01) Autoplay On: YouTube Tolerated Toxic Content For Engagement, Report Says
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“Bloomberg reports that YouTube staffers wanted to curb the spread of toxic and incendiary videos on the site. But executives wouldn’t do it. We look at accusations that YouTube prioritizes engagement over safety. Mark Bergen and Guillaume Chaslot join Meghna Chakrabarti.”
“YouTube wants to let people broadcast whatever message they want”?…
…Yeah…right…
…You only have to be part of “the wrong” social group, to know what an absolute lie that is.
…And “The Innocence of Muslims” is being put forward, as a “shining moment in YouTube’s defense of free speech”?…
…I remember that pathetic, embarrassingly bad piece of trash…While it clearly should not be banned…fact is, YouTube was no valiant hero, for having made such a mundane and obvious decision…
If they want to earn the status and accolades as a free speech defender…they need to actually defend and host speech which even they disagree with [possibly even condemn]…
…As things stand…YouTube is absolutely spineless, gutless, impotent and ineffectual where it comes to defending free speech…
…They just want everybody to believe otherwise.
Reality is…YouTube is one of the worst online violators, of the principle of free speech.
“Bill Murray is at his hilarious best in this classic comedy that’s ‘Animal House goes to summer camp’ (Newsweek). Murray plays Tripper, the wisecracking, rule-bending head counselor at Camp North Star. Whether playing pranks on Camp North Star’s clueless director, wooing a female counselor, or scheming against the rich brats of a rival camp, Tripper delivers fun and mayhem in a laugh-filled summer his campers will remember forever!”
01) Simple cabin clicks together without nails in 32 hours
“On an abandoned vineyard in Spanish Catalonia’s Priorat region, a tiny cabin was built in 32 hours with a blockhouse system- without screw or nails- to serve as a dismountable shelter for artists, artisans and anyone wanting to find inspiration from this “forgotten place”. The 6.5m3 hut is a part of “Camp Commons”, an itinerant camp that will move between forgotten territories every 5 to 6 years.
Aixopluc (Catalan for “shelter”), the group behind the project, aims to create a “shelter for ideas” in this new wilderness. “A musician can tell his proposal through a song; a biologist can explain a strategy to strengthen some part of the ecosystem; a writer, a tale; an architect, a shelter made with the resources at hand; an enologist, a new way of making wine. All these documents are made in situ and become a mapping of the site and its potentialities, tracks of your life in this ecosystem.”
Noticing a “renaturalization” process beginning in many occidental countries (after the past centuries overdevelopment), rather than leaving these new wild places alone, the group hopes to become positive agents for change in these newly communal spaces.
Ricard Pau of Aixopluc explains how the group hopes for a symbiosis between the location and its guests in a place disconnected from technology where one must reconnect with the natural cycles of the day and nature.
01) David Confronts Andrew Yang on UBI, Free College, Alt-Right “Support”
“Andrew Yang, 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate, joins David to discuss his campaign and platform, including Universal Basic income, and much more”
01) Kamen u ruci – A Handful of Stones (2017) Serbia
“Ivica is a 11-year-old who spends his days among friends, roaming around unexplored grounds of an industrial town. Bitter and disquieted, he’s about to find out that today his parents are separating.”
“An oddly naive man-child stalks his childhood best friend and tries to reconnect with their past. Director: Miguel Arteta Writer: Mike White Stars: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros… Genres: Comedy | Drama Runtime: 96 min Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 17 November 2000 (UK)
CHUCK & BUCK Director Almost Turned Down ‘Creepy’ Film:
“Versatile Hollywood director Miguel Arteta talks about his 2000 comedy CHUCK & BUCK and how he accepted the job despite being warned by industry friends that it might be too ‘creepy’ and could amount to career suicide. Arteta also talks about pressing forward with the project despite repeatedly getting turned down for financing on this highlight clip of Talk Show with Harper Simon.”
Chuck and Buck – Wanna go see my room?:
Chuck & Buck (12/12) Movie CLIP – He Made Me This Way (2000) HD:
“CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Buck (Mike White) tells Carlyn (Beth Colt) about growing up with Chuck.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Following his critically acclaimed Star Maps, Miguel Arteta directs this perverse Odd Couple-esque comedy drama. Childhood best buddies Chuck and Buck are reunited after 18 years during the funeral of the latter’s mother. Chuck (Chris Weitz who also produced American Pie (1999)) is a button-down movie executive with a gorgeous blond fiancée, Carlyn (Beth Colt). By contrast, the intervening years do not seem to have matured Buck (Mike White) in the slightest — he still plays with children’s toys, throws bawling temper tantrums, and seems to be utterly at a loss at what to do after his mother’s death. During the funeral, Buck greets his old friend with an oblivious joy that is hardly appropriate to the setting. Clearly expecting that the friendship will continue where it left off back during the Carter administration, Buck seems confused and sullen in the presence of Carlyn, a yucky girl. This jealousy turns more unnerving when, in midst of a brotherly hug, Buck makes a clumsy grope for Chuck’s manhood. Disturbed and embarrassed, Chuck quickly leaves, but not before Carlyn politely suggests that Buck “visit us in L.A. sometime.” Buck leaps at the chance and soon is packing up for California. He quickly degenerates from a silly, though pathetic annoyance to a lollipop-sucking stalker. Buck’s bizarre attempts to renew his bond with Chuck and to consummate their relationship puts Chuck increasingly on edge and confronts the affluent yuppie with a past he’d just as soon forget. Chuck & Buck was one of the most talked about films at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.”
Chuck & Buck (7/12) Movie CLIP – We Should Play a Game (2000) HD:
I’d not go so far as to say I “liked” this movie…but it holds an intrigue to me.
Plot wise…it’s like a cancerous horror story, saddling childhood sexuality with “yet another reason, why you should avoid it like the plague”…”the bonding kids could do through sex, might inhibit them from being able to let go”…and “could cause serious issues, later in life”…
That feels very child sex phobic, in my mind…and like a terrible way of framing things.
On the other hand…it still handles the issue of childhood sex in a relatively simple, level headed way…There is no special emphasis placed, on the fact that it happened…It’s even deemed completely normal, in one scene.
What is abnormal…is Chuck’s inability to let go of what they had, and move on.
On still yet another angle…I love this as a unique plot. It is a valid topic to explore, in my opinion.
The problem with it…is that it’s something that got made…in an era where there is absolutely no balance, in the public sphere of discourse surrounding childhood sexuality.
…So…it largely comes off like “another rock thrown at childhood sexuality”…where there is nothing to really counterbalance it.
That’s what I am wanting in media…the counterbalance, which has been sorely missing.
This movie is passed off as a “dark comedy”…and I suppose it is…
…Though I think the issue posed deserves far better than a “dark comedy”, where most everything is glossed over, and we arrive at a “happy ending” via a montage in the last five minutes of the movie.
Gut instinct tells me…this movie would have been way better, had a BoyLover made it…We at least possess a natural insight, which other people have a hard time capturing and presenting [or just flat out cant].
I have a hard time categorizing this movie…I used to own a copy of it…then got rid of it…
01) We Have to Put Ourselves in Position to Win – Andrew Yang in Chicago
“Andrew Yang isn’t a politician. He’s an entrepreneur who knows how the economy works—and he’s terrified about the growing automation of American jobs. That’s why he’s running for President as a Democrat in 2020. America has lost its direction, and it’s time we put humanity first. Andrew wants to get America back on track—to be a nation of opportunity, freedom, equality, and abundance. It all starts with the Freedom Dividend, $1,000/month for every American adult over the age 18, no strings attached.
01) Autoplay On: YouTube Tolerated Toxic Content For Engagement, Report Says
