hamms

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[–] hamms 3 points 1 month ago

Parenti's speech is also known as "The Yellow Lecture" because the surviving footage of it has a distinctive coloration.

The other reference is this meme is to a scene in Seinfeld where Kramer's apartment is being aggressively illuminated by a big red neon sign across the street; in this case, changed to yellow.

[–] hamms 79 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I also really appreciated Worf and Martok's take on Garak's struggles with claustrophobia

Martok: There is no greater enemy than one's own fears.

Worf: It takes a brave man to face them.

[–] hamms 5 points 2 months ago

I think this article does a good job of exploring and explaining how LLM attempts at text summarization could be more accurately described as "text shortening"; a subtle but critical distinction.

[–] hamms -3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

It routinely baffles me when folks think that copy-pasting crap into and out of a chatbot somehow contributes to a conversation. It's like half a step up from telling everyone about the dreams you had last night

[–] hamms 4 points 3 months ago

Canada Dry makes a damn good zero-sugar ginger ale

[–] hamms 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Vance, too, has recently been questioned about Trump’s ties to Fuentes. Vance was asked about Fuentes’ dinner with Trump during an interview with ABC News on Sunday. “The one — the one thing I like about Donald Trump, Jon, is that he actually will talk to anybody,” Vance told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl. “But just because you talk to somebody doesn’t mean you endorse their views. And look, I mean Donald Trump spent a lot of quality time with my wife. Every time he sees her, he gives her a hug, tells her she’s beautiful and jokes around with her a little bit.”

JD Vance is apparently so comfortable with Trump openly flirting with his wife right in front of him that he'll happily bring it up unprompted in an interview.

[–] hamms 4 points 4 months ago

I grew up in a very white community.

ope,

Everything checks out here

[–] hamms 2 points 6 months ago

That feels like practically a feature, when you have an eternity to fill and only a finite number of original stories with which to do so.

[–] hamms 29 points 7 months ago

To be fair, it only became Microsoft-owned after it had already become that home.

[–] hamms 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure whether or not the android Data could be considered autistic from an in-universe perspective, but I would say that as a character Data was inspired by autistic humans and written in a way that neurodivergent viewers would empathize with. At least that's how he's always come across to me, as a neurodivergent trekkie.

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