Zephorah
@Zephorah@discuss.online
- Comment on I dunno 1 day ago:
Alternatively, the poster calculated the wrong answer, thus assuming this guy was wrong.
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 3 days ago:
Replicators, teleporters, holodecks, monetary exchange dead, and Q showing up at random.
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 1 week ago:
High odds he’s ok with it now because what will be released is a “cleaned” version. We can’t trust much of anything from this admin.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
This remains a favorite. 1 & 2. Of course, corporate dissolved the studio.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 1 week ago:
Me neither. I technically had an account, but only to log in and look around. I found it most useful during things like Floyd protests and riots, for a real time news feed from people with boots on ground on what’s happening. Apart from that, it has always seemed odd and worthless.
- Comment on A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists 2 weeks ago:
Take a long, hard look at the impact. Higher utility bills for everyone. Massive light noise. Noise, incessant noise. Water pressure issues.
- Comment on A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists 2 weeks ago:
Ypsi is in the Ann Arbor zone. This is otherwise decent real estate. A data center would tank that. I hope the data center loses, but we’ve seen many a city council sell out their constituents for these leviathans.
- Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies? 3 weeks ago:
Art mimics life mimics art mimics life mimics art mimics life mimics art…
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 3 weeks ago:
Anything but Yelp. Depending.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 weeks ago:
What badge number? They won’t do that. They need demasking.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 weeks ago:
Not the point. As long as they remain masked there will be no accountability.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 weeks ago:
Again though, until you connect their actions on the street, to a face, prosecution will never be possible.
The need unmasking, on the street.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 weeks ago:
We will never get there while they are anonymous. The path to prison starts with de-masking.
You can’t prosecute what has no identification.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 weeks ago:
They use facial recognition on us while we are not allowed to see their faces.
These guys need de-masking.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That’s the episode I cited.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Weird. My stay at home mom and favorite aunt watched it back when TVs had 5 stations on a dial. They introduced me, female, to it at a young age. None of us are Trump voters.
The only dislike expressed was for the Spock’s brain episode. They still talk about what a terrible episode they thought it was.
Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking? The wiki says it’s always been a diverse viewership with a slight skew to male.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yes. The character arcs are the best thus far. It’s less “police procedural” than the prior two. And Sisko is the best Captain.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yes. That’s from Deep Space Nine. S5E6 Trials and Tribbleations. A neat mashup that puts the DS9 crew into the original tribbles episode.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Star Trek is the original woke.
A black woman was part of command staff on the bridge.
They entertained TVs first interracial kiss.
Their society doesn’t involve money.
They have a no interference policy as the prime directive, completely opposite the bottom line of the United States.
Roddenberry knew Takei was gay.
For an example of TOS’ level of woke, please refer to Season 3, Episode 15: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 5 weeks ago:
People keep talking about trying to not buy Amazon. How about purging all your subs, except your VPN?
You say /s, but who know at this point? People keep voting yes with their dollars.
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 5 weeks ago:
I’m more disturbed that a bed needs to be online for it to function appropriately.
- Comment on 'Lost absolutely all touch': Gobsmacked lawmakers react to Noem's luxury purchases 5 weeks ago:
Dogkiller Noem is comfortable, that’s what’s important.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Thus demonstrating the crux of the issue.
I was just looking for a name of a historical figure associated with the Declaration of Independence but not involved in the writing of it. Elizabeth Powel. Once I knew the name, I went through the ai to see how fast they’d get it. Duck.ai confidently gave me 9 different names, including people who were born on 1776 or soon thereafter and could not have been historically involved in any of it. I even said not married to any of the writers and kept getting Abagail Adams and the journalist, Goddard. It was continually distracted by “prominent woman” and would give Elizabeth Cady Stanton instead. Twice.
Finally, I gave the ai a portrait. It took the ai three tries to get the name from the portrait, and the portrait is the most used one under the images tab.
It was very sad. I strongly encourage everyone to test the ai. Easy to grab wikis that would be top of the search anyway are making the ai look good.
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 1 month ago:
He wants pets and is using the stair edges to handle it himself.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 1 month ago:
Any media we can own outright is a win.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
I wasn’t even aware it was a sub, but if course it is. What could possibly be so alluring in paramount that has a bigger pull than Disney and ESPN content?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
What’s the boycott there?
- Comment on AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era 1 month ago:
Mashable did an article on it, saying it wasn’t easy to find but $9.99/mo appeared to be the cost, still, after all this time. But it would only run on windows PCs.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
GOG. It’s not all games, but you can own some of them. Steam, in spite of the CEO that keeps it decent, started this lease under the guise of buying model.
That said, subs are much worse. If the Disney/Kimmel situation taught us anything, it’s that boycotts work.
Subs are costing most Americans, on average, $300/mo. (More Perfect Union covered it.). That’s a monthly grocery bill for 1-2, if you buy right and cook. Subs are part of the “squeeze” that siphons money to the top 1%.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 month ago:
It’s pretty basic when you dig into the social psychology.
A classic outside the internet experiment would be a waiting room that starts to fill with smoke. Smoke starts to leak in at the ceiling. People see it. The variable is when the confederate (word for person who is an experimenter hire) gets up and leaves. Seeing someone leave, not the smoke itself, even as it builds up in the room, is a far better predictor of human behavior in that moment. People will take this farther than you’d think, waiting and then waiting some more, until a social cue occurs.
Online is different, yes, but our social wiring doesn’t just go away. And now, the numbers of social cues are far, far easier to manipulate. I don’t know if they’re cheaper, but the numbers side of it is disturbing.