Monthly Archives: July 2020

Shane Carruth accused of abusing his ex-girlfriend

Actress and director Amy Seimetz obtained a temporary restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, director Shane Carruth, accusing him of years of mental, emotional, and physical abuse. On one occasion in 2016, Seimetz alleges that Carruth jumped on her in a hotel room and strangled her until she had trouble breathing, …

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I remain unstable by these robots

Ford now has some robot “dogs” that perform tasks at its transmission plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan. I hate them. Let’s first examine a video, produced by Ford. It presents an employee treating this robot as if it were a sentient being, which it is not. Now let’s examine a …

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South Korea confirms defector swam back to North Korea

South Korean officials said Monday that a North Korean defector who came south in 2017 had returned north. The New York Times reported that the 24-year-old unidentified man, referred to only by his last name, Kim, had crossed a strait into the northern part of Ganghwa Island, the same area …

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