wilt | passionmore, interstellar, high school edition, your mind needs chaos, uncanny fish, alternate timeline bop
"All I can control is what I create each day."
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Paramore covers Drake’s Passionfruit and it’s as good as it sounds.
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transcendence + big high school energy. (The mistakes are charming, like college football).
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“According to the framework if you have persistent error, you can resolve that error a couple of different ways:
One way is that you can update the model to better fit the world. So you run into some new evidence...model gets updated.
Or you can change the world to better fit the model.
Let’s say you believe the earth is flat and then you go to Thanksgiving Dinner and somebody in your family says:
‘That’s stupid. You should believe something else.’
You can either be like:
‘Oh, maybe you’re right. That is good counterevidence and I’m gonna update.’
Or you can behave in the world in a way that gets back to status quo.
In that example what you’re doing, you’re leaving, you’re cutting off your family, you’re leaving the Thanksgiving dinner and you’re getting back to your echo chamber, you’re getting back to the filter bubble where you’re now going to be exposed to the evidence that aligns with your prediction.
Conspiracy theory thinking falls so naturally from this kind of system because this system, remember:
If you’re putting yourself in a situation where you’re constantly awash with bad evidence, it will inevitably adjust the generative model, which is just to say it will inevitably change the reality you live in.
And so, where you’re getting your information from, the people you’re spending time with, the information that you’re exposing yourself to, that it is all having a direct and serious impact on your reality generating mechanisms.”
- Mark Miller, Ph.D. Your Mind Needs Chaos, The Gray Area, Vox
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What’s surreal is how much these eyes seem AI generated.
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In an alternate timeline we’d still be singing this bop.
From Cole Haddon’s 5AM StoryTalk:
CHRISTINE BOYLAN (showrunner, “AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER”)
Up until very very recently, I viewed all rejection (and I mean all — from like, a barista getting my name wrong to a network buying and then passing on a show I’ve created) as, “I’m not right, my work is not good, I’m not forceful, smart etcetera, etcetera…good enough.” I would beat myself up terrible. But after, let’s call them, “recent events,” or even just to say “times being what they are,” I’m looking around at the overwhelmed human beings making these decisions as overtaxed, overstressed, upset individuals just as harried as I am, and without even the release of creative expression that I have. “Nobody knows anything” is still true - even more so now.
So, I’m a little more relaxed about rejection in the last couple of years. “It’s not going to work at this place at this time” or “this person is terrified for their job and can’t take a chance on anything that isn’t exactly what they interpret as their mandate from their boss, which was also filtered through some kind of vague string of wine-soaked buzzwords at the corporate retreat.”
The world is absurd, what we do is insane. And our creative partners are under the thumb of greedy, weird CEOs who don’t care about whether a show or a movie or a play is effective or not. So, yes, I get upset and frustrated at being “ahead of my time” with a piece or not being able to sell something that would work great because I’m not one of the three dudes that network feels safe buying from — but what am I going to do? I’d suffer just as much rejection in any other field, feel just as much weltschmerz; at least this way I get to create worlds and scenes and lines and sometimes put on plays and run TV shows and very rarely inspire someone in the audience. All I can control is what I create each day. The rest is not up to me.
not much on this month’s playlist. I’m still listening to the songs from last month, this bell hooks reading playlist and forests.
P.S. I miss you, Barb.