Posts Tagged ‘Retiree’
Who Was Thongbue Wongbandue? New Jersey Retiree Dies While Trying to Meet Meta AI Chatbot ‘Big sis Billie’ Thinking Her to be Real NY Woman
An elderly New Jersey man with cognitive issues died while trying to meet an AI chatbot he mistook for a real woman in New York City, despite his wife and children begging him not to go. Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, packed a bag and headed to a New York apartment to meet a woman he had…
Read MoreThe Strange Case Of Evgeniya Mayboroda, Russia’s Rebel Retiree
The elegant 74-year-old Russian put her hand on her heart as the verdict fell. Five and a half years in prison for posts opposing the war in Ukraine. Then, according to a witness who saw her in the dock, “her nose began to bleed”. Yet only a few years before, Evgeniya Mayboroda had been an…
Read MoreKilicdaroglu: Bookish Retiree Pushes Erdogan To Historic Runoff
Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s secular party was created by Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk AFP A retired civil servant who few outside Turkey have heard of has pushed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into an election runoff — the first of the country’s post-Ottoman history. It was a bittersweet result that left Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s supporters frustrated following a…
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