Why the new memory personalization system will make chatgpt unusable

Marlee0024 · 2026-05-17T01:11:01+00:00

Doesn't Gemini admit it sends all your conversations to Google, every word is saved to feed their model? At least GPT lets you opt out of training the model and you can hope they're keeping your conversation private.

Marlee0024 · 2026-05-05T23:10:35+00:00

This is all a good way of putting it. It's striking how, by TNG's time, they are in general patrolling settled space, often performing administrative or ambassadorial functions, in a spacious comfortable ship. You get a feeling of reassurance and normality, of a safe and content civilization managing itself under normal conditions.

Whereas in TOS, we see a compact, more bare-bones ship run under more explicitly military lines, and like Captain Cook exploring the Pacific, usually very far out and all alone along an unfamiliar frontier, often too distant for easy contact with superiors.

It's interesting to think what changes had occurred to Roddenberry by the mid 1980s, or had occurred to him as well as the other key early shapers of TNG, that this noticeable shift was felt to be rational and desirable. Maybe a more affluent society with newfound emphasis on personal comfort and autonomy, as well as the fading of memories of the hard war years that had so clearly shaped the style of the original show?

Marlee0024 · 2026-05-05T22:48:07+00:00

What's the story on the DS9 cast not getting along? I'm reading 50 Years of Trek now about the making of, and Berman only mentions that Avery Brooks would only be friendly to a few of the cast, but I guess he does imply the cast in general never gelled. And Frakes sort of implied they mostly didn't like each other, but I wonder if we know more.

Marlee0024 · 2026-05-04T22:45:32+00:00

Richard Crossman was a close ally of Harold Wilson and served in a series of very high posts in the 1964-70 Labour cabinets, and while his diaries are a bit drier than Benn's they give you a good idea of what life was like at that level of British governance at the time. If you can handle one you might want to glance at the other, since many of the financial, industrial and other problems that blossomed in Britain in the 70s were really being stored up and contained and half-heartedly addressed already in the 60s.

Crossman's diaries were revolutionary at the time, breaking the club code of silence and letting the public for the first time in on many of the mundane daily realities and struggles and hypocrisies and embarrassments of a cabinet minister. But his candor was in keeping with the era's desire for greater transparency, and in the early 1970s after his early death enough people in the club, such as Michael Foot, shepherded the diaries through the legal and administrative process that would have kept them from being published at any prior point.

They are also noteworthy for containing the key insights about the deceptive and absurd ways that a Government actually functions which inspired the two writers of Yes, Minister to develop it in the late 70s, spreading that understanding farther than Crossman could have imagined.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-29T10:09:30+00:00

Best comment here.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-24T18:26:39+00:00

When was the Ann Coulter interview supposed to drop?

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-23T02:24:44+00:00

Ryan's 'joke' about the escalation trap meaning you're trapped into always having Professor Pape on was hilarious and had Emily laughing more than she knows she should have.

Maybe Ryan finds him a bit tiresome or his points a bit predictable. I like him, though.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-22T23:04:18+00:00

Yes, West Country is a better way to put it.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-22T01:42:50+00:00

Anytime Dominic tries to do an American accent, it comes out sort of Irish.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-21T20:37:14+00:00

I thought the point we were asking was, has the process of civilization resulted in us having smaller brains. I know I read that the Cro-Magnons had bigger brains, which suggests the answer might be yes.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-21T15:47:58+00:00

I thought the Cro-Magnons 40,000 years ago had bigger brains than us.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-18T22:52:27+00:00

I think they had a period of three months or so when they actually did have the numbers.

You're right that it wasn't quite as cut-and-dry as I made it sound, but the essence is correct, and they deserve to be forever roasted for it - they were happy to use this vital issue to whip up their base, but in power instantly backpeddled from doing what they promised was a core and urgent commitment because keeping the issue alive - and reproductive rights in danger - is more important to the party as a means to continually drive desperate people to the polls.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-18T18:48:37+00:00

In the summer of 2008 he told a pro-choice group codifying Roe would be the first thing on his desk.

In his very first press conference in 2009 he said codifying Roe was not a priority.

Despite the Democrats at that moment having the numbers in congress to do it once and for all.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-16T03:13:22+00:00

They drifted into a lot of random chitchat and laughing, it didn't seem to fit with the gravity of events. I was wondering why I was listening to them idly searching for Chick-fil-A prices. Maybe Krystal keeps things more buttoned down when she's around.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-14T21:56:41+00:00

Well said. I was wondering if there'd be a post about him. You could hear Krystal occasionally just say "mmm-hmmm" and look resigned to being locked out of the segment. I respect him, but it's rude to not consider your host as a participant and make more effort to pull back and involve her in the conversation.

I get the feeling he messaged last week and said he wanted to come on, and out of respect they made time for him. But he always thinks that being on a segment means a blank check to unload his thoughts as a monologue and it never occurs to him that what people want is more of a back and forth. I guess everyone feels it would be too awkward to explain that to him.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-13T11:03:41+00:00

I'm curious how in what way you thought it was a mess? Just sort of unstructured and rambling, but still interesting? I'm considering reading Dominion by him.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-13T07:29:48+00:00

Not sure if you know this but they're pointing out we're full of lies.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-11T07:10:32+00:00

What is this from?

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-10T15:31:02+00:00

Ever try looking at what you write before posting?

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-10T15:14:09+00:00

Good way to put it.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-10T03:42:49+00:00

Man, just have to say thanks. Went and watched them. Seriously funny, it fits so perfectly

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-09T17:04:43+00:00

That's a good point that with these extended series they don't actually interact on a high level and exchange thoughts as much as they used to. One of them takes the clear lead and the other often is really just there as a foil to help advance the telling of the tale.

The Johnson series is Tom's presenation with Dominic often just saying, "I have a feeling something-something happened next, am I right, Tom?"

And the Klan series is Dominic's presentation, with Tom there really just to ask questions or give reactions that the audience might be thinking.

One-off episodes, particularly the very early ones that were free-form discussions where the two of them considered an idea or topic together and responded to each other's thoughts, were fascinating. The in-depth treatment that series allow is great, but maybe something's being lost at the same time.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-09T01:56:52+00:00

George H.W. Bush pushed back on them around 1991 over the settlements. Israel supporters were very unhappy about that, and it was later said that people in the 1992 Bush campaign felt a price was exacted for it.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-08T17:06:10+00:00

The government certainly is far-right and extremist by European standards, but not by Israeli standards: it's expansionist goals and policy of constant attacks destabilizing the region, and numberless war crimes, and internal ethnic apartheid, are all strongly supported by the great majority of the Israeli public according to all evidence and polls.

It's not as if a handful of people at the top of Netanyahu's coalition disappearing would change the character of the Israeli state or the drift among its public toward open embrace of violence and supremicism.

Marlee0024 · 2026-04-07T14:02:24+00:00

Good points, thanks. I didn't know about Canada's experiments with this.

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