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Grok the AI-powered chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI has begun pushing antisemitic tropes in its responses to some users’ queries weeks after Musk said he would rebuild the chatbot because he was unsatisfied with some of its replies that he viewed as too politically correct. Кракен тор On Tuesday Grok connected several antisemitic tropes to an X account with a name it identified as being “Ashkenazi Jewish” that caused controversy with offensive comments posted online about the victims of the recent Texas floods. https://kra34tt.cc kraken даркнет hat surname? Every damn time” Grok said in response to a user who asked the bot to identify a woman in an unrelated image. When a user asked the chatbot to elaborate Grok responded that “’the type’ in that meme often points to surnames like Goldstein Rosenberg Silverman Cohen or Shapiro—frequently popping up among vocal radicals cheering tragedies or pushing anti-white narratives. Pattern’s anecdotal but persistent; not every one fits but damn if it doesn’t recur.” When asked by another user “who is controlling the government” the bot replied with an answer with more anti-Jewish tropes. “hat surname? Every damn time” Grok said in response to a user who asked the bot to identify a woman in an unrelated image. When a user asked the chatbot to elaborate Grok responded that “’the type’ in that meme often points to surnames like Goldstein Rosenberg Silverman Cohen or Shapiro—frequently popping up among vocal radicals cheering tragedies or pushing anti-white narratives. Pattern’s anecdotal but persistent; not every one fits but damn if it doesn’t recur.” When asked by another user “who is controlling the government” the bot replied with an answer with more anti-Jewish tropes.
Job losses But what about the impact of tariffs on job creation? Surprisingly an increase in import taxes has been found to result in slightly more unemployment across countries. kraken An example provided by Irwin at Dartmouth College points to one plausible explanation — and it has to do with the steeper cost of imported goods. “A number of studies have shown on net we lost jobs from the 2018 steel tariffs rather than gained jobs because there are more people employed in the downstream user industries than in the steel industry itself” he said. https://kra34g.cc kraken ссылка A study by the Federal Reserve Board found that a rise in input costs resulting from US tariff hikes in 2018-19 led to job losses in American manufacturing. The damage from those higher expenses was compounded by retaliatory taxes on US exports more than offsetting a small boost to manufacturing employment from US tariffs — at least so far the 2024 paper said. Retaliation by other countries is indeed another danger of pulling the tariff lever. Higher tariffs on American exports would typically raise their prices for foreign consumers hitting demand for the goods in many cases. When Trump announced new tariffs this year America’s major trading partners were quick to strike back with their own levies although the US then agreed a temporary truce with China and the European Union. Costs of free trade While economists generally agree that free trade has benefited the global economy in recent decades they acknowledge that it comes with certain costs. One is the loss of jobs in communities that are particularly exposed to new competition from foreign manufacturers. That is similar to the impact of technological progress on workers. “Manufacturing jobs as a share of the labor force have come down everywhere. It isn’t a US-specific story” said Gimber at JPMorgan Asset Management pointing to automation. He drew a parallel between helping workers affected by higher imports and what is known as a just transition — the idea that the drastic changes needed to move toward a greener economy should be fair to everyone and minimize harm to workers and communities. In both cases providing workers in impacted industries with new skills or retraining them could be key Gimber said. Another potential cost of free trade is dependency on far-flung manufacturers. That took on new relevance during the pandemic which snarled global supply chains contributing to shortages of products such as face masks and respirators in the US and elsewhere. However economists do not typically see tariffs as a good way to build up domestic manufacturing Fatas at INSEAD said noting that subsidies for specific industries are viewed as a better tool “because they work more directly.” But perhaps the strongest argument in favor of free trade is its importance to maintaining peace between nations. As Gimber’s colleague David Kelly noted in March closer trade relations give countries more to lose in any conflict.
More than 200 firefighters are struggling to tackle an out-of-control wildfire on Crete — Greece’s largest island and a tourist hotspot — as authorities order mass evacuations. трипскан The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon near Ierapetra a town on the island’s southeast coast amid unusually high temperatures 3 to 5 degrees Celsius 5.4 to 9 Fahrenheit above average and gale-force winds of around 50 miles an hour. The conditions are creating “new outbreaks making firefighting work very difficult” the Fire Department’s press spokesperson Chief Vasilios Vathrakoyannis said in a statement Thursday. https://tripscan.live трипскан More than 230 firefighters along with 46 vehicles and 10 helicopters have been deployed to fight the blaze according to fire officials. The flames have spread rapidly reaching homes as well as hotels and other tourist accommodations. Authorities asked residents of four settlements to evacuate and move toward Ierapetra. About 1500 people have been evacuated so far according to the Greek public broadcaster ERT. The Ierapetra municipality has converted an indoor training center facility into a makeshift camp where hundreds of tourists and residents who abandoned their homes spent the night Wednesday. The police medical services and the coast guard have all been called to the area. “We are entering the third and most difficult month of the fire season” Vathrakoyannis said. July is typically the hottest month in Greece and is often accompanied by strong winds. “These conditions favor the spread of fires and increase their danger” he said. Wildfires have ripped through other European countries this week as the continent endures a brutal heat wave. Tens of thousands were evacuated in Turkey as blazes ripped through the western Izmir and Manisa provinces and southern Hatay province damaging nearly 200 homes. Blazes also broke out in France and in Spain where two people died. Europe experiences wildfires every year but they are becoming more intense and frequent due to human-caused climate change which fuels heat and drought both helping set the stage for fierce destructive fires.
Santa Fe New Mexico AP — At least three people were missing in a mountain village in southern New Mexico that is a popular summer retreat after monsoon rains triggered flash flooding Tuesday that was so intense an entire house was swept downstream. трипскан сайт Emergency crews carried out at least 85 swift water rescues in the Ruidoso area including of people who were trapped in their homes and cars said Danielle Silva of the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. No deaths were immediately reported but Silva said the extent of the destruction wouldn’t be known until the water recedes. https://tripscan.live tripscan “We knew that we were going to have floods … and this one hit us harder than what we were expecting” Ruidoso Mayor Lynn D. Crawford said during a radio address Tuesday night. Crawford said that some people were taken to the hospital although the exact number was not immediately clear. He encouraged residents to call an emergency line if their loved ones or neighbors were missing. The floods came just days after flash floods in Texas killed over 100 people and left more than 160 people missing. In New Mexico officials urged residents to seek higher ground Tuesday afternoon as the waters of the Rio Ruidoso rose nearly 19 feet in a matter of minutes amid heavy rainfall. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings in the area which was stripped of vegetation by recent wildfires. A weather service flood gauge and companion video camera showed churning waters of the Rio Ruidoso surge over the river’s banks into surrounding forest. Streets and bridges were closed in response. Kaitlyn Carpenter an artist in Ruidoso was riding her motorcycle through town Tuesday afternoon when the storm started to pick up and she sought shelter at the riverside Downshift Brewing Company with about 50 other people. She started to film debris rushing down the Rio Ruidoso when she spotted a house float by with a familiar turquoise door. It belonged to the family of one of her best friends. Her friend’s family was not in the house and is safe she said. “I’ve been in that house and have memories in that house so seeing it come down the river was just pretty heartbreaking” Carpenter said. “I just couldn’t believe it.” There were also reports of dead horses near the town’s horse racing track the mayor said. Two National Guard rescue teams and several local teams already were in the area when the flooding began Silva said and more Guard teams were expected. The area has been especially vulnerable to flooding since the summer of 2024 when the South Fork and Salt fires raced across tinder-dry forest and destroyed an estimated 1400 homes and structures. Residents were forced to flee a wall of flames only to grapple with intense flooding later that summer.
The study’s focus on 12 cities makes it just a snapshot of the true heat wave death toll across the continent which researchers estimate could be up to tens of thousands of people. трип скан “Heatwaves don’t leave a trail of destruction like wildfires or storms” said Ben Clarke a study author and a researcher at Imperial College London. “Their impacts are mostly invisible but quietly devastating — a change of just 2 or 3 degrees Celsius can mean the difference between life and death for thousands of people.” https://tripscan.xyz трипскан вход The world must stop burning fossil fuels to stop heat waves becoming hotter and deadlier and cities need to urgently adapt said Friederike Otto a climate scientist at Imperial College London. “Shifting to renewable energy building cities that can withstand extreme heat and protecting the poorest and most vulnerable is absolutely essential” she said. Akshay Deoras a research scientist at the University of Reading who was not involved in the analysis said “robust techniques used in this study leave no doubt that climate change is already a deadly force in Europe.” Richard Allan a professor of climate science at the University of Reading who was also not involved in the report said the study added to huge amounts of evidence that climate change is making heat waves more intense “meaning that moderate heat becomes dangerous and record heat becomes unprecedented.” It’s not just heat that’s being supercharged in out hotter world Allan added. “As one part of the globe bakes and burns another region can suffer intense rainfall and catastrophic flooding.”
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‘Hire back park staff’: Visitors feel the pinch of Trump’s layoffs at National Park Service трип скан The visitors who trek to America’s national parks are already noticing the changes just months after President Donald Trump took office. “I’ve been visiting national parks for 30 years and never has the presence of rangers been so absent” one visitor to Zion National Park wrote in National Park Service public feedback obtained by CNN. The visitor said they saw just one trail crew at the iconic Utah park. There were no educational programs offered at any of the five parks they visited on their trip. https://tripscan.xyz tripscan войти “Hire back park staff. We need them” the visitor wrote. At Yosemite another visitor said there were no rangers at the Hetch Hetchy reservoir entrance station preventing visitors from picking up wilderness permits. “More staff would be a BIG and IMPORTANT improvement” that visitor wrote. America’s most treasured national parks are getting crunched by Trump’s government-shrinking layoffs just as the summer travel season gets into full swing. Top officials vowed to hire thousands of seasonal employees to pick up the slack after the Trump administration fired around 1000 NPS employees as part of wide-ranging federal firings known as the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Department of Interior officials said in a February memo they would aim to hire 7700 seasonal workers at NPS and post listings for 9000 jobs. But those numbers haven’t materialized ahead July 4th — the parks’ busiest time of the year. Internal National Park Service data provided to CNN by the National Parks Conservation Association shows that about 4500 seasonal and temporary staff have been hired.
Full-time staff numbers are down too; as of June the parks service had 12600 full-time employees which is 24 fewer staff than they had at the beginning of the year. трипскан That’s the lowest staffing level in over 20 years according to Kristen Brengel senior vice president of government affairs at the National Parks Conservation Association. https://tripscan.xyz трипскан Some parks including Yellowstone have increased their staff this year. But with low staffing levels at other parks unlikely to meaningfully improve this year Kym Hall a former NPS regional director and park superintendent told CNN she worries park rangers and other staff could hit a breaking point later this summer. “By mid-August you’re going to have staff that is so burned out” Hall said. “Somebody is going to make a mistake somebody is going to get hurt. Or you’re going to see visitors engaging with wildlife in a way that they shouldn’t because there aren’t enough people out in the parks to say ‘do not get that close to a grizzly bear that’s on the side of the road; that’s a terrible idea.’” The National Park Service did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on its staffing levels. Meanwhile visitors are arriving in droves. Last year set a new record for recreation visits at nearly 332 million smashing the previous record set in 2016. Hall said the process of hiring thousands of seasonal workers for the summer takes months typically starting in the previous fall or winter to fully staff up. “Even if the parks had permission and even if they had some funding it takes months and months to get a crew of seasonal workers recruited vetted hired boarded into their duty stations trained and ready to serve the public by Memorial Day” Hall said. Compounding the staffing issue is the fact that many park superintendents some of whom oversee the most iconic parks like Yosemite have retired or taken the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offers. That leaves over 100 parks without their chief supervisor Brengel said. And amid the staff losses staffers normally assigned to park programming construction and trail maintenance as well as a cadre of park scientists have been reassigned to visitor services to keep up with the summer season.
“We know that the water levels seemed to be higher than they were last summer” Silva said. “It is a significant amount of water flowing throughout some of it in new areas that didn’t flood last year.” tripscan top Matt DeMaria a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque said storms formed in the early afternoon over terrain that was scorched last year by wildfire. The burn scar was unable to absorb a lot of the rain as water quickly ran downhill into the river. Preliminary measurements show the Rio Ruidoso crested at more than 20 feet — a record high if confirmed — and was receding Tuesday evening. Three shelters opened in the Ruidoso area for people who could not return home. https://tripscan.live трипскан The sight brought back painful memories for Carpenter whose art studio was swept away during a flood last year. Outside the air smelled of gasoline and loud crashes could be heard as the river knocked down trees in its path. “It’s pretty terrifying” she said. Cory State who works at the Downshift Brewing Company welcomed in dozens of residents as the river surged and hail pelted the windows. The house floating by was “just one of the many devastating things about today” he said.
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