But_Class_War

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was is ever not completely under capitalism? As far as I’ve seen they were always fully going with hype over substance posturing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Difficult Teerain⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  partially sarcastic, Tasha Yar as a character had big potential and was intended to be cooler but they started off on the wrong foot, never corrected, and never developed her.

  The wikipedia rabbit hole for Tasha Yar and her actor Denise Crosby is an interesting one. Some of the creators thought she was the most interesting character in the “show bible” so maybe it was the episode writers that missed the message and gave her such empty stories and flubbed what could have been a cool character. Either way it would have been interesting to see a woman in the role of chief of security and another big leap in the progressiveness of star trek.

  TOS had post cold war russions, and showed that black people are part of the future. Aside from briefly having a woman in charge of security I can’t think of any progressive traits on TNG other than negotiating and 1st contact (are Picard’s bag and) better that fighting. Don’t get me wrong through I still hold a special place for TNG, just finished a rewatch not too long ago, but on second-ish watch, with the rose tinted glasses off, it is disappointing they had an opportunity to make a statement about a brighter, freer, more equitable future but ended up going with rape gangs and forced marriage (oh and fucking Data) instead.

  So yeah the character ended up weak but was originally intended to be a bad ass. missed opportunity for something cooler and bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Difficult Teerain⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally Tasha’s shitty/lazy backstory, grew up orphan style on a busted ass plant, hiding from all the rape gangs that were running round. I forget which episodes she mentions it in but there’s a surprisingly few references to it: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rape_gang memorydelta.fandom.com/wiki/Natasha_Yar [1) ctrl+F Rape 2) say “damn, wtf!”]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Difficult Teerain⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait wait wait, are you trying to say that a character whose first big episode s1e4 saw them, as the head of security, get kidnapped for a forced marriage and had a character background of [checks notes] planet of rape gangs wasn’t enough of a character?

  Early TNG wasn’t great, not surprising Denise Crosby asked to be released from her contract early. Fully agree they did her dirty with that death story but glad they still brought her back a few times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's enshittification memos⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pure enshittification, squeezing both sides. I had no idea on this part but that would explain a lot, fuckin wild

  Here’s how that worked: when you ran a query like “children’s clothing,” Google secretly appended the brand name of a kids’ clothing manufacturer to the query. This, in turn, triggered a ton of ads – because rival brands will have bought ads against their competitors’ name (like Pepsi buying ads that are shown over queries for Coke).

  Here we see surpluses being taken away from both end-users and business customers – that is, searchers and advertisers. For searchers, it doesn’t matter how much you refine your query, you’re still going to get crummy search results because there’s an unkillable, hidden search term stuck to your query, like a piece of shit that Google keeps sticking to the sole of your shoe.

  But for advertisers, this is also a scam. They’re paying to be matched to users who search on a brand name, and you didn’t search on that brand name. It’s especially bad for the company whose name has been appended to your search, because Google has a protection racket where the company that matches your search has to pay extra in order to show up overtop of rivals who are worse matches. Both the matching company and those rivals have given Google a credit-card that Google gets to bill every time a user searches on the company’s name, and Google is just running fraudulent charges through those cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “They trust me — dumb fucks,” says Zuckerberg

  Always good to keep in mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t the api hit the cloud, isn’t it just a different interface?