I knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.

Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ “Uh-oh!”.

Is Threshold worse than Code of Honor?

I’d say it’s worst. Being racist is horrible, but it wasn’t until “Threshold” that ST became actively and willingly stupid.

If not the most imaginative, certainly the most inspiring, and it evokes a strong insertion in our reality.

Ah, got it. I thought you meant the SciFi (later SyFy) Channel series.

I’ll start with the SciFi series when I finish the fantasy one.

Nope. Get as far as you can of the “Earthsea” TV series. LeGuin enragedly denounced that travesty.

It is when the people tends to give more credence to entities that appear sentient and to have agency.

I even spell out okay.

Which is funny, because it originated as an initialism for “Oll Korrekt”.

I loved it but now I’ve mostly replaced it with AIMP.

Many worthy things are difficult.

Steven Spielberg specifically said that he would continue Kubrick vision for the movie. And the Pinocchio discussion Brian Aldiss had was with Kubrick, not with Spielberg.

So be careful not to cut yourself with that edge. You don’t seem to be handling it well.

The Kubricking extends beyond The Shining. A. I. is a horrible travesty of the original short story. The author begged him not to do that idiotic retelling of Pinocchio, but Kubrick didn’t listen.

This isn’t some secret but literally how LLMs work. lol

Yeah, but John Q. Public reads AI and thinks HAL 9000 and Skynet, and no additional will convince them otherwise.

We anthropomorphize machines all the time, it’s fine.

It’s fucking not, amd I’m not changing my mind about it.

It’s a really bad term because it’s usually associated with a mind, and LLMs are nothing of the sort.

I think obvious that she would have sided with Maddox and disagreed with the ruling. I don’t think her capable of overcoming her prejudices against artificial life forms.

This in particular is from Jack Chick, who also belonged to a group convinced that the KJV is the result of a new revelation.

These comics are known as Chick Tracts.

Specially when it’s hijacked to run other things instead (cough cough snaps).

Humans eventually found a way to detect them and create a reliable, repeatable, predictable way to detect them and show that detection in a way we can perceive.

That’s what makes the “you can’t see wind either” idiocy even more infuriating.

I use that sound for notifications to this dy.

Alls I can say is you’re listening to the wrong kind of music is you think all current music is vapid.

And all I can say is that your reading comprehension is lacking if you attribute me saying that all music is valid. I said “mostly”.

It’s honestly quite arrogant to think great artists stopped at our generation my guy.

And I had said so, I would agree. I, however, didn’t.

In any case, if music is your main focus, you could have used more prominence in the question, because your formulation seemed to indicate that there were other things you wanted to “keep up with” too. If I had understood that music was your primary focus, I would have abstained from participating. Which I will start doing right now.