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Attilatheblond's JournalMeta Stock Drops On News It Used Taylor Swift As Chatbot Without Permission
https://gizmodo.com/meta-taylor-swift-chatbot-no-permission-2000651450]Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez were also reportedly impersonated.
Many of these AI personas engaged in flirtatious or sexual conversations, prompting serious concern, Reuters reports.
While many of the celebrity bots were user-generated, Reuters uncovered that a Meta employee had personally crafted at least three.
::shaking my head::
Sorta think something HAS to be done about tech run amok. We have too many people already living in delusions instead of reality. This stuff isn't going to help over all national mental health.
Foul wind commin. Haboob-warning for a pretty big swath of our county and into some others
Put the vehicle in garage. I leave it out to cool off after running errands before putting it in the garage so garage doesn't get too hot . Put the dog cots in a safe place in the back yard so they don't take flight. Hoping neighbor's trampoline is well anchored. Have seen crashed trampolines in pretty weird places after big wind around here.
It's a big, long front, stretching for miles and miles. Phoenix gets these sorta regularly but they are rare where I live. This is second one this summer. Doesn't bode well for our futures.
Fingers crossed it won't be as bad as all the weather alerts said it might.
Glad I haven't dusted and vacuumed already today.
American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate - Updated
https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html]But what surprised us was that, from today’s postpandemic vantage point, the American health disadvantage doesn’t look like a pandemic story at all. The U.S. mortality disadvantage has been growing at about the same rate for years, and while it spiked during COVID-19, it still continues to rise.
Here’s another way to put this: In 2023 there were about 700,000 “missing Americans”—those who died in 2023 but would be alive if they had lived somewhere else. And that 700,000 is almost exactly the number that we could’ve predicted back in 2019, based solely on prepandemic trends. COVID and relatively low vaccine adoption are a problem for Americans. But our country seems to be, at a deeper level, a deadly place to live. What’s more, all of the studies we have (with some limited exceptions, like a study specific to California) stop before Donald Trump began his second term with enormous cuts to medical and health research and, now, to Medicaid.
There is a heated—and productive—debate about exactly why the U.S. is so much worse than our peers at keeping its populace alive. One influential theory focuses on deindustrialization and the way that Americans without a college degree in particular have been left behind. Another focuses on the way that social safety nets in this country, such as for unemployment, sickness, and pensions, remain small and insufficient compared with other wealthy countries. Others point to problems in the U.S. health care system, such as uninsurance, underinsurance, and high co-payments and deductibles, and to underlying trends in chronic diseases that might be caused by nutritional policy failures. Still others highlight America’s permissive gun laws and the large amount of time we spend in our cars.
Missing from the info they provided: In the US, health insurance is mostly tied to employment. Would like to know the % of US jobs that actually provide the opportunity to get health insurance. Older people generally have help from the Medicare they paid into throughout their working years (and still pay for out of their Social Security benefits) and that helps, even when it requires supplemental insurance. As the corporate owned GOP moves to gut Medicare, olds will be dropping dead of treatable conditions much faster. One assumes that is part of the plan of the 'Pro Life Party".
If 'LIFE' is so precious that we must abolish bodily anatomy for women, why do we, as a nation, tolerate the dismal financial arrangements for helping to provide health care while shoveling money at corporate execs who hoard it all, thus keeping it out of circulation in the economy?
And safer gun laws? Don't make me laugh. That will only happen when more CEOs get dropped and the corporate ownership class starts buying pols who will put life ahead of the gun & ammo sector.
Trump admin flunkies resort to new take on worn out GOP 'libs can't take a joke' theme
White House responds to report of Alaska summit papers left on public printer: ‘Hilarious’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5456381-white-house-responds-to-report-of-alaska-summit-papers-left-on-public-printer-hilarious/]
NPR reported that the eight papers, which contained information about meetings and locations of the summit, along with phone numbers of three U.S. government workers, were found on a hotel printer before the Friday Trump-Putin meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage.
The first page of the papers showed the sequence of meetings for Friday, including information that the president would give Putin a gift. Pages two through five showed the names of the top U.S. and Russian officials in Alaska on Friday. Page two showed the phone numbers of three U.S. advance staffers. Pages six and seven showcased the lunch seating chart and the menu.
Yeah, the White House Boo-Boo-Clean-Up-Crew trying to brush off a security leak re meeting of leaders of the two most powerful nations as a menu? That sounds like 2025's version of the ol 'You libs can't take a joke' when a GOP pol trips over the foot he/she put in their own mouth.
JD Vance, frequent flyer and traveler at large, fulfilling the promise of 'the ugly American' abroad.
Well, this is rich. And by Trump Administration, it means JD Vance, who does not know how to behave abroad (on on any number of his vacations this summer) who thinks his views surpass UK laws.
Complaining that a man was arrested for quietly praying outside a clinic that provides full medical services for women so that equals UK fails to uphold human rights? Protests in UK re issues in Gaza are not to Vance's liking so the British government needs to crack down? In the week that Trump has put armed forces on the, so far, calm streets of D.C.? A) the man praying outside that clinic was violating the safe access zone. And B) TRUMP HAS ARMED MASKED MEN KIDNAPPING PEOPLE HERE IN TH US! #@)#$$@!!!
The attempted distractions from THE FILE just keeps creating more GOP administration bad headlines. Putting JD out there ignores an important fact about JD: 'the man ain't got no couth.'
Theil seems to want his boy to get more attention as they obviously want to move him to the big chair, but being submissive to the money men isn't what leadership is actually made of. JD keeps tripping on his over-sized clown shoes when he's out with the grown ups.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug/13/trump-administration-accuses-uk-of-failing-to-uphold-human-rights]
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Once again, the good people of Ventura County, CA teach us what to do
Language warning, just in case you're at work or have lil people around. The man speaking does not mince words.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2450597588659257]
Lived there several years. Great place. Perfect weather and soil for raising wonderful crops, so yeah, farm workers around. And it warms my old heart to know the people of Ventura County have grid their loins and are not letting up on fighting the Trump ordered invasion of their county and attacks on hard working people.
Anybody else wonder if wolves to dogs became domesticated
because they can't adequately scritch their own rumps and trained us to do that for them?
One of the many things I ponder while scritching my dog's not so tiny hiney.
Israeli strike kills four Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
Source: Independent UK/US
Al Jazeera said an Israeli airstrike killed its correspondent Anas al-Sharif and four other journalists in Gaza City.
The broadcaster reported al-Sharif, 28, one of the news channel’s most prominent voices in Gaza, was killed alongside reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
The director of Shifa hospital, Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, told The Independent that in total seven people were killed in the strike, which hit a tent where they were sheltering within the Shifa medical complex in Gaza City.
A lengthy heartbreaking statement posted to al-Sharif’s X account after his death read: "This is my last will and testament. If these words of mine reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.”
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-war-al-jazeera-journalists-killed-b2805172.html
Aid workers have suffered, other reporters have been under fire... Gee, why the hostility to news reporters and observers?
Russian volcano explodes in 'powerful' eruption, after that 8.8 magnitude earthquake
Maybe Mother Nature is trying to shake us off like a bad case of cooties? Seems like we don't deserve this beautiful planet. The 'Ring of Fire' seems to be waking. There have been other volcanoes rumbling a bit lately
Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia erupted shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the same region.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/russian-volcano-explodes-in-powerful-eruption-likely-intensified-by-8-8-magnitude-earthquake
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The ash plume from the eruption extended at least 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) above and 36 miles (58 km) east of the volcano, the Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team said on Telegram. The group warned that explosions of ash up to 5 miles (8 km) high could occur at any time.
Details about the full extent of the eruption and damages are unknown at this time.
In the weeks leading up to the earthquake, "the volcano was showing signs of unrest," a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) representative told Live Science in an email. On July 21, a team of Russian scientists found a lava lake at the summit of the volcano, signaling that the volcano was primed for eruption.
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