I agree. This is completely in line with “the corporation said they would be nice.” line of thinking that has fucked this country.

“To the contrary, the record evidence points to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content. The motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DENIED.”

There is nothing special or nefarious about this. Once she goes to see her case manager for the first time, they will adjust her release date. For her, since she is serving more than 12 months, she gets “good time.” This is roughly 15% off (54 days for every 365 days of prison term) her sentence which everyone gets…

2 clicks is what I’d expect. One to cancel, and one to say “Are you sure you want to cancel?”

Once again, there’s this urge to jump to AI because it can do SOMETHING, but there’s no indication that it can really do it GOOD or RIGHT or CORRECTLY.

They announce before the actor is visible on location shoots.  Not much point in announcing afterwards.

AI writing is one the things the Writers Guild of America is fighting against in their current negotiations (that they’re about to strike over.)

I don’t think the average person actually WANTS to read AI articles.

People need to quit talking about this in absolutes. Not every job can be remote, like teaching, and not every job needs to plant your ass in a seat in an awful office. Almost like there’s nuance. 

Residents west of the Schuylkill River are unaffected by the spill as well as some areas in the northwest. As the article stated, the amount is very small and the likelihood of being poisoned is remote, but that didn’t stop people from running around like their hair was on fire. My cell phone was blowing up for hours w…

After watching that clip, I’m reminded less about the Queen’s death and more about the fact that all Twitch streamers have to performatively scream every 30 seconds to entertain their 12 year old fans.

Well then you should be happy, at least in the US AI/ML generated works are not eligible for copyright protection.

I got $5.27. Not even worth cashing, so I’ll probably get it framed and put on the wall for the lulz.

It’s a journalism abbreviation that means “to come”. It means the writer or editor was supposed to go back and replace the “TK” text with some other, more meaningful and/or well-researched text before publishing. It’s deliberately misspelled, I think the idea being it’s supposed to stand out more that way and be…

Aliens. Can we not be stupid for just a few fucking minutes? Is that asking too much?

the good news here is that VRBPAC just approved a yearly update model for COVID vaccinations like we do with flu -- but we can expect yearly COVID vaccinations to be *much* more effective on average than the flu vaccine which even in 2023 is a bit of a dice roll.

The thing about urban walkability is that you need to start with “urban” and lots of places don’t fit that description.

“Auto companies and mining companies, the last companies on earth anyone would think of as being part of the climate solution, now have the opportunity to present themselves as climate saviors,” she said.

It cannot be stressed enough that nuclear fission reactors are already a solution to “humankind’s quest for a reliable, zero-carbon energy source.” Fusion would be great, but why wait?

Yes, I’m aware. He decided that was the explanation he was going to go with — that he cared more about not offending bigots than not offending the intelligence of Doctor Who fans. I don’t buy it, though, because he *also* said he felt it would be disrespectful to the drag community, and this claim requires having a…