Very Important Documentaries

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"You can't be what you can't see!" 💬 JOIN OUR DISCORD at https://discord.gg/6NVy6wz 💖 BECOME A PATRON at http://patreon.com/ImportantDocs 📕 READ "Custom Reality and You" http://amzn.to/2FEsqJR 🐦TWITTER http://twitter.com/ImportantDs subscribe to PACD! http://youtube.com/PACDpod feat. Ms Astronaut Cowboy Doctor http://twitter.com/ms_ACD_phdc Chapters: 0:00 Intro 4:23 Part 1 - Representation Fixes Everything, Right!? 30:40 Part 2 - The Domination of Image 41:09 Part 3 - Storytelling is Social Justice 56:26 Conclusion ***************** CITATIONS Hugh Armitrage, “The only 7 ways you were allowed to be LGBTQ+ in '90s movies,” DigitalSpy (April 2018) https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a860896/lgbtq-gay-stereotypes-90s-movies/ “The Impact of the Coronavirus on Food Insecurity in 2020 & 2021,” Feeding America (2021) https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/National%20Projections%20Brief_3.9.2021_0.pdf Census Bureau, “Annual Business Survey Release Provides Data on Minority-Owned, Veteran-Owned and Women-Owned Businesses” (Jan 2021) https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/annual-business-survey.html Pinto, Sanjay; Wagner, K. C.; West, Zoë, “Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State: Past, Present, and a Possible Future” Cornell Survey Research Institute (2019) https://hdl.handle.net/1813/74350 U.S. Transgender Survey (2015) https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf Jemima McEvoy, “Cashier Feels ‘Guilt’ About Flagging George Floyd’s Counterfeit $20 Bill: ‘This Could’ve Been Avoided’,” Forbes (March 31, 2021) https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/03/31/cashier-feels-guilt-about-flagging-george-floyds-counterfeit-20-bill-this-couldve-been-avoided/?sh=72e7753167e5 Mental Health & Substance Use,” KFF State Health Facts https://www.kff.org/state-category/mental-health/ Kevin E. Vowlesa, Mindy L. McEnteea, et al, “Rates of opioid misuse, abuse, and addiction in chronic pain: a systematic review and data synthesis,” PAIN (2015) https://idhdp.com/media/400537/rates_of_opioid_misuse-_abuse-_and_addiction_in3.pdf Iimay Ho, “How This Crazy Rich Asian Fights Wealth Inequality and the Model Minority Myth,” Colorlines (2018) https://www.colorlines.com/articles/how-crazy-rich-asian-fights-wealth-inequality-and-model-minority-myth-op-ed Kochhar, Cilluffo “Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians” Pew Research (2018) https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/07/12/income-inequality-in-the-u-s-is-rising-most-rapidly-among-asians/#fn-24708-18 Robin DiAngelo speaking fee, Big Speak, July 23rd 2021 https://archive.is/fCRVE Starling Productions Inc. on Charity Navigator https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/371646881 TMI Project Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/907066290/tmi-project #Representation #Diversity #Capitalism

Freedom isn't free, it costs folks like you and me... Here's how freedom doesn't exist while capital and the state do! 💬 JOIN OUR DISCORD at https://discord.gg/6NVy6wz 💖 BECOME A PATRON at http://patreon.com/ImportantDocs 📕 READ "Custom Reality and You" http://amzn.to/2FEsqJR 🐦TWITTER http://twitter.com/ImportantDs subscribe to PACD! http://youtube.com/PACDpod feat. Ms Astronaut Cowboy Doctor http://twitter.com/ms_ACD_phdc Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:07 Part 1 - The State 17:27 Part 2 - That Time Twitter Banned The President 33:25 Part 3 - The Capitalist Media 47:15 Conclusion ***************** FURTHER READING Esperanza Fonseca, "On Big Tech, Trump, and the Future of Left-wing Organizing," Twink Revolution (January 11, 2021) https://twinkrev.com/2021/01/big-tech-trump-and-the-future-of-organizing River Page, "In an Oligarchy, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship," Twink Revolution (January 11, 2021) https://twinkrev.com/2021/01/in-an-oligarchy-corporate-censorship-is-state-censorship Update on Bezos and Washington Post - it came out that he actually was directly pushing the WaPo staff to cover up his sexting scandal, see thread: https://twitter.com/petercoffin/status/1391511646779158532 CITATIONS Molly Ball, "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election," Time Magazine (February 4th, 2021) https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ TIME MAGAZINE, Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/time/ MBFC Methodology https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/ Twitter, inc. "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump," (January 8th, 2021) https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html, https://archive.is/ijIvA Todd C. Frankel "A majority of the people arrested for Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble," Washington Post (February 10th, 2021) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/10/capitol-insurrectionists-jenna-ryan-financial-problems/ "THE FACE OF AMERICAN INSURRECTION: Right-Wing Organizations Evolving into a Violent Mass Movement," Chicago Project on Security and Threats (1/28/2021) https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/cpost/i/docs/americas_insurrectionists_online_2021_01_29.pdf?mtime=1611966204 Evan Perez, David Shortell and Whitney Wild "Investigators struggle to build murder case in death of US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick," CNN (Feb 2, 2021) https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/brian-sicknick-charges/index.html Luke O'Brien, "How Republican Politics (And Twitter) Created Ali Alexander, The Man Behind ‘Stop The Steal’" HuffPost (Mar 7 2021) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-twitter-ali-alexander-stop-the-steal_n_6026fb26c5b6f88289fbab57 Ryan Struyk, “67 Times Donald Trump Tweeted About the 'Birther' Movement,” ABC News (September 2016) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/67-times-donald-trump-tweeted-birther-movement/story?id=42145590 Aja Romano, "Donald Trump’s tweets fit a pattern of harassment Twitter has banned before," Vox (Dec 10, 2016) https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/10/13898352/trump-twitter-harassment-policy-bannable Aja Romano, "Twitter says Trump’s North Korea tweets don’t violate its policy against violent threats," (Sep 26, 2017) https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/9/26/16367510/twitter-trump-threats-not-policy-violations Bloomberg, "What Is Trump Worth to Twitter? One Analyst Estimates $2 Billion" (August 17, 2017) https://fortune.com/2017/08/17/trump-worth-to-twitter/ Jasmine Lee, Kevin Quealy, “The 598 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List,” New York Times (May 24, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html "Twitter removes hundreds of accounts it says are linked to Iran, Russia, Armenia" Reuters (Feb 23, 2021) https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2AN1WW Anand Giridharadas Tweets on Fox News being allowed to exist (Jan 22, 2021) https://archive.is/sAb0X #FreeSpeech #Freedom #America

"Zoom Fatigue is real" they say. Well... is it? In response to the question "is zoom fatigue real," the new Very Important Doc: "The Zoom Pandemic." Chapters: 0:00 INTRO 4:40 PART ONE - WHAT IS “ZOOM FATIGUE?" 14:20 PART TWO - I LOVE MY JOB! 29:18 PART THREE - COMMODIFYING ALIENATION 42:38 CONCLUSION 💬 JOIN OUR DISCORD at https://discord.gg/6NVy6wz 💖 BECOME A PATRON at http://patreon.com/ImportantDocs 📕 READ "Custom Reality and You" http://amzn.to/2FEsqJR 🐦TWITTER http://twitter.com/ImportantDs ***************** CITATIONS Laura He, “Zoom profit skyrockets 3,300% on remote work trend,” CNN (September 2020) https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/tech/zoom-profits/index.html “U.S. Billionaire Wealth Has Surged $970 billion since beginning of Pandemic,” Reuters (September 2020) https://inequality.org/billionaire-bonanza-2020-updates/ Shirley Leung and Larry Edelman “Coronavirus made the wealth gap worse. How long can a divided economy stand?” Boston Globe (September 2020) https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/05/business/coronavirus-made-wealth-gap-worse-how-long-can-divided-economy-stand/ Vicky Valet, “Working From Home During The Coronavirus Pandemic: What You Need To Know,” Forbes (March 2020) https://www.forbes.com/sites/vickyvalet/2020/03/12/working-from-home-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-what-you-need-to-know/#48fec2551421 (see following for link to study) Petr Slovák, “Effect of Videoconferencing Environments on Perception of Communication,” Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace (2007) https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/4205/3246 Todd Nordstrom “People Who Truly Love Their Work Understand Something Most Of Us Don't: The reality of 'work-love' you need to know,” Inc. (Oct 2018) https://www.inc.com/todd-nordstrom/people-who-truly-love-their-work-understand-something-most-of-us-dont.html O.C. Tanner Website (October 2020) https://www.octanner.com/, https://archive.is/2BeSX, https://www.octanner.com/company/about-us.html, https://web.archive.org/web/20190413001634/https://www.octanner.com/company/about-us.html Twitter Search: "zoom fatigue" until:2020-03-01 since:2020-02-01 https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=%22zoom%20fatigue%22%20until%3A2020-04-01%20since%3A2020-02-01 Twitter Search: "zoom fatigue" until:2020-03-19 since:2020-03-01 https://twitter.com/search?q=%22zoom%20fatigue%22%20until%3A2020-03-19%20since%3A2020-03-01 Twitter Search: “zoom fatigue is real” until:2020-03-23 since:2020-03-01 https://twitter.com/search?q=%22zoom%20fatigue%20is%20real%22%20until%3A2020-03-23%20since%3A2020-03-01 First mention of “Zoom Fatigue” on Twitter, https://twitter.com/calvincorreli/status/1227342749227274240, https://archive.is/itqh0 Twitter Search: “zoom fatigue is real yo” https://twitter.com/search?q=%22zoom%20fatigue%20is%20real%20yo%22&src=typed_query Julia Sklar "Zoom Fatigue is taxing the brain. Here's why that happens," National Geographic (April 2020) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/coronavirus-zoom-fatigue-is-taxing-the-brain-here-is-why-that-happens/ Marina Khidekel, “8 tips to help you stay focused during video calls — because Zoom fatigue is real,” Ladders (Nov 2020) https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/8-tips-to-help-you-stay-focused-during-video-calls-because-zoom-fatigue-is-real Sam Liang, “How To Reduce ‘Zoom Fatigue’ And Improve Team Collaboration For Remote Work,” Forbes (Oct 2020) https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/10/30/how-to-reduce-zoom-fatigue-and-improve-team-collaboration-for-remote-work/?sh=4e26c6ed10c9 Google News Search “site:forbes.com "zoom fatigue"” https://news.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforbes.com%20%22zoom%20fatigue%22&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen How to fight off "Zoom fatigue", Zoom fatigue is real. Here's how to fight it, 4 Ways to Combat Zoom Fatigue