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Facts matter
04/23/2024

Facts matter

Truth is so imperative
04/18/2024

Truth is so imperative

04/18/2024

My favorite part of this trial is that THERE ARE THREE MORE. This is just a warmup trial, it’s kind of like a
preseason trial.

Facts matter! Trump falls a sleep in court!
04/18/2024

Facts matter!

Trump falls a sleep in court!

04/16/2024
A 'male' humanoid robot was unveiled in Saudi Arabia. It then inappropriately touched a female reporter.Rock~away Prime ...
03/11/2024

A 'male' humanoid robot was unveiled in Saudi Arabia. It then inappropriately touched a female reporter.

Rock~away Prime RP / By Joshua Zitser / Mar 11, 2024

A Saudi robotics company's unveiling of a "male" humanoid robot didn't go as planned after it appeared to inappropriately touch a female reporter.

Saudi robotics company QSS debuted "Muhammad the Humanoid Robot" at DeepFest in Riyadh last week. The robot, dressed in traditional Saudi attire, spoke Arabic and English.

In a DeepFest post on X , Muhammad was described as "the first Saudi robot in the form of a man," as well as a national project to highlight Saudi Arabia's AI achievements.

During a presentation, a reporter for Al Arabiya, Rawya Kassem, stood in front of Muhammad as she spoke to the audience.

A viral video of the incident showed the robot appearing to extend a hand forward to touch her backside.

In the clip, Kassem can be seen responding with a stern glare, followed by a raised palm at Muhammad, before she continues to talk.

On X, social media users accused the robot of inappropriately touching the female reporter.

QSS, which did not immediately respond to BI's request for comment, told Metro that the robot was "fully autonomous" and was operating "independently without direct human control."

The robotics firm said staff had "proactively informed all attendees, including reporters, to maintain a safe distance from the robot during its demonstration."

According to Metro, QSS added that it had reviewed the footage and the circumstances surrounding the incident, finding that there were "no deviations from expected behavior" of Muhammad.

It said it would take "additional measures" to prevent anyone from "getting close to the robot within its areas of movement."

Last November, Business Insider reported that humanoid robots could be one of the next big things to come out of the AI boom.

According to MarketsandMarkets, the industry could be worth $13.8 billion by 2028.

But there's still a long way to go before these robots start coming for your job.

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Yep!
03/10/2024

Yep!

A Slurring Donald Trump Gives Unbelievable Excuse for Constant Mix-UpsRock~away Prime RP / Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / F...
02/15/2024

A Slurring Donald Trump Gives Unbelievable Excuse for Constant Mix-Ups

Rock~away Prime RP / Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / Feb 15, 2024

Donald Trump’s recent memory failures sure do look like some kind of cognitive decline. In the last few months, Trump has mixed up President Joe Biden with former President Barack Obama, slurred his words, bragged about his favorite type of violent death and that he calls corn “non-liquid gold,” insisted you need voter ID to buy bread, and confused his GOP competitor Nikki Haley for California Representative Nancy Pelosi, claiming that the former failed to act during January 6.

But during a campaign rally on Wednesday, Trump had a new excuse for all that, claiming all of his short circuits are actually just sarcastic jokes.

“But when I say that Obama is the president of our country bah bah bah, they go, ‘He doesn’t know that Spiden [sic], he doesn’t know.’ So it’s very hard to be sarcastic,” Trump said.

“When I interpose—cause I’m not a Nikki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.’ I interposed,” he added, seemingly forgetting the definition of the word “interpose,” which per Merriam-Webster means to put oneself between or intrude.

“And they make a big deal out of it. I said, ‘No, no, I think they both stink. They have something in common. They both stink.’ And remember this: When I make a statement like that about Nikki, that means she will never be running for vice president. She will never be running [unintelligible] vice president,” he added.

Since a special counsel investigation accused 81-year-old President Joe Biden of having a feeble mind, Trump—who is just four years younger—has desperately been trying to reframe the narrative, accusing Biden of being “too incompetent” but “not too old.”

Photos are part of facts
02/15/2024

Photos are part of facts

The Israeli military says it has rescued 2 hostages from captivity in the Gaza StripRock~away Prime RP, APRAFAH, Gaza St...
02/12/2024

The Israeli military says it has rescued 2 hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip

Rock~away Prime RP, AP

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli military said it rescued two hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip early Monday.

It identified the men as Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70. It said both men were kidnapped by Hamas militants from Kibbutz Nir Yizhak in the Oct. 7 cross-border attack that started the 4-month Israel-Hamas war.

The rescue took place in the southern border town of Rafah.

The army says both men are in good medical condition.

They are among the 136 hostages that Israel says remain in Hamas captivity.

Facts matter! Most sane president in years! We trust Pres. Biden
02/10/2024

Facts matter! Most sane president in years! We trust Pres. Biden

It would be a nightmare if Trump was re-elected
02/05/2024

It would be a nightmare if Trump was re-elected

Biden said the stakes were huge when he took on Trump in 2020 — "what made America America, I thought, was at risk" — and they are even larger now as a likely rematch looms.

01/30/2024

Brooklyn firm plans indoor wave pool for Far Rockaway, NY

Rock~away Prime / By
Ramsey Khalifeh / Jan 30, 2023

Chasing waves year-round may soon be a reality in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Local Office Landscape and Urban Design, a Brooklyn design firm, is in the midst of early negotiations with the city over an indoor wave pool in the neighborhood, which is just a stone’s throw away from the beachfront that is New York City’s only legal surfing destination.

The firm's founder Walter Meyer said the wave pool would cost around $30 million and bring free surfing and safety lessons to young residents of Far Rockaway, where the poverty rate is more than 20%. He said he’ll organize a fundraiser for the project, which would help teach swimming skills in a community where few can afford lessons.

“It's going to be about ocean safety because the majority of the drownings in Rockaway are not visitors, they're actually local residents and usually people of color,” said Meyer, who surfs and lives in the neighborhood. “We want to reduce drownings.”

Meyer is a professor at Stanford University. His firm has received an award from former President Barack Obama’s administration and advised states on climate resiliency plans.

Lou Harris, founder of the Black Surfing Association's east coast chapter, said he and Meyer are in talks with the city over a specific property, but declined to name the site due to ongoing negotiations.

“It's in the hood,” said Harris, who said the planned location was the size of a football field.

“Where it's at, it's not frequented by a lot of surfers and that's why we want to put a lot of people in that area to see how desirable it is,” Harris said.

If the deal fails, Meyer says he’s eyeing a privately owned plot of land. The project's details come less than a month after Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul launched an initiative to address equity gaps in swimming access.

“We had a mission: Protect public safety, revitalize the economy, and make this city more livable for hardworking New Yorkers. Every day, we are delivering on this vision for New Yorkers, including by investing in our children’s safety with new swimming infrastructure,” Adams said in a statement earlier this month.

Harris envisioned a wave pool facility with cabanas, locker rooms for surfboard storage, and discounted swimming and ocean safety lessons for locals.

“Let's say it's 6-foot, 8-foot [waves in the ocean] and it's not the ideal waves for your beginners or your novices. You can go right to the wave pool and you can work on your craft," he said. "When it's a thunderstorm, when it's raining, when it's snowing, cause it's going to be a year-round thing, you can go to the wave pool.”

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Martin Luther King Jr. Born January 15, 1929 (95 years ago) was an American minister and activist who became the most vi...
01/15/2024

Martin Luther King Jr.

Born January 15, 1929 (95 years ago) was an American minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination on April 4th, 1968.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, MLK is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.

King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. The following year, he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War. He alienated many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963 on. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit su***de.
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder, effectively a life sentence as Ray was 41 at the time of conviction, Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison.
King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington was rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.

Real facts matter
01/07/2024

Real facts matter

Empire State Building, NYCChristmas colors
12/29/2023

Empire State Building,
NYC
Christmas colors

12/28/2023

Christmas at Rockefeller Plaza on NYC

Happy Festivus
12/24/2023

Happy Festivus

NYC city of lights
12/24/2023

NYC city of lights

12/20/2023

The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot under the Constitution's insurrection clause.

What did Trump do with the Russian Intel?
12/16/2023

What did Trump do with the Russian Intel?

The binder reportedly included extremely sensitive details on human sources, among other information.

Beautiful
12/03/2023

Beautiful

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