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Antifa created warlike conditions outside the Portland ICE facility last night, launching munitions at ICE, and setting fires. ICE can’t stop them and a judge won’t allow the National Guard in to protect them. ICE deployed tear gas and crowd control munitions. Portland News, KOIN reported the event as a peaceful protest and didn’t explain […] The post The City Council-Backed Seige of Portland’s ICE Facility appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Microsoft is quietly testing a new facial-recognition feature in OneDrive that automatically sorts photos based on who appears in them. The experimental version is being rolled out to some early-access users, and it turns on by default while placing strict limits on how often it can be disabled. Those with access will see a new privacy notice in the app stating: “OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.” Microsoft’s support page, which still labels the option as “coming soon,” explains that “Microsoft collects, uses, and stores facial scans and biometric information from your photos through the OneDrive app for facial grouping technologies.” The company says this is intended to “help you quickly and easily organize photos of friends and family.” Microsoft insists that the face groupings remain private even when users share albums. It also claims that “Microsoft does not use any of your facial scans and biometric information to train or improve the AI model overall.” When asked why the system is enabled by default instead of requiring consent first, a company spokesperson told Slashdot that “Microsoft OneDrive inherits privacy features and settings from Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, where applicable.” A rule that limits users to changing the setting only three times per year has caused confusion. Microsoft declined to explain the reason for this restriction. A screenshot shared on its forums on January 1 already showed the same message, “You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year.” It seems that the policy has existed for some time, but is drawing more attention now that more people are receiving the update. The support documentation also clarifies that when users disable the option, “all facial grouping data will be permanently removed within 30 days.” This likely reflects Microsoft’s desire to avoid repeatedly processing and deleting biometric data from its servers. Facial recognition in photo storage services is not new. Google Photos introduced a similar Face Grouping tool in 2015 that recognizes both people and pets, without restricting how often it can be toggled. Apple’s Photos app offers comparable identification features that operate on the device itself. To check if this test feature is available, users can go to Settings > Privacy and permissions in OneDrive and then open the Features section. Under People, they can turn off the setting to stop the app from analyzing faces in their pictures. Microsoft once included face grouping in its Photos app, but that option was removed earlier this year. Bringing it back within OneDrive has renewed attention on how cloud services handle biometric data and the degree of control users actually have over its collection and deletion. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Microsoft OneDrive Limits How Often Users Can Restrict Facial Recognition Setting appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

C.S. Lewis’ epistolary novel “The Screwtape Letters” was published in 1942. The book follows senior demon Screwtape as he advises his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter, on how to lead humans — dubbed “patients” — astray from the Christian faith. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the plot explores themes of temptation, morality, and human weakness through a humorous yet incisive lens, offering a reversed perspective on spiritual warfare.While the “The Screwtape Letters” isn’t considered one of Lewis’ works on apologetics, BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan, who’s a new Christian, read it as such.“I see it as satanic apologetics,” she told Max McLean on a recent episode of “Back to the People.” McLean is an American stage actor, writer, producer, and founder of the Fellowship for Performing Arts, a New York-based company producing theater and film from a Christian worldview, and is renowned for his stage adaptations of C.S. Lewis’ works, including “The Screwtape Letters.”“It’s proving the existence of Satan and showing how demonic presence actually does exist in the real world, in the day-to-day,” Nicole suggested.Even though it’s been over 80 years since the book’s publication, its themes are perhaps even more relevant today.“Many have described what’s going on [today] as a heightened revival of spiritual warfare,” Nicole said, referencing the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.The global conflict, moral uncertainty, and widespread fear that define our modern era echo the turbulent World War II period in which C.S. Lewis wrote “The Screwtape Letters.”“There’s this tribalism in belief systems,” Nicole said. Liberals “are convinced that white Christian nationalists are the enemy,” while conservatives “think that all of these woke agenda items are the end to Western civilization.”“I’m trying to imagine C.S. Lewis’ patient being alive today, probably much like I was a year ago, trying to chart the correct and moral path.”McLean agreed: “Christianity offers a clear alternative to what people are being taught in schools and what seems to be considered normal in kind of elitist or, you know, legacy mainstream environments, so it’s an opportune time for somebody like Lewis and ‘Screwtape’ to remake its appearance.”He’s not surprised that there’s been a sustained uptick in Lewis book sales in recent years.“He’s just such a clear thinker. ... So much of religious publishing is trying to kind of dumb things down, and I think people are not looking for that. They want some real answers,” he told Nicole.“They realize that life is hard, the Christian life is not easy. It does require a high level of commitment, and I think people are ready to make that commitment.”To hear more of the conversation, watch the full interview above.Want more from Nicole Shanahan?To enjoy more of Nicole's compelling blend of empathy, curiosity, and enlightenment, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The LP was the band’s long-awaited breakthrough, with them now matching the caliber of their front man’s writing with their focused musicianship. The post Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ ‘Damn the Torpedoes’: Full Speed Ahead appeared first on Best Classic Bands.

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