this is a creator that i constantly find myself replaying their videos when iām bored or i just need something playing in the background when iām doing something faves from foldingideas: āthe future is a dead mallā or āthis is financial adviceā
Iāve recommended this channel before but it still is one of my top favourite channels to listen to in the background when Iām folding/putting away laundry
I guess we should never say never (like maybe generative AI will be able to make all sorts of videos in a couple years but let's not think too much about that :P), but I'm glad to reduce my intake of easily generated content like street interviews, gaming streams (which I was never into anyway), or like "20 locations you're NEVER allowed to go" listicle videos, and to increase my intake of stuff like "watch me renovate this dilapidated house over 40 weeks", "I traveled from San Francisco to Seattle using only public transit: Day 1", "here's the life story of this person whose grave I found in a forgotten cemetery in the middle of the woods in rhode island", etc. I love a really longform video where I'm like "there's no way to get AI to make this for you"
(video examples are from Tia Weston, AdamDoesNotExist, and Dime Store Adventures, respectively!)
libraries are genuinely so cool like can you imagine the government creating public libraries today?????? no! they fucking hate the idea of public goods and services that people can access for FREE
iāve always been a night owl for as long as i can remember and, even more so, decidedly NOT a morning person. recently though, i have started going to bed early (8:30-9:30PM) and it has made so much of a difference: i feel much more rested when i wake up and donāt struggle to wake up at a decent time. i actually tend to naturally wake up at 6:30-7AM nowāeven on the weekendāwhen that would have been UNHEARD OF for most of my life.
itās a struggle to try and stay positive (read: not fall into a deep pit of despair and general hopelessness) throughout all of this. i work in a public library in a purple state that has thankfully yet to see massive pushback from organizations trying to censor resources in public and school libraries, but that may change at any moment. i donāt know if the federal funding freeze will have any impact on public library funding and what that means for me going forward. more importantly, what that would mean for the people who rely on the library. itās too easy to get sucked into just⦠general malaise about our current situation. it certainly doesnāt help that iāve been sick with the flu for the past three days either. i recently read anxious people by fredrik backman for a book club i facilitate at my library and thereās a passage towards the end that i havenāt been able to stop thinking about since i finished the book: āThe truth. There isn't any. All we've managed to find out about the boundaries of the universe is that it hasn't got any, and all we know about God is that we don't know anything. So the only thing a mom who was a priest demanded of her family was simple: that we do our best.
We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow.ā