new episode of the PoGcast out now! @tsdtalks.bsky.social and I talk to @joshwithparenthes.es about his recent AI (..r Bud) video, the education system, and more. Catch it here: youtu.be/4-M157N0vBY?...

I love reading words about buildings. Great video by @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social

I, for one, am very excited to spend the next few months watching Spineless Neoliberal Bug 2 and Spineless Neoliberal Bug 3 duke it out over Spineless Neoliberal Bug 1’s corpse

Microsoft stole game studios' futures to pay for AI data centers

France has joined Germany in cancelling their Palantir contracts, becoming the 2nd country in as many weeks to do so — the UK appears poised to follow suit AOC: “Immediately investigate Palantir — (Thiel’s) secretive data mining company that has weaponized information against immigrant communities”

what did Hannah Arendt know...

Some of your finest work yet! I never thought about the movie like that until this short

the YouTube gurus always say we should be doing more short-form content so I got back in the game: youtube.com/shorts/F2nnk...

hey, you - want an update on some cool stuff I’ve been working on? course ya do! here’s the link: www.patreon.com/posts/160045...

Got a chance to read a draft of this video. My main feedback was "Spider-Man videos are my thing, stay in your goddamn lane!" but also, despite that, it's a very good video and an interesting idea.

youtu.be/CMShPfgzsT4?... New video!

just uploaded: a video about death, capitalism, and spider-man. here's the early, ad-free Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/marvel...

Thanks to @katieandcatburger.bsky.social, @jameswoodall.bsky.social, @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social, @razbuten.bsky.social, @innuendostudios.bsky.social, @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social, and @saribo.bsky.social for reading quotes for me, to @afterthoughts.bsky.social for fixing my audio,

Out now: AI and the Murder of Truth. And Air Bud. On AI, education, fascism, paying the Dane-geld, and why there ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball. The follow up to last year’s “You are a better writer than AI.” If you liked that video, this is worth your time. youtu.be/sETvPBVKBAY

This video premieres in an hour and a half, and if you trust my taste even a little, you need to watch it. It is both magisterial and nuts. (not just saying this because I have a voice cameo!)

I’ve also just dropped a teaser for a huge essay about the Marvel’s Ultimates, power fantasy, and superhero violence I’ve been working on for a while now. Here’s that link! www.patreon.com/posts/156990...

Patreon & YouTube supporters can now watch a short essay talking about the Disney layoff news through the lens we used in February’s ‘MCU-ification’ video. Here’s the Patreon link! www.patreon.com/posts/156884...

This is quite possibly the first YouTube video essay filmed in Canada to show a man actually killing Mr Beast

if I had a time machine: ❌ visit Baby Hitler ❌ throw a lifejacket to Percy Shelley ✅ get Henri Lefebvre an editor

New PoGcast episode! In this one’s we’re talking about big tech / social media changes, when TV revivals don’t suck, and Spaceship Movie discourse. youtu.be/MQD2oFV5mcQ?...

@pillarofgarbage.bsky.social | Pillar of Garbage: "I Was Right About Sora." | #Disney #OpenAI #VideoGeneration #GenAI #LLMs #Slop #Copyright #PlagiarismLaundering www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0T4...

ICYMI: free update post over on my patreon talking about the next few projects I got coming up 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/154394...

www.patreon.com/posts/154338... early / ad-free version of my next upload here: I Was Right About Sora

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

I have seen countless laws proposed (or passed) that aim to counter addictive algorithmic feeds by, bizarrely, demanding a database of age verification of all users what I haven't seen is a law that requires social media companies to offer users a choice of which (if any) algorithm their feeds use

OpenAI news: 1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing. 2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely. Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

I would also like to get in on this particular ‘I told you so’!

It's your favourite genre of video, and mine! YouTuber Complains about YouTube: youtu.be/xNgFJdxLZSI #YouTube

If anyone needs a distraction from Today, here's a video about the Daredevil show. Is it good? I think so! Here's why. youtu.be/QRd4E0tFkac?...

This month's exclusive video is out now (alongside an early, ad-free release of the next main vid, same link) - we're looking into YouTube's 'Ask Studio' AI and its various flaws + limitations. www.patreon.com/posts/februa...

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Lower bills. Protect the NHS. Rebuild public services. Vote Hannah Spencer & the Green Party.

Once again: trans rights was & is the pillar holding up the whole of the rest of liberal democracy & the battle to defend trans rights was & is nothing less than battle whose outcome determines the difference between a free, open & tolerant society & a fascist society

Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

Nice. I'm in the new Pillar of Garbage video. I'm not the main one. That's the Pillar of Garbage person. But I'm a second other voice, later.

What even is 'MCU-ification'? youtu.be/dfD1SsYAR7M

Boom. You looking for this? www.patreon.com/posts/150770...

next video essay, out of context:

"One day, you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay ‘in shape’ so that when the big day comes, you'll be ready." – James C Scott youtu.be/zavx4Obq1OI

@atunshei.bsky.social - "Checkmate, Lincolnites!" or any of his videos are great for leftist American history lessons. Also great movies. @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social - great media analysis all around @fdsignifier.bsky.social - Black Leftist theory, hip hop history, media analysis, the works

STANISLAW LEM MENTIONED God I need to read more of him

something a little different! youtu.be/o4gNtGZyjPQ?...

This sucks. Oddnon was a real gem. While sick, while suffering, they were always there for creators; fundraising, encouraging, sharing, and apparently listening and holding space and consoling and yet more than I knew. The Oddnon I did know was a welcome brightness at premieres. One I will miss.

Hopping onstream now guys 😎 www.youtube.com/live/tJuq9HL...

Another upcoming video is now available to watch, ad-free and early, on my Patreon. This one’s a bit longer (40+ mins) and the Patreon upload contains a few elements that won’t be making it to YT. It’s about Wake Up Dead Man, movies that move, and viewers who don’t. www.patreon.com/posts/148971...

An upcoming video, “Nothing Ever Happens”, is now available early & ad-free over on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/148704... Will update you all when the public release rolls around!