“The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada”: good job to Canadian journalism here, and to the Montreal gym owner who acted swiftly. But this is a reminder that Canada (and most European countries) are, like, less than 10 years away from a Trump-like debacle if we’re not vigilant.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
This little colour game is fun, but I suspect it depends more on your screen than on your eyes. I got 0.0080 on my phone and 0.0021 on my work monitor. At some point I think I could better see the monitor being dirty and imperfect than anything else.
More on Star Trek VI: Martia is one of my all-time favourite Trek characters! Iman (the actress) chewing on a cigar here is a stroke of genius. I’d love to see a story featuring Martia doing whatever she did before being sent to the Rura Penthe mines!
So Vulcans can just extract information from an unwilling person in a matter of seconds? They would make great interrogators! The Federation could be the most effective totalitarian government if they had a Vulcan Gestapo!
Next on my first-time Trek watchlist was “The Undiscovered Country”. Wow, this is probably my favourite Trek movie so far. There’s action, comedy, intrigue, moral questions, suspense! The plot goes places, there are great characters, an even greater cast… it’s just good Trek!
Cook: Why is Apple AI still shit?
Federighi: I’m reviewing our algos sir but we’re using all the latest models
Random guy: Maybe we have a problem with the Kenyan/Filipino contractors?
Cook: ……?
Random guy: <explains how most “AI” works these days>
Cook: OUR COMPETITORS ARE DOING WHAT NOW??!!
So at the beginning of Star Trek V, Kirk is doing some death-defying rock-climbing before duty comes knocking… the beginning of Mission Impossible 2 is OBVIOUSLY a homage to this!
Next on my first-time Trek watchlist: “The Final Frontier”! Oooh boy. When I saw it was directed and co-written by Shatner, I knew it would be bad. The only positive point was trying to do some philosophical god-alien thing like in TOS. But it failed at that, and at pretty much everything else.
By the way, Kirk trying to explain Spock’s look and behaviour to 1980s people with “He did too much LDS in the 60’s” was quite funny, not just because he gets “LSD” wrong, but because it could also be interpreted as “Mormons are weird”
More about Star Trek IV: sure it’s got some funny moments, but between “Search For Spock” and this, it seems to be the point where it’s not just Gene Roddenberry’s story anymore, but some studio’s FRANCHISE. Gotta appeal to more audiences! Can I say it now? THEY RUINED STAR TREK!
