The year is 2001. I'm playing Mega Man Battle Network. Haruka, Lan's mother, is shocked when her recently repaired oven has caught fire. "Maybe it's a bug or virus or something!" I laugh at the absurdity of the moment. It turns out it's an attack that was caused by a cyber terrorist group.
The year is 2026. I'm reading the news and...
Oh hey and Minnaloushe is sprawled behind my chair #cats
From 2024: A massive theft of artifacts from #Texas Christian University revealed troubling issues about how the artifacts were obtained, the security of collections like these, and Texans role in the illicit trade of artifacts. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-heist/
Welcome to a new game of #HangTrek, a #StarTrek word #puzzle.
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Rules of the game are at https://mastodon.social/@chrysomeles/112461799676962075
All are welcome to vote and guess at any time. Others may appreciate a CW when you guess.
The first poll will run for 24 hours.
All crew,
After today's events, the Captain says that crew members who wish to carry a phaser must be approved by Counselor Troi.
Worf
Forever reading. Get the PRINT! https://gricklemart.com/mystery-sucker-print/ #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #reading #october #halloween #art #cartoon #drawing #funny #humor
Morning Monarch Madness! A couple of triple monarch phone photos.
There are probably 15 monarchs in the garden this morning. I hope they scoot on south soon, but it’s great to have them around.
So, I’m off to Liverpool for a couple of days. Any recommendations of things to do/places to visit outside of the obvious museums, galleries, cathedrals, ferry across the Mersey etc?
Suggestions for excellent coffee and cake venues enthusiastically received.
I have seen all of SNW season 1, a few episodes from season 2; and none of seasons 3 and 4.
No spoilers, please.
I recently re-watched season 1. I think it's mostly very good. There are a few things I didn't enjoy.
1. I think Hemmer's death was pointless and unnecessary. The episode could have concluded with one less death without throwing off the narrative. Having a legally blind actor portray a blind, and amazingly capable, character. A well acted, and very interesting character. Awesome! Then, killing him off. What the hell.
2. In TOS the Gorn are introduced as being aggressive, and wearing fabulously sparkly outfits. Eventually, there was clarification that their nascent conflict with the Federation wasn't an invasion, but a misunderstanding. The Federation is not always good about checking if an area of space has been staked out by someone else before moving in. The Gorn were fighting off perceived invaders, not just being rampaging maniacs.
The SNW Gorn are, as La'an says, monsters. No subtlety. No redeeming qualities. Just hunting, killing, and/or laying eggs in anyone they come across. I'd think their intergalactic neighbors would have tired of it, and wiped out the Gorn by now. Hopefully writers dial back Gorn behavior in subsequent seasons.
3. TOS' Chapel dealt with a 1960s depiction of her continual, kind of desperate, a restraining order cannot be far off, romantic chasing of Spock. But, SNW's Chapel, wow! She is every good thing about TOS's Chapel, and so much more. Then, Chapel started mooning over Spock. I'm not digging this '60s throwback behavior.
4. Sam Kirk. I have nothing against the actor. I just wonder why the heck Sam Kirk is even on the show. If SNW had 22+ episodes per season, instead of 10, I'd still wonder why the heck Sam Kirk was on the show.
Today's #TheMuppetShow GIF of the Day is...
@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
so what did we learn here?
1. #AI fakes have us all twisted and trusting nothing
2. pedants can be wrong
3. casual #socialMedia does not need to abide by the standards of courtroom legal dispensations
people, think before you post about something being AI or not:
"what is the potential for harm here?"
and if there is none, cool it
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@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
next another poster comes in with a whole portfolio of versions of the image and shows me how the version i used was just sort of touched up with AI. so i took one of the images different from what i originally posted, and ran it through three freebie AI image checkers. they all report high probability not AI. so that version of the image gets restored to the top post above
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@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
next, the poster responds i should be more careful. i say no, this is informal social media not a doctoral dissertation. etc, etc. we go back and forth in the usual pathetic social media slapfight and i get the block. fine. one less pedant to deal with (see below in the larger thread, if you're interested, but you shouldn't be unless you like popcorn)
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@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
"fun" times ahead! welcome to our world of fakes, pedants, and the devils in the details. a mildly entertaining/ annoying read:
so someone shows me a screenshot of an #openai tester page showing the following image is #AI (from my original post)
well not good enough, i want to verify
i go to openai myself, upload, and yes: this is AI
so i remove the image and thank the poster sincerely. i don't want to post AI
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I have also seen several people saying on Reddit that they don’t buy books which have been published after 2022, because it’s unclear if these have been partly or completely generated with AI.
So this is another problem for self-published authors these days - this and decreasing visibility in book stores which get flooded by AI-generated books. 🙄
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#NoAI and #selfpublishing:
Today, I read something in a subreddit about books which got me thinking.
Someone there said, “I am not buying selfpublished books anymore because I cannot verify if they have been generated with AI or not. Surely there are good selfpublished writers out there, but I do not have the capacity to figure out each time if the writer uses gen. AI or not.”
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