Nathan Moody

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For the first time, I'm reading the Robert E. Howard CONAN short stories. Inventive? Absolutely. Sociopolitically problematic? OF COURSE THEY ARE. But I think what it really suffers from is an abhorrent infestation of unnecessary ADVERBS. I mean, towers that, ahem..."LOOM BLACKLY" 😂 🤢

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Love how Netflix didn’t have the money to pay streaming residuals during the strikes, but now can spend $72bn for WB.

Nice to see you!

I’m pretty sure that, via Discord DMs, an LLM tried to convince me to buy one of their artworks because they’re a starving artist whose work isn’t selling because of LLMs.

If that didn’t just happen, then the next generation needs to learn to not write like an LLM.

Worst timeline ever.

"I am always fascinated by areas of science that reveal things we may never be able to experience for ourselves, whether due to distance, orders of magnitude, or perception." —Ariel Waldman Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV

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Oooooooh this aesthetic hits me where I live. Gimme those alternative 1985 future control surfaces.

Right channel

Left channel

That 100% counts. And is well deserved.

Ooooh

Sure has. The AQI’s been pretty bad too. Folks with wood burning stoves near me are ignoring the Spare the Air days!

Haven’t seen the sun in four days. Marine layer and radiation fog at the same time, cold and clammy. Late fall in Northern California can get dreary! At least things are turning lush green again.

That is straight up amazing.

A5 is the only true page size

Do you want a Butlerian jihad? Because this is how you get a Butlerian jihad.

The decisions and situations the director/DP sets up are so interesting. Shot to shot it caroms from verité to staged/rehearsed. A fascinating document that really plays with those narrative tensions.

Viktor

Saw this last night. Unbelievably interesting film with some of the boldest sound work by some of the best: Nicholas Becker, @lydrummet.bsky.social, Tim Nielsen, and Heikki Kossi. Limited theatrical release so if you can hear this in Atmos, OMG please do. impactpartnersfilm.com/film/viktor/

Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing 512 GB, 1TB, and 2TB models affected.

Another unexpected consequence of the LLM bubble: It's getting harder for consumers, especially those of us that are media professionals, to find high-capacity memory cards and drives. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

That view is one of the things that keeps me doing it.

Fun fact: There's a super aggressive tide race just ahead of us, happens on strong ebb currents. To avoid it (though it's stupid fun to bash through), we say "aim for the Perfume Factory," which is a sewage treatment plant on that shore.

The last three of 20 nautical miles of sea kayaking, back towards the Golden Gate Bridge. Didn’t train up for it and now everything hurts. Rookie maneuver. Think I’d know better. (That’s me on the left in the orange boat.)

UGGGH, that sick feeling when hearing fully phase-decorrelated stereo SFX in a library after hours of previewing mono sounds. Blergh. It's like an icepick in the stomach. 🤢🤮

Beyond epic.

Wild, I couldn't make the positive and negative spaces out at first. Yikes.

What am I even looking at..?!?!?

D’oh. At least it still works after a one-meter drop.

Hah, yeah, that sounds like the East Coast. 😉

It’s a two-cat Monday.

Well THAT’S cozy as heck!

It’s a “spin the entire Def Jux back catalogue” sort of day.