“There is now a white fear industrial complex, where many people get very rich and very powerful by telling white America that they are under constant assault.” #PBS #racism
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/20/arts/white-with-fear-pbs/

https://archive.is/ecSoC

From February: Cartoon review: “Weather Hunters”

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/cartoon-review-weather-hunters/

#animation #PBS #PBSKids #AlRoker

Comment je sécurise mes services : ma stratégie de sauvegarde multi-niveaux sous Proxmox

https://blablalinux.be/2026/03/27/ma-strategie-sauvegarde-proxmox/

PBS Teams With ITVS to Launch YouTube Documentaries Channel
#TV #TVNews #ITVS #PBS #YouTube

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/pbs-itvs-documentaries-youtube-channel-1236547220/

Preparing to be ready for #WorldBackupDay with Proxmox Backup Server in my #homelab.

Now my backups of my #Proxmox VM and LXC are encrypted and stored locally on my DS918+. I have a datastore on my remote DS218j using the #pbs sync process.

This part of the 3-2-1 rules :

- 3 copies of your files
- 2 different storage devices
- 1 off-site backup

My #Proxmox encryption key is stored in my #Bitwarden with #Vaultwarden and in the password manager of two friends. You never know 😉

Lilias Folan Dies: Longtime PBS Host & “First Lady Of Yoga” Was 90
#News #Obituaries #LiliasFolan #LiliasYogaAndYou #Obituary #PBS

https://deadline.com/2026/03/lilias-folan-dead-1236763399/

Media — January 2026

A backdated post about January coming from mid-March. It was a busy month at work coming off of Winter Break and right into the annual review cycle and an upcoming release. I did fit in chaperoning an art museum field trip, which is definitely a kind of media.

Reading

At bedtime we decided to continue with the Jacques and went right from Mossflower into Redwall. (Technically out of publishing order, but I think Mossflower has a better hook and establishes the world a bit more as a prequel.)

While I haven’t lived in the Minneapolis area for over twenty years, I largely grew up there and have a ton of friends still in the area, some of them being personally impacted by federal occupation. I read a lot of articles in January about it, probably more than was necessary.

The Son King of Hollywood

Fascinating profile of David Ellison and his largely successful endeavors to become a Hollywood executive from the outside, using daddy’s money.

How ICE Watchers De-escalate

The sociology behind toxic masculinity, authoritarian violence, and the tactics that can help in the moment.

The Minneapolis Uprising

So much of the violence is being done to and around children. From distant Seattle it feels like there is not much I can do other than make a few donations.

Playing

Potion Punch 2+

I tried this Apple Arcade version out for a bit since Andrle really enjoys Cooking Fever, which has a similar mechanic. You can definitely get into a similar rhythm and start unlocking more and more stuff, but I think this one isn’t for me. I think not enough variety to unlock at first, and the automatic customer matching frustrated me as it wouldn’t always complete the request I intended.

Watching

Most of this month’s movie nights were dedicated to bingeing some Disney animated classics (all repeats) in preparation for our upcoming trip. Even some bonus non-Friday slots.

Wake Up Dead Man

Still had Netflix from our Christmas movie marathoning, so we caught the latest Knives Out. I think I still like the first one more but this was quite good and had some great performances. A lot of delightful scenery chewing, and Josh O’Connor was quite good (I haven’t seen him in anything before.) I figured out a lot of the clues but not the full reveal.

I laughed out loud at how heavy handed some shots were, especially with the church imagery, but at least Rian has style and it’s a new story! The vibes throughout felt more Pentecostal than Catholic but the trappings of the priesthood I guess appealed more for the story.

GWAR — Pink Pony Club

Nice style crossover cover. 🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR48KLE8I

There I Ruined It — House of the Rising Sun + Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Very well done mashup for a childhood favorite PBS show and a classic rock song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZESYwDeYE

Programmers Are Also People — Interview with Senior DevOps Engineer 2025

This series is usually quite funny, probably because it hits a little close to home sometimes. “Cloud can smell fear.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPpkzdS-q4

Listening

Christmas music season is done (although it always goes up through Epiphany) so we’re back to our usual music rotation with the likes of Taylor, Gaga, and Darren Hayes.

Twenty Thousand Hertz — Butterfly in the Synth

There was a period when I was little where our TV viewing was largely limited to PBS. (See also the above Mr. Rogers mashup.) Hands down the most formative show for me was Reading Rainbow, hosted by LeVar Burton. In fact it’s a big reason why I became a Trekkie — there’s an episode where he does a behind the scenes tour of the TNG sets and explains the transporter special effect and I was immediately fascinated and wanted to check it out. (I think I caught this episode in reruns later, since I started watching live near the end of the fifth season.) Anyway this is a great 20k episode explaining how the extremely ’80s synth theme, a total earworm for me, was created.

Seattle Now — Small homes have Seattle spilling into storage units

Interesting KUOW episode on the boom in storage units as Seattle has grown in recent decades. Our townhouse is pretty small but we’ve managed to mostly minimize into its limited closet space (no garage or basement). The only time we’ve needed a storage unit was when our previous condo was staged for sale.

Bruce Springsteen — Streets of Minneapolis

A solid protest song from The Boss about the ICE occupation of my one-time home town. (Which isn’t really over.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

Billy Bragg — City of Heroes

Another more punk protest song about Minneapolis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8