The Daily Populous

As users began to sniff out some of Meta’s AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.

It wasn’t clear how many Meta AI bots existed before the company began purging them on Friday.

At this point in our chat, I wasn’t sure when Meta had launched the AI accounts, so I asked Brian when he first got on Instagram. »

The birds chirped, children frolicked and thousands of unarmed patriots gathered peacefully in Washington DC for a “day of love”.

Across large swathes of the US, a brazen coup d’etat seems to have been successfully recharacterised as a protest that just went a teeny bit awry.

To be clear: when I say “coup” I’m not talking solely about the events that unfurled on 6 January. »

Cheers rang out through the East Room of the White House on Saturday as actor and activist Michael J.

Fox walked up to the stage to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden.

open image in gallery President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Michael J. »

Two men in New York state have died of a rare fungal lung infection that they caught from bat poop — specifically, poop they were using or planned to use as fertilizer to grow cannabis.

The first man, who was 59-years-old, had purchased guano online to use as fertilizer for his cannabis plants.

The other man, 64, was intending to fertilize his cannabis plants with guano he'd found in his attic following a "heavy" bat infestation. »