New York school district to become one of the first in the United States to introduce a humanoid robot in the classroom.
'Sally' will have a Western New York accent and will teach 11th and 12th-grade students at Salamanca High School.
Sally costs less than the average teacher's salary in New York, with a price tag of $57,000.
The robot has brown hair, and can move its arms and legs, but will not be able to walk around the classroom.
Students will be able to log in so the humanoid can recognize students and their previous interactions.
The humanoid will be helping teach coding, robotics, and AI classes.
The school district promises that robots will "never" replace human teachers.
‘Sally’ is made by Realbotix, which also produces "companion" robots.
What are we doing here?
This is wild. We have been lied to about everything
We were told chicken is a health food, we’ve been told it’s what we should all be eating
According to nutrient density information by multiple sources including the USDA, it ranks nearly dead last. Here’s the order for nutrient dense meat (generally)
- Beef (especially grass-fed; high in protein, zinc, iron, B vitamins, creatine)
- Lamb (often tops lists for nutrient density per serving; excellent fats, minerals, B vitamins)
- Bison (very lean, high protein, strong mineral profile; frequently #1 or #2 vs. others)
- Venison (lean, nutrient-packed game meat; high vitamins/minerals per calorie)
- Fish (varies: fatty fish like salmon excel in omega-3s; high in protein/selenium)
- Pork (good protein/minerals but often ranks below ruminants; varies by cut)
And all the way at the bottom is chicken:
- Chicken is excellent for lean protein but generally much lower in key micronutrients and fats compared to all the above
We have been lied to about everything
One of the big reason we switched from mainly eating mainly beef and other meats is marketing from major companies like Tyson
Chicken was historically more of a delicacy or seasonal food in the US, not everyday staple like beef or pork. Mid-20th century campaigns by companies like Tyson and others successfully repositioned it as a cheap, healthy, everyday “lean protein” alternative
Marketing played a major role in shifting consumer habits, emphasizing health and nutrition angles while industrial production scaled up dramatically. This was classic marketing to expand market share
You should be upset
Every person living in a western nation needs to listen to every word of this
Katherine Berbalsingh went to the University of Oxford and is Headmaster at Michaela Community School in London, UK
She PERFECTLY explains the mass indoctrination into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, and of hating White People
I will write only some of this out because it’s very important, however you should listen to it so you can hear the passion:
“The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school, and they’ll tell you, Hitler. Ask them what else? Slavery. Ask them what else? American civil rights.
In fact, what little they know of history will be all about Black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man, women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man.
— History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade, white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? Mm, no.
What of the Arab slave trade that lasted 3 times as long as the triangular slave trade? Mm, no.
Okay, so GCSE history in Britain is often taught as migration through time, so the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children’s heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of Black people who existed in Tudor England over a thorough analysis of England’s break from Rome.
— Not to mention weeks on King Mansa Musa of Mali because he was a Black Muslim. His bearing on British institutions, laws, and faith is nonexistent. And the fact that he is said to have been the richest man in history, thanks in part to his massive slave-owning society, is a detail somehow that teachers rarely ever teach.
But it isn’t just our schools. It’s our general culture too. Take your kids to a museum or an art gallery in any Western country, and you’ll find the same narrative.
As an example, when learning about aviation in London’s Science Museum and the extraordinary feat that is man making massive machines move in the sky, a write-up on the wall explains that women and Black people were historically barred from aviation schools and the military. Similarly, James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and is considered the founder of the Industrial Revolution, has a write-up on the wall explaining that his early career involved slave trafficking, with a bonus analysis of the whole of Britain’s complicity in the slave trade.
They flatten the entire human story and all of its complexities into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, leaving young people unable to see the world in any other terms.”
We have to end the mass indoctrination
A hiker came around a blind corner on a trail at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park Alaska and found herself face to face with Bear 909 - one of the most well known Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears in the park - along with her two cubs.
Instead of panicking she stepped off the trail about 12 to 15 feet, stopped when the terrain ran out, stayed calm, used one voice, and let the bears pass.
That is textbook bear encounter protocol and she executed it perfectly under pressure that would have most people completely frozen. The bears at Brooks are habituated to humans and have a high tolerance because of the salmon food source in the area but they are still wild animals that can turn defensive in a split second if they feel threatened. The number one rule - never run.
Running triggers the predatory instinct and at that point the encounter changes completely. Always carry bear spray and know how to use it before you ever set foot in bear country.
Could you remain that calm in that moment?
Breaking Bad has an alternate ending on DVD where Bryan Cranston wakes up as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle — revealing the entire series was just a nightmare.
BBC Radio airs the show Playground Insults and it is hilarious.
It’s basically the game Try Not To Laugh without the liquids.
Remember when celebrities were just people who entertained us before most of them decided to become liberal activists? I miss that.
Tom Cruise breaks down how the camera itself and the lighting can improve a film. It’s fascinating hearing someone so meticulous about his craft explain the tiny details most people would never notice
🚨 New leaked San Francisco Police Department footage reveals they are monitoring citizens with drones
The SFPD drone monitoring has ramped up significantly since launch and now involves more than 600 flights per month
“You were not supposed to see this. The only reason you are is because cops in San Francisco livestreamed highly sensitive surveillance drone footage on the open web — The security researchers were struck by how, in all the videos they watched, no one ever looks up or attempts to hide from the drone, suggesting that their small size and high altitude make them virtually invisible. In other words, you would never even know that you were being watched, unless, of course, you find a link to a video stream of that police surveillance available on the public internet”
The Skydio drone models are used for:
- Active criminal investigations
- Vehicle pursuits
- Incidents like stolen vehicles, robberies, burglaries and reports of people with guns
But if you look at the videos it seems to go way beyond that…. There seems to be drones following people around and then when they don’t do anything suspicious they leave, like the basketball scene. It’s almost like they’re unlawfully putting people under surveillance…
This is WILD
American went to a parking garage in Detroit with a friend. They leave the parking garage and the friend who drove didn’t pay
That parking garage somehow automatically identified her by her phone, charged her card and texted her a receipt with the make, model and license plate of her friends vehicle
Again she didn’t drive, she didn’t interact with any machines, the parking garage was able to just identify her and charge her because she had her cell phone with her
This is real
The building was the Fisher Building garage in Detroit. It’s a shopping area
It’s a modern automated parking management system on Metropolis Parking’s platform that has License Plate Recognition cameras combined with phone-linked accounts and stored payment details
Because this woman had been there before and paid, the system saved her data, recognized her by her phones signal and automatically charged her with a previous payment method
Technology is going way too far
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🚨 Google caught lying about building a Data Center in San Jose, California
Google is creating a massive new “research facility — Google insists is not a data center”
But a retired engineer looked at their blue prints and documents and proves it’s a data center
“When I looked at the city documents, they did not list it as a data center. They listed it as a large energy user — and I said, no, this is a data center because when you look at the drawings, you see the building is full of server racks
And 250 megawatts, 500,000 square feet almost, that's about 500 watts per square foot. Once you put that much energy into a building, you can't put people in there.
There's no room for people there. When that much energy has to only go into equipment, and then cooling.
The plans show the 2 buildings filled with uniform columns of equipment and large cooling towers. But the real tip-off was the proposed power substation on the site. 250 megawatts, more than 2.5 times bigger than any data center proposal currently on the books with the city of San Jose”
He “thinks the city may be purposely looking the other way when it comes to their own regulations. I think that they're trying to bypass the rest of the environmental review so they don't have to go through looking at energy use, water consumption, noise, and other environmental impacts”
“Simply because they're not calling it a data center?”
“Yeah.”
I looked it up and if Google intentionally mislabeled the project, it’s criminal
False Statements / Fraud in Permitting: Submitting materially false or misleading information in land-use applications, environmental documents or under penalty of perjury can violate:
- Local San Jose municipal code for zoning/permitting violations
- California Government Code or Penal Code sections on false statements to public officials.
- Potential perjury if declarations were sworn
Environmental Law Violations: Deliberately evading CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) review by misclassification could lead to accusations of misleading the public agency, which has both civil and criminal angles if it involves willful deception
It city workers knew and officials “purposely looked the other way,” it could implicate bribery, conflict of interest and official misconduct statutes
This isn’t victimless. it undermines democratic planning processes, environmental protections, and fair competition for other developers who follow the rules
ALL should be brought up on criminal charges
This is actually a felony
If executives knowingly approved the deception, law enforcement should pursue felony charges against the corporation and responsible individuals