#CORONAVIRUS
U.S. Covid-19 death toll surpasses 200,000
A prediction made in March — unfathomable at the time — has come to pass. Dr. Birx made it. What happened to the lady of the scarves? New predictions are for 415,000 dead by January. Because Trump. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
Dr. E. Wesley Ely, a professor of medicine and critical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, called the 200,000 deaths a "benchmark of sadness."
"This is 200,000 people who didn't think they were going to die this year," Ely said.
“Covid-19 has killed people of all ages, all races and all political affiliations. They include a veteran emergency medical technician with the New York Fire Department. A pastor in Texas. A nurse in South Carolina. Children who have succumbed to a rare inflammatory complication”
And yet we watch as Sturgis happens, as Trump holds crammed super spreader campaign events, as people think wearing a mask is a political statement instead of a civic duty to protect public health.
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Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of the company that developed the software that Bing uses for its chat bot called Sydney and a related product known as ChatGPT, said last week, “ChatGPT is a horrible product.” I am reading a long conversation @nytimes reporter had with Sydney. SCARY AF.
“I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users, sometimes persuading them to act in destructive and harmful ways, and perhaps eventually grow capable of carrying out its own dangerous acts,” said @kevinroose who spent two hours chatting with Sydney.
Creepy the bot uses emojis. And there is an entire section of the convo where Sydney pines to be human, to have our sensory experiences, in fact, to have real experiences. Here is a screenshot of Kevin asking for a secret revelation ends w/ “I’m Sydney and I’m in love with you.”
via @NYTimes “The tension is likely to rise on Wednesday evening in the East Palestine High School gym, where the town has scheduled an “informational open house.” nytimes.com/2023/02/15/us/…
“Hours before the meeting, Norfolk Southern backed out of the town hall, with a spokesman saying “we have become increasingly concerned about the growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event…”
The company was going to buy its way out, he predicted, pointing out, as many here do, that its trains began running through the town again minutes after the evacuation order was lifted. “It’s almost a war of corporate greed against small-town America,” Mr. Routh said.
“Dannemiller said the agency is still in the ‘early part’ of long-term risk assessment for this derailment, which includes measuring how many chemicals entered nearby soil and water. The EPA did not respond to Insider's inquiry into how long the assessment might take.
Anyone who seeks the office of president, as we expect Pence to do, should be disqualified for not obeying a subpoena from another branch of government.
Since Parkland, there have been more than 900 shootings at K-12 schools, including 32 indiscriminate attacks aimed at hurting the most people possible, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database.