Scott Collette
@scottcollette.bsky.social
I write movies and dig up history.
Reps: Buchwald/Circle of Confusion
History on IG: ForgottenMadness_LA
www.instagram.com/forgottenmadness_la
Reps: Buchwald/Circle of Confusion
History on IG: ForgottenMadness_LA
www.instagram.com/forgottenmadness_la
Yeah, facebook recommended it as an account to follow. It’s actually the second AI acct to target me this year, but this one took my wedding anniversary post and the nickname that my followers have lovingly assigned to my wife (“Mrs. Madness” - which she also loves), so I took it pretty personally.
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yeah, facebook recommended it as an account to follow. It’s actually the second AI acct to target me this year, but this one took my wedding anniversary post and the nickname that my followers have lovingly assigned to my wife (“Mrs. Madness” - which she also loves), so I took it pretty personally.
Well, I didn’t expect this to blow up, and I certainly didn’t mean for it to piggy back off of the original post, but I am at least going to plug my LA history Instagram account from which that AI has been pulling its content:
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Well, I didn’t expect this to blow up, and I certainly didn’t mean for it to piggy back off of the original post, but I am at least going to plug my LA history Instagram account from which that AI has been pulling its content:
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
Sure, these are the pills, which only work about 25% of the time.
Also adding the restored caption that goes with the night shot, just to give an example of the research I’m protecting by changing it.
I then save the pills into a folder so that I can cut & paste the old captions back in.
Also adding the restored caption that goes with the night shot, just to give an example of the research I’m protecting by changing it.
I then save the pills into a folder so that I can cut & paste the old captions back in.
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Sure, these are the pills, which only work about 25% of the time.
Also adding the restored caption that goes with the night shot, just to give an example of the research I’m protecting by changing it.
I then save the pills into a folder so that I can cut & paste the old captions back in.
Also adding the restored caption that goes with the night shot, just to give an example of the research I’m protecting by changing it.
I then save the pills into a folder so that I can cut & paste the old captions back in.
…and two more examples:
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
…and two more examples:
So I guess they’re moving the Hollywood Sign to Burbank.
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So I guess they’re moving the Hollywood Sign to Burbank.
Oh shit, okay Doug…
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Oh shit, okay Doug…
Okay, I’m calling it. The Hollywood “what if?” of all time is Sergei Eisenstein’s version of “War of the Worlds”
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Okay, I’m calling it. The Hollywood “what if?” of all time is Sergei Eisenstein’s version of “War of the Worlds”
I run a popular Instagram account on LA History and every time I post a shots of smog, my comments fill up with people sharing their experiences of living through it. Horrifying to read.
www.instagram.com/p/DIxLsYfzRb...
www.instagram.com/p/DIxLsYfzRb...
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I run a popular Instagram account on LA History and every time I post a shots of smog, my comments fill up with people sharing their experiences of living through it. Horrifying to read.
www.instagram.com/p/DIxLsYfzRb...
www.instagram.com/p/DIxLsYfzRb...
Also, why is island in quotes? Is it not an island? Is it a peninsula? An isthmus? Do low tides reveal a land bridge like a shoal or something? Is it actually landlocked? Or in the middle of a dry lake? Next to some kind of fjord or lagoon? How does he remember it?
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Also, why is island in quotes? Is it not an island? Is it a peninsula? An isthmus? Do low tides reveal a land bridge like a shoal or something? Is it actually landlocked? Or in the middle of a dry lake? Next to some kind of fjord or lagoon? How does he remember it?
At least he knows he’s doing it
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
At least he knows he’s doing it
Okay, well JP Morgan died in 1913, so we can probably close the book on that one…
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Okay, well JP Morgan died in 1913, so we can probably close the book on that one…
I placed a poison pill for the AI account that’s been ripping off my posts and it took it.
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I placed a poison pill for the AI account that’s been ripping off my posts and it took it.
RIP Lee Tamahori
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
RIP Lee Tamahori
RNC headquarters watching tonight’s results come in.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
RNC headquarters watching tonight’s results come in.
This is the original photo. Via UCLA
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This is the original photo. Via UCLA
From Upton Sinclair’s campaign headquarters in 1934.
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
From Upton Sinclair’s campaign headquarters in 1934.
For the past month, it has been making its way through my LA History Instagram feed, taking five posts every day and rewriting the captions.
So, i decided to get ahead of it to start changing the prompts.
On the left was my original goofy Xmas post, and on the right is last week’s revision.
So, i decided to get ahead of it to start changing the prompts.
On the left was my original goofy Xmas post, and on the right is last week’s revision.
October 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
For the past month, it has been making its way through my LA History Instagram feed, taking five posts every day and rewriting the captions.
So, i decided to get ahead of it to start changing the prompts.
On the left was my original goofy Xmas post, and on the right is last week’s revision.
So, i decided to get ahead of it to start changing the prompts.
On the left was my original goofy Xmas post, and on the right is last week’s revision.
So, just for fun,I’ve been poison-pilling an AI click-bait account and this is the result.
October 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So, just for fun,I’ve been poison-pilling an AI click-bait account and this is the result.
While they keep saying that the history of the East Wing doesn’t matter, Melania once felt it was so important that she expanded the White House tour.
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
While they keep saying that the history of the East Wing doesn’t matter, Melania once felt it was so important that she expanded the White House tour.
Discussing movie tariffs in 1922:
September 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Discussing movie tariffs in 1922:
His anger on this goes back to the Animators' Strike of 1941, when he was so out of step with his workforce that he refused to believe that they could be unhappy. He convinced himself the strike could only be a Soviet plot to stop his films from promoting American values and he wanted revenge.
September 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
His anger on this goes back to the Animators' Strike of 1941, when he was so out of step with his workforce that he refused to believe that they could be unhappy. He convinced himself the strike could only be a Soviet plot to stop his films from promoting American values and he wanted revenge.
Not totally the same, but when my LA history account started taking off, I decided I had a responsibility to respond to any “things were better then” negativity and to defuse nostalgia when it becomes toxic.
This was from a few hour ago, regarding a set of photos I’d put up from 1973.
This was from a few hour ago, regarding a set of photos I’d put up from 1973.
September 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Not totally the same, but when my LA history account started taking off, I decided I had a responsibility to respond to any “things were better then” negativity and to defuse nostalgia when it becomes toxic.
This was from a few hour ago, regarding a set of photos I’d put up from 1973.
This was from a few hour ago, regarding a set of photos I’d put up from 1973.