John Lithgow is 79 years old, an A-list actor, and still being offered leading roles in major films. I don’t think he’s afraid of being canceled.

Pick your poison.

And all goods and services require some amount of humans putting in work in order for them to be provided. Nothing is truly 100% automated yet.

But labor is a necessity to survive, and always has been. We need the production of goods and services. Of course the distribution of wealth and goods is also an issue, but somebody (or something) has to produce the things we use.

Not yet, but it’s an interesting thought experiment if nothing else. Someday, thanks to advances in robotics and computers, human labor will become largely obsolete. So the question is how do we structure our society when that happens?

Why not? I think the messages of the movie are pretty evergreen and just as relevant today as 1999 (which wasn’t that different).

Damn, this movie used to be available on YouTube, looks like it’s been taken down.

Most anything can be newsworthy in 2025. Doesn’t take much effort to publish a blurb like this.

I got the YouTube premium family plan a long time ago. Been worth every penny for the amount of YouTube we watch.

I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but if there was one streaming service I was gonna pay for it’d be YT premium. You can pirate everything else pretty easily.

Data’s poem was written by real people trying to sound like a machine.

ChatGPT’s poems are written by a machine trying to sound like real people.

While I think “Ode to Spot” is actually a good poem, it’s kind of a valid point to make since the TNG writers were purposely trying to make a bad one.