I think she’d be the perfect person to explain how ambition works and is channeled in a useful way in Starfleet. Lean more into the ideas they spelled out in this episode: piloting is part of the core of who Ortega is but that conflicts with the desire to do and be more than just a pilot (like going on away missions).

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I don’t know, I would giggle if Disney just started introducing all Star Wars as, “Produced Now and Always by Kathleen Kennedy, Star Wars...”.

Maybe movie audiences are just going the same way TV audiences have already gone.

Blockbuster movies are ultimately an expression of a monoculture that everyone shares. That used to be the case for network television in the US. With the rise of cable and then streaming, there is no longer a season finale of “Dallas” or…

The flaw in your argument is you’re trying to limit the definition of a human artist based on the limitations of the AI (and for the purposes of this argument, I’m defining AI as the type of neural network learning discussed in this article). In your examples, you’re limiting humans to only creating art based on…

They’re similar because they’re caused by the same thing: pressure from above.

No one intentionally creates an unsafe filming environment. It happens when people don’t want to deal with the inconvenience, time, and expense of doing things right so they cut corners. That can include inadequate planning, under-budgeting,…

You make a lot of good points but I do take issue with this:

Michael Keaton is great but even with the legal issues aside, Ezra Miller just isn’t a good draw to the average movie-goer. Fantastic Beasts is just a slog of a franchise and Miller is less an interesting character and more a bland plot device.

Given the reviews are pretty solid, maybe it isn’t superhero fatigue? Maybe…

I agree, AI doppelgangers may be tasteless but if an actor knowingly licenses his likeness to a studio to do that, at least they’re entering into an agreement and the actor is getting compensated.

The AI that only exists because it scraped a bunch of free work from people who had no expectation that was going to happen…

The worst lie of all: the truth.

I like that Star Trek seems to be leaning into the idea that “Utopia” is something you continually strive for, not a strictly defined final destination and what really qualifies you as Utopian is pursuing that ideal. It acknowledges that the specifics of Roddenberry’s Utopian vision were off while staying loyal to the…

Satine represented the democratic ideal that lost sight of the fact that those ideals exist to serve people. She was so beholden to the ideal that she ignored the corruption that happened right under her nose. She was Star Wars’ Chamberlain, a tragic figure whose single-minded commitment to peace ultimately subjected…

I remember when reading it was made of carbon fiber I was confused. I don’t know anything about submersible design but I assume material weight doesn’t matter much because of buoyancy and isn’t the main reason to use carbon fiber strength-to-weight ratio? If so, what was the purpose of making it out of carbon fiber?…

I think you draw the line by not differentiating based on who they are. You act like human life is worth saving, you expend the resources you reasonably have available while the odds are good they can be recovered, and hope for the best. It shouldn’t matter if those are scientists, migrants, or idiot rich people with…

The best potential story arc would be the tension of Negan ending up as a father figure to her son. Maggie would be torn between the urge to keep him away vs recognizing he’s a good influence on her son. There’d be the ever-present concern as he grew up how she would properly honor the memory of Glenn and teach him…

Best example of this was Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. His Hollywood image fit the notion of Nick Fury so perfectly that his casting was like shorthand for his back story. You don’t know anything about his past but you are 100% certain he is a badass. It didn’t matter that he looked NOTHING like the original art in…

It’s a story about rich people, hubris, and death in the frigid Atlantic caused by obvious-in-hindsight bad decisions driven by a corporate mandate to deliver on their promises to their rich clients, safety be damned.

Ironically, the Titan is the wish.com version of the wreck it went down to visit.

It’s a tool that wouldn’t exist without exploiting loopholes in intellectual property law and the legal system. Stop thinking of it as a tool that “creates art” and more one that “aggregates a copy of other peoples’ art”. Like how ChatGPT is less “AI author” and more “AI cut-and-paste plagiarist”.

And it’s not like…

They don’t even try to hide collusion anymore. Corporate regulation in America is a joke.

I think if there’s anything we’ve learned the last few years it’s that rich people are just as clueless and incompetent as the rest of us; they just have enough money to do real damage with their ignorance.

What we’re seeing now is the logical endgame of an insane period where a bunch of “venture capitalists” (golden…

The only reason we don’t have any solutions better than, “hoping kids have more empathy than adults,” is because the mindset people like him have isn’t some fringe belief. They’re just based on attitudes around women being second-class citizens that huge groups in our society still share.

I’m betting nothing about this…