The jobs of clairvoyants are being taken over by AI bots as fortune tellers “face a bleak future they did not see coming”, said the Daily Star. Instead of visiting psychics and “crossing their palms with silver”, people are visiting artificial intelligence mediums which use “sophisticated algorithms” to work out the future, said the tabloid. The technology is “threatening the future of traditional mystics who ply their trade at fairgrounds and seaside resorts”, it added.
Mayor finds cocaine haul while fishing
The Tampa Bay mayor hauled in 70 pounds of cocaine during a recent fishing trip. The chief border patrol agent of the Miami Sector said last month that his agents recovered the drugs concealed in bricks wrapped in what appears to have been cellophane and adorned with a picture of a pink and blue butterfly. He said at the time that the drugs were “discovered by a recreational boater” in the Florida Keys, and the individual has now been revealed to be Mayor Jane Castor, said UPI.
Woman in Texas in three-way scrap
A woman in Texas was attacked by a hawk and a snake at the same time after the bird accidentally dropped the “wriggling serpent” on her, said the BBC. Peggy Jones, 64, was mowing her lawn when a passing hawk dropped a snake on her before “swooping down to angrily try to reclaim its meal”, said the broadcaster. It wrapped itself around her arm, attacked her face and sank its talons deep into her flesh. The episode left her with cuts and bruising to her arm and face.
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