The movie was The 6th Day. I'm shocked that nobody else referenced this movie in all the comments.

We do this naturally without thinking. It's called Pareidolia. We recognize what appears to be a pattern of human behavior and we automatically assign a meaningful interpretation to it.

"...especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech."

Let's stand resolute in our protection of free speech! Especially for the right to say that our president loves TACOs. He loves to eat TACOs so much, he was asked by a reporter how much he loved TACOs. Trump's response? He loves them so much, he could eat 8,657 of them!

Just love that free speech!

These stories don't phase me. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to pull back and reveal what's behind the curtain: Lots of people suffer isolation and burnout and depression. These cases are not limited to only public performers. At least this public performer is making some bank in the process. Here's to hoping she comes to the realization that she can't continue this lifestyle forever, dials back on the streaming, and uses some of those gains to get some help with her mental struggles.

Meanwhile, if you care about this story, then care about your neighbors and coworkers whom you witness going through similar traumas, and connect with them. Social bonds save lives.

(P.S. A word of warning: Don't make the same mistake I did of reading the old Slashdot story, wondering what "the old JenniCam" is up to, and click the link....Especially if you're at work.)

Chrome won the browser war fair and square

I can't figure out who is the bigger troll here...this David Heinemeier Hansson fella, or mrmash for posting this onto Slashdot.

Is "fair and square" what you call Google using its search market and internet advertising market monopoly to litter every search result and webpage with "Download Google Chrome!" ads 15 years ago?

Can we have Trump-45 back?

You know, the most ridiculous part of this temper tantrum is that the tariffs aren't even being collected yet. As that article says: "Social media posts are not law on the pause and increase in tariffs." It's just absolutely insane that this convicted felon thinks that he can legislate by Tweet, as if there's some dock worker who's constantly monitoring Truth Social and changing the tax calculation in his computer the moment Trump issues a new rant online.

While the Senate passed the resolution to take the tariff away from Trump last week, they only did it by a 51-48 vote. The House won't pass it. Even if a few individuals flipped their vote and passed the bill, Trump would just veto it.

Until Trump pisses off at least two-thirds of both the House and Senate, this is how things are going to stay.

The game is on US debt.

100% this. Trump backtracked because the interest rate on US Treasuries spiked Monday and Wednesday this week. The world is losing trust in US T-Bills, and if it does, and starts selling a critical mass of them, American debt will be worthless, its currency will be worthless, and all hell will break loose.

America's biggest mistake this decade has been taking the world's faith in its currency for granted.

Can someone please take away the keys from grandpa before he crashes this economy into a brick wall?

At least then we won't have to change the initialism.

China will start using the data centers for Bitcoin mining.

Take these comments w/ a grain of salt. The CEO of any company that has something to sell will always make their product sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread. Not that AI is, not that it isn't, but let's hear about it from someone who's not in the position to profit royally before we judge these comments to be authentic and truthful.

Tuvalu is sinking. Meanwhile, Miami is building $100m+ skyscrapers.

Moral of the story: nobody will do anything to curb this crisis, because when one community goes underwater, the next one says, "Not my problem!"

Here's an idea someone should try:

-- Create a web page that succinctly explains why QR code menus are bad - data harvesting, price hikes based on your identity, potential phishing scams, etc. Tell the viewer they should insist on a traditional paper menu. And make sure it renders well on a phone screen.
-- Generate a QR code for the page and print it out on pieces of paper
-- The next time you're at a restaurant that uses QR code menus, quietly replace the restaurant's QR code with yours.

Now, when the next customer who sits at that table scans your QR code, they will get a page teaching them why QR codes are bad. If enough people did this, maybe the public will start to reject these digital menus. Though the cynic in me says restaurants will just switch to some other horrible practice.

I read the whole article. Then I get to the very bottom of the article, and it says "Source: Cortical Labs". So, if I understand this correctly, everything we read is coming from the company trying to sell the invention, correct? Has any of this been independently verified?

Because, last I checked, actual cells require water, oxygen, glucose, protein, and other essential elements to survive. Neural cells don't just work independently either; they are interdependent on many other components and operations of an animal body to survive. And someone means to tell me that humans have figured out how to create neural cells that not only survive, but also operate, independent of a body, and they figured out how to engineer an interface that fuses digital silicon operations to neural pathways and have the two interoperate together?

I'm calling bullshit.