jsonbeckerNilay’s piece on Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is as good as it gets. There’s a reason everyone is linking to it. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
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KateThinking a bit about #TwitterMigration arriving in mastodon and trying to recreate their Twitter habitat exactly here. Twitter’s commercial genius is that it’s already shaped your thinking about what you’re experiencing, especially that all good things are easy to understand and work first time. I remember being baffled by my first email address, trying to figure out irc and Usenet culture norms, the exact sound of a dial up modem not connecting. Slow down friends, it’s ok here.
captain_morganHi independent/home circuit assembly folks. I'm looking for opinions on the NeoDen YY1, you or you know someone with hands on experience? Please let me know. It's basically the only #PNP I can afford and I am moving to slow on RE'ing the old TM245P. #pleaseboost
Hank G ☑️</sarcasm>No one could have possibly predicted this would happen!</sarcasm> This is just the beginning. Glad I left that steaming pile. Hopefully more of the few dozen people I followed there end up on the fediverse someone so I can totally delete my profile. /sarcasm #DeleteTwitter #twittermigration
Amazon has it. On DVD. For between AU$70.98 and AU$117. Right...
DVDs turned out to be the key, though. Have bought a used copy on ebay for $8.80AU with free shipping. No new royalty payment for the creators, but at least we can donate it to the local op shop after watching...
Bonus, I get to find out if the DVD player still works...
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Never mind, I can rent it from Microsoft in HD for only AU$4.99. I didn't even know they did that:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/forbidden-lie/8d6kgwzj5njj
I can watch the movie on my HoloLens (!), XBox, Windows Phone, or PC with Windows 10 or newer...
Hrm, OK. That's not going to work either.
I briefly checked torrent sites, was reminded how bloody horrible torrent sites are if you don't run a 100% ad blocker. Plus this is an indie documentary, so I would greatly prefer to give the makers a buck or two...
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Buy Forbidden Lie$ - Microsoft Store en-AU
Norma Khouri's best friend Dalia's was murdered by her own father: she had brought disgrace on the family by falling in love with a Christian. Fearing for her own life, Khouri fled Jordan and penned an exposé of the pan-arab practice of "honour killing" through her first person account of Dalia's life. The book, Forbidden Love, went on to become an international Bestseller. But no-one else knew of Dalia. Was Khouri's non-fiction memoir all lies?
Oh, it's apparently coming up on SBS TV!
https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/forbidden-lie-review
At 1:55am next month...
... and not to be available on their associated streaming source.
Guess I don't want to watch it that much...
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Start by looking at usual suspects, the ones we pay monthly subscriptions for. Not there.
Try https://kanopy.com - which is way a great no-cost service available through some libraries that has a ton of documentaries on it. Not there either.
That's all totally fine, but where can we watch this movie?
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Media distribution in 2022 is *weird*, and today I found a fantastic example:
I've been listening to the (very funny) 2019 podcast Finding Drago, that was commissioned by the ABC. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/finding-drago
In one episode they interview Anna Broinowski, who in 2007 made a documentary about a hoax author con artist called Forbidden Lie$
The doco sounds really interesting from Anna's account of it, surely we can watch it somewhere... yeah?
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Finding Drago | Finding Desperado with Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James - ABC
Finding Desperado is a brand new investigative mystery podcast, hosted by comedians Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James — the team behind the most talked about podcast of 2019, Finding Drago. Australia’s premier (and only) pop culture detectives, Alexei and Cameron have uncovered a bizarre Guinness World Record from 2005. A record held by an elusive European aristocrat. A record that they believe to be fake.
Mike Masnick ✅Seeing some familiar faces starting to show up here. I know there are ways to sync content from Twitter and Mastodon, but I'd recommend not doing that, and exploring new ways to use Mastodon that fit more with the platform itself.
If we're exploring somewhere new, no need to recreate the same mistakes of the past.