Ponders

I have no idea how humanity got anything done before we had the ability to listen to Not Strong Enough by boygenius on loop. Incredible.

YouTube video by mike lit Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - Cinematic Orchestra (HD) Full Movie 4K

Man with a Movie Camera with an electronic jazz score absolutely slaps. The editing of Man with a Movie Camera is unbelievably modern and the constant drum grove compliments this section perfectly.
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Summer playlist is a lot of Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and Chappell Roan. So that's where we're at right now.

My Fantastic Four (I couldn't find a good picture with all of them together so just imagine that they're doing an avengers assemble style 360 action shot on top of the barricade.)

I need everyone to help me manifest a Superman I Know What You Did Last Summer double at the drive-in that I love.

working on an AI for Bluesky that calls itself MechaFDR

So they made…the Paperclippy Problem?

I’m sorry, I’m sorry—my own instrumental convergence is getting out of hand.

Thanks jibjab hot dog.

If “Self Imposed Deadlines” was the name of a game show that came on after Jeopardy, I would be confidently yelling answers at the screen and getting every one of them wrong.

Gutting that the thing I used to prove that I was a better writer than everyone else is now condemning me to be shamed as a talentless hack.

But my anxiety boils down to this. If you know me and you're extremely anti-AI, I hope you'll give this a chance, and I hope we can still be friends.

Those conversations cannot start until people start using it. In big ways and little ways. For work and for play. To understand the edges of its ability, to see those edges move as the technology advances, to guide the culture around AI in response to those advances.

If we don't start talking about what these tools can actually do, and how we can use them to create a more just and equitable society, we will have once again allowed the culture and use of a technology to be defined by those who will benefit from its ability to strip away the humanity of others.

I hope you'll read the piece, but if you'd like the punch line, its this: trying to completely reject an AI future is as privileged a position as blindly running towards it. Denying the reality of people whose lives are already inextricably entwined with AI makes us complicit with oppression.

This is probably the most anxiety I've ever felt hitting publish on a thing. I've kept my love of AI somewhat hidden in the shadows because of how fervently its rejected in a lot of the leftist circles I swim in. But the more I used it, the more conversations I realized just weren't happening.

Virginia Woolf, Godzilla, and the Magic of AI The story of how Virginia Woolf's Orlando helped me understand the feelings I felt when I used ChatGPT to make a database of Godzilla movies.

*deep breath*

I'm starting a newsletter about AI.

I really, really like AI.

But we need more nuanced conversations about it. We need to engage both the opportunities it presents and the oppression it can enable. And we need to do it now.

likemagicai.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

I dunno I've never had this problem🤷 /s

boygenius' Cool About It is a perfect song. Three verses with an integrated and evolving chorus. Perfect accompaniment and instrumental development. The expansion and contraction of the mix becoming more dynamic in both directions across each verse. Exactly three minutes. Queer. It's just so good.

“You can kill them in the classic style. Now you, parlez vous francais” is an all timer couplet. Shakespeare could never.

the head chef of the vatican looking at the new pizza recipe: wait how much sauce???

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

I'm so excited for this season. An immediate top-ten episode out of the gate. And the moments that veered into Nathan Fielder style comedy were perfection.

I'm celebrating trans day of enjoying computers and learning Javascript!

"$25 for the French Edna Mode" is a phrase I just posted in a Discord chat.

this fragile world A photography portfolio by T.H. Ponders, focused on people, places, stories and vibes.

I did it!🎉

I wanted to up my coding skills, so I rebuilt my entire photography website from scratch.

HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a custom mini CMS to boot.

I care a lot about my philosophy on photography and wanted a space that reflected those values. I hope you enjoy!

Right! I also kinda love how the damage to the film occasionally works with the images. Especially at 8:57. I wish it were undamaged, obviously. But there's something about a shot from over 100 years ago taking on new meaning because of the passage of time.

YouTube video by Mabel Normand Mabel Normand Film #129: Won in a Cupboard (1914)

I was doing a deep dive into silent film actors and found this actress and director named Mabel Normand. She was a part of Keystone in 1916 and 17. Most of the works she directed are lost, but this one was rediscovered. It's one of my favorite things ever put to film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpKm...

Got to direct some voice actors today, and boy have I missed it. I love working with actors so much.

Arden Season 3 has finally hit the booth and we've got a good one for ya!

Just made a whole Chrome extension in an afternoon. The future is wild.

YouTube video by Justin Trudeau Why Won’t Pierre Poilievre Get His Security Clearance?

A great explainer by soon to be former Canadian Prime Minister, and YouTubes newest video essayist, Justin Trudeau, on why Pierre Poilievre is refusing to get his security clearance. youtu.be/RvVDFdvaO3Y?...