The headlines and some comments on them.

Jeff Bezos says people should be excited about AI instead of afraid of it, comparing the technology to trading in a shovel for a bulldozer.

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  realmarkwilliams

  Coming from the man who replaced warehouse workers with robots, this feels less like advice and more like a warning.

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A new study suggests T. rex evolved tiny arms because its skull grew so massive that its jaws took over as the main weapon, leaving the arms nearly useless.

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  lucas_70

  Imagine being the apex predator of the planet and still needing a stepstool to change a lightbulb.

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Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves, bears, and rare wild horses have reclaimed the radioactive exclusion zone

Taylor Swift is reportedly drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Taylor's 1950 wedding dress.

Chelsea Handler says dating apps and endless choices have made men unwilling to commit

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  mark_henderson

  I'm convinced dating apps were invented by someone who wanted to ensure that every cat has a loving and caring home.

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ChatGPT is rolling out a feature that lets Pro users link their bank accounts and ask questions about their spending and financial goals.

Meta is planning to turn its employees' clicks and keystrokes into training data for its AI.

Robot dogs are now patrolling precious crops as the global food crisis gets worse

A thousand animal rights activists tried to storm a beagle breeding facility in Wisconsin

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  radrogue847

  Yeah, how brave. It's easy to storm a beagle facility. Let's see them try that with a chihuahua facility.

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Kendrick Perkins thinks LeBron James already knows when he's retiring and is just keeping everyone in suspense about it

The Pentagon has released footage of a US Air Force F-16 shooting down an unidentified object over Lake Huron.

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  azurewizard

  Somewhere a Canadian goose is being remembered as a hero.

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Patients are now showing plastic surgeons AI-generated cartoon versions of themselves and asking to look exactly like that

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  nebula502

  And here I was thinking duck lips and giant eyelashes looked ridiculous, we are about to see full-on Daisy Ducks.

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A new book about AI and the future of truth turned out to contain multiple fake or misattributed quotes generated by AI tools

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  tide505

  Half the non-fiction section is about to get quietly moved to fiction thanks to AI hallucinations.

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An influencer ditched dating apps and made a Google Form for prospective men, and over 260 men applied.

A Florida woman who posed as a nurse and treated 4400 patients was sentenced to community service

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  jamieharris51

  I hope they didn't assign her to a hospital for community service, because if that's the case we're right back where we started.

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Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

Fox News says poor lighting caused the viral Maskgate illusion on a retired admiral's neck that got millions of views online

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  kevin_74

  These things spread fast because for content creators, looking for the next viral rabbit hole is the modern-day version of gold mining.

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Some men are paying up to $1,200 an hour for dating coaches to help them get over breakups

A pizza shop in Philadelphia is now selling $55 slices topped with caviar, served on a gold plate with a keepsake spoon

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  realsamwood

  Somewhere Gordon Ramsay just woke up in a cold sweat and slapped a stranger.

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Scientists are questioning whether a $600,000 lab-grown handbag marketed as T-rex leather is actually made from dinosaur tissue

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  steve_89

  A bag stitched from chicken feathers would have more dinosaur DNA than this thing.

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The average family of four is spending $741 more a year on groceries than in 2020, partly because packages are quietly shrinking

A burglar tried to torch a Michigan cannabis dispensary, but caught fire himself and ran away

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  loop067

  He got away... HIGH and dry.

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A divorce lawyer says couples should talk about prenups as early as the third date to see how a partner thinks about money and commitment.

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  sam_white

  She said let's take things slow, so I waited until dessert to hand her the forty page document.

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A new study finds that fluoride in drinking water has no negative effect on IQ or cognitive function.

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  rustkit

  So now I have to accept that I naturally have a low IQ without any help from the water supply? 😢

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A couple saved $275 a month by texting their landlord to ask for lower rent, and experts say now is a great time to try

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  radfox595

  My landlord texted back a photo of his boat named The Rent Money and asked if I had any other questions.

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