Kirk
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- Comment on How the US got left behind in the global electric car race 4 days 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' 1 week ago:
OK this is cool
- Comment on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes 1 week 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! 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired 4 weeks ago:
I don’t understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 5 weeks 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’ 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah like I said: “vibes”
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 5 weeks ago:
I agree the Gamble plot was great and the actor nailed it.
- Comment on "Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] 5 weeks ago:
They wanted to avoid another entrance/exit on screen to keep us guessing how this Star Trek Inception works.
I understand the reasoning from a suspense perspective but manufactured suspense does not feel suspenseful. Think about it: why show the entire long debate about leaving or not if none of them actually care? The only thing that makes sense is that once they understood the danger was real there was an off-camera conversation with Pike or Una wherein Pike or Una presumably told them that the danger was acceptable and to proceed. But if we accept that the conversation happened off-camera, then the presence of the debate scene doesn’t make sense from a storytelling standpoint.
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- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 month ago:
/r/im14andthisisdeep
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 month ago:
idk OP… this is a lot more effort than I put into things idgaf about.
- Comment on The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room 1 month ago:
That’s great to hear thanks
- Comment on The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room 1 month ago:
Can anyone with Bazzite experience tell me how it handles games with third party launchers like EA or Ubisoft? You can’t seem to be able to escape those these days and they are buggy even on Windows so I don’t have high hopes for Linux.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 1 month ago:
Inner Light is a good choice. It demonstrates the “vibe” of TNG without relying heavily on any pre existing characters.
- Comment on Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did 1 month ago:
When does it take place chronologically in universe?
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 1 month ago:
Are we watching the same movies because the criticisms I usually hear leveled at the TOS films are that they are too philosophical and boring
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 1 month ago:
Well this is a take I can’t believe is being upvoted…
- Comment on Attempted another Trek meal: Andorian cabbage soup and Norellian twist bread. 1 month ago:
Funny the Star trek cookbook I use has not produced many tasty dishes… Image
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 1 month ago:
the note says “please dont be that guy on the internet”
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 1 month ago:
There are dozens of us!
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- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 month ago:
It worries me that there are scientists out there who are making studies based on the assumption that an LLM chat bot is a reasonable stand-in for a human in this context (in any context really but that’s another conversation). It’s just not what LLMs are, it’s not what they are designed to do. They’ve fallen for the marketing.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 month ago:
We address this question using a novel method - generative social simulation - that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms. We create a minimal platform where agents can post, repost, and follow others. We find that the resulting following-networks reproduce three well-documented dysfunctions: (1) partisan echo chambers; (2) concentrated influence among a small elite; and (3) the amplification of polarized voices - creating a ‘social media prism’ that distorts political discourse.
- lmao "generative AI chatbots trained on social media behave like social media users"
- Shame on ArsTechnica they should be better than to publish a study like this.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 1 month ago:
You are talking about Enterprise?
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 1 month ago:
