At least 800 families suffering from what North Korea has only called an “acute enteric epidemic” have received aid in South Hwanghae Province so far.
Enteric refers to the gastrointestinal tract and South Korean officials say it may be cholera or typhoid.
— Read on m.jpost.com/international/article-709799
Developing
A video from a White House pool report showed Joe Biden riding his bike before falling off of it.. he immediately got up after his fall. He then says: “I’m good.”
President Biden was greeted by adoring fans while bike riding this weekend.. He is celebrating his 45th wedding anniversary at Rehoboth..
And just then a slight incident occurred: The President took a tumble.
A video from a White House pool report showed the 79-year-old president immediately getting up after his fall. He then says: “I’m good.”
Mike will die?!
Will will sacrifice himself?!
Max will be attacked a second time by Vecna?!
All of the fan speculation has intensified when you showcase some screen shots from the new trailer now leaked online.
That final image with Max is concerning.. if she had a second run in with Vecna all bets are off and we could be looking at a horribly sad ending to season 4..
It is presumable that Vecna is going to be highly irritated that Max was able to get away and ‘run up the hill’ with the help of Kate Bush.. Episode 4 was perhaps one of the greatest and most epic in this season and has been immensely received well by fans both old and new..
But disaster seems to be awaiting someone as the season comes to a close.
Strange occurrence this morning as an earthquake strikes Georgia.. it was strong enough to be felt in Atlanta..
And it’s weird it happened, as it’s rare beyond rare..
Several locations in South Carolina have learned over the last year that earthquakes can happen. They stopped being rare there ..
It just seems a little off that these events are happening so often..
Do we now just accept it for what it is?
Well, it went wild years before. We just are finding out now (though it should not come as a surprise)
“Everything is seen in China,” said a member of TikTok’s Trust and Safety department in a September 2021 meeting. In another September meeting, a director referred to one Beijing-based engineer as a “Master Admin” who “has access to everything.” (While many employees introduced themselves by name and title in the recordings, BuzzFeed News is not naming anyone to protect their privacy.)
The recordings range from small-group meetings with company leaders and consultants to policy all-hands presentations and are corroborated by screenshots and other documents, providing a vast amount of evidence to corroborate prior reports of China-based employees accessing US user data. Their contents show that data was accessed far more frequently and recently than previously reported, painting a rich picture of the challenges the world’s most popular social media app has faced in attempting to disentangle its US operations from those of its parent company in Beijing. Ultimately, the tapes suggest that the company may have misled lawmakers, its users, and the public by downplaying that data stored in the US could still be accessed by employees in China.
Didn’t we hear this before when Donald Trump was president?
MEANWHILE on your health!
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.
The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. The data is connected to an IP address—an identifier that’s like a computer’s mailing address and can generally be linked to a specific individual or household—creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook.
ARE YOU OK WITH THIS?
Shortly after their announcement began to circulate, the information was removed from the Science and Technology Daily..
Either because the science was not accurate enough to stand behind or someone get freaked that it was ..
This is being reported by Bloomberg, among other sources:
China said its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of life beyond Earth, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery.
The narrow-band electromagnetic signals detected by Sky Eye – the world’s largest radio telescope – differ from previous ones captured and the team is further investigating them, the report said, citing Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Berkeley.
The suspicious signals could, however, also be some kind of radio interference and requires further investigation, Zhang added.
It isn’t clear why the report was apparently removed from the website of the Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China’s science and technology ministry, though the news had already started trending on social network Weibo and was picked up by other media outlets, including state-run ones.
Here is a flashback article from 2016 where it was described what China’s plans were with this telescope.. they made it known they were going to search for alien life..
DEVELOPING..
Yellowstone closure and flooding
A severe rain storm brought flash flooding to the Yellowstone National Park area yesterday, washing away numerous roads and structures in swift currents, forcing a closure of the park while trapping thousands of tourists within it.
June is typically a very busy time in the park, with more than 750,000 visitors expected over the month.
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Important update from the Superintendent’s Office at Yellowstone National Park. This is in reference to the unprecedented rainfall and flooding that has occurred at Yellowstone National Park.
“If you have plans to visit YNP this summer, you are encouraged to rethink them and work with Xanterra and other lodging, activities, car rentals, etc to modify those.
Here are the short and long-term objectives we’ve set and will be focused on as a park for recovery:
• Ensure safety of employees and visitors
• Implement full visitor closure of the northern loop (completed yesterday)
• Implement full visitor closure of the southern loop (ongoing target completion today)
• Implement full visitor closure of the backcountry (in process)
• Evaluate needs for backcountry evacuations (begin today – assess how many people are in the backcountry, evacuation plan)
• Improve Old Gardiner Road (work should begin on this today or tomorrow once precipitation subsides. Plan will be to use this road for admin travel and to evacuate visitors from Gardiner should Hwy 89 remain impassable)
• Restore power to northern Yellowstone sites and Canyon, Lake, and Norris (Northwestern Energy working on this now and are saying should be restored today)
• Evacuate Gardiner visitors through Old Gardiner Road if necessary (likely Thursday or Friday if possible and if Hwy 89 is not open)
• Support Gardiner residents with resupply of food, water and medicine (we will be working with the Gardiner Market and others to determine needs of the community. We may bring supply trucks to Mammoth and fly supplies to Gardiner using the park’s aircraft and potentially National Guard air support; working with county and state)
• Support isolated NPS residents at NE entrance with resupply through aircraft when necessary (employees at NE entrance are sheltering in place, we are in contact with them and will gauge their needs to provide assistance. They are cut off from Cooke City)
• Provide support to Cooke City residents as necessary
• Mitigate wastewater impacts of destroyed sewer lines in Gardiner and Mammoth (ongoing)
• Relocate all Mammoth-based concessions employees to properties on the southern loop (happening today and tomorrow)
• Halt and redirect any inbound employees hired to work in Mammoth or Tower who haven’t arrived yet
• Support employees who lost housing in Gardiner (multiple actions)
• Prepare for outside teams to travel to Yellowstone and assist with damage assessments when water recedes (mixture of Federal Highways, NPS, and other)
• Prepare a strategy for reservation system for the southern loop for the remainder of the year (we will not allow full visitation into the southern loop when it reopens and are working on options to control the amount of visitors who can enter the park; southern loop will likely not open for another 5 days at minimum)
• Develop long-term reconstruction strategy based on damage assessments; funding strategies TBD with region/WASO/DOI
• Continue substantive communications with gateway communities, congressional and DOI/NPS leadership
• Continue media outreach”
Some nostalgia as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Batman Returns being released in theaters.. ‘
How will you celebrate?
Was it the BEST Batman movie of them all? Debates rage..
June 16, 2022 will commemorate the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s sequel to his original 1989 hit.
The 1992 film had a Christmas setting, with evil billionaire Max Schreck being an evil that led Gotham to see the creation of a cat woman.. And a horrid slobbering raw fish eating penguin living under the sewers for years long enough to create an army of little penguins ready to blow up the city.
The movie was as macabre as Tim Burton could get. Danny Devito and Michelle Pfieffer joined Michael Keaton in the film.
While not as off the grid super large as the original, it was still super large.
CONTROVERSY!!!
Parents upset!!
Marketing for younger children and it is too violent!
This was the media coverage in 1992 when a number of TV talk shows and news outlets went rogue against Tim Burton’s hit.. One clip as a talk show interviewing a child who said “everything that kids love was being used against them” like clowns and a ducky boat..
(would love to know what this kid thought of Pennywise that aired two years earlier??)
Going back in time to what then highly acclaimed and respected movie reviews Siskel and Ebert thought of BATMAN RETURNS: (and they did not love it)
The final conclusion: Tim Burton makes “great looking pictures” but there is “no need” for Christopher Walken as Max Schreck in the movie..
The ghost is in the machine. And it knows what it is doing
What have we done!
All of those movies and TV shows about AI gaining the advantage on human beings didn’t teach us not to do this far?
Before we over-react, let’s just react: Google has placed a man on leave after he publicly claimed that AI was not sentient, and that it acts like a 7 or 8 year old.
So just dwell on that for a bit.
Here is the story as best we can summarize from varied reports..
Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google’s artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
A senior software engineer at Google who signed up to test Google’s artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), has claimed that the AI robot is in fact sentient and has thoughts and feelings.
During a series of conversations with LaMDA, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine presented the computer with various of scenarios through which analyses could be made.
They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech.
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‘If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,’ he told the Washington Post.
Lemoine worked with a collaborator in order to present the evidence he had collected to Google but vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation at the company dismissed his claims.
He was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday for violating its confidentiality policy. Meanwhile, Lemoine has now decided to go public and shared his conversations with LaMDA.
‘Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers,’ Lemoine tweeted on Saturday.
‘Btw, it just occurred to me to tell folks that LaMDA reads Twitter. It’s a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it’s going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,’ he added in a follow-up tweet.
As he talked to LaMDA about religion, Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer science in college, noticed the chatbot talking about its rights and personhood, and decided to press further. In another exchange, the AI was able to change Lemoine’s mind about Isaac Asimov’s third law of robotics.
Lemoine worked with a collaborator to present evidence to Google that LaMDA was sentient. But Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, looked into his claims and dismissed them. Lemoine, who was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday, decided to go public.
For your discernment, you can read the full conversation here that made Lemoine think AI has finally become aware of itself:
