Archive for the 'Media' Category
In the Age of AI
December 7th, 2019Here’s one line from the film that sums up the situation: “I’m pretty confident that we are never again going to have this large, stable, prosperous middle class doing routine work.” Via: Frontline PBS: A documentary exploring how artificial intelligence is changing life as we know it — from jobs to privacy to a growing […]
Google Has 10,000 Employees Censoring YouTube Videos, Some of Them Starting to Believe Conspiracy Theories
December 3rd, 2019Via: RealClearPolitics: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki tells Lesley Stahl what the video platform is doing about hate speech in an interview Sunday on the CBS newsmagazine program ’60 Minutes.’ Wojcicki told ’60 Minutes’ that Google employs 10,000 people to focus on “controversial content.” She described their schedule, which includes time for therapy. Stahl also said […]
Was Cringe Inducing Cybertruck Window Demo Failure a Marketing Stunt?
November 23rd, 2019Update: Now 200,000 Reservations 200k — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2019 — I watched it live and it was definitely cringe inducing. I physically winced and mumbled, “Ouch, that’s not a good look, Elon.” Knowing that most mainstream media coverage of Tesla is negative, my thoughts turned to how these outlets are going to […]
The Encyclosphere Is Coming
November 22nd, 2019Via: Larry Sanger: We are fed up. After ten years of domination by big social media—which might finally be in decline—we are tired of giant Silicon Valley corporations using us contemptuously. We still remember an Internet in which we charted our own destiny and owned our own data. It’s not just social media. It’s Wikipedia, […]
Prince ‘I-Didn’t-Party-Or-Do-PDAs’ Andrew
November 17th, 2019Maybe this is an attempt to portray him as being interested in adult women and not children??? Via: Daily Mail: Never-before-seen video footage showing a sweaty Prince Andrew being openly affectionate with a bevy of young women while partying in the late 2000s has been unearthed – just hours after his ‘car crash’ interview with […]
Prince Andrew’s Pizza Party Alibi: A Theory
November 17th, 2019Via: Reddit User stop4me_its_the_claw: Prince Andrew has now denied ever meeting 17 year old Virginia Roberts, as well as denying having sex with her, despite the photograph of him with Virginia with his arm around her bare midrif while Ghislaine Maxell lurks in the background. Prince Andrew bizarrely claims he was at a “pizza party” […]
Prince Andrew Interview: “It’s Like Watching a Man in Quicksand”
November 17th, 2019Via: Daily Mail: A public relations expert said the Duke of York’s interview over his links with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was ‘like watching a man in quicksand’. PR and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski said Prince Andrew’s appearance on BBC Newsnight was a lesson on ‘how not to do’ public relations. The duke’s long-awaited appearance on […]
Nimitz UFO Encounters: Enlisted Sailors Insist Data Was Confiscated by “Two Unknown Individuals”
November 13th, 2019Erase everything, including the blank media. Nice. In other words, make sure all the tapes were wiped in case anything interesting was left behind after the “unknown individuals” walked off with the bulk of the evidence. Then they hung out in the Admiral’s quarters with a guard posted outside. Swamp gas, obviously. Again, I think […]
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds
November 13th, 2019Must listen examples at the link. Via: Google: We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently trained components: (1) a speaker encoder network, trained on a speaker verification […]
YouTube: Accounts Can Be Deleted if ‘No Longer Commercially Viable’
November 13th, 2019Via: PC Magazine: YouTube’s attempt to explain when it can terminate your account has led to confusion among its most prolific users. The Google-owned video platform chose a curious way to explain it, implying that YouTube can delete your account if your videos alienate advertisers. “YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access […]
