Mike Cook
Lover of film, television, comedy and horror. Former advertising creative. I am pro Star Trek and antifascist. NOT A TECH EXPERT, JUST A PERSON. 🇨🇦
My creative work: Mikecookonline.com
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- I see the LOSER DEMS are MAD that your favorite PRESIDENT is being straightforwardly BRIBED by a foreign government! Typical LOSER attitude. Bribes are COOL and FUN. I’M GETTING A FREE PLANE, and then I’ll PAY IT BACK with FAVORS! I’ll let Qatar do WHATEVER THEY WANT. Everybody wins!!!!!
- #ResistanceRoots “Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” — Timothy Snyder
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- I do love David Tennant and his response to this question in the Guardian today.
- Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
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- Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a- This tech accelerationism is training people to just do the appearance of work: a headline, art that looks almost normal from a distance, to complete things as fast as possible and move onto the next... it's dissolving humanity and culture at large
- TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
- One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️
- new Overhated for patrons is up! it's a 2-in-1 episode: I discuss 2022's Babylon with @rmwhittaker.bsky.social (he loves it), and then it's @redheadfrommars.bsky.social who comes to the movie's defense. (it makes sense in the episode.) Thanks to Richard, Michelle, all patrons, and @effinbirds.com!
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View full threadIt needed 30+ mins cut out of it. I hated the hair, makeup, wardrobe—I don’t need things to be perfectly historically correct but they were so off it was infuriating. Like, WHY. It was so self congratulatory about The Movies it was off-putting. Derivative in a bad way. Made me angry.
- I think @mikecook82.bsky.social could be right: if you cut the elephant shitting, maybe you have a significantly better movie.
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- every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease
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