The thing with “ai” and good golly “ai relationships” is not just the point & laugh aspect, but the slow realization of how superficial many (most?) people are, and how when the talk about how much the “ai” means, that really is just how little other people mean to them, and they can’t see it.

Wage theft accounts for more property loss than burglary, robbery, auto theft and shoplifting combined...but we only send armed enforcers after the latter kinds of crimes.

The ability to outsource the threat of violence to systems of authority is the most privileged position that exists.

So, when a game gets a remaster (or a remake or whatever), the people making it decide on what is most essential to translate to the new version. I’m not a big gamer, but for me the answer is vibes, which are largely but definitely not entirely aesthetic. For some it’s the story, the script.

People love to call everything about the Left “purity tests” but like it’s all just, “do you actually believe in human rights are you willing to fight for them instead of big donors (also please don’t sell scams like crypto)” and… boy, if that “purity test” trips you up, I’m so sorry governor.

Few things depress me more than watching the people conflate the Left and MAGA. They’re either impressively uninformed or lying, but they have such incredible need to share the gospel of “the left screwed everything up for us all, we’re the sane center, and we definitely aren’t right 😉”

“This leftist got us here” is about the same as “this feminist turned out to be a misogynist so now I vote against feminists” my dudes, your examples are not of leftists or feminists, it’s of people who had facades they sold. Labels are only as useful as they accurately reflect action.

Reminder again that the Centrists were warned (by the Left) that this would happen and as always they mostly stuck their fingers in their ears (and their asses) and did nothing about it… because the Center accepts the Right and only has time to chastise & demonize the Left.

When I see this pic, I hear these voices.

A: every third TOS episode is shot like an avant garde film for no reason its so fucking sick B: there is a reason, they where cheap af sets A: those insanely expensive “cheap sets” age about a million times better than the current ones because they look like real places that people live and work

"of course ChatGPT is full of errors when it comes to my specific area of professional or technical expertise, that's why I only use it for other stuff, where I can't tell if it's bullshit or not" 📰🗞💥

“You’re here because you had a long-term relationship with Voyager… 26 episodes a year… some shows are still doing it… But I really don’t know what’s in store for the future of Star Trek, the TV franchise anyway, but I hope, I hope that eventually they get back to a longer, more sustained season.”

“We weren’t going to light them” 👀 Say what? (Regarding the alt, for those who don’t know)

“Made” is such a whitewash of a word.

“We now have so much pointless, embarrassingly good cinematography that does not serve the story.” So the thing is… that’s bad cinematography. I know it’s hard for people to parse when they think shinier and more means better, but… no, it means it’s at BEST the equivalent of an airbrushed 70s van.

Not to make ever single thing about star trek & politics, but there’s a notable overlap: I can be forever on the side of my “team” (you know, the human rights, anti-fascism team) & shit on a current incarnation of my team because it sucks (and is appeasing fascism), but that doesn’t make me a hater,

now that the dust has settled on the kirk shooting and with the benefit of hindsight and the kimmel thing playing out i sure hope bluesky's leadership is asking itself why their mod team so instinctively behaved exactly the way this fascist administration wanted them to before even having been asked

To be wildly unfair, it’s also on in most waiting rooms in those major cities. Not that it’s on because they love it or anything, but it is insidiously on. 100% not a city vs country thing.

Posting stuff like this keeps getting me added to “is annoying about alt text” lists and like… y’all… add me to the “is annoying about human rights and fighting fascism” lists too. Smdh.

Global warming caused by humans is an observed fact. Yes, science still needs to learn more, but it's no more in overall doubt than the theory of gravity. And it's bad. Willful ignorance, enforced by those who choose to deny science, is an existential threat to our civilization.

“The media is gonna have to get its head around the idea that a whole lot of young men have no beliefs but nihilistic chaos. The online world has raised a generation of Jokers and as Alfred said: some men just want to watch the world burn.” That’s not neutral. There’s 1 party cultivating that.

People need a mechanism and focus. As many people post about any of those issues, but with no obvious means (direct contact & money) and no singular point of action (cancel this, rehire that guy ≠ don’t do allllll those many awful things), they sink into the mire of The Overwhelmingness Of It All.

“If Biden had invited him to the White House, he wouldn’t have done the mechahitler government breaking” Sigh. That’s the same exact thing as the “I only became a right extremist because some women weren’t nice enough to me” no, you were always a bigot, you just went mask off.

Even cops in fiction who are meant to be both average cops and good (ha!) are usually notably above average and not very good. And the cops from Monk and Knives Out are okayyyy… but likely would still bungle the cases if not for the fictional brilliant detective.

Novel pullover. But if ya nasty: what exit?

Actually the science is quite clear. Conservatives/liars just love/need to muddy settled science waters.

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

I’d probably have figured out a different way to bring in the quote without writing “voice over” on the plaque, but who am I to judge? (DJ looks like that Ronaldo statue here, right? Please say that’s not just me!)

People don't think of Worf as autistic but I'm convinced he has Klingon autism.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

What exactly is the mechanism that would let people’s voices be heard, even if they all knew about those journalists?

Most mechanics I know are left leaning, yet every mechanic’s waiting room I end up at has extremist right wing tv playing that no one is watching. It used to always be Disney or Pixar movies, that kind of thing. Not saying my sample population is big enough to mean anything, it’s just interesting.

happy bi day to those who celebrate!!

my partner has been watching Death Comes to Pemberley on Amazon prime and says their subtitles must be AI now

#OpEd: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️

The left isn’t trying to get them all fired either, but… let’s pretend they were: perhaps they wouldn’t if the strategists stopped shitting on the left and pumping up the right. But yeah, the right isn’t their enemy, because they are also the right, just with a bit of centrist clothing.

Alt: I guess my ultimate secret is thinking what I'm doing is cool regardless of whether it is or not

“Realism” (Responding to the always great alt-text. Like & follow @startrekshots.bsky.social for always amazing posts. Not me, don’t follow me for my cynicism or horny Vulcans!)

Also, not super relevant here, but these studies always point at mind changing as a product of an internal sense of self, but so so so often it’s a response to external abuse and trying to avoid that, not a true sense of self.

Next panelist: if you’d like to make more money in your practice, try adding on [lists a bunch of ethically dubious at best things without even touching on legality] So in order to put money into stocks I just need to… lie & steal? Is that really what my professional organization is promoting?

Presentation from an investment person to people in my field: just put more in stocks when you get a raise. A raise! 🤪 At best, my pay maaaaybe keeps up with inflation, but… mostly it stay the same, which means I’m making less. Certainly not more. Raises! As if! 😜

"yeah, they get it..."

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trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

Damn, it only took a few weeks, but I’m in love… Fuck.

I would believe Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman and Frank Anthony Grillo were approximately the same age. Jesus fucking Christ Grillo does not look 60. (He looked older as a goddamn cartoon in a prequel!)

So stoked that I’m getting art from fantastic peeps here on Bluesky. Instant download of brilliance from @rustedgearart.bsky.social and can’t wait to get an incredible haul from @reforest-kelley.bsky.social The world sucks ass right now but a little treat and supporting great folks… 😮‍💨

Anyone have good reference images for what I think they call the atrium in the 2013 trek game? It’s inside what I’ll call the spine that connects the bridge module to the impulse deck.