Quickly - put this Spoon up your Nose

Your love is like  one of Joe Biden's German Shepherds

Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile

Meh - that's ok. We gladly let Faceyspaces have all our information anyway. You couldn't pry us away from Faceyspaces with nuclear weapons.

 I was talking to a pizza guy the other day. He said it was either plain or pepperoni for him. There is simply no way pineapple should ever appear on pizza. As any serious consumer of pizza would say, I told him he was correct. The only difference was that I don't have to be bothered with it - he has to make it. And while we were at it, I want to know who came up with bacon-ranch. Whose bizarre idea was it to put ranch dressing on pizza? Bacon is perfectly ok, and my choice of pizza, now that I can't find anything good enough to eat plain. He agreed on ranch too. We're Pizza Buddies<tm> now.

Meet the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes

• why many scientists like to lick rocks.
• the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times.
• jamais vu, a fleeting sensation of novelty or unfamiliarity concerning something we have seen or experienced before

These are but a small sample of tremendous effort given to studies.

The other day was the celebration of my mother's life. I hugged my aunt and all of the sudden it occurred to me that my aunt was my mother's sister (don't say it). They were twins.

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’

Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI

 FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training (wired.com) 32

Hmmm... maybe Meredith is right.....

Anti-viral drug backfires: COVID drug linked to viral mutations that spread

no no no no - it's perfectly safe. This is just misinformation!

Alien and UFO 'Bermuda Triangle' explored in Netflix doc

15 Years Ago, UFO Sightings Rocked a Small Texas Town. The Mystery Remains.

in Stephenville, Texas. The object, whatever it was, had to fly over the Bush ranch. That's a pretty serious no-fly zone. The fact that two F-16s were chasing it means something too.

Woman Drove With Hubby Atop Car Hood

This is:

• anniversary present
• foreplay
• manufacturer test of hood strength
• test of local police response
• idiot test: both passed with flying colors

Dish Dealt Space-Debris Fine for Misparking Satellite

The satellite was towed by the Philadelphia Parking Authority (Parking Wars). In order to get it back, Dish will have to pay $12,000 daily storage fee and have license, registration, insurance, and orbital parking permit.