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Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy Arakawa Found Dead at Home

Legendary actor and two-time Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, were discovered dead in their Santa Fe Summit...

Digital recreations of dead people need urgent regulation, AI ethicists say

Fears ‘deadbots’ could cause psychological harm to their creators and users or digitally ‘haunt’ them

Post Misrepresents Which Administration Sent Stimulus Checks to Dead People - FactCheck.org

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some stimulus checks were sent to people who had died. The issue was explained in government reports and the media when it happened in 2020. But a social media post has resurrected the issue and falsely claimed that it occurred during the Biden administration. It actually happened during the Trump administration.

Post Misrepresents Which Administration Sent Stimulus Checks to Dead People - FactCheck.org

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some stimulus checks were sent to people who had died. The issue was explained in government reports and the media when it happened in 2020. But a social media post has resurrected the issue and falsely claimed that it occurred during the Biden administration. It actually happened during the Trump administration.

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Would Nelson Mandela have campaigned for the ACT Party? Not according to his grandson

David Seymour told a crowd if Mandela was alive today he would have campaigned for ACT. But Mandela's grandson has very publicly disagreed.

Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people by the-aegis-alliance

Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. Why should we be walking in dead people's footsteps? Out with the old traditions in with the new! There's nothing wrong with a bit of dark humor.