Kirk
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- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 10 hours ago:
That Matthew Hodgson quote is good.
“Unhappy users tend to be disproportionately loud given the issues at stake, and there’s a huge risk of optimizing to appease those who shout loudest in the short-term rather than find medium-term solutions which solve for everyone.”
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 10 hours ago:
Y’all know damn well Corridor8031 didn’t donate a dime.
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
I actually learned of this when the Material You Home Assistant addon updated yesterday. Kudos to the dev for being extremely on the ball.
- Comment on Colm looks so uncomfortable without a the console in Transporter Room Three 5 days ago:
Probably the first time he had to wear pants to work in a while
- Comment on The Strange New Worlds Season 3 Soundtrack has been released 1 week ago:
Shame there is no plan for a physical release but still cool
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 1 week ago:
I see “Elon Musk” invitating me to secret whatsapp groups where he is going to give me bitcoin
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 1 week ago:
I get what you’re saying is a joke, but most people don’t know about Newpipe or whatever the current alternative app is, and soon most people won’t be able to sideload anyway when Google makes it’s changes to Android.
It’s not good that Google/Meta are exposing these people to scammed for the crime of simply for not knowing how to sideload.
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 1 week ago:
The article that you are commenting on is the original source for quote and does not contain any mention of prequels.
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 1 week ago:
If you open YouTube shorts in a new account or an account that doesn’t store history the ads are nearly exclusively AI slop scams. This is not just a Meta issue.
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 1 week ago:
The article I shared is the original source and does not contain a mention of prequels.
The link you shared just now appears to be an AI slop summary with added hallucinations.
I am arguing with you because from the perspective of someone reading the article I shared, you brought up an entirely unrelated topic in order to complain.
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 1 week ago:
? that quote is not in the article ?
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 2 weeks ago:
I have a long list of things I disliked about the JJ Abrams movies, but the casting was certainly nowhere on it.
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 2 weeks ago:
? it doesn’t say anything about prequels?
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 2 weeks ago:
Nice to see they are still working a Trek movie, and also nice to see (IMO) that it could be connected to the main timeline.
- "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot."variety.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 24 comments
- Comment on Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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’ 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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’ 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks ago:
ok well now I know you’re sexist lmao
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 4 weeks 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) 4 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) 5 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) 5 weeks ago:
Well said, except that TMP is pure cinema and you sir are worse than Khan Singh.