The Crowhill Journal

Durham’s final report blasts FBI’s handling of Trump-Russia probe but doesn’t recommend new charges

His “scathing report” does not recommend new criminal charges, but clearly exonerates Trump and also serves to put flowers on the grave of the credibility of the liberal media.

What I haven’t heard in the coverage so far is whether some political operative orchestrated this, or whether it’s a case of systemic leftward bias at the FBI. I’ll have to catch Shapiro’s show this evening and hear what he has to say about it.

AI is going to become your gateway to information. AI is controlled by Big Tech. Big Tech is overwhelmingly liberal.

Nobody controls the way content is created right now. People can post anything they want — with certain limited exceptions. If you post something that Big Tech really hates, they’ll shut down your site.

However, tech platforms can control how much visibility certain content gets. They can “demonetize” a content creator on YouTube. (Funny how that starts with “demon.”) They can push content they don’t like lower in search results. They can “shadow ban.”

But that’s child’s play next to what’s coming.

The era of the search engine is on its way out.

Right now, if you want to find something, you go to a search engine, type your query, and get a list of allegedly relevant resources. (Web pages, videos, etc.)

Not very long from now, that will seem primitive. You’ll ask an AI-driven agent your question, and it won’t send you to independent resources, it will simply give you the answer. It might or might not show its sources, or other things to consider.

It will certainly give an answer with an ideological bias. That’s true with ChatGPT right now, and there’s no reason to believe that will change.

Even if people will retain the power to publish their own points of view, the chatbots will control most access to information.

It’s possible that there will be lots of different chatbots that have different filters and biases, so you might be able to select the one you want. But that’s unlikely. A few services — or a few back-end AI routines — will dominate the landscape, and control your access to content. And they will almost certainly have a liberal bias.

It’s probably a good idea.

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age. Even his staff doesn’t like the idea.

It was bought by Mark Zuckerberg.

In brief, Zuckerberg poured money into election offices in Democrat-leaning areas.

These two private non-profits [funded by Zuckerberg] were responsible for an 85 percent increase in total additional election funding — and that largess was concentrated in a relatively small number of heavily Democratic municipalities.

Bill Maher recently asked Elon Musk about the origin of the “woke mind virus.” I wasn’t impressed with the answers.

It’s fairly obvious to me that woke-ism came from the left, so Bill Maher should be asking himself what it is about modern leftism that planted the seeds for this mind virus.

Possibilities might include …

• An over-emphasis on the individual rights of minority groups.
• The emphasis on identity politics.
• A horror of possibly offending marginalized groups.
• The birth of “equity” out of the “social justice” concept.

But just today I listened to a “First Things” podcast on how same-sex marriage changed America, in which Matthew Schmitz seems to argue that this was the first time media and corporate American was weaponized against dissent.

If you disagreed with same-sex marriage, you were an awful person who should be excluded from polite society, and from making a living.

Looking back, it does seem likely that the same-sex marriage disputes were a tipping point. The left settled into the notion that if you didn’t agree with their policy prescriptions, you were a contagion that needed to be eliminated.