"Why would it try to decieve you?"

Stares intently but blankly into the screen

Ironically right this second, this is the second post below a documentary about the crook DeLorean.

I fucking love History Time! The 6 hour documentary about ancient Greece was great!

Although I'm partial to their super early human history docus, like Gobekli/Karahan Tepe

visited this place (newgrange) a couple years ago. weren't the people who built these mounds ancient seafaring turks?

have to watch the doc a little later.

https://youtu.be/4dXYBGm-_zE

Thanks! Added it to the playlist I curate for my favourite autist hehe

I appreciate the extra and thoughtful r context. I might check it out, thanks.

I would consider the new title somewhat sensationalist, or perhaps somewhat misleading. Based on the new title, I expected a movie about Southern culture in general, and got something about a rather specific aspect of a specific town. Granted, the content of the documentary does extrapolate out to other places in the south that celebrate the plantation/antebellum/"Gone with the Wind" aesthetic, however I thought the doc would get more into, say, Southern hospitality in general and the resulting illusion that Southern culture is kind and welcoming. I also think the new title implies a more directed, mission-based film--like an investigation or expose--whereas the actual product is more subtle.

However the title isn't a total lie; the documentary lives somewhere adjacent to the assumptions I list above. I can understand why they (whoever "they" is) changed the original title, which is neither catchy nor that descriptive (I would have been unlikely to click a random video simply titled "Natchez"). However I think they could have come up with something a bit less click-baity and more accurate to the content. Regardless, it's a good documentary, and despite my misled expectations, I enjoyed the watch.

It's available from a few other places according to its website, but I'm not sure any of them are free like the PBS source.

Would you say the title is a little sensationalist, considering what the documentary delivers? I haven’t seen it, but based on the summary above I wonder.

This looks interesting, as someone who used to live in the US south.

Not available in the EU though :( anyone have another hosted link? I'm currently VPN less

What a fun coincidence!

I had not, this doc just happened to pop up in the recommended sidebar on youtube. That's a great write up for it though, thanks for sharing it here :)

Did you happen to see my post in c/ShermanPosting yesterday? ;)

Copy-pasting my comment from that post:

I initially clicked on the video "Exposing the Myth of Southern Charm" because I was intrigued by the somewhat click-baity title, but mostly because it was posted on a PBS Youtube channel and this seemed like a (relatively) spicy take for PBS.

I was graced with a beautifully subtle look at the historic slave plantation town of Natchez, Mississippi, and the tourism industry that has popped up around their many antebellum homes. It tells of an overdue reckoning in a community that lovingly preserves and displays their history (and profits from it) while simultaneously desiring to move on from its darker elements. Yet there is nuance as well; we learn of Natchez's history of progressive politics post-civil war, and the various ways that many residents are working to keep the "offensive" elements of history from getting swept under the rug. There is no narration; the film allows interviewees to speak for themselves, sometimes to their own detriment (with the help of some clever editing).

Apparently the documentary was originally given the more neutral title of Natchez and was produced with some support from PBS but not directly for them. The director and producer also did an AMA on reddit recently that's worth a read. The movie went on to win a bunch of awards, including best documentary at Tribeca.

It's currently available for free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHAauml9rV4

"Throughout Africa, many indigenous peoples are in similar situations. The poorest populations are among those with the smallest carbon footprints. Yet they of all people are being told to give up their traditional way of life." (16:55)

Anybody got a tldr?

You know who else has favorite stuffies? Pets.

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Journalists covering campaign events face obstruction ahead of election, including criminal espionage charges against prominent journalist Szabolcs Panyi.

This is an incredibly evocative, stylish presentation with an extremely flimsy premise that contains very little actual evidence to support it.

Why "upgrade to AI" when you can achieve exactly the same thing with a lobotomy?

The researchers in the documentary do state that it is clear that dogs can communicate with humans and have emotions, they are instead investigating if dogs are capable of more complex methods of communication, such as the ability to inform, ask questions, or narrate. It's explained more in this section of the doc.

A more accurate question is "can humans understand canid languages?"

Every time one of these "revelations" come out, it's met with surprise and disbelief. Meanwhile, any empathetic three year old can probably deduce that the noises dogs make to each other probably have some meaning.

Meanwhile, some people keep trying to tell us that non-human animals don't have the capacity for things like communication and emotion.

Yep

So the answer to the question in the title is "We don't know yet. Research is in process."

The research in the documentary shows that some particularly intelligent dogs, when presented with new tools that allow for construction of sentences, seem potentially capable of productivity (linguistic term). More research is needed to confirm if they are actually performing it. They are also capable of understanding categories of objects by how they are used without explicitly naming them, and are able to retrieve the correct object based on that category.

So? Can they?