How the AI ogres Hollywood writers and studios fed in science fiction have returned to eat them up
In Hollywood, AI is helping to erase wrinkles from an aging performer’s face, clean up an actor’s liberal use of f-bombs and draw animated short films with the aid of OpenAI’s Dall-E, which can create realistic images. Some writers are experimenting with creating scripts.
Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace as at least four incidents are recorded every week
The violence has erupted from coast to coast and has sparked by a range of motives. Murder-suicides and domestic violence; gang retaliation; school shootings; and workplace vendettas. All have taken the lives of four or more people at once since January 1.
Sudan’s warring military factions agree to new seven-day ceasefire as gunfire rocks capital Khartoum
South Sudan’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that mediation championed by its president, Salva Kiir, had led both sides to agree a weeklong truce from Thursday to May 11 and to name envoys for peace talks. The current ceasefire was due to expire on Wednesday.
Loneliness epidemic just as chain smoking is ravaging American youths, cause of 30 per cent deaths
Research shows that Americans, who have become less engaged with worship houses, community organisations and even their own family members in recent decades, have steadily reported an increase in feelings of loneliness. The number of single households has also doubled over the last 60 years.
Hollywood script writers opt for industrial action to protest slump in earnings occasioned by streaming TV boom
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) called its first work stoppage in 15 years after failing to reach an agreement for higher pay from studios such as Walt Disney Co and Netflix Inc. The last strike lasted 100 days and cost the California economy more than $2 billion.
Reports: Ukrainian army uproots enemy forces from Bakhmut with 100,000 Russian troops killed
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Wagner, said on Telegram on Monday that his fighters needed some 300 tonnes of artillery shells a day for the assault on Bakhmut, but were receiving only a third of that amount.
Axed Fox News talk-show host Tucker Carlson raps corrupt US media for telling lies about Covid
Tucker Carlson – who later on his show interviewed Kennedy – said mainstream media channels other than Fox News “maligned” Kennedy for his skepticism of the Covid-19 products.
Tucker Carlson: American politics was once about rational debates on how to get mutually agreed-upon outcomes
To say that Carlson did not utter anything like this is much like saying the sun is larger than a tangerine. It’s accurate – but doesn’t wholly capture the magnitude of the situation.
Fired Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson reminds Americans: Truth is contagious; lies are, but truth is as well
Moreover, Carlson proclaims, “The truth is contagious. Lying is, but the truth is as well. And the second you decide to tell the truth about something, you are filled with this – I don’t want to get supernatural on you – but you are filled with this power from somewhere else.”
Pork barrel: Uganda’s President Museveni half-brother, Gen Salim Saleh, has Somali genes and that complicates conflict in Somalia
Many poor and needy Ugandans who have been fortunate enough to access Gen Salim Saleh see him as man of charity. Although it is often said blood is thicker than water, it is not yet easy to say to what extent Somali refugees have gained from the vantage position of General Salim Saleh Akandwanaho, personally in the NRM regime, although as pointed out above, many have set up flourishing businesses in Uganda, while those of Ugandans collapse easily.
