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Rick Beato discusses the implications of AI in music

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy announced Wednesday that popular host Ben Mintz was fired from the company after saying a racial slur while reading rap lyrics on a live stream earlier this week. Portnoy said the decision was made by Barstool’s parent company, Penn Entertainment, despite protestations from himself, Barstool CEO Erika Nardini, and longtime talent Dan Katz that Mintz — rapping the song “1st of Tha Month” by Bone Thugz-N-Harmony — had made an honest mistake. “This morning, I made an unforgivable mistake slipping on air while reading a song lyric,” Mintz tweeted Monday morning after reading the slur...

This may be the most succinct summation of modern woke leftism I have ever seen in my life. It's just 50 seconds of unhinged, wild screaming for no reason whatsoever. It perfectly captures what we're up against: [Warning: Language] VIDEO AT LINK........... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhh! Imagine that! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! I HATE THIS! I HATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO US! I HATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO US! I HATE YOU BOARD OF SUPERVISORS! I HATE YOU LONDON BREED! I HATE YOU JENKINS! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! F----- ay, man, f---! Why didn't someone tackle this person? What a joke! I have seen toddlers put...

Two Tesla drivers started a fight while waiting to charge at a Supercharger station in Denver, Colorado. One of them drew a gun and fatally shot the other in what many believed to be an argument over the charging spot. Police investigation revealed that this was not the case without yet revealing what led to the tragic incident. Two Tesla owners started a fight at a Supercharger station in Denver, Colorado. It ended with one of them fatally shooting the other one. Because the station had all eight charging poles occupied at the time of the shooting, the Police thought...

Its tips and meal plans reveal everything wrong with internet nutrition.Content warning: This story discusses disordered eating and weight loss diets.ChatGPT stole yet another one of Google’s jobs. Since its launch last year, the AI-powered chatbot has been quietly shaping the way we search for advice on diet and nutrition. Kind of disturbingly, people are turning to ChatGPT for custom meal plans. On TikTok, one user says she asked the bot for seven days’ worth of “endometriosis-friendly” food ideas that could help balance her hormones and manage her complicated condition. The jury is out on whether diet has any impact...

Politicians attack social media for spreading conspiracies and so-called misinformation. But what about when social media helps someone become an NBA star?When Joel Embiid arrived in the United States from Cameroon as a gangly 16-year-old back in 2011, he already possessed many of the physical traits—height, athleticism, massive wingspan—that he'd one day employ to become a superstar in the NBA. One thing he didn't really know much about, however, was how to actually shoot a basketball. Until he was 15, Embiid hardly played hoops at all. He'd been on track to become a professional volleyballer before being spotted by a...

This may be even more disturbing than the AI beer commercial that was posted here yesterday. It's like Hieronymus Bosch got hired to make TV ads. Burger Blast 1985 - AI Generated Commercial

Princess Leia arrived to the beach with Darth Vader, a scruffy Ewok and one of Jabba the Hutt’s hefty henchman. Although it sounds like the setup for a joke you’d tell Greedo over drinks at the Mos Eisley Cantina, it happened 40 years ago, when Carrie Fisher showed up to Stinson Beach in Marin for a Rolling Stone photo shoot in the summer of 1983. The magazine had reached out to Los Angeles-based photographer Aaron Rapoport to tackle the assignment. Despite windy conditions, a crowded beach and three costumed subjects lumbering through the sand, the shoot resulted in a classic...

Chinese battery maker CATL says it has cutting-edge technology able to surpass limits that have held back battery development worldwide, ushering in a new era of electrification for passenger aircraft. These are bold claims that, if they come to fruition, will shake up battery technology as we know it. Battery density signifies a key metric in creating a lithium-ion battery that’s both powerful and light enough for versatile applications, such as an aircraft. Current understanding of technology has the densest lithium-ion batteries generally hovering below 300 Watt hours per kilogram (Wh/kg), but CATL says their new battery boasts a 500...

At a recent Shanghai auto expo, the world's largest battery maker unveiled a battery it claimed could power electric aircraft or propel electric vehicles (EVs) beyond 1,000 kilometres on a single charge. Chinese Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), which makes one-third of the world's EV batteries, shared few details about the technology but said it would start mass production later this year. It was the latest in a series of big announcements for the industry, which is booming with the global shift to electrification. Battery design has been likened to a gold rush, as researchers push the boundaries of materials chemistry...

In newly leaked videos from his axed streaming show, Tucker Carlson is shown unloading on Fox Nation and cracking jokes about his 'post-menopausal fans' while joking around with his senior staff. The videos were leaked to Media Matters and published today in light of Tucker's firing last month. Some of the remarks were included in a New York Times report last week which suggested they were among a trove of highly incriminating clips. They show Tucker bantering with producers, assistants and fellow hosts. In one, he makes a reference to someone's girlfriend being 'yummy', and later, he jokes about relying...

Unlike American social media companies, the deep state can’t control TikTok, so they want to annihilate it.Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (yes, even Twitter), YouTube, and Snapchat pose a far greater risk to you than TikTok. I know that’s a hard pill to swallow following the hysterical TikTok fear-mongering that’s permeated the corporate media since 2019. But if you’re an American conservative or free thinker, Big Tech and its sinister partnership with the deep state and powerful corporations is a bigger threat to Americans’ self-government than China. That starts with its election interference through controlling the information Americans can see, a direct...

Hours before stabbing death he visited convicted drug dealer's home with suspect's SISTER Cash App founder Bob Lee died of stab wounds on the operating table and had drugs and alcohol in his system, his autopsy revealed Lee, 43, was murdered in the early hours of April 4 while visiting San Francisco from Miami, where he moved last year with his family He had three stab wounds and underwent emergency treatment but was pronounced dead in the operating room of a San Francisco hospital Cash App founder Bob Lee died of stab wounds on the operating table and had drugs...

'This is Unacceptable!' Father Makes His Son Trans For Tik Tok Fame These fathers belong in prison for doing this to their kids. It's unbelievable that the trans ideology is so strong that it does this to people. warning this video may be upsetting. video is 14 minutes long

May 1, 2023 Share Jack Dorsey and Twitter Alternative Blue Sky (Photo by Marco BELLO / AFP) As influencers and celebrities fret over chaos at Twitter, a new platform called Bluesky is being hyped as a promising alternative. Costa Rica Videos Bluesky was created by Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey and is now the talk of Silicon Valley, leaving those in the know scrambling to secure an invite to join the app that is still at the testing phase. The platform looks and feels like Twitter as its backers want users from the Elon Musk-owned site to feel at home, though...

Trans Activist Who Threatened All Women Now Threatens Conservatives Just when I thought that the police are actually looking into this man it doesn't seem like he is getting the message. He's now threatening certain conservative commentators.

Bud Light is being criticized after pandering to lost customers with a county-themed commercial and preventing viewers from offering feedback by disabling the comments on YouTube. The commercial, which debuted during the Thursday NFL Draft and was later published to YouTube, shows four friends opening cans of Bud Light at a country music festival as the song Chicken Fried by the Zac Brown Band plays. It is one of a number of commercials released by the company since the partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney at the beginning of April caused sales to plummet. The commercial is a clear nod...

Two US organizations – a non-profit and a corporation – are planning to “quietly” give governments around the world the right to seize domain names by means of canceling, redirecting, or transferring control. This is based on the “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET” – recently published by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and Verisign. Verisign is in charge of operating .COM and .NET TLDs (top-level domains, and while what critically-minded observers say the controversial paper now aims to change relates only to the .NET domain names, the fear is that the world is...

A few related questions for our FReeper computer gurus: Has anyone tried upgrading a fairly competent* Windows computer with an older processor from Win 10 Pro to Win 11 Pro? Are significant "tricks involved?** Then were there any subsequent problems with following updates (immediately after installation of Win 11 Pro?) *The 1st computer in question has an i7 6600u processor, 16gb DDR4 RAM, and a 512GB NVME SSD. (Pretty quick machine.) Then my immediate family & I have a few slightly "lesser" Win 10 Pro machines (which run great, and is as my custom I'll likely keep Win 10 Pro...

The buzzy new social media app of the moment looks so much like Twitter it’s almost hard to distinguish the two. The profiles, timelines and colors are nearly identical. Even the creator is the same. But under the hood, Bluesky, developed by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, is vastly different. The app, which launched in a closed beta on iOS in February and on Android this month, runs on a decentralized network which provides users with more control over how the service is run, data is stored, and content is moderated.