teachercd Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 I started to watch it but I sort of got bored with it. I do agree that Zuckerberg is weird! 1 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 34 minutes ago, teachercd said: I started to watch it but I sort of got bored with it. I do agree that Zuckerberg is weird! ZUCK WANTS YOU TO GET BORED WITH IT. SKYNET HAS WON! 4 Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 48 minutes ago, teachercd said: I started to watch it but I sort of got bored with it. I do agree that Zuckerberg is weird! Get some Adderall or whatever from your students and FOCUS! 4 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Watched the first two episodes of Cobra Kai last night. It's really good. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment
teachercd Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 1 minute ago, knapplc said: Watched the first two episodes of Cobra Kai last night. It's really good. It is awesome. They did a great job with that series. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 1 minute ago, teachercd said: It is awesome. They did a great job with that series. I'm impressed they've been able to recreate the feel of the movie so exactly. RIP Johnny's sweet car, though. That was an unhappy event. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
DevoHusker Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 On 9/14/2020 at 9:28 PM, GSG said: Watched most of this tonight with my wife Pretty sad and pretty f#&%ing scary ETA: I missed the first half, but this show is basically interviewing all of these tech people, many of whom were creators/developers of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., and how they've come to realize that the technologies have turned people and their minds into a currency. They talk a lot about how there is so much false information out there and how the algorithms spread false information at 6x the rate of factual info. They talk about how this leads to radicalization of the populace. It's a little terrifying. I actually deleted Facebook after we finished it. I watched this last night. Scary stuff indeed. I too noted the targeting of misinformation, to include "suggesting" to the user other sites that also spread falsehoods. I was shocked to here them say that Twitter was actually the worst offender with Facebook right up there as well Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 @GSG @DevoHusker @teachercd @Xmas32 @Danny Bateman I’ll never view my Google news or Facebook feeds the same. I rarely check in on Facebook any more but I felt the need to today after watching Social Dilemma. And typically I’ll check the Google feed on my phone a few times a day to see what’s up. Today I actually pictured those 3 guys back there controlling what I was seeing. Kinda creeped me out 2 Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, JJ Husker said: @GSG @DevoHusker @teachercd @Xmas32 @Danny Bateman I’ll never view my Google news or Facebook feeds the same. I rarely check in on Facebook any more but I felt the need to today after watching Social Dilemma. And typically I’ll check the Google feed on my phone a few times a day to see what’s up. Today I actually pictured those 3 guys back there controlling what I was seeing. Kinda creeped me out For the past couple years I've only been checking Facebook maybe once or twice a week. After watching the doc, I opened up my feed and saw few 20-paragraph religious proclamations, a few virus conspiracies, and a bunch of political crap. That wasn't why I joined Facebook back in college. I haven't deactivated my account but I deleted the app and removed the Facebook page from my mobile browser. YouTube is my real problem, but I don't seek out anything related to conspiracies or politics on there. It's mostly music, fails, TV/movies, ghost videos, and workout videos. Having said that, it's super easy to watch one or two and then all of the sudden I've watched 8 or 9. 1 Quote Link to comment
DevoHusker Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 3 hours ago, GSG said: YouTube is my real problem, but I don't seek out anything related to conspiracies or politics on there. It's mostly music, fails, TV/movies, ghost videos, and workout videos. Having said that, it's super easy to watch one or two and then all of the sudden I've watched 8 or 9. My Thursday golf league partner is the same. He says he intends to watch some specific YouTube clip/channel and the next thing he knows, an hour or 2 has gone by 1 Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 31 minutes ago, DevoHusker said: My Thursday golf league partner is the same. He says he intends to watch some specific YouTube clip/channel and the next thing he knows, an hour or 2 has gone by I do it a lot with cooking videos! I do get some dinner ideas from them though 2 Quote Link to comment
Crusader Husker Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Pandemic seemed the perfect time to rewatch the BBC series Coupling. Friends meets Seinfeld meets Sex in the City. Very funny. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Just finished the second season of Pen15 on Hulu. The show is set in 2000 and follows two 13-year old girls (played by adults). It's pretty funny. My wife relates to it more than I do since she's younger than me. The executive producers are the guys from The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer, and Jorma Taccone). It's pretty cringey and awkward, much like we all were at that age Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Just finished season one of Cobra Kai. It is such a well-made show. Perfectly melds the original Karate Kid with modern day. Lots of throwbacks, lots of old clips used for the show. The plot looks a little like a DNA strand - all interwoven around itself with people going from good guy to bad guy to good guy to bad guy from show to show - sometimes from scene to scene. There's a couple other things we want to watch right now, so we're putting Season 2 on hold for a bit, but we're definitely going to watch it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Ulty Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, knapplc said: Just finished season one of Cobra Kai. It is such a well-made show. Perfectly melds the original Karate Kid with modern day. Lots of throwbacks, lots of old clips used for the show. The plot looks a little like a DNA strand - all interwoven around itself with people going from good guy to bad guy to good guy to bad guy from show to show - sometimes from scene to scene. There's a couple other things we want to watch right now, so we're putting Season 2 on hold for a bit, but we're definitely going to watch it. My wife and I are about 6 episodes in to the first season. I hardly ever watch a new tv series: the time commitment, my attention span, and my early night sleepiness usually prohibit it, but damn, Cobra Kai is really good so far. I am impressed. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
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