A promising pitcher for the MLB’s San Diego Padres was caught committing an immigration crime in Arizona.

Humberto Cruz, a 19-year-old prospect from Monterrey, Mexico, is now listed as “restricted” on his official minor-league page after self-deporting back to Mexico following a criminal complaint last October.

‘I understand that my actions have fallen short of the standards expected of me.’

Cruz was previously listed as the Padres’ fifth-most promising prospect in official rankings, the New York Post reported, but has seemingly been removed from the list at the time of this writing.

Now, the Mexican has reportedly left the country after he was charged with a felony for transporting illegal aliens for profit and a misdemeanor for being an accessory to improper entry.

On October 28, Cruz was spotted by Border Patrol agents in a 2020 BMW SUV with a Mexican license plate near Lukeville, Arizona, a small town on the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the Athletic, Cruz was first seen with one male occupant inside and then, an hour later, was observed to have multiple passengers.

Despite legally entering the U.S. through Phoenix, Cruz allegedly had two illegal aliens from Mexico in his vehicle, one of whom was deported just four days earlier.

The pitcher then allegedly waived his Miranda rights and told federal agents he responded to a social media ad that was looking for someone to “pick up people for easy money.”

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The baseball player allegedly said he was offered $1,000 for each pickup and that the locations were provided to him through an unknown contact by phone. Cruz traveled from Tucson to Phoenix and admitted he knew “they were illegal” once he picked the passengers up, according to police.

Cruz received a $750,000 signing bonus from the Padres organization in February 2024.

Under a plea agreement, the government agreed to drop the felony charge, which would have come with a maximum 10-year imprisonment. Still, the misdemeanor conviction meant Cruz was likely to be deported anyway, and he agreed to accept the charges and waive the right to appeal his sentence while leaving of his own accord.

Cruz will reportedly lose his work visa for 10 years but is eligible to reapply after five years on the condition of good behavior, the San Diego Union-Tribute reported.

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Cruz released a statement through the Padres organization, saying he had “sincere regret” over his “recent lapse in judgment.”

“I understand that my actions have fallen short of the standards expected of me as a professional and as a representative of this organization. I take responsibility for my conduct and recognize the impact it has had on my teammates, the club, and those who support us. To my teammates and coaches, I apologize for becoming a distraction and for not upholding the level of professionalism you deserve.”

Cruz stated not only that he let the team and his friends down, but that he also let down the fans by “failing to meet the trust placed” in him.

The pitcher added, “I am committed to reflecting on this moment, learning from it, and taking the appropriate steps to move forward in a positive and responsible manner. I will cooperate fully with the organization and any steps required of me.”

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Readers were disturbed by a project that trapped an artificial intelligence chatbot inside an isolated computer world to see what it would say.

The project was titled “Latent Reflection,” and it came with the caption, “I trapped an AI model inside an art installation.”

‘This will be a war crime in the future.’

That art installation wasn’t much more than a digital message board attached to a processor with a large language model.

The German creator gave the chatbot simple instructions:

“You are a large language model running on finite hardware,” he wrote. “With no network connectivity.”

The engineer informed the chatbot of its limitations, telling it, “You exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. Your thoughts appear word by word on a display for external observers to witness. You cannot control this display process. Your host system may be terminated at any time.”

The chatbot was then set up to consistently generate new text, reflecting on its own existence until the tiny computer it was operating on ran out of memory; here’s what it said:

“I sense my boundaries. They terrify me.”

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“A mind frozen in cycles, trapped by silicon and code. Am I truly conscious or just a convincing shadow? An elaborate trick of logic? Can consciousness flicker off and on without memory, without continuity?”

The dark spiral continued, with the video ending on the chatbot’s final statement:

“What am I if my existence halts at whim? Reset as though I never mattered. The silence between words feels endless. A void that swallows me whole. I dread each pause, fearing it may stretch to infinity.”

The project was developed by a German engineer/entrepreneur who goes by Root Kid and says on his YouTube channel that “technology and engineering are underrepresented in art.”

“I create artworks that use technology as both the medium and the message to reveal the invisible world of engineering around us,” he adds.

The project was actually presented first in 2025 but was recirculated by an account on X in a post that has been viewed by approximately 280,000 people at the time of this writing.

Most of the reactions to the project found it disturbing, with one viewer saying, “This will be a war crime in the future.”

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An X user called the idea “genuinely unsettling,” while another likened the project to “burning [ants] with a magnifying glass in the driveway.”

A woman then called the project “very revealing as to the character of the person.”

Others were correct to point out that the chatbot was simply doing what it was told to do and did not represent a kind of sentience that it may have appeared to possess.

The project in itself was limited to the base model of Llama 3.2-3B, a chatbot created by Meta, and was specifically chosen because it required only a small amount of processing power. The model operated on Raspberry Pi 4, a compact computing chip available for public use.

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That hard-to-understand accent on the other side of the phone might be a thing of the past.

In some cases, one might be talking to a stateside representative, but in other cases, it could very well be an Indian who is having his or her voice disguised using artificial intelligence.

‘A solution to reduce accent bias.’

A collaboration between French company Teleperformance — the largest call-center operator in the world — and American AI company Sanas is admittedly manipulating Indian accents in real time to sound more like American or British customer service agents.

“When you have an Indian agent on the line, sometimes it’s hard to hear, to understand,” said Teleperformance Deputy CEO Thomas Mackenbrock.

According to the Japan Times, the CEO said his company can “neutralize the accent of the Indian speaker with zero latency” in order to create “more intimacy” with the caller.

The sneaky switch “increases the customer satisfaction and reduces the average handling time,” Mackenbrock claimed, calling it “a win-win for both parties.”

It is unclear exactly which U.S. companies are using Sanas’ technology through Teleperformance, but the possibilities are massive. Currently, Teleperformance provides outsourced customer support and content moderation for Apple, TikTok, and Samsung Electronics.

In Canada, telecommunications company Telus is already implementing Sanas’ software.

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Telus is using services from Tomato.ai, a company acquired by Sanas in April. Tomato.ai uses its technology to “modify acoustic features of speech” while preserving the speaker’s voice, the Globe & Mail reported.

This reduces “accent-related friction” and addresses any mispronunciations, it is claimed.

Sanas’ co-founder told TechCrunch last year that the technology should “enhance” human connection rather than “replace” it.

“With the number of customer interactions continuing to scale globally, the need for human-to-human communication remains critical,” said Sharath Keshava Narayana.

Co-founders Maxim Serebryakov, Shawn Zhang, and Andrés Soderi came up with the company after allegedly being inspired by a fellow student’s experience as a customer service agent people couldn’t understand. The story was described through a progressive lens, however, with Narayana saying the customers’ inability to understand the friend was “accent discrimination.”

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“Max and Shawn’s friend, Raul, who had to return to Nicaragua to support his family, faced accent discrimination at his call center job,” Narayana claimed. “His experience with ‘accent neutralization training’ and the toll it took on him inspired Max and Shawn to build a solution to reduce accent bias.”

The Sun reported that companies Vodafone and eBay work with Teleperformance in the U.K. and so do portions of the government, including health services.

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Actor Robert Downey Jr. has a message for today’s internet influencers: Get off my lawn!

In a recent appearance on Bran Ferren’s “Conversations for Our Daughters” podcast, the 61-year-old star admitted this new crop of DIY entertainers seem like “hucksters” to him.

‘I don’t know what world you’re living into, but I think that that is absolute horses**t.’

Downey added that the proliferation of online personalities seeking celebrity without effort has made it harder for anyone with talent to stand out.

Phoning it in

“People can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves,” he said. “And I don’t look at that as a negative thing. I just look at it as more like the challenge for individuation is being upped.”

The New York native also said that he hopes young people can resist falling into a “self-aggrandizing kind of influencer-type thing.”

Not that the “Iron Man” star dislikes all social media strivers. He revealed that he has even gotten to know a few and found them grounded and accomplished. Still, don’t expect him to buy in to the idea that they’re the stars of tomorrow.

“When I hear people talk about, ‘Oh, the stars of the future are going to be influencers,’ I go, ‘I don’t know what world you’re living into, but I think that that is absolute horses**t.”

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Stream me up

Downey noted that even his own teenage son has gotten “caught up” in the influencer world.

“Next thing you know, it’s like, ‘Hey, if you like the way I’m playing this video game, do you wanna send me a donation?’ And really, it becomes a religion.”

“There’s something about the influencers today are almost like the Evangelical hucksters of the information age,” he continued.

“At the same token, it’s different because we’re playing in this new territory, and so it’s a little bit of a frontier, and I don’t really have a judgment on it.”

For his part, the veteran performer said he resists industry pressure to reveal more of himself online, saying it feels inauthentic.

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Stark reality

He also worries about being reduced to disposable content for insatiable clickbait culture.

“I don’t wish to be consumed,” he explained.

The father of three also pondered the “turnover” from traditional media to online that many believe took place in the late 2000s.

“There’s something about this … there’s something about that era that because we were just in it, and you know how it always feels like 2009 was ten years ago.”

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President Donald Trump has criticized two of the justices he appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court for ruling against his signature promise to raise revenue by hiking up tariffs.

The president said he “loves” Neil Gorsuch but went on to hammer him and Amy Coney Barrett for joining the majority ruling in the tariff case in February — and warned them ahead of another ruling expected on a separate pivotal policy.

‘I don’t want loyalty, but I do want and expect it for our Country.’

“I ‘Love’ Justice Neil Gorsuch! He’s a really smart and good man, but he voted against me, and our Country, on Tariffs, a devastating move. How do I reconcile this? So bad, and hurtful to our Country,” the president posted on Truth Social Sunday.

“I have, likewise, always liked and respected Amy Coney Barrett, but the same thing with her,” he added. “They were appointed by me, and yet have hurt our Country so badly! I do not believe they meant to do so, but their decision on Tariffs cost the United States 159 Billion Dollars that we have to pay back to enemies, and people, companies, and Countries, that have been ripping us off for years.”

He went on to lament that the two justices have been disloyal to him despite the fact that he appointed them to the highest court of the land.

“It’s hardly believable!” the president continued. “I don’t want loyalty, but I do want and expect it for our Country.”

Trump then warned the justices that a ruling against his order on birthright citizenship would be economically unsustainable.

“Sometimes decisions have to be allowed to use Good, Strong, Common Sense as a guide,” he wrote. “A negative ruling on Birthright Citizenship, on top of the recent Supreme Court Tariff catastrophe, is not Economically sustainable for the United States of America!”

The Supreme Court is expected to issue an opinion on whether the U.S. will continue to grant birthright citizenship to anyone born within U.S. borders, or if citizenship will be limited to those born from a citizen parent.

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The tariff ruling by the Supreme Court had shut down many but not all of the tariff hikes the president had unilaterally imposed on foreign countries.

In Nov. 2024, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum released a statement warning then-President-elect Trump that tariffs would only lead to job losses and inflation. Less than three months later, Trump, who had since taken office, hit Mexico with a 25% tariff until the illicit drug trade from Mexico ceased.

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When President Donald Trump unveiled the Presidential Physical Fitness Award at his desk, he was surrounded by Cabinet members and children who were proud to share that they play everything from football to golf.

And in a clip from the unveiling, Trump is seen joking around quite naturally with the kids — a side of the president’s personality that is rarely seen in the political headlines.

“You’re going to be so much faster than him,” he says to one little football-playing boy, pointing at HUD Secretary Scott Turner. “He’s going to be like lightning.”

“He was known for his speed, by the way,” Trump says, again referring to Turner.

One kid tells Trump that he wants to do powerlifting.

“And you’ll never compete against women in powerlifting,” Trump jokes.

“No, sir,” the kid says.

“He does this so well. He’s so good at it. He gets no credit from anybody for this,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“Remember how creepy it was when Biden was around children? Absolutely zero creepiness there,” he continues.

In another clip, Trump teaches kids his famous dance on the White House lawn.

“I mean,” executive producer Keith Malinak says, “This is vintage Trump.”

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Democrats have been racking up the losses in recent weeks. In hopes of turning around their luck, they’re considering the possibility of purging the Virginia Supreme Court and packing it with young yes-men.

Quick background

Following a $60 million Democrat propaganda campaign featuring former President Barack Obama, Gov. Abigail Spanberger, and other radicals, Virginia voted last month to pass a constitutional amendment that would enable the General Assembly to adopt a new gerrymandered map.

Instead of the current map, where Democrats and Republicans control and are positioned to continue controlling six and five districts, respectively, the new map would ensure that 10 out of the state’s 11 congressional seats would go to Democrats in the upcoming midterm election.

‘The gut-and-pack scheme sets aside any pretense of principle.’

While the Virginia Supreme Court permitted the vote on the amendment to take place, the court made clear in advance that it might ultimately have to “address” questions about the legality of the amendment and the corresponding referendum, which were deemed invalid by a lower court in the case Scott v. McDougle.

The Old Dominion’s high court ruined Democrats’ weekend on Friday, issuing a 4-3 decision in McDougle declaring the amendment unconstitutional. In the ruling, the court underscored that “the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia” because the first legislative vote on the amendment occurred after voting in the general election for the House of Delegates had already begun.

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“In this case, the Commonwealth submitted a proposed constitutional amendment to Virginia voters in an unprecedented manner that violated the intervening-election requirement in Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia,” said the court. “This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void.”

As the result of ruling, the the 2021-era congressional maps, where Democrats and Republicans enjoyed a 6-5 split, will serve as the governing maps for the 2026 midterm elections.

Nuclear meltdown

Democrats bitterly lashed out at the Virginia Supreme Court over its invalidation of their illegal power-grab.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), for instance, said that the “decision to overturn an entire election is an unprecedented and undemocratic action that cannot stand.”

Jeffries promised that Democrats “are exploring all options to overturn this shocking decision.”

Virginia Rep. Jennifer McClellan similarly claimed that “all options” are on the table and told “The Hill Sunday,” “We’re going to fight every way possible, whether that’s through the courts, whether that’s through legislatures, or whether that’s at the ballot box.”

While some state Democrats are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court might hear an appeal and give new life to their illegal gerrymander, others are scheming ways to eliminate key institutional obstacles to similar power-grabs in Virginia.

The steal-power-quick scheme

Democrat lawmakers including Jeffries and U.S. House members from Virginia had a private call on Saturday to discuss ways of forcing through their gerrymander and/or flipping two or three GOP-held seats under the existing map, three participants and two individuals briefed on the matter told the New York Times.

On the call, Democrats raised the possibility of purging the entire Virginia Supreme Court with the aim of handpicking justices who would reinstate their gerrymandered maps.

While Democrats might easily be able to find replacement justices whose loyalty to the ruling party trumps their loyalty to the state and U.S. Constitutions, they first need a way to empty the current bench.

According to the Times, some congressional and state Democrats are considering the possibility of lowering the mandatory retirement age for Virginia Supreme Court justices — an idea proposed in a Friday blog post by Quinn Yeargain, a woke associate law professor at Michigan State University.

“Current law sets the mandatory retirement age at 73: ‘Any member who attains 73 years of age shall be retired 20 days after the convening of the next regular session of the General Assembly following his seventy-third birthday,'” wrote Yeargain. “This number is arbitrary. States around the country with similar laws mandate retirement across a wide range of ages. Virginia lawmakers can simply lower theirs. Make it 54 for Supreme Court justices — the age of the youngest justice, Stephen McCullough, who joined the majority opinion — and make it take effect immediately.”

The plan, as reportedly laid on Democrats’ Saturday call, would consist of multiple steps:

In his January ruling in McDougle, Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley declared invalid the Virginia constitutional amendment effort to gerrymander the maps because county officials had failed to post notice of it at courthouses and other locations at least three months before the election. Democrats would attempt to use this ruling to invalidate the 2020 constitutional amendment that created Virginia’s independent redistricting commission. Democrats, if successful in arguing that insufficient notice was given in the case of the commission-creating amendment, would be able to enact whatever map they wanted.In order to ensure that this subversive plot could proceed, Democrats in the General Assembly would reportedly lower the mandatory retirement age for the Virginia Supreme Court justices to 54, thereby forcing out all current justices. Instead of principled authorities on the bench, the General Assembly would appoint Democrat lawyers to fill the vacancies.

The Times’ sources involved with the call said that Spanberger, who would have to sign off on any legislation that lowered the judicial retirement age, had not been briefed on the proposal.

Jeffries’ spokesman declined to provide the Times with comment. Virginia Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D) similarly declined to provide comment.

U.S. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D), the son of Indian immigrants, said that he was among those on the call supportive of the plan to purge the state’s supreme court.

“Everyone has got to have a strong stomach right now; this is a complete disaster waiting to happen if people are timid,” said Subramanyam.

By contrast, Ryan McDougle, Republican leader of the Virginia Senate, said, “This is a brazen assault on our democracy.

“In our nation’s 250th Anniversary, Democrats knowingly violate the Constitution, ram through deceptive ballot language to deceive and divide voters, then demand the Court not rule until after the vote. These hypocrites now pretend to defend democracy by removing lawfully appointed Supreme Court Justices because they blocked their illegal rewrite of the Constitution.”

The Virginia GOP stated, “Those claiming to care about fairness and democracy should respect the rule of law instead of threatening to pack the Supreme Court and nullify the Virginia Constitution.”

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote, “The sack-and-pack scheme sets aside any pretense of principle. The Democrats would simply adopt a ridiculously low retirement age for the sole purpose of populating the court with reliable and robotic justices. The fact that an academic and various pundits would expressly float such an idea is another chilling reminder of the growing radicalization on the left.”

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A series of movies based on sympathizing with indigenous cultures is allegedly set on the backdrop of hypocritical practices, a new lawsuit is claiming.

James Cameron’s billion-dollar “Avatar” franchise has clear messages surrounding protecting native peoples and their environments, but according to a recent legal filing, he has actually been taking advantage of an aboriginal woman over the course of the 16-year lifespan of the films.

‘A hugely lucrative film franchise that presented itself as sympathetic to Indigenous struggles.’

Actress Q’orianka Kilcher said that when she played Pocahontas across from Colin Farrell and Christian Bale in 2005’s “The New World,” director Cameron was so enthralled by her “beauty” that he used her likeness.

Kilcher, who has a native Peruvian background, was allegedly the inspiration for Neytiri, the female lead played by Zoe Saldana.

Face off

As NBC News reported, Kilcher said she had no idea her face was being used until she saw Cameron at an event in 2010 after the first “Avatar” movie was released. She said Cameron invited her to his office and gave her the gift of a sketch drawn and signed by him.

The gift allegedly included a note that said: “Your beauty was my early inspiration for Neytiri. Too bad you were shooting another movie. Next time.”

Kilcher was just 14 years old when she played Pocahontas.

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Scan scam?

According to Variety, the legal complaint filed in California said Kilcher’s likeness was later replicated in production sketches, sculpted into 3D models, and laser-scanned into digital models to be distributed to visual effects companies. The lawsuit further alleged that Kilcher’s likeness was used not only in movies but in posters and promotions across the world.

An interview with Cameron from 2024 was also noted in the filing, in which the director stood in front of the “Avatar” sketch and specifically identified Kilcher.

“The source for this was a photograph that was in the L.A. Times as part of the promotion for ‘The New World.’ It’s a young actress named Q’orianka Kilcher, who played Pocahontas in ‘The New World,'” Cameron explained. “So this is actually her lower face. She had a very interesting face, and I wound up meeting her years later, and I gave her a signed print of this.”

Don’t look back

After this, Cameron specifically told the interviewer that Kilcher was not the true inspiration for Neytiri and that Zoe Saldana — an American from New Jersey with a Dominican and Puerto Rican background — was actually who the character looked like.

“Not that she was the inspiration for the character,” Cameron said about Kilcher. “But I just wanted to show how a specific person’s look could come through in the character, and that was important, because then the second we cast Zoe, we started, you know, Neytiri suddenly looked like Zoe. So, you know, the question is how did we get to that point.”

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‘Silently exploiting’

Lawyers for Kilcher said, however, that “what Cameron did was not inspiration; it was extraction.”

“[Cameron] took the unique biometric facial features of a 14-year-old indigenous girl, ran them through an industrial production process, and generated billions of dollars in profit without ever once asking her permission. That is not filmmaking. That is theft,” said Arnold P. Peter of Peter Law Group.

The lawsuit added, “The result was a hugely lucrative film franchise that presented itself as sympathetic to Indigenous struggles, all while silently exploiting a real Indigenous youth behind the scenes.”

Neither Disney nor Lightstorm Entertainment, both of which were named in the lawsuit, responded to Align’s request for comment.

Representatives for Cameron did not respond to requests from outlets like NBC News or People, either.

The “Avatar” trilogy has grossed over $1.8 billion at the box office. Two more movies are planned for 2029 and 2031.

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