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We’re constantly being told of the threat of Artificial Intelligence coming to take our jobs, but on the evidence collected and shared by the Twitter account AI being dumb, it looks like there’s still quite a way to go. Here are 23 examples of AI being a bit thick. And not only thick, but dangerously […]

We still don’t know – and may never know – precisely how successful Donald Trump’s much trumpeted air strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites actually were, with estimates ranging from ‘not very much’ to ‘total obliteration’. Probably somewhere in between, right? But if anyone knows about the complicated nuances of uranium enrichment and the path towards […]

If you weren’t one of the cool kids in high school, chances are you wanted to be just like them. Fast-forward a few years, though, and that popularity wears off. All of which makes you wonder, whatever happened to the popular kids? Did they continue to skate through life on their personalities, or did the […]

Back in 2021, at the height of Covid 19, Ohio lawmakers held a House Health Committee hearing on the Vaccine Choice Bill, which allowed people who chose not to be vaccinated to keep their statuses private. The Ohio House Health Committee is stuffed for a review of HB 248, which would ban biz/schools/insurers from mandating/incentivizing/asking […]

Donald Trump may be the world’s most famous McDonald’s customer, but he’s not averse to a salad now and then – as long as it’s a word salad. During the interview with Fox’s Maria Bartimoro in which he promised to reveal the buyer he’s found for TikTok in two weeks, he also shared his thoughts […]

Never less than totally obsessed with immigration, Nigel Farage has had Albania on his mind this last day or so, wanging on about the ‘1 in 50’ Albanians in the UK who he says are in jail. It started when the figure was picked up by Albanian PM who had this to say over on […]

Punk duo Bob Vylan have attacted widespread condemnation after they appeared to incite violence during their appearance at the Glastonbury festival, leading a chant of ‘death, death to the IDF’, referring to the Israel Defense Forces. Festival oragnisesers said they were ‘appalled’ by the comments while the BBC, which broadcast them live but has since […]

Time now to return the yawning cultural chasm between the United States and, well, basically every where else. And this time it was laundry that was exercising people’s minds on either side of the Atlantic. Specifically, how we choose to dry our clothes after @janetlane2214 said this over on Threads.   View on Threads   […]