Good Noticings

Noticing the RHONY Reboot, the Safdie Rift, and Kesha’s Whole Story

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Feb 4, 2026
Grammys reactions and a joke about effort versus effortless pop culture. A deep dive into why the Safdie brothers split and concerns about risky filmmaking practices. A look at griefbots and the ethical problems of AI chatbots for the dead. Discussion of the RHONY reboot and the tensions around legacy casting. A long segment tracing Kesha’s legal fight and industry fallout.
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Effort Is Back In Cultural Taste

  • Audiences now reward visible effort after years of celebrating supposed effortlessness in culture and art.
  • The Grammys highlighted performers and hosts who put in work versus those leaning on casual nonchalance.
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Safdie Rift Tied To Dangerous Set Behavior

  • Benny and Josh Safdie split partly over Josh's tolerance of a producer (Sebastian Bear-McClard) who allegedly exploited underage women on set.
  • The rift reveals how success can mask abusive collaborators until moral lines force structural breakups.
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Grief-Bots Freeze Lives, Not Heal Them

  • Chatbots that recreate deceased people calcify a fixed version of someone and risk erasing the evolving memory humans hold.
  • Grief transforms selves; outsourcing it to static AI undermines growth and social ties.
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