Alan Rickman was never a character you hated. He played antagonists that people loved to see onscreen. (And IIRC once told a very young fan, through gritted teeth, “I don’t play villains, I play very interesting characters.” Dr. Lazarus had to be partly autobiographical.)
Contrast with Dolores Umbridge.
Robot LARPs Mayan pantheon.
Star Trek having more baseball than dogs means humanity really fucked up our exports.
Emancipation. Short-haired blonde badass is captured and objectified by a sexist warrior culture, until she kicks someone’s ass to get out of it.
Y’know the worst episode of Stargate? Same writer, same plot, more racist, neon sets.
Kirk and the Gorn.
Davidge and Jerry, Enemy Mine.
Predator, ugly son of a bitch.
A shit-covered truck floating in space leads to Amelia Earhart.
That’s not even a joke. That’s the actual synopsis.
Kirk out-bluffs a child.
Abraham Lincoln drops a hard R.
Data ignores a direct order on the advice of his poker hand.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Data listens to a deck of cards.
Angry drunk gifts bartender his wife. Forensic accounting leads to a duel where the prize is divorce.
Security chief dies of contract negotiations.
Picard explains why his post-scarcity techno-utopia can’t give medicine to bronze-age dirt farmers and gets Shinzo Abe’d.
Riker ghosts a three-fingered lady and the military arrests him.
Honestly, that’d be equally valid.
Properly mangling information through a deep neural network is about as transformative as fair use gets. Doing it wrong and just storing data is a failure case. (And it suggests a lot of wasted effort, where that data could be referenced instead of trained. Ideally we could show the LLM a new textbook and have it explain by reading, rather than stirring the textbook into the zillion-dollar back-end process that created it.)
The loudest critics may not even know what they want. Guys: you expect the robot to answer specific questions about the US constitution and the characters in Harry Potter, while incapable of quoting from exactly one of them? Like it should mumble its way through paraphrasing “Yer a wizard… Barry,” but if it gets one word wrong in the second amendment then it’s useless. We finally created a machine that speaks English and people are mad it doesn’t immediately grasp copyright law. When most people don’t.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Is this nonsense spreading? Stop trying to bring back forum signatures mixed with ‘I do not give Facebook permission, repost this before midnight.’ Legally, practically, and morally, it is incorrect.
If you could reserve those rights, they would be so by default.
That is gonna be the most fucked-up villain in all of sci-fi.
Phrased differently, “it has been 50 years since a Star Trek show ended without a Jonathan Frakes appearance.”
Java is an okay format owned by the devil. When two devices running Java connect via wifi, One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison expects the air in-between them to be properly licensed. If the free software movement had not been founded to say “fuck printers,” it would have sprung into being in order to say “fuck Oracle.”
If businesses spring up to advise customers how to handle your billing and legal departments, maybe you shouldn’t be a company anymore.