"people have short attention spans" "you have to spoon feed audiences" "if you take more than 30 seconds to make your point, they'll click away" "SEO says [x] duration is best" okay. anyway, here's a two hour video about Beast Wars [two months worth of watch time in 15 hours]

NEW VIDEO! FINALLY! Beast Wars Is Shakespeare: The Value of Garbage Media I truly hope this one was worth the wait, because I've never made something so huge. Massive thanks to Dr. Drew Lichtenberg for sitting down with me for this one. youtu.be/8y_KsFaHRQk?...

I'm not gonna be able to sleep til I hit the button so I just hit the button

rendering...

it's looking good for the end of the week, so...I just put an early access draft of the Beast Wars video up on my Patreon if it's not out Friday, then definitely Monday i truly can't wait for y'all to see this one. www.patreon.com/posts/beast-...

"hmm...it might be easier if i just do this whole sequence in Blender" he said turning a 15 minute task into a 2-day affair for the 50th time

two things you have to keep in mind when making content online: a.) if something is "trending", there's already a flood of people talking about it. you are late and if it's not your area of expertise already, you're too far behind 2.) people make money from selling you lists of trending topics

it should not be left merely implied a news outlet took cops' word for it that "notices bulge OwO what's this?" was code for "transgender ideology" and rushed to repeat it not only needlessly vilifying a marginalized group but broadcasting cosmic levels of incompetence while they're at it

context collapse oh we are so thoroughly cooked

let's see if we can't wrap this up this week. ish. i hope.

resolve 20.2 adds a smart haze filter and we enjoy cheeky patch notes in this house

yes, Cassie is a hypocrite (but that's good, actually)

absolutely devastated to learn there are people who feel that Dexter Resurrection is one of the best seasons of Dexter. deeply mournful today

"Now, a warning. There you'll also learn about the ritual of African gorillas. This unlocks man's primitive gene and controls the growth of his rod to the point where he loses all his underpants. Beware if you don't act." ...i am having an existential crisis over this and will not be better soon

you cannot convince me we live anywhere near a fair economic system when half the country can't afford basic necessities, while a few rich guys pour money into plagiarism machines, then dabble in gambling on elections as a side hustle

the more advanced generative AI gets, the clearer it becomes that the people who rely on it have truly terrible ideas that never should've seen the light of day

I am begging people to remember the NRA and gun groups *loved* gun control when Black Americans (esp the Black Panthers) started advocating gun ownership as a way to protect themselves. Google the Mulford Act. These folks have *never* believed these rights can or should apply to everyone.

a handful of people convinced 30% of the country that vaccines harm children, so they could muster enough votes to cut taxes on the rich

Good ass thread. My YouTube diet has shifted almost entirely to longer-form documentaries, essays, and amazing shit from which I've learned so much. Sure, the memes are still there, but I watched a 30-minute video about Saturn's moon Iapetus last night, and it was fascinating.

i know it's obvious at this point, but emails like this remind me, there are internal guidance documents somewhere explaining precisely how email blast copywriters should emulate Trump's writing style and i can't think of a more humiliating job

it has been proven time and time again: audiences don't have "short attention spans" or need to be "spoon fed" there is massive hunger for in-depth, informative, nourishing content what is actually lacking is the structural will to invest in any of it

this dude has very accidentally stumbled onto the right answer, tho if, as he implies, it's never been easier to convince women to sleep with men but the hangup is that men are afraid to date "sluts" then we don't have a male loneliness epidemic we have a male insecurity epidemic

there's this wild belief among political pundits, that if a candidate did a thing, and then lost an election, then the candidate should never do that thing again. which, over time, leaves an ever-dwindling list of things to do

DEXTER YOU CANNOT FOLLOW UP *THAT* WITH MAD WORLD, COME OOOOON

I miss Dragon Con with all my heart. My health issues the last couple years have made it hard to travel but I'm hoping I can go again and I can't wait to see all my nerds again

i think i spent the last week and a half working on a cumulative 51 seconds of video and i regret nothing

The irony is, those same people would never once consider that same logic on a national level Plenty of places on the world stage could reasonably say the same shit about the US as a whole that people in blue states say about red states but THAT would be unfair, and also totally different, somehow

I haven't used Dropbox in years and cancelled my subscription eons ago but apparently I never uninstalled the app from my desktop which I learned when the app decided to pop up a massive box—that can't be closed—in the middle of a game, warning me that my subscription has lapsed fucking hell

keep circulating the tapes

DEXTER STOOOOOP

this is so insanely creepy and unwarranted, fuck

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out. www.404media.co/trump-tariff...

you cannot convince me this isn't just Funko Pops for people who think talking to a therapist makes you a pussy

I've managed to get by on Bluesky without needing to block anyone Right up until the weirdo freaks started showing up for days in my mentions demanding that I respect Democracy by dying for the sin of living in a red state

and if they don't, AI industries will financially ruin everyone else

I lived in Georgia during the 2020 election, and proudly sent two Democratic senators to take Mitch McConnel's leadership seat away and my whole life I've lived in regions this asshole wants to die because *some* people in my area vote for bad people

A bizarre side effect of electoral politics is that discussion mirrors ballot box ethical discourse, long before there's a ballot box Like, sure, if Hitler and Diet Hitler end up the only two options, have this conversation But until then...why not entertain the notion of Not Hitler? Just for fun?

worth remembering, the people who want to invent this don't envision it being useful in a normal, everyday person's life with meaningful relationships they see meaningful relationships as a logistical barrier to business and want to automate this inconvenience away

this is not language policing this is knowledge policing the only common thread among all these terms is that it signals the (alleged) speaker knows things that people like this would prefer no one know or talk about don't say it don't know it

it cannot be overstated how much of the vileness of modern american politics boils down to unbridled rage at the mere notion that an adult could learn new words

in a better implementation, an LLM would be a middle man that could gauge semantic meaning and track down where you can find the correct answer you know, like Google 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 instead, it's constantly built as though its a source of answers, which is why it's constantly, flagrantly wrong

Hard to say for sure how much it's a factor, but I was deeply disappointed to see that NYT story on voter registration didn't dive into how, particularly in red states, Republican governments have been actively purging voter rolls for years

This isn't just a clever dunk on AI tools. It's a fundamental indictment of how tech companies are employing LLM software. It would be trivially easy to build an LLM interface that calls a calculator function when the user asks a math problem. But current forms lazily hope enough data will fix it

I've never once seen "you're being too sensitive" used by someone who wasn't being or justifying an asshole

Texas State Republicans are treating Democrats as criminals, demanding police escorts and issuing arrest warrants, for the crime of not passively going along with an obvious and clearly stated gerrymandering scheme They want it to be illegal to be or vote Democrat www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

contentID has editorial influence and I don't love it

When my friends remember I exist and invite me to parties...

I studied the formation of Sesame Street in college, it was one of the best classes I've ever taken in my life. So much of what we know about the way kids learn can be directly traced back to research conducted by the Sesame Street workshop.

you can fuck your friends! you can fuck with or around your friends, whatever you're all comfortable with! but like they say, it's important to know your own feelings and limitations, and to talk about them with your friends, and respect those feelings and boundaries