Month: November 2023

  • Brazillian city enacts an ordinance that was written by ChatGPT!!

    Brazillian city enacts an ordinance that was written by ChatGPT!!

    City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time.

    The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Rosário revealed this week that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy.

    Rosário told The Associated Press that he asked OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen. He then presented it to his 35 peers on the council without making a single change or even letting them know about its unprecedented origin.
    — Read on apnews.com/article/brazil-artificial-intelligence-porto-alegre-5afd1240afe7b6ac202bb0bbc45e08d4

  • Mystery wave of pneumonia hits AMERICA: Ohio county records 142 child cases of ‘white lung syndrome’ which it says ‘meets the definition of an outbreak’

    Mystery wave of pneumonia hits AMERICA: Ohio county records 142 child cases of ‘white lung syndrome’ which it says ‘meets the definition of an outbreak’

    Developing

    Not only is this above the county average, it also meets the Ohio Department of Health definition of an outbreak,’ the county’s health department said Wednesday.

    The spread of cases has raised fears that an American outbreak of the infection that has overwhelmed hospitals China could hit this winter. Several European countries are battling similar crises.

    But a source at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that,  nationally, ‘nothing is out of the ordinary’.

    An ‘ongoing investigation’ is underway in Ohio into what is triggering the wave of illness, but officials do not think it is a new respiratory disease — and instead blame a mixture of several common infections all hitting at once.
    — Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12809869/us-child-pneumonia-outbreak-extremely-high-cases.html

  • So what’s in Joe Biden’s briefcase again?

    So what’s in Joe Biden’s briefcase again?

    And here we always thought it was nuclear codes. Dark Brandon may have just revealed quite the state secret.

    Another weird moment in presidential history just occurred.. President Biden told people during a public event—with cameras rolling—that his Marines carry a code to blow up the world without nuclear weapons. Then he chuckled as the others laughed nervously along..

  • Hell opens its doors: Henry Kissinger dead at 100

    Hell opens its doors: Henry Kissinger dead at 100

    Henry Kissinger, the toweringly influential former secretary of state who earned a reputation as a sagacious diplomat but drew international condemnation and accusations of war crimes for his key role in widening the American presence in Vietnam and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, died Wednesday.

    He was 100.

    Say no more. You can do your own research..

  • China orders mystery pneumonia outbreak ‘cover-up’ as officials told to ‘downplay illness & BAN word Covid’

    China orders mystery pneumonia outbreak ‘cover-up’ as officials told to ‘downplay illness & BAN word Covid’

    Something doesn’t feel right about this…

    Not just a repeat of history but new waters being sailed. Equally scary prospects exist with either premise ..

    CHINESE officials have been ordered to downplay the mystery pneumonia outbreak raging across the country, an insider has claimed.

    Beijing has also ordered medics not to reveal the cause of the illness and urged officials to avoid using the term Covid-19, according to the source.
    — Read on www.the-sun.com/health/9740975/china-orders-mystery-pneumonia-outbreak-cover-up/

  • Rumors: Stranger Things series finale will take place at Christmas

    Rumors: Stranger Things series finale will take place at Christmas

    Silver bells!

    It seems appropriate that the final season of the show will actually take place during the same “Seasons” as the opening.

    Recent reports strongly suggest that the final season will unfold during Christmas.

    A Reddit user shared photos from the sets of Stranger Things. The location is likely Hawkins High School and it features a Christmas tree. There’s also a message on the board that reads, “We know times are tough for all of Hawkins, but anything you can spare will be much appreciated.

    Perhaps there will be a need for Joyce’s wall art to light up yet again.

  • The WHO asks China about pneumonia case spike

    The WHO asks China about pneumonia case spike

    This reporting from the Associated Press:

    Chinese officials say they did not detect any “unusual or novel diseases” in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

    WHO cited unspecified media reports and a global infectious disease monitoring service as reporting clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China and formally requested more details from China earlier this week. 

  • Ireland riots break out after stabbing attack

    Ireland riots break out after stabbing attack

    Multiple riots have broken out in Dublin, Ireland, leaving thousands of people enraged after an immigrant, believed to be Algerian, carried out a stabbing attack outside a school that injured three children and two adults.

    Sections of the crowd clashed with police, reportedly injuring several officers, and set several police cars and vehicles on fire, while fireworks were thrown into the streets.

    Police have detained a man in his 50s for the knife attack. Authorities believe the attack was a “standalone” incident.

    Developing..

  • Mysterious pneumonia outbreak leaves China’s hospitals ‘overwhelmed with sick children’

    Mysterious pneumonia outbreak leaves China’s hospitals ‘overwhelmed with sick children’

    Scientists have raised concern over a mysterious “pneumonia like” illness that has left hospitals in China “overwhelmed with sick children”.

    More..

    An alert was issued through ProMed – a large surveillance database which monitors disease outbreaks– warning of an epidemic of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in children.

    — Read on www.standard.co.uk/news/world/mysterious-pneumonia-outbreak-china-hospitals-sick-children-b1122117.html

    more..

    Taiwanese news website FTV News said that children were presenting to hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning – 500 miles northeast – with symptoms including a high fever and inflammation of the lungs, but no cough. 

    A Beijing citizen told the outlet: “Many, many (children) are hospitalised. They don’t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature and many develop pulmonary nodules.”

    .. developing ..

  • The Ortega-less SCREAM

    The Ortega-less SCREAM

    Deadline is splashing and exclusive about the upcoming SCREAM 7: Ortega out!

    More..

    Jenna Ortega, who was heralded to be a huge draw in getting Scream VI to the horror franchise’s best opening grosses ever at $44.4M stateside, $67M global, isn’t expected to return for the newest film..

    According to DEADLINE, the departure has ‘nothing to do with the fallout from Melissa Barrera‘s firing yesterday by Spyglass Media over that actress’ social media repostings on the Hamas-Israel conflict’; nor does it have to do with the actress asking for an end to her Scream contract. Ortega and Barrera played sisters in 2022’s Scream and this year’s Scream VI respectively as Tara and Sam Carpenter

    Developing.. without a star.