AI bots in Philly news?; Farewell to the SS United States; Weekly gun violence brief | Morning Roundup – Billy Penn at WHYY

AI bots in Philly news?; Farewell to the SS United States; Weekly gun violence brief | Morning Roundup  Billy Penn at WHYY

#BILLYPENNGRAM OF THE DAY Looking back on South 4th St.(Photo by @danherman456) Are AI bots running these Philadelphia and New Jersey news sites? For months, Billy Penn has been keeping […] For months, Billy Penn has been keeping tabs on several local news websites – including Northeast Times, Lower Bucks Times, the South Philly Review and centraljersey.com. What we found led us down a local news rabbit hole that had us questioning reality. Continue reading… Today is the day: the SS United States’ final voyage, sinking into the waters of the Gulf and becoming the world’s largest artificial reef off the coast of Florida. The ship was originally scheduled to be deployed Thursday morning, but Okaloosa County moved up the timeline due to avoid the heavy winds and unsafe weather forecasted for that day.

Weather-permitting, watch it live at 2 p.m., live-streamed on the county’s web page for the ship. Continue reading… A new exhibit puts Philadelphians in the shoes of 19th-century veterans When the U.S.government offered pensions to aging Revolutionary War veterans in the early 1800s, they ran into an issue – many did not have a record of their service. The solution – to have veterans come into local government offices to record details – ended up creating almost 80,000 perspectives of the Revolutionary War, and a priceless