Trump/Musk breakup, AI worries, Social Security myths
It's National Yo-Yo Day!
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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Live-action replay of Trump-Elon feud: Hayes and Wagner act out 'messy breakup'. (Video)
Musk threatens to withdraw Dragon spacecraft, a key space station link for NASA.
Anthropic researchers predict a ‘pretty terrible decade’ for humans as AI could wipe out white collar jobs. Then again, don't be fooled into thinking AI is coming for your job - here's the truth.
Amazon testing humanoid robots to deliver packages.
There are a lot of myths and lies being spread about Social Security. Here’s the real info. (Video)
Shirt of the day (click on image)
KGB Quote of the Day:
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
--Thomas Mann (Wikipedia link)
(More Thomas Mann quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Atheist Pride Day, D-Day, Drive-in Movie Day, Hug an Atheist Day, National Applesauce Cake Day, National Churro Day, National Doughnut Day, National Eyewear Day, National Fish & Chip Day (UK), National Gardening Exercise Day, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, National Higher Education Day, National Hunger Awareness Day, and National Yo-Yo Day.
On This Day:
1816 - Snow fell in Albany, New York and Dennysville, Maine, part of a "year without a summer" which followed the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the previous year. (Video)
1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was formed in London
1892 - The Chicago "L" elevated rail system began operation.
1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 was enacted, creating, among other things, the tax on gasoline in the United States (one cent per US gallon)
1933 - The first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey.
1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1944 - D-Day: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history began. (Video)
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy died from gunshot wounds inflicted by assassin Sirhan Sirhan 25 hours earlier. (Video)
1971 - Final broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS. (Video)
1978 - TV news magazine "20/20", premiered on ABC.
1984 - The first playable version of the videogame Tetris was produced.
1991 - NBC announced Jay Leno would succeed Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show".
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1892 - Donald F. Duncan Sr., founder of Duncan Toys Company, who popularized the yo-yo. (d. 1971)
1936 - Levi Stubbs, American soul singer; lead vocalist of the Four Tops (d. 2008) (Video)
1947 - Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street
1952 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; winner of four Tony Awards
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