“I think when some people look at this robot they see a useless gadget,“ Kriegman said. “I see the birth of a brand new organism.”

That kid is gonna grow up to be president

That kid gets it.

Nobody’s asking the real question here, which is:  What if a genie DID have a butt instead of a dick?

The Pretty Reckless has a few bangers in their catalog & she has a good rock voice, so I think she made the right call.

Because I make creative product for a living. And put my name on it as a point of pride for my professional achievement. I wouldn’t take kindly to anybody stealing my creative product and not even giving me credit for it. Not odd at all.

That is odd.  Why?  Why focus on the product rather than the creative process?  Isn’t the act of creation valid without asserting ownership over what is created?

I would. Just like I said when my comment seemed to disappear from the Wikipedia/AI scraping post a couple of days back, at least Wikipedia gives you a citation.

You raise some interesting points. I do publish creative work on the internet and I am not bothered by it being used to train A.I. In a capitalist society everything is commodified and that seems to be the biggest issue creatives have with A.I.  Without the commodification aspect, would anyone really care?  Why is the…

I don't know how they can call this possible battery. It's clearly not battery. It is microphone.

The cross section of your wrist is probably about 20 cm^2. If the elastic bands suspending the rice bags make contact over less area, maybe you think they feel heavier than your hands because there is a greater density of grams/square cm?

Yeah I was a little on their side until I saw that they were taking a big ass group selfie in the front rows while everyone else was trying to see. That’s just rude. Also why do you need the world to know that you had “the best seats in the house”?  You call yourselves “grown women in their 30s to 60s,” so grow the…

This wasn’t about letting 3rd party devs “do whatever they want.” Christian Selig, the dev who created Apollo, admitted that paying for API was something that he knew would eventually have to happen. It was Reddit’s outrageous pricing and accelerated implementation of the charges that wouldn’t allow him to adjust…

Thats.....a damn good idea.

I’m hopeful that between dwindling concession sales and pushback on Ticketmaster that Gen Z, or maybe Gen Alpha, will see concerts, maybe not THE big ones but acts you’ve heard on the radio, as something that you can easily go see once a month, or even once a week.

I hear he’s been functioning as the leg of a mythical woodland creature in Colorado.

“Where are Jeff and Peter?”

He’s showing his leadership capabilities, just like Schwarzenegger challenged him to do all those years ago.  

“As I understand it, ibble bibble bibble dibble...”

A few thoughts on the finale: