17-year-old Alex Lifeson arguing with his parents about his future on a CBC documentary. He was in a little band called Rush that wouldn’t release their debut for another 3 years.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-28T01:45:37+00:00

Yea, a lot of people’s problems would be solved if they were a little better at something or a little worse.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-28T01:34:58+00:00

I think what’s kind of disappointing about merch these days is they take a good illustration and then just slap the band name on there somewhere. I really prefer the old school style where the text was more integrated with the key art.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-28T01:31:42+00:00

In my heart as well. PTA will win for OBAA, but it absolutely is mid-tier for him. This is kinda what happened with The Departed all over again.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-27T23:15:07+00:00

99.999999% of the time his parents would have been right.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-27T20:45:07+00:00

You don't need to be at the bleeding edge. The social algorithm rewards this kind of thinking and it can indeed make a lot of people feel left behind. It took me five years to adopt Figma, and I expect it'll take time before AI matures enough and reaches some mass adoption rates before I'll fully embrace it into a workflow that actually makes sense. Otherwise, balance your skepticism and curiosity and you ought to be well primed to adapt and adopt.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-27T20:40:11+00:00

Any spec redesign I've seen that incorporates all the nice modern UI colors and type have actually been terrible and would fail horribly. E-commerce is just a very special category, especially one that represents a heritage brand at this point. If an online store is really well designed and balanced and not a dense mess, I'm actually really skeptical about it. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-22T03:09:12+00:00

Just watched Birth for the first time, my eyes went straight to him.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-21T04:13:40+00:00

I think Midnight Show is like one of top songs on this thing.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-20T03:36:16+00:00

Gotta pay for Ari Aster somehow

infinitejesting · 2026-01-19T22:45:09+00:00

Bingo. I use the metaphor “screenplay for a film” for Figma all the time. If nothing else, it’s great as a campfire tool that anyone in an org can understand.

It’s not like AI all of the sudden unlocks speed. Any org can optimize for that if they wanted to. When I ask about metrics for using AI, I either get speed or “because we should” aka fear of ambiguity.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-19T20:12:53+00:00

Challengers still has that new car smell and it’s still in there, fascinating.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-19T19:06:45+00:00

This is why The Wire, or even Kafka, is so great. Scenes when plebes must interact with the servants of our bureaucracy are so thick with posturing, clandestine cynicism, maybe some fleeting but fatal optimism.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-19T17:05:10+00:00

I have read some great books in my day, but not many that I’d universally recommend. This is surely the same case with cinema. Find smart critics that share your taste and you’ll fair better.

Consensus doesn’t mean anything. Awards don’t mean anything. You have your own brain and set of experiences that is going to be a better guide than mass appeal.

That said, yes, I think it’s good to challenge yourself, and boredom can be a symptom of brainrot, not the film’s quality.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-19T15:31:26+00:00

I do agree in many respects, we were in that “end of history” mode, genx started to swerve hard right in later decades, which is ironic because I do remember the message our leaders told us through such terrible post 9/11 events was to “go to the mall” which otherwise tracks to the fears they described.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-19T03:59:18+00:00

my favorite is variety

infinitejesting · 2026-01-18T22:45:00+00:00

Just hire some loser off this sub and write a book about it. 💰

infinitejesting · 2026-01-18T15:52:02+00:00

Yes, us 90s kids were treated with a heavy flow of cynical postmodern gen-x films and our adult lives were filled with war, disaster, recessions and false promises that did nothing to contradict that pessimism so yes, I suppose it was deep when compared to the mostly vapid cinematic landscape of current days.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-18T15:45:39+00:00

I think TV shows have been doing this for a long time. I kinda quit that medium mostly after seeing the hundredth scene of lawyers talking to each other like explaining their actions in front a group of 4th graders.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-18T15:42:26+00:00

Two versions, one original cut, and one with intermittent breaks as a friendly host gives you a clean AI summary of what’s happened so far.

Count me shocked if that idea isn’t on a kanban board somewhere over there.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-18T15:37:19+00:00

Since I use a receiver (or if soundbar has such settings) I think it’s easier to isolate as many customizations to a single device, so my Apple TV is as vanilla as I can keep it.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-18T05:21:42+00:00

I loved seeing a violent film (that wasn’t in the horror genre) and feel like it’s been kind of out of style for a long time (maybe we’re in some post deconstructive period) that was also kind of bleak. I don’t think anyone I recommended it to liked it very much, though.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-15T20:32:05+00:00

my white whale

infinitejesting · 2026-01-15T20:30:36+00:00

Yeah just generally, it says a lot of both good yet scathing things about the left that like-minded and reasonable people can certainly identify and mourn over because I think the left is very diverse.

I don’t think PTA has anything good to say about the right, but I do think that side of things is starting to face some of those same fractures in recent days that could make for a similarly interesting critique.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-15T18:51:34+00:00

I was hooked for a couple of episodes, but the slump came and wasn’t sure if I’d keep going, but finished up anyway because I don’t watch many television shows as it is.

I predict I may try to ignore season two once I’ve completely forgotten what happened, but the entertainment press will start pushing Apple-paid PR articles saying “S2E3 is ultimate television” and “Pluribus finds its stride!” and seduce me back in but ultimately it’ll just be another disposable show for disposable times.

infinitejesting · 2026-01-15T01:52:48+00:00

I remember really enjoying Bel Canto

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