The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord. The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI.
The CW is pivoting to Jesus – Under its new ownership, The CW is betting on three-season Christian crowdfunding success story The Chosen
Viewership was slow at first, but then picked up when, during the early days of COVID-19, Jenkins and his team made the show free to watch for the masses.
Having steadily picked up steam since, the show has become a genuine streaming success, and now appears on multiple services, including Netflix and Peacock. (It doesn’t hurt that, by all accounts, The Chosen is pretty well-made by the standards of TV drama—which means it’s exceptionally well made by the usual standards of Christian entertainment, with much praise being pointed toward its acting, production values, and its efforts to spin a compelling drama out of the lives of Christ and his disciples.)
Dallas residents need to make more than $72,060 a year to avoid being “rent burdened,” according to April 2023 data from Zillow’s Observed Rent Index.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development considers someone “rent burdened” if they spend more than 30% of their annual income toward rent. Someone can also be “severely rent burdened” if that spending reaches more than 50%.
I’m guessing that figure is net income as opposed to gross.
Actor Ron Livingston kept a video diary of the time he spent during the Band of Brothers boot camp. I found it pretty interesting.
Driverless cars: Researcher disguises himself as car seat in study
As part of the study, a car was driven around the university’s campus over several days with its driver – research fellow David R. Large – concealed in the driver’s seat.
It bugs me when conservative groups self-define what a family is. A child does not get to choose their parents. Sixty years ago, a mixed-married couple with children wouldn’t be accepted as a family. Today, they are saying a child with parents of the same sex doesn’t qualify as a family.
