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An AI-generated track designed to emulate a nonexistent Drake and The Weeknd collaboration has been going viral in recent days, all while criticism on the use of such tech continues to grow among artists and others in the music industry. The track, titled “Heart on My Sleeve,” appears to have originally been shared by a […]
Even by Fox News‘ famously low standards, this latest act of Fox Newsery is shark-jumpingly stupid. Network personality Laura Ingraham, as seen in widely mocked footage on Wednesday, actually carried on an entire televised conversation with a purported “Nevada poll worker” who was cloaked in dark lighting. Adding to the ludicrousness of it all was […]
Trump supporters who have clearly been drinking improbable amounts of the proverbial Kool-Aid believe kneeling in prayer can somehow have a magic effect on math. Thursday night, supporters of Trump—whose catalog of failures includes a botched steak-hawking endeavor and an equally botched re-election attempt—gathered outside the Clark County Election Department in Nevada to drop down […]
“God is not done with California,” Sean Feucht, a self-described “founder of multiple movements” and a “lover of Jesus Christ,” bragged over the weekend. Perhaps to his surprise, neither is COVID-19. Feucht, further described in this CBS Sacramento report as a pastor associated with Bethel Church in Redding, also boasted about an alleged attendance of more than 12,000 […]
Despite no one asking for this, and despite the overwhelming sense that the world is aching to move on from acknowledging the existence of such things at all, Kanye West and Nick Cannon have still decided to share part 2 of their apparently quite long interview. In under four minutes, this part of the discussion […]
A person who finds a mild delay in McMuffin delivery to be so emotionally disruptive that it results in a bout of self-recorded tears is also allowed to roam around, copping it up, presumably with a potentially fatal weapon at their side at all times. As the assortment of related hashtags trending their way onto your […]
A recklessly unfortunate side effect of ongoing COVID-19 fears is the rapid spread of reckless misinformation and impassioned (but no less reckless) breakdowns of conspiracy theories. As your Twitter timeline has likely informed you by now, the latest public figure to engage in the latter is Keri Hilson. Her conspiracy theory of choice is centered around an […]
After receiving some apparently titillating info on multiple hemp cultivation sites, California authorities discovered the sites were housing what they call “illicit marijuana gardens.” In a statement, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said the initial tip kicked off a joint investigation with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. […]
Suckers in America lost an estimated $143 million last year by way of online scams of the would-be romantic variety. That’s a stat now receiving renewed interest in the wake of this month’s announcement from federal officials, per CNN, that 80 people had been charged in connection with a scam operation that successfully snatched millions. Citing […]
Jimmy Kimmel Live is among several shows that have been hit with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fines for the use of emergency alert system tones. The ABC late-night talk show must pay $395,000 for the use of such tones in a 2018 skit in which the presidential alert system of a certain dumbass purported POTUS was […]
