Here's a question: if everything is conscious, what does it mean to be conscious? Wouldn't it be equally explained by nothing having consciousness? That there is no such thing as an 'internal' life, that everything merely arises as physical phenomena?

Except we all experience and report an internal life (consciousness). This is part of what makes consciousness the 'hard problem' since it can't simply be ignored.

The direct communications between the White House and the FBI were unusual because of decade-old restrictions on such contacts. Such a request from the White House is a violation of procedures that limit communications with the FBI on pending investigations.

Is this for real? Poor Melania...

We’re entering a new age of automation, and technology is truly reaching impressive peaks...

Too much color added.

"By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children.".... Even though they act like adults and do things that adults do... They have consent. They are guilty. For victims it's a crime; they will never be the same again.

This space engine reminds me of the times I used to use google earth to visit countries, cities, forests, beaches, etc. imagining that I'm really there...

all the startups that buy expensive domains feed this nonsensic frenziness which creates an actual market for domains... a market of intermediaries that shouldn't exist