Kirk
@Kirk@startrek.website
- Comment on Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News 1 day ago:
Donation supported journalism works well for NPR.
I can imagine an ecosystem in which enough people give their $50/month streaming subscriptions directly to artists and journalists.
- Comment on For Halloween I made gagh. 1 day ago:
I hope you ate this with your hands!
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 days ago:
Siri is bad but at least it has natural language processing. I think it’s so funny how CEOs have no idea how LLMs work.
Over a year ago Apple literally ran an ad showing off an “Apple Intelligence” feature that you could tell nobody at Apple ran by the actual engineers before deciding it was possible. It (of course) has still not been released.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Consider yourself blessed to be unaware of the entire digital media ecosystem that targets insecure white men via their preferred fandoms and is dedicated to blaming women and minorities for their issues.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
This is hilarious to me so I looked up the original article and I am pretty sure that it is largely written by AI.
Also, not that it needs or deserves any kind of analysis, but the central premise (as much as I can decipher from all the ChatGPT fluff) appears to be: “Because Trekkies are conservative, Star Trek is doing everything it can to make men hate it.” which obviously makes no sense. Why would a company create a piece of media knowing it would be unpopular?
Anyway thanks for the laugh, OP.
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 6 days ago:
Thankfully I don’t think economic demand for AI generated visuals is nearly as high as the human crafted variety
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started - CleanTechnica 6 days ago:
I was going to report to the mod but… the mod is the one who posted it. Guess I’m unsubbing.
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 1 week ago:
That’s really astute, I’ve never seen that comparison drawn so directly. It’s the same situation with the people who claim that AI “democratizes” art by allowing someone to have a “work” of art without putting in the work of creating which is what makes a work a thing to be desired in the first place.
- Comment on Aura introduces a $499 e-ink digital photo frame that lets you go cordless 1 week ago:
Thanks, I fixed my comment, the article said “similar to that found in the Kindle Colorsoft” and I didn’t read further.
- Comment on Aura introduces a $499 e-ink digital photo frame that lets you go cordless 1 week ago:
This is really cool, I love that it has a gentle front light. But pricing aside, having to take off the wall to charge every three months is a dealbreaker. I wonder if a solar panel along the top edge of the frame would have been sufficient to keep the battery charged for most situations.
Regardless I hope we see more of these. Even if the Kaleido screen is FAR from photo quality.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 week ago:
ok well now I know you’re sexist lmao
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 week ago:
If you describe a female character who’s not a Mary Sue as a Mary Sue for no reason other than because you don’t like her, people will think you’re sexist.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Well said. Prodigy was not for me. But I’m not making it my personality!
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
I was struggling to think of a character that was presented as “flawless” and Saru is the closest I could think of. I cannot conceive of a definition of “Mary Sue” that would apply to characters that that go to prison for mutiny. If Micheal meets the definition of a “Mary Sue” then Kirk, Sisko, Riker, Scotty, Wesley and Tom Paris do too but I suspect you would disagree with those being included.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Well said, except that TMP is pure cinema and you sir are worse than Khan Singh.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Someone once told me that Discovery had a “storyline” about a character coming out as nonbinary I asked them if they could tell me what episodes this storyline took place or provide any details from this story. Of course they could not but they remained fully convicted that it did happen.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Mary Sue
Is this a reference to Saru? Because I would argue strongly that he does not meet the definition of the term “Mary Sue”:
“exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. […] lacks any realistic character flaws”
Saru was gifted and possessed “rare skills” yes, but was not without character flaws. For starters he sided with Burhnam during her mutiny and subsequent imprisonment.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah when someone complains that Discovery redesigned the Klingons but won’t complain about TNG redesigning the Klingons then you can know that they don’t actually have strong opinions about the concept of a redesign.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Finally, something substantial. I was worried this would be “Star Trek: High School Musical” but this trailer makes it clear this isn’t just a Trek show for tweens and teens.
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown - Demo Out Now! 2 weeks ago:
Dang development seems to be moving pretty quickly
- Comment on How the US got left behind in the global electric car race 3 weeks ago:
This quote from Ford’s CEO:
“It’s going to be a vibrant industry, but it’s going to be smaller, way smaller than we thought,” Ford chief executive Jim Farley said at an event on Tuesday.
Combined with the following quote he recently said:
Speaking on the Everything Electric Show podcast, Farley praised the [Xiaomi] electric sedan. “I don’t like talking about the competition so much, but I drive a Xiaomi,” he said. “We flew one from Shanghai to Chicago, and I’ve been driving it for six months now, and I don’t want to give it up.”
Really feels like Kodak in the 90’s.
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy — 22-minute recut of 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' set to Daft Punk's original score for 'Tron: Legacy' 4 weeks ago:
OK this is cool
- Comment on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes 4 weeks ago:
If these catch on (unlikely imo) it’s only a matter of time before I have an awkward interaction with someone when they come into my house wearing them…
- Comment on Some nice attention to continuity by the SNW team! 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired 1 month ago:
I don’t understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 1 month ago:
Actually there is an episode of VOY that proves they did evolve a special brian region to supress emotions
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 1 month ago:
And yet oddly enough that is not the issue with the Section 31 movie
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 1 month ago:
Yeah true, I suppose that kind of defeats my whole idea that Vulcans would self-destruct if they allowed emotions to control them.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 1 month ago:
I haven’t seen the episode yet that I think you’re alluding to, but yes Vulcans have always been presented as having a kind of Buddhist-style philosophy with the important qualification that they would literally destroy themselves as an advanced race without it. The “religion” is an important social technology to enable them to explore the cosmos.
It’s obviously alluding to humans too, if we can’t control our innate animal reactions like tribalism and greed then we too will not be able to harness our own (physical) technology without self-destructing.
