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Is this global re-alignment ultimately going to be a bad thing? As an American I do wonder if things might improve for humanity if or time on the global stage concludes. False optimism? I'm not a fan of human exploitation and hyper consumerism. Environmental abuse is disheartening. I don't suspect the USA would curb any of it. Would the next global power do so? I really don't know. Such a bummer that such promising ideals of this new nation were never met, nor could be. Would have been nice to keep trying.

It's more than half, just not by enough. Minority rule. As all totalitarian states are. Plus, there's a lot of the sane ones that like to claim they "don't do politics" Well, politics is about to "do" you. And, you know, this fascist playbook we're seeing here in the USA is a book that is wide open. It's easy to read because it's simple. The ones that are attracted to that are insatiable. And the book has been used numerous times by bad people because it works. What's happening here is neither new or abnormal. These folks and their followers are ridiculous people that are gross, small, mentally horrible, and should be shamed for their terrible attitudes, but they've built political momentum and they're very close to reaching their orbit. The journey leads no where good. Not even for them. Finally, I like shooting f8 on an M43rd sensor. It's "Spielbergean cinema"! (gotta stay relevant to the website after that rant; cleanse the mental palette)

I really thought I'd die before the down fall of the USA. Mind, I figured the downfall was inevitable, like all things, but I suspected it would be late 21 st century, not early -- while I'll be checking out in the mids; could've missed it. Bleh.

Some do it like this: https://www.instagram.com/vanessahorabuena/reel/DFaxsz3IAjD/ Hope that helps give you some context.

Genie. Bottle. Too late. No, in my opinion, from here it's a national existential crisis for the change to happen. Like, mid 19th century stuff. We got the monied power in the USA angling towards city states. Their ship has a pretty strong wake. Media is the rudder. And the USA is more of a business than a country. If there's enough people here to lay down their lives to claw back the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, I kinda doubt it. Most don't even understand the founding concepts of this nation much less respect them. Trump is the idiot that will help speed run this thing, but if not for him then it would be some other puppet. Our culture demands it.

You would be wrong. See, no one admits that they're poor here, they're just temporarily not wealthy. They'll eventually be wealthy. Somehow. Have to support the rich to be rich, you see? Plus, it's really hard to grasp just how truly stubbornly ignorant many people are. There's a culture here of owning that ignorance like a badge of honor.

Are you a senator from New York?

That hasn't been my experience.

Nope. Are you an American? I feel anyone with a grasp of the culture here wouldn't be quite so obtuse. Then again, weird times.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but the reason I don't want to indulge AI is exactly because of it's ability to divorce me from the minutia. (even though what you're outlining here is not minutia. Having AI do an audio mix? Bleh.) Hey, this may be completely stupid and stubborn, but I still believe that the craft of things is in the detail of things. Always has been. Don't know the details? You won't know the craft. Don't know the craft? It's going to be hard to achieve one's voice in the art you practice. Now, are you worried about the clock? The time you're putting in? Nothing wrong with that, but if you are worried, the chances are you're not making anything special, right? Again, if your goal is to not create art, just push content, then you're eventually going to be replaced by AI totally anyway. You got a small window, I guess. Enjoy that while you can. But, for me, it's not about making things look pristine or ideally technically proficient. There's a deeper quality to things than that. Wabi sabi Here's an analogy litmus test for consideration: Is music better when it's a little pitchy? At the end of the day, I'm just one guy staying true to my goals. I realize they're not other's goals.

"I'm getting too old for this shit. I'm only two weeks away from my retirement." I'm gonna be one of those craft people that refuses to use AI. Damn the consequences. This all sucks. As a documentarian, even something supposedly innocuous like audio transcribing is causing more inadvertent issues than it's solving. It's really getting in my way holistically -- although it "feels" like it's helping in the moment. It divorces me from the nuances and intimacy of the material. How can I be expected to make anything meaningful to the audience or to myself if I allow an algorithm to make crafting determinations, even the simplest ones? Tools are tools, but when the tools diminish rather than enhance? That's a recipe to being superficial. I don't think I want to be superficial. Unless I'm doing corporate bull shit for the pay day. But then, the corporations using AI can now (or soon) cut me out of that calculus anyway. Get off my lawn you damn machines.

Man. Think hard about that.

That's the play. The rich can't get richer if they don't have the resources. Hello Dark Enlightenment!

Interesting. Maybe because I'm an old fart and my video tape camcorder days instilled a huge bias, but I always get nervous anywhere near 3200 iso.

Ritual is comfort. Manufactured order in chaos. Hard not to appreciate that during our fleeting existence.