Freshen your spleen? —Blackbeard (played by Peter Ustinov) as he offers a bottle of whiskey to Steve Walker (played by Dean Jones)
There’s no call to put the fuddler’s name on your new shipmate. —Blackbeard played by Peter Ustinov to Steve Walker
Who’s the popinjay? —Blackbeard played by Peter Ustinov asking Steve Walker about the police officer
You call this modern life a good one? Everything’s gotten smaller and puckered up. —Blackbeard (played by Peter Ustinov) to Steve Walker
His breath would stun a horse! —Steve Walker (played by Dean Jones) to his date in reference to Blackbeard (played by Peter Ustinov)
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Blackbeard’s Ghost (Disney movie (1968))
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Corporations are truly people—specifically sociopaths. —John Oliver
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PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ([[HBO]]) on YouTube
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Overpunishment
Women and people of color being overpunished for their mistakes. Certainly we all make mistakes, but being punished equally for them is important.
examples:
- Anita Hill
- Vanessa Williams
- Monica Lewinsky, etc.
- See other examples in You’re Wrong About podcast
- There’s also the example from the NBA of the brawl at the Palace where the NBA overpunished the players while all of the drunk individual participants were given a slap on the wrist from the courts. This is discussed at the end of the documentary Untold: Malice at the Palace.
Cross reference notes from: [[On the Media - Toxic On the Media WNYC Studios 2120210216095113]] where part of this week’s episode was repeated from.
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[[On the Media - Maligned Women - August 24, 2021 at 0141PM]]
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both-sideism problems
Media created myths are often created by reporting which doesn’t include both sides.
- Keep in mind that these stories featured here are those with two actual sides (a male and a female) and not of the policy based ones where there is an “invented” side.
- What can we learn from journalism of stories about two side-ism here? On other more political stories is there legitimately an other side? Wouldn’t it be better to report the number of people affected instead of equating a small 5-10% group of fringe people as the “other side” when the majority of those affected are a clear majority. So for example, in equality of marriage, is there actual harm to the smaller proportion of religious fanatics who stand against it by providing it? Should they be reported on and given an outsized influence in the reportage?
- What criteria should be used for creating “balanced coverage”?
- Should there be demonstrated public wrongs for a side to be heard?
- What affect does public pressure play on what is shown/reported?
- What is the effect of who is given a voice? (Men over women in some of the cases; White over Black in some racialized cases, etc.)
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[[On the Media - Maligned Women - August 24, 2021 at 0141PM]]
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A daily planning / scheduling / productivity tool.
Essentially boils down to research relating to the Pomodoro technique indicates that the most productive people spend 52 minutes working diligently followed by 17 minutes of break.
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Why are the ideas of logic and communal perception tied up into politicians?
Too often we do a pseudo-science based method of governance. We use science and logic to improve things, but too often politicians end up ignoring the science and even common sense to do something more expedient or cheaper in the short term (and often detrimentally and more expensive in the long term).
How might we decouple the system 1 and system 2 effects of short term politics?
Might we reshape what it is that politicians do? Too often they’re not doing a good enough job communicating why something is important, so the public’s system 1 takes over to force the decision making experience.
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Thinking about the word “politician” this morning while listening passively to the news. 1
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