Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background. Press the CC button to see movie names and locations.
Tag: YouTube
📺 Jeremy Keith – Building Blocks of the Indie Web
In these times of centralised services like Facebook, Twitter, and Medium, having your own website is downright disruptive. If you care about the longevity of your online presence, independent publishing is the way to go. But how can you get all the benefits of those third-party services while still owning your own data? By using the building blocks of the Indie Web, that's how!
Approaching the subject from a more architectural standpoint was quite refreshing and a great way to frame the subject for this audience. I found myself wishing he’d had twice the amount of time to expand on his ideas. Often when I’m explaining IndieWeb building blocks, I’ll touch on webmention prior to micropub, but I like the way he turned my usual thinking on it’s head by putting micropub first in his presentation.
Thanks, Jeremy (and Mozilla for the conference). This was great fun! 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYK-K0jWng
📺 OK Go and The Muppets – Muppet Show Theme Song | YouTube
📺 New Perspectives – What’s Wrong with TED Talks? Benjamin Bratton at TEDxSanDiego 2013 | YouTube
Benjamin Bratton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD and Director of The Center for Design and Geopoltics at CALIT2, asks: Why don't the bright futures promised in TED talks come true? Professor Bratton attacks the intellectual viability of TED, calling it placebo politics, middlebrow megachurch infotainment, and the equivalent of right-wing media channels. Does TED falsely present problems as simply puzzles to be solved by rearranging the pieces?
📺 Don’t Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin
Music video by Bobby McFerrin performing Don't Worry Be Happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
👓 Something is wrong on the internet by James Bridle | Medium
What concerns me is that this is just one aspect of a kind of infrastructural violence being done to all of us, all of the time, and we’re still struggling to find a way to even talk about it, to describe its mechanisms and its actions and its effects.
I think this fits the definition of a Weapon of Math Destruction.
🎧 Steindór Andersen & Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson | Haustið nálgast on YouTube
From the album: Stafnbúi Released october 2012, by the icelandic label 12 Tónar Rímur poetry is an important cultural heritage of the Icelandic nation. Stein...
h/t Vicki Boykis
📺 Are University Admissions Biased? | Simpson’s Paradox Part 2 | YouTube
Simpson's Paradox Part 2. This video is about how to tell whether or not university admissions are biased using statistics: aka, it's about Simpson's Paradox again!
REFERENCES:
Original Berkeley Grad Admissions Paper
Interactive Simpson’s Paradox Explainer
No Lawsuit, But Yes, Berkeley Study on Gender Bias
Statistics on college majors by gender:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/2016menu\_tables.asp
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/28/359419934/who-studies-what-men-women-and-college-majors
http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelors-degrees-conferred-to-women-by-major-1970-2012/
Earnings by college major
Wall Street Journal Article on Simpson’s Paradox
📺 ‘The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump’: 27 Psychiatrists Assess | The Last Word | MSNBC on YouTube
In a new book, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts asses President Donald Trump's behavior. Do his impulses explain his decisions? The book's editor Dr. Brandy Lee and Tony Schwartz, co-author of Trump's "The Art of the Deal," join Lawrence O'Donnell.
📺 Ron Perlman Talks President Donald Trump Speech Patterns | AM Joy | MSNBC on YouTube
Joy Reid is joined by actor and author Ron Perlman, and Columbia University professor of linguistics John McWhorter, on the bombshell statements and run-on sentences from Donald Trump’s recent New York Times interview.
📺 Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) | YouTube
Confederate symbols are still celebrated despite the ugly history they symbolize. John Oliver suggests some representations of southern pride that involve less racism and more Stephen Colbert.
📺 John Oliver – McCain Stopped Obamacare Repeal | YouTube
Enjoy the very best of John Oliver :)
📺 Using IFTTT for WordPress Social Media Automation | Advanced WordPress Meetup, San Diego, CA (YouTube)
This presentation was given by Jim Walker, The Hack Repair Guy, on "Using IFTTT for WordPress Social Media Automation", at the Advanced WordPress Meetup, San Diego, California, July 2017.
Below are the slides from the presentation, which includes this gruesome looking diagram:
[slideshare id=77812040&doc=usingiftttforsocialmediaautomation-170712235441]
📺 Travel Ban | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
From HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
📺 4th of July | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver does two verses and a chorus on the Day of Colonial Aggression