Green-washing, probably. But big tech's hunger for rare earth components is real enough.

The company will buy rare earth magnets created by MP Materials. Both companies will combine on a new recycling line in Mountain Pass, Calif., to meet global demand. Apple said it plans to spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next couple of years on advancing manufacturing and next-generation recycling technologies.

Green-washing, probably. But big tech's hunger for rare earth components is real enough.

The company will buy rare earth magnets created by MP Materials. Both companies will combine on a new recycling line in Mountain Pass, Calif., to meet global demand. Apple said it plans to spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next couple of years on advancing manufacturing and next-generation recycling technologies.

"He learned too late that man is a feeling creature..."

What's so special about It Conquered the World (featured in episode #311)? The wiki intro explains it pretty well: "produced and directed by Roger Corman, and starring Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland, and Sally Fraser... released theatrically by American International Pictures (AIP) as a double feature with The She-Creature."

Quite the pedigree!

Bizarrely, ITtW was remade for television as Zontar, the Thing from Venus in 1967 by Larry Buchanan, and starring MST3K semi-regular, John Agar (aka Mr. Shirley Temple).

And we don't even have time to get into original monster-maker Paul Blaisdell!

"It's true... I am your only friend."

If they want to get the truth out there, why block an amendment that would allow Congress to compel the files to be released?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/15800457

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/31694909

Remember the "I want a white one" video? That's the first video I clearly remember having a text-to-speech voice-over. It was really bad TTS, and it was awesome. Lately, though, I find myself wishing video hosting services like Youtube and Peertube (to a lesser degree) had a filter so that I could filter out any videos with TTS voice overs. Does this bother anyone else?

I'm a little torn about it. There are legitimate reasons for people to use them; I've seen commentary from posters about social anxiety that makes even recording audio difficult, and TTS must be fantastic for mute folks. Non-native English speakers may be more comfortable with it. I'm sure the platform doesn't help... how many videos do you have to post where the peanut gallery mocks your verbal mistakes before you give up and just have an engine read your written text? I've also noticed that t