Things You Just Don't Care About

right now, my job

I'd be interested in an AI generated Avatar movie maybe, but only if it wasn't 100 hours long

AI generated Emoji movie

spotify wrapped, mine or yours

On my social media feed, the AI art battle is being fought by two sides that equally have no fucking idea what they're talking about.

Chalk it up to the Sneetchification of the net

it's an extremely annoying argument, like there are obviously ethical questions involved, and there's also lots of shitty art floating around, but it's also just a new and unique medium and has already been the source of some really cool stuff and will continue to develop in weird unexpected ways. it's neither the end of the world or any better than anything else.

the ones acting the smuggest about it are the ones sharing info that is laughably wrong, even by the very very little I know about it.

they think someone is cramming framed art into a cd rom drive piece by piece and it's coming back out as new art

the AI art bothers me less than the AI writing which is clearly eventually going to be a big issue in academic settings.

oh yeah. I mean aren't they already auto-writing blogs?

it's just the people who are screaming about AI Art weren't doing it after Dall*E came out and other things like that, they waited for Lensa AI to get popular and their friends to start posting selfie art, and THEN they started moaning. because it's a chance to smugly brag about how you're not stupid enough to pay $4 for AI art in which the privacy agreement might be sketch (just like literally every app on the planet, including Facebook), and how also you're a true art aficionado and not ripping artists off like everyone else.

sorry if I'm not gonna be lectured by someone who proclaimed they were TeamJohnny during Amber Heard-Depp trial

the Harry/Meghan Netflix show

it's gonna come out that the avatar sequels ARE ai generated art and I'm gonna be so smug about it

They better be

I would watch any movie written by Talk To Transformer as long as the acting is sincere

let's be real, soderbergh is gonna do that if he hasn't already

glass fucken onion

sorry, middle-aged internet person: while I'm impressed by your ability to report from the front lines of youth culture without even leaving your living room, I really don't care what your 13-year-old thinks about Hogwarts Legacy or Avatar 2 or the new Bonamassa record

it is a ridiculous and too-often-used ploy by reviewers, yes

ugh

Let me try this out: a certain band I was unfamiliar with showed up in my algorithmic year-end wrap-up because they are one of my daughter’s favorites and so…I will have listen to them myself and get back to you.

your ugly shithead colonial flag and your ugly shithead colonial mindset

podcasts of any sort whatsoever

Rotten Tomatoes on one end and “Film Twitter” on the other

Whether other people's travel choices are sufficiently "authentic" as opposed to "packaged."

Yo I work 51 weeks a year and during the week I get to relax, I don't feel like I need to backpack across the Himalayas and stay in a a yurt and study the local culture and drink yak milk directly from the yak. It does not harm you at all if I just stay at a beach resort having pina coladas brought to me while I read.

Fuck right off the the self-righteousness.

If you want to experience authentic Cameroonian cuisine, bicycle through Hungary or $4 a day, drink chicha all night with the colorful band of Peruvian musicians who you met at the fruit market and who generously took you in despite having no language in common etc etc... that's cool, rock on.

But if someone else just wants to doze in a hammock for a week, that's cool too.

Given the last three years, "sitting in a comfortable place in the sun doing nothing" feels like the ultimate vacation.

The Oscar nomination "controversy"

when someone throws a basketball in the hoop from really far away

That mail won't deliver itself

Throwing the ball in the hoop from very far away is kind of like delivering the mail in the game Paperboy! Maybe that’s how I should think about it. I’d like to care about it because every social media platform believes that I want to see videos of strangers making shots from half court

10x more exciting though than a civilian attempting a 30-yard field goal.

except when said civilian sets up a fake play and runs into the endzone.

Of paperboys and mailmen

James Cameron's Avatar franchise.

Not that I don't care, per se, but the rush to condemn DiCaprio for dating a 19 year old, when as of yet the only evidence is then pictured together at a party and both denied being in a relationship.

I get his past behavior making it easy to believe, and fine, if you want to excoriate him for that, but it creeps me out a little when the public pretends to know more about someone's relationship than they do

Steve Albini's tweets

(cue up somebody calling me for s-posting on that thread, which maybe only proves my point)

Sam fucking Smith

the downing of mysterious flying objects

Yeah. I feel like I should care more about the government shooting shit down in our airspace, but... <big exaggerated shrug>

the whole thing feels like some manufactured crisis, but to what end I do not know

eep opp ork ah ah

i'm enjoying it as comedy tbh

it's open season on mysterious flying objects

If more immigrants traveled by balloon it would put to rest all the silliness about Trumpy walls. Balloons appear to be an underrated way of getting to the United States.

Let me try this out: a certain band I was unfamiliar with showed up in my algorithmic year-end wrap-up because they are one of my daughter’s favorites and so…I will have listen to them myself and get back to you.

― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, January 16, 2023 8:57 PM (one month ago)

uh, are you at liberty to reveal the name of the band?

(and is it Wallows?)

harry potter

Roald Dahl

The Telegraph losing their minds over that story, as you can imagine

Funnily enough I was reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to my daughter at bedtime last week and did some on-the-go editing as I went. He was a bit of a mean-spirited prick, wasn't he.

I think that part of his work is very appealing to children, there’s nothing saccharine about it at all. There’s so many dark and disturbing plots! The witches killing children, the child-eating giants, the things that happen to the bad winners on the chocolate factory tour. On the one hand, this appeals to a child’s sense of thrill and fascination with things that scare them, but on the other you’re like reading this (as an adult) and wondering exactly how far removed he is from those Daily Mail columnists who despise children and call the police if they see them playing outside. I mean the works are generally good, the outrage is completely dull as per, but even as a child you know that stuff is harsh af.