"when did Star Trek get woke??"

In the very first episode of Star Trek: the original series, we see a white Captain reporting to his black Admiral boss, a black woman on the bridge just a couple years after Jim Crow was abolished, wearing a shirt skirt (a symbol of feminist liberation at the time), a Japanese helmsman on the bridge only 20 years after the internment camps, a Russian crewmate on the bridge during the Cold War [edit: actually did not appear until Season 2 but the point stands], and the foundation of the modern concept of queercoding.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we see a female officer on the bridge in charge of security, a literal ship's counselor stationed at all times on the bridge, a single mom raising her teenage son on her own while juggling a full career in medicine, a blind mechanic whose "disability" is shown to be a strength, and an angry, all-powerful godlike being who is revealed to be simply a petulant child masquerading as a deity.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, we see a black man gain a powerful command position, respect the hell out of the customs of a religion he didn't understand, show respect and equal treatment to members of three other alien races he didn't understand, appoint a female guerilla fighter who defeated imperialist fascists to a position of authority within his administration and defer to her judgement in areas of her expertise, accept his friend's gender change, and tell his son he loves him.

Star Trek has always been woke. You just grew up to be a bad person.

There’s a thing I picked up from my dad and the fitters who worked in my grandfather’s workshop: own your tools. That way you’re not tied to your employer, you can take your tools and your skills to another job any time you please.

I was once on the position where the only laptop I had access to was owned by my employer. It made my teeth itch.

It’s just one more reason I am deeply suspicious of LLMs for coding. And all the other rented software out there, for that matter.

My @torontostar column: To call the island airport expansion idea "half-baked" is an insult to baked goods. There are scant details and few credible projections.

Toronto is in an absurd situation — debating a notion instead of a plan. That won't fly.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/how-can-toronto-debate-the-billy-bishop-airport-expansion-plan-doug-ford-doesnt-have-a-plan/article_db803b18-2d86-46e1-8933-52c874b0ca69.html

My favourite part of the Canadian telco situation is how they all change their rates and fees to be the same things on the same days but there definitely isn’t any collusion going on no sir definitely not.

https://ottawa.place/@dkmackinnon/116759855212580667

Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here”

https://www.openculture.com/2014/04/pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-with-stephane-grappelli.html

How Open Source Projects Change Hands - There are fewer ways to leave your package than to kill it.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/16/how-open-source-projects-change-hands.html

Dug this out of the crates for a thread just now, the crossfade between Mean Girls and Hackers via Halcyon + On + On.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/01/05/crossfade-dissonance/

It was the seed crystal of an idea I couldn't implement at the time, a Kevin Bacon Game for movie soundtracks: Can you get from one movie to another via seamless crossfade, and maybe turn the exercise into one (ridiculously long) movie?

Apparently there's now a soundtrack movie database, though, so maybe it's possible?

https://www.fmdb.net/tos

RE: https://mas.to/@sphcow/116758965839487662

This was painful to read, because it so completely describes my inability to find everything my husband left behind. Who has the time and capacity to do all that searching? Or to monitor several email accounts to wait for notifications over years?