The sigh I just sighed when I opened YouTube and was greeted to multiple AI generated video essays (narration, title, description, seemingly the script, etc). (sigh)

Slowly realizing how petty I am. I got a comment on a video last year where someone seemed angry that I used Nicole Kidman on the thumbnail and implied that I’m obsessed with her. In reality, she is one of my favorite actors, but I also use her on thumbnails because she represents the—

The hold Apple has on me is wild. Here I am, the proud owner of an M1 Max Macbook Pro, and I'm still eying the Neo as a secondary machine. Why? Because I like working from my couch/outside but don't want to unplug all of my external SSDs from my workhorse whenever I want to do it. (cont)

Very tempted to write and film a short review of Michael without having seen it and have that be the entire point of the post. That it's so formulaic that I can literally guess how it will turn out, then go see the movie (for free thanks to A-List) and see how right or wrong I was.

"Wait, AI Girlfriends are a scam?" "Always have been." Check out my exhaustive comparison of 2013's Her, a film about AI companionship and love in the age of artificial intelligence, against our current, soft-dystopian, AI-driven reality on YouTube: youtu.be/IrRM-uIIK04

Obsessed with the idea that daily social media use is to Millennials what leaded gasoline and cigarettes were to boomers

Bumping my latest upload since it's slated to be my lowest performer in a year by a pretty sizeable margin! Come check it out if you haven't already, and please signal boost if you enjoyed it. It discusses the themes of 2013's Her and compares the film to contemporary AI.

I, for one, am shocked that the Michael Jackson biopic is bad. Biopics have such a great track record!

New video! Get it while it's hot! It's all about 2013's Her, and whether the future it painted of AI girlfriends and artificial intelligence companions was actually prophetic, or if it has since become a promise used to pilfer our data. youtu.be/IrRM-uIIK04

Getting emails from my doctors office at 1 am on a Thursday is so weird. Like, it can only really take on one of two tones. Tone 1: lol u up? You should schedule a yearly check up 👀 Tone 2: YOU!!! GOBLIN MAN!!! I KNOW YOU DONT SLEEP ENOUGH. CHECK UR HEART HAHAHAHA.

Recently thought I was being clever by bringing a second chair to my workspace so that I wouldn’t have to pull my main one out of the corner it’s in to sit at my other desk. Did not account for Capri assuming I was inviting her to have her own chair to sit on while I work. Dying of happiness.

Hoping the next video will be out next Sunday! Anyway, you know what grinds my gears? Everyone in the AI video space aggressively getting off on trying to make people that just want to do good, honest work redundant 🫩 Video editors want $500 per video, Claude can do it for free — a real thing I-

Thinking of including submissions from other film enthusiasts with a web presence (YouTube channel, blog, general creatives, etc) in a video I'm writing, or at least on social posts about it. If that sounds like something you'd be down to participate in, throw a DM my way or lmk in the comments!

"As a lifelong Star Trek fan" *proceeds to complain about the thing that has made the series compelling for the past 60 years and stand out when compared to, say, Flash Gordon.

Assuming things keep going the way they're going for me, the glass half full development in my life is that I may have more time to make stuff again. Not necessarily videos (but probably those), but also weird ideas I've had for months. Like this one idea I had to make a custom deck of cards—

First one of the week, but man does it need to be said.

Scrubs S10 has some of the strangest editing I’ve seen in a comedy in ages. Maybe it’s just the state of network TV compared to when the original ran, but the pacing is all over the place. It’s like listening to a podcast where someone ran automatic silence removal.

A reminder that when someone posts about their illness, unless their posts contain an explicit request for advice, you’re not being asked to help diagnose or treat them, you’re being asked to listen to them.

The news today: Meta may fire a huge chunk of its staff in part because of AI the AI:

Maybe a month or so away from releasing my next video and, man, it's already one of my favorites to date. It'll be a ~1hr long analysis of Her, and a comparison of the version of the 2020s it imagined to the one we currently live in.

oh this is a good point! I think for me, I'm always asking of any TV show or film: What do you have to say? (Are you saying anything at all? Some aren't, which is why they feel so hollow.) Btw having something to say doesn't need to be serious, it could simply be: There's value in fun & silliness!

Another twice in a week vibe. May break three by the end of the day at this rate!

Just saw a completely AI generated ad for Optimum Internet and got physically sick. It wasn’t even like a new model that looks relatively realistic. It was the really uncanny one from a year or two ago. Like I hate the fact that it got used at all, but were they even *trying* not to look cheap???

Obligatory, with the added aside of “Man, the lengths people will go to protect a few dollars from being given to people happy to put in a good days work for it”

I’m sure this is breaking news, but Casablanca is incredible. I gotta make a rewatch happen more often. Beautiful film.

Three times in a single week!!! We're halfway to the number of rings Michael Jordan got

Twice in a week 🤪

Made it to Wednesday this time

anyway, gonna go eat mac and cheese right out of the pot about it.

It’s like my grandma once said: if people didn’t like what you made the first time, just keep burning fistfuls of cash in order to try and try again. Or something like that? Idk. Listening is hard. She kept burning fist loads of cash on flying out to visit me to keep repeating something or other.

I’m not a name and shamer, but omg. I just saw a job post asking for: - 4 years of Premiere, AE, and Photoshop experience - management skills for channels with over 100k subscribers - on screen ready talent (camera/mic) - research skills - full time availability in NA hours For $1000 A MONTH

Twice in one week lmao.

Me after Scrubs just tossed *that* detail out there like it was nothing: 😬

It's almost impressive how many websites fail to remember I don't want to be logged out. Spring Training has been going for almost a week now and yet MLB TV keeps forgetting that I've signed in (on multiple browsers/computers) lol

Bars as usual from Jessica

It is 10:30 on Monday and I am reposting this.

Every week, at least once and without fail, I am subjected to something that leaves me sitting at my desk and thinking about the infamous "Best of times, blurst of times," bit from The Simpsons. In it, Mr. Burns believes that having 1,000 monkeys hard at work on a book will output—

Aware that it’s only Monday, but what a fucking week I’m having. Saturday cannot get here fast enough; one so I can sign off my work phone, two so that I can do what I do best (edit), and three so that I can enjoy some New York Mets baseball.

What victory tastes like: Finally figuring out what program was preventing me from ejecting my personal SSD from my Macbook for the past two years, forcing me to do a full boot cycle to swap it to a work drive whenever I needed to.

Did you know that YouTube Playlists have a bug with shuffling? Because I do lol. I have a playlist of hundreds of songs that I like to flip through while I work and it turns out that the shuffle just resets itself after like 10 or so videos, forcing you to manually pick something else to unstick it.

Update re: avoiding the horrors (and the cold!) The CRT is now playing nothing but classic music videos while I work and my chihuahua naps on my lap whilst buried in blankets. We’re currently listening to Eat the Music, my favorite cut off Kate Bush’s album The Red Shoes 🥰 All is well.

Me in December: lol. I’m gonna put a black box over Trump’s face in my video about fear mongering as a wink/nudge to his name being redacted in the Epstein Files. Multiple comments attacking me over being “too scared” to show his face later: I will never discount people’s ability to miss the joke.

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

The sobering realization that like 90% of my music taste has been shaped by Bill Lawrence projects thanks to Scrubs, Cougar Town, and Shrinking.

Apparently YouTube allows you to leave voice notes as comments now and… oh god that is such a terrible idea. I feel so bad for people that are about to have to listen to the most buck wild shit imaginable as opposed to half skimming it and hiding that user

The world was bumming me out too much so I practiced ✨ self care ✨ by running an old CRT to my PC and using it to watch Scrubs while I sorted paperwork today, then play a bit of the MCC. I’m just gonna pretend it’s 2002 at this point. Fuck it.