UnspecificGravity

What a tidy little package, how lucky for the feds that this crime ust went and solved itself for them.

Same for the department of defense.

Probably because nothing that he did was incriminating because he didn't commit any crimes and given that he is likely a better lawyer than anyone in that room, I think he is probably right about that.

why do I get the feeling Heinlein and Roddenberry shared a surprising number of friends

Probably because Heinlein was a hack that stole unashamedly from everyone around him. His politics are literally just a reflection of whatever was most popular with whoever he was associating with at the time. He went from being a new deal democrat to libertarian because he changed who he was dating.

I think his closest literary "friend" was Philip K Dick who was grateful that Heinlein (who never actually was friends with) once loaned him money.

What they want to do is scam a bunch of public money and put it into their own pockets. No research required for that.

Plus they have to keep developing solutions to Nighshade 2 and Nightshade 2.1 and the Deathcap fork etc. etc. An enthusiastically developed open source project with a bunch of forks and versions is not an easy thing for a big lumbering corporation to keep up with. Especially a corporation that is actively trying to replace staff with AI coders.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, the guy that wears a Nazi costume as part of his official uniform has a favorite movie and book. That favorite book AND movie is Starship Troopers.

Think he understands that one is a satire of the other?

These guys aren't big on media literacy.

I can assure you that while billions of dollars will change hands, not one cent of it will go to actual useful research.

Finally bringing together the old nuclear fusion, AI, and Trump admin scams into a single glorious ouroboros of dumbass corruption.

Cutting the VAST majority of social media and replacing it with reading, listening to music, and talking to people, has dramatically improved my quality of life, but it really wasn't easy.

The problem is that this one device we adopted kept getting worse at what it was supposed to do and got repurposed as a real time ad delivery and social engineering machine instead.

It is easily the most common answer I hear to the "why don't you use transit in this city that is very well served by a robust network and also REALLY sucks to drive in?" question.