OK shameless self promotion time. Here is my personal website featuring all of my original #StarTrek#DoctorWho and #DC#LEGO builds, including my 4 foot #USSEnterprise project from 2020. Feel free to take a peek (and kindly boost if you like what you see):
This is the build I focused on for most of the long lockdown of 2020. It began with the #SaucerSection which I'd always planned to build to minifigure/playset scale. As time passed I expanded to the rest of the ship, bulk-buying parts online as I went. If you zoom in you will see the scale of the #Minifigures in the various sections...
Scratch-built TOS Star Trek mk2 phaser prop replica.
I used wood for the bulk of the shape with plastic and epoxy putty to skin and smooth out the shapes.
A Nokia 3330 spare case was cut up for the mk1 on top.
And a few metal pieces for details.
I watched part of this 7+ hour #startrek video about the Dominion War and was curious about wtf the section "the day capitalism could have saved" was about...
...but its just a cowardly rant about how people should surrender to save lives even if it means sacrificing freedom that completely misses that if you let a hostile force run roughshod all over you, there's probably going to be more deaths from people executed and victimized by the newly created occupation authorities
"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."
I think what I resent the most about the technology we’re calling “#ai “ is that I used to be fascinated with the potential of creating actual artificial intelligence.
I grew up with #megaman , #astroboy , #startrek , and the idea that we could create artificial beings with their own sentience and hopes and creativity was inspiring. I still hope for that someday.
As it is now though, the fact we now associate the term with content scraping and mimicry is simply discouraging.
Making my way through season 5 of #StarTrekDiscovery and this could turn out to be the most well rounded season of that show. I loved s1 a ton for its novel approach to #StarTrek. I was deeply disappointed by s2 and its nostalgia fest. I again loved s3 right up until the end but the final episode was just shite. And the reverse is true for s4 which I found mostly uninteresting until the final three episodes or so. But this right here is enjoyable all around.