Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI
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Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI
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Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024.
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Two female Lake Brantley High School students (age 14 & 15) told officials they intended to kill a classmate & that would create a βblood bondβ with Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook kilker) that would bring him back to life.
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A Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Capitol attack was sentenced to life in prison for child molestation and related crimes. Andrew Paul Johnson was arrested in August, nine months after Trump pardoned him.
Have they tried sacrificing a 3 year old heifer, cutting in half and walking between it?
Guess all those religion classes i took with you weren't useless after all π«
The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed.
Absolutely bonkers story about Google Gemini instructing a man to procure a robot body for it so Gemini could become his wife www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...
Thanks for sharing! Did know that MKY had a presence in Sweden but had not seen this piece yet. New case for my tracker
A 16-year-old boy from Northumberland has been found guilty of being part of The Base, as well as possessing and sharing terror publications www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Complete and utter failure.
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A Downey man linked to Com-affiliated group 764 has been arrested for coercing, inducing, and enticing minor girls to create and send him sexually explicit videos β one of them he groomed to film herself engaging in self-directed violence he shared with others online
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Lake Charles Resident and Participant in Nihilistic Violent Extremist Group Indicted for Stalking, Threatening, and βSwattingβ a Minor and Her Family and for Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Materials
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1 teen released, 1 still in custody in Saskatoon case of alleged online 'violent extremism'
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Youth involved in terrorist activities of the 764 Network placed on Peace Bond by RCMP
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"This," cried the Mayor, "is your town's darkest hour!
The time for all 'Whos' who have blood that is red
To come to the aid of their country!" He said.
"We've GOT to make noise in greater amounts!
So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!"
~ Dr. Seuss
Earlier this week @pbaskar.bsky.social quoted me in this excellent piece about how extremists around the world use platforms like Roblox & Minecraft to recruit children. Please read & shareβespecially with parents of young children.
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"[T]he core requirement for practitioners is analytical adaptation."
Excellent advice for identifying and coding nihilistic violent extremism and the Com network from @maargentino.com and @anguslindsay.bsky.social.
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Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
Telegram Stars: Exploring Micropayment Exploitation, Digital Goods and the Evolving Tactics of Terrorist Financing
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A 15-year-old boy accused of carrying out a knife attack at a medical college hostel in Russiaβs Ufa has been identified by local media as a member of a neo-Nazi organization
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The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.
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Umβ¦bit bold to call the story I broke on Tuesday a βStar analysisβ with zero credit to me!
This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.
Oh thank you, high praise coming from you Jared.
When analyzing the threats in and around the ecosystems inhabited by nihilistic violent extremist, an initial assessment needs to be made: does this appear to be primarily driven by doctrine and ideology or is it primarily being driven by aesthetics, subcultural norms and trauma?
Recently, 'newgens' in The Com Network have been branding their groups using historical terrorist brands like Atomwaffen Division, The Base, ISIS, AQ, and even O9A nexions and devices to rapidly gain notoriety. The co-opting of these brands can be a trap for analysts.
Further, NVE actors are not primarily driven by doctrine, rather they are driven by aesthetics, (sub)cultural spaces, and the race for social capital in an attention economy. Assessments are further complicated by the inherent edgelord humor and trolling behaviours common in the edgesphere.
It is a challenge to assess NVE actors in a threat space that is hybridized and where the harms are hybridized. Further, we must come to terms with the reality that NVE milieus are victim driven (rather than perpetrator driven). This necessitates a shift in our analytical framework and mindset.
How to classify nihilistic violent extremists: does it fit in the terrorism box? Is it sub-national security? As I have been reflecting on this I could not stop thinking about SchrΓΆdingerβs Cat. So @anguslindsay.bsky.social & I wrote this www.maargentino.com/schrodingers...
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