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Just finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, which I enjoyed more than his last two books, which were fun but light...

This year's UK Games Expo in Birmingham attracted more than 42,000 unique attendees this year, which represents a 7% increase over 2024...

Sure enough! As mentioned above, I’d be quite happy to see an Abrams ST style reboot of the original trilogy (but not with Abrams). I...

IIRC the blaster is also part of a set that can be modified for carbine or rifle configuration, but Han didn’t get those parts. Would...

I just discovered this, but -- the whole thing is 54 novels! That'd be like a second job! It could take years, depending how attentive...

Just read Once Was Willem by M R Carey, which was pointed out to me by this thread, and I’m grateful. It’s a remarkable piece of work...

Solo was definitely underrated IMO. It was decent, a standard MCU blockbuster in the post Endgame age, better than some, worse than...

Weirdly that reminds me of another favourite Quark episode, Business as Usual, which is all about Quark crossing the line and crossing...

It also has one of the most badass lines ever said by a Ferengi. As far as badass lines said on a Star Trek show, that is up there with...

This is an important point. It's not that humans are hard to hack, other humans do it all the time. There are whole industries built...

All signs seem to point to some version of the Hickman Avengers run where overlapping realities result in the destruction of one or the...

Ooh, interesting.

Not sure whom you mean here so I’m going to speculate in spoilers:

I mean LLM in the sense described in the article of ChatGPT and similar LLMs getting into unexpected and recursive patterns that are...

The former, mainly, which is of course already happening, but a LLM stepping outside its bounds as described in the article is...