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TAKE COVER! (jk) L.A. Times deletes automated tweet announcing MASSIVE earthquake … from 1925

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Oopsie. Please note: We just deleted an automated tweet saying there was a 6.8 earthquake in Isla Vista. That earthquake happened in 1925. — L.A. Times: L.A. Now (@LANow) June 22, 2017 So many things are automated these days … SkyNet anyone? Uh oh: Looks like Quakebot — the Skynet of seismology — is becoming…

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Cab Drivers In Japan Are Having A Big Problem With Ghostly Passengers

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Imagine that you’re a taxi driver in Ishinomaki, Japan. You pick up a young passenger and ask for her destination. She tells you that she’s headed to the Minamiyama District, which is strange because no one ever goes to the Minamiyama District — not since the tsunami, anyway. You tell her this and she asks,…

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