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Neglectful Muse
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A free newsletter about film, media, and the contexts in which we create and engage with art

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They paywalled the devil
Text With Jesus offers users an interactive experience with a religious deity. In other words, users can text questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan.)
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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A short, more personal essay I wrote about building the Lego Game Boy set

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Image of a completed Lego Game Boy laying on top of a wood table
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Poster for the 2024 move Presence
September 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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This, really, is the bottom line on why using generative AI to produce images or writing will never bring the respect AI boosters desire. There is nothing to speak to, and nothing to admire

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I am far more impressed with someone who spends hours to make a badly drawn illustration of a house than I am with someone who had an image generator spit out a theoretically better looking one, because the former actually tried something. The former made an attempt, and made decisions, and if I asked them about it they could tell me why they used this color or added that window. They may even be able to tell me what they would do differently next time to make it look nicer. I could have a conversation with them. The latter pressed a button, and there is very little one can say about that.
September 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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It’s more than just being incapable of media literacy. There has been a concerted push against media literacy in no small part because those with power find it troublesome to their interests

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Many mourn and crack jokes about how we are in the midst of a media literacy crisis. I think this is both a structural and a cultural issue. Structural in that our current Internet landscape, ruled by algorithms as it is, often punishes more substantive or in-depth takes and posts in favor of Content that can easily fit into whatever the current trend is. And cultural in that it is often looked down on to think too deeply about the current state of art. "It's just a movie." "It's only a book." Certainly the major outlets encourage this, where art is to be seen more as products to consume, stripped down to component parts that can be mass produced and assembled for maximum efficiency and profit. The result is a superficial engagement, an endless parade of " Ending Explained!"-esque videos and posts designed to win the SEO and algorithm games, or attempts to offer a shockingly contrarian take that requires one to ignore the text and/or subtext of the media in question. Our actual engagement with these pieces has broken down. It is NOT helped by the push to incorporate generative Al into everything, continuously spitting out pale imitations and reiterations of what others have done. We are losing what inspires our humanity.
September 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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My latest newsletter. As AI continues to be pushed into our lives, it is important to remember how much of the human experience AI deprives us of

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September 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Knowing that a story has a definitive end can shape our perception of how much resolution we take, and is an important factor to consider when looking at what audiences want from an ending

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Simply the idea that "this story has an ending" can influence, at least to some degree, the amount of resolution we take from it. This is particularly true of stories that have more ambiguous endings. The final shot of Inception, leaving the audience to guess whether or not Dom made it back to his kids in reality or if he is still stuck in a dream and the extent to which that matters, provides a resolution in large part because we expect there to be one. But if instead of a stand alone film we had been told Inception was the first in a two-part series, and the second film never materialized, the view of that same ending would change radically for many people.
August 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The poster for the movie Bring Her Back
August 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM