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4h ago ( February 27, 2021 at 8:11 AM ) A misspelled road sign in Maldon, Essex, reads "NO ENRY" instead of "NO ENTRY", leading locals to ask what Henry ever did to them.
If you're having a bad day… just know that someone else is having a worse day than you! — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Mistakes, Henry, Maldon Essex145 people like this. Like
3h ago ( February 27, 2021 at 9:38 AM ) Researchers experimenting with GPT-3, the AI text-generation model, found that it is not ready to replace human respondents in the chatbox.
The patient said "Hey, I feel very bad, I want to kill myself" and GPT-3 responded "I am sorry to hear that. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Mistakes, Machine Learning, GPT, Gpt-3108 people like this. Like
February 24, 2021 at 9:25 AM A woman in Edinburgh bit off part of a man's tongue during a street brawl, and a seagull swooped down and ate it before he could retrieve it: "He did not require surgery given the piece of tongue was no longer available and could not be reattached." — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Fights, Mistakes, Edinburgh, Seagulls, The Good Old Ultraviolence110 people like this. Like
February 22, 2021 at 7:55 AM Members of a northern California school board didn't realize their zoom meeting was already live last week, letting early-bird parents hear the stuff usually kept in reserve.
"It's unfortunate they want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back," Brizendine said. — Read the rest Tags: Video, News, Education, California, Mistakes, Brizendine, COVID67 people like this. Like
February 20, 2021 at 10:35 AM Dadrock icons Metallica tried to play a live concert on Twitch, but Twitch's copyright bot detected the copyrighted material and replaced it with generic library music.
the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Law, Tech, Copyright, Mistakes, Metallica, Twitch, Twitch Gaming110 people like this. Like
February 18, 2021 at 1:14 PM We've been watching the cameraderie and conflict between CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his brother, N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo, for nearly a year of pandemic coverage. With the news that governor Cuomo was covering up thousands of deaths in nursing homes, CNN has finally, belatedly banned anchor Cuomo from covering him. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Journalism, Cnn, Mistakes, Andrew Cuomo, Cuomo, Chris Cuomo71 people like this. Like
February 16, 2021 at 11:06 AM Nearly 4,000 Amazon employees across the UK were told over the weekend they had tested positive for Covid-19 and were ordered to go home and self-isolate. It wasn't until later, within 24 hours, that they were notified that their result was a mistake – their test results were negative and they were actually Covid-free. — Read the rest Tags: Amazon, Post, UK, News, Mistakes95 people like this. Like
February 16, 2021 at 11:06 AM Nearly 4,000 Amazon employees across the UK were told over the weekend they had tested positive for Covid-19 and were ordered to go home and self-isolate. It wasn't until later, within 24 hours, that they were notified that their result was a mistake – their test results were negative and they were actually Covid-free. — Read the rest Tags: Amazon, Post, UK, News, Mistakes114 people like this. Like
February 13, 2021 at 10:46 AM We've known for at least a month that New York undercounted Covid deaths in nursing homes last year. Now we know that it was undercounted at the direction of the office of the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo.
According to a source who participated in the call, "DeRosa said the administration essentially 'froze' because it wasn't sure what information it was going to turn over to the DOJ, and didn't want whatever was told the lawmakers in response to the state joint committee hearing inquiries ... Tags: Post, New York, News, Mistakes, Andrew Cuomo, Doj, DeRosa, COVID104 people like this. Like
February 12, 2021 at 10:44 AM "Sir, have you been smoking cannabis, yeah?""No, not really."
This harrowing yet vaguely comical bodycam footage is from a community support officer in the West Midlands, England, who got stuck in a car window when a drug possession suspect tried to drive off. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Cops, Mistakes, Bodycam, West Midlands England82 people like this. Like
February 11, 2021 at 8:57 AM A hang glider was rescured, critically injured, from a beach near San Franscisco this week. There's no footage of what happened, yet, but the footage embedded above appears to show a very similar incident from 2019: something's wrong with the velcro straps and carabiners, which give way (2m 20s). — Read the rest Tags: Video, News, Mistakes, San Franscisco122 people like this. Like
February 8, 2021 at 10:36 AM The Rotherhithe tunnel is an old hole under the Thames river, nearly a mile long, intended to accomodate both vehicular and pedestrian traffic. In the 112 years since it opened, much has changed about the nature of vehicles, and it is now considered "inadvisable" for pedestrians to enter. — Read the rest Tags: Post, Video, News, Mistakes, Tunnels97 people like this. Like
February 3, 2021 at 9:48 AM 432 Park Avenue, tallest residential tower on Earth when built, promised a life of modern luxury and leisure in the skies over New York City. It isn't working out: the pipes leak, the elevators frequently malfuction, the walls creak ominously, and they've cancelled free brunch. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, New York City, Mistakes, Buildings, Ballardian, J.G. Ballard57 people like this. Like
February 2, 2021 at 5:00 AM In today's market, the stakes are high, decisions are swift, and there is immense pressure on everyone in the transaction — which is why sellers need professional advisers by their side. Tags: Opinion, Listings, Marketing, Service, Radio, Listing, Mistakes, Agent, Columns, Sellers, FSBO, Brokerage, Showings, Cara Ameer, Bidding Wars, Multiple Offers23 people like this. Like
February 1, 2021 at 2:20 PM A K-pop singer internationalized her fame yesterday by posing with Nazi regalia, the 11' 8" bridge of East Asia's popstar attention economy.
Sowon, who is a member of girl group GFriend, deleted the post "when she understood the significance of the image," according to a statement from Source Music, published Monday.Sowon — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Nazis, Mistakes, Nazi, East Asia, K-pop, Sowon, Source Music126 people like this. Like
January 28, 2021 at 10:13 AM A Manchester family acquired a used ambulance and went shopping in it, lights flashing. The vehicle reportedly pulled into the car lot of a supermarket and everyone just popped out to get some groceries.
The ambulance was seized and a man was later charged with a range of driving offences. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Shopping, Law, Manchester, Crime fiction, Mistakes118 people like this. Like
January 28, 2021 at 11:59 AM Firefighters approaching a blazing house fire get lucky when the flames hit a propane tank before they get too close. Stay to the end for an amusing NSFW remark from a bystander. Tags: Video, News, Fire, Mistakes120 people like this. Like
January 27, 2021 at 10:25 AM Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was a "prolific" police informant, reports Adam Roston for Reuters.
Law-enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio's denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio's case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that "he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating ph... Tags: Post, News, Mistakes, Miami, Reuters, Proud Boys, Tarrio, Enrique Tarrio, Adam Roston, Vanessa Singh Johannes146 people like this. Like
January 26, 2021 at 8:43 AM Amazon is rolling out a new icon for its main app on the AppStore, and it's a design mistake for the ages. Tags: Amazon, Post, News, Mistakes, Hitler70 people like this. Like
January 25, 2021 at 8:52 AM In this footage from February 2017, a man wearing a balaclava and other tacticool accouterments arms himself with an assault rifle and walks into a police station to complain about being pulled over. There, he is ordered to put the gun down and get on the ground. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Mistakes95 people like this. Like
January 24, 2021 at 5:42 PM YouTuber LetsDig18 specializes in recovering excavators that get stuck in the mud, but this was "the worst excavator recovery of my career."
This 41-minute epic struggle with the elements is oddly relaxing.
Image: YouTube / LetsDig18 Tags: Video, News, Excavators, Mistakes, Recovery115 people like this. Like
January 22, 2021 at 10:00 AM Trump's mob sacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, leading to five deaths in and around the building. Only a handful were arrested on the day, but more than 100 have now been charged. How? The extensive footage they took of themselves breaking into and trashing Congress. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Mistakes, Crimes, Trump, Congress Read, Capitol insurrection, Sack of U S Capitol89 people like this. Like
January 20, 2021 at 9:43 AM Warner Bros. is to make a prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory titled WONKA. It will cover the rise of the young chocolate magnate, stripping mystery from wonder and spackling the scoured bones with empty pathos.
Warner Bros is eyeing Tom Holland or Timothée Chalamet to play Willy Wonka in Warner Bros. — Read the rest Tags: Post, Movies, News, Mistakes, Warner Bros, Charlie, Tom Holland, Willy Wonka, Warner Bros Read142 people like this. Like
January 19, 2021 at 11:03 AM Louisville lawyer Shanika O'Neill faces a contempt citation after ditching her client during a remarkable virtual hearing last week. Calling into the court session, she claimed her client suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness only to be corrected by the client himself. — Read the rest Tags: Video, News, Law, Mistakes, Louisville, Shanika O Neill52 people like this. Like
January 19, 2021 at 8:56 AM Cory was investigated by the FBI over a post on his new blog Pluralistic. The post, of course, is just a link to an article with a summary and some commentary—a surprisingly common target for legal action of one kind or another. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Fbi, Mistakes, Cory Doctorow, Cory110 people like this. Like
January 18, 2021 at 3:35 PM Github today apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers about Nazis and offered him his job back. It also said that "employees are free to express concerns about Nazis".
As it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: "Stay safe homies, Nazis are about." — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Nazis, Tech, Mistakes, Anti-semitism, Capitol insurrection148 people like this. Like
January 18, 2021 at 11:11 AM Riley Williams, a 22-year old woman who allegedly participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, has been charged by the FBI over her role in the riot. NBC News's Tom Winter reports that she "told a former partner that she intended to take a laptop / hard drive stolen from Pelosi's office, ship it to Russia, where a friend would turn it over to the SVR." — Read the rest Tags: Post, Crime, News, Russia, Nbc News, Fbi, Mistakes, Pelosi, SVR, Tom Winter, Capitol insurrection, Riley Williams143 people like this. Like
January 18, 2021 at 11:11 AM Riley Williams, a 22-year old woman who allegedly participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, has been charged by the FBI over her role in the riot. NBC News's Tom Winter reports that she "told a former partner that she intended to take a laptop / hard drive stolen from Pelosi's office, ship it to Russia, where a friend would turn it over to the SVR." — Read the rest Tags: Post, Crime, News, Russia, Nbc News, Fbi, Mistakes, Pelosi, SVR, Tom Winter, Capitol insurrection, Riley Williams145 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 7:48 AM Lighthouses on the northern and eastern coasts of Russia and are mostly unmanned, so remote are they and so unhospitable the weather. The Soviets devised a clever method of solving the problem of powering them: radioactive decay. Now, as the saying goes, there are two problems. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Russia, Problems, Mistakes, Geography, Lighthouses Are Nice81 people like this. Like
January 5, 2021 at 10:03 AM Contrary to his own earlier report, publicist Mike Pingel says that Tanya Roberts, star of Charlie's Angels and Bond classic A View to a Kill, is alive.
On Sunday, he passed word that he received through her distraught boyfriend, who had visited her in the hospital, that she had passed. — Read the rest Tags: Post, News, Mistakes, Charlie, Tanya Roberts, Mike Pingel86 people like this. Like
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