GET ME REWRITE: Welcome to AI, the newest portal to bullying, stalking, stupidity, pornography, dirty tricks, and crime

 

Screenshot at top: Pew Research, l3/11/2014

Headline at bottom:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 5/23/2024 

From WPR:

Last week, a 42-year-old Wisconsin man was arrested for allegedly producing and distributing “AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. 

The case comes as similar incidents are popping up across the nation, as people are using text-to-image AI models to create lewd pictures of children. Experts are now worried the issue will become worse as the technology advances and its use becomes more widespread.

Here's what the troglodytes in the Texas GOP are up to

 

Headline:   Dallas Morning News,Dallas Morning News, 5/26/2024

Full access to the article is for subscribers only, so here's how The Texas Tribune summarizes it.

Passed by delegates at the party’s biennial convention, the platform has traditionally been seen not as a definitive list of Republican stances, but a compromise document that represents the interests of the party’s various business, activist and social conservative factions. But in recent years — and amid a party civil war that’s pushed it further right — the platform has been increasingly used as a basis for censuring Republican officeholders who the party’s far right has attacked as insufficiently conservative, including Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, and U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzalez, R-San Antonio. 

As the party has drifted further right, its platform has done the same. In 2022, it called for a referendum on Texas secession; resistance to the “Great Reset,” a conspiracy theory that claims global elites are using environmental and social policies to enslave the world’s population; proclamations that homosexuality is an “abnormal lifestyle choice”; and a declaration that President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected.

 

U.S. Census Bureau 2023 population estimates for West Virginia's 10 most populous cities

Just 2 of West Virginia's 10 most populous cities registered gains since 2020:  Morgantown, home of West Virginia University, and Martinsburg, which is home to 4 small, prost-secondary educational institutions.    

Four cities -- Charleston (capital), Weirton, and Beckley -- have seen their population drop 4% since th3 2020 census.

The population of all but 2 of the cities on the list peaked anywhere from 40 to 90 years ago. 

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau

West Virginia News, 5/17/2024

West Virginia's population peaked in 1950

Between 2010 and 2020, West Virginia witnessed a significant decline in its population, marking the highest percentage loss of residents in the United States, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. Over the course of that decade, approximately 59,000 individuals, constituting 3.2% of the populace, departed the state. Although recent data indicates a deceleration in the decline, the trend persists. From April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023, the population experienced a further decrease of 1.3%, dwindling to 1.77 million.

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