Netflix & streaming video stuff worth watching

We watched tonight as well.

I knew that there were some screwy things going on with social manipulation and Big Tech, but I didn't know how deep the rabbithole went.

Really severely tempted to nuke my Facebook now. Only reason I have kept it is it is the only way I can get ahold of some folks (i.e., high school), not that I'm ever on there anyway.

Also, really underscores how much I can't stand Zuckerberg. He's destroying governments, destabilizing countries and engineering other social unrest (like radicalizing the Pizzagate and QAnon nutjobs) and he DOES NOT CARE. He's a psychopath. Anybody who thinks he's going to take any responsibility for any of this or do anything to reform things other than keep raking in cash is fooling themselves.

 
On 9/14/2020 at 9:28 PM, GSG said:

Watched most of this tonight with my wife

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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  :o  with Facebook right up there as well  :dunno

 
@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  :lol:

 
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  :lol:
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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. 

 
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. 
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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

 
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 

 
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.

 
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