It is our pleasure to announce that the orcas are at it again. After gaining notoriety for their seemingly increased attacks on ships heading into the summer (a few of which actually sunk), vessels have reportedly turned to unconventional methods to ward off the aggressive whales. Unfortunately, for the crews, those methods aren’t working.
According to HuffPost, a catamaran off the Strait of Gibaltrar attempted to scare away a pod of orcas by using heavy metal music. Despite using a specially designed playlist called “Metal for Orcas,” the metal only amped up the aquatic mammals. To the sound of thrashing riffs and guttural vocals, the orcas made a beeline for the rudder and wrecked the crap out of it, making the ship “impossible to steer.”
Turns out, blasting metal music in the water is a terrible idea.
“Initially, the playing of loud sounds underwater might mask the signature sounds of sailboats — but ultimately, the whales would catch on and use it to more easily locate vessels playing it,” marine mammal researcher Andrew Trite told Insider. On top of making it easy for the orcas to find ships (and their rudders), weaponizing sound is just a bad idea all around in regards to marine life. If the music is loud enough, it can permanently damage the hearing of nearby creatures.
“The biggest problem with blasting music underwater of any kind is that it is ultimately just adding more noise pollution to the ocean, which can have detrimental effects on other marine life,” Trite said.
So there you have it. Do not play Metallica at orcas unless you want them to use your boat for a mosh pit, which they will.
Every Monday, Billboard unveils the top 10 songs on the latest Hot 100 chart. The most recent rankings, for the chart dated November 25, are out now, so let’s run down who had this week’s biggest hits.
10. Morgan Wallen — “Thinkin’ Bout Me”
Wallen has been just an inescapable chart presence lately, as he has not one song in this week’s top 10…
9. Morgan Wallen — “Last Night”
…but two, with “Last Night,” a former No. 1 single, and “Thinkin’ Bout Me,” which previously peaked at No. 7.
8. Tate McRae — “Greedy”
Congratulations are in order for McRae: Rising from No. 11 to No. 8 this week, “Greedy” is her first top-10 single. Her previous best was “You Broke Me First,” which topped out at No. 17.
7. Luke Combs — “Fast Car”
Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” is a song everybody knows and loves, and Combs has helped bring the classic track renewed attention with his massively successful cover, which previously peaked at No. 2 and remains in the top 10 this week.
Bryan and Musgraves’ collaboration continues to dominate across the Billboard chart landscape: It’s No. 1 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs charts for a 12th week each and on the Hot Country Songs for an eighth time.
5. Taylor Swift — “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault]”
Swift has had three No. 1 singles since the launch of Midnights in 2022: “Anti-Hero,” “Cruel Summer,” and “Is It Over Now?.” The latter isn’t leading right now, of course, but it’s still showing up strong in the No. 5 spot this week.
4. SZA — “Snooze”
“Snooze” is a dominating force in R&B: Aside from hanging around the top of the Hot 100 for a while, it’s currently No. 1 on the Hot R&B songs chart for a 16th week.
3. Doja Cat — “Paint The Town Red”
Doja’s hit continues to be one of the year’s biggest songs: It’s been on the Hot 100 for a couple months now and even after all this time, it’s still in the top 3.
2. Jack Harlow — “Lovin On Me”
Knocking Taylor Swift out of the No. 1 spot is a big ask, and while Harlow couldn’t quite do it this time, his new single “Lovin On Me” still had a major week as the highest-debuting song on the new chart. The song is the fifth top-10 of his career so far.
1. Taylor Swift — “Cruel Summer”
This is the fifth week at No. 1 for “Cruel Summer,” and it helps move Swift into some historic territory: She’s now spent 34 total weeks at No. 1, which ties her for ninth all time.
This week’s #Hot100 top 10 (chart dated Nov. 25, 2023).
OpenAI, the company that introduced ChatGPT (for better or worse), fired CEO Sam Altman, the man behind the AI tool, in an unexpected shake-up last week, and now everyone is scrambling to pick up the pieces. We all knew that AI would take our jobs, but not in this way.
On Friday, OpenAI announced “leadership changes” which was just a fancy way to say that Altman was fired from his leadership position. The company announced the change in a blog post: “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the statement read.
The post continued, “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” Altman was fired late Friday, though he already has a job lined up at Microsft, who are big investors in the company and were allegedly not happy about OpenAI’s decision to fire Altman. Altman took to Twitter to respond to the news:
i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.
Earlier this year, Altman testified before Congress, highlighting the risks of AI and ChatGPT evolving without proper interference. “We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models,” Altman said in his opening remarks. It seems that Altman’s stance had raised concerns in the company.
Even though Altman has found his next position, CNN seems to think that OpenAI fumbled the firing and the aftermath, and there are only a few ways that the company can get back on track:
With OpenAI’s ChatGPT-like capabilities embedded in Bing and other core products, Microsoft believed it had invested wisely in the promising new tech of the future. So it must have come as a shock to CEO Satya Nadella and his crew when they learned about Altman’s firing along with the rest of the world on Friday evening.
The board angered a powerful ally and could be forever changed because of the way it handled Altman’s ouster. It could end up with Altman back at the helm, a for-profit company on its nonprofit board – and a massive culture shift at OpenAI.
Alternatively, it could become a competitor to Altman, who may ultimately decide to start a new company and drain talent from OpenAI.
Meanwhile, many of Atlman’s co-workers are threatening to quit if Altman doesn’t come back on board, so who knows what will happen.
South African singer Tyla has been one of the biggest breakout artists of 2023. Her song “Water” went from TikTok sensation to Grammy nominations, raising the 21-year-old Johannesburg native’s profile considerably in a relatively short time. Naturally, fans want to know more about her; however, as they’ve learned more, they may have developed some new questions, particularly when they find out she does not identify as “Black.”
No, this isn’t a Mean Girls situation. It’s actually much more nuanced than that — a reminder that the United States isn’t the center of the universe and that race is a constructed concept, and not a very useful or even logical one to begin with.
In Tyla’s native South Africa, race is viewed differently than it is in the States. Whereas in America, race is considered more of a binary (which has become more layered in recent years as groups from Latin America and Asia have grown and indigenous groups have received more recognition), South African views of race are likewise informed by apartheid but also by a more European view.
While indigenous South African groups would be considered Black and descendants of Britsh and Dutch colonists are white, a third group, “Coloured,” refers to South African citizens of mixed ethnicity, often descended from interracial couplings between native Black Africans and white settlers. In addition, people of South Asian descent were grouped into this category until the end of apartheid.
The Population Registration Act of 1950 created these categories based on criteria such as the person’s head hair (as determined by the “pencil test”), skin color, facial features, home language, employment, socioeconomic status, and even their home geography and eating and drinking habits. Eventually, the act was amended to create various subgroups; the act was repealed in 1991 with the end of apartheid, but the thinking that it created remains ingrained in the culture to this day.
So, for Tyla, identifying as “coloured” is both a function of her heritage and of the politics of her homeland. While “colored” was at one point also used in the United States, it referred almost exclusively to people of West African descent, usually the descendants of enslaved peoples. That term was eventually phased out in favor of “African-American” or more broadly, “Black,” but this sort of classification is unique to the United States. As our popular culture becomes more global, though, getting used to learning these other viewpoints will be essential to remaining literate and understanding the art that bonds us all together.
Despite having full creative freedom from Netflix to craft his sprawling space opera, Snyder revealed that Rebel Moon will have a “Snyder Cut,” and apparently, that applies to both installments now. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Snyder opened up about his dual director’s cut for Part One: A Child of Fire and Part Two: The Scargiver. Unlike his infamous debacle of restoring his original version of Justice League, Snyder had Netflix’s support right from the jump.
“This was the first time I had ever been able to make a movie and plan for that,” Snyder told EW. “The cut was not me fighting with them like, ‘Okay, you won’t do what I want. Can I at least release it on DVD?’ It was us going together.”
According to Snyder, the Rebel Moon director’s cuts will be R-rated and be “very hard, very like sexy, violent, crazy, everything’s all at 11.” However, he likened the experience to something more akin to The Lord of the Rings: Extended Editions as opposed to the Justice League debacle because he was directly involved in both versions.
“I’m super proud of the PG-13 version of the movie. I really am. I think it’s really fun and it’s clean and cool,” Snyder said. “But again, just the sort of weirdo darkness of the R-rated version if that was sort of my original thesis for what the movie could be, that’s what we did. That’s what we made in the R-rated version.”
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire starts streaming December 22 on Netflix. A release date for the director’s cut has not been announced.
On November 4, Max posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), “I promise new music is being made and some is already done [shushing emoji] new chapter awaits.” She followed that up on Saturday, November 18, by writing, “Cookin in the studio [chef emoji] won’t be MIA for long.”
I promise new music is being made and some is already done new chapter awaits
Between those two posts, Max posted photos on Instagram and X with the caption, “i would hate me 2 if I were you [shamrock emoji].” Take that for what you will. Most recently, Max posted a video (without audio) to Instagram showing her in the studio. “album 3 mode in full effect [plant emoji, red heart emoji, Bandaid emoji],” she wrote in the caption.
Max finding any time to spend in the studio this year is impressive, given she toured for most of it in support of Diamonds & Dancefloors. Outside of her solo releases, Max also contributed “Choose Your Fighter” to the Grammy-nominatedBarbie: The Album.
Ava Max is a Warner Music artist and the Barbie soundtrack is a Warner Music release. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Now that another season in a Power spin-off is in the books, that being Power Book IV: Force season two following its season finale, we can now gear up for a new Power season. Power Book III: Raising Kanan is set to return after being away from our screens for a little over a year. It’s been a while since we’ve been in the Raising Kanan world, so here’s everything you need to know heading into season three.
When Does Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 3 Come Out?
The third season of Power Book III: Raising Kanan premieres December 1 on STARZ. The third season arrives a little over a year after the second season concluded with a dramatic season two finale on October 23, 2022.
Who Is In The Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 3 Cast?
Much of the main and recurring cast from past seasons of Power Book III: Raising Kanan will return to reprise their roles in season three. This includes Mekai Curtis as Kanan Stark, Patina Miller as Raquel “Raq” Thomas, London Brown as Marvin Thomas, Malcolm Mays as Louis “Lou-Lou” Thomas, Joey Badass as Unique, Shanley Caswell as Shannon Burke, Hailey Kilgore as LaVerne “Jukebox” Thomas, Toby Sandeman as Symphony Bosket, Omar Epps as Malcolm Howard, and Antonio Ortiz as Shawn “Famous” Figueroa.
Some new names to the season three cast include Grantham Coleman as Ronnie Mathis, who, according to Deadline, is Unique’s older brother who was recently released from prison. Mathis is also described as “stoic,” “ruthless,” and “vindictive.” Deadline also reported that season three will add Wendell Pierce as Ishmael “Snaps” Henry and Erika Woods as Stephanie “Pop” Henry. Coleman. Snaps is regarded as a street legend who is a former bank robber and an OG dealer who, along with his wife Pop, take on the role of mentor and financial advisor to Kanan.
What Is Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 3 About?
Here is the official synopsis for season three of Power Book III: Raising Kanan:
Over the last two seasons of “Raising Kanan,” Kanan Stark has slowly learned the truth about not only his mother, but also himself. It has been a tortuous journey for him and everyone around him. With each new revelation, Kanan has been forced to confront his family’s seemingly never-ending web of secrets and lies. He has spent much of this time in a state of denial, but now, Kanan’s blinders are finally off, and he doesn’t like what he sees.
In season three, Kanan finds himself grappling with the very notions of right and wrong. Good and evil. Fidelity and disloyalty. And he’s not alone. Every member of the Thomas family must confront an existential crisis that challenges their very identity. Whether it’s Marvin, who’s still trying to redeem himself, or Raq, who’s finally coming clean, or Lou, who’s wrestling with his own evil, or Jukebox, who’s simply trying to break free from her family’s pathology, they are all attempting to redefine and reinvent themselves.
They won’t all be able to complete this intensely personal quest, but for those who do, the destination may reveal the most terrifying secret of all. There is no right and wrong or good and evil. There are no absolutes. In the end, there’s just you.
Is There A Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 3 Trailer?
Yes, there is a trailer for Power Book III: Raising Kanan season three. You can watch that here:
How To Watch Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 3
Power Book III: Raising Kanan season three episodes will be available to stream weekly through the STARZ app. They will also air weekly on the STARZ television channel.
When Do Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 3 Episodes Come Out?
New episodes in Power Book III: Raising Kanan season three are available to stream on the STARZ app every Friday at 12am ET/PT. The new episodes will also air on the STARZ TV channel at 8pm ET/PT.
‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ will return to STARZ for season three on December 1.
Meghan Markle doesn’t know why Suits became the show of the summer once all nine seasons were added to Netflix, but it did. And now the cast is reuniting. The ATX TV Festival announced on Monday that the 2024 lineup will feature a “retrospective panel with the creatives and cast of Suits,” including creator Aaron Korsh and stars Patrick J. Adams, Sarah Rafferty, and Dulé Hill.
It’s unknown if Markle will take part in the panel, as she’s busy making every British tabloid furious for reasons this American will never understand. A Zoom cameo is possible, but an in-person appearance would be more fun, especially since her husband was recently in the Austin area.
Other highlights of the Austin, Texas-based festival include a Halt and Catch Fire retrospective with creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers, executive producers Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein, and wonderfully-named star Scoot McNairy; and panels with Silo showrunner Graham Yost and Station Eleven executive producer Jessica Rhoades.
The festival will also host “Presidential Forum: On TV, the Industry, and What’s Next,” a rare conversation with TV’s top executives about the current state — and future — of the industry following two historic strikes, the personal and professional philosophies they bring to their individual brands, and how they view their role in an ever-evolving creative landscape. Confirmed panelists include Nicole Clemens, President, Paramount Television Studios; Lisa Katz, President, Scripted Content, NBCUniversal Entertainment; Erin Underhill, President, Universal Television; and Katherine Pope, President, Sony Pictures Television Studios, with additional panelists to be announced soon.
You can buy tickets for the ATX TV Festival (which takes place from May 30 to June 2, 2024) here, including Black Friday deals.
Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus Tour hit Tusla, Oklahoma over the weekend, where the rapper graced fans with nearly a dozen encores of one of his Utopia hits. On Sunday (November 19), social media accounts lit up with footage from the night before exclaiming that Travis had performed the song “Fe!n” 10 times — including at least once joined by the song’s featured artist Playboi Carti. You can check out videos from Saturday night’s Circus Maximus Tour stop in Oklahoma City below.
“Fe!n,” which was produced by Travis and features Playboi Carti and Sheck Wes, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Carti his highest-charting song yet and Travis his 14th top-10 hit.
Meanwhile, another notable moment from the ongoing tour saw Travis indulge in some adorable father-daughter bonding as he brought his daughter Stormi onstage with him as he performed “Mafia” in Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium.
The tour has marked Travis’ first since the Astroworld Festival disaster of 2021, which he addressed in a recent interview. In his first public statement about the incident since its immediate aftermath, Travis told GQ that he’s been “overly devastated” by the deaths. “Those fans were like my family,” he said. “I love my fans to the utmost… It has its moments where it gets rough and…yeah. You just feel for those people. And their families.”
Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus Tour hit Tusla, Oklahoma over the weekend, where the rapper graced fans with nearly a dozen encores of one of his Utopia hits. On Sunday (November 19), social media accounts lit up with footage from the night before exclaiming that Travis had performed the song “Fe!n” 10 times — including at least once joined by the song’s featured artist Playboi Carti. You can check out videos from Saturday night’s Circus Maximus Tour stop in Oklahoma City below.
“Fe!n,” which was produced by Travis and features Playboi Carti and Sheck Wes, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Carti his highest-charting song yet and Travis his 14th top-10 hit.
Meanwhile, another notable moment from the ongoing tour saw Travis indulge in some adorable father-daughter bonding as he brought his daughter Stormi onstage with him as he performed “Mafia” in Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium.
The tour has marked Travis’ first since the Astroworld Festival disaster of 2021, which he addressed in a recent interview. In his first public statement about the incident since its immediate aftermath, Travis told GQ that he’s been “overly devastated” by the deaths. “Those fans were like my family,” he said. “I love my fans to the utmost… It has its moments where it gets rough and…yeah. You just feel for those people. And their families.”
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new chapter awaits
won’t be MIA for long 
