Fabian A. Scherschel

Journalist & writer, freelance — “a writer not writing is practically a maniac within himself” — NO AI 🦉

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/Ma8CT7ZRBf

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

🎧 Podcast: The Horror of Computerised War

How the Pentagon switched decision making from humans to machines. And what it means for the future that computers now decide who lives and dies.

https://t.co/6svMeea5BL

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

This essay, by Kevin T. Baker for the @guardian, is the most insightful thing I've read so far on the Minab bombing. He argues, compellingly, that the issue is not "Claude;" it's the self-delusion that we can use technology (older and less sophisticated than LLMs) to effectively remove humans from military targeting and suffer no consequences from it. I'm not convinced that modern AI (Claude or ChatGPT, etc) did not play a role in the school bombings in Iran - I'll believe it when much more rigorous investigations have taken place - but if it did play a role, it will have been an additional role to the problems Baker sets out here. This is a must read essay.
https://t.co/ESlxyKDBR5

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

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[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

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[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@Deadlyslob They will get an immediate follow. Thanks, my friend! Have a good weekend! 🤓

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@Deadlyslob Do you have a link to the sea chanty choir you been playing? I need some music!

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

As part of my website redesign, I've developed a colour palette I call Cassette Retro. It's made up of 4 blocks of 16 colours each. These are called Amber, Phosphor, Neon and Arcade and meant to provide colours to mix and match. My new theme uses colours from the first two.

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@DontBelievU Compared to what Kurtzman came up with, that's actually no half-bad. 😂

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

Star Trek ended with "Enterprise".

[Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮 @jondelarroz]

If you're seeing articles like this from ScreenRant and other Trek news sites, it's not organic.

Kurtzman's PR Team is trying to frame this as "the end of Trek" to rile up fans at Paramount, when it's not the end of Trek, it's just end of his contract for Trek.

This is how Hollywood PR runs "the news."

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@DontBelievU @fakepaulblood @Shuttlecock @thesammykins Might also have been the time and place. And the pressure of having his own TV show for the first time. Sometimes pressure makes diamonds like that. And pressure like that never comes back after a big success, I guess...

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

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[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@DontBelievU @fakepaulblood @Shuttlecock @thesammykins YES! I missed that part in my review! That's pretty amazing. JMS' foreshadowing in this is crazy. And I totally agree, he never ever came close to this kind of writing ever again. Sadly. I wonder why.

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@DontBelievU @fakepaulblood @Shuttlecock @thesammykins I have been continuously re-watching TOS-TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT for about two decades. I watch an episode every other day, currently season 2 of TOS.

I am also re-watching B5 right now and writing about it: https://t.co/KR2GLojA0P

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@DontBelievU @fakepaulblood @Shuttlecock @thesammykins I do enjoy that show. I'm one of the few who even loves the theme. I was very sceptical of the show when it originally aired, I became a Firefly nut instead. How much worse Trek later became, I could not have imagined.

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@DontBelievU @fakepaulblood @Shuttlecock @thesammykins As much as I abhor anything released after Enterprise, since we're now in a streaming market, remastering these shows makes zero sense. All of us hardcore fans will watch the old stuff on their service in the current quality. And they won't gain new viewers by remastering.

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@fakepaulblood @Shuttlecock @thesammykins You'd also have to re-do all composited shots. JMS has talked about how much of a PITA this would be for B5. They did use more on-screen monitors in DS9 and VOY, but still.....

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@Shuttlecock @thesammykins See also this article (RMB knows what he's talking about):

https://t.co/XQqhP4ARVm

[Fabian A. Scherschel @fabsh]

@Shuttlecock @thesammykins This has been largely answered. DS9 and VOY used much more CGI and thus there would be much more stuff to recreate than for TNG. And by all we know, the TNG remasters weren't financially successful. With DS9 & VOY both having a smaller fanbase, it'd be more work for less profit.