Podcasts about Strikethrough

It's time to Huddle Up - and get ready for the Season 13 Premier of First Case! This season is dedicated to covering all those safety topics you might hear covered quickly in a morning meeting or in more detail in a staff meeting, and Chris and Melanie are going to keep you learning all season long! In today's episode, Chris teaches us a new way to look at the acronym S.I.D.S. (Seal, Indicator, Date, Strikethrough) and outlines the steps for opening sterile items. We're also going to highlight the benefits of a morning huddle and show you why it's so important to communicate with your team. Don't miss this exciting start to Season 13! Love our show? Download our First Case mobile app on:

This week our theme comes from chapter 15 of Image Restored where we discuss how your unique design is a reflection of being made in God's image. Process: What do you see when you look in the mirror? Write all the things that come to mind. Strikethrough negative attributes and ask what God sees instead. Circle positive attributes and ask God why He designed you that way. Do you see Jesus reflected in your image? Resource: The resource I recommend for all of these episodes is my book, Image Restored. (If you've already purchased the book, join the private community on the book page. We will email you free resources and printables you can use right away.) What's Your Body Trying to Tell You Quiz

It's a big one, y'all! This week, V and Emily rage their way through the anniversary of Strikethrough, or a mass censorship event on LiveJournal that destroyed huge swaths of fannish history for no fucking reason. Or rather, because a Christian special-interest group that hates queer people said that things were icky and LJ caved. If you haven't heard of Strikethrough or need a refresher on why archives that aren't beholden to advertisers are essential to the survival of fandom and fanfiction, come take a ride with us and let your blood pressure hit the roof. Were any of your fandoms a victim of Strikethrough? 

September 19, 2022 Rockingham County Commissioners MeetingAGENDA1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN BERGER2. INVOCATION - Reverend Ralph Clayton, Retired Senior Pastor for CovingtonWesleyan Church3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE4. PROCLAMATION: MORGAN MANESS, ROCKINGHAM COUNTY 4-H, COOPERATIVE EXTENSIONAdoption of Proclamation to declare Rockingham County 4-H week, October 2-8, 2022 in Rockingham County.5. RECOGNITION: DON POWELL, COUNTY COMMISSIONERSpecial Recognition Resolution for Community Service6. APPROVAL OF SEPTEMBER 19, 2022 AGENDA7. CONSENT AGENDA (Consent items as follows will be adopted with a single motion, second and vote, unless a request for removal from the Consent Agenda is heard from a Commissioner)A) Pat Galloway, Finance Director1. Approval- Appropriate Public Health Escrow of $170,000 to cover the FY 23 Medicaid Intergovernmental Transfer of funds to the Division of Health Benefits. Due to Medicaid Transformation, the County now receives the gross amount of Medicaid revenue and must remit to the State Division of Health Benefits their portion. Prior to Medicaid Transformation, the County only received the net amount due to the County.2 Approval - Amend the Regional WaterlWastewater Capital Project and the South Rockingham Corporate Park WaterlWastewater Capital Project for the following: 1) Transfer $69,040 of OSBM - Regional WaterlWastewater Grant for local match on Golden Leaf Water Tank Project. 2) Reimburse County General Fund $22,500 for original matching funds provided until other revenue sources were secured. 3) Appropriate additional interest earning and sales tax revenue received in the Regional Water Project Fund of $19,435. 4) Reimburse Water Operating Fund $224,676 for tank mixing systems installed at the Bethany and Huntsville Water Tanks.B) Todd Hurst, Interim Tax AdministratorApproval- Tax Collection and Reconciliation Reports for August including refunds for August 24, 2022 thru September 7, 2022C) Lance Metzler, County Manager1. Approval - Revise Personnel Policy 6: Leave of Absence, Section 11: Bereavement Leave, Strikethrough section to be removed.2. Approval - Consideration of adoption of a Resolution to concur with a Request by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division of Highways for additions located in Collybrooke Subdivision, New Bethel Township to the State Maintained Secondary Road SystemD) Ronnie Tate, Director of Engineering and Public Utilities1. Approval- New Lease for NC Dept. of Agriculture for Lease of Space (185 sq. feet) at the EOC Building for NC Forestry Service. New lease is for 3 years at $1.00 per year.2. Approval - The Interlocal Agreement for Water Service from the Town of Madison and Mayodan.E) Rodney Stewart, RCEMS Operations SupervisorApproval - Submitted financial statement of accounting reports of billing and collections activity for August 2022 and accounts uncollected that are to be written off8. PUBLIC COMMENT9. PUBLIC HEARINGS:Hiriam "Marzy" Marziano, Community Development Director1. Case 2022-17 - Zoning Amendment: Rezoning from Residential Agricultural (RA) to Highway Commercial Conditional District - Robert Baker & Jeff Knight - Tax PINs: 7903-03-31-9666 & 7903-03-41-0693 - Address: Shelton Rd. - New Bethel Township2. Amend the Unified Development OrdinanceTA 2022-2a: Table 41.05 -1 Dimensional Standards TableTA 2022-2b: Sec. 62.16 Campground/RV Park Development StandardsTA 2022-2c: Sec. 53.03 Road StandardsTA 2022-2d: Table 41.04-1 Outdoor Storage of Boats & RVsThis is a package of short text amendments to the UDO aiming to clarify and simplify the dimensional standards table, ensure safe ingress/egress to campgrounds and RV parks, add outdoor storage of boats and RVs as a use in commercial districts, and better align road standards with subdivision rules and regulations.10. CONSIDERATION: Ronnie Tate, Director of Engineering and Public Utilities1. Approval of renovations to the third floor of the Courthouse. Improvements to create space for Adult Probation and Parole staff. Cost of project $20,350.00 from County Fund Balance.2 Approval for a reduction in the tip fee at the landfill for solid waste disposal from the Town of Mayodan to $19.00 per ton tip fee plus $2.00 state tax fee for total $2100 per ton for debris from the old Washington Mills site11. PRESENTATION: Matt Reece, PTRC Assistant DirectorCompensation and Classification Study12. CONSIDERATION: Sheriff Sam Page and Dr. Stephanie Ellis, Executive Director ofBehavioral Health, Crisis Intervention and Student SafetySchool Security/Safety and School Resource Officers Update13. PRESENTATION: Rodney Cates, Emergency Services Director Presentation (for informational purposes only) of the EMT Academy (A partnership with RCEMS and RCC).14. NEW BUSINESS15. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS16. ADJOURN###

Y'all! We are so excited and honored to have the opportunity to talk with Silas Munro (of Polymode) about the amazing exhibition, "Strikethrough", he co-curated at the Letterform Archive. Strikethrough features over 100 objects (including broadsides, buttons, signs, t-shirts, posters, and ephemera) by ACT UP, Amos Kennedy, Jr., Sister Corita Kent, Emory Douglas, Favianna Rodriguez, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, W. E. B. Du Bois, and many many more. Make sure to check out the show, get in on the rad special events they're doing, check out the custom site by Chris Hamamoto, Jon Sueda, and Minkyoung Kim—and pick up the amazing book!—if you can. Thank you to Silas Munro and to Stephen Coles from Letterform Archive for being open to having this conversation! A few links to resources around protest and design (via Silas): Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture: https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg One Archives at the USC Libraries: https://one.usc.edu/ Lohman Center (NY): https://www.leslielohman.org/archive National Museum of African American History & Culture (Smithsonian/DC): https://www.si.edu/museums/african-american-museum Research / writings of Colette Gaiter: https://walkerart.org/magazine/authors/colette-gaiter (profile from the Walker) Center for the Study of the Political Graphics: https://www.politicalgraphics.org/

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In this episode we take a look at interactive checklists in Google Docs with and without strikethrough. For more details see my blog post at: https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2022/01/docs-checklists.html

This week on Real Talk with Rachael, I'm talking with author Christy Wright about her new book Take Back Your Time: The Guilt-Free Guide to Life Balance. Christy is a #1 national best-selling author, personal development expert, and host of The Christy Wright Show. Since 2009, Christy has served at Ramsey Solutions, where she teaches on personal development, business, and faith. Key Points from Our Conversation: The #1 question Christy gets as a business coach is "How do you balance everything?" What she's come to realize is that balance isn't something you do, it's something you create in your life that looks like peace and confidence in your choices, as well as how you spend your time. You want to enjoy your life and be proud of how you spend your time; the path to that is not productivity. “Life balance is not doing everything for an equal amount of time, it's about doing the right things at the right time.” 4 reasons we feel out of balance: We're doing too much. Our time is finite. We have to make choices; we can't fit it all in. We're not doing enough. Possibly triggered by something major shifting in life leaving you feeling bored and out of balance. Doing the wrong things. As long as you spend your life doing things that aren't important to you, you'll feel stressed, resentful, anxious, and angry. Not doing the right things. We should be spending time on the things we actually care about - the things that are life-giving and valuable. Doing the wrong thing out of guilt or obligation, getting distracted, or even doing good things in the wrong season will take away time from what's important to you. We tend to swing to extremes because we love the impressive. But it's not sustainable to be focused on everything all the time. It's less impressive, but taking a small action is more sustainable and allows you to better engage in things that fill you up. Some is better than none. It may look different in different seasons, but what matters is you're spending time on something that's important to you. You can help determine what matters to you most by asking what's important right now? Ask yourself who you want to be. As you determine that, it will bring clarity to what you're supposed to do and what matters most to you because it's more about who we are than what we do. You get to determine what does and doesn't matter to you. We have more time than we think we do, we're just spending it on things that are not the most important things to us. Ask yourself where you lose time. We've become addicted to productivity. You have permission to not do things that don't matter to you. Every commitment on your calendar/task list represents a deeper motivation in you. You might be addicted to productivity if you can't sit still or are always thinking about what comes next. We feel the need for contact input, but our brains were created for rest to reflect and pray. It takes practice. “Productivity doesn't lead to balance, doing the right things leads to us feeling balanced.” This is your life. No one gets to tell you what you should be important to you. How you spend your time is how you spend your life. Spend it on what matters most to you. Let's Get Real Practical: There is no such thing as balance, but there is such a thing as pressing into doing the right things that matter most to you in this season. Getting clear on what we're called to helps relieve decision-making pressure. Make a list of all the things you do weekly/monthly that require a commitment from you. Circle the things that are non-negotiable. Strikethrough any items you need to lay down or outsource. When a new opportunity comes up, look at the list and see if it fits with what matters most to you in this season. Resources Mentioned: Ep. 107: Get Back to You with Christy Wright Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.) Episode Sponsor: Sign up for JOYmail – my monthly newsletter that's full of resources that deliver a little joy and practical action steps for life into your inbox. Connect with Christy: website | Instagram | Facebook | podcast Connect with Rachael: website | Instagram | Facebook

Welcome to the Present Age Podcast.I’m your host Parker Molloy.On today’s show, I speak with my friend Carlos Maza. As the host of Vox’s “Strikethrough,” Carlos helped shine a light on the way the choices made by the media helped raise Donald Trump and Republicans to power.His videos, with titles like “Why every election gets its own crisis,” “How Trump makes extreme things look normal,” and “The decline of American democracy won’t be televised,” were some of the sharpest pieces of media criticism of the past five years.And then he stopped.After becoming the target of an anti-gay harassment campaign by right-wing YouTubers, Carlos was let go by Vox despite being named one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential people on the internet in 2019.I recently had a chance to chat with Carlos about all of this, and I’m really excited for you to check this out. Let’s get started.Parker Molloy: So joining me today is the wonderful, the great, the talented, the prescient Carlos Maza.Carlos Maza: Hey, Parker. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure and an honor to be here.Yeah. Thank you so much for agreeing to come on my new podcast-type thing. It's an adventure every day over here.It's badass to watch you evolve over the years that we've been friends and it just feels like getting a front seat at a really cool story. So it's a pleasure.We took a similar path in the sense that we both maybe have gotten a bit cynical over time and not unjustifiably so.I would say my path is one marked by increasing cynicism, for sure. Yeah.Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's part of why I wanted to talk with you because the other day, I was going through and I was looking at old Vox Strikethrough videos and I rewatched all of them because one, they're very good, but two, looking back at them, it's just like, "Yes, everything he said was on point." You really broke down how Trump makes extreme things look normal, how harassment on Twitter became a giant issue, how the narrative around Antifa would keep flying up. And then also, I think this is important. It's you had one that was about the decline of American democracy and about how media generally is not equipped to deal with this.And I think that we've seen that happen more and more over the past year or two, especially and we're at this point where there are people literally trying to overthrow the government, but media still can't stop inviting these people on meet the press and whatnot and treating them like they're totally normal. So I'm just curious, how do you feel about what's happening in the world as it relates to things that you predicted would happen in the world? Things that you were pointing out were happening in the world?You mentioned cynicism, and that's my primary response to all this. Is that when I was making those videos, many of them were right at the beginning of the Trump era and then over, I think the first two or three years and it felt like sounding an alarm bell on a crisis that could maybe be averted. There was this feeling, I think for me during 2017 where I thought this might be a wake-up call. I'm sure everyone felt this way. Every week, this must be the thing that snaps things back into normalcy or back into some realistic sense of how bad things are getting. And now that we're so long away from that initial moment of weird optimism, my sense about it was just like, "Yes. I felt like I accurately described what's going on and I feel a little silly that I had hoped that things would correct themselves.”I think I still had some faith maybe in myself as a media critic, or just more broadly in the media establishment, their ability to react to crises and adjust and course correct, and I think right now, you might feel a similar way. My sense is no amount of good media criticism will change corporate media's incentives. And I think media watchdogs are valuable, but in the sense that you can move the beast, I think there's very little that good-faith criticism can do because the people who make these media calls are not operating from a journalistic priority. They're operating from essentially a business priority. Yeah, I've just become really cynical. I look back at those videos and think, "What a sweet summer child unaware of how hopeless this is."Yeah. That's how I look at a lot of my writing. A lot of my writing that I did over at Media Matters. So it was the same kind of thing. It was, "Tucker Carlson is a fake populist." It was, "Look out for the dog whistles," and stuff like that, but we ended up... Everything just kept going along as it was going along. And I wrote an article about the importance of not letting Trump and his cronies get away with trying to subvert democracy back in December. This was before January 6th, because it was clear what he was doing. And even after January 6th, there was a week or two where everyone was like, "Oh, well, we have to rethink things." And then they just went along doing the same exact things they've always done. So I feel like I am lacking in hope and optimism, which might be called for. I'm not quite sure.We both started in this weird... I think we both got to know each other and we're doing work around queer issues at around the same time and I think... I don't know. I'm curious about how you feel about it, because my sense about it when I was doing it was like, "This could help." I had some real faith that I could alter the language and behavior of journalists and that's what motivated me, and I've had to go through a real shift on my own personal work journey about what I'm trying to do and what I think is possible and what I find useful, and that shifted a lot for me. Have you felt a similar...? We both started off as these fire-brand-y activists and I don't feel like that anymore.No. Yeah. I mean, the past several years, anytime someone's used the word activist to describe me, I'm like, "Please don't. Please just don't." I mean, at one time maybe I would have been fine with it, but the more time has gone on, I went into... When I was writing articles about trans issues at The Advocate, for instance, I did that for about a year and I was operating under this assumption or this hope that by doing this, I could help enlighten the ignorant. I went into things under the assumption that by shining a light on injustices or explaining politely to people, "Hey, don't call trans women men, or maybe you don't need to include the person's former name in this article as they were not famous under that name. So there's no actual reason to add it." And stuff like that would happen constantly. And I think that there was some good that came from that.Some good, but overall the messaging is just lost. And over time, we've seen these queer-specific publications either fold or shrink down to nothingness or just have zero traffic and that aspect of things hasn't been picked up by mainstream outlets. And that's scary to me, but at the same time, I wonder if it even matters and that's where I'm at.Yeah. My sense is like I think I had a very rosy belief in the arc of the moral universe and things always slowly getting better, which is I think a luxury/hangover of the Obama years to some extent, and that feeling has been... I've had to grapple with that sense of I ended up part of some big inevitably successful project. What I do matters very little in the grand scheme of things and how do you try to fight for a better world when you get a sense that it might not matter, or if it matters, it's not because of you? And that's been a real... I was curious to how you felt about it because I think we both went through a collapse of faith maybe around the same time or a collapse of optimism and it's fucked me up as a writer and as a creator and looking back at my old Vox videos, I'm like, "I'm a very different person now in my heart, even if the arguments they make would be singled out."Yeah. I feel the same way. I feel like a lot of my earlier writing, even though it came off in that firebrand-y activist-y approach, even though that was what I was doing then, I feel like I came to it with such a different energy. And now it's just this sort of, "Well, if things are bad, things are always bad. Things will continue to be bad. They'll probably get worse." And I don't want to feel that way. I want to feel optimism, but I want to feel optimism with justification. I want to feel justified optimism and I don't. And I think that the power of media generally is important. And I think that some of the flaws that have happened along the way, really come down to the fact that you'll have places like CNN's Reliable Sources, for instance, that show. They'll have the same people on constantly to talk about, "Oh this newspaper in that town," or they'll have Ben Shapiro or Eric Erickson on or whoever, and what are we learning?What are we doing? What's changing? And I think that there's this reluctance to put people who really challenged the narratives that are pushed in media out there. The whole time that you were making these videos for Media Matters and Vox and on your own as well, it just blew my mind that you weren't being constantly booked on TV, because everything you were saying made perfect sense. And when I would use that to try to show someone who really meant well and wanted to learn something different, it would be effective. The way that you presented arguments was always so straightforward, but not condescending, which I think is really important, and I think it would've done a lot of good for CNN, MSNBC, whatever to put you on air, but that didn't really happen and made me lose a little faith in...Not that I had much faith in corporate media, but it made me lose the remaining amount of faith that I had, because they would rather keep putting the same old, same old people back on and making the same arguments and pretending that they're not seeing what's happening in the world and it's beyond frustrating.What have you been up to because that is something that you were everywhere and in 2019, was it Time Magazine? Said you were one of the 25 most influential people on the internet, which was very impressive. I was like, "Wow, that's awesome." But then you did your own thing and then you haven't really uploaded in quite a while. What have you been up to?Yeah, it's been such a weird experience. I had my big falling out with YouTube and lost my job and everything and I think I just had a period afterward that was right before the pandemic and then I went independent in February and then the pandemic started. And I think honestly, the citizen that we're describing in terms of politics, to me has aligned with the broader anxiety or confusion about purpose and meaning in life. I don't mean to get too heady about this, but the last video I uploaded on my channel on my birthday in April was about Overcome with the Plague and it was like an existentialist reflection on trying to do good in the world that seems inevitably doomed and took me forever to make that video because I was trying to describe something that I think even after making it, I grappled to talk to people about, which is this, I don't know, this grappling with purpose.I think this might just be me, but I certainly feel hyper-aware of living in an era where it does feel a little bit like the world is ending, at least in some meaningful way. I spent, I would say, four years at the end of Media Matters and at Vox working my ass off to make these videos that I thought were so important and truly, they consumed my whole life. My whole identity was making these videos and I was staying late at work every day and my whole sense of self-worth was wrapped up in these videos. And I think to have it fall apart so catastrophically, to very publicly get fired and to lose myself, lose my identity, to get dogpiled, to have everyone worrying about me and to lose it all I think forced a real... It's still forcing a real examination of who the f**k am I? What makes me happy? What do I want to do in this limited time on earth?So I don't have a great answer to the question of what I want to do with my time, but I think to answer your question about where have I been, I feel like I've just been wandering through my life a little bit, trying to figure out what I want to keep. I know I don't want to work as hard as I did when I was at Vox because it made me a really unhappy person. I know I don't want to be as angry as I've been because my anger wasn't making the world better and I don't think it was making me happy, and I know again, sorry if this is a bit too heavy, but I know I can't save the world.I would like to spend a little more time saving myself and that means it's more time taking therapy seriously, growing plants in my apartment, spending time with friends, fostering a cat, doing small things that I think keep me grounded in a world that feels often ungrounded and I'm trying to unlearn the lesson I learned when I was at Vox and I think to some extent, Media Matters, which is your only worth and happiness comes from making a big famous thing and becoming successful, and it doesn't. So I wish I had a really sexy answer. My honest answer is I feel lost and I'm trying to be okay with lostness right now because I don't really know a way out of it.That's not something I've talked to people about, obviously, because it's embarrassing and shameful in some ways, and I think on the internet, or especially on Twitter where you and I spend a lot of time, it's a weird thing to admit. To go from this time person who's supposed to be really successful and popular to being like, "I don't know if I want to be as public anymore. I don't know if I want to talk to people anymore. I don't know if I want to have my identity wrapped up in a performance that I can't control all the time."The Present Age is a reader-supported newsletter. While a free version of the newsletter exists, paid subscriptions make this work possible.Yeah. It's funny that you brought up existentialism just because, I mean, I named my newsletter and this podcast after Kierkegaard's The Present Age. So it's the same sort of idea. It's the same sort of stuff that I've been going through myself and in that same sense of, "Okay. Trying to find meaning in life and purpose, and I don't feel like there's anything that we're supposed to do or that there's anything that we're supposed to work towards. I feel like a lot of the time, it's just nothing and we have to figure out what we want to work towards, what we want our imprint on the world to be. And over time, it's that same situation where I put so much time and energy into writing articles about various issues and then six months later, I find myself in a position where, "Okay, it looks like I need to write that same article again because no one listened last time."And after a couple years of that, it just got to this point where I realized I'm just not making the kind of impact that I want on the world while also leaving Media Matters, I viewed it as a personal failing on my part for not being good enough or persuasive enough or the right personality or the right person to get these messages across that I still believe in and still think are important. I still like everyone over at Media Matters and enjoyed working for them and wouldn't trade that for the world, but at the same time, I felt like I was spinning my wheels. I was telling the same story over and over and over, and I want to tell a new story, a different story, a more important story, a broader story that we can all relate to. And I think first to do that, it's important to really start to whittle away at all the b******t that's out there and that's why I wanted to do this more free-wheeling kind of, "I'm going to write about whatever I feel like writing about.I'm going to interview people about whatever I want to interview them about," type of situation because I'm genuinely pretty curious about what everyone's been doing with their lives in this weird year that the pandemic has brought to us. You have bands that have had to cancel tours and they're playing these weird streaming shows that are odd and I'm not... It's clearly not what they want to do. It's clearly not what their fans want. Everyone's operating at this level of, "Well, the best we can do right now is whatever." Even if it's an in-person concert, it's yeah, sure. But ideally, we would be going to concerts in these places where there isn't a virus just running rampant and that's the subtext of everything I do, is that we're in a world that is just flawed for all of us.And the way that we communicate with each other is the only thing that there is left and it's been really interesting talking to people about this because it makes me feel less alone, if that makes any sense, to know that we're all going through some sort of different levels of horrific world events around us as it does seem like the world is ending in its own ways. And part of me wonders whether this is something that is somewhat unique to our generation, or if this is a feeling that everyone has had along the way, and that is the big question. Am I being too pessimistic or am I seeing things exactly as they are? And I still don't quite know the answer and that's why having these conversations is so important to me and so fulfilling in a different way.Because both of us have had these careers that were very... I mean, we have both been very front-facing. Our names and our identities are wrapped up in our work and writing and I think both of us have personas that we at least for some portion of time performed online that are not totally identical to our real personas. I think we both are much... Especially when we first started working in the same spaces, are much more aggressive online than I think we are as people normally. And I have gone through this feeling and I wonder if you feel too, having this desire to retreat intensely and reclaim my identity and hide away from the rules for a bit.And I'm trying to think about authors who would write a book and then go on sabbatical for five years and be like, "I'm not saying s**t for five years until I have another book at me." Well, we don't really get that luxury because we were just constantly making arguments. Do you feel that desire to retreat and almost protect your identity from even friendly audiences and how have you managed that? Because I get the sense that your relationship to online identity has shifted significantly over the years that we've known each other and I know that mine has too.Absolutely.And I'm curious where your head is at with that stuff.Yeah. I absolutely have felt that and I'm still in that weird position where I mean, first off, if someone is... If you manage a coffee shop or something or a factory, or if you're a CEO at a very successful company, whatever the case may be, it's not about being online constantly. A lot of people are online constantly for their own reasons, but in our positions, it was crucial to making a living is being online. That has been something that through, I mean, the past few years of therapy that I've been doing, a lot of it has centered on this idea of how do I deal with something that is making me feel terrible about myself and feel sad and feel angry all the time, which is social media, the internet, people, while also realizing that that is so core to what I'm doing and what I do with my life?And that's part of why I decided to try this solo thing because at Media Matters, there's no out. You can't just go, "I'm not going to pay attention to Vox this week," because then you're not paying attention to whatever's happening in the world because a lot of the work revolved around what is happening in right wing media. And I still keep up with this stuff, but I've already started to feel less anxious now that tracking exactly what Tucker Carlson is saying every night or what Sean Hannity is saying isn't my job. It's not my core job. It makes me feel better about myself and what I'm doing in the world, even if at the same time, it feels like it's giving up in a sense.Yeah. That phrase, “giving up” really resonates with me, because I think especially at a place like Media Matters or even just monitoring conservative media, there is this impulse I think you have as a media watcher that you need to be constantly drinking from the fire hose and just everything needs to be responded to and everything needs to be corrected. And I think one shift that's happened in my mind over the course of the Trump administration and the Trump campaign was something is happening here that has basically nothing to do with people having correct information and something being fact-checked enough. Know about the fact-checking to me, felt like it made a shred of difference to people who were ideologically committed to this and I think especially going into Media Matters, I had this real belief in people's good faith and the sense that debunking works as a persuasive strategy that I don't have anymore.And I think even my work was built around this sense of, "I need to make a video every three weeks and respond to anything that's coming up, or if it doesn't get responded to, it'll spiral out of control." And I made those videos for three weeks and I was constantly at the office and it did not matter in any meaningful way. So I think I'm in this phrase, this period of if I cannot stop the fire hose, the fire's going to happen no matter what. And the people who I disagree with are not super interested in whether or not I can fact check them or debunk them, what can I do this meaningful? And I think for me making a video like How to be Hopeless, or the video that I'm working on now in critical race theory is starting from this place of I accept defeat when it comes to persuading those who don't see eye to eye with me on this.I know that I cannot win that fight. If I'm talking to those who are interested in what I have to say, what can I do for them? And it's just a very different skill set and objective. Trying to speak to people whose hearts are aligned with yours is a different skill set and I think a little bit tougher. I find it much harder to write now that I've given up on debunking because fact-checking is easy. Really just to point out that something is wrong and find evidence for it. Trying to, I don't know, speak to someone who's in the same place of despair and have them understand the world a little bit better, or even feel less alone like you described is tougher as a writer and as a persuader, and I find that I struggle much more now with figuring out what is there to say that's useful? Because I don't feel like saying, "That's not true, that's not true, that's not true," is useful anymore and I would like to use my time more wisely.So I don't really... Even though we've been doing this for a long time, I feel like an amateur again. I'm not quite sure how to make the argument because I don't know what I'm trying to persuade someone off right now.Absolutely. Oh, that resonates so much. It's funny that so far, us talking has just been a lot of, "Yes, yes." But it's true. It's fascinating to me, I mean, just talking to you about these shared experiences that we had. Even if they were at different times in our lives is helpful and hopeful in a weird way that it doesn't make me feel like a total failure and I think that is what I'm grappling with right now is trying to figure out how to feel like less of a failure in life and less of someone who just does a lot of talking and not a lot of listening and doesn't really make a difference. I've been trying to figure out different ways to connect and that video, that How to Be Hopeless was just a fantastic video.Thanks.I'll be sure to link in the transcript of this. I make a point of getting full transcripts of every interview I do just for the sake of accessibility and whatnot, and aside from being expensive, it's very nice to have and it's a nice way to add little extras in there with links to YouTube videos and whatnot. The one other thing I wanted to ask you about, when it comes to the topic of cancel culture and all of that sort of stuff, when we hear people talk about that and use that, I see that as people talk about, "Oh, well this writer...." Andrew Sullivan got criticized for race science or something ridiculous that yeah, he's going to get criticized for and that was “cancel culture” for criticizing him. So he's going to leave and he's going to take a quarter-million dollars or whatever it was and everyone's going to feel bad for him because he was "canceled". And you see that happen all over the place.Yes.Steven Crowder, for instance, constantly... He's always been “canceled” because he was criticized or YouTube took him offline for a week to say, "Don't do it again." And then he's going to do it again. But when it comes down to it, the people who are affected by these things are the ones that typically don't have the kind of megaphone to get the "Help. I've been canceled," message out to the world and I saw that happen with you and with Vox. I mean, I feel like you were making a good point.You made a video pointing out how Crowder was just attacking you and clearly violating YouTube's rules. And as much as Vox initially publicly came out in your corner, it seems like they hung you out to dry. I'm not sure if you want to speak on that at all, but it depresses me because I cannot believe that it's the fact that they're a company in their corporation, it's not necessarily mission-driven or even worried about what the function of a company is, but in retrospect, do you think the things...? They could have done something different or that they didn't have your back enough or was everything fine? I don't know.Yeah. I mean, the humorously detached view of it is I spent all my time criticizing the way that corporate media prioritizes profit and finances over editorial good judgment. So then when I lost my job because I threatened Vox's financial interests as a partner, it was like, "Right. This makes sense. I should not be surprised." And I think the danger of any media critic at a media organization is invariably the things you're criticizing are going to happen in the place that you work too. My feeling about it is I don't have a ton of confusion about what happened to me. I'm very clear that the argument I'm making was right, the reasons that I was let go didn't really make any sense. Vox's trying to sell a show to YouTube that made them a lot of money. You could not run ads on my show because I was running a political show. So it makes sense. And I don't have a lot of anger because I feel like I've grieved that thing that happens enough that I'm not mad. I get it.You don't get mad at a lion for hunting prey because that's what a lion does. And you of course, think what happened to me, it was really painful, but I don't have any confusion about the fact the lion was hungry and I was prey and Vox did what they had to do. I will say that beyond my anger or frustration with Vox, I had to go through this own reckoning of did I f**k up? Did I do something that was wrong or stupid? And was there something...? The way you described after leaving Media Matters of like, "Was I just not the right person? Could I have said this differently?" And now that I've got some space from it, I can look back and be like, "I am really proud of how I handled myself." That was a very difficult, painful thing to go through and my only motivation in it was, "Fight like hell for what's right, even if you think you're going to lose." And I fought like hell for what was right. I still think I'm right. I still think I did it correctly.I still think my argument is solid and I like who I was during that and I'm still really proud of that person who I am now. The flip side of that is it does not shield you from suffering and punishment. It's been a very, very bad... It was a very painful experience and I think I'm still grappling with the pain of it and this sense of like, "It doesn't matter how good you are. The good people are not always rewarded and this has nothing to do with you being good or bad." There's no way you could've phrased this that would have been different. You just lost. The video of How to be Hopeless is ostensibly about grappling with grief at the end of the world, but for me writing it, it was also about you can't stop the plaque. If you're in the way, sometimes you just die. If this gets for me like dying is like losing my job and losing my identity as a public speaker, and rather than be angry about it forever, I had to just talk to myself and say, "I really like you."“I'm glad you did this. If this is it for my career, that's okay." You're just one person and just live a decent life. So my existentialism is part, me grappling with COVID and Trump, and part of me grappling with feeling like I really tried my best and lost. And how do you make peace with losing it and not use it as a weapon against yourself and say, "I'm such a f**k up. I should have done this differently. I should have phrased it differently." And just being like, "Yeah, I lost, but I did not lose myself and I tried to maintain my integrity and act in a way that was aligned with my moral judgment and I feel like I did that." Even though that doesn't shield you from pain at all. It doesn't shield you from shame or feelings of worthlessness, you just have to work through it. Sorry, that's a very fluffy answer, but it's an answer based on a lot of therapy.No. Yeah, I totally get it. And I get that it's complicated. Part of what to me on the outside stood out was that you were being framed as this... The argument for instance with Crowder and others on the right would push was, "Oh, you are the corporate one and he's just a little guy." I mean, he's loaded. He has so much power and influence and I would assume money. And you were being framed as the big corporate dude, which we both know wasn't accurate and it really hits home how life just sometimes is not fair and it's not right and I don't know. Would you have done anything differently in that particular situation or does it not matter given that we're moving past it? Have you thought about that at all?Yeah. I mean, the only thing I would have done differently was I would say the first eight weeks that it was this big public thing, I was so on the defense and in activist mode that I just had this exterior of like, "Nothing f***s with me. I'm not phased. Everything is funny. These people don't intimidate me. I'm not scared." Part of that is true. You and I had both been in the trenches online for a long time. We've dealt with a lot of harassment and s**t like that. A part of me was very solid and had no doubt. There was another part of me that was being traumatized about what was going on, and there were sessions where my therapist was like, "Are you good? I know you're talking about how you're okay, but this is trauma. Are you good?" And I'll be like, "I'm fine." And my family would be like, "Are you okay?" And I would say, "I'm fine."And I was putting on a brave face for everyone else, but also for myself because I didn't want to admit that I was getting fucked about what's going on, and eventually, I did have a breakdown privately and really have to deal with the fact that I mean, I was getting PTSD and was having all these bananas anxieties about being afraid in public spaces. I just want to... I wish I would've given myself enough compassion earlier on to be like, "Publicly, you're this tough guy and this is fine, privately, you need to let yourself be okay being fucked up by what's going on." You can only fight for so long before your emotions decide to find you and say, "Now we're having a breakdown," but I really just...My only thought when that was going on at first was like, "Survive, survive, survive, survive," and there's just not a lot of room when you're in that defensive posture to be like, "I'm okay, but this really, really hurts and I feel very scared right now." So that's what I would've changed. But in terms of the argument that I made and my choice to make it, I look back and I'm like, "Badass. That was badass," and that's how I think I feel about it. Badass.Yeah. Well, that's great. This has been a great discussion. This has been a great conversation. I've really enjoyed this.Me too.This is wonderful and thanks so much for coming on my new podcast that hopefully more people will listen to as time goes on.Of course. I got to say because we both [inaudible] on similar trajectories or both have been dancing in the same space for a while, I'm like whatever else happens to us, I'm very grateful that you and I have fought on the same side for a while and got to grow up with each other in this space, and convos like this... I think being an online persona can be very lonely in some ways and almost this reminds me that while the experience is often lonely, you're often lonely alongside other very good people. So I'm glad that I'm alongside you in this.Yeah. Thanks. And I mean, I'm just glad that we're friends.Same.In addition to all of that.Yeah. Get full access to The Present Age at www.readthepresentage.com/subscribe

What to do about tech overlords profiting from hate? Carlos Maza (Vox's Strikethrough) joins to discuss YouTube's love of the alt-right and any hope for change. Plus comedian Eliza Skinner (Late Late Show, Earth to Ned) and Nato Green join Francesca to talk about unemployment benefits ending, salads, the toxicity of Ellen Degeneres, and what should be a new Sam Jackson flick, "Masks on Planes". Also a very important look into the future with the game "My Sources Say." Featuring:Francesca FiorentiniNato GreenEliza SkinnerCarlos Maza Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

What to do about tech overlords profiting from hate? Carlos Maza (Vox’s Strikethrough) joins to discuss YouTube’s love of the alt-right and any hope for change. Plus comedian Eliza Skinner (Late Late Show, Earth to Ned) and Nato Green join Francesca to talk about unemployment benefits ending, salads, the toxicity of Ellen Degeneres, and what should be a new Sam Jackson flick, "Masks on Planes". Also a very important look into the future with the game "My Sources Say."   Featuring: Francesca Fiorentini Nato Green Eliza Skinner Carlos Maza  

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/08/2019-predictions-calibration-results/   At the beginning of every year, I make predictions. At the end of every year, I score them (this year I’m very late). Here are 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. And here are the predictions I made for 2019. Strikethrough’d are false. Intact are true. Italicized are getting thrown out because I can’t decide if they’re true or not. All of these judgments were as of December 31 2019, not as of now. Please don’t complain that 50% predictions don’t mean anything; I know this is true but there are some things I’m genuinely 50-50 unsure of. Some predictions are redacted because they involve my private life or the lives of people close to me. A few that started off redacted stopped being secret; I’ve put those in [brackets].

24 de febrero | Nueva YorkActualización. Como veis, esta newsletter viene encabezada con el primer podcast de La Wikly. En realidad, es un nuevo programa de El juego de Megan, el podcast sobre la industria de Hollywood que grabo desde hace años con mi amigo Pablo Moloco y que a partir de ahora será parte de esta newsletter. Lo de los podcasts no se quedará solo en esto, pero basta de novedades por hoy.(No le deis a ‘Listen in podcast app’ porque es una funcionalidad que todavía tengo que arreglar).Y si queréis echarnos un cable, compartidnos entre vuestros amigos:Hola a todos. Bernie Sanders deja tiritando a sus rivales tras Nevada, Peacock teme al Coronavirus y sí, estamos en decadencia.Leer esta newsletter te llevará 12 minutos y 10 segundos.Efectivamente, ni de puta coña. Esto es La Wikly. Bienvenido. © The Des Moines Register⚡️Sanders, victoria con sabor latinoLo importante: El senador demócrata Bernie Sanders se proclamó este pasado sábado como el gran ganador de los caucus de Nevada, consolidándose como favorito en las primarias del partido demócrata de cara a los concursos de South Carolina del 29 de febrero y el Supermartes del 3 de marzo.¿Por qué gran ganador? Con la mayor parte de los precintos escrutados, Sanders tiene un 47.1% de los delegados de condado, más del doble que el siguiente candidato, el exvicepresidente Joe Biden (21.0%). Ellos dos se repartirán la mayoría de los 36 delegados nacionales que reparte Nevada.A diferencia de Iowa, donde el voto estaba mucho más repartido, la victoria de Sanders en Nevada fue tan contundente que al final ha sacado delegados de condado a lo largo y ancho de todo el estado. ¡Y eso que solo se llevó el voto popular en un 40.7%!De hecho, y espero que sepáis cómo funciona un caucus, Bernie solo se llevó el 34.3% del voto en la primera alineación en los distintos caucus celebrados en Nevada.Es decir, que la gente que votó temprano o fue a los caucus este sábado tenía a Sanders como primera opción en el 34.3% de los casos.Una vez se hizo recuento en la primera ronda de los caucus, los candidatos con menos del 15% eran considerados no-viables y los votantes que apoyaban a esos candidatos no-viables tenían, o bien que encontrar viabilidad propia o bien unirse a candidatos con viabilidad como Bernie.Al tener Bernie un apoyo muy superior al 15%, lo habitual era que su candidatura fuera viable en prácticamente todos los precintos, haciendo más fácil llevarse apoyos de aquellas otras candidaturas que no fueran viables tras la primera ronda.Eso es lo que explica que Bernie pasara de 34.4% de apoyos en la primera ronda al 40.7% en la segunda.El resto de los candidatos tuvieron bastantes más problemas para encontrar la viabilidad porque solo Sanders y Biden superaron el 15% de apoyos a nivel estatal, con lo que era difícil encontrar precintos donde las candidaturas de Buttigieg, Warren, Steyer o Klobuchar pasaran de la primera alineación de voto.Menos viabilidad, más delegados que repartir entre quienes sí la tenían. ¿Y quién la tenía casi siempre? Don Bernie Sanders. De ahí que se haya llevado el 47.1% de los delegados de condado.Coalición multiracial. Es uno de los eslóganes que más vais a leerle a la campaña de Sanders estos días después de lo visto en Nevada, el primer estado en votar en estas primarias cuyo porcentaje de población blanca no era de un 80 y pico por ciento como en Iowa o New Hampshire.Nevada tiene un electorado mucho más diverso, sobre todo entre demócratas, con lo que campañas como las de Sanders o Biden siempre argumentaron que era en estados como este donde de verdad podrían demostrar sus armas.A diferencia de sus rivales, Sanders y Biden tienen probado apoyo entre minorías. Mirad esta gráfica de las encuestas a pie de urna de CNN. Sanders y Biden son los únicos que sacan cifras de doble dígito entre negros e hispanos:Wait, 54% entre latinos? Sí, lo de Sanders con los latinos en Nevada ha sido de locos, pero no es algo que no se viera venir. Su campaña lleva meses, sino años, cuidando sus raíces en las comunidades latinas de cara a buscar resultados como este. ¡Y vaya si ha funcionado!En este artículo de The Intercept (medio de izquierdas) explican bien cómo la infraestructura de campaña de Sanders dedicó muchos recursos a la organización en comunidades latinas, con el español siendo la bandera para convencer a los votantes y enseñarles a participar en los caucus.Y en este otro de BuzzFeed cuentan cómo los jóvenes latinos que apoyan a Sanders en masa han sido la punta de lanza del senador para convencer a sus padres y abuelas para que descarten lo que han escuchado en medios generalistas de habla hispana como Telemundo (parte de NBCUniversal) y Univision y se decanten por Tío Bernie.(Sin olvidar la importancia de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez).Las encuestas auguraban un buen resultado para Bernie, pero el senador de Vermont las batió en 4 puntos, de ahí que la narrativa de la carrera sobre que todavía no es el favorito se haya desmontado en cuestión de horas. (Aquí ya sabíamos que era favorito desde hace semanas).Eso sí, cabe decir que Biden también superó expectativas en 3.5 puntos.El resultado del exvicepresidente está lejos de lo que decían las encuestas de Nevada antes de Iowa, pero al menos lo sitúan en un segundo puesto que NUNCA había conseguido en unas primarias en sus tres campañas presidenciales previas. Normal que estuviera tan aliviado el sábado:¿Y ahora? Mi previsión es que Biden va camino de ganar South Carolina este próximo sábado gracias a su apoyo entre votantes afroamericanos (es el único demográfico que le ha ganado a Sanders en Nevada) y que se establecerá como el único capaz de frenar el ascenso de Bernie.Jim Clyburn, el tercer demócrata más importante del Congreso en Washington D.C. y la figura política más influyente de South Carolina, apoyará la candidatura de Biden este miércoles, cimentando la potencial victoria del exvicepresidente en el estado.Las únicas dudas que tengo con South Carolina tienen que ver, por un lado, con el debate demócrata que se celebra este martes (y que seguiré en Twitter con uno de mis megahilos); y por otro, con el momentum que pueda tener Sanders tras su victoria en Nevada.Me atrevería a decir que Warren despedazará del todo a Mike Bloomberg el martes, que Biden y Sanders intentarán pasar desapercibidos en ese debate, y que el sábado Tío Bernie se quedará a unos pocos puntos de la victoria en South Carolina para luego ganar Texas y California en el Supermartes gracias a los latinos.¿Desea saber más? El hilo de Twitter que hice siguiendo los caucus de Nevada está bastante completo con más información de demográficos, participación y tal. Y en cuanto a la estrategia de Bloomberg, que tras Biden creo que es el único que puede frenar a Sanders por los recursos que tiene, hablé de él en Newtral (14 minutos).🦚 NBCUniversal enseña las plumasLo importante: NBCUniversal, uno de los tres grandes estudios de Hollywood que quedan en pie tras Disney (Disney+) y Warner Bros. (HBO Max), anunció hace unas semanas qué pinta tendrá su plataforma de streaming Peacock que se estrena el próximo abril.¿NBCUniversal? Es el estudio que te ha traído Jurassic Park, las Fast & Furious, los Minions y comedias como The Office o Parks and Recreation.Lo que ya sabemos: Que se diferenciará con respecto a sus rivales porque tendrá publicidad, aunque con opciones de pago para deshacerse de ella. Y que los usuarios que tengan cable contratado a través de Comcast (que es la corporación que controla NBCU) tendrán las mismas opciones que el resto pero con un descuento. Me explico:Peacock Free: 7.500 horas de contenido. Nuevas series con capítulos disponibles al día siguiente de su emisión. Algunos episodios de las series originales de Peacock. Noticias, clásicos de TV y películas populares.Precio: $0. Nada.Peacock Premium: 15.000 horas de contenido. Todas las series en emisión con capítulos disponibles al día siguiente de su emisión. Todas las series originales de Peacock. Acceso temprano a programas de late night. Directos de la Premier League. Todo el catálogo de clásicos. Toda la programación hispana. Noticias en vivo. Ah, y las ceremonias de apertura y clausura de los JJOO de Tokio.Precio: $5/mes con publicidad y $10/mes sin publicidad.Los usuarios de cable de Comcast no pagarán nada por Peacock Premium con publicidad pero sí $5/mes por la versión sin anuncios.Lo del cable lo menciono porque es importante para saber que la plataforma de lanzamiento de Peacock en abril será a través de los clientes de Xfinity/Cox, dos distribuidores de cable. Xfinity es parte de Comcast.Eso le da a NBCUniversal una primera piscina de más de 24 millones de usuarios con los que lanzar su aventura de Peacock y empezar a generar recursos desde el primer día no con dinero de suscripciones como hacen Netflix o Disney+, sino con una audiencia que venderle a los anunciantes.Lo que no sabemos: Más allá de alguna imagen random, el cómo lucen las series y películas originales que NBCU producirá para la plataforma. De lo que más me apetece: el reboot de Battlestar Galactica, el sci-fi distópico Brave New World, la adaptación del podcast Dr. Death y la nueva comedia de Mike Schur (The Good Place), Rutherford Falls.Tampoco sabemos: Qué efecto puede tener la cancelación de los JJOO de Tokio si el coronavirus sigue haciendo de las suyas. Toda la estrategia promocional de NBCU se iría al carajo. La crisis en Comcast sería para ver y gozar, la verdad.¿Desea saber más? En The Hollywood Reporter (6 minutos) tienen una buena columna sobre por qué la estrategia de NBCU puede ser la más inteligente de todas las del mundo del streaming —si es que uno no lo tiene tan fácil como Bob Iger con Disney+—. Y en The Verge (7 minutos), un artículo en el que resumen bien todo lo que ofrecerá la plataforma. Por supuesto, siempre podéis escucharnos a Pablo y a mí daros la turra (42 minutos).🤓 Tres lecturas relevantesSilicon Valley: 'El Metaverso. Qué es. Cómo encontrarlo. Quién lo construirá. Y Fortnite', por Matthew Ball en su web (en inglés; 42 minutos).Ball es la primera persona a la que leí hablar en profundidad sobre el Metaverso, esta idea de crear un mundo virtual a lo Ready Player One en el que los humanos puedan interactuar con elementos ya conocidos en la vida real como relaciones sentimentales y transacciones económicas, pero de cara a experiencias que solo puede ofrecer ese nuevo mundo virtual. He intentado reducirlo a una frase, pero el asunto es mucho más complejo y fascinante. Si leéis a Ball, avanzaréis 5 años en lo que el valle ya está pensando para el entretenimiento del futuro.Hollywood: 'Cómo el levantamiento de cejas se hizo mainstream', por Rebecca Jennings en Vox (en inglés; 9 minutos).Como bien dice Jennings: una vez lo has visto, ya no podrás dejar de verlo. Se refiere al levantamiento de cejas con botox que se hacen muchas famosas (y algunos famosos) para tener ojos de princesa Disney. Pero ese no es el problema. El problema está en la cantidad de jóvenes millennials que están dejándose influir por el postureo de Instagram y también se los están haciendo.Washington D.C.: 'La era de la decadencia’, por Ross Douthat de The New York Times (en inglés; 25 minutos).“Nuestros pesimistas ven crisis en todas partes; nuestros optimistas insisten en que tenemos ansiedad porque el mundo está cambiando a una velocidad que nuestros cerebros primitivos no pueden procesar. ¿Pero y si el sentimiento de aceleración es una ilusión conjurada por nuestras expectativas de progreso perpetuo y exageradas por el filtro distorsionado de internet?”. Uno de esos ensayos que te cambian la forma en la que piensas sobre nuestra existencia una vez has terminado de leerlo. Douthat es columnista conservador del Times. Merece mucho la pena leer la mayoría de sus columnas por mucho que no compartas su ideología o el hecho de que la religión sea tan importante en su forma de ver el mundo.😆 Quitándole la graciaRecetas que no tiran. Di con este vídeo megatop de un periodista de BBC que se ha dedicado a desmontar algunos de esos vídeos populares de recetas molonas que pueblan YouTube y Facebook desde hace años. Y sí, vale, podía imaginar que a ningún mortal le podían quedar platos tan guapos como los que pintan en esos vídeos, ¿pero que es todo una mentira absurda? Yikes. Flipo.Y en movidas que os alegrarán la semana:PewDiePie ha vuelto a YouTube y ha rajado a Jake Paul durante 15 minutos.“I have the high ground”, pero en modo Disney.Todas las canciones son así de simples. Y aun así son temazos.Hablando de temazos. Tú también puedes componer como Bad Bunny.Le han hecho una entrevista a la dueña del perro-meme Doge.Con compañeros de piso así DA GUSTO.Sombrerito mexicano para un gato peludo.Seguro que yo también me indignaba conmigo mismo así cuando me veía llorar.Está bien que respondiera la llamada del “¿Hay un médico en el avión?”, pero mejor es lo que pasó después.Suerte con este vídeo.Gatos que asustan de verdad.En serio, pero asustar DE VERDAD.Si eres un cabrón, te gustará ver lo que le pasa a este perro.Un bebé intentando decir popsicle. Porque esos vídeos nunca fallan.Cuando resulta que tu pato mascota es… ¿Dexter?“Kourtney, ¿qué cojones pasa con tu Wi-Fi?”Padres que ven más TikTok que sus hijas.Y por si no lo habéis visto, la señora random que cantó “Shallow” en el metro cuando se lo pidió un cómico y ahora ella tiene cientos de miles de seguidores en Instagram gracias a ello.🤩 Un vídeo para cabrearseCarlos Maza solía tener una serie de vídeos para la cabecera Vox llamada Strikethrough. Allí, se dedicaba a criticar a los medios generalistas y la cobertura tendenciosa que hacen de la realidad política y social estadounidense. Era especialmente duro con Fox News (con razón), pero ahora se ha hecho youtuber independiente y no solo está desatado contra CNN o MSNBC, sino que además ha hecho su mejor vídeo hasta la fecha.PD: Maza es muy de izquierdas, y lo notaréis en el vídeo, pero hace apuntes muy acertados sobre la crisis mediática que viven las cadenas de noticias en EEUU.👋 Y para terminar...Una recomendación. He terminado la última temporada de The Good Place, la serie de Kristen Bell y Ted Danson sobre “el cielo”. El último episodio es acojonante. Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation) sin duda sabe cerrar sus series. Creo que The Good Place tiene tramos irregulares que no se han criticado tanto como deberían, pero la conclusión final es que NBC suma otra gran comedia a su impresionante historial reciente de ellas: 30 Rock, The Office, Parks and Rec, Will & Grace…Also, este fin de semana he estado escuchando el nuevo álbum de Grimes. Tengo pendiente leerme mejor las letras y darle caña a algunas canciones que he pasado de largo porque he estado muy liado, pero es indudable que “Delete Forever” es un señor temazo. Tiene videoclip:Hasta la semana que viene. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.lawikly.com/subscribe

Today's episode is a chat with the amazing ArmoredSuperHeavy!Topics include: Fanlore: history of fandom migrations including Strikethrough and Boldthrough The fan is a tool-using animalFandom next of kin, including how to set one on AO3University of Iowa fandom special collectionsCamillecailloux: Bun Elias and Little Wolf Men & ChickenFortuna Fugit by fahyeEmungere, Blackbird bluesyturtle, Crystal Ship thecountessolivia, Funeral of Flowers highermagic, Starvation InfiniteCrisis, the Infinitives series gleamingandwholeanddeadly, printersdevils, Amongst the Deathless Ones emungere, Taken for Rubies reapersun, Coffee Shop AU Lori Morimoto, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies Cesperanza, Money and Networks Rageprufrock's lack of tagsLolah Burford: Edward, EdwardFind Armored: twitter, tumblr

How do we make Pride better? And what kind of self-promotion isn't gross? [22:49] This week, Aaron and Joey talk about the Pink Dollar, "seeing rainbows," authenticity, The Wingman Phenomenon, the fear of the snakeoil salesman, and pop-up ads. They don't talk about how the title of this episode is the title of our yet unwritten, smash-hit mashup memoir: a composite of Joey and Aaron's personal stories and pop-cultured Jane Austen motifs. references Carlos Maza (and Coleman Lowndes) present: Strikethrough Kantar + Hornet's estimate is closer to $917B in buying power. (A lot, but nowhere near the $3T we quoted.) More from Bloomberg on the matter. Pride: see related articles from the NY Times or "a history of" from Bustle Charity Navigator. Hacking the NYTimes Bestseller list. These Gallup results and FastCo's interpretation on what they show about self-promotion. Science on why we interpret self-promotion the way we do.

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Host of Vox's Strikethrough series Carlos Maza on YouTube's harassment problem, being the target of homophobia and racism, why social media sites fail to take action against individuals who blatantly and repeatedly breach their rules, the hypocrisy of a website claiming to be LGBT-friendly while refusing to remove homophobic content, the reason why just demonetising bad actors doesn't work, whether social media sites are culpable for the harassment and abuse that individuals dole out on their platforms, the flaw in the design of social media sites that allowed "the most inflammatory, bigoted and engaging performers" to thrive and how all social media sites are "toxic dumpster fires". The Hardy Report is a political news and current affairs podcast, bringing you interviews with a range of activists, campaigners and politicians from across the political spectrum in the United States and the United Kingdom. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehardyreport/support

The controversial YouTube ben and the effect it has on our privacy in this episode of The Goodbye Privacy Podcast.

At the beginning of every year, I make predictions. At the end of every year, I score them. Here are 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. And here are the predictions I made for 2018. Strikethrough’d are false. Intact are true. Italicized are getting thrown out because I can’t decide if they’re true or not. Please don’t complain that 50% predictions don’t mean anything; I know this is true but there are some things I’m genuinely 50-50 unsure of. US: 1. Donald Trump remains president at end of year: 95% 2. Democrats take control of the House in midterms: 80% 3. Democrats take control of the Senate in midterms: 50% 4. Mueller’s investigation gets cancelled (eg Trump fires him): 50% 5. Mueller does not indict Trump: 70% 6. PredictIt shows Bernie Sanders having highest chance to be Dem nominee at end of year: 60% 7. PredictIt shows Donald Trump having highest chance to be GOP nominee at end of year: 95% 8. [This was missing in original] 9. Some sort of major immigration reform legislation gets passed: 70% 10. No major health-care reform legislation gets passed: 95% 11. No large-scale deportation of Dreamers: 90% 12. US government shuts down again sometime in 2018: 50% 13. Trump’s approval rating lower than 50% at end of year: 90% 14. …lower than 40%: 50% 15. GLAAD poll suggesting that LGBQ acceptance is down will mostly not be borne out by further research: 80%

Fannish Podcast is a weekly discussion podcast. This week, we discuss the state of fandom on social media post Tumblr purge. Strikethrough purge on Live Journal: http://neolithicsheep.tumblr.com/post/180889102408/whats-interesting-to-me-as-an-old-who-went Follow us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/FannishPodcast https://www.tumblr.com/blog/fannishpodcast https://twitter.com/Cleo4u2 https://twitter.com/Kajmere https://twitter.com/cryobuckys https://twitter.com/ajamesonvoice Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17eI45tiQIjwQ9tNIJMFhRPi_YmYyxvbU/view?usp=sharing What We're Reading links: @CharCubed meta threat: https://twitter.com/charcubed/status/1085731769738035200?s=21 Homoerotic Subtext from the Bar Scene in CATFA by vulcansmirk: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2631527 Saving Sergeant Barnes by vulcansmirk: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7775752/chapters/17735437 THAT TIME STEVE AND BUCKY GOT MARRIED by ipoiledi: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4724681 Personal Security by Kangofu_CB: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17261309 dance with a ghost by crinklefries: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17339582

Zack, Jenn, and Alex talk about Trump’s late-night tweet about the alleged persecution of white South African farmers. They explain what’s actually happening in South Africa, how Trump’s take on the situation has its roots in an international white nationalist movement, and how Fox News is helping turn these extreme ideas into actual US foreign policy. On Elsewhere, they discuss the recent revelation that Iran has been engaging in a Russia-style disinformation campaign on social media — and why the US can’t seem to fight back against foreign meddling in its politics. Alex recalls his old AOL screen name, Zack reveals a little too much about what the word “cyber” means to him, and Jenn leavens a dark episode with talk of cute cats and dogs. References: Jenn’s piece on President Trump’s South Africa tweet, which we reference throughout the episode.    Jenn mentioned that experts contest this narrative. Here are several pieces from Quartz, the New Statesman, and the BBC that dig into that idea further. If you’d like to read more about apartheid in South Africa, this Smithsonian piece is a good place to start. We quoted this tweet from President Trump and this tweet from the South African government, and mentioned this Ann Coulter tweet. Jenn touched on the group that pushes this narrative about white South African farmers under attack, but you can read more about them in this HuffPost piece. More background on Charleston, South Carolina, shooter Dylann Roof. Zack gave a shout-out to Carlos Maza’s Strikethrough video about white supremacists and Tucker Carlson. Jenn mentioned this Guardian piece walking through the journey this narrative took from South Africa to the far right. For Elsewhere, we played a clip from this interview with John Bolton. Here’s a deeper dive into the fake Iranian and Russian accounts. Jenn gave a specific example of a fake Iranian account calling out a Republican candidate for Holocaust denial. For more on the Iranian accounts impersonating Bernie Bros, this Daily Beast piece is a good resource. Alex mentioned Stuxnet, and the hacking of both a dam and JP Morgan. Alex also said that various officials feel they have no real directive from the president on cyber initiatives. Here’s more on that.   If you want to know a little more about how vulnerable to cyber threats we really are, Alex recommends this piece.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn, Zack, and special guest Alex Ward discuss President Trump’s decision to escalate America’s military involvement in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, and beyond — despite having campaigned on an “America First” agenda that promised to reduce US military intervention overseas. On Elsewhere, they look at a story out of Germany, where a member of a popular far-right, anti-Islam, anti-immigrant political party has converted to Islam and quit the party — after working with Muslim immigrants. Jenn talks about the experience of converting to Islam, Zack gets angry about wars, and Alex tries to translate military speak. Mentioned in the show: Cory Booker’s Op-Ed 2018 National Defense Strategy Report Arthur Wagner of the German AFD party converting to Islam You’re more likely to be killed by furniture than by terrorism An explainer on the “mowing the grass” metaphor mentioned Further reading: This is your brain on terrorism Strikethrough video How Trump’s language on Afghanistan has changed since he came into office Candidate Trump promised to stay out of foreign wars. President Trump is escalating them. How would Trump react to a terror attack like one in Manchester? How a Blonde Tattooed Texas Girl Became an ISIS Twitter Star  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the beginning of every year, I make predictions. At the end of every year, I score them. Here are 2014, 2015, and 2016. And here are the predictions I made for 2017. Strikethrough’d are false. Intact are true. Italicized are getting thrown out because I can’t decide if they’re true or not.

AFTERBUZZ TV — Good Girls Revolt is a weekly "after show" for fans of  Good Girls Revolt. In this show, hosts Abby Vega and Marisa Serafini discuss episodes 5 & 6. ABOUT GOOD GIRLS REVOLT: This Amazon-original series is set in New York in the late 1960s, when a cultural revolution was sweeping through the free world. One place that was not quick to change with the times was newsrooms. Inspired by real events, "Good Girls Revolt" follows Patti Robinson and her fellow female researchers at News of the Week, who decide to ask for equal treatment. Their quest initiates an upheaval that impacts romantic relationships, careers and friendships, and propels Patti and her friends into unfamiliar territory that they never dreamed of. Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV Buy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/

This week we have James from strikethrough media on, we cant speak highly enough of Strikethroughs work, some of the video that they produce are second to none! Enjoy!

Renay and Ana discuss the results of the 2015 Fangirl Happy Hour Annual Survey. Discussion References The 11 best geek culture podcasts to listen to right now Strikethrough and Boldthrough Reach out to us! Email us or drop us an ask. Follow us on Twitter — @fangirlpodcast (or individually @booksmugglers/@renay) Follow us on Tumblr — […] The post Fangirl Happy Hour, Episode #40 – “Data Nerds” appeared first on Fangirl Happy Hour.

A couple of tricks to make sure your spelling passes the smell test online.