It’s just a thought. On further consideration I’d probably broaden it to any non-Starfleet faction. In cases where there is one involved in the plot I like it when they’re portrayed in more depth than is usual.

Counter-proposal: Same thing, except instead of crew members it’s people from whatever non-Federation civilisation is involved that week.

[false claims that] journalists gave the recent PS5 game Stellar Blade (pictured below) bad reviews because its female characters are too hot

That seems an inadequate way of summing up the Stellar Blade controversy which on the whole was considerably more ridiculous than that.

Good artists copy. Great artists sabotage free software in order to steal crypto wallets and credit card numbers.

I don’t think they’re likely to do a better job than humans any time soon. We can hope that it won’t be extremely misleading too often.

It’s the marketing department that should really be worried.

I’ve used Skype. It was not just “mildly” infuriating, and that was before copilot.

Before there was ChatGPT to blame, we had the “50 cent army.” The fully automated bullshit generators are a cheaper but also a less effective way to do what was already being done. I expect the real problem is somewhere closer to the design of mass social media and the human weaknesses it has evolved to exploit, not so much the super-human powers of generative AI which have been so greatly exaggerated.

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Instantly blocked by Cloudflare without even the usual cumbersome javascript probes. The web is getting worse so quickly that it’s difficult to read the articles about how the web is getting worse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240523104932/https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

This future may not have much going for it, but there is at least the consolation that all the sarcastic bullshit I posted on reddit will be taken too literally by Google’s machines and be given as earnest advice to its remaining users.

I don’t know, it just seemed to me they might have had in mind that whoever is trying to “control the narrative” would find competing disinformation campaigns just as unwelcome.

Calling Tiktok “the next target” does not strike me as the ringing endorsement of its noble pursuit of accurate news reporting you seem to be taking it for.

I hesitate to attribute it to accidental mismanagement. Surely Microsoft has enough experience by now to be pretty good at acquiring firms they think of as competition only to find some excuse to shut them down.

“The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” — traditional 20th-century folk wisdom.

The one time I’ve asked for a refund on steam was when I mistakenly bought the remastered instead of the original version of an old game I wanted, and found that it had been ruined by the addition of a (not easy to bypass and wouldn’t run under wine) “launcher” that was there for the sole purpose of getting you to register an account and log in so they could collect whatever data they wanted.

The end of the web as I knew it happened 28 years ago, and 20 years ago, and 12 years ago.

… because they had to make him distinguishable from normal Kirk but hadn’t yet settled on the convention of just giving him a goatee?

From the looks of the first episode, one thing it’s definitely not is low budget. It’s well-crafted and probably very expensive. The sex is perfunctory and the violence is lovingly detailed at great length. There are no real surprises, good or bad, in how they’ve handled things.

Personally I probably would’ve preferred low-budget and camp, but I imagine it will succeed in achieving the goals that its producers had in mind. I will probably watch some more.

Well, that’s one more small group of people learning not to trust Discord. I hope someone is on hand to show them how to set up a matrix server in a jurisdiction not affected by the DMCA.

Obviously the bots do not share in our human fondness for the number 69.