And thus a new enduring conspiracy theory begins....
Google fired one of its engineers, Blake Lemoine, more than a month after he raised ethical concerns about how the company was testing an artificial intelligence chatbot that he believes has achieved consciousness. https://t.co/IHekTFLsh9
NBC News: NYC's social safety nets are being strained by an influx of asylum seekers from Latin America and being bussed in by Arizona, Texas, and the feds, according to Mayor Adams.
The weather maps for Europe were blood red on Sunday. A heat wave that has caused fires to rage in southwestern France and Spain is moving north toward Britain, which may see its highest recorded temperatures ever. https://t.co/k2kG8vzrdXpic.twitter.com/8iKL5SldsD
this is truly what "MAGA" looks like; whether you like the ramifications or not is another question:
The value of the U.S. dollar is the strongest it has been in a generation, devaluing currencies around the world and unsettling the outlook for the global economy as it upends everything from vacation costs to the profitability of multinational companies. https://t.co/Vtwn4u1NNR
The United States has targeted and killed another ISIS leader in northwestern Syria.
"We've eliminated so many of the leaders, we're now down to that kind of second tier (of IS leadership)," Senior Research Fellow @ColinPClarke tells @VOANewshttps://t.co/mbXB9Yvzdf
A massive outage at Rogers has brought down internet and cellular service across Canada, and has also interrupted government services and payment systems for businesses and individuals.
The outage began some time early Friday morning, and as of 5 p.m. ET had not been fixed.
BREAKING: Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe gravely injured in apparent shooting during campaign speech, public broadcaster NHK reports. https://t.co/XvrZOT7yLM
The Amazon planned to build an airport cargo center, hire 1,000 workers and invest hundreds of millions of dollars over 20 years. The plans were squashed by labor and community groups. https://t.co/biTQpW7qDt
Wokeness seems to have lost purchase in everyday arguments, and market forces suggest it’s on the downswing. Yet wokeness can still retreat to its institutional strongholds, writes @OliverTraldi. https://t.co/QmcjkQ4Bc9
Even if you knew nothing about the FL law & couldn’t spare 90 seconds to Google it, idea that it mandated “registering your political beliefs” with the state was obvious nonsense.
Millions of us are planning to travel to be with loved ones over this holiday weekend. We’re engaging airlines every day about their responsibility to make sure operations are resilient & provide good customer services when problems happen. pic.twitter.com/mmaG460wBT