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Billboard 200: Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ Ties For Most Week’s at #1 This Year
Bad Bunny continues to dominate the chart.
For, his album ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ has reached yet another milestone on the covert Billboard 200 chart.
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Taking to press, Billboard announced that ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ had made a return to #1 on this week’s chart for a ninth nonconsecutive week with a total of 105,000 equivalent album units.
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In House of the Dragon, It’s Bad to Be the King
Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine) is the first truly good man we’ve seen sit on the Iron Throne. After eight seasons of Game of Thrones and Robert Baratheon, Joffrey, Cersei, and Daenerys, it’s genuinely weird to see someone ruling Westeros who cares about something more than power or sating their desires.…
‘Facebook Misinformation Is Bad Enough. The Metaverse Will Be Worse’
A political candidate is giving a speech to millions of people. While each viewer thinks they are seeing the same version of the candidate, in virtual reality they are actually each seeing a slightly different version. For each and every viewer, the candidate’s face has been subtly modified to resemble the viewer…. The viewers are unaware of any manipulation of the image. Yet they are strongly influenced by it: Each member of the audience is more favorably disposed to the candidate than they would have been without any digital manipulation.
This is not speculation. It has long been known that mimicry can be exploited as a powerful tool for influence. A series of experiments by Stanford researchers has shown that slightly changing the features of an unfamiliar political figure to resemble each voter made people rate politicians more favorably. The experiments took pictures of study participants and real candidates in a mock-up of an election campaign. The pictures of each candidate were modified to resemble each participant. The studies found that even if 40 percent of the participant’s features were blended into the candidate’s face, the participants were entirely unaware the image had been manipulated.
In the metaverse, it’s easy to imagine this type of mimicry at a massive scale.
At the heart of all deception is emotional manipulation. Virtual reality environments, such as Facebook’s (now Meta’s) metaverse, will enable psychological and emotional manipulation of its users at a level unimaginable in today’s media…. We are not even close to being able to defend users against the threats posed by this coming new medium…. In VR, body language and nonverbal signals such as eye gaze, gestures, or facial expressions can be used to communicate intentions and emotions. Unlike verbal language, we often produce and perceive body language subconsciously….
We must not wait until these technologies are fully realized to consider appropriate guardrails for them. We can reap the benefits of the metaverse while minimizing its potential for great harm.
They recommend developing technology that detect the application of this kind of VR manipulation.
“Society did not start paying serious attention to classical social media — meaning Facebook, Twitter, and the like — until things got completely out of hand. Let us not make the same mistake as social media blossoms into the metaverse.”
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New Video: Bad Bunny – ‘Neverita’
After spending eight weeks atop the Billboard 200, Bad Bunny is hot the promotional trail for his album ‘Un Verano Sin Ti.’
Case in point, he has returned with a new music video for one of the project’s tracks, ‘Neverita.’
The new visual sees the Puerto Rican rapper pay tribute to merengue legend Elvis Crespo with the ’90s-inspired video.
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Drama! Sparkle Denies Niece’s Testimony That She Brought Her to R. Kelly with Bad Intent
Disgraced singer R. Kelly‘s fate hangs in the balance as his sex abuse trial in Chicago cranks into full gear.
For many observers, the fallen star was dealt a devastating blow when the prosecution called a key witness to the stand – the woman at the center of his now infamous sex tape.
Now 37, the woman’s account of her experience is considered crucial to the current case.
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