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Chuck Schumer trolled by the White House after farting during Senate Floor speech The White House has chimed in on Chuck Schumer’s stinker on the Senate Floor on Tuesday, trolling him with a new meme. Schumer couldn’t hold it in while delivering a speech in the Senate earlier this week and appeared to acknowledge the toot with a pause and a chuckle mid-speech. “Now on Iran and the NDAA,” Schumer said as a loud fart was heard. “When all the Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran is that Vietnam was worse,” he tried to continue after…
German Federal Police are investigating after the arrest of an Afghan migrant who is said to have pulled a knife when asked for his ticket on a local train. Several children on their way to school were injured on an early-morning train amid an altercation between the guard checking tickets and a passenger. The man, reported to be a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, pulled a knife on the inspector when asked for a ticket, leading to a confrontation that spilled out from the stationary train and onto the station platform. A “large number” of panicked children and teenagers fled the scene,…
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, is advocating for the United States to create a new artificial intelligence oversight body with authority to evaluate the world’s most sophisticated AI models and potentially coordinate industry-wide slowdowns when risks escalate. Axios reports that the Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind Google’s ultra-woke Gemini AI system outlined his proposal in a personal manifesto published this week titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age.” In an exclusive interview with Axios, Hassabis emphasized the urgency of implementing a more systematic regulatory approach to artificial intelligence, one that would…
Actor Ike Barinholtz, star of Apple TV’s The Studio and the upcoming Cocomelon: The Movie, was the fill-in host for Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday and used his Live monologue to make gay jokes about the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and said Graham’s sister will suck President Donald Trump’s “tits even harder” the her late brother did while in office. “The big political story today is that we officially have a replacement for Lindsey Graham in the Senate,”Barinholtz said. “And it’s Lindsey Graham’s sister, which is very confusing because I always thought Lindsey Graham was Lindsey Graham’s sister. It’s not. It’s not. It’s a different person.…
Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he plans to hold a House vote next on a stopgap spending measure, one that would likely fund the government through the November midterm elections. The move is an opening bid in what could become a contentious partisan fight ahead of the end of the federal fiscal year on Sept. 30. Johnson has been privately trying to convince President Donald Trump to back the stopgap in a bid to provoke a confrontation with Democrats, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. Democrats spurred a record-long governmentwide shutdown last fall and an even…
Beijing and its president, Xi Jinping, are viewed more positively than Washington for the first time in nearly 20 years of tracking public opinion, Pew Research says China and President Xi Jinping are now viewed more favorably than the US and Donald Trump across most of the world, a new Pew Research Center survey spanning six continents has found.Pew says China enjoys a more positive image than the US in 25 of the 36 countries and territories surveyed, including American neighbors Canada and Mexico. The trend is particularly pronounced across the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.The US leads in just six…
Screenshot: Miles Tamboli/Youtube A Memphis restaurant is facing intense backlash after its owner openly admitted that he refused to serve four uniformed members of the Tennessee National Guard and says he has absolutely no regrets. According to local reports, four members of the Memphis Safe Task Force, who were simply trying to get a meal while in uniform on Saturday night, were denied service at Tamboli’s Pizza & Pasta in Midtown Memphis. Restaurant owner Miles Tamboli later confirmed the decision in a public statement. Tamboli defended his actions by arguing that the National Guard’s deployment has made residents fearful and…
The New York Times has published a piece about Bernadette Meehan, who this year became CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia. The article praised Meehan’s background in diplomacy, serving primarily during the Obama and Biden administrations, and claimed the site was “in peril” from right-wing critics and AI with Meehan arriving to protect it. Despite mentioning Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, the piece fails to mention his ban from the site, which the Times covered. Further omissions include the fact Meehan’s Wikipedia article was created by a paid editor, which had been noted in a previous interview with an in-house…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Actor Sam Neill died from pneumonia and will be honored at a private family memorial at his New Zealand farm later, his agent told The Associated Press on Thursday. Neill’s family had earlier announced the actor known for “Jurassic Park,” “The Piano” and other films died Monday in Sydney. His agent Philip Grenz said he was providing more information after speaking with Neill’s family and following news reports “which contain inaccuracies and outright falsehoods,” he said. “Sam passed away from pneumonia,” Grenz said. “Prior to becoming sick, Sam had valiantly fought and beaten lymphoma through a new…
OpenAI is reportedly working on a mobile smart speaker with AI capabilities as its first hardware device. Sam Altman’s screenless “companion” is designed to integrate with ChatGPT and provide personalized home AI services. TechCrunch reports that OpenAI’s debut hardware product is taking shape as a screen-free smart speaker with integrated artificial intelligence capabilities. The device, currently under development, is being positioned internally as a humanlike AI companion designed to reside in the home and sync with ChatGPT while offering various home AI services. The company has long expressed interest in launching hardware products, with previous speculation suggesting OpenAI might enter the…