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But the deepest of the Finger Lakes hides secrets down below. Many have heard what can only be described as cannon shots coming out of nowhere. Known as “Seneca guns” or “Seneca drums,” the phenomenon was thought by the local Seneca Tribe to be the bellowing shouts of Manitou, the Great Spirit, when he was angry. Later, European settlers thought they were hearing ghosts of Seneca warriors still fighting for their land as the ground turned red with blood. It also inspired James Fenimore Cooper to write his short story The Lake Gun, in which he observes: “A sound resembling...

5:00-- need a thorough de magafication like the de nazification in Germany

Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT, is not overweight. Gay tech billionaires rarely are. Even so, as he explained in a recent interview, he was keen to try a GLP-1, one of those drugs that have revolutionised weight loss in the past five years. You can understand why he was curious. Ozempic or Mounjaro might appear to have nothing in common with artificial intelligence, but both phenomena have created a sensation that we’re entering an era of accelerating and uncontrollable change. Alas, he screwed it up. He had someone inject him with a megadose, puked all night...

Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz has ruled that companies in Delaware will be able to vote in elections just like people. This is especially wacky for Delaware. As per the US Census Bureau, the estimated human population of Delaware is just over 1 million. But there are over 2 million corporations headquartered in the state, which means there are far more companies in Delaware than there are people. According to Bloomberg Law, the ruling came up because the town of Fenwick Island was already letting corporations vote in its municipal elections (they own most of the property, after all)....

Ten sealed gold bars turned up in a Saxon meadow with no owner, no explanation, and a six-month countdown that ended with a surprising decision. A municipal worker in Bannewitz, a small Saxon town south of Dresden, was mowing grass near a rainwater retention basin last October when he noticed something glinting in the freshly cut swath. He initially gathered eight small, sealed packages. Town officials who came to investigate found two more. Laid out together, they amounted to ten gold bars, each weighing about 28 grams, scattered in what the municipality later described as a fan-like pattern. The total...

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Organs from genetically modified pigs are being used in trials in China and the US. A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically modified pig. The man’s organ function was sustained for almost five days with consent from his family, and there were no signs that the organs were being rejected in the first 24 hours, according to a study published in Med today1. Most procedures in which a pig organ is transplanted into a person — known as xenotransplantation — involve only a single organ. A...

It's Friday! Once again, silliness returns!

Findings by academic researchers suggest that hyperscalers' AI data centers contribute to local warming, but not everyone agrees. Findings of a new study conducted by a group of academics from around the globe have revealed that land surface temperature (LST) increases by 2°C (3.6°F) on average after the start of operations of an AI data center, an effect detectable up to an estimated 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away. The study, The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world, was conducted by a dozen experts from leading universities in the UK, Singapore, France,...

Police officers in New Mexico were recording as they spoke with a witness who allegedly had dinner with William Neil McCasland the night before he vanished without a trace on February 27. The bodycam footage, obtained by the Law&Crime Network, captured a phone call with an unidentified woman who said McCasland met with her and members of the US Space Force at a restaurant in Albuquerque around 6pm local time. 'I was shocked this morning when I saw the alert because what I noticed Thursday evening [February 26] is he wasn't his usual self. He was kind of spacey and...

Leftists are planning an Oregon “strip club” event to raise money for a group supporting convicted members of an Antifa terrorist cell in Texas. The Williamette Valley Abolition Project will host a May 31 “Sluts 4 Prairieland Defendants” event in Eugene for the sixteen people convicted over a July 2025 shooting at the federal government’s Prairieland Detention Facility for migrants, according to a Friday Instagram announcement. Seven defendants pleaded guilty to terrorism offenses for aiding the Antifa-aligned group that carried out the attack, while jurors convicted nine others of terrorism, attempted murder and other offenses in March. “Come to the...

Yes, you can build your very own nuclear fusion reactor in your house! But first, a few warnings: -This project includes lethal voltage levels. Make sure you know your high voltage safety or have a qualified electrical advisor. -Potentially hazardous levels of x-rays will be produced. Lead shielding of viewports is a must! -Deuterium, an explosive gas, will be used. Make sure to check for fuel leaks. -All the other inherent dangers of a home engineering project of this degree (a wide gamut of potential injuries, damage to the checking account, and the loss of general sanity) ========================================================================================== Here are...

T. rex’s famously tiny arms may have been the result of one terrifying evolutionary upgrade: an enormous skull built for crushing prey. Credit: Shutterstock A new study suggests T. rex and other giant predators evolved tiny arms because their massive skulls took over as the primary hunting weapon. As their bites became more powerful, their forelimbs may have gradually faded into evolutionary leftovers. Why T. Rex and Other Giant Predators Evolved Tiny Arms The famously tiny arms of Tyrannosaurus rex may have evolved because these giant predators increasingly relied on massive skulls and powerful jaws to attack prey, according to...

A “cleansing” ceremony involving the poisonous skin of an Amazonian frog is believed to be the cause of death for a wellness coach — mere months after he beat cancer. After recovering from Burkitt lymphoma, an aggressive type of blood cancer, Kristian Trend became immersed in holistic wellness. But his participation in a dangerous “detox” ritual involving the use of a “toad vaccine” had a fatal end.

A film buff found a lost 1968 British TV movie about vampires that sparked a legend that it was so terrifying, it was marked for destruction, a preservation group announced. “No Such Thing as a Vampire” — one of six episodes from the short-lived 1960s BBC anthology series “Late Night Horror” — has been missing for more than half a century after it scarred viewers and caused an uproar that prompted the network to not only kill the show. SNIP The newly rediscovered horror film will screen publicly for the first time since 1969 at Europe’s “Grindfest” horror festival this...

A Chinese AI startup says it has cracked the code on what your dog is trying to tell you, and the internet is having a field day with it. The company behind PettiChat claims its wearable device can translate pet vocalizations and behavior into human language with up to 95 percent accuracy. That number went viral after Polymarket posted the claim to X. PettiChat describes itself as the “world’s first real-time pet translator” and is currently raising money on Kickstarter. The device is a small wearable that attaches to a pet’s collar and pairs with a smartphone app. According to...

I'm BAAAAACK from my trip to Spain but I almost didn't make it because yesterday I came very close to leaving this world due to suffocation at the Madrid airport and Steve Hilton was the culprit. Let me explain the background to this before revealing why I am blaming Steve Hilton for almost causing the end of ol' PJ:Our two-week trip to Spain was absolutely amazing. I could explain why in detail here but will do so in a series of videos in the near future. But as to how I almost suffocated at the Madrid airport yesterday it is...

This Tiger has turned tail. The pot-puffing, rump-shaking homeless man called Tiger who turned Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village into his own private lair was cleared out by city authorities this week after The Post exposed his chaotic antics. The vagrant, who affixed a stuffed tiger’s tail to his behind, was evicted Saturday from his luxe encampment — which included a bed, couch, side table, and books.

Weissbrot is one of three supporters of Mangione who are referred to online as “Mangionistas." One of the fangirl “journalists” who has publicly supported Luigi Mangione is reportedly the daughter of a senior healthcare executive at CVS Health. Lena Weissbrot is the daughter of Reina Natero, a longtime pharmaceutical industry executive who oversees prescription drug insurance coverage rules at CVS Health. Natero has worked in the industry for more than two decades. Weissbrot is one of three supporters of Mangione who are referred to online as “Mangionistas.” They recently gained attention during Mangione’s pre-trial hearings after receiving New York City...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface. How did they end up this way? Did Perseverance knock them over? So many questions. What is it? Perseverance, or Percy for short, captured this bizarre image of rocks stacked on Mars on May 13(or Sol 1859, the rover's 1,859th day on the Red Planet). The image was captured with the rover's Mastcam-Z camera — a pair of two cameras located high up on the rover's mast, looking almost like a pair of eyes that the craft sees through. You may have...