Nicholas Caesar (video essaying air breather)

24 Apr

"Wait, AI Girlfriends are a scam?" "Always have been." Check out my exhaustive comparison of 2013's Her, a film about AI companionship and love in the age of artificial intelligence, against our current, soft-dystopian, AI-driven reality on YouTube: youtu.be/IrRM-uIIK04

We’re one minute into the new season of Scrubs and we’ve already got a Tom Petty song. So this season’s off to a good start.

10 Sept

Life update re: apartment hunting

7 June

Walked past an arcade that’s just full on using AI art (featuring a bunch of copyrighted characters nonetheless) to promote itself as it’s being built. What are we even doing??? Are we pretending that you can’t literally get an Envato subscription or use Pexels for generic art of an arcade???

26 May

You just know time square is going nuts right now.

25 May

Getting an error code on the Netflix account settings page when I just want to go cancel a subscription I forgot I had from a few months ago is so great and totally doesn't feel like a dark pattern (not saying it is one, but it's hard not to feel like it is in the heat of the moment lol)

20 May

The sigh I just sighed when I opened YouTube and was greeted to multiple AI generated video essays (narration, title, description, seemingly the script, etc). (sigh)

10 May

Slowly realizing how petty I am. I got a comment on a video last year where someone seemed angry that I used Nicole Kidman on the thumbnail and implied that I’m obsessed with her. In reality, she is one of my favorite actors, but I also use her on thumbnails because she represents the—

10 May

movie going experience to a lot of people besides of the AMC video, and because I’ve used her in previous thumbnails that have been attached to successful videos. It’s shorthand for “this video essay is about the Mets of watching movies”

10 May

Anyway, that’s all to say that my next video (out in August-October probably) will most likely feature her on the thumbnail 🤪🤪🤪

5 May

The hold Apple has on me is wild. Here I am, the proud owner of an M1 Max Macbook Pro, and I'm still eying the Neo as a secondary machine. Why? Because I like working from my couch/outside but don't want to unplug all of my external SSDs from my workhorse whenever I want to do it. (cont)

5 May

My solution? Macbook Neo w/Parsec to tap into my Pro when I want to edit or do anything intensive (then, if that works, just buy a Mac Studio when it's time to retire the M1 Max).

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

25 Apr

Very tempted to write and film a short review of Michael without having seen it and have that be the entire point of the post. That it's so formulaic that I can literally guess how it will turn out, then go see the movie (for free thanks to A-List) and see how right or wrong I was.

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Gillian Branstetter

22 Apr

Obsessed with the idea that daily social media use is to Millennials what leaded gasoline and cigarettes were to boomers

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com

Overall social media use is also declining. Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all. A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

youtu.beHer (2013) and the Great AI Girlfriend ScamYouTube video by NicheCaesar

22 Apr

Bumping my latest upload since it's slated to be my lowest performer in a year by a pretty sizeable margin! Come check it out if you haven't already, and please signal boost if you enjoyed it. It discusses the themes of 2013's Her and compares the film to contemporary AI.

Nicholas Caesar (video essaying air breather)@nichecaesar.bsky.social

New video! Get it while it's hot! It's all about 2013's Her, and whether the future it painted of AI girlfriends and artificial intelligence companions was actually prophetic, or if it has since become a promise used to pilfer our data. youtu.be/IrRM-uIIK04

21 Apr

I, for one, am shocked that the Michael Jackson biopic is bad. Biopics have such a great track record!

youtu.beHer (2013) and the Great AI Girlfriend ScamYouTube video by NicheCaesar

19 Apr

17 Apr

Getting emails from my doctors office at 1 am on a Thursday is so weird. Like, it can only really take on one of two tones. Tone 1: lol u up? You should schedule a yearly check up 👀 Tone 2: YOU!!! GOBLIN MAN!!! I KNOW YOU DONT SLEEP ENOUGH. CHECK UR HEART HAHAHAHA.

11 Apr

Recently thought I was being clever by bringing a second chair to my workspace so that I wouldn’t have to pull my main one out of the corner it’s in to sit at my other desk. Did not account for Capri assuming I was inviting her to have her own chair to sit on while I work. Dying of happiness.

10 Apr

Hoping the next video will be out next Sunday! Anyway, you know what grinds my gears? Everyone in the AI video space aggressively getting off on trying to make people that just want to do good, honest work redundant 🫩 Video editors want $500 per video, Claude can do it for free — a real thing I-

10 Apr

just read on a promoted post. And idk. I’m exhausted by it. Sorry I want to make that 3-4 times a week so that I can *checks notes* Afford to pay for medical insurance, life saving medication, food, shelter and a mode of transportation to use after logging off for the weekend and needing to-

10 Apr

seclude myself on a hiking trail and primal scream a week of being told I don’t deserve to make a living wage 🤪🤪🤪

8 Apr

Thinking of including submissions from other film enthusiasts with a web presence (YouTube channel, blog, general creatives, etc) in a video I'm writing, or at least on social posts about it. If that sounds like something you'd be down to participate in, throw a DM my way or lmk in the comments!

8 Apr

You don't need anything to crazy to participate, but you would need to be on camera or at least be able to provide audio for it!

30 Mar

"As a lifelong Star Trek fan" *proceeds to complain about the thing that has made the series compelling for the past 60 years and stand out when compared to, say, Flash Gordon.

Asher HELLbein@asherelbein.bsky.social

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

Assuming things keep going the way they're going for me, the glass half full development in my life is that I may have more time to make stuff again. Not necessarily videos (but probably those), but also weird ideas I've had for months. Like this one idea I had to make a custom deck of cards—

where every card is an inspirational quote from a movie/philosophical quote/self-help thing for you to pick at random when you need a pick-me-up. Sorta like Brian Eno's oblique strategy cards but less creatively oriented and more just good advice.

First one of the week, but man does it need to be said.

Nicholas Caesar (video essaying air breather)@nichecaesar.bsky.social

Every week, at least once and without fail, I am subjected to something that leaves me sitting at my desk and thinking about the infamous "Best of times, blurst of times," bit from The Simpsons. In it, Mr. Burns believes that having 1,000 monkeys hard at work on a book will output—

Scrubs S10 has some of the strangest editing I’ve seen in a comedy in ages. Maybe it’s just the state of network TV compared to when the original ran, but the pacing is all over the place. It’s like listening to a podcast where someone ran automatic silence removal.

The show has a lot of decent ideas so far, but none of them have time to breathe. Tonight’s episode even had Sarah Chalke deliver a pretty solid zinger completely off camera, which was *weird*. I’m all for J and L cuts, but punchlines should probably be on screen so we can see the delivery!

@baddestmamajama.bsky.social

I also have some qualms with the writing too. This episode had a great line about nurses and how important they are they felt like it came out of nowhere. Like, the nurses didn’t do anything in this episode and the series’ main nurse Carla wasn’t even in the episode lol

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Jessica Ellis

16 Mar

A reminder that when someone posts about their illness, unless their posts contain an explicit request for advice, you’re not being asked to help diagnose or treat them, you’re being asked to listen to them.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

The naïveté of me writing about being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in this piece and not realising I would soon get emails from anti-vaxxers telling me that it's all because of the Covid jabs and autoimmune diseases don't really exist. www.tom-cox.com/an-in-depth-...

tom-cox.comAn In-Depth History Of The RailwaysThis is not actually an in-depth history of the railways. As you might have noticed if you spend any time on my website, I have a self-sabotaging habit of often giving my pieces thoroughly unclickbait...

17 Mar

The news today: Meta may fire a huge chunk of its staff in part because of AI the AI:

15 Mar

Maybe a month or so away from releasing my next video and, man, it's already one of my favorites to date. It'll be a ~1hr long analysis of Her, and a comparison of the version of the 2020s it imagined to the one we currently live in.

12 Mar

Another twice in a week vibe. May break three by the end of the day at this rate!

Nicholas Caesar (video essaying air breather)@nichecaesar.bsky.social

12 Mar

Just saw a completely AI generated ad for Optimum Internet and got physically sick. It wasn’t even like a new model that looks relatively realistic. It was the really uncanny one from a year or two ago. Like I hate the fact that it got used at all, but were they even *trying* not to look cheap???

11 Mar

Obligatory, with the added aside of “Man, the lengths people will go to protect a few dollars from being given to people happy to put in a good days work for it”

Nicholas Caesar (video essaying air breather)@nichecaesar.bsky.social

6 Mar

Three times in a single week!!! We're halfway to the number of rings Michael Jordan got

Nicholas Caesar (video essaying air breather)@nichecaesar.bsky.social

5 Mar

Twice in a week 🤪

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@thatwitchmia.bsky.social

4 Mar

Made it to Wednesday this time

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Amelia Emberwing

1 Mar

anyway, gonna go eat mac and cheese right out of the pot about it.

darkhorizons.comSony Confirms Spider-Man Spin-Offs RebootSony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman has confirmed that the studio will reboot its cinematic universe of “Spider-Man” spin-offs following a number of box-office flops. Appearing on Matt Belloni’s The Town po...

26 Feb

It’s like my grandma once said: if people didn’t like what you made the first time, just keep burning fistfuls of cash in order to try and try again. Or something like that? Idk. Listening is hard. She kept burning fist loads of cash on flying out to visit me to keep repeating something or other.

Mobius Stripper@mobiusstripper.bsky.social

This is great news! We will all DEFINITELY go see Morbius in the theaters this time, we promise. www.darkhorizons.com/sony-confirm...