…and then this post, “We should not confuse what makes money with what is good” kind of riffs off Meta & LLM’s with a similar sentiment to my previous videos + podcasting post. YouTube is rewarding video “podcasts” right now, but they’ll change. Then what do you do?


👏 Podcasting’s unique selling proposition is not video:

“I think that the rush to video is possibly the biggest lowlight, not just for last year, but the biggest lowlight in the last five years of the industry.”


Uh oh. I’m on the highway to hell.

A car dashboard displays fuel economy statistics, including 15.9 L/100km average consumption, 666 km to empty, and the odometer reading 188797.5 km.

Some days I can’t even muster the confidence of a mediocre white man. Woof.


If you have a YouTube channel, there’s a setting to check to allow third-party companies to train AI models using your channel’s content.

Screenshot showing YouTube setting in Channel Settings with a checkbox for If you select this option, YouTube may share your videos with a third-party company provided that you and all other applicable rights holders have chosen to allow that company. The training permission status of all videos will be available through a publicly accessible interface.

Not going to lie, WWE being on Netflix greatly increases the odds of me getting way back into wrestling in 2025 which would then increase the odds of me keeping a Netflix subscription for the entire year I suppose.


Currently reading: Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 📚


Checking in on America to see how they’re remembering the chaos of January 6th 4 years ago… Ah I see they’re making plans to reinstate the dude who helped incite the US Capitol attack. 😵‍💫

Detective Jake Peralta voice: Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.


New (old) blog post📝: Movies Take Years


I realize there’s probably a world where this is a good thing, but all these AI appointment generator adverts sound like my nightmare.

A screenshot of an ad on Twitter reading “Josh booked 140 meetings in 6 weeks. He must be onto something…”