Saturday 6/8/24
Sunday 6/9/24
Celebrate:
Celebrate:
Saturday
Best Friends Day
Betty Picnic Day
International Young Eagles Day
Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
Name Your Poison Day
National Rosé Day
Thomas Paine Day
Upsy Daisy Day
World Brain Tumor Day
World Gin Day
World Oceans Day
Worldwide Knit in Public Day
Sunday
Donald Duck Day (don't wear pants)
International Dark 'n Stormy Day (the drink)
National Children's Day
National Earl Day
National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day
Race Unity Day
Writers' Rights Day
Write to Your Father Day
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The third jewel in the Triple Crown is Saturday. The Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs NY, (the Belmont track is under renovation.)
(will we see this again?)
No chance for a triple crown winner, but we do get to see the winners of The Kentucky Derby, and the Preakness go head to head.
Mystik Dan (5-1) and Seize The Grey (8-1) will race,
Resilience (10-1)
The Wine Steward (15-1)
Antiquarian (12-1)
Dornoch (15-1)
Protective (20-1)
Honor Marie (12-1)
Sierra Leone (9-5) (was second in the KD)
Mindframe (7-2)
It's the 156th running and post time is 6:41pm.
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Unusual High school mascots
Yuma Criminals (AZ)
Frankfort Hot Dogs (IN)
Hickman Kewpies (MO)
Cobden Appleknockers (IL)
Orofino Maniacs (ID)
Ozark Hillbillies (AR)
New Braunfels Unicorns (TX)
Brewer Witches (ME)
Hoopeston Cornjerkers (IL)
Freeport Pretzels (IL)
Robstown Cottonpickers (TX)
Centralia Orphans (IL)
Teutopolis Wooden Shoes (IL)
Watersmeet Nimrods (MI)
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In A.I. news: A former OpenAI employee said he thinks there's a 70% chance A.I. will destroy us all. So, that's fun. and now....
Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online.
A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by roughly the turn of the decade -- sometime between 2026 and 2032.
Comparing it to a “literal gold rush” that depletes finite natural resources, Tamay Besiroglu, an author of the study, said the AI field might face challenges in maintaining its current pace of progress once it drains the reserves of human-generated writing.
In the longer term, there won’t be enough new blogs, news articles and social media commentary to sustain the current trajectory of AI development, putting pressure on companies to tap into sensitive data now considered private — such as emails or text messages — or relying on less-reliable “synthetic data” spit out by the chatbots themselves.
This might be time to take advice from an old Steve Martin routine!
Talk wrong to your kids whenever you're around them, so on their first day in school he raises his hand and says, "May I mambo dog face to the banana patch"
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"The Wall Street Journal" just did a big story on "telephonophobia," the fear of making or receiving phone calls. It's much more common in people under 30 who've never known a world without texting.
Older workers tend to find phone calls more relaxing because no one's looking at you. But younger employees have the opposite take.
One 26-year-old they talked to said she has to listen to music to pump herself up before she gets on the phone because not seeing people gives her anxiety.
Quote, "If I can't see their facial expressions, I'm fearful that I might say the wrong thing, or they'll take something the wrong way and I won't be able to tell."
Some companies are even hiring consultants now to teach young people how to do work calls. A woman named Mary Jane Copps calls herself "The Phone Lady" and charges $3,000 a day, or $200 an hour for one-on-ones.
She says some of the questions she gets surprise her. Like, "How do I END a phone call?" Quote, "Things that to many of us seem obvious are no longer obvious."
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There's a new upscale Caribbean restaurant in Missouri called Bliss, and it has an interesting policy: They've set an age restriction, which requires male guests to be at least 35, and women to be 30, during prime hours.
They do card at the door, and people in their 20s WILL be kept out.
The owner admits they've been "getting a little backlash," but that's cool . . . they're sticking with it. And he says they ARE strict because young people have been trying to sneak by, and post about it on social media.
The manager says, "[Bliss] is just something for older people . . . have a happy hour, come get some good food, and not have to worry about some of the young folks who bring some of that drama." And the owner adds, "[We want] to ensure a mature, sophisticated, and safe dining environment for everyone."
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We've already had a Hunger Games prequel, The Balled of Songbirds & Snakes, and now there's a new "Hunger Games" novel on the way. It's called "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" and it won't be out until March of 2025, and the movie will be out in November 2026.
The story takes place during the Second Quarter Quell,24 years before Katniss and the events of the first "Hunger Games" book.
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Sunglasses help you drive during the day. But a team in Australia is working on a thin plastic film that could be used to make special glasses for driving at night. They'd be like night-vision goggles, but a lot less bulky.
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The world's first human trial of a drug that can regenerate teeth will begin in a few months, less than a year on from news of its success in animals. This paves the way for the medicine to be commercially available as early as 2030.
--briefing
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