Alex Steed

Alex Steed

@alexsteed.bsky.social

Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.

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Alex Steed
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With all due respect, the staff of this he Wire and their plausible-deniability compatriots have been on her team for a decade and a half.

Steve Collins@stevecollinsyji.bsky.social

One of the saddest developments of this year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Maine has been watching Susan Collins, a senator once renowned for civility and decency, embrace the Maine Wire’s sickening racism and vulgar politics. www.pressherald.com/2026/10/26/s...

pressherald.comSusan Collins will regret this descent into sleaze | Steve CollinsMaine's senior senator is busy sacrificing her legacy to President Trump. I don't believe it will save her.
Alex Steed
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I recall that crew straight up making shit up about me when I made a video about Michaud because I used a song that contained a “vulgar” reverence to Collins back in 2012. This included a Collins staffer who himself gleefully shared the song a few weeks prior.

Alex Steed
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There is a toxic nostalgia a lot of folks generously glob on to Collins that exists in part because a skilled propaganda and reputation laundered my campaign and also because it exonerates those who did not resist her bullshit back when it was nakedly evident.

Alex Steed
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I finally got around to reading Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences and I really think you should read Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences.

Alex Steed
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Had to sit VERY FRONT ROW for You Can See Everything because of ticket availability and seeing those close ups THAT close is not advisable.

Alex Steed
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Just had to call a subject and use the term “vag out” when clearing whether or not to include a photo of them in our upcoming photo show and the Row Your Boat people were really on to something when they said life is but a dream.

Alex Steed
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I suddenly know a bunch of folks new to the app game who have... built an app that does... something. Or a series of somethings. The elevator pitches for said somethings are convoluted and three meandering caveat-laden paragraphs long.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

Alex Steed
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Not exactly a long-term growth strategy.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

status.newsCBS' DraftKings GambleCBS' owned stations will carry DraftKings branding through Election Night, Status has learned, a sponsorship that has stirred concern inside the company.
Alex Steed
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Somebody posted a bit of Kurt's journals in the Nirvana subreddit today and wanted to know if it was real. A bunch of people said no, but it WAS (somebody photocopied the original page for proof) and it turns out the bit posted was AI upscaled and the upscale changed words.

Alex Steed
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The thing that was a red flag for many, including me, is the upscale changed Kurt's use of "opiate" to "opioid", which is a word nobody could recall being in popular use in the 1990s. At some point everything will get transmogrified through some unnecessary AI lens.

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You Are Good
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NEW EPISODE! In which we discuss 1970s masculinity, the redneck nightmare genre, and Deliverance with Carolyn Kendrick and Tristan Scroggins.

Alex Steed
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It's objectively funny to be like "It only cost $1.5 million but it COULD have cost $80m." Gosh, it could have cost a billion dollars. It could have cost a trillion! So anyway, the film doesn't have a distributor because nobody wants to see it because it looks like garbage.

Drew McWeeny@drewmcweeny.com

Once again, Variety runs an uncritical advertisement for AI slop dogshit that doesn't even have a distributor. Jay Penske is obviously invested heavily in AI, and the trades are suspect from top to bottom because of such obvious conflicts of interest. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

variety.com‘Merry the Christmas Witch’ Director Estimated Movie Would Cost $80 Million — but Says With AI, He Made It for $1.5 Million (EXCLUSIVE)Director Tom Walsh said he produced the two-hour film for $1.5 million, perhaps serving as a test case for the types of projects AI can help make.
Alex Steed
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This shit makes my blood boil. I once intervened when a guy was doing this. I told him to stop and when he didn't, I grabbed the arm he was filming with and he got shrill. He couldn't believe he was being called out. Then he got puffed up before pretending he was doing me a favor by walking away.

Ruby Soho 🇨🇦@ruby-soho.com

Tired of seeing people non-consensually film/photograph folks with visible addictions in order to prove a point, or worse, for entertainment. How would you feel? People are people, and people in vulnerable situations deserve dignity.

Alex Steed
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"This strange behavior is just the latest example of Trump’s apparent cognitive decline. Since returning to office, the president has often appeared to lose track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language."

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Alex Steed
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I spent 3 years fighting a state lien against my father's house for exactly this reason. I spent 2 years, from 24 - 26 going into debt taking care of him, and then the following 3 years getting out from under Medicaid debt.

Guillotine Hunger Force@handle.invalid

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

Alex Steed
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The issue is basically: You "inherit" a house when you are broke and without credit, and then it has a lien against it so you already couldn't get a loan to fix it in any way and you DEFINITELY can't with the lien so you are put in a position where you're forced to sell the property as is.

Alex Steed
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"I don’t know that there is any messaging that is relevant to our moment outside of the plot of the movie IN WHICH THE BAD AI AGENT (“virtual reality” in the parlance and time of its release) CONVINCES ITS HUMAN ENGINEER TO HELP IT ESCAPE IT'S ENVIRONMENT AND CREATE HAVOC IN OUR WORLD..." [1/2]

it-can-only-get-stranger.ghost.ioVirtuosity (1995) is prescient high campThe other day, while talking about The Book of Eli with my friends Kasai and Samuel (You Are Good episode forthcoming), I was reminded of the movie Virtuosity. We each left the conversation with Denze...
Alex Steed
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The engineer exploits the lust of a fellow engineer. He tells the android tech guy “You should make a fuck-bot of my sexy & compliant chess AI.” The engineer, so horned up by the sexy and compliant chess AI jumps at the chance and the conniving developer of SID 6.7 switches out the programs! [2/2]

Alex Steed
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Can somebody who knows things about Wikipedia fix the fact that the entry for the movie Virtuosity (1995) redirects to Virtuoso, making the page for the movie seemingly inaccessible?

Alex Steed
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I can't wait to share this episode with y'all next week. @themorbidzoo.bsky.social is a dream guest and didn't blink twice when I asked if she would come back to have the conversation a second time BECAUSE I FORGOT TO RECORD THE FIRST GO AROUND.

You Are Good@youaregood.bsky.social

With the exception of one time, when we were memorializing Rob Reiner, we never repeat titles on the show. We will, however, be covering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre a second time at the end of this month because if @themorbidzoo.bsky.social wants to talk about TCSM, we're gonna talk about TCSM.

Alex Steed
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I really loved Resident Evil. I enjoyed the 2 newer Evil Dead movies, but Resident Evil feels closer to an Evil Dead successor than anything that's been made this century.

Alex Steed
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I honestly think a lot of folks are not fully aware of how dire the job situation is, and how quickly the domino effect will touch every sector of the economy. I am not a doomer by any means, but we are woefully unprepared for what is about to happen, and the political class is especially useless.

Jana H-S (she, like a knife)@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social

I try to minimize anti-AI ranting, because I find it boring. but the fact that computer jobs are no longer hiring people who know how to code, making me overqualified for another "real job", combined with the fact that there are no entry-level positions anywhere else, is severely fucking me over

Alex Steed
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If you can be replaced by a computer, it will happen at some point moderately soon. If your job is contingent on consumer spending money, consumers will soon have no money. Add to this the highly likely AI bubble bursting - which won't STOP automation, by the way - and things are grim.

Alex Steed
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The crash won't lead to a slow-down in automation, it will lead to a consolidation and higher concentration of wealth as occurs after every crash.

Alex Steed
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Don't Call Me Darlin' is alive and out in the world. Please be sure to listen! Carolyn and Tristan will be on @youaregood.bsky.social this week!

Alex Steed@alexsteed.bsky.social

My dearest friend and trench mate (and @youaregood.bsky.social founding producer) Carolyn Kendrick has a new podcast miniseries launching NEXT WEEK. It's called Don't Call Me Darlin. It's about genre and feminism and indie media and The State of Things. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Alex Steed
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I'm all for a funny and passionate defense of TMBG by my pal @joshgondelman.bsky.social, but like... they're @mike-eagle.bsky.social's favorite band, which I feel says a lot about how undeniably great they are.

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social

This week’s newsletter contains an extremely aggressive and borderline belligerent defense of They Might Be Giants!

thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com#206. Music Snobs and YouHi everyone, I had an unusually busy week between work (more on this below) and hangin' out (some daytime friendship catchups, a quick visit to New Jersey so my in-laws could spend time with their gr...
Alex Steed
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The intellectual dishonesty of anti-porn activists is so bad that a crusader is glossing over the fact that Meta was caught torrenting tons of copyrighted material so that they could underscore that the company who caught them has profited off "legal extortion" (threatening to sue over IP theft)

Alex Steed
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As a person who is FASCINATED by the role of shame in personal + collective sexual identities, I could write like 10 dissertations on Strike 3 Holdings but, uh, the story is about a company stealing IP so that its machines can replace human labor and it can keep all of the profit. THAT'S THE STORY.