Signs of the Apocalypse, #913. Game over, man. It has begun...
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Signs of the Apocalypse, #914. Almost as scary- you don't need to be Douglas Trumbull or Jim Cameron to pull this off. Just about anyone can do this with easily obtainable software.
New grand jury seated for next stage of Trump investigation. Nope. Not gonna get excited. Been burned before...
Even worse: Arizona's Secretary of State 'stripped' of duties after criticizing election audit.
Republicans worried blind worship of Trump overriding traditional values like blind worship of Reagan. (The Onion)
Trumpland: QAnon crowd convinced UFOs are a diversion from voter fraud. "They want you talking about aliens because they don’t want you talking about Maricopa," Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted. You know things are bad when the story about the UFOs is true.
Social media heavyweights wooed for Pfizer smear campaign. Social media influencers in France with hundreds of thousands of followers say a mysterious advertising agency offered to pay them if they agreed to smear Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine with negative fake stories.
Germany gives greenlight to driverless vehicles on public roads. Germany has adopted legislation that will allow driverless vehicles on public roads by 2022, laying out a path for companies to deploy robotaxis and delivery services in the country at scale. While autonomous testing is currently permitted in Germany, this would allow operations of driverless vehicles without a human safety operator behind the wheel.
Missed opportunity: Tom Hanks, a life-long Star Trek fan, almost played Zefram Cochrane in "Star Trek: First Contact."
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is National Blueberry Cheesecake Day, National Cherry Dessert Day, National Paper Airplane Day, National Senior Health & Fitness Day, Sally Ride Day, World Dracula Day, World Lindy Hop Day, World Product Day, and World Redhead Day.
Samuel E. Wright, voice of Sebastian the crab in The Little Mermaid, dead at 74. (Video)
Events:
1647 - Alse
Young was the first person executed as a witch in the American
colonies
1805 - Lewis
and Clark see the Rocky
Mountains for the first time.
1828 - Mysterious feral child Kaspar
Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg
1868 – The
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal by one vote.
1896
– Charles
Dow published the first edition of the Dow
Jones Industrial Average.
1897 – Dracula
by Bram
Stoker was published in London.
1927 – The last Ford
Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of
15,007,003 vehicles.
1967 – The
Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in the UK. (Video)
1975
- Glen
Campbell's Rhinestone
Cowboy single was released. (Video)
1978
- first
legal gambling casino opened in Atlantic City.
Birthdays
Isadora Duncan (b. Angela Isadora Duncan, May 26, 1877 – September 14, 1927)Al Jolson (b. Asa Yoelson, c. 1885 – October 23, 1950)
John Wayne (b. Marion Robert Morrison, May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)
Jay Silverheels (b. Harold Jay Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980)
Peter Cushing (May 26, 1913 – August 11, 1994)
Peggy Lee (b. Norma Deloris Egstrom, May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002)
James Arness (b. James King Aurness, May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011)
Miles Davis (b. Miles Dewey Davis III, May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991)
Dr. Jack Kevorkian (b. Murad Jacob Kevorkian May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011)
Stevie Nicks (b. Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks, May 26, 1948)
Pam Grier (b. Pamela Suzette Grier, May 26, 1949)
Sally Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)
Bobcat Goldthwait (b. Robert Francis "Bobcat" Goldthwait, May 26, 1962
Lenny Kravitz (b. Leonard Albert Kravitz, May 26, 1964)
Helena Bonham Carter (b. May 26, 1966)
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