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[Ryan Gallagher]

I wish all the discovery algorithms let you assign "modes of viewing" or themes. When I'm in an educational/doc mood I don't want to be interrupted by cat videos, but I do like cat videos. The ad driven spaces are hamstrung by preying to the gods of your eyeballs and just feeding you whatever they think will generate more watch time, mood aside. I also wish they had "comfy" vs "adventurous" modes... show me more of what I enjoy, versus asking it to take you to new things. If everything is eventually AI anyway, just give me a prompt so I can steer it's whims more effectively.

[Leo Enticknap]

We used to joke that the "History Channel" was really the "Hitler Channel". I guess some things never change even in the streaming era.

I once officiated with film and video clips (a challenging show: multiple middle-of-reel 16mm and 35mm clips with paper cues) for a lecture given by David Starkey, who allowed himself to get sidetracked with a rant about the History Channel. Noting that its official slogan was "All history, all the time," he responded that it should really be "All Hitler, all the time." Starkey continued that one of these days he expected to turn on his TV and see a trailer for their new documentary series, Adolf Hitler: His Secret Role in World War II.

Then again, I clicked on a video of someone building a miniature subway for his cats and ever since, YouTube thinks that all I want to see all day long is cat videos...

I did see Operation Finale on Prime about six months ago, which is to all intents and purposes a remake of The House on Garibaldi Street (offered to me on the screen above). But if this is why Amazon suddenly thinks that I'm a Nazi nut, it's strange that it only decided that quite a long time later.

[Harold Hallikainen]

We used to joke that the "History Channel" was really the "Hitler Channel". I guess some things never change even in the streaming era.

I knew a woman who wrote for the History Channel. She also called it the Hitler Channel.