4 years ago today: I was heading to Oslo, #Norge for my first time out of the US, visiting a place I've want to visit since the #Lillehammer Olympics. This is a blurry image of the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan.
I'll admit that I didn't "get" Dolly Parton for most of my life - not in the sense that I didn't like her, but in the sense that I just didn't understand why she or her music were such a big deal. Why she meant so much not just to the people right around her but people of all kinds, all over the world.
But this podcast miniseries did it for me: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america
I get it now.
I get asked at work why I do not use any #AI My answer is that I will never, ever let my skills atrophy.
Because when everyone else uses it to get basic parts of their job done, I will be there to take their job when they forget how to do it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries
#StopTheCount !!!
The #Oslo Polar Bears lead the Robinson Division!
Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy
A "final tune-up" for what, #AI? Watching the World Cup på TV?
typical human functions
Data is continuing to paint, or not to paint)
LAFORGE: Now what are you doing?
DATA: I am AI-ing.
#AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #OneoneZeroZeroOneZeroZeroOne @startrek #AI
Small anxiety the size of a large anxiety
A watched backup never completes, but it does crash the moment you look away
Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of
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DATA: I have tried one hundred seventy three phonetic variations of the name Quaice.
The many names of Dalen Quaice, M.D.
Quayce
Kwaice
Kwehhhce
Qwaysss
Kuhwehhhis
No wonder Crusher looks peeved. It looks like someone switched her tea out for Legaran pool water as a practical joke.
Ambassador Sarek sits alone in his room. His assistants have taken away his communication devices so he can't send out any 3 a.m. rage "logics" on his latest contribution to Vulcan society, Logic Social.
The USS Enterprise launches a prototype of a McDonald's Playplace into the gravity well of a neutron star to tests the structure's robustness.
The replicators on the Defiant still serve those #StarTrekTOS era circus peanuts.
Either that or the cheese has started to gain sentience.
To get good at anything, you have to practice.
So practice treating others well.
BELLBOY: I'm not afraid of Mickey D.
CLERK: Then you're a fool. Anybody with any sense is afraid of Mickey D. All that cholesterol will kill 'ya.
RIKER: First Officer's Log, Stardate 42625.4. I have only seen a few seconds of the interior of this "casino", and already want to curse its designer into oblivion.
#AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TheRoyale @startrek
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