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One word, or possibly a number: SE7EN

This is impressive.

I mean, DOS is one thing, but getting Win9x running on hardware of that era was enough of a pain that I can't imagine trying it on something modern.

NT 3.51 was peak NT.

Yes, it didn’t have any PnP support, but it also had GDI outside the kernel, which made it much more stable, at least in theory.

It was especially the case with printer drivers; having those in the kernel meant years of suffering for sysadmins and security analysts.

We'd be in so much trouble if this administration wasn't filled with grifters, racists and hyper-online dipshits.

Imagine a Trump admin whose first acts were shoring up popular support via massive economic reinvestment, alongside building a panopticon, instead of the nonstop grift and flex.

Oh, I agree that the writers wanted a heel for First Contact and couldn't help themselves.

, I think they could have done the Swarm thing. The concept exists in Contact and the writers left themselves an escape hatch by implying the Queen could manifest as needed

But then Voyager happened.

Star Trek sh!tposting. A scene from Star Trek 6. The Klingon moon Praxis explodes. Capt. Sulu asks, We just detected Praxis exploding, do you need assistance? On screen, a Klingon official says, Everything is fine here. DOW is over 50,000. This transmission ends now.

Because no one has any money to spend at the malls because they're spending all their income on housing.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

In my head, I think of the Borg Queen as something like the intelligence in Bruce Sterling's Swarm: something that the collective excretes when it needs to deal with a specific kind of threat.

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The Lincoln LS was a better take on this concept, but the Catera got us the CTS, which was the first legitimately competitive Cadillac in decades.

I almost called a vibe coder a vibrator in a meeting today.

In retrospect, I think I'm going to try to make "vibrator" a thing.

We should all take a moment to thank the Trans women putting out Warhammer content and keeping the algorithm from finding us.

Like, sure, it'll cost the Dems the votes of couch-fuckers, paedophiles and their fans, but chances are those voters aren't voting Democratic in the first place.

What I do not get is what the political calculus is around being a transphobe.

Like, why isn't the standard Dem response "Fuck off, I have a country to run, why are you couch-fucking paedophiles so interested in what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home?"

The NYT hates uppitiness far, far more than it hates fascism.

Part of the reason Trump 1 wasn't as scary as Trump 2 is because most of America, including the elite, saw them as a fucking joke.

The admin is desperately trying not to get that same reputation this time around.

Firing people would mean "losing", and this admin counts on not getting the stench of being seen as losers.

Right now, powerful people are afraid of Trump and Co, which changes as soon as their public image goes from "Fifth Reich" to "Clown Show" and they're increasingly ignored.

I'm always surprised to see people not wearing a helmet while cycling, especially in winter. It's far too easy to slip on an icy patch and strike your skull off the pavement.

As someone who really struggles with name/face association, I like this in principle, but **fuck Facebook**

This really is an argument for nationalizing this sort of thing so that we're not dependent on the profit motive to better the world.

I think I need that Megatron helmet...

I didn't know I did, but do.

"That populist platform won her allies in the MAGA base, such as Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon, and even the backing of many Democrats who helped confirm her in a 78-19 vote in March. But Slater has faced resistance from within the administration in trying to implement her vision, and former antitrust officials say the problem could get worse with her gone. Commenting on Slater’s resignation, Loomer wrote in a Thursday X post: “Terrible. This means Big Tech is winning."

someone might want to inform Politico that Laura Loomer is a rank, bobble-headed opportunist, not any sort of legitimate voice on antitrust

I might need to accelerate my plans to go live in a hollowed-out tree

Meanwhile, actual experts are busy with real work.

I'm not a media person, so I can't say this is the case, but I imagine people like Loomer or their agents are constantly at these organizations and spent a lot of time cultivating relationships with the people who look for "experts" on short notice when a quote's needed.

bsky.app/profile/rach...

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social had a really good recent piece on why bobble-headed opportunists keep getting airplay, and it's because they make a living being available for comments when media companies come calling