The irony is they’re promoting a dystopian future with their “utopian” vision. Go look at the individual “projects” and you just see Saudi Arabia wanting to be the destination for the superrich tourist. They aiming for a Dubai for the people who see Dubai as too pedestrian and chintzy.

They’re creating a Disney World…

If a person puts a filter on someone else’s picture and tries to sells to sell that as his own, we object. It doesn’t matter that they changed every single pixel. If someone edited their own movie out of clips of other movies and tried to sell it, they’d never get away with it. If someone were to freehand draw a…

They do have ones that use free or licensed works and I am fine with those. As others have pointed out, the technology isn’t going away.

The current AI programs are just really advanced mashup machines. The have literally no ability to create outside of mashing up their learned database of images. Unlike a real human,…

My biggest issue is the way people are treating the legally questionable deployment of new technology as inherent and therefore excusable to the technology itself.

The biggest problem with AI art generation is it’s a product (not a person) pieced together almost entirely out of the uncompensated work of others. I’m…

I didn’t realize until now but Transformers has needed a dose of “taking itself less seriously” for awhile. I like that this movie does that while setting the stage for the tragic civil war to come. Certainly better than an ominous movie that treats every line and scene as some melodramatic portent like so many of the…

Very much like how “A Quality of Mercy” from Strange New Worlds shows that as understanding, diplomatic, and empathetic a captain Pike was, a different kind of captain was needed for that mission. One built for a more hostile period in Federation history who can better adapt his ideals to the necessities of the times.

You’re missing the point. This isn’t a movie about the larger causes of the war. It’s a movie about the horrors and realities of war, from the perspective of war correspondents, filtered through a US cultural lens. It’s about taking events that Americans usually see as distant, geopolitical things and showing what…

“Less government for you, not for me”

That’s how you entrench injustice. So normalize your preferred state that you can just point to it and claim it’s “natural” or “neutral”.

Same reason why no one seriously questions our economic system. Even the most committed “socialist” just wants to tinker around the margins, not actually eliminate capitalism. We’ve…

When I hear the exact same language (word for word) coming from a billionaire that I hear from a reddit shitposter, there are only two possible conclusions:

1) Billionaires prove the lie that their tremendous wealth and power has any correlation with more knowledge or intelligence.
or
2) Assholes like him have been very…

I imagine Greenland responding, “No thank you. Leave me out of that particular crazy bullshit. That’s definitely a YOU problem.”

I automatically assume the worst about anyone in a pristine pickup without a tow hitch.

Batman not killing is unrealistic. Almost as unrealistic as a a trust fund baby spending billions to “clean up” his city by becoming a high-tech combination of a violent street fighter and a stage magician and achieving anything besides getting arrested or killed.

No one is shaming anyone for having a nuclear family. No one is objecting to them being portrayed or existing in media. The only people objecting to anything are bigots who can’t stand to be reminded that these other people exist. You portray their very acknowledgement in public life as an attack on your own choices.…

So what I’m hearing is you can’t see past skin color, sexual orientation, or gender identity to the point that it’s all you see.

You’ve also perfectly demonstrated your that your definition speaks volumes about you because I’m guessing you call people, policies, institutions, and anything else you don’t like “woke”.…

Define “woke” in a way that doesn’t make you sound like a bigot. Be the first to pull it off. I dare you.

Aperture56 had the best response by far but I think there’s another issue with your premise.

Most people don’t like every single case of artistic expression. Most people don’t even like every genre. Even when it comes to enjoying art, we have preferences that enable one person to find joy in something utterly…

I think they main reason they were so determined to hang onto Kang is I think they wanted they next few BBEG to be tied to Reed Richards so he could be firmly established as a pivotal hero and the spiritual successor to Tony Stark. All so they can culminate with the Maker as the ultimate villain further down the line.…

This perfectly encapsulates the issue with Chappelle these days. He’s someone who absolutely should know you don’t just jump onto a stage uninvited. He has been a victim of it and has said a lot about the subject. But when HE does it, it’s fine and anyone ELSE who has a problem with it doesn’t properly appreciate…

Which is scarier?
A) Your phone listening to you and tailoring your ads to you.
B) You talked to someone about a completely random subject last night at a party. Data sent by apps on your phone showed you were in close proximity to someone with whom you share multiple social media connections. They looked up the subject…