Journalist & writer, freelance — “a writer not writing is practically a maniac within himself” — NO AI 🦉
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Fabian A. Scherschel retweeted
May 26
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
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🎧 Podcast: The Horror of Computerised War
How the Pentagon switched decision making from humans to machines. And what it means for the future that computers now decide who lives and dies.
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Fabian A. Scherschel retweeted
Mar 28
This essay, by Kevin T. Baker for the @guardian, is the most insightful thing I've read so far on the Minab bombing. He argues, compellingly, that the issue is not "Claude;" it's the self-delusion that we can use technology (older and less sophisticated than LLMs) to effectively remove humans from military targeting and suffer no consequences from it. I'm not convinced that modern AI (Claude or ChatGPT, etc) did not play a role in the school bombings in Iran - I'll believe it when much more rigorous investigations have taken place - but if it did play a role, it will have been an additional role to the problems Baker sets out here. This is a must read essay.
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As part of my website redesign, I've developed a colour palette I call Cassette Retro. It's made up of 4 blocks of 16 colours each. These are called Amber, Phosphor, Neon and Arcade and meant to provide colours to mix and match. My new theme uses colours from the first two.
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Apr 14
Star Trek ended with "Enterprise".
If you're seeing articles like this from ScreenRant and other Trek news sites, it's not organic.
Kurtzman's PR Team is trying to frame this as "the end of Trek" to rile up fans at Paramount, when it's not the end of Trek, it's just end of his contract for Trek.
This is how Hollywood PR runs "the news."
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This is a dumb way to argue. If you're NASA, you know you went to the moon in '69. Period. And why would you even spent a cent trying to prove it? You proved it back in '69 as far as you are concerned & people didn't believe you, why would these ppl be convinced if you tried now?
Apr 11
Bret thinks the moon landing deniers have a serious case and it's a shame NASA didn't use the Artemis mission to finally collect real evidence that we did go to the moon in 1969
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Risk is our business. Man, I miss actual Star Trek.
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The LOD of the universe simulation really makes gfx go to shit beyond LEO. The first shot shows how low poly the moon really is. It isn't even round! Whatever version of the God engine we're running, it clearly needs some work to keep up with NASA pushing the boundaries.
Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA
ALT Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters. Credit: NASA
ALT A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image. Credit: NASA
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind a hemisphere of the Moon. Credit: NASA
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🎧Podcast: The war in Iran is having a tremendous impact on the aviation industry. An underreported detail is what happens when your flight deviates around the closed airspace over Iran via Afghanistan.
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Fabian A. Scherschel retweeted
Apr 2
Yes... In case anyone was wondering, Microsoft still sucks in space.
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The biggest lie in Star Trek is that „it has always been progressive.“ Misunderstanding this is what killed Academy. That and the horrendously bad writing.
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Mar 23
🎧PU 28: What is Antifa?
Even though it has been in the US news a lot recently, almost everybody over there seems to be getting wrong what Antifa actually is. This is an overview from someone who grew up around this movement.
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Mar 23
Holy shit! I love that game. Time for a replay! This was my favourite Civ of all time.
Sid Meier's: Alpha Centauri (with the Alien Crossfire addon) for a 2.99$ on GOG
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