Post #2076238
2026-05-04 21:15 UTC
I love Star Trek TNG as much as the next 90s nerd kid, but the computing aesthetic of “talk to it like it’s a person or use a little rectangle with a touchscreen” that it planted into the collective consciousness has done so much damage and we’ll pay for it our whole lives.
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@aesthr@wandering.shop 2026-05-04 21:18
An under-appreciated aspect of DS9 is that only rarely a character will solve a problem by saying “Computer! …”
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@lina@neuromatch.social 2026-05-04 21:24
@aesthr I'm rewatching TNG now, and yeaaaaaaaaahhhhh... it's a bit grating at this point.
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@eestileib@tech.lgbt 2026-05-04 21:40
@aesthr "Prompt engineering, how many tokens do you need to reflux the polarity of the crystal?" "At least a million cap'n!" "You've got ten thousand! Insert a cool catchphrase that invokes confident authority."