Author: Blazingcatfur

That’s All, Folks — For Great Movies

All this month, for very good reason, Turner Classic Movies has been celebrating the great movies Warner Bros. gave us these last 100 years.

If you want to see the former glory of a once great nation and its culture in decline, go to a museum. That is, of course, unless the art on display has been tainted or altered by the very forces causing the decay. Because a major ritual for the current Visigoths in power is to erase the accomplishments of the past, as they present both a truth that threatens their control and a quality they cannot hope to match. Hence, they can only deny their existence. Nonetheless, museums still survive and, for the art of motion pictures, one of the best is Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

AI is hijacking these actors’ voices. Can you tell the difference?

Advances in artificial intelligence have allowed software to recreate voices with eerie precision. The technology puts voice actors, often-nameless professionals, in a precarious position.

Companies clamor to use Remie Michelle Clarke’s voice. An award-winning vocal artist, her smooth, Irish accent backs ads for Mazda and Mastercard and is the sound of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, in Ireland.

But in January, her sound engineer told Michelle Clarke he’d found a voice that sounded uncannily like hers someplace unexpected: on Revoicer.com, credited to a woman named “Olivia.” For a modest monthly fee, Revoicer customers can access hundreds of different voices and, through an artificial intelligence-backed tool, morph them to say anything — to voice commercials, recite corporate trainings or narrate books.

Well that’s another “profession” surrendering to AI. There will be “voice appropriation” lawsuits for awhile but the damage is done short of a ban.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Two School Employees are Charged with Blasphemy for Desecrating the Holy Quran

On 15 April, 2023, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against two people working in Government girls’ higher secondary school, EB 66, Arifwala, Punjab.

According to the FIR , sub inspector police, Abid Hussain received a call from Kashif Nadeem, who informed him that two people working in the school had desecrated the Holy Quran.

When he reached the school there were already several people gathered around.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Professors forced into retraction on ‘false’ research accusing employer of pervasive racism

University of Minnesota academics were forced to retract an article they wrote about “structural racism” at the institution because its claims were “inaccurate, misleading, or false,” according to a note on the withdrawn article.

The article in question was written in the journal of Health Services Research by UM employees with doctoral degrees who focus on racial equity: Stuart Grande, a senior lecturer, Janette Dill, an associate professor, and Tongtan Chantarat, a research scientist.

What a grift.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Biden expected to announce 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday

Joe Biden is expected to announce his 2024 re-election campaign on Tuesday, possibly setting the stage for an extraordinary rematch with Donald Trump.

A Tuesday launch would come exactly four years after Biden announced his 2020 presidential bid, in which he warned that the “soul” of the nation was at stake after four tumultuous years of the Trump presidency.

Soul of the nation? President Sleazebag and his degenerate thieving family have revealed the dark underbelly of the deep state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

Prince Harry will ‘sit 10 rows back’ from other royals at King Charles’ coronation and will ‘not hang around’, expert claims

PRINCE Harry will be sitting 10 rows back from the rest of the royals at the coronation and is expected to make a sharp exit, according to a royal expert.

Paul Burrell says there is “no chance” of a reconciliation and that Harry may not even have time to speak to his father or brother during his visit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Poll suggests most Canadians don’t want Charles as King

A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests most respondents (60 per cent) oppose even recognizing Charles as King. Just 28 per cent say they have a favourable view of Charles, while nearly half (48 per cent) do not.

And the news is equally bad when it comes to how they feel about Charles’s wife.

Andy and Harry have made a lasting shambles of the Royal family image by involvement with shady outsiders.

I am not sure people are willing to carry on with the fantasy any longer and reveleations of Charles vast unearned wealth can’t be helping especially given his tendency to woke lecturing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Communist China’s proxy war against faith

… Much of the analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative has focused on its impacts in sub-Saharan Africa, where several countries have faced debt crises as a result of the infrastructure projects. But an underappreciated impact of the Belt and Road Initiative and significant economic ties with China is the potential for Chinese government influence in the human rights realm, including in regards to religious freedom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

Trudeau Foundation meeting in the Prime Minister’s HQ smacks of unseemly special status

I ask myself the following question: how many foundations in the country have access to a room in the Prime Minister’s Building and also have access to five deputy ministers at the same time? There shouldn’t be many. Dimitri Soudas, political analyst and former close associate of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper

“I wish I had another example of a foundation that had such access. Seems like preferential treatment for a foundation that had the name of the father of the current prime minister,” he added.

What did Justin Trudeau know about this roundtable? Nothing, argues the Prime Minister’s Office. “Neither the Prime Minister nor the Prime Minister’s staff attended this meeting. The Prime Minister was not aware of this meeting,” said Alison Murphy, spokesperson for Mr. Trudeau.

Note – Google translate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Far-right Britain First party given Twitter gold tick

Twitter has given a gold tick to Britain First, the far right political organisation, after a shake-up of its verification system under new owner Elon Musk.

The party’s leader, Paul Golding, has also received a blue tick for his account, which means that his posts will be boosted in conversations and will be ranked higher in user searches. Golding was jailed in 2018 for religiously aggravated harassment.

Twitter’s gold tick designates a verified organisation that is a business or non-profit entity, according to the platform’s website. Twitter is charging UK entities £1,140 a month for official gold tick status, while personal accounts are being charged £9.60 for a blue tick.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"far right", Twitter

University of Waterloo advises ChiCom Spies and 5th Columnists they aren’t obligated to talk to CSIS agents

University of Waterloo advises researchers they aren’t obligated to talk to CSIS agents

The University of Waterloo is advising its researchers that they are not required to talk to CSIS agents or give them access to faculty equipment if approached by the spy agency for information on joint research projects with scientists from foreign countries such as China.

In guidelines recently sent to faculty and researchers, the University of Waterloo warned them they could be approached by CSIS agents who “may be concerned that you could be a target of a foreign state or entity, or they may have questions about some of your activities.” The memo also advises them: “You do not have a legal obligation to talk to a CSIS agent.” It later adds. “You must not consent to a search of University of Waterloo property without authorization.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

“Drag Mom” who mentored 11-year-old at Satan-themed pub sentenced to 11 months in prison for 11 child sex felonies

Kelsey Meta Boren – Evil deviant

… She was sentenced to 11 months in jail and five years probation. She will be registered as a sex offender. She will be banned from contact with the victim and will need her probation officer’s permission to have contact with other minors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", Big Tranny

CNN host Don Lemon says television network fired him

Longtime CNN anchor Don Lemon announced Monday he was fired by the network in a move that left him “stunned,” which came less than an hour after Fox News said it had parted ways with host Tucker Carlson in another massive shakeup to the cable news landscape.

Don Lemon fired from CNN, ‘stunned’ by how he found out

Update

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inA Little Good News

San Francisco Target store locks its entire product range behind security glass as crime spirals out of control

A Target store in San Francisco has locked its entire product range behind security glass as crime in the city spirals out of control.

A video posted on TikTok on April 20 shows all of the items in the store locked away from customers.

According to geotagged imagery, some products at the store on Folsom Street were behind glass since at least October of last year, WNCT reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Tucker Carlson out at Fox News, network confirms

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News said Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its popular and controversial host, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting.

The network said in a press release that the last program of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired Friday.

“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the press release from the network said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFox News, WTF?