My 2020 Doc Now Free, Jordan Effing Peterson, and Everything is a Remix: AI

Howdy folks!

​My 2020 documentary This is Not a Conspiracy Theory is now free on YouTube! You can watch the series in its entirety here.​

And I have another New York Times collaboration, Kill Your Lawn, which was written by Agnes Walton and directed and edited by me.

Now let's talk about Jordan Peterson.

Historically, Jordan Peterson has failed to bother me much, probably because I was researching far worse people. Peterson seemed like the soft stuff and I actually thought he was doing some good by diverting attention away from predictable ideologues and raving lunatics. To me, Peterson seemed like a perfectly fine motivational speaker who was also fairly hysterical on gender issues.

But for whatever reason, Peterson seems to have gotten more nuts since returning from his near death experience. He recently stated that climate change is nonsense because "climate" means "everything". Okaaaaay.

And he wrote a weird, vicious tweet about Elliott Page then seemed willing to martyr himself over it. This inspired a couple excellent memes.

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Oh but there is so so so much more, people. Cody Johnston and his team lay out an absolutely devastating argument that Jordan Peterson is useless and always has been. While I think Peterson has likely summoned some insight here and there in the past, I buy this argument almost entirely. And it’s a quick little video so be sure to watch the whole thing.

Apropos of nothing, the family has welcomed its first robot companion, Eufy Robovac 11S! We’ve named him Wally and he has changed our lives forever. In the past we never vacuumed and only swept up when there was no other option. Now Wally heads out every day, sucks up everything in sight, and Little Kirby can crawl around on the floor without his slobbery hands and face getting caked in dog fur. Especially if you’ve got kids, I would just get this thing. It’s the most useful gadget I’ve bought in a while.

Speaking of robots, Everything is a Remix Part 4 will be about artificial intelligence! (Where’s Part 3 you ask? I’m editing that now!) If you’d like to see what’s going on and even help out, come join our Discord.​

We don’t watch a lot of TV or movies anymore, but we do watch a show each evening and a couple genuinely great ones have come up: The Bear, which you probably haven't heard of, and Nathan Fielder’s bonkers The Rehearsal, which likely has passed your radar. These two shows are the first great TV we've seen in a long time.

Hope everybody had a great summer! Happy spring to those of you in the southern hemisphere! I'll be back in a couple weeks!
Kirby

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