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While some things people do are genuinely impressive, many others are not; but that doesn’t stop the latter group from bragging nevertheless. Be it the minuscule number of hours they slept or the number of social media followers they have, such “achievements” might not be the flexes they think they are.These and many other examples were shared by members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community, after the user ‘LeatherFruitPF’ started a discussion about it. They asked the netizens about things that aren’t the flexes people believe…

Time revealed its latest cover, entitled “The End of Humanity: How Real is the Risk?” with the twist being that the word “humanity” has a glowing “a” and “i,” referencing the uptick in artificial intelligence danger talk that folks such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have made household topics of discussion over the past few months. The cover has not been received kindly following its debut on Twitter. “Tech doomers at it again,” one user replied. The term “doomer” is modern internet slang used to describe…

Putting money on uncertain events amounts to wagering and the government's new rules bar online real money games that declare winners based on prediction of the unknown outcome, according to Additional Solicitor General N Venkataraman.Amid attempts by certain industry players to masquerade wagering as a game of skills in the wake of the new rules issued under the Information Technology (IT) Act, the government's senior law officer said that some states are making a mistake in trying to distinguish between a game of skill…

In a surprise to absolutely no one, it appears that Bally Sports North has lost more than half of its subscribers, in a ten-year span. According to a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence, Bally Sports North had 2.9 million subscribers in 2013, and now that’s down to just 1.2 million subscribers.Now, let’s put this in perspective, this is just one of the many RSNs that Bally Sports operates. And this decline likely started when Fox still owned it. Let’s also remember that Bally Sports North only airs three…

The dust has yet to settle in the largest bank run in U.S. history, a collapse that in just 48 hours dismantled the tech startup-focused Silicon Valley Bank. But already a debate is raging in the venture capital community and investors are picking sides. On Friday, a group of more than two dozen venture capital firms issued a joint statement that supports Silicon Valley Bank. The statement was notably after — and not before — Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation regulators closed the bank and took control. And the…

Like a river full of salmon, my love runs deep Within my all-encompassing obsession with farming/community simulators, there is yet another obsession, like the layers to an onion: I cannot stop playing the fishing mini-games. My current Stardew Valley save is set on the fishing-friendly river farm, most of my Dreamlight Valley villagers give me a fishing bonus, and the aquarium was the first part of the museum that I completed in Animal Crossing: New Horizons by a country mile. In spite of my fascination with these mini…

Kanye West used his platform to share that he hasn’t “read any book,” and one of the world’s most beloved and distinguished champions of literacy had thoughts.LeVar Burton shared a HuffPost tweet which noted the father of four and head of a purportedly questionable new school is “repulsed by literature, comparing books to a vegetable often despised by children.”The 65-year-old veteran of Reading Rainbow, Roots, and Star Trek: The Next Generation deployed the eyes emoji and wrote, “Hmmm…I’m going have to take Mr. West at…

By Kathryn H. Jacobsen, University of Richmond August 7, 2022The monkeypox virus, which causes a rash and other symptoms, can be transmitted through close contact between people.Countries that are United Nations members are obligated to report cases of unusual diseases that have the potential to become global health threats. In May 2022, more than a dozen nations in Europe, the Americas, and other regions of the world that had never before had cases of monkeypox began to report cases occurring within their…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) today declared the global spread of monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), even though a special advisory committee has declined, again, to recommend the action. This is the first time since the PHEIC system was created in 2005 that the agency has made such a declaration without the panel’s endorsement.   “This is big, unprecedented decision-making by the director general,” says Clare Wenham, a global health expert…