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

I love a good suspense movie, and Wait Until Dark (1967) really delivered. It is about a psychopath (Alan Arkin) and two con men who are trying for find some lost drugs that have fallen into possession of a blind woman (Audrey Hepburn). She slowly becomes aware and turns the tables.

Here's a recent photo of screen-worn #StarTrek TOS costumes from an auction catalogue. Bookmark it for the next time somebody online tells you that the yellow uniform was actually green, and it only looks yellow on screen because of lights, or film stock, or whatever.

Let’s all just agree this was the best Star Trek uniform.

Teenage Naomi Wildman is going to get so much milage out of telling Samantha "you're not even my real mother!" #StarTrek

Hulu canceled. For the first time in years, I subscribe to no streaming services of any kind.

RIP

It says something important when a racist misogynist fascist gets shot, people from across the political spectrum come together to say political violence is wrong. But when a health care CEO gets shot, people from across the political spectrum are like "fuck that guy."

I was 9 when they canceled The Flash (1990) and I'm still not over it.

Girlyman, my favorite harmony-singing, gender-fluid, defunct for a decade, folk rock trio, seems to be back together in a very tentative way, according to a cryptic update on their website, girlyman.com/home.

A big chunk of the Star Trek SNW Season 3 finale is very reminiscent of the Fringe Season 3 finale -- which was co-written by Akiva Goldman.

I loved "Terrarium." I never had any doubt that an SNW episode like this was coming, but the "nobody working at Star Trek understands its true meaning like me" crowd is going to have egg on their face.

I just finished watching "Four and a Half Vulcans" and I think SNW has conquered its most difficult #StarTrek trope yet: a BAD episode which is nonetheless extremely enjoyable.

I would give good money to see the Sheliak try to have a negotiation with the Kerkovians. #StarTrek

Thoughts on SNW "What Is Starfleet?"

I'll believe it when I'm in the theater watching it for the second time.

There is too much Zod and not enough Bernadette on my timeline.

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

"The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tale" has a real "Doomsday Machine" vibe. #StarTrek

TL;DR version: 1. Firefox shipped some janky AI features. 2. People's CPUs and fans are really struggling. 3. Disable AI in Firefox by going to about:config and setting browser.ml.enable and browser.ml.chat.enabled to False. 4. Still better than Chrome. #Firefox #AI

Totally looking forward to them loading a bunch of fuel rods onto a Starship rocket which explodes and showers the entire country with uranium.

ALL CONSUMER SPENDING.

@trekranks.com TOP 5 SAD SACK CHARACTERS 5. Lt. Barness Frex - PRO "Asylum" 4. Minister Campio - TNG "Cost of Living" 3. Ruon Tarka - DSC "The Galactic Barrier" 2. St. John Talbot - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1. Captain Chakotay - PRO "Last Flight of the Protostar"

Someone once said the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can call a meeting in the conference room and adjourn after only 3 minutes with a definitive plan of action.

This display on "The Fate of Benjamin Sisko" in the SFA trailer, complete with conspiracy theory style artwork, is an enormously silly fan service Easter egg, and I'm here for it. #StarTrek #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy