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AI not sentient, elephants not persons, crayfish invasion, female update, Tom Hanks, sex starter kit, the usual drollery
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Published Tuesday, June 14, 2022 @ 4:00 PM EDT

Jun 14 2022

Things change.

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No, Google's AI is not sentient. Happy the elephant may be sentient, but a court says she's not a person. As one of the X-Men once remarked, "Stinks to be sentient, sometimes, don't it?"

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Cloned crayfish accidentally created in an aquarium are conquering the world. Let's just hope the marbled crayfish never sets its sights on humanity. If they do, we may never be able to stop them.

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How zoology got female animals all wrong. Female animals are just as promiscuous, competitive, aggressive and dynamic as their male counterparts and play an equal role in driving evolutionary change...

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Tom Hanks explains it all.

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Tom might have problems explaining this: Mother and teenage son create 'first time sex starter kit'.

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Dr. Oz says he'll fight to end illegal immigration. A business owned by his family, in which he is a shareholder, faced the largest fine in ICE history for hiring unauthorized workers.

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Coffee brands with the worst ingredients. As long as they have caffeine, I'm ok.

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A three-hour long solar flare erupted from the sun. Impressive video; fortunately, it only caused isolated radio blackouts.

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Wingnuts helpfully threaten to kill police after arrests of neo-Nazis who planned pride event riot.

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Over 100m Americans urged to stay indoors over extreme heat and humidity. Heat wave expected to settle over states from Gulf coast to Great Lakes and east to Carolinas with 100°F temperatures in some cities.

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No, Marjorie Taylor Greene, transgender people aren't causing the tampon shortage. ...the real issue can be traced back to an increase in the cost of cotton and plastic used to produce tampons. These materials, also used for masks and other medical supplies, have been in particularly high demand since the pandemic. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has added another challenging layer to the problem, as both countries are key exporters of the materials.

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Miscellany:

Birthdays:

1909 - Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995) (Video)
1919 - Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009) (Video)
1925 - Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
1931 - Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian
1931 - Junior Walker, American saxophonist (d. 1995) (Video)
1946 - Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States
1961 - Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer (Video)

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On this date in:

1775 - American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces.
1777 - The Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
1822 - Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
1900 - Hawaii became a United States territory.
1949 - Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rode a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.
1951 - UNIVAC I was dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law that placed the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1959 - Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.

Today is:

Army's Birthday, Call Your Doctor Day, Family History Day, Flag Day, International Bath Day, National Bourbon Day, National Strawberry Shortcake Day, Observed annually on June 14th, Own Your Share of America Day, Pause for the Pledge Day, Pop Goes The Weasel Day, World Blood Donor Day, and World Pet Memorial Day

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Comments, tweets and observations:

If you don't think Donald Trump will end up in prison, remember, nobody thought he would end up in the White House either.
-Middle Age Riot

If Trump was arrested, and led away in cuffs, and it was televised by the US Gov't., live on Pay Per View, it's possible we could eliminate the National Debt.
-Duty to Warn

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Solar flares, Idaho fireballs, Loser-Palooza overflights, National Fried Chicken Day, The Truth
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Published Tuesday, July 06, 2021 @ 12:00 AM EDT

Jul 06 2021

Sun erupted with biggest solar flare in four years in early Fourth of July fireworks (video). Also, Independence Day fireball: Amazing videos show bright meteor changing night sky into day in Idaho.

Over 40 percent of the global workforce is considering leaving their jobs this year. Also, Since the pandemic, employees are leaving the workforce or switching jobs in droves. For many, employers have played a big part in why they're walking away.

Not real news: A look at what didn't happen last week.

Amazing New York times documentary of January 6 insurrection. (Video) Funny, they don't look like tourists.

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From Crazytown:

Marjorie Taylor Greene reports sightings of Jewish space lasers across U.S. (on July 4) (satire, Andy Borowitz in The New Yorker).

Pence got ten minutes to talk about 'how hard he was working' during weekly lunches before Trump turned on the TV and began complaining, book says.

Rioters accused of erasing content from social media, phones.

Epic-est of Epic Trolls Fly 'Loser-Palooza' Planes Over Donald Trump Event in Florida. Every Time Trump claims a non-stolen election was stolen from him, a troll gets its wings. In this case, literally.

Trump seemingly acknowledges facts of prosecutors' case against Trump Organization while criticizing charges over 'fringe benefits'. (Video)

Trump: 'One Law for Hungry Pizza Thieves, Another for Me'. Trump endorsed a textbook for his scam Trump University. This is from Trump University Asset Protection 101: Tax and Legal Strategies of the Rich: "When you own your own business, you determine how much income tax you pay." That's not true, but it sure tells you how Trump thinks.

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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:

Among other things, today is

On this date:

1785 - US Congress unanimously resolved the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopted decimal coinage
1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party was held.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1892 - Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engaged in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
1898 - U.S. Senate adopts the House-passed Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii
1919 - The British dirigible R34 landed in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1928 - "Lights of New York" the first all-talking full-length feature film, was released by Warner Bros.
1933 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4-2.
1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident (Video)
1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
1964 - The Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night" released in U.K. (Video)
1990 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded.
1994 - "Forrest Gump" released (Video)

Birthdays

1747 - John Paul Jones, Scottish-American captain (d. 1792)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet (d. 1985)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian actor (d. 1977) (Video)
1921 - Nancy Reagan, American actress and activist, 42nd First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
1922 - William Schallert, American actor; president (1979-81) of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2016) (Video)
1925 - Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007) (Video)
1925 - Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981) (Video)
1927 - Janet Leigh, (b. Jeanette Helen Morrison) American actress and author (d. 2004) (Video)
1931 - Della Reese, (b. Delloreese Patricia Early) American actress and singer (d. 2017) (Video)
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor (d. 2021) (Video)
1937 - Gene Chandler, American singer-songwriter and producer ("Duke of Earl") (Video)
1946 - George W. Bush, American businessman and politician, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor, director, and screenwriter (Video)
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer(Video)
1979 - Kevin Hart, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter