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‘Mind Captioning’ Brain Tech Translates What You’re Seeing (And Imagining) Into Words [ [link removed] ]
Good luck trying to translate the random things popping into and out of my noggin
Man, 22, fights for life after swallowing a whole burger without chewing it ‘for a joke’ [ [link removed] ]
Yeah, don’t do that. What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done just to be funny?
I’m trying something a little different, sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”
The Last Four Years Ch. 5: Chaos and Controversy as Cruise Ship Passengers Return to a Changed World [ [link removed] ]
In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together
The Last Four Years Ch. 4 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 3 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 2 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 1 [ [link removed] ]
Also Worth A Look…
Raising kids is too expensive, most Americans say in new survey [ [link removed] ] - Jimmy McMillan could launch a new campaign and he’d probably do pretty well
Musk Envisions Tesla Robots Performing Surgery [ [link removed] ] - I don’t I’d be all that anxious to sign up to be the first person to try that out
AI Teddy Bear Recalled After Giving Kids Sexual Advice [ [link removed] ] - Maybe the AI Teddy Bears can perform surgery on people instead
Batch of declassified U.S. government records on aviator Amelia Earhart released [ [link removed] ] - She’s still missing
Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable “Super-Earth” Just 18 Light-Years Away [ [link removed] ] - I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. That’s close in interstellar terms, but it would still take Voyager 2 about 194,000 years to go that far. So we won’t be visiting any time soon
Woman pleads guilty to lying about astronaut wife accessing bank account from Space Station [ [link removed] ] - That’s definitely gotta be a first for the United States space program
Cops: Distracted Driver Was Relieving Self [ [link removed] ] - When you gotta go, you gotta go
Yellowstone visitors stunned as man seemingly provokes wolf pack [ [link removed] ] - That’s… probably not a very good idea. I realize that a lot of people are probably having their first interaction with real wild animals, but why do people do so many stupid things at Yellowstone
Is that a parrot in your pocket? Man charged with smuggling heavily sedated parakeets in his pants at US-Mexico border [ [link removed] ] - If you can think of a better way to transport heavily sedated parakeets, I’d like to hear it
Dog Shoots Owner After He Left Shotgun on His Bed, Pennsylvania Police Say [ [link removed] ] - I hope this isn’t the beginning of some kind of doggo uprising. I’m not sure we’d be able to handle that
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