🤖 Mitch’s newsletter 4.12.2026

A friend shared rumors of poor ratings for Starfleet Academy, undercutting my theory that it was taken off the air because the network had gone anti-woke.

With the benefit of hindsight, I can see where Starfleet Academy might have been doomed by its premise. Young people might consider Trek to be an old people’s show, and say “Pass.” Old people look at a show about teenagers and say, “Pass.”

Plus the show did too much fanservice. I loved Starfleet Academy, but the fanservice coiuld get annoying. An entire episode about the mystery of what happened to Ben Sisko. It was a good episode, but I never was that big a DS9 fan so I did not get so much from it as other fans might have.

Maybe Trek just needs to take a 10-20 year time-out, like Doctor Who did before 2005.


I have been using RSS daily for more than 20 years and I have no clue what the difference is between RSS and a JSON feed, and whether or why I should pick one over the other. This kind of thing is why more people do not use RSS.





When you have Internet ADHD. I feel seen. youtube.com/shorts/pX…


A brief history of the trenchcoat. “Nothing on this coat was decoration. It was built for war.” I have a black trenchcoat that I love. I wear it on the very rare occasions that it’s cold enough and I need a long coat. youtube.com/shorts/ip…


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