Study: Heavy AI Chatbot Use Linked to Loneliness, Depression

Even they admit that there’s no proof of causation, but it seems to me like it’s just as likely that people dealing with loneliness and depression would be using AI chatbots as opposed to the AI chatbots causing the loneliness and depression

Cracker Barrel orders its employees traveling for work to only eat at its restaurants

That’s one way to ensure you’re going to get some business. What’s the strangest thing an employer ever ordered you to do?

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The Delivery by Tuukka Sarkki - In the clinical shadows of a Mercury research station, a high-stakes trade for a mysterious red box ends with a contract signed in blood and a chilling betrayal that ignites the fuse of a planetary war.

The Delivery by Tuukka Sarkki Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• Molly Ringwald: Let’s Not Remake John Hughes Movies - Here’s a new idea. Rather than re-telling a bunch of stories, why not come up with a new one or two?

• Navy Introduces New Alcohol Limits for Sailors While on Ship - It looks like we’re going to need a new stereotype for people who spend money in a frivolous manner

• California Man Stole Two Airplanes High on Meth, Without a Pilot’s License - Drug addicts are far more ambitious now than in previous generations. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad

• ‘This Is What Community Looks Like’: Snowplow Vigilante Clears Streets For Free - Not all heroes wear capes, some of them wear “Mr. Plow” jackets

• Four horses rescued after falling through ice on Michigan pond - Who had “Four Horseman of The Apocalypse falling through the ice” on their Bingo card for February?

• Nebraska Woman Learns to Row, Then Becomes First Female to Cross the Atlantic Alone in 3,000 Mile Race - She had an unfair advantage since I’m sure she was constantly on the water when she was growing up in… Nebraska

• Police Arrest Man Who Threatened Murder After Being Denied a Pepsi - You might expect that sort of behavior over a Coke, or even a Dr. Pepper, but Pepsi?

• Hospital panic as surgeons discover WW1 bomb up man’s butt prompting evacuation - Damn near killed him. Literally

• Babies can categorise objects at two months - Good news. Your two month old is judging your organizational skills

• Women chasing perfect body pumping in 'ethically sourced' cadaver fat... - This is how the zombie apocalypse starts, isn’t it?