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My own Mother interrupted my vows. Sometimes I still hear her shouting "Louder!" as I'm drifting off to sleep. In hindsight, I should have throttled her like Bart Simpson right then and there, but I ignored her instead. I wonder what gives her the audacity sometimes. Ligerjam , Maria Orlova / pexels (not the actual photo) Report Bored Panda was curious to get the author's opinion on why her thread reached so many people around the world. “First of all, it’s fun to share stories about people who…

At times, as much as one wishes to hold a big gathering, there may be certain limitations on time, space, or resources, forcing them to either minimize the number of guests in a certain way or find an alternative solution.So happened to this Redditor who thought she could only invite her friends without their partners for dinner due to her financial situation, yet got called a jerk for it with no offer to share the cost.More info: RedditA woman invited her friends over for dinner, but not their partners, due to her…

There are many Christmas stories, and while the holiday itself is largely about how warm magic and kindness overcome darkness, some holiday stories, unfortunately, do not seem entirely joyful. More precisely, the general happy mood is sometimes overshadowed by some ‘fly in the ointment.’For example, the user u/Kfcdeliveryguy12234, the author of this story in the AskUK community on Reddit, recently had a great time at a friend’s Christmas party, but after it all ended, they were faced with the need to chip in on food and…

People love to hang out around water, especially on hot summer days. And, for those who aren't near the ocean, Australia is blessed with beautiful inland waterways. In New South Wales, the government wants to increase access to these "blue" natural environments, especially for people living far from the coast. One of these swimming sites is Penrith Beach, which has just opened to the public for the summer. This new site in the heart…

We asked Kraft what makes him passionate about doing creative work, and what he would want other people to take away from his illustrations. "The passion comes from being able to create and represent something that I have previously imagined," he replied. "You can now do this with AI, but for me, ideas often arise during the drawing process. In contrast to AI, where the results are often random products, when I create things myself I can determine and decide everything. This creates this great flow state for me that I…

Flowering Karoo Desert in spring, near Willowmore, Eastern Cape, Southafrica. Credit: Winfried Bruenken (Amrum)/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Lining the Cape of South Africa and its southern coast are long chains of caves that nearly 200,000 years ago were surrounded by a lush landscape and plentiful food. During a glacial phase that…

Actor Tom Holland, who arrived on India last week with girlfriend-actor Zendaya, has thanked the Ambani family. Taking to Instagram on Sunday, Tom shared his pictures at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai on the second day of the event. (Also Read | Zendaya rocks a saree, Tom Holland looks handsome in a suit at NMACC event) Tom Holland with Mukesh Ambani at NMACC. In the first photo, Tom posed for the paparazzi at the event. The actor looked away from the camera as he smiled in the next picture.…

Back when Google announced its experimental conversational AI service called Bard in February, we were excited to see the first real ChatGPT rival in action. Over a month later, Google still hasn’t kicked off public testing for the chatbot, but that might change soon. In recent days, Google began sending early access invites to select members of the Pixel Superfan community to test Bard and share feedback to improve the chatbot before it launches. Google is inching closer to launching Bard “Meet Bard, an…

Marlon Wayans jokingly wondered why Jay-Z skipped out on inviting him to the Roc Nation brunch.Wayans chopped it up on the Big Boy Neighborhood radio show recently, and joked about not being included on Jay-Z’s brunch invite list, saying, “I got a bone to pick to with Jay-Z. “Oh my God bro, I got the same bone,” Big Boy responded.“I get in Diddy party all the time. Diddy hit me, ‘Aye, like dat, come through, Ciroc, Deleon, take dat, take dat shot, come have a good time.’ Always,” Wayans added. “Jay-Z… crickets, crickets.”…

Illustration: DiscordDiscord isn’t new to artificial intelligence, but it’s certainly making a statement about its commitment to it in its latest blog post. The company has declared its chat app the “place for AI with friends.” Indeed, if you want to bring a seemingly-sentient AI chatbot into a conversation with your favorite online pals, you can—it’s part of a public experiment launching next week.Discord laid out its vision for the future of its AI in its chat app, which already offers AI-infused moderation and the…