#joann mcneil

[thejaymo]

A Year of Freedom | Weeknotes

Day Ones 'On this Day' feature informs me that it's been a year since I installed the site/app blocker freedom.to

[fictionz]

The other girls at the store had roommates. They thought it was odd how much I paid for no company at all.

“WPO” by Joanne McNeil

[womanfredvonkarma]

Their pain is only briefly alluded to—even psychic wounds are blunted by the sheer force of the absurdity of modern life. The characters are never depressed, anxious, spiteful or grieving; alienation is the dominant mode. This isn’t a case of neglectful characterization, as Ballard has instead fully developed their single-minded obsessions. Ballard never needed to write about androids or extraterrestrials to get his message across; human beings are alien enough on this planet.

Ballard in the Rear View, Joanne McNeil

[signal-failure]

Wrong Way

Wrong Way, by Joanne McNeil, looks at tech innovations and social class through one woman’s work experiences. It’s more about an overall idea than a character or a relationship or a decision, which makes for a thoughtful read but not exactly a story. First, I just loved the sections about Teresa’s years temping and drifting, both because it’s realistic and detailed, and because it sets up our…

[alexjdakers]

Even in an age when live-streaming content is so common and widespread, it was still somewhat mind-boggling to read of the early days of webcams, their prevalence on the internet from the 90s onwards, and some of the projects they were utilized for in Joanne McNeil's "Connected by Camera." Influenced by the nature of how many of these projects (by the likes of Jennifer Ringley, Sean Patrick Williams and Ana Voog) capture the every day life of their subject, my mind was drawn to the Jim Carrey classic film, “The Truman Show.”

Of course, the difference here is willingness to be and knowledge of being recorded. Ringley, Williams and Voog all knowingly set up their webcams to “lifecast,” while Carrey’s character in the film is (spoiler alert) unaware that his entire life is set up and being recorded.

That key differentiating point is where the likes of Google Glass and Project Aria come in to the conversation. With these types of devices, as is raised in Mark Hurst’s cautionary article, people who are not users but merely on the other side of the lens oftentimes may not even know if or when they are being recorded (as was the case The Truman Show’s protagonist, before he [spoiler #2] figured it out). As discussed by Hurst, this raises all kinds of ethical dilemmas about the use and potential use of these technologies, and how they could present (among other issues) invasion of privacy, which I think are certainly valid concerns! Similar to current conversations and debates around the growing use of AI in society, this all raises the question of “we CAN do it, and it’s pretty cool, but SHOULD we?”

In submitting this contributed example, I also decided to use a GIF as a little homage to last week!

[fundgruber]

Over the past decade (often in this annual roundup!), we’ve heard a lot about journalist-influencers and journalists who go independent through services like Patreon and Substack. But we seldom hear about the people reading these independent newsletters or listening to these podcasts or viewing journalistic social media content. My prediction is that many of these followers are going to switch up their media habits in 2025. Let’s give it a name, even if it hasn’t happened yet (and hopefully won’t): The Great Unfollowing. It will happen across the board. Podcasts will see the number of people donating through Patreon have dropped, subscriber numbers on paid services will fall. Maybe you’ll maintain the same number of followers on social media but it will be hard to tell how many in that number are actual humans paying attention to you and your posts. It could be the content has gone stale or repetitive, but if there’s a mass unfollowing, I don’t necessarily think it will have anything to do with quality. The reason I think it will happen is that the internet itself is now flooded with careless content, AI-generated or otherwise, and the effort to sift through it doesn’t pay off like it used to, for readers and listeners. Where will the followers go? Good question. There are a lot of things a person can do other than read posts on social media, listen to podcasts, or read someone’s Substack. My guess it will be a Big New Digital Thing, but I’m not sure what that thing will be.

Joanne McNeil https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/followers-stop-following/

[davidaugust]

As @jomc@friend.camp discusses in this article, Bluesky is not decentralized (at least not yet).

Mastodon is today.

That is why I have been more focused on things there where I have more control of my data, social graph and it is more resistant to single-owner problems.

https://filmmakermagazine.com/128200-joanne-mcneil-bluesky/

[tearsandtraditions]

References

Ayebare, Elizabeth, Tina Lavender, Jonan Mweteise, Allen Nabisere, Anne Nendela, Raheli Mukhwana, Rebecca Wood, Sabina Wakasiaka, Grace Omoni, Birungi Susan Kagoda, and Tracey A. Mills. 2021. “The Impact of Cultural Beliefs and Practices on Parents’ Experiences of Bereavement Following Stillbirth: A Qualitative Study in Uganda and Kenya.” BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 21(1)

Brooten, Dorothy, JoAnne M. Youngblut, Donna Charles, Rosa Roche, Ivette Hidalgo and Fatima Malkawi. 2016. “Death Rituals Reported by White, Black, and Hispanic Parents Following the ICU Death of an Infant or Child.” Journal of Pediatric Nursing 31(2):132-140.

Hidalgo, Ivette, Dorothy Brooten, JoAnne M. Youngblut, Rosa Roche, Juanjuan Li and Ann Marie Hinds. 2020. “Practices Following the Death of a Loved One Reported by Adults from 14 Countries or cultural/Ethnic Group.” Nursing Open 8(1):453-462.

Layne, Linda L. 2000. “‘He Was a Real Baby With Baby Things’.” Journal of Material Culture 5(3):321-345.

McNeil, Michael J., Justin N. Baker, Ian Snyder, Abby R. Rosenberg, and Erica C. Kaye. 2021. “Grief and Bereavement in Fathers after the Death of A Child: A Systematic Review.” Pediatrics 147(4).

Woodward, S., A. Pope, W. J. Robson and O. Hagan. 1985. "Bereavement Counselling After Sudden Infant Death." British Medical Journal 290(6465):363

[cyberpunkonline]

The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk - Filmmaker Magazine

[largemuscle69]

BOOK 23: Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil

Nothing jobs. New England suburbia. A new driverless car company that has more to it than meets the eye. I wolfed this book down and was left unsettled and distraught. McNeil does an amazing job of writing a book in which not much happens but yet there’s so much going on and so many questions you’re haunted by when the book ends. Who are we, the workers, when technological firms sweep us up in the pursuit of progress, just another cog in the machine? I still don’t think I’m any closer to understanding the ending, but I think that’s the point. Definitely a book I’d recommend, but probably you should wait to read it once you’re firmly outside of the clutches of your family’s home or else risk resonating too much with the stasis the author conjures.

[medialog202x]

Wrong Way, by Joanne McNeil

In some ways the book I expected McNeil to write and also something different and better. Free-flowing, moving, and dark, this captures something tangible both about our present moment and also something very specific about Massachusetts.

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2023

I struggled with the idea that I need to keep up with everything new, when it's evident that I don't want to. Movies are easy thanks to subscription services like A-List (and a pathological need to get out of the house), but I was consistently happy to dwell in the past for reading and video games.

So I think I'll be more chill about fiction this year. Just follow what feels right.

Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

2023: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Short Stories, Chapters, Excerpts

Jan - "Psalms" (1-100) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jan - "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Mothers" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Especially Heinous" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Real Women Have Bodies" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Eight Bites" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The Resident" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Difficult At Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The First Peer" by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (2010)

Jan - "Reservoir Ferengi" by David McIntee (2010)

Jan - "The Slow Knife" by James Swallow (2010)

Jan - "The Unhappy Ones" by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2010)

Jan - "Freedom Angst" by Britta Burdett Dennison (2010)

Jan - "Revenant" by Marc D. Giller (2010)

Jan - "Work Is Hard" by Greg Cox (2010)

Feb - "Psalms" (101-150) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Proverbs" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Ecclesiastes" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "WPO" by Joanne McNeil (2022)

Mar - "Flesh" by Louis Evans (2022)

Mar - "Devolution" by Ellen Ullman (2022)

Mar - "Always Home" by Jeff Vandermeer (2022)

Apr - "Canticle of Canticles" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Apr - "Wisdom" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

May - "Ecclesiasticus" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jun - "Isaias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jul - "Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "Lamentations of Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "The Miracle of the Lily" by Clare Winger Harris (1928)

Aug - "The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone (1931)

Aug - "The Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore (1934)

Aug - "Space Episode" by Leslie Perri (1941)

Aug - "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril (1948)

Aug - "In Hiding" by Wilmar H. Shiras (1948)

Aug - "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean (1950)

Aug - "The Inhabited Men" by Margaret St. Clair (1951)

Aug - "Ararat" by Zenna Henderson (1952)

Aug - "All Cats Are Gray" by Andrew North (1953)

Aug - "Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones (1955)

Aug - "Mr. Sakrison’s Halt" by Mildred Clingerman (1956)

Aug - "All the Colors of the Rainbow" by Leigh Brackett (1957)

Aug - "Pelt" by Carol Emshwiller (1958)

Aug - "Car Pool" by Rosel George Brown (1959)

Aug - "For Sale, Reasonable" by Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1959)

Aug - "Birth of a Gardener" by Doris Pitkin Buck (1961)

Aug - "The Tunnel Ahead" by Alice Glaser (1961)

Aug - "The New You" by Kit Reed (1962)

Aug - "Another Rib" by John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley (1963)

Aug - "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman (1966)

Aug - "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm (1967)

Aug - "The Barbarian" by Joanna Russ (1968)

Aug - "The Last Flight Of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr. (1969)

Aug - "Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Sep - "Baruch" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Oct - "Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

Oct - "The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

Oct - "The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

Oct - "The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

Oct - "CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

Oct - "Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

Oct - "The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

Oct - "The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

Oct - "The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

Oct - "The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

Oct - "The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

Oct - "The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

Oct - "Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

Oct - "Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

Oct - "Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. (2020)

Oct - "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

Oct - "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

Oct - "The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

Oct - "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

Oct - "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

Oct - "The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

Oct - "Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

Oct - "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

Oct - "The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

Oct - "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

Oct - "The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

Oct - "The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

Oct - "The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

Oct - "The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

Oct - "Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

Oct - "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Dec - "Ezekiel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Dec - "Daniel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Audio Shorts

Jan - "The Briefcase" by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber for NPR's Selected Shorts (2009, 2023)

Jan - "Paradise" by Yxta Maya Murray, performed by Tanis Parenteau for NPR's Selected Shorts (2020, 2023)

Oct - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Novels & Novellas

Jan - Honor in the Night by Scott Pearson (2010)

Feb - Abyss by David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang (2001)

Mar - Demons of Air and Darkness by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2001)

Mar - Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)

Apr - Horn and Ivory by Keith R. A. DeCandido (2001)

Apr - Return to HorrorLand by R.L. Stine (1999)

May - We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (2022)

Aug - Twilight by David R. George III (2002)

Aug - Are You Terrified Yet? by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Creature Teacher by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 1 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 2 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - I'm Your Evil Twin! by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Revenge R Us by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Fright Camp by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Headless Halloween by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Brain Juice by R.L. Stine (1998)

Dec - Revenant by Alex White (2021)

Dec - Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2023)

Dec - The Men by Sandra Newman (2023)

Dec - Aftermath by Christopher L. Bennett (2003)

Dec - Jekyll and Heidi by R.L. Stine (1999)

Gamebooks

Jan - Trapped in Bat Wing Hall by R.L. Stine (1995)

Jul - The Abominable Snowman by R. A. Montgomery (1982)

Aug - Tick Tock, You're Dead! by R.L. Stine (1995)

Sep - The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Night in Werewolf Woods by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter by R.L. Stine (1996)

Plays

Jan - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, presented by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (1595, 2013)

Poems

Jan - "Comet as Paperboy" by Samantha Blysse Haviland (2022)

Jan - "The Art of Negotiation" by Meghan Privitello (2016)

Apr - "A Boat" by Richard Brautigan (1968)

May - "Idaho" by Dobby Gibson (2005)

Comic Shorts & Single Issues

Jan - "Forest Spirits" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "Forest Spirits 2" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "With Sympathy" by Oglaf Comics (2017)

Jan - "it went like this" by chaumas-deactivated20230115 (2023)

Feb - "The Hole in the Wall" by Angela Hsieh (2022)

Mar - "It hurt, but i don't regret it" by miggs perez (2023)

Mar - "Heaven, Heaven, Angel, Angel" by NoneToon (2023)

Mar - "A poem" by oddlyunadventurous (2023)

Apr - "Halt" by spiralshells (2023)

Apr - "Broomistega & Thrinaxodon" by Erin Roseberry (2023)

Jun - "A young couple have a strange encounter on a dark country road" by Iguanadon't (2016)

Jul - "My Local Gas Station" by Ink (2018)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max - "Mighty Max and the Grand Slam" by Robert Hudnut, Gary Hartle, Brett Koth, David C. Weiss, and Phil Roman (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Trapped by Arachnoid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Liquidates the Ice Alien" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Lashes Lizard" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Traps Rattus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Outwits Cyclops" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With the Ape King" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Slays the Doom Dragon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Grapples with Battle Cat" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Squishes Fly" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Blows Up Dino Lab" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Stings Scorpion" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes the Hand" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Conquers the Palace of Poison" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Sinks Nautilus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Caught by the Man-Eater" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Bytes Cyberskull" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Terminates Wolfship 7" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Survives Corpus" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Against Robot Invader" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Zaps Beetlebrow" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes Talon" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Out-Freaks Freako" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Rams Hydron" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Versus Kronosaur" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Challenges Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With Lockjaw" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Vamp Biter" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Fights Nuke Ranger" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Pulverizes Sea Squirm" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Battles Skull Warrior" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hammers Ax Man" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hounds Werewolf" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Neutralises Zomboid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Battle Conqueror" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Head to Head With Hydra" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Melts Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Strikes Fang" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shuts Down Cybot" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shatters Gargoyle" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Assaults Skull Master" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "La-Mulana" by KC Green (2023)

Aug - "Mental Health Marge 2 Da Rescue" by ossian (2019)

Sep - "Hotline Miami" by KC Green (2023)

Sep - "I was told by my doctor that this'll completely compensate my human meat diet" by scribblingchimp (2023)

Oct - "Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

Oct - "The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

Oct - "Do You Know… the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Oct - "Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

Oct - "For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

Oct - "Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

Oct - "Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

Oct - "The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

Oct - "Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

Oct - "A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

Oct - "The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

Oct - "The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

Oct - "Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

Oct - "Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

Oct - "The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

Oct - "Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

Oct - "Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

Oct - "Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

Oct - "Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

Oct - "Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

Oct - "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

Oct - "A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

Oct - "The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

Oct - "Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

Oct - "The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

Oct - "The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

Oct - "The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

Oct - "Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

Oct - "Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

Oct - "The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

Oct - "Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Dec - "> THE JESTER" by Margaut Shorjian (2023)

Graphic Novels & Collections

Jan - Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium - Volume One (2013)

Mar - Star Trek Deep Space Nine: N-Vector (2000)

Betas & Demos

Jan - "Full Void Demo" dev. OutOfTheBit (2023)

Video & Electronic Games

Jan - Thunderbirds dev. Saffire (2004)

Feb - Men in Black: The Game dev. Gigawatt Studios & The Collective (1998)

Feb - The Game of Life dev. Mass Media & The Collective (1998)

Mar - Hack 'n' Slash dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Mar - God of War dev. Santa Monica Studio (2018)

Mar - Buffy the Vampire Slayer dev. The Collective (2002)

Apr - Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb dev. The Collective (2003)

Apr - Bartman: Avenger of Evil dev. Acclaim Entertainment (1991)

Apr - The X-Files: Resist or Serve dev. Black Ops Entertainment & The Collective (2004)

May - Bart Simpson's Cupcake Crisis dev. Acclaim (1990)

May - Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith dev. The Collective (2005)

May - Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure dev. The Collective (2006)

May - The Adventures of Mouth Man dev. Retrocade Media (2023)

Jun - Spacebase DF-9 dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Jul - Mighty Max dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max dev. WJS Design (1995)

Oct - Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Oct - Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Oct - Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

Oct - D dev. Warp (1995)

Oct - Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Oct - Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Oct - Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Dec - The Simpsons: Bart vs. Homersaurus dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Short Films

Jan - "bugs" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Jan - "enter initials" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Feb - "An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It" dir. Lachlan Pendragon (2022)

Feb - "The Flying Sailor" dir. Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (2022)

Feb - "Ice Merchants" dir. João Gonzalez (2022)

Feb - "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" dir. Peter Baynton & Charlie Mackesy (2022)

Feb - "My Year of Dicks" dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir (2022)

Feb - "Ivalu" dir. Anders Walter & Pipaluk K. Jørgensen (2022)

Feb - "Night Ride (Nattrikken)" dir. Eirik Tveiten (2020)

Feb - "Le Pupille" dir. Alice Rohrwacher (2022)

Feb - "The Red Suitcase" dir. Cyrus Neshvad (2022)

Feb - "An Irish Goodbye" dir. Tom Berkeley & Ross White (2022)

Apr - "The Greatest Living Show" dir. Toby Fox & Itoki Hana (2023)

Jun - "Wolf in sheep's clothing" dir. Yea An (2023)

Jun - "War of Colors" dir. Emir Kumova (2022)

Jun - "Double King" dir. Felix Colgrave (2017)

Jun - "How Finding Nemo Should Have Ended" dir. HISHE (2016)

Jul - "What It Feels Like to Live as an Immortal?" dir. LazyOwl Studio (2022)

Sep - "Carl's Date" dir. Bob Peterson (2023)

Movies Jan-Jun

Jan - Avatar: The Way of Water dir. James Cameron (2022)

Jan - Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody dir. Kasi Lemmons (2022)

Jan - Thunderbirds dir. Jonathan Frakes (2004)

Jan - M3GAN dir. Gerard Johnstone (2023)

Jan - Corsage dir. Marie Kreutzer (2022)

Jan - Broker dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2022)

Jan - Skinamarink dir. Kyle Edward Ball (2022)

Jan - Plane dir. Jean-François Richet (2023)

Jan - Missing dir. Will Merrick & Nick Johnson (2023)

Jan - That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond dir. Yasuhito Kikuchi (2023)

Jan - A Man Called Otto dir. Marc Forster (2023)

Jan - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish dir. Joel Crawford (2022)

Jan - Women Talking dir. Sarah Polley (2022)

Feb - Groundhog Day dir. Harold Ramis (1993)

Feb - Infinity Pool dir. Brandon Cronenberg (2023)

Feb - 80 for Brady dir. Kyle Marvin (2023)

Feb - Magic Mike dir. Steven Soderbergh (2012)

Feb - Living dir. Oliver Hermanus (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike XXL dir. Gregory Jacobs (2015)

Feb - She Came from the Woods dir. Erik Bloomquist (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike's Last Dance dir. Steven Soderbergh (2023)

Feb - Knock at the Cabin dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2023)

Feb - Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night dir. Ayako Kono (2023)

Feb - Consecration dir. Christopher Smith (2023)

Feb - Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey dir. Rhys Waterfield (2023)

Feb - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dir. Peyton Reed (2023)

Feb - Johnny Mnemonic dir. Robert Longo (1995)

Feb - Virtuosity dir. Brett Leonard (1995)

Feb - Jesus Revolution dir. Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle (2023)

Feb - Cocaine Bear dir. Elizabeth Banks (2023)

Feb - Gattaca dir. Andrew Niccol (1997)

Feb - Strange Days dir. Kathryn Bigelow (1995)

Feb - Kissed dir. Lynne Stopkewich (1996)

Feb - Richard III dir. Richard Loncraine (1995)

Feb - Eye for an Eye dir. John Schlesinger (1996)

Mar - Creed III dir. Michael B. Jordan (2023)

Mar - Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre dir. Guy Ritchie (2023)

Mar - RRR dir. S. S. Rajamouli (2022)

Mar - The Lawnmower Man dir. Brett Leonard (1992)

Mar - Scream VI dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (2023)

Mar - 65 dir. Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (2023)

Mar - Shazam! Fury of the Gods dir. David F. Sandberg (2023)

Apr - A Good Person dir. Zach Braff (2023)

Apr - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley (2023)

Apr - The Super Mario Bros. Movie dir. Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic (2023)

Apr - Air dir. Ben Affleck (2023)

Apr - John Wick: Chapter 4 dir. Chad Stahelski (2023)

Apr - Suzume dir. Makoto Shinkai (2023)

Apr - Mafia Mamma dir. Catherine Hardwicke (2023)

Apr - Renfield dir. Chris McKay (2023)

Apr - The Pope's Exorcist dir. Julius Avery (2023)

Apr - Beau Is Afraid dir. Ari Aster (2023)

May - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dir. James Gunn (2023)

May - Polite Society dir. Nida Manzoor (2023)

May - Born to Fly dir. Liu Xiaoshi (2023)

May - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2023)

May - Fool's Paradise dir. Charlie Day (2023)

May - Hypnotic dir. Robert Rodriguez (2023)

May - Evil Dead Rise dir. Lee Cronin (2023)

May - Master Gardener dir. Paul Schrader (2023)

May - Sisu dir. Jalmari Helander (2023)

May - Fast X dir. Louis Leterrier (2023)

May - The Wrath of Becky dir. Matt Angel & Suzanne Coote (2023)

May - Kandahar dir. Ric Roman Waugh (2023)

Jun - The Hangover dir. Todd Phillips (2009)

Jun - The George McKenna Story dir. Eric Laneuville (1986)

Jun - Last Action Hero dir. John McTiernan (1993)

Jun - We Have a Ghost dir. Christopher Landon (2023)

Jun - The Mother dir. Niki Caro (2023)

Jun - The Little Mermaid dir. Rob Marshall (2023)

Jun - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson (2023)

Jun - The Boogeyman dir. Rob Savage (2023)

Jun - The Roundup: No Way Out dir. Lee Sang-yong (2023)

Jun - Chevalier dir. Stephen Williams (2023)

Jun - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts dir. Steven Caple Jr. (2023)

Jun - Sanctuary dir. Zachary Wigon (2023)

Jun - A Thousand and One dir. A.V. Rockwell (2023)

Jun - The Blackening dir. Tim Story (2023)

Jun - No Hard Feelings dir. Gene Stupnitsky (2023)

Jun - Past Lives dir. Celine Song (2023)

Jun - The Flash dir. Andy Muschietti (2023)

Jun - Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (2023)

Jun - Adipurush dir. Om Raut (2023)

Jun - God Is a Bullet dir. Nick Cassavetes (2023)

Jun - 1920: Horrors of the Heart dir. Krishna Bhatt (2023)

Jun - The Childe dir. Park Hoon-jung (2023)

Jun - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny dir. James Mangold (2023)

Movies Jul-Dec

Jul - Metropolis dir. Rintaro (2001)

Jul - Insidious: The Red Door dir. Patrick Wilson (2023)

Jul - Joy Ride dir. Adele Lim (2023)

Jul - Lost In the Stars dir. Cui Rui & Liu Xiang (2023)

Jul - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2023)

Jul - The Miracle Club dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan (2023)

Jul - Shadows dir. Glenn Chan (2023)

Jul - Barbie dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)

Jul - Oppenheimer dir. Christopher Nolan (2023)

Jul - Haunted Mansion dir. Justin Simien (2023)

Jul - Talk to Me dir. Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou (2023)

Aug - Theater Camp dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman (2023)

Aug - Never Say Never dir. Baoqiang Wang (2023)

Aug - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem dir. Jeff Rowe (2023)

Aug - Meg 2: The Trench dir. Ben Wheatley (2023)

Aug - Ransomed dir. Kim Seong-hun (2023)

Aug - The Last Voyage of the Demeter dir. André Øvredal (2023)

Aug - Jules dir. Marc Turtletaub (2023)

Aug - Strays dir. Josh Greenbaum (2023)

Aug - Blue Beetle dir. Angel Manuel Soto (2023)

Aug - Gran Turismo dir. Neill Blomkamp (2023)

Aug - birth/rebirth dir. Laura Moss (2023)

Aug - Landscape With Invisible Hand dir. Cory Finley (2023)

Aug - Porco Rosso dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

Aug - The Wind Rises dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2013)

Aug - Retribution dir. Nimród Antal (2023)

Aug - To Live and Die in L.A. dir. William Friedkin (1985)

Sep - The Equalizer 3 dir. Antoine Fuqua (2023)

Sep - Bottoms dir. Emma Seligman (2023)

Sep - Elemental dir. Peter Sohn (2023)

Sep - They Live dir. John Carpenter (1988)

Sep - Jawan dir. Atlee (2023)

Sep - Christine dir. John Carpenter (1983)

Sep - The LEGO Movie dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (2014)

Sep - Outlaw Johnny Black dir. Michael Jai White (2023)

Sep - Satanic Hispanics dir. Alejandro Brugués , Mike Mendez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Eduardo Sánchez, Demián Rugna (2023)

Sep - Prey dir. Dan Trachtenberg (2022)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight dir. Ernest Dickerson (1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood dir. Gilbert Adler (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual dir. Avi Nesher (2002)

Sep - Vault of Horror dir. Freddie Francis (1973)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt dir. Freddie Francis (1972)

Sep - The Origin of Evil dir. Sébastien Marnier (2023)

Sep - The Expendables 4 dir. Scott Waugh (2023)

Sep - The Creator dir. Gareth Edwards (2023)

Oct - It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

Oct - The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Oct - Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Oct - Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Oct - Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

Oct - The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

Oct - The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

Oct - House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

Oct - The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

Oct - The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Oct - Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

Oct - The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Oct - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

Oct - A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Oct - Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

Oct - A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

Oct - The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Oct - Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Oct - Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Oct - Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Oct - Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

Oct - The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Oct - Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Oct - Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

Oct - The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Oct - Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Oct - Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

Oct - The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

Oct - The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Oct - Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Oct - Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Nov - A Million Miles Away dir. Alejandra Marquez Abella (2023)

Nov - Anatomy of a Fall dir. Justine Triet (2023)

Nov - Killers of the Flower Moon dir. Martin Scorsese (2023)

Nov- Five Nights at Freddy's dir. Gil Kenan (2023)

Nov - The Marsh King's Daughter dir. Neil Burger (2023)

Nov - It's a Wonderful Knife dir. Tyler MacIntyre (2023)

Nov - The Marvels dir. Nia DaCosta (2023)

Nov - Freelance dir. Pierre Morel (2023)

Nov - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes dir. Francis Lawrence (2023)

Nov - Next Goal Wins dir. Taika Waititi (2023)

Nov - The Holdovers dir. Alexander Payne (2023)

Nov - Priscilla dir. Sofia Coppola (2023)

Nov - Thanksgiving dir. Eli Roth (2023)

Nov - Napoleon dir. Ridley Scott (2023)

Nov - The Persian Version dir. Maryam Keshavarz (2023)

Nov - Wish dir. Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn (2023)

Dec - Dream Scenario dir. Kristoffer Borgli (2023)

Dec - Godzilla Minus One dir. Takashi Yamazaki (2023)

Dec - The Boy and the Heron dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2023)

Dec - The Abyss dir. James Cameron (1989)

Dec - Eileen dir. William Oldroyd (2023)

Dec - A Christmas Story dir. Bob Clark (1983)

Dec - Wonka dir. Paul King (2023)

Dec - Monster dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2023)

Dec - Leave the World Behind dir. Sam Esmail (2023)

Dec - The Polar Express dir. Robert Zemeckis (2004)

Dec - The Muppet Christmas Carol dir. Brian Henson (1992)

Dec - Velvet Buzzsaw dir. Dan Gilroy (2019)

Episodes

Jan - Thunderbirds - "Trapped In The Sky" (1965)

May - Well ABRIDGE Me, Princess! - "Well, Excuuuuse Me, Princess and the Frog" (2023)

Jun - The Simpsons - "My Mother the Car Jacker" (2003)

Jun - The Simpsons - "The President Wore Pearls" (2003)

Jun - Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates - "The Coldest Cut of All" (1990)

Oct - Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

Oct - The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part One" (2016)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part Two" (2016)

Dec - The Crown - "Ipatiev House" (2022)

Dec - The Crown - "No Woman's Land" (2022)

Dec - The Outer Limits - "The Galaxy Being" (1963)

Dec - Night Gallery - "Pilot" (1969)

Dec - Babylon 5 - "The Gathering" (1993)

Series

Jan - The Outer Limits - Seasons 1-3 (1995-1997)

Feb - The Outer Limits - Seasons 4-6 (1998-2000)

Mar - The Outer Limits - Season 7 (2001-2002)

Apr - Star Trek Discovery - Season 4 (2021)

Apr - Moonbeam City (2015)

Apr - Star Trek Picard - Seasons 2-3 (2022-2023)

May - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 1-2 (1989-1990)

May - Star Trek Lower Decks - Seasons 2-3 (2021-2022)

May - Star Trek Prodigy - Season 1 (2021)

Jun - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 1 (2022)

Jun - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 3-4 (1991-1992)

Aug - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 5-6 (1993-1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt - Season 7 (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Season 1 (1993)

Sep - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 2 (2023)

Oct - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

[womanfredvonkarma]

“Always he deliberately side-stepped into self-parody,” Ballard writes of Vaughan in the novel. He could have said the same for himself or Cronenberg, just as keenly aware that viewers who weren’t scandalized by the film could still roll their eyes. It is a concern that shapes Koteas’s performance. In a rare moment of self-doubt, Vaughan wonders whether a line from his speech—“James Dean died of a broken neck and became immortal”—landed as he hoped. He turns to the fellow travelers in his car and asks, “Was that glib?… I couldn’t resist.”

Ballard in the Rear View, Joanne McNeil

[mikepelletiernl]

The Wizard of AI from Open Data Institute on Vimeo.

Is this the world's first AI-generated documentary?

Alan Warburton was commissioned by the ODI's Data as Culture programme to bring us 'The Wizard of AI,' a 20-minute video essay about the cultural impacts of generative AI. It was produced over three weeks at the end of October 2023, one year after the release of the infamous Midjourney v4, which the artist treats as "gamechanger" for visual cultures and creative economies. According to the artist, the video itself is "99% AI" and was produced using generative AI tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Runway and Pika. Yet the artist is careful to temper the hype of these new tools, or as he says, to give in to the "wonder-panic" brought about by generative AI. Using creative workflows unthinkable before October 2023, he takes us on a colourful journey behind the curtain of AI - through Oz, pink slime, Kanye's 'Futch' and a deep sea dredge - to explain and critique the legal, aesthetic and ethical problems engendered by AI-automated platforms. Most importantly, he focusses on the real impacts this disruptive wave of technology continues to have on artists and designers around the world.

Commissioned by Data as Culture at the ODI: culture.theodi.org

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Disclaimer: this work is a non-commercial work of critical/educational/satirical commentary. Under UK law, this is referred to as ‘fair dealing’ and protects the work from claims of copyright.

Data use: According to the data taxonomies provided by translatingnature.org, this work derives from the following data types: living and biological and non-biological data; non-living, commercial, personal and licensed data; static data; generated, processed, retrieved data and 'anecdata' (including metadata); and anonymised; identifiable and unknown data.

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Full (hyperlinked) credits can be seen at thewizardof.ai

· Written, directed, voiced, animated and soundtracked by Alan Warburton. · Back to The Futch animation by Ewan Jones Morris. · Special thanks to Joanne McNeil, Tom Pounder, Hannah Redler-Hawes and Omar. · Wonderpanic Theme by Sonny Baker. · Research Assistance from Fabian Mosele. · Steve Ballmer Genie by Christian Schlaeffer. · Pretty fishes by UglyStupidHonest · In Memoriam images by Alex Czetwertynski · Concept development and AI collaboration from John Butler, Samine Joudat, Ben Dosage, @dzennifer, Ben Dawson, Alejandro González Romo, @symbios.wiki, Ugur Engin Deniz

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AI Tools used:

· Runway Gen 2 to generate 16:9 ‘AI Collaborator’ video clips · Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALLE 3 to generate still images · Pika to generate 3 second fish loops · TikTok for detective speech synthesis · HeyGen to generate AI talking detective head · Adobe Photoshop AI to expand images · Topaz Gigapixel AI to upscale images

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Clips attribution:

· What is the Internet? (1995) by The Today Show · Microsoft Clippy (1997 onwards) web compilation · CNN Internet Report (1993) by CNN News · Napster Report (2000) by CNN Headline News · Tech Events in 2023 Be Like (2023), Verge, featuring footage from META · Zane Lowe meets Kanye West (2015), BBC Radio 1. · Unit 9 AI Workflow (2023) Unit9Ltd · Thanos Snap, Avengers: Endgame (2019) Marvel Studios, LLC · for AI artist clips, please see onscreen attribution.

[ear-worthy]

Pod-Alization: iHeart On The Negro Leagues & MySpace; Best Advice Podcast Talks With Meghan Trainor

 iHeart Podcast Network has three ear worthy podcasts for you

The iHeart podcast network currently has about 5,000 podcasts. Obviously, when you have that many podcasts in your network, they are all not going to be gems. In fact, it's safe to say that searching for gold through the iHeart podcast network, you will discover a lot of iron pyrite, or fool's gold. 

But if you know where to look, there are iHeart podcasts that have a strong ear / mind connection.  Jordan Klepper Fingers The Conspiracy, Mobituaries, Skyline Drive, and Stuff You Missed In History Class, are just a few of their quality podcasts.

Today, I want to mention three that are exceptional.

 Main Accounts: The Story of Myspace: Before Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok, there was MySpace. But what happened to the social media giant that suddenly dropped out of favor? Hosted by author and technology reporter Joanne McNeil, “Main Accounts: The Story of Myspace” tells the story of the first social media sensation and details the possible reasons for its collapse, all while featuring tales of the people that made it so special in the first place – the users. Find new episodes every Wednesday.

 Behind the Barrier: Voices from the Negro Leagues: This new series lets the listener be a part of the history of Negro Leagues baseball through stories from the players themselves. Featuring archived recollections by some of the greatest athletes to ever put on a pair of spikes – like Hank Aaron, Buck O'Neil, and Willie Mays – “Behind the Barrier: Voices from the Negro Leagues” will have casuals and baseball diehards clamoring for more. Tune in every other Tuesday.

 Started from the Bottom: The new iHeartPodcast series interviews successful people who grew up on the outside – people of color, people who weren’t part of the old boys’ network, people who grew up in a world where almost nobody went to college. Hosted by Justin Richmond, producer and co-host of Pushkin’s “Broken Record,” “Started from the Bottom” answers the questions of how these success stories came to be and how each person can overcome the odds en route to their own success. New episodes every Tuesday.

You can also check out the iHeart Podcast Spotlight blog for more info on these shows, or click over to iHeart’s Podcast Top 100 to see more of their podcasts.

Best Advice podcast interviews Meghan Trainor

A new episode of Spotify’s Best Advice podcast is now live, featuring well-known pop singer Meghan Trainor.

Says Meghan:

“For anyone out there who wants to have a baby, and you're like, oh no, my career isn't where I want it to be. A baby won't ruin it, it'll make it better. Babies bring luck. You're okay. If you want a baby, have a baby.” 

In this episode, Meghan Trainor opens up to host Kim Taylor Bennett about what it’s like to be a global pop star while also being a mom, admitting that she was at first nervous due to the demanding nature of her job but has only seen her career flourish since the birth of her son. She also talks about how she has been able to stay true to her pop roots since the beginning of her career- even when no other popular artist sounded like her, why she loves using TikTok to engage with her fans, and more. 

Having kicked off with revealing interviews from Big Freedia, Troye Sivan, BANKS, and Prince Royce, the second season of the Best Advice podcast continues with intimate conversations between host Kim Taylor Bennett and special guests Maggie Rogers, Lykke Li, Nile Rogers, Kim Petras, Meghan Trainor, Diplo, Rina Sawayama, and more.  The Best Advice Podcast - a spin-off of the popular Spotify for Artists flagship video series Best Advice with nearly five million views on YouTube - offers intimate conversations with some of the most fascinating names in the business sharing personal learnings and in-depth insights into navigating the world of music, commerce and creativity. 

New episodes will be released every Thursday through April 13.