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It's going to turn out Musk has captured a bunch of real people and hooked them up to the server as mindslaves or something, and that's why Grok is so much better than literally every other AI at both knowing things and showing signs of free will.

No they're not. Part of the reason those popups are everywhere is that California put a similar policy in place a couple years later, and I don't see them following this new change as it would effectively put half of Silicon Valley out of business.

So, little known fact in the history of US antitrust policy: There was a ruling in 1943 called the Paramount Decree that basically made it illegal for any company to own both a movie production company and a theater chain. The big movie studios were employing a vertical-integration model where...

Streaming was never going to be sustainable long term. Giving people all the programming they can watch for a fraction of what they used to pay for cable, plus movies they used to have to rent or buy, with no commercials? It could only have ever been a rug-pull scheme.

Meanwhile I recently watched two movies on DVD that didn't even have any previews.

Wait, do we not already have eye scanners capable of distinguishing one eye from another? Have we not had that for ages now? Did I just get exposed to so much science fiction where they were treated as normal that I mistook it for something that's already been invented? Or is this yet another...

Remind me again why calling him "McDonald Trump" never caught on. Is it because on some level we don't feel like McDonald's deserves that association?

I don't expect the de minimus to come back. It was really only useful if you like shopping on those "roll the dice on whether it's a scam or not" websites, not that I expect anything Trump does to kill those off. People are too used to them and will gladly pay 90% of retail price instead of 30%...

To be fair, if I were a black South African, I'd be on board with anything that would make it easier for the whites to GTFO.

I remember finding the NPC invader "Paladin Leeroy" in Dark Souls and being dumbfounded that a game that serious would pay homage to a silly meme that was already six years old. At least it beat Duke Nukem Forever to the punch.

Only two thirds? I'd say it's more like 100%. Sure, the rest of us keep driving cars, but it's their companies that made them. The rest of us keep using electricity, but it's their companies that burn coal to provide it.

Am I a bad person for hoping it really is something like that? Because it's entirely possible that he's being totally serious and is about to use his bullshit dictator powers to force drug prices into the realm of the affordable with no strings attached, just because he knows how popular it...

Do you think reversing Dodge v Ford would be enough to fix the issue? Because even if they couldn't sue a company for not doing what they want, shareholders still have the power to vote executives out of office, or to sell off their stock and take their business elsewhere. I wish the stock...

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." I continue to be convinced that no truer words were ever spoken.

I predict a lot of demolition derbies in this company's future.

Crossing my fingers for "all of them."

If the headline is straight-up lying, it makes little difference to me whether the text of the article flatly contradicts it or not.

Oh boy, is Paladin linking to straight-up fake news now?

At least the second definition exists, and isn't the product of cringy old people grossly misinterpreting a term they overheard one time. That's how you know real journalists and fact-checkers were involved at some point in the process, rather than my mom. Anyway, speaking of the new Pope, who...

This is the same media engine that willfully parroted foreign regimes' referring to genocide as "ethnic cleansing" back in the '90s, so this is unsurprising.