Nah. I’ve been experimenting with self-hosted LLM assistants with voice recognition and TTS for months, and it’s already pretty solid. If I can do it, anyone can. There’s no way I’m paying someone a subscription for this. That ship has sailed.

I’ve seen it on sale a few times; sometimes with really deep discounts.

Good. Whoever is currently running Spyglass Entertainment is genocide-denying, terrorism-defending, murder-and-apartheid-justifying scum. I hope nobody wants to work with them again.

That’s because Likud has established a very skilled state propaganda and psych-ops division. China does the same thing.

“Any foreign criticism of the state, its leaders, or its actions must be vigorously attacked by dishonestly conflating it with racism.”

...false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing...

“Israel funded Hamas”, which is not true

That is a BAD trailer... so I have no idea if the film will be any good at all. Unfortunately what I’ve seen so far lacks cohesion, which is the poison pill that tends to tear apart a lot of ambitious sci-fi films.

I remember the lock-picker guy and the two king and queen zombies... that’s about it.

I cancelled mine after the second instance of them removing a show while I was literally in the middle of actively watching an episode (one with my kids). I will not support any WB content whatsoever until Zaslav is fired and all the shelved and removed content is (re)released.

Zaslav is a criminally incompetent cartoon villain. That’s all there is to it.

I won’t spend another cent on any WB property, licensed or otherwise, until Zaslav is gone. No games, no TV, no Max, no movies. Sorry, James Gunn... you are working for a huge piece of shit, and I will boycott the company until Zaslav is removed and all this shelved content released (or re-released).

I like your pick the best, but I’d also put Willem Dafoe and Nic Cage in the running.

AI generated content should always automatically be public domain. A human person didn’t make it and a person can’t own it. Furthermore, I hope that FOSS models and software ensure that corporations never gain any kind controlling foothold over this technology.

HBO was the most important and valuable streaming service for years. I’d have cancelled Netflix before cancelling HBO, even after the disaster that was GoT’s later seasons.

Then the Warner-Discovery merger happened and Zaslav destroyed the service, the content, the value proposition, the brand recognition, and consumer…

Remember, “built around safety” is, for now, coded language meaning “bad at pretty much everything.”

Uncastrated, purpose-made self-hosted LLMs are the future; not cloud-hosted soapboxing corporate AIs.

Last week, Qualcomm showed off its latest desktop CPU, the Snapdragon X Elite, claiming it can beat Apple at its own game.

Reminder: If you want to be a customer instead of a product, give Kagi a try. It’s really the only search engine I’ve ever tried that matches the quality of Google’s results.

Speaking as an American: If I were Canadian, I’d view Americans the same way that US Republicans view Mexicans. The only difference is that the Canadians would be justified.

Can we please decide, as a society, to utterly ban and aggressively criminalize DRM and any other mechanism that limits, restricts, or in any way compromises a persons complete and total OWNERSHIP of the goods they have purchased? That would be great, thanks.

“Government regulation is when late-stage Capitalism...”

Sure, makes total sense.