Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:25 a.m. No.20094261   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20094238

muh means my. not anons definition.

 

why do you think I am trying to fool anyone?

why do you think I am trying to 'blend in'. I post daily, get notables, and ask why a few clowns use language that makes them sound ignorant on purpose. No need to 'fool' or blend.

Kek!

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:28 a.m. No.20094271   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4280 >>4320 >>4503

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/ai-generated-news-anchors-to-be-part-of-new-national-news-channel-premiering-next-year

 

AI-generated news anchors to be part of new national news channel premiering in 2024

 

AI sign displayed on a phone screen, a silhouette of a paper in shape of a human face and a binary code displayed on a screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on January 15, 2023. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty

 

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An upcoming news station will be broadcasting the first ever AI-generated news anchors to viewers across America next year.

 

New Los Angeles-based station Channel 1, which will launch in 2024, aims to be the first nationally syndicated news station to use AI avatars instead of human anchors.

 

DailyMail.com reported that the new station’s news segments will use a mix of AI-generated people, digital avatars compiled using doubles of real actors, and actual human anchors for the channel’s most important reports.

 

Channel 1 has provided a glimpse of its future content, sharing a video demonstration of the channel’s upcoming content on its website which depicts computer-generated anchors reporting the news like real human beings would.

 

Initially, the news station will roll out free ad-supporting streaming apps early next year, where users will be able to access the channel through their Crackle or Tubi accounts.

 

By the summer, Channel 1 plans to have its own app. There are also plans for the app to develop a translation feature so that it can become a global channel.

 

Channel 1 founder Adam Mosam recently told DailyMail.com this is his chance "to get out in front of" the wave of artificial intelligence innovation and "create a responsible use of the technology."

 

Mosam’s claims come amid a growing concern that the public has over the rise of AI technology in daily life. A recent Pew Research survey revealed 52 percent of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI’s growing prevalence.

 

The founder noted that Channel 1 will be transparent about what footage used in reports is real and what is AI-generated.

 

Mosam also stated that humans will be involved in every step of his station’s reporting process to ensure the accuracy of the content.

 

"We do have people in the loop, they just end up being more efficient," he told the outlet.

 

Mosam also explained what sources Channel 1 will use for reports. They include legacy media outlets, freelance journalists, as well as public records and government documents – around which AI-generated news stories will be crafted.

 

The founder also described how Channel 1 will provide a more personalized news experience for the viewers, allowing them to choose which stories they want to see.

 

"The average person watches 25 minutes of news a night on cable, so that might be 9 or 10 stories. If we can generate 500 stories and choose the right 9 or 10 for you, then we're going to do a better job of informing you, showing you what you're looking for in your allotted time," he added.

 

After a while, the app will learn what viewers are picking and be able to recommend a personalized feed.

 

Mosam did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:30 a.m. No.20094285   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4305 >>4324

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1736775469079330841

 

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

JUST IN – Honor guard collapses on live TV in front of the casket of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

9:48 AM · Dec 18, 2023

 

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1736775469079330841

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:32 a.m. No.20094293   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4306 >>4332 >>4503

CDC Will Now Screen You for COVID, Flu, and RSV at 4 Major Airports

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/cdc-will-now-screen-you-for-covid-flu-and-rsv-at-4-major-airports/ar-AA1jy4dj9

 

If you're a frequent traveler, you've probably noticed that some airports already offer COVID testing—but effective immediately, health screenings are expanding. CNN reports those testing centers, which are operated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will now also screen for more than 30 different types of pathogens, including the flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and other respiratory viruses.

 

RELATED: Doctor Reveals COVID Symptoms in Patients Who Haven't Gotten a Fall Booster.

 

The CDC's Travelers' Health Branch oversees the Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program, which was first initiated in 2021. Since then, the program has evolved to track new subvariants of COVID, as well as other pathogens. These are detected through wastewater samples and voluntary nasal swabs.

 

As we encroach on one of the busiest travel times of the year, Travelers' Health Branch chief Cindy Friedman, MD, tells CNN that instituting a genomic surveillance program at airports can help detect "new and emerging infections."

 

CNN reports that the CDC's traveler genomic surveillance program will "test for more than 30 bacteria, antimicrobial resistance targets and viruses including influenza A and B, and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV."

 

The program will roll out at four major international airports across the U.S.: Boston Logan, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International, and John F. Kennedy (JFK) in New York. Travelers are invited to participate in a voluntary nasal swab upon arrival. While participation isn't mandatory, Friedman did note a higher number of samples could lead to early detection.

According to CNN, over 37,000 nasal samples have been collected thus far. Passengers were traveling from over 135 countries, and the CDC has sent more than 14,000 samples back for further analysis.

 

At the end of the day, Friedman explained the expanded testing is designed to help determine what kind of viruses are coming in and out of the U.S., and if they have the potential to be as dangerous as COVID.

 

"There are a lot of blind spots globally where there's limited testing and monitoring," she told CNN. "In general, our focus is on airports that are international hubs, and have flights coming in from a broad array of international locations."

 

So, if you're traveling this holiday season, consider spending a few extra minutes in the terminal and volunteering for a screening.

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:33 a.m. No.20094303   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4310

"today and almost everyday…"

The US government is deploying 100s of millions of radioactive GMO FLIES in California in some bizarre experiment.

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:34 a.m. No.20094307   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4317 >>4318 >>4503

another ship

 

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1736749746583134699

 

Visegrád 24

@visegrad24

BREAKING:

 

The Houthi rebels in Yemen have struck a tanker vessel near the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait

 

The Swan Atlantic tanker was sailing from Saudi Arabia to Reunion, carrying biodiesel.

 

25 people were on board the ship when the missile hit.

8:06 AM · Dec 18, 2023

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:36 a.m. No.20094318   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4346 >>4503

>>20094307

https://twitter.com/IranObserver0/status/1736778171838554483

 

Iran Observer

@IranObserver0

⚡️BREAKING

 

The West is heading for economic disaster

 

Euronav has suspended its activities in the Red Sea

 

The company is the world's leading tanker company in the maritime transport and storage of crude oil.

 

Euronav has a major presence in American and European ports.

9:59 AM · Dec 18, 2023

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 9:40 a.m. No.20094336   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4347 >>4503

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok

.

@WSSchools

sent out a memo to employees that they can’t put up Christmas decorations, play Christmas music, or dress up for Christmas.

 

Meanwhile they proudly celebrate pride month in their schools.

 

Can’t celebrate Christmas but it’s okay to celebrate who adults like to have s*x with!

11:26 AM · Dec 17, 2023

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https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1736437620706771054

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 10:01 a.m. No.20094463   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4466 >>4470 >>4487 >>4496

'Operation Prosperity Guardian' - Pentagon To Launch Expansive Naval Coalition To Defend Red Sea Passage

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-trade-risk-shippers-shun-red-sea-over-houthis-attacks

 

Update(1150ET): A US-led naval coalition is finally coming together to protect international shipping transit in the Red Sea and vital Bab al-Mandab Strait, per a breaking development from Politico's chief Pentagon correspondent: "The Pentagon is expected to announce tomorrow the formation of Operation Prosperity Guardian, a new task force to protect shipping from Houthi attacks in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea, per DOD official," writes Lara Seligman on X.

 

"The operation will be within the framework of the existing Combined Maritime Force 153, a partnership of 39 nations focused on counter piracy and counter terrorism in the Red Sea."

 

Days ago it was reported that the Pentagon was looking to cobble together the 'broadest possible' coalition task force, amid what's now become daily Iran-backed Houthi attacks on commercial vessels. The Houthis have also launched rockets and drones into southern Israel at various times, triggering US warship intercepts.

 

Just hours ago, we reminded readers of Zoltan Poszar's prediction of central-bank-analogized 'military protection' and said it's soon to become a reality… and just like that, it has:

 

Protection is a conceptual counterpart to par. When you decide to take money out of a sight deposit, you expect the same amount back that you put in (par).

 

When you sail foreign cargo from port A to port B, you expect to unload the same amount of cargo that you onloaded.

 

Banks can deliver par on deposits most of the time. When not, central banks step in to help.

 

Commodity traders can deliver foreign cargo from port A to port B most of the time, but when not, the state intervenes again: not the monetary arm, but the military arm of the state.

 

What central banks are to the protection of par promises, the military branch is to the protection of shipments: foreign cargo needs to sail on sea routes and through choke points like the Strait of Hormuz, and “par” in this context means being able to sail from here to there freely, safely, and without undue delays…

 

It has also emerged that Australia is expected to play a major role in Red Sea operations in the context of deepening ties with the US related to the AUKUS deal.

 

U.S. warships currently operating in the Red Sea https://t.co/iUnBov1hkR pic.twitter.com/bqNwlDq18M

 

— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) December 18, 2023

Rabobank explains in the following…

 

Australia is reportedly in talks with the Pentagon over a US request to send an Australian warship to the Red Sea to assist in dealing with Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have been disrupting commercial shipping in the region and launching missile and drone strikes against US targets and their allies. This request comes just days after Congress passed laws enabling the sale of Virginia class submarines to Australia under the terms of the AUKUS pact.

 

The agreement marks just the second time that the United States has shared nuclear secrets with another country (on purpose, at least), so it appears that there is an element of “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” going on here. This is not without its complications, as many members of Australia’s political establishment (particularly within the ruling Labor Party) still cling to dreams of ‘strategic autonomy’ of the kind that doesn’t even work for Europe.

 

Their fear is that AUKUS, and an Australian warship shooting down drones in the Red Sea, further locks Australia in as an organ of US foreign policy, which it probably does. But really, this is par for the course and probably just the modern incarnation of Australia’s long-running policy of having ‘great and powerful friends’. Quite aside from the diplomatic horse-trading that accompanies it, disruption of shipping in the Red Sea is a big problem, and Europe has the most to lose. 150 years of supply chain improvement risks being unwound as major shipping companies redirect vessels around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid traversing the region to pass through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean.

 

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Amid further attacks and reroutings…

 

Suez update: 46 container ships now have diverted around the Cape of Good Hope rather than transiting the Red Sea. pic.twitter.com/4zaTXn3LO1

 

— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) December 18, 2023

…we look at the true scale of the Houthi attacks on MidEast tankers.

 

p1

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 10:01 a.m. No.20094466   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4470

>>20094463

We suspect the market is underestimating the impact that S&P Global's Jennifer Gnana, Kelly Norways, and Mohammed Al-ansare detail below,

 

Cape transport option adds 40% to voyage distance

 

Houthis targeting tankers, container, cargo shipping

 

Container rates rise to 2023 high

 

Major shipping companies paused transiting the Middle East's critical Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint for seaborne trade Dec. 15 after repeated attacks by Yemen's Houthi militants threatened to upend global trade flows.

 

Danish shipping giant A.P Moller-Maersk which accounts for 15% of the global container freight market suspended voyages passing through the Bab al-Mandeb until further notice. Hapag-Lloyd which controls 7% of the container market also paused traffic through the Red Sea until at least Dec. 18 after one of its ships was attacked by Houthis.

 

Hapag-Lloyd's Liberia-flagged Al Jasrah containership caught fire in the Red Sea on Dec. 15 after being hit by a missile from Houthi rebels in Yemen. The attack came a day after the Houthis attacked the Maersk ship Gibraltar on Dec 14 in a near-miss by a cruise missile.

 

The suspensions are the latest sign major ship charterers who in recent weeks have deployed armed guards to safeguard transit through Bab al-Mandeb are beginning to reconsider using the narrow strait through which 10% of global seaborne oil flows.

 

The Houthis have threatened to attack any ships with Israeli ownership or bound for one of the country’s ports. As a result, all commercial ships have come under attack, from car carriers to tankers and dry bulkers, including many with no obvious connection to Israeli trade.

 

"The pattern I see [in the] last few days is more attacks on all these container line big boys like MSC, Maersk, NYK Line, Hapag-Lloyd. If you scare them, then you stop hundreds of their ships," Luv Menghani, a shipbroker with Dubai-based BluePeak Commodities and Shipping, said.

 

Maersk's instruction to its ships to avoid the Red Sea "suggests an escalation in the response to the Houthi attacks," Gregory Brew, an analyst with Eurasia Group, said.

 

"Yesterday's attacks suggest the Houthis are broadening their attacks are becoming more indiscriminate, rather than focusing just on ships owned by Israeli companies or bound for Israeli ports," he added.

 

Trade Flows

The 20-mile-wide Bab al-Mandeb which lies between the Horn of Africa and Gulf peninsula connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. It accounted for 8.8 million b/d of total oil flows in the first half of 2023, according to the US Energy Information Administration. LNG shipments through the strait were 4.1 billion cf/d during the same period, EIA data showed.

 

 

The suspension of the Red Sea route by the two shipping companies followed a notice to their fleets on Dec. 14 to use the longer Cape of Good Hope as an option, a move that adds 40% to the voyage distance.

 

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East had already caused some carriers in the past few weeks to avoid the Suez Canal in the interest of security, with the accumulation of attacks from Yemeni rebels leading liner companies to re-route ships via the Cape of Good Hope (CGH) to avoid hostilities impacting container ship traffic in the Red Sea.

 

According to live AIS data tracking from S&P Global Commodities at Sea, Eastbound vessels MSC Diana and Zenith Lumos have traveled via the Cape of Good Hope as of Dec. 12, having trans-shipped in Tangier and Algeciras respectively.

 

p2

Anonymous ID: bddb21 Dec. 18, 2023, 10:02 a.m. No.20094470   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20094466

>>20094463

On Westbound trade, the Maersk Camden, Maersk Campton and MSC Virgo have all diverted via the CGH, despite recent historical vessel tracking showing previous movements have been through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

 

With the Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd announcement, other carriers could be primed to follow suit in making public their stance against further Red Sea shipments whilst the situation is still volatile.

 

"Despite the complications it would cause with our shippers in terms of delivery and transit times, what is most important is the dialogue we have with our crew in our ships," a carrier source told S&P Global Commodity Insights.

 

War risk

Freight forwarders are also increasing rates on shipments. For example, a container bound for the Middle East will now attract a war risk surcharge of $100/teu on dry and reefer cargo, according to a document seen by S&P Global.

 

Several carriers have begun to accrue war risk surcharges on passages through the Red Sea. Zim Integrated Shipping Services (Zim) an Israeli carrier based in Haifa has increased freight rates on its Asia-Mediterranean service to cover the rising costs of securing its vessels.

 

Container rates for key shipping lanes from North Asia westbound will likely be given increased support should more carriers follow suit. An estimated additional 10-15 days for delivery times could be seen in the market, stripping out already weak supply due to carriers pursuing aggressive blank sailing strategies in the build-up to the Lunar New Year period where demand increases.

 

Container rates for shipments from North Asia to the UK a route which uses the Red Sea and Suez Canal have hit record highs for 2023, according to assessments by S&P Global Platts.

 

The recent surge in attacks on the oil product tanker and container vessels moved the needle on oil prices. Platts-assessed Dated Brent up at $77.085/b on Dec. 15, up just under 1% on week.

 

Vandana Hari, founder of Singapore-based Vanda Insights said "shipping will often be the canary in the coalmine" with geopolitical tensions set to remain center-stage for 2024.

 

 

LPG flows

The threat to shipping has also impacted charterers bound on shorter routes for Yemen.

 

Sources told S&P Global that ship charterers contracted to deliver liquefied petroleum gas to Yemen which has increased shipments of the fuel are reluctant to set sail due to fear of attack.

 

For example, an LPG vessel carrying a 44,000-ton cargo bound for Yemen and chartered by a Dubai-based company recently refused to set sail amid safety concerns from the crew, said the sources.

 

The crew's refusal to sail to Yemen comes amid an uptick in LPG buying by the war-torn country. Yemen received 46,000 tons of LPG in December, entirely from Iran, according to S&P Global Commodities at Sea. The LPG import is nearly double the volume of the last shipment Yemen received in July, shipping data showed.

 

With the latest escalation, tanker rates for Yemen are also rising, a shipbroking source said.

 

"One vessel below 15,000-ton dead weight, old built, transporting gasoline from the UAE to Hodeidah in Yemen used to charge $12,000-$13,000 per day. Now they charge $16,000-$17,000 per day," said the source.

 

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