“Far-Right Speakers Given a Perch at Vancouver’s Web Summit”: I know a lot of people leaving the tech sector, in part because of shit like this. This industry is increasingly populated by bad people, and people enabling bad people.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
So they want to build AI data centres in the middle of Vancouver? When real-estate is already crazy, and city infrastructure is strained? That seems… bad. Like, “this ends with brandishing signs in the street and broken Telus windows” bad.
You know what time it is? Yeah it’s RHUBARB PIE TIME AGAIN MOTHERFUCKERS. No time to make it pretty because I’m HUNGRY
Thom Holwerda often cherry-picks his sources in the same way that, say, John Gruber does, so take this with a bit of salt, but it’s good news that the European DMA is possibly working out. I’d love for Canada to have strong laws like this too.
As I’m making the last changes to my “King’s Daughters” scenario for Call of Cthulhu before it goes to editing/layout/art, I learn that a horror movie is in production to tell the story of the (very bad) boat trip of the first group of women! Definitely looking forward to this!
My pet peeves about Star Trek TNG (based on season 1 so far) are (1) inhabited planets that are just one solid colour and (2) all the “unique” cases on the Enterprise (Worf and Data are unique, Wesley is an exception, Geordi is at least rare, etc.)
A bit more on my first watch of Star Trek TNG. Did they have a show bible? There seems to be very inconsistent communication and transporter ranges, travel times, etc. It’s a bit of a mess from one episode to another.
I’m continuing my first watch of all things Star Trek, now about 2/3rds into TNG’s first season. I love it! It’s in line with TOS, but with more 3-dimensional characters, expanded lore, and hints toward some story arcs. Why were fans ever upset about this?
Who’s fluffy, hates crows, and is racist against German Shepherds? THIS GUY
“Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains”: Yep… and especially this: “We’re building a rat’s nest of tech debt that will be impossible to untangle when these models become prohibitively expensive”.