StillPaisleyCat

True. But Meta hasn’t left as yet.

And there are users here suggesting that the Canadian government shouldn’t be attempting to legislate or regulate Meta.

Here is a Walrus feature on the story of a mother whose son went unexpectedly missing from the University of Toronto, and whose body was found washed up from Lake Ontario much later.

The family’s attempts to access her late son’s email and social media accounts from Google and Facebook went to court, and there was an order, but both refused to comply and insisted she take it through California courts (which she eventually did as part of a group case).

The mother’s efforts were also reported on by the Ottawa Citizen in several articles and a video, the CBC, and the Globe and Mail .

While this case raised significant questions of digital privacy and what should be the legal standard to access accounts posthumously in cases of missing and suspicious deaths, Facebook and Google fought the case on the grounds of jurisdiction and refused to comply with the Canadian court order.

But Facebook is doing business in Canada while refusing to be subject to Canadian law or courts while doing it.

It’s platforms are up in Canada, recruiting members, collecting and monetizing data on Canadians.

There have been court cases and orders in Canada where both Meta and Google have refused to comply with judicial decisions on the grounds that only California and US federal courts have jurisdiction over them.

The law in this case could require Meta, Google and X to carry emergency information and links to it without monetization, just as it does for private broadcasters and cable carriers.

Like what?

Meta and X are acting preemptively before the government has even finalized how the system would work.

The law hasn’t even come into force. The regulations haven’t even been Gazetted and put through the public consultation period.

Meta and X feel that they shouldn’t be subject to the law of any other country. That’s what’s at the foundation of this.

Had the show gone into production May 2, 2023 as planned, the wait would have been long but we would have had other Trek content to divert us in the meantime.

With the strike postponing season three production before it began, it may be years in truth.

Sorry She-Hulk didn’t work for you.

Won’t ask what put you off but suggest seeing it through to the end.

As someone who read the comics it felt very comic-accurate while adding in the clearly feminist perspective of its creator/showrunner. Basically, it took a female action hero created by men and gave her ownership by women.

All of these platforms skew male, white, heterosexual, older etc.

It’s a major concern when AI’s are using them for training data. Or, when studio executives take them into account in decisions about what to greenlight.

Reddit is actually relatively better balanced at 2/3s male. Review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb are more heavily male.

I’m finding the conversation on Lemmy more civil, but unconscious bias is a thing.

For me the feeling happened first when I saw Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley was going to be the survivor in the original Alien.

Now, movies conceived and produced by men starring female action heroes are their own trope and don’t have the same impact.

She-Hulk however gave me that joy. I hope Marvel looks at the actual viewership numbers of She-Hulk and the success of Barbie when making a decision on a second season.

The anomaly force people to sing about hidden emotions but it also pushed them to sing in a popular human style.

@GreenMario@lemm.ee, I seem to have discovered that you are my Star Trek preference twin.

Although, I would personally put Star Trek (2009) a bit ahead of V The Final Frontier, our teens profoundly negative reaction to it would make put it at the back or at best tied. There has been utter refusal from them to even attempt to watch Into Darkness and Beyond. Stuck watching them on my own, Beyond is a head shaker that spends all its time distracting from what could have been a good story with utter silliness like a motorcycle found randomly on a ship.

Into Darkness is in its own way as much a complete head scratcher as The Final Frontier, but with A list casting and more appalling results. In both cases, you can see the traces and structure of what might have been an interesting movie if only a massive train derailment hadn’t beset production somewhere and somehow.

I did however see Insurrection at first release as a family outing with the in-laws. It was fine, and worth a watch at home. In fact, its main issue is that it felt like it should be a made for cable movie rather than a cinematic release. There so much more awful stuff out there by comparison. Nemesis for a Trek example. By half way through I was was wanting to get back the ridiculously self indulgent Picard dune buggy opening sequence.

My final ranking.

1./ VI - The Undiscovered Country

2./ II, III, IV the complete trilogy

3./ First Contact

4./ I - The Motion Picture (I enjoy it more as I age and it’s remastered.)

5./ Galaxy Quest

6./ Insurrection

7./ Generations (It happened.)

8./ TIE V - The Final Frontier & Star Trek (2009)

9./ TIE Nemesis & Beyond

10./ Into Darkness

You’re most welcome.

I suggest starting with the Memory Alpha entries on the Kzinti and the TAS episode The Slaver Weapon.

I also strongly encourage everyone to watch TAS at least once. I had largely forgotten it until I introduced our kids to the DVD set when they were at the age, but it holds up remarkably well.

TAS = The Animated Series. It ran for a season and a bit, 22 episodes, on Saturday mornings on NBC. It’s the only Star Trek franchise show to win a series Emmy.

At the time it was in development, there was also a writers strike. DC Fontana was the supervising producer, and she took advantage of the provision in the contract that allowed writers who have never previously written an animated television script to write one, and only one episode, without violating the strike.

Larry Niven was one of the science fiction authors whom she reached out to, and he was game to do it. He’s written on the StarTrek.com official site since then, even going so far as to confirm that the Caitians in Star Trek are a related species, much as the Vulcans are related to the Romulans.

M’Ress was a Caitain officer in TAS. The currently running animated show Lower Decks has a Caitian Chief Medical Officer T’Ana and a Kzinti crew member occasionally appears.