Crazy news 'round the globe (continued)

[Jer]

Had something that really only belonged in this thread, but the original was locked after it went off on a bizarre personal tangent, so...RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!

The crazy news in question:

“Church of Bleach” family goes to trial, representing themselves in court

The family, defending itself in the trial, declined to provide an opening statement.

arstechnica.com

...which, of course, makes me think of this:

 

[Jer]

Somalis with albinism: Pelted with stones and raw eggs

People with albinism are tackling prejudice, while the diaspora is helping to make their lives easier.

www.bbc.com

An unusual and interesting story.

 

[Jer]

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless"

Microsoft's MSN news portal published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article that derided Hunter as "useless" in its headline.

futurism.com

Pretty much sums up where we stand with large language model artificial stupidity today.

Microsoft yanked the AI-generated article quickly, but it can still be viewed here.

 

[Black Bart]

South Africa's man of the match.

 

[TheMercenary]

Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.

futurism.com

 

[TheMercenary]

Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4

Amazon's upcoming LLM codenamed "Olympus" will reportedly have two trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI's GPT-4.

futurism.com

 

[TheMercenary]

Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About

Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer's plans for more advanced AIs.

futurism.com

 

[Travis The Dragon]

And the track is going to be 2 and a half miles long!

New Construction Video For Falcon's Flight, The World's First Exa Coaster At 640ft, Coming To Six Flags Qiddiya! | Theme Park Tourist

Intamin officially revealed new details for the world's first Exa coaster coming to Six Flags Qiddiya this month including the layout and train. Here is a video of how Falcon's Flight currently looks...

www.themeparktourist.com

 

[TheMercenary]

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park: Swearing parrots removed from view

Although parrots are well known for mimicking bad language, these are "more sweary than most".

www.bbc.com

 

[TheMercenary]

 

[The_7th_one]

I din't know where to post this but. it looks funny, sad, and crazy at the same time:

GARY MOORE Fans Launch Crowdfunding Appeal For Statue Campaign​

This is Gary's face beside the bunch of money the campaign has raised at the moment.




I hope a Gary Moore Statue in front of Phil Lynott's one

 

[TheMercenary]

Rare Human Case of Bubonic Plague in Oregon Confirmed by Authorities

The bubonic plague might sound like an affliction of the past, but the bacterium behind the disease is still out there, causing thousands of human infections worldwide, year after year, although cases in the US are relatively rare.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[TheMercenary]

Facebook is completely down today since 4:30 pm.

Check Status and Outages of Meta Business Products

See the status and check for outages for Meta business products including Ads Manager, Meta Business Suite, WhatsApp Business API and more.

metastatus.com

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/05/tech/facebook-instagram-outages/index.html

 

[LooseCannon]

What are the boomers going to do with their lives? Where are they gonna get their MAGA memes?

 

[Onhell]

It wasn't just business products, My FB crapped out for like 10 minutes. And it might also explain why I'm not getting replies from WhatsApp

 

[TheMercenary]

This is not an April's Fools joke...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774774641820610866

 

[Perun]

Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany

Germany wants tougher limits on hunting the animals, but Botswana says it has too many of them.

www.bbc.com

@Magnus - opinions?

 

[Magnus]

Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany

Germany wants tougher limits on hunting the animals, but Botswana says it has too many of them.

www.bbc.com

@Magnus - opinions?

Wir schaffen das?

 

[Jer]

Mexico cuts diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Jorge Glas arrest

Police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas.

www.bbc.com

Hey @Onhell, what’s the local sentiment on this in Mexico…? An armed raid on an embassy is completely bonkers…

 

[Onhell]

Mexico cuts diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Jorge Glas arrest

Police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas.

www.bbc.com

Hey @Onhell, what’s the local sentiment on this in Mexico…? An armed raid on an embassy is completely bonkers…

Honestly? apathetic. The international media (I've seen Reuters, BBC and TIME) have covered it more than local news. The government is obviously upset, but your average citizen doesn't care. Even though we're in election races for everything, not a single candidate has come out to say anything about it. It seems to be bigger news in South America where every country has sided with Mexico.

Last I read We're going to take it to the International courts.