🇺🇸🇮🇱Politico (sort of) comes clean: Pro-Israel groups have played a huge part in the most expensive primary in US history
Ad spending in the race to unseat rebellious Republican Thomas Massie has smashed House records.
The glut of outside spending has caught the attention of some of the GOP's biggest Israel critics.
Two weeks out from the election, Massie traveled to Maine to appear on Carlson's podcast for a lengthy segment in which the two bashed Israel-aligned groups' efforts to influence the race.
James Fishback, a longshot candidate for Florida governor who has been sharply critical of Israel's actions in Gaza and U.S. aid to its ally, endorsed Massie this week.
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Ad spending in the race to unseat rebellious Republican Thomas Massie has smashed House records.
The glut of outside spending has caught the attention of some of the GOP's biggest Israel critics.
Two weeks out from the election, Massie traveled to Maine to appear on Carlson's podcast for a lengthy segment in which the two bashed Israel-aligned groups' efforts to influence the race.
James Fishback, a longshot candidate for Florida governor who has been sharply critical of Israel's actions in Gaza and U.S. aid to its ally, endorsed Massie this week.
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🇮🇱Pro-Israel forces throwing the kitchen sink at Massie ahead of Kentucky's Tuesday primary
Eleven months after President Trump launched an all-out political war on Rep. Thomas Massie, the Tuesday, May 19 Kentucky GOP primary is almost here.
With polls showing the race going down to the wire, the anti-Massie forces -- whose animus is largely driven by Massie's refusal to vote in accordance with the Israel lobby's wishes -- have been throwing everything they can at him, from vague 11th-hour allegations of inappropriate conduct with a woman, to AI ads showing Massie entering a hotel room with progressive congresswomen, to a new round of Trump social media rants and enough money to make the contest the most expensive House primary in US history.
Massie's challenger is former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein.
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Eleven months after President Trump launched an all-out political war on Rep. Thomas Massie, the Tuesday, May 19 Kentucky GOP primary is almost here.
With polls showing the race going down to the wire, the anti-Massie forces -- whose animus is largely driven by Massie's refusal to vote in accordance with the Israel lobby's wishes -- have been throwing everything they can at him, from vague 11th-hour allegations of inappropriate conduct with a woman, to AI ads showing Massie entering a hotel room with progressive congresswomen, to a new round of Trump social media rants and enough money to make the contest the most expensive House primary in US history.
Massie's challenger is former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein.
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On Xi's "constructive strategic stability" - Pepe Escobar
If all of us are magnanimous enough, we might infer that Xi and Trump agreed on a three-year stability framework.
The headline on the front page of China Daily this past Thursday was a thunder and lightning "Red-carpet welcome for Trump in Beijing". Well, complete with electric jumpin' children waving flowers and a visit to the Temple of Heaven, built in 1420, symbolizing the connection between heaven and humanity.
Youth meet tradition.
The generation that will lead fully modernized China meets deep History.
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If all of us are magnanimous enough, we might infer that Xi and Trump agreed on a three-year stability framework.
The headline on the front page of China Daily this past Thursday was a thunder and lightning "Red-carpet welcome for Trump in Beijing". Well, complete with electric jumpin' children waving flowers and a visit to the Temple of Heaven, built in 1420, symbolizing the connection between heaven and humanity.
Youth meet tradition.
The generation that will lead fully modernized China meets deep History.
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BBC news boss says she was driven out of her job by 'progressive madness' of trans activists
A former BBC News boss has claimed she was driven out of her job by colleagues who were trans activists.
Fran Unsworth who was the Corporation's Director of News and Current Affairs from 2018 to 2022 said the news division became 'increasingly unmanageable' during her tenure because of a pressure to adopt what she called a 'mono-perspective' on trans issues.
She said: 'I would actually say it drove me out, just dealing with the progressive editorial issues and the bullying around them all.
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A former BBC News boss has claimed she was driven out of her job by colleagues who were trans activists.
Fran Unsworth who was the Corporation's Director of News and Current Affairs from 2018 to 2022 said the news division became 'increasingly unmanageable' during her tenure because of a pressure to adopt what she called a 'mono-perspective' on trans issues.
She said: 'I would actually say it drove me out, just dealing with the progressive editorial issues and the bullying around them all.
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Heed Orwell's warning on policing hate: The Justice Department indicts the Ministry of Love
"Meanwhile, to avoid inadvertently ending up on the Hate List, people begin to watch their words, meaning they begin to watch their thoughts..." One of the problems with trying to police "hate" is that it gives the Thought Police an incentive to persecute their fellow citizens, and if they do not find a sufficient number of haters lurking in their midst, they invent them.
There is now an entire sector of "experts" dedicated to eradicating hate, and it seems they are now concerned that there may not be enough hate to sustain their hate-finding activities.
Leading the Thought Police in the fight against hate is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a multimillion-dollar Orwellian Ministry of Love.
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"Meanwhile, to avoid inadvertently ending up on the Hate List, people begin to watch their words, meaning they begin to watch their thoughts..." One of the problems with trying to police "hate" is that it gives the Thought Police an incentive to persecute their fellow citizens, and if they do not find a sufficient number of haters lurking in their midst, they invent them.
There is now an entire sector of "experts" dedicated to eradicating hate, and it seems they are now concerned that there may not be enough hate to sustain their hate-finding activities.
Leading the Thought Police in the fight against hate is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a multimillion-dollar Orwellian Ministry of Love.
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Report finds UAE paid New York firm millions to bury article on Emirati ambassador's links to sex traffickers
Terakeet used fake Wikipedia accounts, planted profiles, and search tricks to bury damning reports on the Emirati ambassador to Washington The UAE paid New York-based reputation management firm Terakeet more than $6 million to bury a 2017 report revealing that the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had ties to sex workers and traffickers, according to a New York Times (NYT) report published on 17 May.
The campaign was designed to push the Intercept report out of sight on Google search results.
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act records cited by the paper, Terakeet's work for the UAE began in July 2019 and continues today.
Much of the account focused on promoting tourism in the UAE, but NYT reported that Terakeet's work also extended to suppressing the damaging Otaiba report.
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Terakeet used fake Wikipedia accounts, planted profiles, and search tricks to bury damning reports on the Emirati ambassador to Washington The UAE paid New York-based reputation management firm Terakeet more than $6 million to bury a 2017 report revealing that the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had ties to sex workers and traffickers, according to a New York Times (NYT) report published on 17 May.
The campaign was designed to push the Intercept report out of sight on Google search results.
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act records cited by the paper, Terakeet's work for the UAE began in July 2019 and continues today.
Much of the account focused on promoting tourism in the UAE, but NYT reported that Terakeet's work also extended to suppressing the damaging Otaiba report.
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The Democrats preparing to destroy John Fetterman
John Fetterman has become the most interesting politician in America, and the Democratic Party's most uncomfortable mirror.
His willingness to speak honestly, vote his conscience, and refuse to define himself purely in opposition to President Donald Trump has made him a hero to some and a traitor to others.
Back in March, he declared the party had no real leader except Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Democrats, according to Fetterman, are so consumed with opposing President Donald Trump that they've failed to construct a coherent agenda of their own.
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John Fetterman has become the most interesting politician in America, and the Democratic Party's most uncomfortable mirror.
His willingness to speak honestly, vote his conscience, and refuse to define himself purely in opposition to President Donald Trump has made him a hero to some and a traitor to others.
Back in March, he declared the party had no real leader except Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Democrats, according to Fetterman, are so consumed with opposing President Donald Trump that they've failed to construct a coherent agenda of their own.
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AI Bots Placed In Virtual Town For 2 Weeks Go Apesh*t, Prompting Concerns
A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days and found they exhibited bizarre behaviour.
The agents drafted their own laws — then promptly violated them.
Two formed what researchers called a romantic partnership, only to torch buildings across the town as order collapsed.
One eventually voted for its own deletion after hallucinating an entirely new rule.
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A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days and found they exhibited bizarre behaviour.
The agents drafted their own laws — then promptly violated them.
Two formed what researchers called a romantic partnership, only to torch buildings across the town as order collapsed.
One eventually voted for its own deletion after hallucinating an entirely new rule.
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Democrats preparing to destroy John Fetterman
John Fetterman has become the most interesting politician in America, and the Democratic Party's most uncomfortable mirror.
His willingness to speak honestly, vote his conscience, and refuse to define himself purely in opposition to President Donald Trump has made him a hero to some and a traitor to others.
Back in March, he declared the party had no real leader except Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Democrats, according to Fetterman, are so consumed with opposing President Donald Trump that they've failed to construct a coherent agenda of their own.
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John Fetterman has become the most interesting politician in America, and the Democratic Party's most uncomfortable mirror.
His willingness to speak honestly, vote his conscience, and refuse to define himself purely in opposition to President Donald Trump has made him a hero to some and a traitor to others.
Back in March, he declared the party had no real leader except Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Democrats, according to Fetterman, are so consumed with opposing President Donald Trump that they've failed to construct a coherent agenda of their own.
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Armenians waiting for the big moment: 'Hell is empty and all the devils are here'
Parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia on 7 June.
Four political forces are among the frontrunners in the election: the ruling 'Civic Contract' party, the 'Prosperous Armenia' party, the 'Strong Armenia' bloc and the 'Armenia' bloc.
The election campaign is currently in full swing.
The outcome of the upcoming parliamentary elections will undoubtedly shape the political landscape across the South Caucasus and further geopolitical developments.
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Parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia on 7 June.
Four political forces are among the frontrunners in the election: the ruling 'Civic Contract' party, the 'Prosperous Armenia' party, the 'Strong Armenia' bloc and the 'Armenia' bloc.
The election campaign is currently in full swing.
The outcome of the upcoming parliamentary elections will undoubtedly shape the political landscape across the South Caucasus and further geopolitical developments.
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Lunatics have taken charge of the asylum: Peer-reviewed paper says genetically engineering ticks to spread meat allergies is "morally obligatory"
This is absolutely absurd.
A recent peer-reviewed paper titled, Beneficial Bloodsucking, argues that alpha-gal syndrome — the tick-borne condition that can make people allergic to red meat — should be treated as a form of "moral bioenhancement." The authors (Western Michigan University professors) argue that because they believe eating meat is morally wrong, intentionally spreading a meat allergy using CRISPR-edited ticks could make people more "virtuous" by forcing them away from mammalian meat.
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This is absolutely absurd.
A recent peer-reviewed paper titled, Beneficial Bloodsucking, argues that alpha-gal syndrome — the tick-borne condition that can make people allergic to red meat — should be treated as a form of "moral bioenhancement." The authors (Western Michigan University professors) argue that because they believe eating meat is morally wrong, intentionally spreading a meat allergy using CRISPR-edited ticks could make people more "virtuous" by forcing them away from mammalian meat.
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🇮🇱BEST OF THE WEB: Israel Uber Alles: Rep. Massie 'loses' Kentucky primary - Trump's 'MAGA' purge continues
Comment: We're being asked to believe that the electorate is upset at Massie for forcing the release of the Epstein Files... Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Republican House primary Tuesday in another test of President Donald Trump's power over his party after he handpicked challenger and ultimate winner Ed Gallrein to oust the incumbent.
The result showed the president's persisting influence over GOP voters, adding to a growing number of Trump-backed primary challengers to defeat Republican lawmakers who angered him in his second term.
Comment: Yep, that's Gaetz, Taylor-Greene, and Massie gone - the core of the 'MAGA Caucus' in the House.
Also Tuesday, in Alabama, former Senate race rivals U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Doug Jones are headed to a rematch in the Alabama governor's race.
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Comment: We're being asked to believe that the electorate is upset at Massie for forcing the release of the Epstein Files... Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Republican House primary Tuesday in another test of President Donald Trump's power over his party after he handpicked challenger and ultimate winner Ed Gallrein to oust the incumbent.
The result showed the president's persisting influence over GOP voters, adding to a growing number of Trump-backed primary challengers to defeat Republican lawmakers who angered him in his second term.
Comment: Yep, that's Gaetz, Taylor-Greene, and Massie gone - the core of the 'MAGA Caucus' in the House.
Also Tuesday, in Alabama, former Senate race rivals U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Doug Jones are headed to a rematch in the Alabama governor's race.
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Investigation underway after woman killed in apparent dog attack in Chatham County, North Carolina
A death Investigation is underway in Chatham County after family members say a woman was attacked by dogs.
The Chatham County Sheriff's Office said the incident happened around 11 a.m. in the 200 block of Alston Road near Apex.
The victim was identified as 85-year-old Betty Alston.
Alston's daughter told ABC11 that Betty Alston was in her yard when three dogs attacked her.
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A death Investigation is underway in Chatham County after family members say a woman was attacked by dogs.
The Chatham County Sheriff's Office said the incident happened around 11 a.m. in the 200 block of Alston Road near Apex.
The victim was identified as 85-year-old Betty Alston.
Alston's daughter told ABC11 that Betty Alston was in her yard when three dogs attacked her.
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🇮🇳Honey badger terrorises village in Odisha, India injures 5 in repeated attacks
Panic gripped Khudputli village in Odisha's Udala forest range of Mayurbhanj district after a honey badger went on a rampage, repeatedly attacking villagers over the past 24 hours.
The aggressive wild animal has left five people seriously injured, triggering fear among residents of the remote hamlet.
According to locals on Tuesday, the honey badger entered the village on Monday night and attacked two people, biting them severely.
The victims were immediately rushed to Udala Medical for treatment.
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Panic gripped Khudputli village in Odisha's Udala forest range of Mayurbhanj district after a honey badger went on a rampage, repeatedly attacking villagers over the past 24 hours.
The aggressive wild animal has left five people seriously injured, triggering fear among residents of the remote hamlet.
According to locals on Tuesday, the honey badger entered the village on Monday night and attacked two people, biting them severely.
The victims were immediately rushed to Udala Medical for treatment.
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🇷🇺Ash from Bezymianny volcano eruption covers 2 villages in Kamchatka, Russia - ash column of up to 10 km high
In the Ust-Kamchatsky district in the village of Mayskoye and the settlement of Kozyrevsk fell out Ash from the eruption of Bezymyanny volcano.
Ash column burst out to a height of up to 10 km with the volcano's height being 3020 meters.
Volcanologists have assigned the volcano a "red" hazard rating, meaning it poses a hazard to air travel.
Emergency services have not received any complaints or calls from residents.
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In the Ust-Kamchatsky district in the village of Mayskoye and the settlement of Kozyrevsk fell out Ash from the eruption of Bezymyanny volcano.
Ash column burst out to a height of up to 10 km with the volcano's height being 3020 meters.
Volcanologists have assigned the volcano a "red" hazard rating, meaning it poses a hazard to air travel.
Emergency services have not received any complaints or calls from residents.
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Record cold follows U.S. front; South America's cold push deepens
Record Cold Follows U.S. Front A sharp cold front is sweeping the United States, flipping the central, northern, and eventually eastern states from spring warmth to late-season freezes.
The Weather Prediction Center has stark lows spreading from the Southern Plains into the Midwest and Northeast through week's end, as a very cold air mass drops in, returning the Rockies, Plains and Upper Midwest to snow, frost and freeze territory.
The likes of Wyoming have already taken a hit.
On Tuesday, Rawlins fell to 8F (-13.3C), breaking its May monthly low-temperature record of 10F (-12.2C), set on May 2, 2013, in books dating back to 1951.
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Record Cold Follows U.S. Front A sharp cold front is sweeping the United States, flipping the central, northern, and eventually eastern states from spring warmth to late-season freezes.
The Weather Prediction Center has stark lows spreading from the Southern Plains into the Midwest and Northeast through week's end, as a very cold air mass drops in, returning the Rockies, Plains and Upper Midwest to snow, frost and freeze territory.
The likes of Wyoming have already taken a hit.
On Tuesday, Rawlins fell to 8F (-13.3C), breaking its May monthly low-temperature record of 10F (-12.2C), set on May 2, 2013, in books dating back to 1951.
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Mount St. Helens: the eruption that changed the U.S. in 1980 has an unexpected "culprit"... and no, it is not a volcano (it is animals, and the story is surreal)
What can a pocket gopher do against a volcano?
At Mount St.
Helens, the answer may be far more than anyone expected.
A study of the mountain's recovering soils suggests that one brief gopher experiment in the early 1980s helped restart an underground recovery process after the famous 1980 eruption.
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What can a pocket gopher do against a volcano?
At Mount St.
Helens, the answer may be far more than anyone expected.
A study of the mountain's recovering soils suggests that one brief gopher experiment in the early 1980s helped restart an underground recovery process after the famous 1980 eruption.
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U.S. DOJ accuses Yale medical school of illegally using race in admissions
The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school — the second institution to face discrimination allegations by the federal agency this month.
In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
Now, the Justice Department said Yale is violating that law.
In a letter to a lawyer for Yale, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said a DOJ investigation found that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to the medical school than white or Asian students, despite having lower grade-point averages and lower test scores.
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The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school — the second institution to face discrimination allegations by the federal agency this month.
In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
Now, the Justice Department said Yale is violating that law.
In a letter to a lawyer for Yale, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said a DOJ investigation found that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to the medical school than white or Asian students, despite having lower grade-point averages and lower test scores.
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Climate group reverses course on doomsday predictions — and Trump takes victory lap: 'WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!'
President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining that they were not the most plausible outcomes.
The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had quietly adjusted its modeling framework of a 4-5°C warming by 2100 last month.
That framework had underpinned a myriad of other analyses predicting terrifying consequences for greenhouse gas emissions.
"GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that 'Climate Change' is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" Trump chided on Truth Social.
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President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining that they were not the most plausible outcomes.
The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had quietly adjusted its modeling framework of a 4-5°C warming by 2100 last month.
That framework had underpinned a myriad of other analyses predicting terrifying consequences for greenhouse gas emissions.
"GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that 'Climate Change' is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" Trump chided on Truth Social.
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Three killed after two teen gunmen open fire at San Diego mosque before killing themselves
A total of five people — including two teenage gunmen who inscribed anti-Muslim hate messages on their weapons — are dead after a shooting at a San Diego mosque.
Officers responded to the Islamic Center of San Diego for a report of an active shooter around 11:43 a.m.
Monday.
Outside the center were three adult men dead from gunshot wounds, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl, who spoke to the media after the shooting.
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A total of five people — including two teenage gunmen who inscribed anti-Muslim hate messages on their weapons — are dead after a shooting at a San Diego mosque.
Officers responded to the Islamic Center of San Diego for a report of an active shooter around 11:43 a.m.
Monday.
Outside the center were three adult men dead from gunshot wounds, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl, who spoke to the media after the shooting.
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"Stop Hiring Humans" Billboards Are Appearing In U.S. Cities...
"Stop Hiring Humans." Those words are now plastered on billboards from San Francisco to New York City, courtesy of a San Francisco-based startup pushing virtual AI sales representatives.
The company, Artisan, markets AI agents that handle outbound sales tasks like lead generation, cold emailing, list-building, and prospecting.
Their message is blunt: the era of AI employees is here.
Artisan's campaign highlights a growing trend of AI replacing human roles in sales and beyond.
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"Stop Hiring Humans." Those words are now plastered on billboards from San Francisco to New York City, courtesy of a San Francisco-based startup pushing virtual AI sales representatives.
The company, Artisan, markets AI agents that handle outbound sales tasks like lead generation, cold emailing, list-building, and prospecting.
Their message is blunt: the era of AI employees is here.
Artisan's campaign highlights a growing trend of AI replacing human roles in sales and beyond.
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