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Sturgill Simpson Dropped the Johnny Blueskies Album Early on YouTube, and YouTube Commenters Are Stoked

Sturgill Simpson Dropped the Johnny Blueskies Album Early on YouTube, and YouTube Commenters Are Stoked

Mutiny After Midnight—the new full-length from Sturgill Simpson’s alter ego Johnny Blueskies, an instant contender for Album of the Year as well as Somehow Audibly Greasiest Album of the Year—dropped ahead of schedule over the weekend, when Simpson (who’d promised this one would be a streaming-service-spurning physical-only release) threw the whole thing up on YouTube. We are still processing the album itself and its beer-bong cocktail of life-in-the-fast-lane disco, fevered curly-guitar-cord boogie, true-testimonial soul, and possible-final-season-of-American-democracy anxiety. Two things we can say for sure right away, though, are that 1) these songs will absolutely smoke live, and 2) as excited as we are about this album, no one is anywhere near as amped about it as the commenters on YouTube who digested it over the weekend in real time (and in many cases, from the sound of it, may have needed to call out of work on Monday to recuperate.) The saying goes that everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day; on New Sturgill Simpson AKA Johnny Blueskies Day, if these commenters are to be believed, …

Amid Chaos in Mexico, False Images Stoked Fears

Amid Chaos in Mexico, False Images Stoked Fears

new video loaded: Amid Chaos in Mexico, False Images Stoked Fears transcript Back transcript Amid Chaos in Mexico, False Images Stoked Fears Online disinformation proliferated rapidly after the Mexican military killed the country’s top cartel leader, fueling fear and chaos among residents and tourists alike. Mexican officials say some A.I.-generated images and fake news reports may have been linked to criminal actors. “There were images and videos that were not real. People started posting that the gangs were just shooting randomly and killing people in town. That wasn’t true.” “I saw that there were A.I. images of a church downtown being burned. And that really created panic for those of us that live here.” “There’s no official, like, news report. The authorities have not really said much. We’re all just kind of in the dark.” “Get inside the house.” “I’ve owned a drone for several years for content creation purposes. It really became my eyes to be able to know what was happening on the ground. It looked like all of Costco was on fire. …