I don't think the name Bard is helping anything. It reminds me of Samsung's Bixby which is the AI assistant that annoys me when I press the wrong button on my phone a few times a month. Alternately it also reminds me of that singing bloke on The Witcher that annoys me when I'm fool enough to watch that show.
That, plus a borked launch and being outclassed by GPT-4 (especially in coding) has people looking at Bard the way people used to look at Windows Phone OS trying to compete with IOS and Android back in the day. Google's playing catch up.
I'd say we're a long stretch from being "centered on" any of those topics. Loli stuff is banned, we have like 2-4 people spewing nazi stuff and I'm not sure they're not all the same dude and pepe memes, well yeah we get a lot of pepe memes. As for this woman well if I didn't already have an ass fetish I certainly would after seeing her.
Who could have imagined that antagonizing your user base by disabling password sharing during financially hard times while also forcing every new production to pander to the worst of DEI/ESG tropes would turn out poorly?
This was a decent episode. On the pre-2005 Trek scale I'd put it at almost a TNG early season 2 filler episode level. On the nuTrek scale then that makes this episode better than all of Star Trek Discovery, all of Picard seasons 1 and 2, a lil sub par for a Lower Decks episode, a lil less good than the best they ever managed in SNW season 1, not nearly as good as the second half of Prodigy season 1, and light years behind Picard season 3. All that is to say this episode is Strange New Worlds giving it the old college try. It felt like an episode of actual Star Trek with only a smidge of nuTrek badness, bout the best I can expect coming from these writers so thumbs almost up!
A woman taking a picture. I'm almost sad AI imagery has improved so much since back then. Used to be able to generate absolutely horrific images like the attached "Angelina Jolie meeting Mike Tyson" monstrosity easily, now you gotta track down a model that's way out of date to get such ghastly results.
An actual good episode. I'm shocked. Nothing annoyed me, no canon was disrespected, the jokes landed, there was a sci fi premise, an new alien planet. I could actually rewatch this and not hate my life for doing so. I am super surprised. They nailed it with this one. Of course they are going throw away all this good will with an awful musical episide next week so I'm not getting used to enjoying SNW.
Regardless of whether people are upload ID's to websites or some government created system this is some nefarious shit being pushed under the guise of protecting kids online. It will lead to the removal of privacy from the internet entirely, hyper-charging corporate or government data harvesting, and opening a massive attack vector for identity theft. Been in the works for a minute and I'm super pissed to only be learning about it just now.
If you're the type to write your senator, now would be a good time.
Also here's an article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation laying out the censorship and surveillance concerns with KOSA:
I don't think the name Bard is helping anything. It reminds me of Samsung's Bixby which is the AI assistant that annoys me when I press the wrong button on my phone a few times a month. Alternately it also reminds me of that singing bloke on The Witcher that annoys me when I'm fool enough to watch that show.
That, plus a borked launch and being outclassed by GPT-4 (especially in coding) has people looking at Bard the way people used to look at Windows Phone OS trying to compete with IOS and Android back in the day. Google's playing catch up.
I'd say we're a long stretch from being "centered on" any of those topics. Loli stuff is banned, we have like 2-4 people spewing nazi stuff and I'm not sure they're not all the same dude and pepe memes, well yeah we get a lot of pepe memes. As for this woman well if I didn't already have an ass fetish I certainly would after seeing her.
So edgy. You suck your dads dick with that mouth kid?
Awww, show me on the doll where the BBC touched you.
Who could have imagined that antagonizing your user base by disabling password sharing during financially hard times while also forcing every new production to pander to the worst of DEI/ESG tropes would turn out poorly?
This was a decent episode. On the pre-2005 Trek scale I'd put it at almost a TNG early season 2 filler episode level. On the nuTrek scale then that makes this episode better than all of Star Trek Discovery, all of Picard seasons 1 and 2, a lil sub par for a Lower Decks episode, a lil less good than the best they ever managed in SNW season 1, not nearly as good as the second half of Prodigy season 1, and light years behind Picard season 3. All that is to say this episode is Strange New Worlds giving it the old college try. It felt like an episode of actual Star Trek with only a smidge of nuTrek badness, bout the best I can expect coming from these writers so thumbs almost up!
You liked that hard political turn in Barbie's second hour?
A woman taking a picture. I'm almost sad AI imagery has improved so much since back then. Used to be able to generate absolutely horrific images like the attached "Angelina Jolie meeting Mike Tyson" monstrosity easily, now you gotta track down a model that's way out of date to get such ghastly results.
An actual good episode. I'm shocked. Nothing annoyed me, no canon was disrespected, the jokes landed, there was a sci fi premise, an new alien planet. I could actually rewatch this and not hate my life for doing so. I am super surprised. They nailed it with this one. Of course they are going throw away all this good will with an awful musical episide next week so I'm not getting used to enjoying SNW.
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Here's the bill itself:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3663
Here's a Verify article fact-checking the age verification measures:
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/social-media/kids-online-safety-act-does-not-require-people-upload-drivers-licenses/536-df0b9009-43bf-4253-8986-090cfdda05a5
Regardless of whether people are upload ID's to websites or some government created system this is some nefarious shit being pushed under the guise of protecting kids online. It will lead to the removal of privacy from the internet entirely, hyper-charging corporate or government data harvesting, and opening a massive attack vector for identity theft. Been in the works for a minute and I'm super pissed to only be learning about it just now.
If you're the type to write your senator, now would be a good time.
Also here's an article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation laying out the censorship and surveillance concerns with KOSA:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/young-people-should-oppose-kids-online-safety-act
You never replied to my comment from the last time you mentioned Korn.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Good luck getting rid of that bit of intestine. Pssh who needs intestines anyway.
This was my cat, Piper. Now my mom's.