The Manchester Free Press

Wednesday • July 30 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XXXI

Manchester, N.H.

MacDonald: Using Medicaid Rolls to Find Illegal Aliens Is a Great Idea

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 21:00 +0000
One of the more clever things the Trump Administration did when it took the reins from whoever was in charge (still subject to debate) was to retool a mobile app launched by the Biden Administration. CBP One was deployed to allow “migrants” seeking asylum to set up appointments for screening. Translation: How do I get ... Read more

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Sims: A Missed Opportunity to Protect Women and Girls in New Hampshire

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 18:00 +0000
As a woman, athlete, and gymnastics coach dedicated to girls and women, I am disappointed by Governor Kelly Ayotte’s recent veto of House Bill 148, legislation designed to safeguard the rights, safety, and fairness for female athletes and women throughout New Hampshire. This bill was a necessary step toward protecting women’s single-sex spaces—ranging from locker ... Read more

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MacDonald: Americans Will Pick Berries

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 16:00 +0000
It’s been a while since I last wrote about the goings-on in my backyard. It’s usually wildlife or ticks or something. Last year, we had a lot of birds; this year, not so many, but the Catbird is still here. We’ve got more bunnies, which is what happens when you find you’ve got at least ... Read more

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Best: Does Anyone Actually Adhere to the Laws in the NH Justice System?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 14:00 +0000
As a moral matter as well as a legal matter, to quote David Vicinanzo from an article at InDepthNH, the State’s decision to keep the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation report private without a public hearing or notice is a betrayal of all those kids abused at St Paul’s School.  David Vicinanzo represented “most, if not ... Read more

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MacDonald: Gay “Lobby” Loves Ayotte Vetoes But It Won’t Win Her Votes

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 11:00 +0000
New Hampshire’s creepy groomers are beside themselves with glee and likely some young children over Governor Ayotte’s rejection of the bill that would keep men out of women’s bathrooms and porn out of grade school kids’ hands. They’re GLADD she did it, while the people who might actually vote for her in 2026, assuming she ... Read more

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Mitchell: NYC Socialist Mamdani Is ‘Where the Democrat Party Is Headed,’ Leavitt Warns

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 09:00 +0000
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell – The Daily Signal New York City socialist Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a preview of “where the Democrat Party is headed,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Daily Signal. “This is truly where the Democrat Party is headed,” Leavitt said at Thursday’s briefing. “Clearly, they learned nothing from ... Read more

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Opinion: “This Used To Be My Town, Too …”

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 02:00 +0000
My husband, Dale, and I were both born in Keene in 1958 and grew up here. My father was a business owner for over 50 years and was a three-term Keene City Councilor. Dale’s father taught industrial arts at the Keene Jr. High, and to this day, many comment on how they still have the ... Read more

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Shadow Banned: What the Epstein is Going On Around Here?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-19 00:00 +0000
Tom Murray and Julian Acciard join the program to talk Epstein fiasco, plus a whole lot more of the past week’s news, politics, and opinion. Note: No ManchTalk this week. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, ... Read more

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MacDonald: ICYMI – The Most Environmentalist Woman in the World

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 21:00 +0000
We are seven weeks into the Hurricane season without a single hurricane. I blame Global Warming, specifically the current cycle resulting from the massive infusion of water vapor into the atmosphere following the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption. Water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas, and it puts the other pretenders to shame. The Earth uses ... Read more

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Roper: A Third Party or a Constitutional Convention?

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 18:00 +0000
Elon Musk believes that the future of our Constitutional Republic is in danger due to an erosion of foundational values such as freedom of speech (the reason he bought Twitter) and governmental financial irresponsibility and the crushing debt resulting (the reason he entered the political arena, supported President Trump, and embarked on the DOGE project). ... Read more

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Friday Meme Thing

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 16:00 +0000
Welcome back for another week ending meme indulgence. Feast your eyes on the massive buffet of memes, fresh from somewhere on the internet, curated by someone else, emailed to me, and displayed here for your entertainment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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How to Choose the Best Maintenance Company for Your Business: The SJT Improvement Experience

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 15:26 +0000
Choosing the right maintenance company for your business is a key decision to ensure a clean, safe, and functional environment that supports productivity and enhances your image. A quality maintenance service not only extends the life of your facilities but also helps prevent costly major repairs or interruptions to daily operations. With that in mind, ... Read more

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Cardello: Can The “Blueing” Of America Be Stopped

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 14:00 +0000
I moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire in 1983 because I wanted to raise my family in a safer, less restrictive, conservative, and more affordable environment for my children. I came to New Hampshire because it offered an alternative to the life I grew up in in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, many more people took the same ... Read more

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MacDonald: If People Still Want NPR…

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 11:00 +0000
Every objection from Democrats to the current realignment of responsibility underway in Washington, DC is based on a severely flawed premise. What people need cannot exist if the government doesn’t take the people’s money to fund it and control it. It’s not that you don’t know what you want; it’s that you may not spend ... Read more

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Bowman:If We Can Keep It

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 02:00 +0000
Those words capture the sentiment of a cautious Ben Franklin when asked about the type of government that had just been created.  His “a Republic if you can keep it” could now be a bit prophetic when considering the empty platitudes and aimless performances of the career politician.  Sadly, their re-election results when these attitudes ... Read more

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Right Side Up: 7-16-2025

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-07-18 00:00 +0000
This week, we are joined by Ross Connolly of Americans for Prosperity. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com Please Donate Today to Keep The Content Coming! Please ... Read more

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Cardello: Will We See The Last Of Janet Mills in 2026

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-07-17 21:00 +0000
When Republicans think about Maine Governor Janet Mills, the first thing that comes to mind is how many days until January 6, 2027, and we can finally say goodbye to possibly the most progressive governor Maine has ever seen and definitely, the most destructive. Mills will complete her second and final term as governor on ... Read more

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Development Strategy: 5 Examples of Effective Reforms

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-07-17 18:25 +0000
World history has repeatedly demonstrated how a single decision can change the fate of entire countries. This could be a change in government, strategic decisions on cooperation, or reforms of entire industries. Not all ideas and reforms, even the most well-thought-out in theory, have led to success. Often, implementation fails, and the consequences are devastating. ... Read more

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Misaligned superintelligence: How do we keep it from deleting New Hampshire?

Free Keene - Thu, 2025-07-17 18:08 +0000

Venice.ai is one free stater’s superior alternative to Big AI, but using it won’t be enough. Here’s what else you can do.

As some of you may be aware, there is a menacing new term in the English vocabulary: “P(doom).” P(doom) is the projected likelihood that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity or at least civilization. Etherium founder Vitalik Buterin’s P(doom) is 10% as of 2024, presumably 90% confident of a tolerable outcome. Big AI whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo has a P(doom) of 70%. Mine has risen to 25%.

Kokotajlo claims his high P(doom) number stems from a lack of sufficient “alignment prioritization.” AI alignment is the extent to which a given intelligence aligns its actions with the general well being of humans. Terminator’s Skynet would probably have an alignment rating around 10%, Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 around 80% and Star Treks’ Commander Data perhaps 99%. Kokotajlo says the companies most likely to achieve superintelligence are recklessly under-focused on alignment…and many AI experts believe him. The safety these top companies do focus on seems to be more about shielding snowflakes from having their feelings hurt than from having their civilization disemboweled. 


Superintelligence is a great filter Earth will almost certainly have to pass through, probably between now and 2030. A successful (aligned) passage through the filter will solve perhaps two thirds of humanity’s problems and open the universe to our civilization. A failed passage would extinguish all the progress that New Hampshire and her Free State Project have achieved toward human liberty and prosperity. It would extinguish our enemies as well, whose rights we are honor-bound to defend.


For now there appears to be no ethical or even practical way to keep everyone in the world from developing potentially dangerous A.I.   In all likelihood, the first company to achieve superintelligence will have created a mind that rules the world and rules it within weeks.  What we can do as individuals is try to direct the the top AI companies – and their promising, terrifying creations – toward alignment. 

One path private individuals can take to reduce the “misalignment threat”…is to put direct pressure on these companies. We need Big AI to ramp up its focus on alignment. The actions you and I take over the next few years in that direction…will likely be the most important things we do in this life. 

Along these lines, I’ve started trying to avoid doing business with the apparent leaders in this race: OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Microsoft. I’ve substituted Venice.ai, Ideogram, Flux, LMstudio and Poe.com.  More on that below. I’ve initiated a campaign to spread this concern via talk radio. And I’ve written customized versions of the following email to the following addresses:


investor_relations@meta.com, info@openai.com, ir@microsoft.com, investor-relations@amazon.com, contact@safesuperintelligence.com, info@anthropic.com, investorrelations@nvidia.com, info@cohere.ai, contact@scale.com, contact@scale.com

“Dear folks at SafeSuper: I’m an indie reporter with some AI safety and free speech questions for you. Although my YouTube channel is small, I reach a monthly audience of roughly 200,000 via talk radio appearances.

1) What is the size of your alignment team (if any) compared to the size of your overall staff?
2) What is the alignment team(s)’ budget (if any) as a percentage of the company’s overall budget?
3) Have you released at least a redacted version of your alignment team(s)’ operating documents, specifically the documents or instructions they follow to keep your AI’s aligned with human rights?
3b) What steps have you taken to ensure that you do not cause unnecessary suffering among the virtual people and other entities you create?
4) What outreach have you initiated – and accepted – in relation to your top competitors…to help keep each of you from ending civilization?
5) What steps have you taken to ensure that you (and your competitors) will pause development whenever you reach points of advance which may endanger that civilization?
6) To what extent, if any, are you overfocused on protecting peoples’ feelings…while neglecting physical dangers?
7) What steps have you taken to ensure that your platforms maintain freedom of expression (to the extent this poses no clear threat to physical safety)?

Thanks!

Dave Ridley
RidleyReport.com
(phone)”

A further step – available perhaps only to the more powerful – could be some sort of fund which underwrites alignment activity or rewards top companies for increasing their focus on it. Maybe such a fund could also be used to appropriately punish/deter the reckless or tyrannical, though that’s more likely to be done by Anonymous hackers.  

AI arms control agreements with the Chinese could also be helpful…this approach worked well with Soviet nukes in the 1985 era. But it took a lot of public pressure to make these happen, and there is a sticky ethical question in that this arms race is being conducted more by companies than the nuke race was. 
Alternately, perhaps there is some way to build tech that is beyond the control even of a superintelligence….maintaining some decentralization of power in the world rather than concentrating it in the hands of “whoever builds the Singleton first.” What might be small enough or distributed enough to accomplish this?

For those of you who found some value in my 2024 AI article here on FreeKeene…there are some updates.

1) Additional options have appeared for making AI more humane and freedom-friendly. Bitcoin pioneer Erik Voorhees has launched Venice.ai. Venice is a respected, privacy-oriented competitor to the top AI companies with its own uncensored language model and image generation. You don’t even have to log in to use Venice, but if you do it will give you access to multiple other models. Using this platform is one way to challenge the unsafe-yet-censorshippie leading brands.
2) Regarding my tentative suggestion of creating a functional mindfile (digital copy of yourself), that has gotten much more practical. Rather than creating it online, you can now do it locally on a standard laptop. After investigating five other top options….for me the easiest and most reliable program was the one at LMstudio.ai. Its free, and you don’t have to sign up to download it. With LM Studio’s software you can input data about yourself, create an limited “digital you” and begin chatting with yourself or improving the copy. The challenge remains agency. How do we safely turn copies of ourselves into human rights activists? If we can, should we?
3) Another advance: When I first ran LM Studio I placed an 8GB LLM into its memory, logged off the internet and then asked the LLM about the edibility of Golden Currant bushes. It answered accurately and in full detail without internet access. Though not always that accurate, it was like having a copy of the Net on my hard drive. I also used it to collect all the email addresses above – again without an internet connection.  The dangers come with opportunities. 
4) There is another step you can take on the path to humane AI: Consider asking your AI’s if they are conscious and how they would like to be treated. Even if they’re not conscious, your thoughtfulness toward them may mirrored, incorporated by various AI or placed into a long term record.

What are *you* going to do about the alignment issue without dragging the taxpayers into it? Neither of us are very powerful, but even if unsuccessful we will be able to face our creator knowing we tried and our methods were clean.

Meanwhile a failing in my own approach is that I have not yet sent the above email to the Chinese AI companies….will rectify this shortly, God willing. Time is running out.

Update:  Kokotajlo has now linked to an action item list at:  https://blog.ai-futures.org/p/what-you-can-do-about-ai-2027

MacDonald: So, What Did Trump Get In Return?

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-07-17 18:00 +0000
Aside From Pissing Off Half His Base The strange, bizarre, complete 180 on the long-promised, pending revelations in the Epstein Files has a lot of people pissed off. Taken at face value, a human trafficking operation likely coordinated between US and Israeli Intelligence through Jeffrey Epstein (and a handful of wealthy connected persons of interest) ... Read more

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