These cold call emails with a “private video looking at your website” where it’s so obviously a mashed up quick screen recording of someone at my website with generic sales pitch video are why I hate sales and don’t trust anybody. 😆
From my archives (way back in… 2020?) - I still get a kick out of seeing someone watch / hear U2 for the first time.
And that she picked a concert video filmed in Ireland, at Slane Castle, a few days after Bono’s dad passed away just adds to energy of the crowd and band.
It feels so bizarre to look out my window and see a white, frozen arctic tundra landscape while I also read and see the devastation being caused by wildfires in California. Hope friends out west stay safe and are able to evacuate if needed, with minimal damage to homes.
New blog post: My Social Media Timeline. It’s nothing particularly new in thought, just my annual(ish) reflection on time spent in the social media waters.
I was listening to The Daily’s episode on Justin Trudeau stepping down and they ended by implying that progressive politics is on the way out… which felt like a weird way to frame a world still reverberating from the effects of a global pandemic we haven’t dealt with.
Aside from a search engine of some sort, what’s a website or two that you still visit directly in the browser? i.e. you don’t search for it, don’t read it via RSS or social media link - you type or have a bookmark to go directly to it?
I haven’t been getting proper notifications from lots of apps on my iPhone for a while now… other than text messages, everything else is a crap shoot of reliability.
Is wiping and reinstalling still a good option to try and reset an iPhone or is this just the state of iOS apps in 2025?
…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.”
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.
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.
Finished reading: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 📚
Godspeed to parents, teachers, and anyone elder going back to regular routine tomorrow morning.
May your coffee be hot and your cream unspoiled. 🙏🏻
Me playing most of the Zelda or Metroid games on Switch: k wait - what am I supposed to be doing right now?? 🤔