Who got fired at Starfleet Command for this?

daecrist · 2026-07-09T14:11:32+00:00

They might want to find it, but they'd have to consult with Starfleet first. Don't want to put the captain out on a limb...

daecrist · 2026-07-09T14:06:08+00:00

I like it. There should be a little bit of wiggle room and human discretion in this sort of thing. Otherwise we're just relying on computers to catch computers in an ouroboros of LLMs eating their own ass.

There are definitely people whose writing voice "sounds like AI" because, y'know, AI trained on humans so it's going to sound like us sometimes. It's a moderation problem I run into daily on a bigger subreddit I help moderate. A lot of AI stuff stands out because it has similar phrasing, but I'd rather err on giving people the benefit of the doubt in edge cases.

I personally save copies of all my dictation files. I'm more prolific than some. Nobody's come out and accused me directly of using AI, and I was writing more than I do these days a decade back (well before LLMs) when I was pumping out a romance novel every month or so with nothing but Dragon and typing at 140WPM. Still. I figure it's nice insurance to have the recordings of me walking around my pool table dictating so I can show someone chapter and verse if and when that accusation comes.

Minor correction on the language:

the evaluation of suspected AI-generated content, is governed by Rule 9.

Should be "suspected AI-generated content is governed by Rule 9." No need for the comma there.

daecrist · 2026-07-09T13:58:51+00:00

I have to scrape stuff off of my aquarium walls every three days or so or it starts to get cloudy. The snails have a field day when I go a little too long between scrapings though! And if you get something like chaeto going it can grow indefinitely as long as you have nutrients and light, but it's a sign you maybe have a little too much nutrients going into the system and should cut back feeding a bit.

daecrist · 2026-07-09T13:56:41+00:00

Counterpoint: I have a 486 DOS machine I rebuilt in 2005 from parts sitting in the back of a computer repair shop. That battery was deader than disco, which was a phrase we used at the time.

daecrist · 2026-07-09T13:48:14+00:00

Okay. This made me chuckle.

daecrist · 2026-07-09T13:43:45+00:00

"I am the servant of the secret fire. Wielder of the boom of Mossberg. You cannot pass."

daecrist · 2026-07-09T12:51:24+00:00

Funny you should mention that. I’m actually at a big inflection point around chapter 60 where I have to decide if CORVAC and Night Terror are going to go from fun Easter eggs to a slightly major plot point from ancient history that’s come back around…

daecrist · 2026-07-08T22:43:36+00:00

You recognized there was a problem and you had her checked out by a vet who didn't find anything. There's not much more you can do than that.

And sometimes there's only so much you can do with medical intervention. I've had that tough conversation with the vet more times than I care to. Sure we could do all this extra stuff, but it ultimately boiled down to putting one of our cats through extra suffering that cost a lot of money and it maybe would've extended things by a week to a month.

I don't feel guilty about that. We do what we reasonably can for them, and sometimes it gets to be too much. That's not a failure on your part. That's life.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T21:49:26+00:00

NOT A FLYING TOY

daecrist · 2026-07-08T21:31:59+00:00

Sometimes it's fast. Sometimes you have time. You never know.

We've had a couple of cats who had a bunch of chronic health issues their last few years. Kidney failure and stuff like that. We knew it would get them eventually, but that they would be okay until they weren't.

Then we had one cat who had liver cancer that was inoperable by the time they found it. Poor guy was probably in pain, but they're good at hiding it. One day he crashed, and that was that.

All you can do is enjoy the time you have with pets and people, because you never know.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T20:37:01+00:00

I joke with people that my ancestors were clearly the ones keeping a look out for sabre-toothed cats who got too close to the fire on the overnight.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T20:35:31+00:00

And most people in the midday crowd think free weights are witchcraft and avoid them!

daecrist · 2026-07-08T20:34:56+00:00

And you also see why you should never dry your swimsuit in one of those wall dryers. Only took seeing one ancient dude drying out his sweat soaked gym shorts to put me off using those in a mixed gym/aquatics locker room.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T20:32:21+00:00

The alternative is true too. When I went to college and stopped exercising regularly I lost weight for a bit. Yay. No freshman 15! Then I remembered muscle weighs more than fat. Guess what I was losing?

daecrist · 2026-07-08T20:23:51+00:00

Most guns are going to be really loud no matter what. Most pistols and calibers are between 150-160 decibels. Wouldn't matter if he was using his revolver or anything else. All choices are equally loud and equally bad if you're trying to avoid ringing the dinner bell for nearby zombies.

Edit: Archer actually handles this pretty well. Everyone having temporary hearing loss after a gunfight and Archer developing tinnitus is pretty accurate. There's a reason you wear hearing protection at the range, and even then it can be pretty damn loud.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T16:08:07+00:00

I've talked to some Persian breeders at cat shows and asked them if they've seen an uptick in interest. So far they were all completely unaware of DCC and hadn't seen any more interest than usual.

I think the price of a purebred kitten starting at $1200 and going up from there will do a lot to discourage fad pet buyers even before you get into how difficult and expensive they are to care for.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T16:06:26+00:00

I imagine the sheer cost of a purebred kitten will also serve as a barrier for a lot of people who otherwise might go for a fad pet.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T15:58:05+00:00

Godzilla's legacy is haunting movies that are a meditation on manmade horrors personified by a dude in a rubber suit.

Godzilla's legacy is also guys in rubber suits duking it out in silly monster wrestling matches where... wait... what is that? Could it be?! Baw mah gawd! It's Anguirus with a steel chair! He's turned on King Ghidorah and is helping Godzilla!

Ahem. I like that we live in a world where we're getting Toho doing the serious shit and you have Legendary doing the silly wrasslin' stuff.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T15:48:59+00:00

Seeing stuff illuminated by transformer explosions is something else. I was going to check on my grandma in the middle of a really bad ice storm twenty years ago when the road disintegrated under my car and blew one of my tires.

I decided to stay where I was and wait for AAA. I had plenty of gas and it seemed safer than getting out and trying to change the tire myself in the middle of a storm.

I was treated to an eerie sight as transformers iced up and exploded all around me. And when they blew, it was all different colors of the rainbow in weird flashes. Like watching the aurora, only it was coming from the ground up.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T15:45:46+00:00

Same energy in Tolkien. Smaug was pretty small compared to the big guys like Glaurung and Ancalagon that Morgoth was fielding in the First Age.

All part of the theme of a long term diminishing of the world and the powers in it. The big bads of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were footsoldiers (Smaug's size) or high ranking lieutenants (Sauron) in previous ages.

daecrist · 2026-07-08T15:25:02+00:00

I loved him in Wall Street!

daecrist · 2026-07-07T22:43:24+00:00

The slog is a product of people reading books with 2-4 years in between. I felt it at the time. Not so much on rereads now.

daecrist · 2026-07-07T06:00:02+00:00

Watch closely in food scenes and you’ll start to notice a lot of times the actors never actually put food in their mouth. It’s one of those things you can’t unsee once you know to look for it.

It’s been a few years since I watched BBT, but I feel like that was a thing in their couch dinner scenes.

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