A man has been casually keeping a Lamborghini Miura that he bought for $10K in his living room for 40 years; it’s now worth more than his house. The man literally rebuilt a room around his Lamborghini Miura, not abandoning it in the traditional sense, but driving it into his house, rebuilding the wall behind it, and making it more …
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The racing world is praying Sunday after veteran driver Robbie Brewer died following a crash at Bowman Gray Stadium in North Carolina on Saturday night. He was 53. Brewer reportedly had a heart attack inside of his car during a restart in his Sportsman division race on lap 16. His car then accelerated into the turn 4 wall head-on. “The …
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A man trying to cut out salt from his diet learned the hard way that ChatGPT isn’t to be trusted with medical advice after the OpenAI chatbot’s toxic suggestions landed him in the hospital. As described in a new paper published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, a 60-year-old man ended up coming down with an all-but-defunct condition known …
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A stroke took a Brooksville man to the edge of death. He was 33. Tampa Bay Times Source link
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As the AI spending bubble swells, so too are the numbers of people being drawn into delusional spirals by overly-confident chatbots. Joining their ranks is Allan Brooks, a father and business owner from Toronto. Over 21 days, ChatGPT led Brooks down a dark rabbit hole, convincing him he had discovered a new “mathematical framework” with impossible powers — and that …
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A case study out this month offers a cautionary tale ripe for our modern times. Doctors detail how a man experienced poison-caused psychosis after he followed AI-guided dietary advice. Doctors at the University of Washington documented the real-life Black Mirror episode in the Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases. The man reportedly developed poisoning from the bromide he had ingested …
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Dear Quentin, Here is a variation on the power-washing scam you recently wrote about: A guy walked up to my car window to point out a hole in the bumper and, like the power-washer in your letter, he went on and on about how he could fix it, inferring that he could resolve it “right then, right there.” It was …
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A 71-year-old man who shot and killed two neighbors then set his house on fire in a small Iowa city has died of burn injuries, authorities said. Dennis Burnell had extensive burns when he exited his home on Wednesday evening, and died Friday at the Kansas University Medical Center Burn Unit, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said in a news release. …
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A passenger on a recent American Airlines flight shared a video of a confrontation with a flight attendant about using a vape onboard. The passenger, who goes by Kobe Peter “Twoey King” Nguyen on social media, posted an Instagram video on Aug. 4 capturing part of the incident. The clip included a confrontation between Nguyen and two unidentified flight attendants, …
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GLENWOOD, Iowa — A 71-year-old man who shot and killed two neighbors then set his house on fire in a small Iowa city has died of burn injuries, authorities said. Dennis Burnell had extensive burns when he exited his home on Wednesday evening, and died Friday at the Kansas University Medical Center Burn Unit, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation …
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