohibition of civil servants who are considered in positions of power — such as police officers, teachers and judges — from wearing religious symbols at work.

“What lies at the heart of the challenge before the Supreme Court is far less the act on state secularism than the criteria for suspending the application of human rights and freedoms,” said Louis-Philippe Lampron, a professor at the Université Laval’s School of Law.

“That’s why the upcoming Supreme Court decision will be a true earthquake in constitutional law, no matter which way the Supreme Court rules.”

Related: Carney takes Emergencies Act fight to Supreme Court

Tuesday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America:    Bomber of humanity.    Somali fraudsters.    Islamopandering.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Another Liberal lie.    They forgot.    Life in Chowtown.    Won’t be silenced.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Moderate Muslim attack.    Roger Watson – Lots of money.    Green scam.    Keep them hanging.    Ramadan apartheid.

Your morning meme.      A cartoon.

 

Just How Far Can Iranian Missiles Fly?

The following may be propaganda, so view it with healthy skepticism:

Here’s NATO Secretary, Mark Rutte, talking about the same.

If the Iranians really do have such long range capabilities, shouldn’t they be stopped? Asking for my European friends.

Is Our Diversities Learing?

The Bureau;

Immigration fraud has overwhelmed Canada’s international student program, the Auditor General found Monday, with 153,000 students flagged as potentially non-compliant, funding to investigate only 2,000 potential fraud cases per year, and nearly all of 800 individuals who fraudulently entered Canada later approved for permanent status or immigration extensions.

One number above all others defines the scale of the failure: of 153,000 international students flagged as potentially non-compliant with Canadian study permit conditions, the federal government investigated fewer than 4,100 — laying bare an enforcement system so overwhelmed it cannot meaningfully police the program it is mandated to protect.

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”

Take yourself back, friends.

Take yourself back to Limbaugh at his prime. It’s the Dittohead Decade, and Rush is blistering the Clinton Administration hour by hour.

Then Rush does something remarkable. He tells you that the communist Chinese are someone we should partner with. That the men who hijacked TWA 847 were in fact the good guys. That the Russia of Yanayev represented a missed opportunity; a solid alternative to the post-Cold War corruption of the American elite.

He says it all with a completely straight face.

If

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