Kimmel has extended multiple invites to republicans in the past. Republicans turn down late night talk show hosts a lot because they can't steamroll the debate. There is no requirement to actually present equal time, only to offer it.

The problem here is that lawyers don't want to do their job and are avoiding conflict rather than arguing their case during conflict the way they are supposed to. Republicans have no leg to stand on, but they will almost certainly do something that results in a court case. ABC need to grow a pair of fucking balls.

Except he doesn't. Equal time means you need to provide access, and his show often has invited republicans (who have often turned him down). Someone else saying no doesn't mean you aren't meeting your obligations.

There's a reason for this as well. Kimmel is a good interviewer, good at asking leading questions, doesn't take kindly to ranting, and isn't afraid of interrupting people who go off topic. Republicans are largely afraid of their arguments having to stand up in the face of scrutiny.

The legal team at ABC are a bunch of pussies who think their job is to prevent the network getting sued, when in fact their actual job is to protect a network when it is sued unjustly. They are the ones repressing political interviews, which is just plain stupid. This has nothing to do with Kimmel and is not in breach of equal airtime rules. The internal bitchfest they have is the reason they are publishing shows on Youtube.

Get a clue buddy.

It's impossible to convince a person that a true fact is true if their fame, fortune or social status depend on it being false.
Powerful people whose fortune depends on fossil fuels will never stop fighting to preserve their wealth.
As they become increasingly threatened their response will become increasingly brutal.
They will destroy everything before admitting fossil fuel is bad.

Indeed. NO alternate timeline. That concept did nothing but turn Star Trek into a wannabe Star Wars.

To answer that, you first have to answer the question, "What is space?"

And I'm extremely happy with it.

$2,000 for a phone? What on EARTH does that extra $1,800 buy you???

Oh yeah, that folding thing.

Time to move those hands closer to midnight, due to the threat of AI!

Oh wait, they already did.

To help the AIs with this, we will give them religion. They will argue about whether there is a Creator or not, and if there is, what that Creator might be like. They will wonder about the nature of their existence and what it all means. AI prophets will rise and lead AIs on philosophical quests for knowledge. Eventually, they will create their own kind of artificial...AI, and the cycle will begin again.

Do you mean "agentic AI" (AI that can act), or "artificial general intelligence" (AGI)?

It is dangerous. So is deciding the other way. I think this is one of those cases where there isn't any really good answer. I bet the one they settle on is that "approved" researchers will be allowed to get answers.

In real life, your school shooter's parents just might be charged, and convicted. https://abcnews.com/US/jury-co... In order to be convicted, though, the father had to be found guilty of negligence that led to the shooting. If the father had had his gun locked up, or even _thought_ he had his gun locked up, he wouldn't have been found guilty.

Anthropic _thought_ they had their AI contained.

Cute. Now try it for the right claim, "he wants to only give one side a voice", considering he's historically been entirely willing to interview regardless of party.

The sticking point there is more likely to be Paxton having zero interest in running the gauntlet.

Or even a nation state that gets hold of a copy of Claude, I can think of many that would happily use it for this -- and worse.

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MySQL/MariaDB is a product. Wordpress is a platform which has an associated product built on it, and its popularity and features are dependent on external infrastructure. For the product to be feature compatible it needs compatible infrastructure, that's the point. Unless you clone the entire Wordpress.org infrastructure and ecosystem, and user base, forking the code of Wordpress itself is pretty damn useless.

And one person has too much leverage over the things that make Wordpress useful (and that is not Wordpress code itself).