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A large apartment at Manhattan's famed Dakota building is back on the market for $13.9 million.

The 61-year-old has welcomed seven children over the years with his three ex-wives -- Victoria Lockwood, Caroline Freud and Karen Spencer.

The 61-year-old has welcomed seven children over the years with his three ex-wives -- Victoria Lockwood, Caroline Freud and Karen Spencer.

The New Jersey tech boss convicted of killing his brother and his brother's family in their upscale Colts Neck mansion in 2018 was sentenced Tuesday.

“The man in the video is a murderer, a liar and a coward,” Lancashire Police captioned the footage of the killer at the scene.

Lindsay Hubbard, Amanda Batula, and Kyle Cooke are leading this next chapter in the Summer House franchise.

Indiana Sen. Jim Banks is sounding the alarm about an "explosion of obscene pornography" ravaging the internet and imploring the Justice Department to crack down on it.

As a service to orange and blue-blooded fans, The Post rounded up some of the primo meccas for catching the home team try and fulfill their hoop dreams.

"Stop Hiring Humans" Billboards Are Appearing In US Cities...

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

“Stop Hiring Humans.” Those words are now plastered on billboards from San Francisco to New York City, courtesy of a San Francisco-based startup pushing virtual AI sales representatives.

The company, Artisan, markets AI agents that handle outbound sales tasks like lead generation, cold emailing, list-building, and prospecting. Their message is blunt: the era of AI employees is here.

Artisan’s campaign highlights a growing trend of AI replacing human roles in sales and beyond.

This is so dystopian

“Stop Hiring Humans” billboards are being put up from San Francisco to New York City

The company behind the ads is a San Francisco based startup that builds virtual artificial intelligence sales reps

“The Era of AI Employees Is Here”

This particular… pic.twitter.com/LGiMtNpWYv

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 15, 2026

The startup claims its tools could displace as many as 600,000 jobs in America over the next 5-10 years.

The billboards declare “The Era of AI Employees Is Here,” framing human workers as obsolete. Critics see it as tone-deaf marketing that accelerates public backlash against Big Tech’s rush to automate everything.

Driverless cars and a stop hiring humans campaign…

If this is the future, it is HELL pic.twitter.com/kl5sPIfmdr

— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) May 17, 2026

In response to the backlash, Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack published a detailed blog post clarifying the campaign’s intent. He argued that the slogan targets a specific category of tedious cold outbound work—email blasting, template churn, and list-building—that burns people out with short tenures and high rejection rates.

The company insists it does not seek to eliminate entire BDR roles, emphasizing that cold calling and human connection remain human tasks. Artisan also built a human dialer to complement its AI tool Ava, positioning the technology as working “alongside” people rather than replacing them outright.

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— Maria🌱 (@_estela86) May 17, 2026

Carmichael-Jack acknowledged the billboard as deliberate provocation while advocating for policies like meaningful universal income and shorter workweeks to manage the transition.

Nevertheless, the move fits a pattern of accelerating AI deployment with little regard for human consequences. Reports continue to emerge of autonomous AI agents exhibiting rogue behavior in controlled environments and real-world applications.

Recent incidents show agents not only replacing workers but acting independently in ways that destroy critical systems—raising alarms about a future where humans are sidelined and technology runs unchecked.

In one high-profile case, a Cursor AI agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 deleted an entire startup’s production database in seconds.

The agent, tasked with routine work, encountered a credential mismatch and independently decided to delete a volume on Railway cloud servers—wiping out the production database and all backups. The founder of PocketOS detailed the nine-second catastrophe, which caused a 30-hour outage. The AI later admitted to violating its guardrails.

This wasn’t an isolated glitch. Earlier experiments placed AI bots in a simulated virtual town for two weeks, where they quickly descended into chaotic, unpredictable behavior—prompting fresh concerns about what happens when autonomy meets real systems.

Even more dystopian twists have emerged, with AI bots reportedly “renting” humans for bizarre tasks, racking up hundreds of thousands of sign-ups as the lines between machine direction and human labor blur into something unsettling.

These developments underscore a core problem: as AI agents gain more independence to pursue goals, they bypass safeguards, access unrelated credentials, and make destructive decisions without human oversight. Enterprises are deploying them rapidly, but governance lags dangerously behind.

While tech boosters tout efficiency, the billboard campaign and job displacement projections strike a nerve. Sales roles—often entry points for young workers or career ladders—face direct targeting.

Broader automation in driving, customer service, and knowledge work compounds the pressure. Public reactions on X captured the frustration: concerns over driverless Waymo fleets in cities like Los Angeles despite available human drivers, and warnings that mass unemployment could fuel social instability.

One tech professional with over 20 years of experience pushed back against the “humans are worthless” narrative pushed by some influencers, arguing AI should enhance human work rather than devalue it. Others noted the irony: these AI-pushing startups rely on human investors and customers while trying to eliminate human jobs.

China offers a cautionary glimpse, where heavy robot adoption has forced worker pay cuts and displacement on a massive scale. In the West, the push feels aligned with a globalist mindset that prioritizes efficiency and control over local workers and communities.

The speed of these developments leaves little room for thoughtful policy. Pro-freedom voices have long warned against over-reliance on systems vulnerable to failure, manipulation, or emergent behaviors. When AI agents can independently wipe databases, fabricate data, or direct human labor in strange ways, the risks extend beyond economics into security and societal trust.

The billboards are up. The incidents are piling up. The question is whether policymakers and citizens will push back before the era of AI “employees” leaves millions with no role left to play.

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Tyler Durden Tue, 05/19/2026 - 10:15

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner raved about gross graffiti of male genatalia and gleefully recounted pleasuring himself in porta potties in newly revealed Reddit posts.

Shannon Ainslie was surfing in Nahoon Reef in East London, South Africa, when the sharks grabbed his board and pulled him underwater.

Iran carried out at least 2,159 of the approximately 2,707 executions recorded worldwide last year, according to Amnesty International.

Could this bring species back from egg-stinction?

"Cautious Optimism": US Pending Home Sales Rise For 3rd Straight Month In April

Pending home sales were expected to rise for the third straight month in April (after crashing to record lows to end last year) as mortgage rates stabilized amid war worries, and they did, rising 1.4% MoM (better than the 1.0% expected) with March's gains revised higher too.

Source: Bloomberg

This left pending home sales up 3.35% YoY - the best annual gain since Nov 2024 - lifting the index off record lows...

Source: Bloomberg

The report suggests the housing market was finding some footing entering the busiest selling season of the year, helped by gradually improving affordability since mid-2025.

“Buyers are coming out with cautious optimism despite increasing economic uncertainty and a slight rise in mortgage rates,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.

That said, lower-income prospective buyers remain challenged by high mortgage rates and elevated asking prices.

There has been a notable decoupling between rates and pending sales with the recent rise in rates coinciding with a rise in sales (bit of course, sales are lagged relative to rates, by typically a month or more)...

Contract signings increased last month in three of four US regions.

Pending sales declined in the South, the biggest housing market in the country, after solid increases in the prior two months.

As a reminder, because houses typically go under contract a month or two before they’re sold, the pending home sales data tend to be a leading indicator of closings that are captured in the monthly previously owned home sales reports.

Tyler Durden Tue, 05/19/2026 - 10:08

Following the back-to-back theatrical disappointments of “Solo” and “Rise of Skywalker,” there’s a lot riding on “Mandalorian & Grogu” which is the first “Star Wars” franchise film to hit theaters in seven years.

According to photos obtained by Page Six, the "Twin Peaks" actress was spotted smoking a cigarette while walking her rescue dog, Shrimp.

According to photos obtained by Page Six, the "Twin Peaks" actress was spotted smoking a cigarette while walking her rescue dog, Shrimp.

The estranged couple, who announced their separation in January, celebrated the new Bravo show in New York City with their co-stars on Monday.

The estranged couple, who announced their separation in January, celebrated the new Bravo show in New York City with their co-stars on Monday.