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What movies are you watching?
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I saw it some time ago, and also saw Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie about the same time. Indeed fascinating, but also more than a little scary.
Thoroughly enjoyed "Wicked Little Letters", really funny, thoroughly profane and illustrative of the suppression of women ...
Found this in my YouTube feed… seems the internet is being populated by people who don’t exist. It’s a set of entirely AI generated images, of young middle-eastern looking women in bathing suits.
Well in order to be immersed in the real world. I look at youtube on my TV but find their suggested algorithmic AI (Artificial Income) so simplistic, monetised/propagandised as to be little more than click bait.
I will stick to peertube or similar
https://qoto.org/tags/PeerTube
Hmm Click Bait
I use YouTube for a few things, I sometimes look up music I like, tech reviews, and I use it to listen to certain spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle, Mooji etc. I also use it to listen to Terence McKenna and Alan Watts talks which can’t easily be found elsewhere. But aside from those specific uses I rarely use the algorithm to explore, it seems to bring up a lot of what I’ve searched for in the past but it’s poor at finding stuff I’d be interested in.
I found this a really interesting critique of the processes of Big Tech, where a service starts good and cheap, and becomes large and entrenched, and then becomes noticeably poor value for customers. Enshittification, it is also called.
I think I may never eat Sushi again… my grandfather used to fillet fish in the fish halls at IJmuiden
Today it's been raining on and off, sometimes quite heavy, so I decided to watch a movie on YouTube and The Martian Chronicle part 1 came up in the selections (it was the first in the list, hmm perhaps it's algorithms at work )...Anyhow I watched it...
Colin Quinn released a special for free on You Tube. He gives a funny and insightful look at the state of the world in front of an audience of psychologists.
I watched this in the morning, it was a good way to wake up, a gentle half hour video of a first-class train ride from Tokyo to Hokkaido on the Shinkansen, or bullet train, going at 320 km/hr.
I watched a UK TV series called "Boat Story" It was quite funny in a humour noir kind of way...
This was kinda cool, a video about how they built a camera drone capable of following a Formula 1 car for a full lap around a race track.