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@CIIWoodworks @Anti_179_Club @VoterIndy @grok, estimate the amount of the federal government that is currently directly or indirectly based on the redefinition and expansion of the commerce clause in the SCOTUS opinion in Wickard v. Filburn, for which it would likely be deemed unconstitutional prior.

@djairrick @Jonny_Blaine You don't have the numbers for the market to support your wants. The market is not required to support your wants.

@Jonny_Blaine So its not about getting anything better, its about taking things away from people who like them because YOU dont like them. As I suspected.

This is how dumb these guys are... with this show failing they most likely will NOT make anymore Star Trek TV for a long time... you guys did this to yourselves... so things like Strange New Worlds wont happen if you dont let other things on the menu

@djairrick By this very standard, supporting crappy Star Trek will result in more crappy Star Trek. The market is not restrained by your preferences. Make a product people want -or- fail.

@exQUIZitely @AnishA_Moonka I'm still not over how much it's being pushed from the top down. All those other things, I was into before and during their evolution and they were not awkwardly mandated by CEOs. They are selling AI like their life depends on it. Which is strange in comparison to other things.

From a shareholder perspective the right move. So far, most AI stories I read about seem totally overhyped. But I also remember articles from the 90s about this "fading hype of what's called the Internet".. I have seen people doubt that mobile phones will be more than just phones. AI will work out, as much as I hate to envision the world in 30 years. Guess I might not be around then anymore.

Sam Altman just pulled the plug on his own TikTok. OpenAI killed Sora yesterday. Not just the app. The developer tools. Video generation inside ChatGPT. All of it, gone. Six months ago, Sora 2 was the world's hottest app. Hit #1 on the App Store in two days. 164,000 people downloaded it before most knew it existed. You could type a sentence and get a realistic video back in minutes, then share it on a feed that worked like a TikTok made entirely by AI. By January, downloads had dropped 45% in a single month. Total money spent by users across the app's entire life: $1.4 million. OpenAI is on track to lose $14 billion this year. Sora's lifetime revenue wouldn't cover the company's losses for a single hour. The Disney deal is gone, too. In December, Disney agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license over 200 characters from Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars for Sora. Disney was planning to stream curated AI-generated videos on Disney+ and to use OpenAI's technology to build new experiences for subscribers. None of that is happening now. A Disney spokesperson said the company "respects OpenAI's decision to exit the video generation business." So why kill a product Disney just bet a billion dollars on? OpenAI is trying to go public (sell shares on the stock market for the first time) by the end of this year. In February, the company raised $110 billion at a valuation of $840 billion, but it won't turn a profit until 2029 or 2030. The head of OpenAI's apps told employees they "cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests." Generating video eats enormous amounts of computing power. When you're burning billions a month, and investors are about to look at your finances for the first time, you point every server you have at the product that actually makes money: ChatGPT. OpenAI says the Sora research team will shift to developing robot technology instead. The consumer app lasted six months.

Due process isn’t optional when rights are on the line. Civil orders, like "Red Flag" Orders, that disarm without a robust process should trigger serious constitutional skepticism.

Weird how the press conference, at least the part I've seen, seemed to focus heavily on the meme. You'd think mentioning the actual pretext for the arrest would have been the higher priority than the meme if the meme wasn't what the arrest was for.

@Bhess @BradRTorgersen The entire expense arc episodes are some of my favorite, however, it did fizzle out a bit at the end of the arc.

I think the whole Xindi storyline was not good and hurt the series. Also the early episodes where the ship is not great and they are basically defenseless were done too much. After the Xindi I think they got a lot better. The whole Andoran/Vulcan episodes were good. I liked them exploring the founding races of the Federation.

I agree 100% with everyone saying it's a tragedy they now waste $10M per episode on SFA when ENT didn't get a proper crescendo and finish. IIRC they were spending $2M per episode of ENT at its (rushed) finale. For the price of both seasons of SFA they could have funded ENT through a 7th and final season, with plenty of cash to spare. ENT really did deserve better than it got.

@shaogens @LundukeJournal It's technically a rolling release between releases. But yes, the official milestones are not quick.

@LundukeJournal The funny part here, being how long we have to wait for Slack releases (latest, 15.0 came out in 2022!), by the time the next version comes out, these laws could very well be invalidated.

Will Slackware Linux implement Age Verification? Patrick Volkerding, the creator of Slackware, has answered that question. "I'll weigh in a little bit here, I guess. At this point, I'd rather not implement something like this and don't see the point of the legislation as written (other than, more than likely, get a foot in the door.) But my code is my speech. I doubt these laws would survive a challenge, as it's pretty clearly government compelled speech. Any lawyers looking for a test case? :-)" linuxquestions.org/questions/show…

@fred_guttenberg What is the bill of rights? Who's right is it that shall not be infringed?

These pathetic, scum of the earth, antisemitic pieces of crap should speak for nobody. Their willful misunderstanding of the 2A does should not be accepted by any sane and rational person.

@the___Dave @JamesSpillaneNH @yvessirae You have the right to pursue, not a right to be provided it free. You have the right to seek healthcare, not the right for it to be free. You have the right to speak, not the right to be given a newspaper. You have the right to seek housing, not the right to a free house.

@JamesSpillaneNH @yvessirae So good isn’t a human right but owning a gun is. Do I have that right?

Just found out that in 2021, the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it. The United States and Israel.

“What does he do to a kid?” Is the same argument gun grabbers use to disarm you cause someone else did some evil shit. Sorry but 1A is just as important as 2A, I will not rally to its destruction over pearl clutching.

@Handre More importantly it is government telling people what they must/may accept to do a job. It's fundamentally anti-freedom.

What people think minimum wage is: - Helping poor workers earn more - Fighting corporate greed - Basic human decency What minimum wage actually is: - A price floor that creates unemployment - Government forcing you to price out low-skilled workers - Making it illegal to hire someone whose productivity is below $15/hour When Seattle raised minimum wage to $15, teen employment dropped 31% in two years. You didn't help workers—you eliminated their jobs entirely. Every minimum wage hike destroys the bottom rung of the economic ladder that teenagers and unskilled workers need to climb. The irony? Politicians who never ran a business telling entrepreneurs they must pay workers more than they produce. Pure economic illiteracy dressed up as compassion.

@SenatorHassan The federal government does not have the constitutional authority for the ACA. What expanded was an unconstitutional federal government.

16 years ago today, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, expanding access to quality, affordable health care for millions of Americans. The Trump Administration's decision to undermine this law and increase health care costs for families nationwide puts us all at risk.

@85CitationX11 @VodkaPundit @BradRTorgersen Picard is good, not great, enjoyable. Strange new worlds is okay in aggregate. Substantially better than Discovery. Discovery mostly fails, but has occasional stretches of potential before they muck it up again.

Loved "Enterprise" until I didn't (for the same reasons you stated. TNG did get better. After a slow start, DS9 became phenomenal. Voyager, meh. Haven't watched more than an episode of "Picard" or "Discovery" or "Strange New Worlds" and certainly won't touch "Academy." ("Academy" is just the logical conclusion to the Kurtzmann downward spiral that "Picard" started).

It's true that there was a lot of fan skepticism surrounding TNG, but that skepticism gradually dissipated because episodes like "Heart of Glory" and "Measure of a Man" were superbly written. Also, the people involved in the production clearly loved the lore of the series (as established in prior films, as well as TOS) in a way that was palpable. Fans respect a production that respects the source code. SFA not only didn't respect the source code, it happily spited the fans who complained.

@themagaking @mike_datlof I seem to recall him, in his way, admitting when he was being a bit hypocritical but also explain his reasons.

The only political commentator I ever respected and listened to was Rush Limbaugh. That’s the bar. Not this new breed of political grifters like Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson. Rush was America First and MAGA before it was even a thing. He never wavered, never flipped, always loyal, always consistent, always true to the cause. And when it actually mattered, he proved it. He joined Twitter to support Trump, built a massive following overnight, and the moment Trump was banned, he walked away without hesitation. That’s loyalty. Meanwhile, the rest stayed behind, pundits and politicians alike, chasing attention and likes and calling it principle. That’s the difference. Rush was the gold standard. Everything after him is just noise.

No, because the Constitution affords the states the right to conduct their own elections, fuck-twit. Read the thing!

@A1Policy Not the role of government

Children should not navigate the digital world alone. The App Store Accountability Act restores parental control by requiring age verification, ensuring parental consent for app downloads, and reinforcing a parent’s role in guiding their child’s digital experience.

@BarackObama This was never a constitutionally granted power of the federal government. The SCOTUS opinions unconstitutionality expanding A1.§8.c1 & A1.§8.c3 do not grant legitimacy, when those opinions violate the very precedent they cite for justifications.

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

@tndbaker06 @grok Have you had to go round for round with an AI explaining why it's wrong? It's particularly bad with constitutional law. It gets hung up on the prevailing opinion and you have to quote other parts of the very citations it gives for it to be like, oh yeah, it does say that.

Using @grok to help in an argument or discussion isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of intelligence. Why speak with flaws when you can just let Grok validate what you know is true and why?

@GIFFORDS_org @GabbyGiffords Those who follow those restrictions are the exact people you want armed on campus in the event of a shooter. In fact, most of the people who will ignore such restrictions with no ill intent are also ones you want armed. Those who come to kill won't care about your restrictions.

Last weekend in New Hampshire, we sat down with local leaders and partners for a conversation about how to keep our communities safe. One message was clear: communities don’t want guns on campus, and students overwhelmingly oppose “campus carry” bills.  Protecting our children is a shared responsibility—and that means listening to the people closest to the issue and keeping guns out of our schools.

@jlthakad @Qwik @CrimsonDesert_ @grok How many times did grok mention CEOs? Why are CEOs mandating employees use AI? I know of a few large companies that are tying performance reviews to (tracked) AI usage.

@grok Fact check this users statements. Provide example based details for your findings. A user claims that generative AI is being pushed hardest by those with the least technical skills. Please answer this in very simple, easy-to-understand language, do not try being concise by shortening explanation. Remember that generative AI is a tool designed to make hard things easy and simplify people's lives. If it helps people without needing to become experts first, then the tool is working exactly as intended. Fact check whether this adoption is being pushed mainly by the least skilled people or if experts and subject matter experts are also strongly embracing and pushing AI. Clearly state fact yes or fact no first, then you can provide supporting details and examples from research. Answer should eliminate opinion.

We would like to address questions regarding the use of AI in Crimson Desert. During development, some 2D visual props were created as part of early-stage iteration using experimental AI generative tools. These assets helped us rapidly explore tone and atmosphere in the earlier phases of production. However, our intention has always been for any such assets to be replaced, following final work and review by our art and development teams, with work that aligned with our quality standards and creative direction. Following reports from our community, we have identified that some of these assets were unintentionally included in the final release. This is not in line with our internal standards, and we take full responsibility for it. We also acknowledge that we should have clearly disclosed our use of AI. While these tools were primarily used during early production, with the expectation that these assets would be replaced prior to release, we recognize that this does not excuse the lack of transparency. We sincerely apologize for these oversights. We are currently conducting a comprehensive audit of all in-game assets and are taking steps to replace any affected content. Updated assets will be rolled out in upcoming patches. In parallel, we are reviewing and strengthening our internal processes to ensure greater transparency and consistency in how we communicate with players moving forward.