Ghostbusters I & II (I know it’s a comedy with horror elements, but the proton packs are definitely sci-fi, and so is the whole city of NY coming together in harmony during the 2nd movie)
Block, block, block. You have to beat Youtube with a hammer to steer the algorithm, but it’ll catch on eventually. And one thing to avoid is hate-watching. Youtube doesn’t care if you’re only watching it because you hate it, it just cares that you’re watching it.
And right-wingers get into Star Trek for similar reasons to liberals–because it’s entertaining, and it reflects their values. Only, they don’t see the space communism, the egalitarian society, the infinite diversity in infinite combinations. They see the mighty starships roaming a war-ridden galaxy, essentially stand-ins for American Navy vessels (as every “Constitution” class ship makes clear in its name). They see simple morality plays where a majority-white-male crew consistently demonstrates the superiority of their wits and values over other races, while also hooking up with alien women. It’s a myopic view of the franchise, but it can certainly describe a lot of the original series, a fair amount of nineties trek, and the whole Abrams trilogy, too.
Ok. I’m interested in what he’s doing whether for Star Trek or whatever.
This is exactly the kind of Trek-adjacent stuff I love to see here at quarks.
And this is why I’m saddened to see quarks restricted to members of the instance.
I do also see the need for a place to discuss the instance itself among its members but a ‘bar’ exclusive to members of a club isn’t really a fit for me with the name Quark’s - that suggests an interesting place where all sorts of people from 3 quadrants might show up to join in a conversation with the regular.
Quark’s has received a stay of execution until summer significant bugs with the private communities can be fixed in a future Lemmy update.
As much as I’d prefer to keep discussion of Quark’s going private restricted to the original thread, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that your concerns have been the most compelling ones expressed so far. I think we’re coming at the community from slightly different angles, but you have been heard!
When you guys just wanna do something even if people disagree you’re gonna do it.
On either side though it kind of sucks. From the mods are right perspective, yeah, basically only users from the instance post here already. On the other side though, bringing activity in from across the federation is definitely a better move long-term unless the people coming in are toxic. Latest non @stw poster had a hilarious premise and I loved it. Would hate to see that go, but I guess it’s going to /c/startrek anyways.
The problem is nobody wants to grow and maintain a federated “Trek adjacent” community. I’ve even offered the opportunity to host one on this instance and nobody wants to put in the effort.
(Also, I just need to point out that Stamets was not “right” about anything involving our team. He claimed the Risa mods were “transphobic”, and set up a new community where he repeated the claims. When one of our Admins asked Stamets if he intended to continue, he cried harassment and used the attention to promote a GoFundMe.)
I think you guys actually need more open communities and not less.
Quark’s is great as an off-topic zone. The theme makes sense because the bar is somewhere people go to unwind and not necessarily talk direct shop. Stuff like news that’s Trek-adjacent fits perfectly in here, but the subsequent topics listed after other sci-fi television kind of deserve their own community. I think the scope of Quark’s is too large.
Navigating the fediverse and server meta have traditionally been their own communities as a /c/meta sort of affair. Those are definitely things that only the @stw community would really want to discuss internally and perhaps should be kept instance-user-only, but something like news and other “adjacent” content is of value across the federation and the opportunity for everyone to post just makes more organic sense to me. I would also take the opportunity to have another themed name, like /c/battlebridge, /c/ops or even /c/conferenceroom for the meta community.
I’m excited at the update. However, I am experiencing a small issue. I use the i386 theme. However, the color scheme (and nothing else, like fonts or borders) has reverted from its usual blue to the default dark mode colors. I tried clearing my browser data to see if that would clear things up, but Shaka when the walls fell. I don’t know if this is an upstream issue (which is my guess) or something else, as I am inexperienced with Lemmy infrastructure.
Otherwise, it’s all working fine. Thanks for your efforts, and glory to your house!
Have you checked your user settings? It’s possible that the update reverted your preference to the default. i386 should still be available.
Never mind, I did some digging, and it looks like something has changed and/or is broken with the theme itself. I’ll keep an eye out for a possible solution.
What happens when, because it’s so quick and easy to churn out, 50% or more of the web is AI generated slush, which is then scraped and incorporated into the next generation of LLMs, which increases that percentage and in turn is then scraped, and so on, and so on?
How low can the quality of your training data drop before the results become intolerably bad? How do you raise the quality of that data without a massive investment of human labor? How much glue will be told to put on our pizza two years from now?
Generative AI could be a powerful tool, but even ignoring ethical considerations, this seems like a profoundly bad way to imement it.
Well, now I know who was the executive on the org chart responsible for all of Viacom and more recently Paramount Global’s stunningly awful corporate strategic communications.
There have been a lot of senior or management changes one tier down since the merger, but perhaps what was really needed was for Baklish and his top VPs to exit.
Yeah, it’s hard to speak in defense of their comms over the past few years.
I’ve never had an overly bad impression of Bakish, though - at the very least, he didn’t make a total ass of himself during the strikes, and seems better than, say, Zaslav over at Warner.
But as always, there are no true “good guys” at this level.
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