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themeatbridge, in Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content on Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT and MTV Websites

Coincidentally, but entirely unrelated, nobody ever leglaly watched any Comedy Central, CMT, or MTV content ever again.

Corgana, in "For All Mankind" season ending coming up - Star Trek fan thoughts?
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Ugh I’d love watch this, I’ve heard nothing but god things from fellow Trekkies. But unfortunately watching it would take valuable time away from re-watching Star Trek for the twentieth time.

Lucien,

On that same grind, going in chronological order from Enterprise

M500,

Is it true chronological order where we splice in episodes and parts of episodes from other series when time travel is involved?

Lucien,

Meh, no, too much trouble. I’m just doing the existing SNW and Disco episodes before TOS. I’ll go back later and catch the new ones I miss.

SevenOfWine,

It’s been a long road…

RootBeerGuy, in Warner Bros. Discovery just canned another nearly finished film
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This recent tax write-off bullshit needs to stop. How is this a thing only now or have we been missing out on decades of movies that were axed like this?

RIP_Cheems, in Warner Bros. Discovery just canned another nearly finished film
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THEY WERE MAKING WHAT? AND THEY WONT FINISH IT?

Thisfox,

What worries me more is just how many times this has happened, again and again.

FaceDeer, in Admirals in The Orville are much better than Star Trek admirals.
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Indeed, this is one of the areas where Star Trek has consistently fallen short of its "Utopian future" ideal. I understand that it's often done for storytelling purposes, but Orville shows how that's an unnecessary shortcut - it's still possible to write compelling stories and have the hero be a hero even if his superior officers are actually competent and in his corner.

Squibbles, in A new study suggests that the amount of oxygen on Europa is on the lower end of previous estimates. The moon may be uninhabitable.

There seems to be an error in the thumbnail. That’s the back of Darth vaders head.

SevenOfWine,

Fediverse bug. I see the correct thumbnail, but have seen the wrong thumbnail on other posts when using a kbin account.

Jaccident,

I believe this was a joke, about how this moon looks like a shaved scrotum that’s been savaged by a ferret.

Sibbo, in Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content

Arguably, anyone can scrape lemmy for free. Of course, it’s illegal, unless explicitly allowed by the license of the respective instance.

It’s sad for reddit though that they could have the option to protect their users from scraping, since they are big enough to enforce their rights. But yeah, profits.

Can I sue them btw to pay me for whatever value my comments and posts have created over there?

NotAtWork,

Scraping lemmy is as easy as setting up a server advertising it on Activitypub and all the data will be sent straight to you.

AllonzeeLV, in Paramount to Lay Off 800 Staffers as CEO Unveils Broad “Streamlining Costs” Effort

He’s unveiling cruelty to his sociopathic shareholders, to their thunderous applause I’m sure.

You know, it’s like an art unveiling or a movie premiere, but for “hey shareholders, watch me hurt these people that helped us make money for years, ta da!”

SuckMyWang, (edited )

It’s also a loud statement that screams as CEO they are too dumb, scared and uncreative to figure out how to improve the business. So instead of doing any real work they’ll just do the easiest and laziest thing and order the sacking of hundreds of people via many levels of management while putting themselves in a safe zone and spending extra time on their yatchs away from normal society.

PlainSimpleGarak, in Jon Stewart Returns to "The Daily Show" as Host and Executive Producer

Watching The Colbert Report and Daily Show in the 2000s was something I always looked forward to each night. It’ll be nice to have Jon back, if only once a week.

not_exactly, in Jon Stewart Returns to "The Daily Show" as Host and Executive Producer

This is awesome! Love to have Jon Stewart back, and I also love to see the correspondents take over the host role more often.

Admin, in When will Memory Alpha/Beta move from Fandom to an indie wiki?
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FWIW I’d be interested in discussing hosting them on startrek.website if anyone here has a connect.

LtLiana,
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The Memory Alpha “bureaucrat” is user “sulfur”, who has their Discord listed as sulfur#3610 on their user page.

The Memory Beta head administrator I believe is Captainmike, who has their Discord listed as Captainmike#1381 on the user profile page.

Other than that, there’s also the List of Administrators on Memory Alpha.

The GamingWikiProject, while largely about game wikis, also helps people who want to build up an indie wiki project: Click here

AuroraBorealis,
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Are they willing to help with the move? Or are they against leaving fandom?

LtLiana,
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I don’t see a reason why any self-respecting editor of an extensive wiki would like to stay on Fandom. It provides no benefits, and they have regularly sabotaged wiki projects.

Deebster,
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I assume it's the standard inertia-type reasons: doing nothing is easier than changing a bunch of stuff, not changing involves fewer unknowns, and they probably have ad blockers and custom rules that mean they don't personally have to deal with the worst of it.

ThatOneRedshirt,
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If hosting them here, perhaps using a federated wiki software such as hubzilla would be of interest?

mvirts, in Admirals in The Orville are much better than Star Trek admirals.

The Orville is great, I really hope they make more

RuminatingKiwi927,

I’d say season 3 wraps things up pretty well for the show’s finale. But yeah, I’d love to have season 4, see what new major problems are going to be introduced.

kamenlady, in NASA's Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the Historic Mission
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I like to think that the ghost in the machine emerged after the glitch. Maybe a small spark caused by the glitch. Coincidentally Voyager was flying through a Interplanetary dust cloud , loaden with cosmic partcles, one particle was touched by the spark and voila: a new lifeform is created.

Flying forever alone in space.

Stoney_Logica1,

Literally the plot of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

kieron115,
disguy_ovahea, in AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

I don’t just want AI news to fail, I want it to take the web-scraping trending post news bots down with it.

Bring investigative journalists back to news media.

ValueSubtracted,
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preach

Corgana,
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Been very impressed by the quality of reporting by 404 Media and they seem to be making it work financially so feeling cautiously optimistic!

FiskFisk33,

noo, this one dude on twitter said the state of contemporary journalism is great

maegul, in In case you missed it, Brian Tatosky (Trek's VFX Supervisor) jumped into a convo on /c/StarTrek!
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They’re also active on mastodon. Nice to see lemmy masto interop work (for which I think we have the lemmy devs to thank).

StillPaisleyCat,
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I’ve tried including tags for Mastodon user accounts here previously, but was never sure if the users were getting notifications. Nice that Brian Tatosky confirmed it and that he was able to reply directly.

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