Odd headline, since the quoted interview bits don’t actually say anything to do with wanting more spin-offs. But it shouldn’t be that surprising. Who doesn’t want to earn more money?

If there are spin-offs, it should be something new, rather than being tied to the past. Trek suffers a bit from nostalgia, and being over-reliant on it is one of the franchise’s biggest weaknesses.

There’s really good show material just looking at and dealing with the Federation’s bias towards organic humanoids, for example. We see it pop up repeatedly across multiple shows, where Starfleet/the Federation are perfectly happy allowing/doing things for non-humanoid/non-organic species that they would never have allowed if they weren’t.

Repurposing the EMH MK. I units for dilithium mining, compelling Maddox to use the information he learned about Data to create an explicitly lobotomised version to use as a workforce, or ordering Picard to deploy a memetic virus designed to kill all the Borg, for example. The Federation would never have done that to its humans, and the closest match would be more like something the Dominion would do. But since none of them are organic humanoids, all is okay.

You’d also get hypothermia, since your body wouldn’t be able to retain enough heat to stay warm.

There’s a reason why small animals tend to be round and fluffy.

Weird choice for Meta, given that, as the article also points out, the website formerly known as Twitter got into a whole bucket of trouble when it allowed people to do that before, because it ended up being misused in no time flat.

It would be one thing if it was users editing their own profile pictures, but allowing anyone to edit the profile picture of anyone who hasn’t opted out is just asking for trouble.

Then again when I hear stats like the average item of clothing is worn 7 times, maybe I am not really the target of this

I would be curious if this gets skewed by things like formalwear that someone might have had for just the one event, or don’t wear very often. Or if the survey question was ambiguous.

7 times total seems very low. 7 times before a wash seems a bit more reasonable.

It’s also arguably the only thing propping up the American economy right now. They don’t have anything to bail with, if the AI bubbles goes on fire. Their economy may well come tumbling down in short order.

Doctor Who.

This one is just so remarkably stupid. They can’t even pretend that it’s for any other reason than Trump’s ego.

Especially with the amount of back and forth between war and no war.

All it would do is put the credibility of the US in the urinal. Why would anyone believe a future administration trying to mediate a truce when their own history shows that they will vacillate back and forth constantly?

The AI companies filing reports as required, but seemingly doing the bare minimum, and not providing enough data for the reports to be actionable might come close.

It rather implies that this happens all the time, but the companies just don’t care very much about it, except for where they absolutely must.

I don’t envy the poor employees who had to do that.

Though it does also raise the inevitable question of how it made it into the training data to begin with.

Even then, Reddit seems to be trying its darndest to reduce that, and the moderation was very variable to start with.

At the very least, the website has become much worse in recent years, thanks to the influx of LLM-powered bots, and the winding down of interfaces that a lot of third-party moderation tools used. Those tools really only existed because the inbuilt tooling was quite lacking.

Currently, Reddit has locked their old.Reddit interface behind a login wall, and are looking to potentially shut down their RSS feeds (and likely that interface as well). A fair few moderation bots and tools make use of both those things.

Which basically meant that the site was hit with the double-whammy of mods needing those anti-bot tools more than ever, and Reddit Co. trying to shut down external access that those tools needed, so as to keep mods on their own tools.

Would it even be possible to ethically research such a thing in the first place? You certainly can’t just throw a battery of drugs and therapy at humans.

Plus, research into altering sexuality to that degree verges into quite uncomfortable territory. It doesn’t take a great leap of the imagination to think that such research could easily be misused for things like conversion therapy.

Geez, if only there were alternatives to ai generated csam, like therapy and medication??

Would medication even help in this case? We don’t really have medication that can affect sexuality in that fine-grained a way.

Maybe the idea was that he could end his life, without risking crashing the plane? Why he chose this method specifically will, unfortunately, never be answered.

I’m confused. Why does he need to endorse an election candidate? He’s an actor/wrestler, not a politician.

It’s not as though he’s any smarter or more informed than the average person is in that regard.

They also just push new things at viewers. It’s inevitable that someone waiting for a Season 2 of a show they like might end up in a warren of other shows, and watch those instead, since they’re available.

Discoverability is also in the toilet. You can’t just turn on the television and find Star Trek. You have to be subscribed to the right streaming services in this landscape, and to do that, you have to want to watch it in the first place. It’s not like when Discovery was new, and there was more or less just Netflix that people either had or didn’t have.

Star Trek’s now in the unenviable position of trying to attract a new causal audience, but being set up in places where more dedicated viewers will be the ones that can find and watch it.

On top of that, you don’t have to stay bleeding-edge. Computers have mostly reached a steady-state these days. A decade old computer now is still a fairly usable machine. It won’t be fast, but it also won’t be a slug.

I’ve never had an avocado that smelt like bleach. Are they supposed to smell like that?

Not the screen, but it would be nice if I could replace the keyboard on my laptop, since it doesn’t work properly any more.

But since it’s built into the lower body, it costs about as much to replace as the device is worth, since I’d be replacing a big piece of the casing, so I just make do with also carrying a Bluetooth keyboard.

Conservation of mass-energy only really applies if you rely on the old 21st century idea that the universe’s fundamentals consist of time, space, matter, and energy.

Anyone who’s had a secondary school education knows that that’s an outmoded view of the universe. They didn’t realise that subspace existed, in much the same way that they did not realise that surviving records show that 21st century humans did not know the Earth was round until Cochrane took to orbit in the late 2000s, and proved it.