AI is actually #TheBorg. And they’re getting ready to kidnap Captain Picard.
#STTNG
#StarTrek
#STTNG
#LaForge #Geordi #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #USSBozeman #NCC1941 #CaptainMorganBateson #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #StarTrekMeme #GroundhogDay #SonnyAndCher #BillMurray #PunxsutawneyPhil #Humor
Cyborgs: Terminator Salvation and Surrogates
Finally got out to see Terminator: Salvation at the second-run theater. It was a passable action flick, though a bit overblown and tedious at times. I thought it was better than T3: Rise of the Machines, at least. T3 was too caught up in repeating the first two movies (a Terminator is sent back in time to kill John Connor, a guardian is sent back in time to protect him, they spend the whole time running from the Terminator, and they repeat the same stunts with bigger vehicles and explosions) and showing the origins of what we’d seen before.
While Terminator: Salvation also has the unenviable task of being both a sequel and a prequel at the same time, it manages to at least distinguish itself by going off in a new direction in terms of story. Yes, it’s the story of a prototype Terminator, how John Connor met Kyle Reese, and how John Connor became leader of the resistance, but it takes those elements as starting points and tells a story, rather than following a connect-the-dots path. (Though they did repeat a few stunts, and there are plot holes you could fly an H-K through.)
That, and T3 really annoyed me because it rejected the core theme of T2: “The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.” Whether that theme is actually supportable in the first two movies is debatable (especially considering that the first film appears to present a stable time loop), but this complete reversal is a bit of a slap in the face.*
Surrogates, Terminators and Borg
I actually don’t know much about Surrogates other than the fact that it’s based on a comic book, but I saw this poster the other day and was instantly reminded of the original posters advertising Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
It’s not a direct reference, of course, simply a similar concept — and the image of a partially-assembled Cameron (Summer Glau) was clearly inspired by the first appearance of the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) in Star Trek: First Contact.
Of course, as I was reminded while looking for pictures, the Borg Queen had her own antecedents as well.
Back to the Surrogates poster, it turns out that Bleeding Cool spotted a much closer reference in the form of an entry in a Celebrity Cyborgs photo alteration contest, featuring model Kate Moss.
Appropriately enough, the entry was apparently inspired by an article that mentioned an upcoming movie adaptation of Surrogates…
*Regarding the “slap in the face” — that’s not really the phrase I want to use, since it implies deliberate offense and is really overused in entitled fandom. What I’m getting at is that it’s sudden and shocking, like preparing to wade out slowly into a very cold pool, then getting pushed in and doing a belly flop.
#cyborgs #movies #robots #STTNG #StarTrek #SummerGlau #Surrogates #Terminator
Trekking to the fridge
In light of the recent announcement of boxed sets of the original Star Trek (Region 2, but Region 1 sets are on their way next year), I found myself thinking of some of the fizzier nicknames for the shows.
Since Next Gen came out just a few years after the New Coke fiasco, the names Classic Trek and New Trek stuck. Early in DS9’s life I remember hearing someone refer to Diet Cherry Trek. Which leads to an obvious question:
What types of soft drink are Voyager and Enterprise?
#DS9 #Long #soda #STEnterprise #STTNG #STTOS #STVoyager #StarTrek
Watching old #STTNG episodes and randomly came across the actual Geordi La Forge Drake meme!
S6E09 “The Quality of Life” #StarTrek #geordilaforge
Why I 🧡 the web.
Online version of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual that works in your browser (includes other ships. like Defiant, Voyager, Discovery). 🖖🏻
#Picard #Q #Vash #ReadyRoom #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #PrimeDirective #StarTrekMeme #ValentinesDay #Love #Humor
New #blog #post: Book mini-review: Gulliver's Fugitives by Keith Sharee
https://rldane.space/book-mini-review-gullivers-fugitives-by-keith-sharee.html
1361 words, 279 of which are quoted
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #media #books #ebooks #DRM #deDRM #StarTrek #STTNG #Creativity #Dogma #Dogmatism
#Data #Worf #Kirk #Spock #Holodeck #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #Geek #TOS #IDIC #NCC1701 #StarTrekMeme #Cowboys #Gangsters #SteveMillerBand #TheJoker #Humor
#Data #Troi #DeannaTroi #CounselorTroi #TenForward #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #StarTrekMeme #AndroidDreams #IsItCake #Netflix #Humor
Was!? Es gibt "Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny"? Ich weiß gar nicht, woher ich das habe …
„Dropping Names...and other things with Brent & Jonny is the comedy-conversation podcast from Star Trek: The Next Generation stars Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes. Each episode, these longtime friends sit down with fascinating characters they’ve met across decades in Hollywood.“
#Picard #CaptainPicard #JeanLucPicard #TransporterRoom #TheBridge #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #StarTrekMeme #Adulting #Humor
Remembering that time on Star Trek TNG, they came up with that viral geometric pattern they were going to upload into Hugh the Borg drone's optical implant to possibly destroy the borg / a large number of borg.
AND wishing their was kind of a way to do that (easily) in terms of LLM model collapse.
LIKE a single geometric shape or set of words one could seed in future training data, which would contaminate the LLM. That also worked across all implementations.
NOTE: Im aware a few vendors have some vendor specific magic values which can gum up the works AND there are strategies for directing LLM crawlers to dynamically generated poisoned content when a LLM looks at it.
BUT nothing that is both universal and trivial to deploy, if you were just hoping to protect like a small static site, with a truly minimal webserver. No simple magic words or shapes you could hide in the content. #startrek #StarTrekTNG #STTNG #AI #llm #generativeAI #eliza #stochasticparrots
Nice one for Star Trek: The Next Gernation fans. Guess the #STTNG episode from images.
#Vash #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #StarTrekMeme #RobinHood #MaidMarian #SherwoodForest #HughJackman #Humor
#Pulaski #Crusher #Sickbay #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #StarTrekMeme #Humor
#Troi #DeannaTroi #CounselorTroi #StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #USSEnterprise #NCC1701D #TheFederation #Starfleet #ParamountPlus #StarTrekMeme #Superman #Superheroe #JohnWilliamsScore
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115827364517553515
Neat! I'm reminded of when I visited Star Trek: The Experience at the Hilton in Las Vegas back in '98. I was over the moon roaming the corridors and walking around the bridge. Also, I did not realize that the bridge of the Enterprise-D had so many turbolifts. #sttng #startrek
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