“SHARE THIS WITH NO ONE: They say Paramount+ has become a tool of the oligarchs and we should cancel it and buy physical media secondhand.”

I'm such a nerd that tonight I made a command-line program for those moments where I'm like "which episode did Spock say..."

I have no love for the ayatollahs but I find it incredibly sinister that the son of the Shah is meeting with Silicon Valley VCs at Uber HQ to carve up #iran after the war. https://www.404media.co/tech-companies-to-discuss-irans-future-during-private-conference-at-uber-hq/

These tariffs were designed in consultation with my council of economic advisors.

Oh, thank God, I'm saved.

Chrome downloading a 4GB AI model onto your computer and running it in the background without telling you is insane! Firefox gets rightfully criticized for making its AI features opt-out, but this is in a whole other universe!

TIL that annual AI spending in the US is exceeding US annual spending for World War II when adjusted for inflation. US AI spending in 2025: $1.5 trillion US cost of World War II over 4 years (Dec 1941 - Aug 1945), adjusted for inflation: $4.1 trillion The Apollo program, by contrast, was a […]

May the fourth be with you.

Anything that ends in -ence or -ance.

On episode 2 of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com, @chanda.blacksky.app and I talk about Star Trek, the power of labor unions, and fascist footwear. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

There's a character in Galápagos, the 1985 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, who has created a computer called the Mandarax that can understand natural language, translate languages, and answer questions on many topics -- it's basically an LLM. His wife does ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements) and she […]

Hell yeah. This is my favorite Marvel show, it's a crime they didn't make more of it.

Seven-word death punch

This is the way

The kids are all right.

My hope is that Star Trek will be stuck in development hell for the next few years, during which time the AI bubble will pop, Oracle will go bankrupt, and Paramount will get a new owner. That's the best case scenario.

Harsh. Totally fair, but harsh.

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Catwoman!

Fellow Californians, don't sign the sneaky billionaire petition! https://goldenstatereport.substack.com/p/welcome-to-election-deception-season #uspol

Anisha Mir was really a Sarah Manning last week, but she's more of an Allison Hendrix this week.

Another day, another disgusting development involving AI.

I'm watching Star Trek: First Contact and it's really jumping out at me that they forgot to do make-up on the hands of this Borg extra. #NitpickersGuide

I'd rather see the end of Trek than see the property in the hands of fucking fascists.

I see the #firefox "block AI" setting has arrived. It's clearly labeled and easy to find in Settings. It would be even better if #ai were deactivated by default, but I give #mozilla credit for listening to the criticism. It's still a million percent better than Google Chrome.

Here's a little background music: "Our Town" by Aaron Copeland.

It's been a while since I've read an original criticism of AI, but LLMs as Stepford Wives is a pretty amazing one. I'm never going to be able to unsee it. https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called #ai

Bluesky: Tax the rich! #mastodon: Keep the guillotine a little dull so it hurts more.

I'm happy I finally have time time to feature the "Tales from the Frontier" comic, seen in #StarfleetAcademy's "Come, Let's Away".😊 I have assembled all the pages seen in the episode but as a special gift, here's the cover and back page of the comic, provided to me by its designer: Stu Pearce! 🧵 1/4

Splendid news! That six-fingered hand had me worried!

A friend told me the other day that when she was a kid she strung along a single game of Oregon Trail for so long that she got the date to roll over into the 1900s.

NEW! We celebrate a legend this week on TrekRanks w/the “Top 5 Jeffrey Combs Moments.” No one is more revered in the #StarTrek fandom for their unique skills & broad range! (And perfect timing w/all the DS9 love right now.) Shran, Brunt, Weyoun? Take your pick! 🔊 www.trekranks.com/trekranks-podcast

I love the way Jay-Den's bow resembles the Disco bat'leth.

Well, fuck. I guess I'm 'shipping Jay-Den and Darem now. #startrek #startrekstarfleetacademy #SFA

Today I learned that this 1837 photo by Louis Daguerre is actually a photo of a busy street. But because the exposure time is so long, everything that is moving disappears and only what is still can be seen. This is unspeakably beautiful. #photography

DuckDuckGo's AI yes-or-no poll is going about like you'd expect. voteyesornoai.com/vote/

There are still a few Voyager episodes I don't think I've seen since the '90s. Today I watched "Darkling." It's an absolutely wonderful Kes episode which is hijacked halfway through by a truly horrible Doctor episode. So much more disappointing than if it had been bad all the way through.

The Spartan Triplex. My first movie, which I saw at the Triplex, was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and arguably it's never been topped.

I just watched the final episodes of #StarTrek Prodigy with @teresajusino.bsky.social. I've been making her watch it little by little for about 6 months. (And this was actually my first time watching these episodes in English.)

This 404 article about ditching Spotify for cassette tapes is very joyful. It made me smile. #music #retrotech https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

It's time... for THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE OF ALL TIME! #film #movies

Starfleet Academy must be really bad if time travelers are coming to warn us.

It's so strange to see all these photos of Strange New Worlds wrapping when it's 2025 and the show isn't ending till 2027. #startrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #snw

I honestly don't know what bothers me more: that Microsoft uses the Windows 11 lock screen to advertise AI, or that it doesn't bother to align the advertisement properly. #microsoft #windows #Windows11 #ai

I just saw Knives Out 3: Wake Up Dead Man and it is fabulous. In addition to being a excellent whodunit, it's a fascinating meditation on the true purpose of religion.

Tonight I'm watching Cinema Paradiso for the first time since I was a teenager. It's just as wonderful as I remembered. #film #cinema #movies

Très bonne nouvelle vidéo sur la Crise de missiles sur la chaîne Youtube "Histoires de Guerre" où on peut écouter les conversations entre JFK et ses conseilleurs grâce à des enregistrements secrets (y compris une conversation entre Kennedy et Eisenhower lors de la crise).

RIP Ralph Senensky -- director to 6 (and a half!) Star Trek TOS episodes. Read this great blog post he wrote in 2021 about this time at Star Trek.

The mail has brought me quite a dilemma this afternoon: What to read next??? #Enshittification #CoryDoctorow #HereComesTheSun #BillMcKibben