Parenti’s speech is also known as “The Yellow Lecture” because the surviving footage of it has a distinctive coloration.

The other reference is this meme is to a scene in Seinfeld where Kramer’s apartment is being aggressively illuminated by a big red neon sign across the street; in this case, changed to yellow.

Why is that relevant?

I think this article does a good job of exploring and explaining how LLM attempts at text summarization could be more accurately described as “text shortening”; a subtle but critical distinction.

It routinely baffles me when folks think that copy-pasting crap into and out of a chatbot somehow contributes to a conversation. It’s like half a step up from telling everyone about the dreams you had last night

Canada Dry makes a damn good zero-sugar ginger ale

I grew up in a very white community.

ope,

Everything checks out here

To be fair, it only became Microsoft-owned after it had already become that home.

I’m not sure whether or not the android Data could be considered autistic from an in-universe perspective, but I would say that as a character Data was inspired by autistic humans and written in a way that neurodivergent viewers would empathize with. At least that’s how he’s always come across to me, as a neurodivergent trekkie.

Is it possible you’re thinking of that time Jon Stewart was on Tucker Carlson’s show, rather than vice versa?

I rewatched that episode just this evening, and completely agree; fantastic scene. Dukat is a delightful villain throughout the series, but this is one of his pinnacles of bastardy.

Imaginary Kira supporting his twisted logic was a nice touch, too; “Being reasonable only made us bolder”

I think you mean the embryo; it takes some time after being laid for the zygote inside the egg to develop to the point it could be considered a fetus.