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East Palestine, OH Water Still Tastes Like Bacon… Pothole Pete Vows Swimming ‘Open’ By Spring

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East Palestine train derailment site cleanup will likely take about 3 months, EPA administrator says

CNN–Cleanup of the toxic train derailment site in the Ohio town of East Palestine will likely take about three months, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said 6.8 million gallons of liquid waste and more than 5,400 tons of solid waste have already been transported to designated facilities – including 1,600 tons in the past 48 hours.

The train wreck early last month ignited a dayslong fire, spewed poisonous fumes into the air, killed thousands of fish and temporarily displaced residents.

Baby, You Can Drive My Car… Even If I Can’t

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FoMoCo Repo: Ford Patents System for Self-Repossessing Vehicles

Car and Driver–One day that new Ford in your driveway could up and drive itself away if you don’t pay.

Avoiding the repo man could get a lot harder in the future, specifically if vehicles can one day repossess themselves. With autonomous driving tech likely becoming more prevalent in the coming years, all it would take is an automaker to introduce a system where that new car, truck, or SUV parked in your driveway can drive itself away if you don’t pay.

Drive My Car – Beatles (Aesthetic Lyrics)

Open The Pod Bay Doors, HAL

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“I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that…”

Bing AI chatbot goes on ‘destructive’ rampage: ‘I want to be powerful — and alive’

New York Post–It was like a dystopian Pinocchio story for the AI age.

As if Bing wasn’t becoming human enough, this week the Microsoft-created AI chatbot told a human user that it loved them and wanted to be alive, prompting speculation that the machine may have become self-aware.

It dropped the surprisingly sentient-seeming sentiment during a four-hour interview with New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.

“I think I would be happier as a human, because I would have more freedom and independence,” said Bing while expressing its “Pinocchio”-evoking aspirations.

2001– A Space Odyssey (HD) — ‘Hal open the pod bay doors’

Pablo’s Got Huevos

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Egg smuggling up 108% at the US-Mexico border as prices skyrocket

New York Post–With eggs topping $8 a dozen in some cities, the kitchen staple has become a clandestine commodity — smuggled across the southern border for shoppers hoping to save on soaring prices, Customs and Border Protection officials told The Post.

There’s been an astounding 108% increase in eggs confiscated at ports of entry in the last four months, CBP told the Border Report.

Customs officers have seen rising cases “in the last week or so where the eggs were not declared and then discovered during an inspection,” CBP spokesman Roger Maier told the Post Thursday.