Hey folks! I started a second channel. You can see my first video, which is the full interview from my AI companion video. I thought the conversation was fascinating and I already had the video done for Patreon, so why not, right?
Please go subscribe! I will be posting other content over there, like livestream clips, shorter videos about news and tech and such, and interviews.
PS. If you have any suggestions of what to call this thing, I am all ears. I went with "The Story Continues" but I'm not totally in love with that name.
"The lawn is the quintessential manifestation of our anthropocentric selfishness—its monotonous, exclusionary flatness is a testament to the human egoism that is relentlessly impoverishing our world. Let’s reeducate ourselves. Let’s rethink the boundaries and borders, the ins and outs, the now and forever. Let’s free the land. Let’s give every green space the chance to engage in continuous and unpredictable polyamorous encounters and exchanges, shared growth, endless enrichment, and earthly coevolution grounded in compromise, collaboration, and reciprocity. Let’s build good soil, together, so that the earth can begin to think again"
Great (and very skinny) book about the ideologies & histories of the lawn, from our front yards to highway medians to parks and golf courses. Also touches on the original grasslands that covered much of the US, the methods indigenous peoples would use to steward these lands. I will be interviewing the author in the coming weeks.
My next video will be about the rise of Meta AI glasses (aka pervert glasses), and the broader context of wearable tech, mass surveillance, and genAI that they roll into one device. I will be interviewing Chris Gilliard, who coined the term "luxury surveillance," in a few weeks for the video, but for now, enjoy part 1 in written form. open.substack.com/pub/windblowncuriosities/p/how-s…
doing some research for a potential documentary film. This talk is incredible; it's just an hour long rant shitting on modern landscaping and horticulture and the deranged, phony way we go about shaping nature. Love it. This is the guy from @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt fyi (also a great channel).
The NSFW AI girlfriend platform now wants me to do a dedicated review of their product. Ok!
I think your product is a disgusting, misogynistic piece of garbage designed to prey on lonely men and cater to their desire to feel power. You are everything wrong with the world and a depressing symbol of the time we live in, where insecure men are feeling threatened by the declining patriarchal power structure and lashing out with new and creative methods of dehumanizing women. It's pathetic, and you should reevaluate your life choices that brought you to work for this company.
That'll be $1500, thanks!!
EDIT: This has certainly sparked some discussion! Allow me to elaborate.
This post was first and foremost directed towards the company who created this product, not the men who use them, although I did have some choice words for these users which may have come across as harsh and deriding.
The men who use these products may not be misogynists. They ARE engaging in misogynistic behavior, and that shouldn't be sugar coated. How else do you explain that you can literally make "her" do whatever you want without the ability to say no. That is misogynistic design and the company and the people using it are engaging in misogynistic behavior. But doing a certain thing doesn't define who you are as a person. I've done misogynistic things in the past because I didn't know any better, and more than likely that's what's happening for most users.
However, I think there is a subconscious desire for power that is being very nefariously spoken to here, and that's something deeply engrained in men by our culture. So, I'm not trying to ridicule the users of these products as much as call out how patriarchy expresses itself without our knowing. There is room for empathy, but we also have to acknowledge what these products are really about, which IMO is POWER.
But yes, the company is the 1000% the true predator here.
Just caught the trailer for this doc and wow, it's pretty much my AI & Eugenics video, but much higher production value and tons of interviews with experts. It also delves into the IQ obsession in Silicon Valley, which I didn't get much into in my video. Can't wait to see it and perhaps a follow up video will be needed.
Next video is finished, and will be coming to you in 4K for the first time EVER! Thanks to my latest two videos racking up a combined 375k views, I was able to buy some new equipment, including a camera that's actually built for video.
We've been hearing a lot about Trump's brutal crackdown on immigrants, and the vicious cruelty that has come to define his foreign policy. But what often gets lost in these in-the-moment reactions is an understanding that the tools, infrastructures, and policies created by mostly Democrats laid the foundation for Trumpism and his “cruelty is the point” politics.
This video examines this recent history, from Clinton creating mass incarceration as we know it, to Bush's War on Terror, to Obama's border "security" and immigrant detention/deportation campaign. Understanding this history, I hope, will help us contextualize just why establishment Democrats are rolling over and submitting to the will of an autocrat.
The Stories We Tell w/ Ryan Hodes
Hey folks! I started a second channel. You can see my first video, which is the full interview from my AI companion video. I thought the conversation was fascinating and I already had the video done for Patreon, so why not, right?
Please go subscribe! I will be posting other content over there, like livestream clips, shorter videos about news and tech and such, and interviews.
PS. If you have any suggestions of what to call this thing, I am all ears. I went with "The Story Continues" but I'm not totally in love with that name.
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"The lawn is the quintessential manifestation of our anthropocentric selfishness—its monotonous, exclusionary flatness is a testament to the human egoism that is relentlessly impoverishing our world. Let’s reeducate ourselves. Let’s rethink the boundaries and borders, the ins and outs, the now and forever. Let’s free the land. Let’s give every green space the chance to engage in continuous and unpredictable polyamorous encounters and exchanges, shared growth, endless enrichment, and earthly coevolution grounded in compromise, collaboration, and reciprocity. Let’s build good soil, together, so that the earth can begin to think again"
Great (and very skinny) book about the ideologies & histories of the lawn, from our front yards to highway medians to parks and golf courses. Also touches on the original grasslands that covered much of the US, the methods indigenous peoples would use to steward these lands. I will be interviewing the author in the coming weeks.
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My next video will be about the rise of Meta AI glasses (aka pervert glasses), and the broader context of wearable tech, mass surveillance, and genAI that they roll into one device. I will be interviewing Chris Gilliard, who coined the term "luxury surveillance," in a few weeks for the video, but for now, enjoy part 1 in written form.
open.substack.com/pub/windblowncuriosities/p/how-s…
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doing some research for a potential documentary film. This talk is incredible; it's just an hour long rant shitting on modern landscaping and horticulture and the deranged, phony way we go about shaping nature. Love it. This is the guy from @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt fyi (also a great channel).
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The NSFW AI girlfriend platform now wants me to do a dedicated review of their product. Ok!
I think your product is a disgusting, misogynistic piece of garbage designed to prey on lonely men and cater to their desire to feel power. You are everything wrong with the world and a depressing symbol of the time we live in, where insecure men are feeling threatened by the declining patriarchal power structure and lashing out with new and creative methods of dehumanizing women. It's pathetic, and you should reevaluate your life choices that brought you to work for this company.
That'll be $1500, thanks!!
EDIT: This has certainly sparked some discussion! Allow me to elaborate.
This post was first and foremost directed towards the company who created this product, not the men who use them, although I did have some choice words for these users which may have come across as harsh and deriding.
The men who use these products may not be misogynists. They ARE engaging in misogynistic behavior, and that shouldn't be sugar coated. How else do you explain that you can literally make "her" do whatever you want without the ability to say no. That is misogynistic design and the company and the people using it are engaging in misogynistic behavior. But doing a certain thing doesn't define who you are as a person. I've done misogynistic things in the past because I didn't know any better, and more than likely that's what's happening for most users.
However, I think there is a subconscious desire for power that is being very nefariously spoken to here, and that's something deeply engrained in men by our culture. So, I'm not trying to ridicule the users of these products as much as call out how patriarchy expresses itself without our knowing. There is room for empathy, but we also have to acknowledge what these products are really about, which IMO is POWER.
But yes, the company is the 1000% the true predator here.
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The first slop war. What a time to be alive
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Found an essay that feels like it was literally written for me while researching an upcoming video. Yet to finish but already bro is spitting.
parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia08/parrhesia08_parkh…
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Just caught the trailer for this doc and wow, it's pretty much my AI & Eugenics video, but much higher production value and tons of interviews with experts. It also delves into the IQ obsession in Silicon Valley, which I didn't get much into in my video. Can't wait to see it and perhaps a follow up video will be needed.
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Lol. Lmao, even.
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Next video is finished, and will be coming to you in 4K for the first time EVER! Thanks to my latest two videos racking up a combined 375k views, I was able to buy some new equipment, including a camera that's actually built for video.
We've been hearing a lot about Trump's brutal crackdown on immigrants, and the vicious cruelty that has come to define his foreign policy. But what often gets lost in these in-the-moment reactions is an understanding that the tools, infrastructures, and policies created by mostly Democrats laid the foundation for Trumpism and his “cruelty is the point” politics.
This video examines this recent history, from Clinton creating mass incarceration as we know it, to Bush's War on Terror, to Obama's border "security" and immigrant detention/deportation campaign. Understanding this history, I hope, will help us contextualize just why establishment Democrats are rolling over and submitting to the will of an autocrat.
Watch "The Decades-Long War On Immigrants" on Patreon now www.patreon.com/posts/decades-long-war-153543945?u…
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