Back in the day, #StarTrek tackled important social issues - like the scourge of hippies walking around half naked and calling you “Herbert” when you yell at them to put on some clothes.
ZombieElvis
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@twitnews I hate to say it but here in America, we don't regulate our weapons. So not regulating AI until a tragedy happens (and often, not even then) is consistent with how we fail to regulate guns.
@RikerGoogling Surge suppression technology was lost during the post-atomic horror after WWIII.
Teleoperated robot kicks controller in the nuts
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/28/teleoperated-robot-kicks-controller-in-the-nuts.html
Jeff JarvisExactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....
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@RikerGoogling Somebody programmed the holodeck to adapt Aesop's fables for the 21st century and it went horribly, horribly wrong.
@sabeth @pluralistic Two out of those three links had some insanely aggressive cookie pop ups. I wonder if there is a paper on the correlation between being defensive about AI shaming and wanting to track people all over the Internet?
In which I wish Stephen Colbert would start an internet empire. And for the first time, I tell the tale of trying to help Howard Stern start his.
Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy https://medium.com/whither-news/whither-colbert-whither-democracy-581f35461768?source=social.tw
Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy https://medium.com/whither-news/whither-colbert-whither-democracy-581f35461768?source=social.tw
@RikerGoogling But that would ruin all the fun.