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- Comment on Public invited to pick Sycamore Gap tree artwork 2 weeks ago:
Of the 6, I sort of liked “The Peoples Tree” best, but none of the candidates really struck me as really brilliant.
More details on the actual National Trust page …org.uk/…/honouring-the-legacy-of-the-sycamore-ga…
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know.
Is routine suppression or destruction for AIs, besides obviously dangerous individuals like Lore and Moriarty, mentioned in the historical documents?
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 2 weeks ago:
Sentient AIs seem to be a lot less common and less powerful computationally in Fed space than in the Culture.
Lore/Data/Lal, Moriarty, the Doctor and that’s pretty much it.
V’Ger is earlier, but was overclocked by unknown alien technology, and therefore not replicable by the Feds.
Although a starship computer of the TNG era, i.e. the latter third of the 24th Century, has enough computing power to create a sentient AI, Moriarty, by what is essentially a mistake in Data’s vibe coding, there seems to be some kind of brake to keep starship computers from becoming sentient themselves.
Culture AIs come in a huge range of capabilities from GSV commanding Minds to drones like Mawhrin-Skel with about the same level of intelligence as the biological citizens, to a sentient survival suit.
If you read closely, although the meatbag characters largely take center stage, it’s the GSV Minds who directly control the vast majority of resources, come to consensus among themselves on strategy, or go loose cannon, or sulk in a corner, and everyone else is literally just along for the ride.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 2 weeks ago:
Nor really.
The Feds still have meatbags making decisions.
The Culture humanoids are “lucky” enough to have benevolent AIs who spoil them like pets.
Less benevolent AI rule might look like Saberhagen’s Berserkers, or Battlestar Galactica’s Cylons.
As weird as it sounds, I don’t think the Borg are ruled by AI. If they were, they’d be a lot scarier than they already are. Cyborg meatbags, e.g. the Borg Queen, are still in charge of making stupid decisions.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 2 weeks ago:
How about something like The Culture?
Highly advanced multi-species civilization ruled by benevolent AIs?
I have a nagging feeling that something like it should have appeared in Trek at some point.
- Comment on Martial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala 5 weeks ago:
Humanity is fucked.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Opening Title Sequence 2 months ago:
Way to say absolutely nothing about what the show is about, while featuring none of the cast.
I can’t say I’d look forward to watching that every week to get me into the mood for the show.
- Comment on As a mod, notified of report, but http://lemmy.world/reports is an error page 2 months ago:
Thanks! I was able to see and respond to the report.
- Comment on As a mod, notified of report, but http://lemmy.world/reports is an error page 2 months ago:
- Submitted 2 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on BBC could soon make programmes for release first on YouTube under deal 2 months ago:
I’d imagine that the television tax that the BBC is traditionally funded by has been on the decline for the last decade…
- Comment on Photos From The ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ World Premiere 2 months ago:
Picardo’s lookin’ stylish in that hat!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Helping people not be corporate wage slaves would be socialism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Or Mexico, or China, for supplying drug precursor chemicals.
Nope, it’s desperation by Trump to distract from his low popularity polling, by using the “Wag The Dog” “wartime president” strategy.
That, combined with his Republican American corporate backers taking over Venezuelan oil to boost their declining profits.
- Comment on Dying is worth it, Palestine Action hunger striker says 3 months ago:
MBFC rates LBC.co.uk as right of right-center with mixed factual reporting.
In review, LBC radio primarily broadcasts talk and phone-in type shows. It has several right-wing presenters, such as Iain Dale, a conservative for parliament, and Nick Ferrari. The broadcasting standards commission has criticized him for encouraging racism against asylum seekers. They also had Katie Hopkins, a conservative provocateur, that had to resign over a controversial tweet. Her views are similar to American conservative political commentator Ann Coulter. Recently, conservative Nigel Farage hosted a talk show on LBC. On the left, they have James O’Brien, who describes himself as a “champagne socialist.”
Although this particular article seems okay, best stay clear of linking to them, due to unreliable factuality.
- Comment on Request to mod !sumo@lemmy.world 3 months ago:
Grazie!
- Submitted 3 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-11-07: The Fantastic Four is still on top, along with Godzilla. 4 months ago:
I’m shocked at how DVDs are still over half the hard media market to this day.
That has to be globally, right?
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 4 months ago:
Liverpool matches are art? Not lately…
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Ugh. I haven’t used it for over 10 years, and I’m still disappointed that it’s been enshittified.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 5 months ago:
So do we get free chocolate, or is that socialism?
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 6 months ago:
That was the pon farr, basically when even Spock’s half-Vulcan mating urge couldn’t be repressed anymore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_Time
If you raise a Vulcan without the mental training, you basically get a Romulan.
- Comment on How have I not heard of The Beverly Crushers before? 6 months ago:
Then there’s the Wesley Crushers
- Comment on Informative review 6 months ago:
It’s like the first time in any restaurant or food place where you’re not familiar with the food:
Ask the server what they recommend.
- Comment on FOX ONE NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ACROSS WEB, MOBILE AND CONNECTED TV DEVICES 7 months ago:
ALL CAPITAL LETTER SHOUTING IS NOT APPRECIATED.
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- Comment on Dakota Johnson Delivers Damning Diagnosis On Hollywood’s Risk-Aversion: “It’s All A Bit Of A Mess” 9 months ago:
It’s not Hollywood creatives, but the banks that they’re reliant upon to finance productions.
The movie financing department un-creatively wants to see the safest lineup of stars, directors, and a non-controversial script to maximize their chances of getting their loan back with interest.
Ironically, this also means that the risk you have to create interesting art is missing.
So the end product is safe, but because it’s the same thing, it’s more and more boring over time.
It’s why an octogenarian Scorcese gets to make “The Irishman” with similarly aged Robert DeNiro, because that’s a combination that made money in the past.
It’s like AI shit.
It’s great at first, but soon you realize there’s nothing new coming out because it’s just AI regurgitating its training data, and undercutting artists trying to make a living by making something new.
Similarly PornHub.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 9 months ago:
Oh sure, of course CEOs want us to think they can’t be replaced by AI…
