Weekly News Bites #006 | $12 UFO's, toxic plumes, A.I. Chatbot has feelings, and a legend dies

Nibbles of news while you nibble on your toast

Hi friend!

This week was loaded with UFOs and a chemical disaster. It appears highly likely that the UFOs were hobbyist “pico balloons” that cost between $12 - $150, but that has not been confirmed.

If you are tracking the East Palestine derailment news, I did an entire post earlier this week. There are some updates that I included in the features below.

We periodically enter news cycles that come so fast and furious that they can be destabilizing. As important as I think it is to be informed, taking a breather is equally important if it gets too overwhelming. Conspiracy theories and sensationalism can be entertaining, but they can also drive you nuts if you are not careful.

By the way, I do get the irony of me saying this considering that what I do is aggregate and share the news. But I do my best to remain balanced and to give the news cycle a breather to allow more information to come out before jumping on the news hype wagon. This also means sometimes I am a little behind the news …