… there are already a bunch of people who are assuming brand to mean scarification by burning since they evidently only read the headline.

anyone who actually thinks that that headline means literal branding is an illiterate dumbass who needs to read more.

anyone who’s trying to sidestep the dehumanisation of prisoners mentioned in the article by throwing focus solely on the literal meaning of the word brand is an amoral dumbass who needs to understand humanity and history more.

i would strongly urge you to familiarise yourself with figures of speech lest you’re – you know – branded as an ignorant person.

to be fair, vresda, plejdar, and numanumahey all sound like plausible alien species in a trek universe.

yep, it wasn’t just a plain tiff.

double-negatives in the headline means a positive article.

In general, the report found that the AI summaries showed “a limited ability to analyze and summarize complex content requiring a deep understanding of context, subtle nuances, or implicit meaning.” Even worse, the Llama summaries often “generated text that was grammatically correct, but on occasion factually inaccurate,”

how is this being accepted? one would have to go through any output with a fine-toothed comb anyway to weed out ai hallucinations, as well as to preserve nuance and context.

it’s like the ai tells you that mona lisa has three eyes and a nose and her mouth is closed but her denim jacket is open. you’re going to report that in your story without ever looking at the painting?

in many ways, yes evidently. but there’s something additional at the end of this story which transcends those legends.

but thanks for the link. live and learn!

High Citadel was the first of his books that i read and i was hooked immediately. from the crash landing to the riverside standoff to the trek across the andes to the ultimate jet dogfight - it’s just one rollercoaster dip after another.

and the guerrilla tactics were something else altogether. especially the building of the crossbows and the trebuchet as well as the crash caused by the cable spool.

i’d still place Vivero Letter, Snow Tiger, and a couple of others above it but it’s miles ahead of Juggernaut, Wyatt’s Hurricane, and the weird one about some inheritance.

did they really think that a bank – a representative of an industry reknowned for excessively charging for services that should be free – would let them get away with it?

that’s like a lion returning every night to shit in the shikari’s shoes and hoping not to get shot.

i can’t recommend the novel “The Vivero Letter” by Desmond Bagley enough when it comes to the subject of lost mayan cities.

as with his other novels, the research that he showcases in his narrative is nothing short of impressive – especially considering that he was active at a time without the internet.

it’s definitely one of his better books.

correction: artists need to embrace generative ai or leave adobe behind.

maybe that’s just the ai’s internal monologue leaking through?

Riker, approaching a swivel chair.

isn’t that headline tautological?

or, alternatively, their lifetime offer has truly been honoured.

given his choice of weapon, i’m surprised he didn’t “stop!”.

you would do well to stay away from firefly.

maybe they just laid off the titchier ones so that the average size of team members did indeed increase.

well, that and maybe because it does help us communicate with all the aurally challenged people around us.

… and most of the rest of us are in obtuse poverty.