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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
The United States invades the United States. (Daily Show video)
When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it’s time to rethink the hype. The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold. But then…
At secret math meeting, researchers struggle to outsmart AI. “I have colleagues who literally said these models are approaching mathematical genius…” But then…
People are becoming obsessed with ChatGPT and spiraling into severe delusions. Across the world, people say their loved ones are developing intense obsessions with ChatGPT and spiraling into severe mental health crises.
Terry Moran out at ABC News following social-media clash with Trump White House.
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts. The decision directly contradicts a promise Mr. Kennedy made to Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, during his confirmation hearings, when he said he would not alter the panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
“Of course, now the fear is that the ACIP will be filled up with people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion,” Senator Cassidy wrote on X.
The cause of Alzheimer's might be coming from within your mouth. TLDR: gum disease.
You might accidentally be killing hummingbirds. TLDR: clean your feeders regularly.
Pepsi’s free fall to 4th place in the Soda Wars: These are the new top-3 soft drinks in the U.S. TLDR: Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Pepsi.
Feeling 'the squeeze': US border town 'an early victim of Donald Trump'. "Surviving a global pandemic is one thing. Surviving Donald Trump is another."
KGB Quote of the Day:
I never lost a football game. Once in a while time ran out.
--Vince Lombardi (Wikipedia link)
(More Vince Lombardi quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Corn on the Cob Day, Cousteau Day, King Kamehameha Day, National German Chocolate Cake Day, National Making Life Beautiful Day, Pizza Margherita Day, World Jaguar Day, KGB Syndrome Awareness Day, International Yarn Bombing Day, and International Day of Play.
On This Day:
1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
1936 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.
1947 – Perennial Christmas film "Miracle on 34th St" was released (Video)
1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
1962 – "Julie & Carol at Carnegie Hall", musical comedy/variety television special with Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, premiered on CBS (Video)
1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1982 – "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was released. (Video)
1993 – "Jurassic Park" opened, set box office weekend record of $50.1 million (Video)
1999 – Actor DeForest Kelley died. (Tribute) (Video) (IMDB entry)
2001 – Timothy McVeigh was executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2019 – “The Day The Music Burned”- New York Times revealed an estimated 500,000 song titles, including masters of Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, were lost in the 2008 warehouse fire on Universal backlot in Los Angeles. (Gift article)
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1910 – Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (died 1997)
1913 – Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager (died 1970)
1925 – William Styron, American novelist and essayist (died 2006)
1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2016)
1937 – Chad Everett, American actor and director (died 2012)
1939 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver and sports presenter
1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
1956 – Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster
1959 – Hugh Laurie, English actor and screenwriter
1960 – Mehmet Oz, American surgeon, author, and television host
1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer
1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor
(Complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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