So AI is just three Netflix executives in a trench coat?

Can’t wait til we see the Enterprise’s main view screen full of flying toasters.

The Undiscovered what??!? Oh, there’s a final “ry”. The Undiscovered Country.

A sort of 2D holoprogram where everyone’s an NPC. Ask Quark for the “Retro Package”.

Just wave your arms and shout. They’re more afraid of you than you are of them!

Interesting read, thanks.

And TIL of the Beachy Amish, who absolutely do not go around on horsedrawn surfboards with Annette Funicello.

Basically, yes. EEE is a strategy developed by a dominant company whose revenue stream came from paid proprietary software and services but which embraced open standards with the goal of vanquishing the threat to their business model posed by that openness and maintaining/recovering their proprietary domination.

Does ActivityPub being open and used by many different projects & organizations pose a threat to Piefed’s business model? Is Piefed a powerful company that built that power on a proprietary model and seeks to preserve that power by embracing, extending, and extinguishing ActivityPub? With the goal of maintaining/recovering proprietary domination?

No. So it ain’t EEE.

“Israel first??? Isn’t Bibi sloppy seconds after Vladimir?”

中西 圭三 - Woman
Nakanishi Keizō - Woman
(Japanese; my Japanese only good enough to catch a few snippets)
One I came to love because the guy in the room next to me when I lived in Japan kept playing it over and over until I did. Also featured in my first (and last!) attempt at doing karaoke in front of Japanese people.
https://youtu.be/xYe0d9QFLIA

Время и Стекло - Тролль
Vremya i Steklo - Troll
(Russian)
The Ukrainian crunk equivalent of “No Scrubs”? (IIRC read an article explaining how the song is about terrible men hitting on her)
https://youtu.be/q--5Ht49vNY

Anders Nelsson - 鬼新娘
Anders Nelsson - Ghost Bride Song
(Cantonese)
From the soundtrack of 殭屍先生 (Mr Vampire, 1985), Hong Kong horror-comedy about the hopping dead.
https://youtu.be/q9DHRNREzlk

Tabou Combo - Konpa Mania
(Haitian Creole & English; I only know a few words in Creole)
A konpa track I think sampled by Wyclef Jean. https://youtu.be/McUmXoB_9yw

̶A̶c̶k̶t̶u̶a̶l̶m̶e̶n̶t̶e̶ En realidad, se pone la tilde en la o, no la e.

¡Órale!

From “No racism” to “No “no racism””: America’s great again!!!

Not Trek but with Trek people. Is that OK?

A few episodes of the comedy quiz show podcast Go Fact Yourself, co-hosted by Trek fan Helen Hong and J. Keith Van Straaten, an old friend of Danielle Koenig.

Different guests each show, this week I’ve heard:

• 25: Will & Anne Wheaton
• 40: Anthony Rapp
• 57: Walter & Danielle Koenig (and also Kirk Thatcher, the punk on the bus. Fun guy!)

More:

• https://lemmy.ca/post/42670565

Nothing better for jumping over the Make America Great Firewall!

Maybe by an intellectual property stickler. You know, for infringing on New York State’s I ❤ NY registered trademark.

/jk

I’m in Mexico, and on those occasions I listen to Spotify with ads, for the first time I’m hearing ads in English from universities in Canada wanting to attract students from Mexico to do masters and PhDs there.

TIL that Egyptian Islamic Jihad (who assassinated Sadat) merged with Al Qaeda in June 2001. And that Ayman al Zawahiri, one of the main orchestrators of 9/11 and bin Laden’s #2, come to Al Qaeda from Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

TIL that. Thanks. Now reading up on eusociality in hymenopterans.

Me, too.

1. “Boelter helped lead the private security firm Praetorian Guard Security Services”. Frankly, anyone who names a “security” company after the Praetorian Guard should be preemptively arrested.

2. Web site still up at time of writing.

• https://www.pguards.net/leadership-team

Dr. Vance Boelter has been involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He brings a great security aspect forged by both many on the ground experiences combined with training by both private security firms and by people in the U.S. Military. He has worked for the largest U.S. oil refining company, the world’s largest food company based in Switzerland and the world’s largest convenience retailer based in Japan.

Yeah, so he’s saying he worked at a 7-11?