#pbs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pbs, aggregated by home.social.
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NPR SUCKS
Sat, 22 Aug 2026
11 AM, Boston
Top of the hour news summary from NPR/NYCas heard on FM 89.7, WGBH in Boston
I can't recall word for word what was said, and I'm to lazy to look for an audio or a transcript
but this particular "news" summary was straight up pro trump propaganda
honestly
and this post is espicially for all you #NYT haters out there
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One of the best summaries of what went wrong with #US #Healthcare. No longer available from the PBS website(s) as far as I can tell. So I've taken the liberty of writing a review and posting it here with links to the original #video.
"Sick Around the World" (2008 #PBS #Frontline #Documentary)
Conclusions...
1) #Insurance companies must accept everyone, and cannot make a profit on basic care.
2) #Everybody is mandated to buy insurance, with government paying the premiums for the poor.
3) #Doctors and #Hospitals have to accept one standard set of fixed prices.https://richard.rathe.org/medicine/sick_around_the_world/index.html
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From February: Cartoon review: “Weather Hunters”
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5 min
This is such a great PBS show. The Permian extinction triggered by massive volcanic activity that liberated all sorts of carbon that have been stored up during the carbonaceous era, well it released lots of CO2 and sulfur dioxide and almost made it impossible for land based creatures to survive because the carbon dioxide level levels were so high.
It’s a window into the kinds of things the global economy is doing to the planet
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Need a reason to get behind ranked choice voting? Just look at who's trying to squash it.
The will of the people should be the law of the land, not dictated by a bunch of clowns with money machines.
Ranked choice for all, now!
PBS News Hour
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1 hr 20 min
PBS Terra this looks like a compendium of stories they produced over five or six years, I guess.
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Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years (50 TB)of archival TV data
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Tom’s Hardware: Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under. “There’s light at the end of the tunnel for Nine PBS. We reported last week that the station lost access to 50TB of data representing 70 years of TV history. The issue was that its cloud storage provider went out of business […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/18/toms-hardware-judge-clears-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-70-years-of-archival-tv-data-court-rules-station-owns-50tb-of-data-in-iron-mountain-servers-after-host-went-under/ -
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📺 Probably not the best way to start the day, but couldn’t finish this one yesterday. Scary as hell.
Nazi Town, USA
#youTube #pbs #documentary
☁️ https://maique.eu/posts/2026-08-18-probably-not-the -
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A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures
This text and the language in the corresponding map was updated in consultation with a world gender expert in October, 2023.
"Throughout recorded history and since time immemorial, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders. Terms such as #transgender, gay, or bisexual are Western constructs that often assume three things: that there are only two sexes (male/female), as many as three sexualities (gay/straight/bisexual), and only two #genders (man/woman).
"Even after the end of the modern era and as the #colonial period wanes, hundreds of distinct #Indigenous societies around the globe still retain their own long-established traditions for third, fourth, fifth, or more genders. The subject of #TwoSpirits, Fred Martinez, for example, was not a boy who wanted to be a girl, but both a boy and a girl — an identity his Navajo culture recognized and revered as #nádleehí. Meanwhile, Hina of Kumu Hina is part of a #NativeHawaiian culture that has traditionally revered and respected #mahu, those who embody both male and female spirit. It’s not uncommon for third gender people to perform critical spiritual and religious functions in their communities.
"Among many Indigenous societies, two prominent features often distinguish the lives and social roles of third gender persons from those of cisgender persons or contemporary transgender persons in non-Indigenous societies. The first is that many Indigenous terms for third gender people contain both the word for 'man' and 'woman' in their construction, and that #ThirdGender people are seen as embodying both of those genders in diverse ways. The second is that the history of many third genders is in the community role of religious specialists, which also takes diverse forms, depending on the beliefs of diverse cultures. While not all third gender persons are defined in these terms, across our species, this phenomenon of the third gender religious specialist, healer, or spiritual worker has been part of our #CollectiveIdentity and human experience since time immemorial.
"Since the beginning of the 21st century, we’ve seen tremendous expansion of the role that transgender, #GenderDiverse, and third gender people have in society, following the tenuous establishment of civil rights for #gay and #lesbian people in many nations and increased access to #genderaffirming care in the transgender community. Many Indigenous transgender people who also identify as third gender are familiar to large audiences via their participation in popular media or social media activism. Third gender people, like the Japanese-Samoan, #Faafafine artist Yuki Kihara, now participate in major global cultural events and function not just as representatives of their gender-based community, but of their nation. Kihara had both a solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and represented New Zealand at the 2021 Venice Biennale. [For more: '#LGBTQIA+ Pride and Two-Spirit People' in Smithsonian Voices.]
"In the 21st century, many third gender people choose to take advantage of #GenderAffirmingCare, and identify, in addition to being third gender, as transgender. As access to gender-affirming care parallels healthcare access, and both third gender and Indigenous persons are often marginalized economically, it is not as readily available to many Indigenous transgender people, and within Indigenous cultures, medical transition is often seen as separate or secondary to social transition.
"Within #Western societies, despite centuries of suppression, there are still traces of a past when third or fourth or more genders were recognized within many cultures and societies. In rare cases, they presently exist. An example of this would be the #burrnesha of Albania, women who give up their social role as women to live as men. Likewise, within Jewish culture and law, as many as eight genders have been historically recognized, and in diverse ways.
"Take a tour with this world map, and learn how many cultures see gender diversity."
Learn more:
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/#PBS #GenderDiversity #CulturalTraditions #Genders #ThreeGenders #ThirdGender #FiveGenders #Gender #GBLTQ #Genders
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👨⚖️📚 Oh goody, nothing like a #judge swooping in to save #PBS from its own #archival incompetence. But first, let's all pause for a moment to enable #JavaScript and cookies—because even legal #drama needs a digital snack 🍪🤦♂️.
https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/ #LegalTech #HackerNews #ngated -
Ars Technica: PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
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This is why we have offsite AND onsite backups!
Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business - Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/2236717/cloud-storage-great-until-vendor-goes-out-of-business-nine-pbs/
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If you watch one thing about the Iran war this week make sure it's this interview 👇🏿 🇮🇷 🇺🇸
The Iranians are engaging in top notch state craft at this moment and this interview is pretty epic.
IRGC commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi explains how their country and military responded to the US's "war without a strategy".
He says up until now Iran has been victorious, but the future has yet to be settled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRXGlR8Cs2I
#IRGC #MohammadRezaNaqdi #Tehran #Iran #PBS #RezaSayah #EpicFail
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DON'T RELY on the #CLOUD
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A PBS station is fighting a data center over 50TB of archives stranded by a defunct cloud vendor
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https://1ban.news/nine-pbs-iron-mountain-archive-lawsuit-2026/
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“A #PBS station is suing a database company that went bankrupt to get access to its archives.
It seems they had not backed up their data.
Hopefully Nine PBS will implement a better backup system once it regains access to its data.
And at least there's still a chance — it's not like the fire that South #Korea’s government experienced last year, which saw 858TB of data go up in smoke.”
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The Nine PBS here appears to be #StLouis channel 9, KETC. They were a pioneer in public broadcasting. Loss of this archive could be significant for the history of public broadcasting in the United States, depending on what's in it.
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‘Hope In The Water’ Docuseries From David E. Kelley & Andrew Zimmern Renewed For Season 2 At PBS
#CancellationsandRenewals #News #DavidEKelley #HopeintheWater #PBS #ShaileneWoodleyhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/hope-in-the-water-david-e-kelley-renewed-season-2-pbs-1237032538/
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A rare interview worth watching.
