All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is a 3 parter by Curtis looking at the idea of the world and us as part of it, are part of a large system, and how computers fed those who really thought we could all be reduced to that. Covers the selfish gene as well.
An extremely interesting historical look at the love affair with systems and how the love affair with computing technology lived off it.
This really delves into the detail and is mostly made up of footage with interviews of survivors on both sides. What a monumental fuck up that was. And the leader of that cult was a fruitloop cunt who took a pile of kids with him.
I remember it happening ('93) but I had no idea how much of a nightmare that was.
Not sure why I waited so long to watch The Beastie Boys Story so long. It was excellent and was surprised by the format of literally Mike D and Ad-Rock just on a stage telling their story. Some wonderful anecdotes and was quite emotional at the end.
Yep, I watched all of that a couple months ago, it's a great doc, mentioned it in the TV thread, should probably have posted here
Watching the model shop not cope with the rise of CGI is exactly what's going to happen across industries now with AI, you need to embrace it, not try to pretend it's not happening.
The Chilbolton Incident is a nice tight (40mins) doc about crop circles on Prime. I had long thought the phenomenon had been explained as hoaxes, but it seems not. This doc has no padding & filler nor idiotic modern day doc practices like repeating the same thing over and over - just interviews.
It seems there is science that suggests this isn't yet explained. There are measurable differences in the soil and in the crops between known hoaxes and as yet unexplained ones.
The Incident itself is about a crop "circle" that looks like a response to the Aricebo message sent out in the 70s. A quick google shows some web pages that supposedly expose it as a hoax....even if that is the case, the technical challenge of doing these things is impressive and it's still worth a watch.
was shown on Ch.4 during the week and is well worth watching. An example of how madness can quickly become an alarmingly large number of peoples' truth.
The online platforms need their wings clipped. Not sure how. But something needs done.