Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions.

Just wait until *only* corporations count as citizens.

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

And after nearly a decade of "New Trek" where there's been a large, vocal contingent of the audience bellowing and screaming in discontent whenever anything new is attempted, is it any wonder that the production is erring on the side of caution?

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Clearly, the ampersand is the most important part, oft-forgotten though it may be.

The only movie I know of containing Nazis that I've never seen real Nazis try to coopt... is The Producers.

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Thanks. It's a big one, too: I turn 40.

There was a plan in motion to defenestrate our target, but unfortunately we missed the window.

Star Trek fans: some are in it for the ships, others are in it for the ships.

You could try that, but what happens if you try to get a duplicate like Thomas Riker and end up with split good and evil versions like Kirk in 'The Enemy Within'?

Is the world ready for good and evil Tuvixes?

as ever, if you ask people if they think art should exist for their enjoyment they will say yes, and then if you ask them if the people making the art should get paid for it they'll tell you "no that's a fake job"

"Generative AI" systems do not care about facts and truth, they care about you liking their output, and when the don't know the correct answer they will make shit up.

This is not the right tool for anything regarding naturalistic identification.

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The Night Lords know right from wrong. They're very clear on the distinction between good and evil.

They just prefer evil. Their moral compass points south.

dear new TTTRPG designers:

Charge for your games. They are good enough! It's easy to feel like you're an amateur and no one will be interested if you don't make them free, but don't sell yourself short.

Also, you're not just selling YOURSELF short when you do this!

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Hopefully it doesn't log who edited the page... hard to be anonymous when your gun is compiling a public list of your kills.

Some Navy guy says to Lisa Simpson: “It's a three-pronged attack: subtextual, textual, and super-textual”

Can we agree that the legal structures and duties in play here produce perverse incentives that are incompatible with human life and the proper function of society? If a company's duty to its shareholders is so great that it is compelled to be destructive to people's lives, that's a problem.

Maybe going back to stock buybacks being illegal: they were regarded as a form of market manipulation prior to the 1980s, when suddenly they became OK.

Well, on the same planet as his father's childhood home. It's not like they put Luke in slave quarters in Mos Espa.

They put him with Anakin's stepbrother. Much more secure and inconspicuous.

The term 'hallucinations' is used when the AI conjures up things that aren't real... but it uses the exact same method to reach the correct answers. When the answers are true, it's still a hallucination, just one that is accurate by coincidence.

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Fresh-squeezed girder juice.

I don't disagree with the overall point, but those droids had already been blown out of an airlock earlier in the episode, and they just flew back on board the ship.

Any of the other options, though...

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

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That's because imagining a better future and having actual values are all considered to be childish, cringeworthy, and generally inappropriate for 'serious people'.

Fandoms obsession with Canon Policing is a set of concrete boots around the very content they profess to love.