I wish I hadn't seen Alex Garland being a centrist shithead in interviews about this, because I liked it quite a bit
Not an apolitical movie, but a focused on the role of press and media. I wish it had gotten into the war motives more explicitly but it felt a conscious choice to explore imagery and the press. Not subtle about who's who in the war, anyway
I just saw #a24's #civilwar directed by Alex Garland and I'm pretty disappointed by the real lack of social or political commentary and the choice to paint war journalists as adrenaline junkies who seek sick thrills and don't care about the people and struggles they document.
Also highlighting that the movie really wants to believe that documenting atrocities doesn't matter.
Just the most dead brain liberal understanding of the dynamic of between why countries might descend into civil war and the most dead brain liberal answer of "how to stop creeping fascism/authoritarianism"
"A visually impressive exercise in saying nothing"
Absolutely no critical understanding of the political economy of the mass media.
Highly recommend "It Could Happen Here" if you want like an indepth socio-political analysis and plausible scenario of the next american civil war
Saw Civil War today. It was incredible. Safe to say the moral of the movie is "be careful what you wish for". If you're worried about being beaten over the head with politics, this movie does not even broach it. I know that sounds impossible, but it's true. The only problem (or the good thing?) is that both sides of the political spectrum will see themselves as the heroes.
13810 kHz: no less than 4 carriers on different offsets, with the one furthest from nominal being Radio Free Asia Chinese (via Saipan I think), while all the others must be CNR1 #jammer's. Also a Digital Jammer in there. Wall. #shortwave#A24
11875-11890 kHz: quite a big & cannibalish cluster here at this hour, with:
11875 CRI russian
11880 CRI Hakka
11885 Voice of Vietnam English to Europe
11890 VOA Tibetan, fortunately unjammed so far, but already stronger than Vietnam 😮
Just loaded the updated EiBi #A24 schedule to SDR-Console 👍 unfortunately there isn't much to that CSV file as it doesn't include any indicator of transmitter sites used... we'll try ListenInfo plugin to SDR# later #shortwave
US Agency for Global Media hasn't switched to #A24 frequencies yet but will do it... right on next TOH, at 0800z 🙂
And EiBi hasn't caught on KBS World Radio Korean relay via Woofferton moving to 13610 from 9870 (? - forgot that one!)... or, as I'm looking for them... omitted that transmission completely!
As expected, much better reception an hour later from Vatican Radio 🇻🇦
All four frequencies are booming in now, including 17515 Portuguese, which actually wasn't there at all. CRI has left 17540 @ 0857z, but still on 17560, QRMing 17555 French. And unexpectedly, 17705 Arabic is the weakest but still S9 💪
13760 & 15245.2 kHz: Voice of Korea is ALREADY on the summer frequencies to Western Europe, rather than 7570 & 12015, rather than to shift those tomorrow night! Strangely, 15245 is stronger & cleaner, but that's because something's wrong with 13760 carrier -- in fact, it's totally smeared, like those 2m CW signals in aurora 😮 #shortwave#A24
I've downloaded zip files that provide all broadcasts registered in #HFCC for both #B23 (current) and #A24 seasons, each having them all in one text file, sorted by frequency.
And there is already a difference in file sizes between the two files. The A24 file is 5% smaller.
It could be anything, e.g. an organization that keeps copying multiple wooden entries from season to season, not having done it for the new season yet.
USAGM (VOA, RFA, Radio Liberty/Radio Farda & Radio Marti): 426 records in #B23 vs 458 in #A24... looks like no cuts... sigh 😫 #shortwave
But why the increase? More day-splitting to RFA Tibetan... i.e. frequencies that change daily, apparently to fool the jammers... yet they are all registered & free to gather 🤣
Take Tuesdays for example (day 1 = Sunday): one such transmission a day now, four later 🙃 #shortwave
Currently, Adventist World Radio is also the largest client of Media Broadcast 🇩🇪
I found 40 AWR txions scheduled either from Nauen🇩🇪 or Moosbrunn🇦🇹 in #A24, vs 34 in B23.
These include Igbo @ 1930-2000z on 15440, Yoruba @ 2030-2100z on 11790, and Nigerian Pidgin @ 2100-2130z on 12040, moving from 17730, 15420, and 11985, respectively, all via Madagascar.
Speaking of Media Broadcast... I can't help but notice a huge number of "MBR" registrations hiding, hmmm... not all is wooden, actually 🤔 some must be Bible Voice Broadcasting, Pan American Broadcasting, perhaps some clandestines, and also slots for occasional hobby broadcasts in Europe 😜
Similar obfuscation is also used for certain broadcasts by other large #shortwave broadcast providers. Smaller producers or clandestine organizations don't need to register to #HFCC - and companies like Media Broadcast (above) and Encompass (attached here) take care of all the bureaucracy needed to plan a broadcast for them :) #A24
We've been waiting so long this March for any official reveal of #A24 season #shortwave#radio broadcast & frequency schedules, to come into effect in 2 weeks, on March 31st, i.e. as late as it gets.
We'll still wait 🙃 at least 2 more days, as HFCC is set to publish schedules for all registered stations next Monday @ https://new.hfcc.org/data/a24/
But... why wait? Look up your favourite station now! Maybe they already have 'em? 😉
The celebration I join in my dream is on the steps of the memorial where I and others spontaneously gather and start making speeches in between unbridled "hootin' and hollerin'" in raucous joy.
I hope this is a good omen; it's the first positive thought I've had about the #election.
hi! im new to this place and i'm looking for people in my age group. i know in general there's not many of us on here. i actually joined to scope out the app and figure out how to introduce new gen z users. but who is here already?