Lee Scheinbeim

@lee.scheinbe.im

Senior Lighting Technical Artist @ Cloud Chamber, formerly Singularity 6, Harebrained Schemes, Bioware. Covered in cat scratches. All thoughts property of my cat.

im stuck on hold with my cell carrier and it wouldnt be that bad if they didn't keep interjecting the bland music with pre recorded "tips" telling me to use the app

what really got me about misuse of "slop" even before "friendslop" was "cgi slop". slop is low effort where the person(s) making it don't care about the quality of the result cgi, even if you don't like it, is actually very high effort make by many humans who are probably working overtime

many years ago i was prescribed trazadone to help with insomnia and it worked, but i realized it was causing short term memory loss, i could no longer remember what i had read before going to sleep which is what this reminds me of

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

i havent been watching the babylon 5 eps that are going up on youtube (i own the series on bluray and have rewatched it in its entirety multiple times) but i am thinking about it a lot anyway

i guess my hot take is that physical media on a closed platform doesn't actually give you most of the real benefits of physical media and we'd be better off forcing companies to treat digital purchases as actual purchases

I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to this right now but I think it would be fun to rewatch movies that I dislike but haven't seen in a long time. maybe I'll like them now! maybe I'll find new ways to hate them! seems fun

watched the patrick h willems hook video and found myself nodding a lot I am one of those people who have great sentimental attachment to hook but also like.... I am not sure why

trying to unpack the halo studio news... it's bad the way contractors are treated in the industry, MS in particular has a history here, but it also seems irresponsible to write and share an article that implies mass layoffs based on 3 people's linkedin updates

I would never say it was good that EA bought bioware, but as someone who was on the floor both pre and post buyout I think many people are unaware that bioware was fully capable of making its own bad decisions

i got an email from my health insurance saying that they are aware that the area i live in may have experienced an emergency but the language is all generic so i'm trying to figure out what they're talking about

okay this is a very niche problem but like half the time I use an electrify america charging station I tap my phone in the wrong place and it reads it as a credit card tap instead of the app and it drives me batty