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May 4, 2023
HOW WILL AI IMPACT POP MUSIC? Rick Beato on The AI Effect: A New Era in Music and Its Unintended Consequences (Video).
Flashback to my 2004 Tech Central Station article: The Making of a Pop Star, 2010.
I was off by about 15 years, but a Max Headroom-style totally synthetic pop star will happen.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Aerospace Company Airbus Designs New Space Station With Artificial Gravity.
READER FAVORITE: DASH Rapid Egg Cooker: 6 Egg Capacity Electric Egg Cooker. #CommissionEarned
WAR ON THE FUTURE: James Pethokoukis: The FTC’s Lina Khan vs. GenAI.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Joint venture announced to build ‘underwater space station of the ocean.’
SPACEX/STARLINK KICKED THIS REVOLUTION OFF: Answering the Call: How Apple Started Working with Satellite to Save Lives. “It wasn’t that long ago that Apple was not part of the satellite ecosystem. It is one of the most revered companies in the world, and while a lot of the industry uses Apple products in their daily life, connecting Apple and the satellite industry had never been done before. But that all changed late last year, when Apple inked a deal with Globalstar to bring its Emergency SOS via satellite to iPhone 14 users, providing access to emergency services to people that are off the grid and away from a terrestrial and wireless connection.”
ED SHEERAN WINS MARVIN GAYE SONG COPYRIGHT CASE: “A jury in New York has ruled that British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is not liable for copyright infringement in a case that has been closely watched by the global entertainment industry. The case centered on whether Sheeran ripped off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ and will be seen as a major victory for recording artists.”
BREAKING: Kim Gardner Has Resigned.
Earlier on Thursday, we wrote about St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner seeking a motion to dismiss the an attempt to remove her from office. The process began on February 23 when the Missouri Attorney General’s office filed the quo warranto—which as my colleague Susie Moore explained, stemmed from “serious allegations of malfeasance on the part of her office”—after a request that Gardner resign immediately.
Then in late April, a St. Louis judge lowered the boom on Gardner, writing that her office was a “rudderless ship of chaos”:
[St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Noble]….held that there was sufficient evidence to find that Gardner and Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Desilets had acted with “intentional disregard for the judicial process” and announced that he would be appointing a special prosecutor to pursue a case of “indirect criminal contempt” against them both.
Garner’s filing failed on Thursday, however. But now, she has resigned.
As Tom Cotton wrote in 2021: Recall, Remove and Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.
SELF DEFENSE: Verbal De-Escalation Is A Learned Skill. The very first lesson of my karate class in high school was this. Lewis Simerly quoted “a mild reply turneth aside wrath” and made us practice responding to threats in ways that weren’t wimpy but weren’t provocative either. Then we learned to punch and kick because hey, that doesn’t always work.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Comedy Coward: Roy Wood Jr. Trembles Before VP Harris. “A comedian barely lays a finger, let alone a whole glove on the second most powerful woman on the planet, and he’s shaking in his shoes.”
THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT:
To be fair though, it least Schiff is finally admitting he’s one of the bad guys and a terrorist: The destruction of Alderaan was completely justified.
ANHEUSER-BUSCH KNOWS WHAT IT HAS TO DO TO MAKE THE PAIN STOP:
Bud Light fell into the same trap that many other brands fall into, thinking that the leftist perspective is the reigning perspective in our culture and, as such, allowed a woman who had no business being in charge of marketing for Bud Light in the first place to do something that Americans are clearly insulted by.
The CEO can claim “misinformation” about what’s going on and have confidence about the brand’s recovery all day. This isn’t just a reaction to “one can” with “one influencer” on it. This boycott is now a movement, and it doesn’t seem to be losing steam, at least not yet.
A-B is going to bear this scare for a very, very long time but it can begin the healing process by simply apologizing for what it did. It should come out and tell Americans that it’s sorry that it even gave the time of day to such a divisive influencer who represents something that is hurting people everywhere. It needs to come out and vow to never do it again.
What it chooses to do to make that apology seem more concrete is up to it, but no matter how you swing it, it needs to begin with “we’re sorry.”
The issue is that getting this apology will be like trying to pull a tooth from a very awake badger. While A-B’s customer base primarily consists of red-blooded Americans, they are afraid of the leftist machine just like every other corporation is. Apologizing for putting Mulvaney on the can will be a very loud choosing of sides and once they do, they can kiss their ESG score goodbye. This would be financially damaging to them in a very big way as various investment institutions that prioritize ESG obedience will suddenly not be interested in giving them the time of day.
If an Anheuser-Busch spokesman apologizes, the brand will take a brief, but huge hit on social media from the leftist mob — who don’t drink Bud Light, anyway — but the mob will quickly move on to something else to be angry about. In the meantime, as John Ekdahl tweets, “The biggest problem isn’t even the boycott; it’s that they’ve become a cultural punchline. This is now like having an AOL email address or driving a minivan. People avoid it so their buddies don’t rip them. Not sure how you fix that as a brand.”
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A REGION HERE AND A REGION THERE AND PRETTY SOON YOU’RE TALKING THE WHOLE COUNTRY: The regional banking crisis is expanding.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: About That So-Called Assassination Attempt on Putin…
TOO HOT FOR THE BABYLON BEE: God help us. Veep to tackle AI challenge.
SPACE: Space Development Agency Targets Tranche 2 Transport Layer Launches for 2026. “The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) is targeting launches of its Tranche 2 data communications Transport Layer (T2TL) Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in 2026 as part of the future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).”
BANKERS LOOK AT REGULAR PEOPLE SIDEWISE WHEN WE NEED 20 GRAND TO RE-SHINGLE THE ROOF: Biden Begs Bankers for $1 Billion Campaign Infusion.
HOW SMALL-BATCH BRANDY opened the way for the bourbon boom.
FASTER, PLEASE: Discovery suggests route to safer pain medications.
THE HARDEST WORKING WOMAN IN POLITICS! Harris to meet with CEOs about artificial intelligence risks.
Why, it’s as if, “Joe Biden has set Kamala Harris up to fail, a passive-aggressive form of revenge for her shivving him in that first Democratic presidential-primary debate.”