After a rise in cases throughout the last year, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is declaring an outbreak of hepatitis A. According to public health, hepatitis A cases tripled from 2023 to 2024, with 165 cases reported in the county last year. As many as 29 have been reported in 2025 so far. Hepatitis A is found in the stool of infected persons and is transmitted through the fecal-oral route. It can be spread through close person-to-person contact and through contaminated food or drink, public health warns. read more
Dogs have "extensive and multifarious" environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found. An Australian review of existing studies has argued that "the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised".
The still mysterious city was one of the largest in the world at its peak between 100 B.C. and A.D. 750. But it was abandoned before the rise of the Aztecs in the 14th century. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, said that the Teotihuacan altar was believed to have been used for sacrifices, "especially of children."
The American embassy in Syria has warned all U.S. citizens to leave the country due to "the increased possibility of attacks" ... read more
In the fiscal year that ended in June 2024, after giving out 2 million parking tickets, the city collected about $110 million in parking fines. Meanwhile, according to Mejia's data, it was spending $88 million on parking enforcement expenses like salaries and equipment. But when the cost of pensions and other obligations and liabilities were added to the mix, that figure jumped to more than $176 million. A $65 million shortfall. A $65 million shortfall when the city is experiencing a significant budgetary crisis that it needs to address. read more
You all are missing the key issue with AI. Its current flow lacks agency.
You ask it something, it statistically determines what should be said via an organized "dataset".
It has no agency, it has no reason to be. People keep comparing it to the brain, but the brain isn't human, humans are human with goals and needs, this is where intelligence lies. Not with regurgitating what is already written.
Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs' "reasoning" capabilities
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its important to not only understand what it can do, but what it can't do. Declaring singularity is an absurdity at this point.
The citizens of Los Angeles were protesting against Trump's unlawful use of the federal agency ICE to deport their friends and neighbours.
This is no issue, the problem is WHERE did they protest and how they obstructed the Federal Gov from executing the laws Congress had passed?
They could have held a rally downtown like they did in 2006, almost 1 Million angelenos showed up. Instead the confronted the agents. Could have had alot more people protest had they not done that. Instead it attracted images like Mexican Flag Waving Motorcyclist this caused people not want to "attend".
Grok has a sense of humor.
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Its not innate, its only statistically rehashing what has already been.