Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Container Ship “Potentially Atop High-Pressure Underwater Gas Line”
March 30th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
The salvage operation may not begin as seamlessly as government officials hoped. As Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a website specializing in tracking the shipping industry, states, the 984-foot Singapore-flagged container ship Dali is apparently “sitting atop a high-pressure underwater gas line.”
OpenAI Can Re-Create Human Voices from 15 Second Samples
March 30th, 2024Fifteen seconds? *pfft*
Google AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds
Microsoft’s New AI Can Simulate Anyone’s Voice with 3 Seconds of Audio
Via: Ars Technica:
Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an electronic voice. Now, using deep-learning AI models, software can create not only realistic-sounding voices, but also convincingly imitate existing voices using small samples of audio.
Further Reading
Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio
Along those lines, OpenAI just announced Voice Engine, a text-to-speech AI model for creating synthetic voices based on a 15-second segment of recorded audio. It has provided audio samples of the Voice Engine in action on its website.
Once a voice is cloned, a user can input text into the Voice Engine and get an AI-generated voice result. But OpenAI is not ready to widely release its technology yet. The company initially planned to launch a pilot program for developers to sign up for the Voice Engine API earlier this month. But after more consideration about ethical implications, the company decided to scale back its ambitions for now.
Open AI: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices
“Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker”
March 30th, 2024The title of the article should be, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors’ Phones Exposed by Data Broker.”
Via: Wired:
Nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious “pedophile island” in the years prior to his death left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their own homes and offices. Maps of these visitations generated by a troubled international data broker with defense industry ties, discovered last week by WIRED, document the numerous trips of wealthy and influential individuals seemingly undeterred by Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender.
The data amassed by Near Intelligence, a location data broker roiled by allegations of mismanagement and fraud, reveals with high precision the residences of many guests of Little Saint James, a United States Virgin Islands property where Epstein is accused of having groomed, assaulted, and trafficked countless women and girls.
FBI Agent Says He Hassles People ‘Every Day, All Day Long’ Over Facebook Posts
March 30th, 2024Via: Reason:
The FBI spends “every day, all day long” interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that’s what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity.
Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad’s house and said that they had been given “screenshots” of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.
Abdeljawad told agents that she didn’t want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents.
“Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account,” one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.
“So we no longer live in a free country and we can’t say what we want?” replied Abdeljawad.
“No, we totally do. That’s why we’re not here to arrest you or anything,” a second agent in a red shirt added. “We do this every day, all day long. It’s just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will.”
Joe Biden Declares Easter Sunday, “Transgender Day of Visibility”
March 30th, 2024Please help me understand this unbelievable situation.
Why would President Biden (or whoever is controlling him) flagrantly mock Christians, the largest religious group in the U.S.?
What is this meant to accomplish?
March 29, 2024
A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024
Via: Gateway Pundit:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility.
Two Of The Fastest U.S. Sealift Ships Trapped By Baltimore Bridge Collapse
March 29th, 2024Via: The War Zone:
Two of the most capable military cargo ships in U.S. inventory are among the vessels now stuck in Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge yesterday. The two members of the Algol class, which are also some of the fastest cargo vessels of their general size anywhere in the world, and two other reserve sealift ships were in port in Baltimore when the incident occurred.
NYC Is Forcing Families To Leave… Permanently
March 29th, 2024Via: Cash Jordan:
Related: Business Insider: Typical American Family, “A Fringe Lifestyle Choice”
Business Insider: Typical American Family, “A Fringe Lifestyle Choice”
March 29th, 2024Do you know about the lunatic communist directive to abolish families? You can read more about in The Communist Manifesto… or Business Insider.
Via: Business Insider:
Although it may be premature to declare the nuclear family officially over, the model is beginning to look more like a fringe lifestyle choice than the bedrock of American society.
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The pandemic seemed to accelerate a collective sense of urgency to come up with something better.
In Other News: ‘The Glory and Joy of Womanhood’: Mom of 4 Crochets and Sews Vintage Dresses for Herself and Kids
FBI to Bury ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s File, Agency Rejects Public Records Request
March 28th, 2024Via: Boston Herald:
The FBI is closing the book on the agency’s “corrupt” handling of James “Whitey” Bulger — forever.
The feds are refusing to make any further installments of Bulger’s case file public, saying the records are “investigative” and no longer subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
“The records responsive to your request are law enforcement records; there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records, and release of the information could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. Therefore, your request is being administratively closed,” the FBI stated in a letter to the Herald Monday.
They did not divulge what investigation Bulger’s case could still be linked to, considering the former Southie mobster was murdered while in a West Virginia prison in August 2018 by two fellow inmates. He was 89 and wheelchair-bound at the time of his death.
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Bulger was found guilty in August of 2013 in federal court in Boston for the murder of 11 people, as well as numerous counts of extortion, money laundering, drug dealing, and firearms possession. But he took to his grave the dirty dealings he had with the Boston branch of the FBI when he was killing with impunity.
“The whole thing was corrupt from the get-go,” said Janet Uhlar, a juror on Bulger’s 2013 trial. “They put out a lie. He was never an informant, he bought information from the FBI.”
Uhlar, who added she shared 70 letters with Bulger after the trial, said she still wonders what role the CIA had with the serial killer while he was locked up early in his life and submitted to an LSD experiment.
“His mind was manipulated by the CIA and he shouldn’t have been let out into the public,” she said Wednesday. “The other guys were as dirty as dirty could be.”
In an addendum to the FOIA denial sent to the Herald, the FBI states “Congress excluded three categories of law enforcement and national security records” from the public records law. That includes “records of intelligence sources, methods, or activities.” And, they add, the FBI “can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records pursuant to FOIA exemptions.”
It’s as if Bulger never existed.
The Curious Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
March 28th, 2024Via: Dr. John Campbell:
