I launched a Cable Network. If you’re in the Ellijay Telephone Company coverage area, you can watch it on channel 176. If you’re not, you can watch it online or on roku (or even embedded on this post!) The whole thing is a Community Centered, local first production and broadcast, powered entirely by free software. Click through to watch the stream and learn more about how and why I built it.

I run a video store here in Ellijay called Cowabunga Video. We do sales and rental for used VHS, DVD, Bluray, etc. out of Mountain Town Antiques, and we sell new movies on VHS, DVD, and bluray through Hemlock Bazaar online and in store. We’re in the process of shooting a new show in partnership with New Ellijay Television called VHS IS THE FUTURE. Check out the teaser trailer:

I had mostly forgotten about the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon until earlier today when someone uploaded a fan made conclusion to the series to the peertube instance I run. It ain’t bad! And then I discovered that the rest of the series is currently on the Internet Archive.

I’ve been working on a podcast about Power Rangers and Super Sentai for a few months now, and I’m having a blast working on it. Episode ten is out now, and I think it’s the best one we’ve released so far. If you’d like to listen to the audio version, you can subscribe to Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers from New Ellijay Television. We post transcripts, but they’re delayed by about two weeks. You can find KSPR Transcripts on New Ellijay Television. If you’d like to watch the video version, which is much better, it’s embedded here:

It’s amazing to me how we’re watching the tech world fall apart at the feet of monetization, enshitifiction, AI, and whatever other Bullshit trend they’re chasing this week. This is basically all exactly the consequences that the Free Software folks have been warning about and talking about for decades!