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[freon @MindFreeze]

@tsoding I'm changing my default branch to `mistress` to piss off both sides

[bender871 @Empiricist871]

I still think that my original, instinctive reaction to the cancellation announcement is accurate. Amazon's problem with Gero's Stargate was that it was insufficiently woke. What else could it be.

"Not enough broad appeal" is the reason reported by Variety. Yet the creatives said they were writing it for broad appeal.

What this means is that it had the *wrong* broad appeal. It had broad appeal for real, existing audiences, instead of being written only for the far left and for activists, presumed to be "the modern audience" by a certain type of entertainment executive.

Its target audience was going to include conservatives and young men. It was going to feature masculinity and military men without apologizing for it and them. In other words, it was going to be actually inclusive instead of woke fake inclusive.

It was likely going to have strong women too. Stargate always had strong women. Just not the cringe-inducing girl bosses that dominated and destroyed nuTrek, NuWars and Rings of Power.

It was undoubtedly going to have racial diversity. Stargate always had racial diversity. But without the "systemic racism" lectures and the crude open borders messaging that we saw in Star Trek: Picard and Academy.

In SG-1, Carter and Teal'c had earned their positions through merit. Carter is a brilliant physicist and capable air force officer. Her very first lines in SG-1 shut down any notion of tokenism :

"I'm an Air Force officer just like you are, Colonel. And just because my reproductive organs are on the inside instead of the outside, doesn't mean I can't handle whatever you can handle."

She is the best. She does not need to lecture on systemic bias, or be affirmed as "first woman to...". She does not do protected-class fragility.

Teal'c is a genuine hero, not a diversity hire. When he was accepted into SG-1, it was based on deeds, not skin color. There was no SGC DEIB committee that decided that SG-1's otherwise all-white demographics were a problem worse than the Goa'uld, and needed to be fixed by adding Teal'c.

That's the difference between then and now. Color-blind, merit-based equality then. Toxic identity politics, "equity" and neo-racism now.

I have no proof that this take is correct, but it is all too plausible, given the pattern of DEI reboots of other sci-fi franchises.

[freon @MindFreeze]

@Pirat_Nation And people think SpaceX is overvalued. Where do you think those data centers are going to be built now?

[freon @MindFreeze]

@AmazonMGMStudio They're bodying you in the comments, bro. Better bring back Stargate

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Our Anthropic overlords deciding which prompts the peasants are allowed to use.

[Mikel Artetxe @artetxem]

Brilliant idea! Next up: Apple randomly reboots your Mac if you're building competing tech, Gmail silently edits your email if you mention rival platforms, and Tesla Autopilot swerves if it detects you're working on self-driving cars.

All in the name of safety, of course. Because malicious actors controlling the world’s operating systems, inboxes and cars would be extremely dangerous!

[Ze Clint @ZeClint]

Est ce qu'on demande a BMW de construire des voitures dans lesquelle n'importe quel motoriste soit capable d'installer son moteur ?

Est ce qu'on demande a airbus de construire des avions dans lesquels n'importe quel fournisseur de système d'avionique soit capable d'installer le sien ?

Est ce qu'on demande a Siemens de construire des IRM dans lesquelles n'importe quel fabricant d'aimant soit capable d'installer le sien ?

ON EST CHEZ LES FOUS !

Qu'on aille cherche apple sur l'apple store et sur le ranconnage des developpeurs je peux a la rigueur le comprendre ! Mais qu'on demande a apple d'ouvrir son système au 4 vents pour que bidulleAI puisse avoir accès a tout le téléphone ... NON !!!!

[freon @MindFreeze]

@BasilTheGreat @Telegraph They're gonna love that over in Belfast

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Knowledge is power, so just to be safe, we've decided that Claude will no longer provide users with knowledge.

[robot*irl @robotinreallife]

You can tell a lot about how efficiently a country runs based on how quickly it approves FSD via Article 39 recognition.

It's a life-saving feature that requires 0 work to implement.

The most corrupt, slow and broken countries will be the last ones to have it.

🇩🇪 🇨🇿 🇸🇰?

[freon @MindFreeze]

@growing_daniel Of course. That's how they coordinate getting stuck together.

[freon @MindFreeze]

@nikcname @l4m3rx

[freon @MindFreeze]

@Sr_GomasII It's also longer than a capybara. What's your point?

[freon @MindFreeze]

@Rothmus Hmm, looks like London but there's no rain so idk

[freon @MindFreeze]

@batatalal @satnam6502 They both have terrible software these days. Worse than Chinese cars

[freon @MindFreeze]

@i2cjak Wait till you hear about underwear that doesn't turn brown

[freon @MindFreeze]

Chinese automation is next level. They don't even have to manually beat their children.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

😱What is this? A humanoid robot has hit a child again!

[freon @MindFreeze]

@PrimeVideo Stargate or STFU

[freon @MindFreeze]

The repost button was right there

[freon @MindFreeze]

@BeyondFables @burny_tech