By Luke Maxwell Sedona,AZ – Oh, come on. This can’t be true. It’s got to be some kind of a joke. Has puritanical America shot its final load, not just seeking to ban abortions but now adding banning male masturbation and making it a crime to do so? Yup. You heard me right. According to a recent article in THE Hill, a Democratic Mississippi state senator introduced legislation that would make it unlawful for men to masturbate when alone and not trying to impregnate a woman. It would be illegal to discharge genetic material outside of the womb. Let that…
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By David Stephen France24, the global news cable channel of the Republic of France, has shown more of ChatGPT and OpenAI in recent weeks than they have of their own home AI star company, Mistral. Mistral is supposed to be France’s answer to the dominance of US AI companies, yet it is hardly promoted, marketed, advertised or even referenced on their own cable station. Though Mistral is reported to have revenues from Europe and some from the United States, there are several possible markets in AI that could be opened to Mistral with enough campaign, through France24, especially because the…
SEDONA, Ariz. – On Saturday, March 15, 2025, the 53rd annual St. Patrick’s Parade returns, and the city of Sedona seeks parade entrants and event sponsors to help make this event special. The parade will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will travel down its traditional Uptown Sedona route of Jordan Road from the Sedona Heritage Museum to Mesquite Avenue. Civic organizations, businesses, youth/school groups, bands, decorative floats, and vehicles are all encouraged to participate and celebrate this annual tradition. “Part of what makes this holiday parade great is seeing the community come out and participate. If you’re a returning participant…
By Tommy Acosta How could the Hamas leaders in Gaza have been so stupid as to have launched that October 7th terror attack against Israel? How could they not have known that they would be giving the greenlight for the Israeli to obliterate Gaza and Palestine, cause unimaginable suffering for their people, totally destroy their culture and lose their country to the West? It’s just mind boggling how ignorant those who orchestrated the October 7th massacre were in attacking an enemy that has overpowering military might and the ability to bomb their country into dust. Now we have President Trump…
By David Stephen Sedona, AZ — Reasoning, for organisms, is not just capability, but often also learned. It is different from affect, which could be largely capability. Reasoning—as a budding capacity for artificial intelligence—is along the versatility of objects as tools for humans, with utility as priority, not feelings. Objects cannot feel, so their functions are optimized for delivery. Some functions are propelled, while others are automated, but as automation grew, intelligence came close, and as intelligence did, reasoning followed. Whatever the functions of machines, especially if routine enough, they do it almost better than organisms because organisms run various…
Sedona, Az — The Sedona Sister Cities Association is proud to reaffirm its commitment to building bridges of understanding through citizen diplomacy. While national governments—including those in Canada and the United States—may see leadership changes and policy differences, people-to-people connections remain a steadfast way to foster goodwill, cultural exchange, and cooperation. The foundation of this citizen-led movement dates back to 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced his groundbreaking People-to-People program. He believed that lasting peace depends on direct engagement between everyday citizens, saying, “I have long believed, as have many before me, that peaceful relations between nations require mutual…
By Bear Howard Bear Howard Chronicles Sedona, AZ — In the wake of the 2024 election, Sedona residents—much like many Americans—have convinced themselves that they are too special to be burdened by the realities of governance. Their disdain for local leadership reflects a broader national trend: a growing belief, fueled by the current administration and politically motivated news outlets, that government itself is an unnecessary intrusion rather than the backbone of a functioning society. Across the country, there is a push to dismantle government processes, not because they are failing, but because a privileged citizenry no longer wants to…
By Tommy Acosta Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands about as much of a chance being confirmed Secretary of Health and Human services director as a snowflake surviving a week in hell during the summer. Forget about it. It will never happen. The cards against him being confirmed are stacked ten feet high. There are just too many roadblocks standing in the way. For starters, nobody likes a traitor, both the betrayed and those who profited from the betrayal. When he abandoned the Democrats, the Republicans gained some momentum, but they will never trust him. Next, you can bet your bippy…
January 30, 2025, Cottonwood, Ariz. – Queen B Vinyl Café, located in Old Town Cottonwood, kicks off an exciting February line-up with performances slated from Cavalera Third World Trilogy featuring Max and Igor Cavalera, Luicidal with Suicidal Tendencies alumni R.J. Herrara and Louiche Mayorga, and Los Angeles noise-punk act, CNTS. February also includes a free art exhibit by graphic illustrator and tattoo artist Erick Weir, as well as movie nights every Friday and Saturday that there isn’t a show. February events: · February 19 – Cavalera Third World (Max and Igor Cavalera revisit the first three Sepultura albums), with Dead Heat…
Sedona, AZ — In a world that is rapidly evolving, the key to navigating change isn’t isolation—it’s connection. Community is the foundation of growth, transformation, and resilience, and when we come together with a shared purpose, we can build something far greater than we ever could alone. In Sedona, a unique movement is emerging—one that prioritizes conscious connection, higher communication, and collective healing as the pillars of a new way forward. Why We Grow Faster Together Throughout history, communities have been the driving force behind progress. Whether through shared knowledge, collaboration, or mutual support, people have always thrived when they…
SEDONA, Ariz. — Sedona’s City Council approved a resolution awarding the Fiber Optic Network Partnership – Request For Information (RFI) to Allo Communications to endorse them as Sedona’s preferred Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the purpose of increasing their chances at being picked by the State of Arizona for Broadband Equity and Access Deployment (BEAD) funding to install broadband in city limits in the coming years. Bringing lower cost, faster and more reliable fiberoptic internet service, or broadband, to Sedona has been a City Council priority for several years. Fast internet service will not only help residents but it will…
SEDONA, Ariz. – The city of Sedona in collaboration with the Community Library Sedona seek poet applicants for Sedona’s first inaugural Poet Laureate Program. One senior and one junior poet will serve as ambassadors for a two-year term to elevate education in literature by promoting an appreciation of poetry in the community, and to inspire an emerging generation of literary artists and readers within our local schools. This announcement reflects City Council’s desire to continue to support and expand arts and culture programming within the city. Both poet laureates are expected to perform the following duties throughout their appointment: Give…
By David Stephen Sedona, AZ — Sedona.biz — Assuming an AI alignment or safety app rose to first place on the app store, it would have been a major great news for the world. This app, say with a capability to authenticate or track AI outputs, especially against misuses, would have found broad usefulness, gating risks as artificial intelligence advances towards artificial general intelligence. There is a current need to solve deepfake images problem, affecting schools. There is a problem of AI voices of loved ones. There are fake videos as well as fake texts. There are cybersecurity misuses of…
By Dave Steve Sedona, AZ — What is the difference between evaluating AI for intelligence based on some benchmarks, and measuring AI for a possible measure of pleasure or pain? There are some tests to evaluate artificial intelligence, especially around questions it had not encountered in training. They include Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI), Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI (MMMU), MLE-bench, the FrontierMath test, GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark and Humanity’s Last Exam. If artificial intelligence, like human intelligence quotient (IQ) tests, is possibly measured by questions, could AI’s pain or…
By Dave Steve Sedona, AZ – What is the difference between evaluating AI for intelligence based on some benchmarks, and measuring AI for a possible measure of pleasure or pain? There are some tests to evaluate artificial intelligence, especially around questions it had not encountered in training. They include Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI), Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI (MMMU), MLE-bench, the FrontierMath test and GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark. If artificial intelligence, like human intelligence quotient (IQ) tests, is possibly measured by questions, could AI’s pain or pleasure be measured by…