Uhm, less than zero, actually. They’ve been found, on multiple occasions, to actively protect child predators within the church from any kind of scrutiny.

I imagine at some point, an entire industry (for better or worse) is going to spring up around this kind of technology, where people and businesses and license likenesses for uses in ‘creative’ projects, whether that’s an individual’s appearance or their voice, or things of that nature. And, of course, bootleg…

You mean other than the fact that he actively preached *FOR* many of the things Conservatives are actively attacking all the time? Things like taking care of the sick and the poor, educating and training people, distributing society’s wealth and resources more equally, taking care of one another, not hoarding...I…

The thing to keep in mind is that 230 is what allows every site that permits users to contribute to exist.

Once again illustrating that the only ‘free speech’ Conservatives accept is their own.

You know who was, by Conservative’s definition, one of the wokest mother f***ers in human history, someone who stood up and unapologetically demanded social responsibility and equality from everyone, who was diametrically opposed to and died fighting against everything Conservatives stand for?

Google doesn’t produce any of its hardware. It doesn’t produce any of its goods. It’s a mobile-only OS, a search engine, and an advertising and cloud-computing platform. Microsoft makes an OS, along with entertainment and office software, and a cloud-computing business. Amazon is an advertising and cloud-computing…

The oil wells. The derricks. The ships and train cars. The refineries. The transport trucks. And the politicians to mandate their usage.

Standard Oil didn’t just control a single part of the market. It controlled every facet of everything connected to that market. Standard Oil was like Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Samsung, TSCM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and countless other companies and corporations ALL ROLLED INTO ONE. “Big Tech” is not comparable.

Let’s be clear: “big” tech does *NOT* look like Standard Oil. The ‘market’ space it occupies is still hugely fragmented by multiple large and small companies/corporations, and the ‘barrier to entry’ for that market is still small enough that almost anyone can come in and upset the status quo. Now, is it headed in the…

Is DeSantis Using Racism to Win the Presidency?

Because *COST* -- recycled plastics is a replacement for plastic.

The problem always boils down to cost: does this new option cost more or less than the plastics it’s supposed to replace? It doesn’t matter how environmentally friendly a new plastic alternative is if it’s too costly for industry to adopt. They simply won’t switch as long as the choice is up to them.

There’s one direction with some legitimacy that it *could* go — corporate espionage, because self-aware, self-directed AGI is not something other corporations aren’t going to try to get their hands on — but that doesn’t mean it’s a direction that would be interesting to explore as a movie.

And, accepting reality, this bill will go nowhere, because if Democrats are for it, Republicans are against it. Especially since this is meant to counter a judicial overturning that Republicans spent decades fighting, lying, and cheating to achieve.

I’m guessing Clea and Strange, and maybe Chavez, are going to play a larger role in folding the X-men into the MCU. Because that’s not going to be some small feat, given how completely out of sync the MCU is with the X-men franchise at this point. They can’t just ‘appear’ out of nowhere while somehow still having been…

I’m going to guess that part of the problems underlying 2077 is that the CD Projekt team hit hit it big with Witcher 3 and the people in charge of the company lost sight of the decades-long process — the original Witcher game started development 20+ years ago! — that brought them to that success in the first place.…

So, in other words, the right hand didn’t talk to the left hand. Part of the development team was building a ‘shooter on rails’ experience while another part of the team was building an open-world exporatorium. And NEITHER team communicated enough to identify an obvious incompatibility with those two approaches.

Internal memos from many ‘big names’ within Fox “News” — including Tucker Carlson — deliberately engaged in manipulating the stock valuation of the company, deceiving investors about critical *known* lies being peddled by Fox News staffers that could cost the company billions in lawsuits. Otherwise known as Securities…

So...ChatGOP, dedicated to bringing everyone his racist drivel, anti-woke insanity, toxic disinformation, and generalized stupidity? Because it’s not like he has anything ELSE to say.