AI being pumped into everything. It drives me absolutely nuts that every fucking thing has to have AI. Now you can buy a laptop that uses AI to write an email, just so the receiver can use AI to summarise it. We're going to start using computers to develop enormous amounts of crap before we finally realise that putting the effort into writing, reading, drawing, designing etc. is actually worthwhile. Don't get me wrong, I see several use cases for AI where it's very good, and studied genetic algorithms at uni (i.e. software that can rewrite itself given feedback on its output), but what is being pushed on us now will just encourage laziness and ultimately be a detriment to humans in general.

"Because fuck you, give me money" - AJ

I get so tired of these headlines that are basically "Authority figure says obvious thing". Like, yeah, and so do most other people, thanks for the update.

I feel that divergence is what made DS9 so good. Instead of travelling around exploring aliens, we're stationary exploring ourselves and our politics. It was a great idea to make a show about a completely different aspect of Starfleet life. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the last great idea they had.

I'd love to see Trump use a power tool. As soon as he scratches his head with a nailgun all our problems will be over.

War always favours the incumbent at election time, so the cynic in me thinks the US is dragging its feet quite purposely.

Fuckn YAWN Everything has to be a franchise now doesn't it? They already butchered The Hobbit by turning a short story into 9 hours of crap by padding out and blatantly making shit up. It's not like all these "safe bets" the studios are making are paying out too well at the moment, so why not try taking some smaller risks with new and different projects? I'm sure Hollywood is flooded with people with original ideas and scripts that are being bypassed because Fast And Fuckaround 11tyone needs to be made because money.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept, and all I'm seeing is a lot of the world walking past if not enabling. It's all very well for world leaders to point out the obvious but until something is done about it, it's just hot air.

I recall they accidentally went live with them and they appeared on everyone's maps for [some time less than an hour, I don't remember]. They then abruptly disappeared.

Netflix add and remove stuff without fanfare all the time. What do you mean "quietly added"? Are we expecting announcements?

Well, yes. Preferential voting is one key component, the other being a decent media so the public have an idea of what's going on. Unfortunately Murdoch owns just about everything, and it's a problem we're still battling against.

In this part of the country?