Other professors used to take me to snacks when I was single, so I was well aware that hostesses were mostly divorced or single mothers. Mimi sheds light on the nature of snacks by saying that #Japan has a dark side. Regarding the #social#inequality that Greg mentions, Mimi clarifies that there is a double standard whereby men can go to snacks openly, but it is shameful for #women to work in them. Now I'm a family man, but I sympathize with such women, who would otherwise have to #work for close to the minimum wage.
A documentary succeeds insofar as it sheds light on the topic. If you watch it, perhaps let us know your impressions.
In my adolescence I began a journey of information literacy, questioning everything fed to me. Someone who seemed to always tell the truth, with integrity and compassion, was Dan Rather.
He was on the TV a lot when I was a kid. When he retired I was sad. But he’s still here, delivering the goods. And I’m grateful for that.
“Love Notes to Newton is a film about what a beloved (but short-lived) pen-based Personal Digital Assistant created by Apple Computer has meant for the people…”
The jurors for the Peabody Awards, which reward excellence in broadcasting, have announced the nominees in the documentary, news, public service and radio/podcast categories. Deadline has details on who is up for an award, including Oscar winner "20 Days in Mariupol," a look at Clarence and Ginni Thomas's rise to power by "Frontline," and USA Today and The Tennessean's film, "Inside Mississippi’s Maternal Health Crisis."
Watch communications specialist Beth Johnson in a conversation with director Nathaniel Kahn about his new IMAX documentary "Deep Sky", NASA's Webb Space Telescope, the filmmaking process, and how we share science with the world.
It appears Israel is threatening to attack Iran's nuclear faciilities as a "reprisal", so I'm going to take this opportunity to recommend this brilliant documentary by Alex Gibney, which includes sections about the last time Israel tried to drag America into a proxy war by attacking Natanz.
"As I was writing these personal stories and collecting the dispersed memories of my family, reconnecting one generation to the other, I also wanted to reconnect them to the collective memory. This memory is often silenced because the story of the Palestinian #Nakba (catastrophe) is not recognized." - #LinaSoualem
"... the rich man sitting reclusively at the heart of Brandy Melville, inside a whirlwind of deliberately confounding shell companies, is exactly who you think he is. Stephan Marsan is the son of a rich man, and he hates taxes and inclusivity and is a very loud Trumper with a fetish for Ayn Rand’s fantasy world of Atlas Shrugged. (He actually named a sub-label of Brandy Melville 'John Galt,' because he is that subtle.)"
Lately, Microsoft is starting to annoy me, for example by being irritatingly obtrusive with their Edge browser, and by integrating generative AI, trained with an overwhelming amount of stolen work from artists, writers, et cetera, without compensating them.
Of course, all Big Tech corporations are guilty of the mass-scale intellectual property theft. 👎
Eleanor Coppola, the filmmaker behind "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" and "Paris Can Wait," writer, memoirist, wife of Francis Ford Coppola and mother of Gian-Carlo, Roman and Sofia, has died at age 87. Here's AP's tribute to the matriarch of one of the world's greatest filmmaking families. “I don’t know what the family has given except I hope they’ve set an example of a family encouraging each other in their creative process whatever it may be,” Eleanor told The Associated Press in 2017.