- Yesterday kept me from typing.
- Today, if I don’t do it right now, will do that same.
- A couple of doc appts.
- A wake.
- Driving practice.
- Tumbling from one thing to the next.
- While the world falls apart.
- Could just repeat the Han Solo dialogue from the prison block in Star Wars.
- (Sorry, I’m not calling it “A New Hope.”)
- I did have a list in a notebook for yesterday’s.
- One of the things on it, “Donette Bag,” I don’t even remember why I …
- Waitaminute.
- Shrinkflation strikes again.
- The little strip of tabs you used to close the bag?
- Gone.
- Staleness .
- At least the donettes are the same size, right?
- RIGHT?
- Maybe that’s why I can actually bite them again …
- Hmmm.
- Before we get into today’s topic (yes, I have a topic, though I’m not feeling it as much now as I did yesterday when I scribbled the note …), let’s talk about judgment.
- There is no fucking E in the middle of judgment.
- Dammit all.
- Is it ironic, do you think, that I’m being judgy about judgment?
- There used to be a forum, 20 years ago, called The Grammar Nazis.
- And people on there would cut and paste bad grammar examples and destroy it like the high-browed jerks they were.
- Made me laugh all the time.
- Don’t know if it still exists.
- Not going to look for it.
- They probably had to change the name, if it’s still around.
- I get twitchy reading all the memes and reels and whatnot with grammar and spelling errors.
- Typos happen, sure.
- I have them all the time in here.
- I think.
- But this is a lot of words.
- I meme’s got like, what, 20?
- You don’t notice when you mess that up?
- Don’t care?
- Don’t know the difference?
- It does make filtering content easier.
- It’s weird, right, because that same approach to content is what makes AI attractive.
- You’ve got a lot of artists and creatives in different fields scared because people who do not have the skills are creating “art.”
- Writing a prompt makes you an “artist” these days.
- There’ll be some truth to that.
- Could be a situation where people who did not have access to the training and education have found a tool that allows them to finally express themselves.
- Definitely a little bit of that.
- Happened in music, too.
- I used to have this … argument … all the time about preference vs. quality.
- For instance (and I’ll use things I like as examples so as not to make anyone feel crappy) …
- I’ll go with the Mission: Impossible flicks.
- Are they hallmarks of cinema, destined to be taught in filmmaking classes (that you can get on Udemy before they’re eradicated by corporate use of AI)?
- Oh, hell no.
- But I like them anyway.
- Liking them doesn’t make them “good.”
- It’s still okay to like them, however.
- Which does, however, get us to the heart of the problem.
- If you don’t know the difference between quality and not, does it make any difference?
- If you don’t care …
- AI makes the next blockbuster movie.
- Everyone goes to see it.
- It makes $500 million.
- Queue the chain of AI-generated movies.
- Screenwriters end up working … at Walgreen’s (where, let’s face it, they already do).
- The human voice dies.
- /end scene.
- “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
- Seems like the American cautionary tale at the moment.
- ‘Cept swap out “scientists” for “billionaires” or “politicians.”
- You can see the things I struggle with in these lists, my worries and anxieties, whether I try to avoid discussing them or not.
- Sigh.
- Remember the book merry-go-round I was on?
- Ended up reading the Jack Reacher book they’re using for Season 4.
- This is your brain on easy prose.
- Maybe I should’ve used books instead of movies up there.
- But then … no one reads anymore.
- …
- Truth: the bullet lists exist as part of my Don Quixote campaign to get people reading again.
- If you give people good, compelling content, they’ll drop those phones and read, man.
- (Tell me the movie I just stole and adapted that from …)
- (I can hear his voice.)
- I’m in marketing.
- I know this works, honestly.
- I have almost 30 years of experience in it.
- Authentic content of any kind with a good voice kicks the crap out of rote nonsense every time.
- Stand out or be lost.
- Do whatever you can to combat the Algorithm.
- That’s my new life Antagonist.
- The Algorithm.
- Followed by whatever proper names they give AI as it becomes sentient.
- Damn you, Gibson.
- Lists like this come from a lack of music.
- Brought to you by … Tinnitis! Conversation! Interruptions!
- This is why, for me personally, wfh is better than being in the office.
- Interruptions kill creativity.
- But also, inherent to creativity is time to stare into the void and drool.
- If you don’t have time to NOT do the thing, you’ll just get stuff that checks the boxes.
- That “subject” I mentioned earlier?
- Was going to write about Fear.
- One of those lists with some gravitas.
- Instead we get this.
- I should be ashamed of myselves.
- I bought a three-pack of those little Moleskine notebooks.
- Field Notes work, too, but Moleskine is better paper.
- So I can carry it around in my pocket for when inspiration strikes.
- Doing so makes me feel guilty I’m not journaling properly.
- I should’ve been Catholic for the amount of self-imposed guilt I tote around.
- You know, when they do a craniotomy, a bunch of nerves get cut.
- Everything around my temple has zero feeling.
- And I get tingling around my eye, to the tip of my nose, in my cheek, across my forehead.
- Disconcerting.
- Yeah, maybe I’m not here to cheer you up.
- The recent release of Metallica’s remastered “Load” has a ton of instrumental demos of the songs.
- There’s one of “Until it Sleeps” bouncing around in my head.
- It’s good stuff.
- There.
- Music.
- Enjoy your holiday weekend eve.
- Question of the day: What’s your favorite piece of media you know is crap, but like it anyway?
Until It Types …
skepticlysm 
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