This is quite possibly the first YouTube video essay filmed in Canada to show a man actually killing Mr Beast

if I had a time machine:

❌ visit Baby Hitler
❌ throw a lifejacket to Percy Shelley
✅ get Henri Lefebvre an editor

(please ignore the stray apostrophe)

Is Project Hail Mary a Victim of MCU-ification? YouTube video by The Pillar of Garbage PoGcast

New PoGcast episode! In this one’s we’re talking about big tech / social media changes, when TV revivals don’t suck, and Spaceship Movie discourse.

youtu.be/MQD2oFV5mcQ?...

this one’s kinda low-hanging fruit but… sometimes you gotta pick the low-hanging fruit, right?

this was a late night drop so I forgot to post it here! oops!

I Was Right About Sora. YouTube video by Pillar of Garbage

youtu.be/M0T4yXI5t5g?...

I Was Right About Sora. YouTube video by Pillar of Garbage

@pillarofgarbage.bsky.social | Pillar of Garbage: "I Was Right About Sora." | #Disney #OpenAI #VideoGeneration #GenAI #LLMs #Slop #Copyright #PlagiarismLaundering
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0T4...

The March WIPdate | Pillar of Garbage Get more from Pillar of Garbage on Patreon

ICYMI: free update post over on my patreon talking about the next few projects I got coming up 👇

www.patreon.com/posts/154394...

I will not, but the new video contains plenty in the way of quotes/summaries from relevant points in the old one

www.patreon.com/posts/154338...

early / ad-free version of my next upload here: I Was Right About Sora

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954.

Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

I have seen countless laws proposed (or passed) that aim to counter addictive algorithmic feeds by, bizarrely, demanding a database of age verification of all users

what I haven't seen is a law that requires social media companies to offer users a choice of which (if any) algorithm their feeds use

Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

OpenAI news:

1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing.

2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely.

Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

I would also like to get in on this particular ‘I told you so’!

YouTube's Eternal Suck Spiral YouTube video by Kyle the Scott

It's your favourite genre of video, and mine! YouTuber Complains about YouTube: youtu.be/xNgFJdxLZSI

#YouTube

(How) Daredevil Is Still Good YouTube video by Pillar of Garbage

If anyone needs a distraction from Today, here's a video about the Daredevil show.

Is it good? I think so! Here's why.

youtu.be/QRd4E0tFkac?...

Thumbnail for my video with text 'New Feature: Generate Misinformation' being clicked on by cursor above blurred background of YouTube videos.

This month's exclusive video is out now (alongside an early, ad-free release of the next main vid, same link) - we're looking into YouTube's 'Ask Studio' AI and its various flaws + limitations.

www.patreon.com/posts/februa...

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.

Lower bills.

Protect the NHS.

Rebuild public services.

Vote Hannah Spencer & the Green Party.

Once again: trans rights was & is the pillar holding up the whole of the rest of liberal democracy & the battle to defend trans rights was & is nothing less than battle whose outcome determines the difference between a free, open & tolerant society & a fascist society

Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes The DNC's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided to hide it from the public.

Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

Nice. I'm in the new Pillar of Garbage video. I'm not the main one. That's the Pillar of Garbage person. But I'm a second other voice, later.

Thanks to @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social for voice lines, and @tsdtalks.bsky.social + @hizzyhay.bsky.social for script notes!

What even is 'MCU-ification'? YouTube video by Pillar of Garbage

What even is 'MCU-ification'?
youtu.be/dfD1SsYAR7M

Boom. You looking for this?

www.patreon.com/posts/150770...

this ought to be out for supporters tomorrow & on YouTube sometime in the following week

a frame from the Marvel Studios intro

A frame from Stranger Things 5 showing 11, Kali, and Hopper

A chart showing falling GDP since 1970

an image of media theorist Marshall McLuhan

next video essay, out of context:

Change-Makers: Anarchist (/Activist) Calisthenics YouTube video by Afterthoughts

"One day, you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay ‘in shape’ so that when the big day comes, you'll be ready."
– James C Scott

youtu.be/zavx4Obq1OI

@atunshei.bsky.social - "Checkmate, Lincolnites!" or any of his videos are great for leftist American history lessons. Also great movies.

@pillarofgarbage.bsky.social - great media analysis all around

@fdsignifier.bsky.social - Black Leftist theory, hip hop history, media analysis, the works