Notices by Mike McCaffrey (mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop)

Horrific to have a family member missing for a month, only to discover that he's been sent to a Salvadoran death camp.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuelan-brother-deported-el-salvador-family-looking-rcna202279

#CECOT

@JeffC1956 @aral I would also like less nanoplastics in my brain please!

Goddamnit, now #ElonMusk is making me support #NeilDeGrasseTyson's side of an argument.

https://www.thewrap.com/elon-musk-neil-degrasse-tyson-mars-colonization/

It seems that absolutely no one has seen #RaisedByWolves (which I guess explains why the cancelled it).

https://screenrant.com/travis-fimmel-dune-prophecy-vikings-show-ragnar-lothbrok-replacement/

@notclacke I totally didn't notice that pun until Brother Love explicitly said that they want to fill more graves.

I'm sorry, but you can't say #Sliders aged poorly just because there have been a couple of really good #multiverse stories since, especially since none of them have been episodic shows that take time to explore the implications of each alternate reality.

https://collider.com/sci-fi-shows-aged-poorly

I will admit that the first two seasons of Sliders are really the charming ones, before the pivot to try to make the show more dramatic for a general audience.

I must say that if I could wish to get a modern reboot of a classic show, this would be at the top of the list.

@az It wasn't terrible, but they moved production from Vancouver to LA and everything got a lot more cliche. Over half the episodes featured the same reality-jumping baddies and a bunch of scenes in those Star Trek desert bluffs.

This is one of the biggest reasons that I am so anti-AI, at least in its current incarnation. All of its promises to make work/life a little easier for people come at the expense of literally burning the world, and we were already doing far too much of that before these tools were released.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

#AI #ChatGPT #GlobalWarming

So far #Fallout is a bit on the gruesome side (to the point where it gave me weird dreams about drug-dealing zombies last night), but they certainly created a rich and vivid world and I simply can never get enough #WaltonGoggins. Nice that they found a way to have so many scenes of him without all the makeup and CGI nose removal.

@Polychrome There are quite a few humans who view the consumption of meat as an inherently good thing to be doing.

@Polychrome I'd argue that the Borg are objectively evil (at least when still attached to the collective), but that is a good point.

Disappointed that no one ever asks the #AI and #LLM companies how their creations are going to help stop #ClimateChange, #war, or the erosion of #democracy. You know, the actual problems that we need to solve.