neonvincent: Ambassador Vreelak from DS9 (Fake!)
I concluded the portion of Kamala Harris could run for California Governor on Throwback Thursday above the jump by writing "I'm suspicious of the channel itself. I wonder who's behind it." This is why.

There's been a rise in the last few months of Russian-linked disinformation sites that look misleadingly like real news outlets. These may look like regular print news websites, but the content is AI-generated with a pro-Russian narrative looking to intentionally mislead users. In this special edition of Truth or Fake, Vedika Bahl gives our viewers some insight, tips and tricks on how to tell what's true and what's fake.

The operation is called DoppelGanger, and the channel's name, production values, and editorial slant reminded me of the tactics described above.  This time, it's a YouTube channel, not a misleading website.  I'm keeping an eye on it and thinking of who to report it to beyond just YouTube.  It may not be Russian, but it has an agenda, and I don't like it.  And, no, I'm not naming the channel here to make it more difficult to link my suspicions with its name.  Click on the link to my main blog to find out.
neonvincent: For general posts about politics not covered by other icons (Uncle V wants you)

neonvincent: For general posts about politics not covered by other icons (Uncle V wants you)
I used a slightly shorter video with a better preview image for Project 2025 and Trump on Social Security and Medicare.

neonvincent: For general posts about politics not covered by other icons (Uncle V wants you)
The videos by "The Daily Show" were too unfocused, so I wrote Seth Meyers takes more closer looks at Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News instead.


neonvincent: For general posts about politics not covered by other icons (Uncle V wants you)

neonvincent: For general posts about politics not covered by other icons (Uncle V wants you)
I removed the following video from Colbert and Meyers take closer looks at Tucker Carlson and Fox News once I realized it wasn't a closer look.

neonvincent: Coffee Party USA logo from the Facebook page and website (Coffee Party)
...to share at the Coffee Party Pennsylvania and national pages to report on the recount of the GOP Pennsylvania Republican primary for U.S. Senate. I picked the People article.
neonvincent: From an icon made by the artists themselves (Bang)
I used a more comprehensive and thoughtful video from PBS in Journalists, climate modelers, and others recognized for Nobel Prize Day 2021.

neonvincent: For general posts about politics not covered by other icons (Uncle V wants you)

neonvincent: For posts about Twilight and trolling (Twilight Fandom wank trolls you)
MSNBC and NBC News are picking a fight with The Epoch Times.  *pops popcorn and draws up a chair*
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neonvincent: Detroit where the weak are killed and eaten T-shirt design (Default)

Over the weekend, Gothamist and DNAInfo, along with other affiliated local online papers, were closed town and their content temporarily removed because the publications' owner did not want unions in his business (never mind that he owns the Chicago Cubs, where the players are also unionized). That reminded me that something similar happened to me a year ago, when Examiner.com closed down. All of my articles disappeared. However, I still have the last year and one half of them on my hard drive. Just as I did with my notes for Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I am posting them here. Yes, I'm treating this journal as my online attic, but at least I have a use for it.

Without any further ado, here is one of several articles I wrote as Detroit Science News Examiner that I still have saved to disk.

NOAA, U-M predict even larger Lake Erie algae bloom in 2015 )
neonvincent: Detroit where the weak are killed and eaten T-shirt design (Detroit)

I know I promised more on the Kroger in Royal Oak, but there's another current news item about the sustainability of Detroit from a Business as Usual perspective going on right now--Transformation Detroit. What is it? As this article on MLive puts it:
This is the story Detroit wants the world to hear. Jonathan Oosting of MLive.com is one of more than 50 journalists participating in Transformation Detroit, a three-day media briefing facilitated by the Detroit Regional News Hub that aims to highlight innovative revitalization efforts in the city.
For a sampling of the stories Detroit wants the world to know, read the Detroit Regional News Hub's news blog, or you can watch these two videos from WXYZ on the event.





I'm glad the powers that be are interested in sustainability, but I much prefer Model D's perspective of "Optimism, but not Business as Usual."

Above post originally posted to Crazy Eddie's Motie News here.



neonvincent: Detroit where the weak are killed and eaten T-shirt design (Detroit)

On Monday, I wrote:

[Optimism] seems to be the theme for nearly all the articles from Model D Media's Buzz page. Of course, one should expect that from a publication whose Twitter profile states:
We love Detroit. We write about Detroit. We photograph Detroit. We film Detroit. We want you to love Detroit, too.
...And whose attitude I characterized as "Optimism but not business as usual." They're certainly living up to both my billing and their own.
Yesterday, I saw that the latest edition of Model D had been posted, with enough sustainablity stories to make up for the magazine skipping last week for the Memorial Day weekend. This prompted me to look for videos on YouTube about Model D Media. I found the following, which is a talk by one of the founders of Model D about the philosophy behind their online magazine.




As you can see, the co-founder had several driving ideas for the publication. First, instead of reporting what the co-founder called "stories about loss," the publication's emphasis is reporting the good news and reward worthwhile behavior. Second, the magazine wants to protray the reality on the ground instead of sticking to the set narrative, hence the kind of stories from Model D, either their original reporting or what they've found reported elsewhere, which shows the grassroots revitalization of the city, not the "Detroit is a disaster zone" reporting typical for the place. Finally, they wanted to show the people in the front rows of change, not the same ten people who always get the press. No wonder I see their tone as "optimism, but not business as usual." That's what they had in mind!

Model D Media, fans of Detroit.

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Above originally posted to Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
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As any of you who have reading my journal for any length of time have probably figured out, I have deeply ambivalent feelings about drum and bugle corps. On the one hand, I loved it dearly and was a great fan of it. On the other hand, it ended up treating me badly, and I had to walk away from it because I realized that it was bad for me. The same could be said about the women I dated who marched in drum corps, particularly the last one, who I was with for 10 years, but that's another story.

In any event, I am still nostalgic for the activity (admiring it from afar isn't as hazardous to my mental health as actually being involved) and regularly follow goldsmith1210's series about the top 50 drum and bugle corps of the past 40 years on YouTube. His most recent video included one of my favorite performances, the 2000 Boston Crusaders, which reminded me that it was in one of my playlists. It also reminded me that I had written one of my favorite reviews of that performance as well.

With that, I present Boston Crusaders' 2000 show "The Color Red" along with my reviews.



An amalgam of two reviews behind the cut. )

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