I understand the studio execs being stupid, like, I expect that, I am very concerned about the author being stupid.

Then again, he was hired by the Fleming estate to right Bond novels, and he might be the exact type of stodgy Englishman that doesn’t pay attention to what modern audiences like.

Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.

I mean this could be very bad writing that notes that I defend nonlinear narrative, meandering, etc. (and I do praise indirect consequences a lot), but it sure sounds like something more specific, aka me talking about this guy.

Innocuous in itself, this stupid sentence is a reminder that thanks to AI it'll be harder and harder to know what's true, and some of us might get seriously misrepresented.

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?"

Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

like I can almost guarantee these people had some sort of construction uniform or something that made everyone think Ah Yes, This Is Official Business Of Some Kind even while they put up a fucking heist ladder

The replies you are getting are not random people. They are not a statistical sampling of the audience.

They are aggressive deranged participants in harassment who are either bots using it to cloak themselves as human, a hired bot network, or just genuinely universal malcontents who hate ice cream.

I have multiple times now seen people remark the volume of hatred they get on Bluesky for pretty anodyne opinions.

...Got no idea what they're talking about. I've never seen it.

Because I went through blocklisting follow networks of the most virulent dipshits on this website.

Free and clear since

I liked the concept of Subspace Rhapsody, just not the actual songs. 😀

Those Old Scientists is just pure brilliance. So many amazing moments.

Yeah, Discovery kinda sputtered out. There are things we like from the last couple of seasons, but on a whole not always great. Whenever we go back & watch season 2, it’s the more traditional Treks aspects that feel burdensome (the Klingon war stuff), the rest feels fun and interesting and fresh.

Also, fantastic rating for the episode. 😉

And I kinda didn’t like the first season so much, but I absolutely loved the second season. So much so that the wait for for the first season of SNW seemed so unbearable.

And now, here we are. And this recent episode was so good. I hate that we only get two more seasons.