How in the actual hell is technology connections not on that list and also why have I not seen it in any of the comments yet
This list is basically the tippy toppy fresh snow that’s fallen on the iceberg.
Technology connection comes a little lower.
Through the magic of buying two of them, you have someone who agrees that it should be on the list.
here to rep “through the magic of having a broken one…!”
Through the magic of latent heat we have 4 likes for every unit of person
“Through the magic of heat pumps…”
Top tier YouTube channel!!
I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.
Here’s an existential threat to humanity, and the various ways that it’s worse than you think. But don’t worry! Capitalism will save the day by inventing solutions to our problems which won’t necessitate any restructuring of our society or economy!
Thanks as always to our billionaire
ownersdonors!I wasn’t gone on their video on the cruelty of the slaughter industrial complex where they bent over backwards to avoid suggesting veganism as the obvious solution.
They are a corporate shill, I forget who talked about. I should go find it
I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I’ll pay it forward and share some that I like.
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Angela Collier
Bobby Broccoli
Climate Town
Computerphile
Defunctland
fern
Folding Ideas
JimmyTheGiant
KnowledgeHusk
Lextorias
Not Just Bikes
Odd Compass
Ordinary Things
PBS Space Time
slow start
Suibhne
Thought Slime
Tom Nicholas
3Blue1Brown?
Yeah that’s a great one! I intentionally didn’t mention channels that I saw others had already listed.
Angela Collier…I also have my fair share of physics classes under my belt due to my engineering degree and she makes me think of things in a way that none of my professors did.
She’s brilliant.
The “magnetic forces do no work” thing is maddening.
The guy who is ‘the guy’ for that level of physics textbooks just happens to be determined to prove a non-quantum mechanics based explanation of magnetism so the book is written from that perspective without actually saying it. Of course.
Unlearning economics is pretty good too
You should probably note what they focus on so people know.
Kurgesatz was really good before they started the black mirror season, where every video is about how humanity can get killed by various things.
Never heard of the other ones but I’ll give it a try.
And there’s a PBS video for anything you can think about, sometimes they just don’t surface properly with search.
I am big fan of their prepandemic work. But if you can get past their click bait videos, I think they still do good content.
Science pieces spreading awareness about something are their best videos.
This recent video on fentanyl was very good.
The south korea one, the vaping and weed ones. Very good at condensing complicated topic while still retaining pertinent information that’s new and not patronizing.
I just showed their Fentanyl video to my 13yo daughter over the weekend and it was incredibly effective as a parenting tool. We paused many times and discussed. But their presentation didn’t leave all that much for me to say.
It was very pro heroin
For real though! What a weird watch 😂
In a way it was a breath of fresh a air to hear the high honestly described in a way that makes it understandable why people would want to do it again, but also how it will never, ever be as good as the first time, and will ruin your life.
Only if you didn’t pay attention.
They’re honest, direct, open, and willing to learn, I love kurzgesagt. The world sucks, but we shouldn’t shy away from understanding why it sucks and how we can improve it
Is it just me or has Kurtzgesakt gotten really weird over the last couple years? Like, their videos seem like they want to be clickbait, but they’re really bad at it.
You can tell the Gates-bucks have really leaned them in a neo-liberal slant. It kind of sucks.
Kurzgesagt when its summarizing research papers is alright, but as soon as anything touches on a social or political issue it’s all “vote with your wallet 🙂”
It has been neoliberal biased for ages. For example this is a 2021 article calling out their neoliberal bias. https://aninjusticemag.com/the-inescapable-neoliberal-bias-behind-kurzgesagt-in-a-nutshell-215eb1e9b70f?gi=9574bf28f4a0
But it has undoubtedly gotten a lot worse recently. That south korea video was abymaly blind and baked in unrealistic capitalist assumptions.
It’s not simply the Gates money, but the pivot to pursuing grants by chasing clicks to the exclusion of all else.
They’ve been Mr Beast-ified.
So happy capitalism allows me to experience network decay on the internet.
They’re doing the thing where they upload a video and then change the thumbnail and title of the video every few days which I’ve only seen done by all the low effort click bait channels. It’s what finally got me to install the dearrow extension which swaps titles and videos of YouTube videos to be more informative and less click bait.
A lot of channels do this, you might’ve just not noticed.
I believe this is a YouTube feature that effectively runs A/B tests on your behalf. You give it multiple titles and thumbnails and it’ll gauge engagement with each and then use the one that was most popular. I hate it.
Damn YouTube is such a shitty platform
Every other week I learn something about YouTube that makes me sad
It’s honestly the fate of most edutainment videos.
Eventually they run out of cool stuff to educate people on, so they pivot to hypotheticals.
Yeah they’re kinda bullshit.
SpaceTime and 3Blue1Brown are good science educators for the college level.
Veritasium is good for the middle/high school level.
Kurzgesagt is probably useful for an infant. Or like a smart dog. Maybe an Australian shepherd.
Garbage channel.
What exactly is bullshit?
If this is meant to be a tongue in cheek comment on their video titles, then you deserve a dramatic slow clap.
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A lot more than those. It’s usually the ones that say Big Pharma saved the world and will do it again or that things are great actually
I stopped watching them several years ago. I can’t say it was a specific video or event, but I just started zoning out when trying to watch them. I don’t do that much, I generally only watch, play, listen to and do things I can focus on. I’ve tried to watch some videos since then but I just lose interest after a minute or two. It’s like they refined their style so much that it all became too “samey” and it feels like they’re so scared of offending anyone that they end up saying nothing.
They seem to be trying to copy xkcd’s video format with the fantasy tier what if questions answered seriously. Seems out of place to me, not sure what Gates Foundation gets out of fluff pieces like figuring out what banana rain would do to the planet while getting the terminal velocity of a banana wrong right off the bat too. What a shit video.
Ah, yes. Their “We found space whales on Nimbus!” video (about speculative Zoology of alien worlds), which was later titled “What actual aliens might look like” was something I could excuse. I don’t consider claiming the impossible click-bait, but seeing the controversy, it was best they changed it.
However, what I really hated was their ad for a “strange matter” vile/necklace (i forgor), not because they lied about it containing reality destroying elements, but because they did the “buy now because they’ll never come back” trick. I consider manipulative sales tactics to be a greater sin than clickbait.
Their early videos were very well researched and put together. At a certain point, they became a lot of “What is the purpose of dust? I guess we’ll never know. Isn’t the universe a mysterious place?”
A lot of their political and historical videos are propaganda
Such as?
Not going to give them views, but find any modern history video especially if it’s from a designated enemy nation by the US State Dept
Oh you were talking about oversimplified… I thought you meant kurzegesagt and was very confused. They don’t do any history, well with a focus on it at least.
the one that talks shit on so-called third parties is basically all conjecture and poorly interpreted academics.
Dang, I’m surprised to see how many folks are down on Kurtzgesakt in the comments here! Bummer!
They might not be perfect, ya’ll, but at least they encourage open thought and critical thinking! Better than a lot of other media can say these days! 🙂
But they don’t encourage open thought and critical thinking. They basically tell you what to think.
vsauce. no, you haven’t watched all of his videos. also i think his previously exclusive series is available now.
I love the content he covers, but his presentation style makes it impossible for me to watch. It’s just too overly dramatic, and hyperactive for my tastes.
what? that sounds nothing like how I’d describe his work. is this about his shorts or regular videos?
I just went back and watched a few to make sure I was remembering correctly. And yep, he’s way too hyperactive, over animated, and dramatic for me. I mean, I don’t hate his work, but it drives me a little crazy too watch it.
I’m talking about his full videos. I actively refuse to watch anything YouTube shows as a “short”.
As a quick example, just watch the way his head and facial expressions zip around at the beginning of this video when he’s in front of the white background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHL9GP_B30E
You are 100% correct on this. I can’t watch him either
You forgot Technology Connections
Bro I love learning about latent heat of vaporization
Also Cathode Ray Dude
Kurzgesagt is cancer
Why?
Lots of missinformation
Do you have resource to support these claims? Like another video or detailed post? I’m willing to learn more about this and I’ve already added a few videos to watch criticizing kurzgesagt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCuy1DaQzWI&t=3 Kurzgesagt and the climate greenwashing
Two from a Polish channel (but in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCuy1DaQzWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfBV4I8DQI
I don’t watch them since I can’t stand the obvious simplistically vomited neolib garbage but you can check out where they get their money.
Kur is being shit recently with Bill gates
It’s been fairly neoliberal for awhile now, I can’t remember which video it was but one of them really put a bad taste in my mouth. Whatever it was, imo it felt very apologist of capitalism. I unsubbed after that.
They did a recent south korea video which was super neolib biased.
I’ll add Captain Disillusion to this thread
- Kraut
- Varitasium
- OBF
- Astrum
- miniminuteman
- Wendover Productions
- Hankschannel
- Practical engineering
- NileRed, NileBlue
- Fern
- Hoog
- Plainly Difficult
- NEO
- Versed
- ColdFusion
Thoughty2- DamiLee
- Facts in Motion
- Barely Sociable
- Mark Rober
- Deep Dive
Edit: Also know you can watch videos without ads AND without sponsor parts (using sponsor block) on desktop and android with grayjay.app
Isn’t thoughty2 an insane right winger?
I googled it and apparently there’s been some commotion about him and his views. Especially about a video about why people are so easily offended, one I haven’t seen myself. I’m only on YouTube and Lemmy, I completely missed everything else on other platforms.
The videos I’ve seen had no political content so I never noticed anything, but it’s good to know as it might have influence on the information and nuance he provides. So thank you for pointing out his bias.
I’ve lost trust in veritasium. I don’t remember the specifics right now but every video he makes I have to take with caution
they did some self-driving car propaganda a while ago iirc. their latest videos have been mostly pretty focused physics and math history though, so they’ve generally been pretty okay imo. but any time they mention anything that can be sold i become a lot more suspicious
In the beginning it was very nice, but somehow the guy became repulsive somehow. I used to watch every video but lately I skip many. But since the older videos were interesting, I added it to the list. I also used to like Mark Rober but his videos I really dislike for a while now. It’s so over the top “look at me, I’m an engineer, I’m going to do extreme shit and be super popular for kids” instead of “I’m going to teach you something super interesting”.
Branch Education. Rare videos, but so good!
If you wanna learn from the best chef in the world:
You Suck At Cooking! Yeah, you totally suck!
Or Preppy Kitchen if we’re being serious
Legal stuff:
Meidas Touch and Legal Eagle
Retro video and music devices:
Techmoan and VWestlife
Also: Tom Scott. Or at least his backlog because he retired.
And a very important one! - Science stuff: Potholer54 I can’t believe he doesn’t have millions of subs. It actually kind of makes me sad.
I turn to preppy kitchen first for all my need to make something for company needs
You mean company as in guests or are you the designated baker at your firm?
Nah yeah guests, reading that post again it was like I am an aneurysm
One more for potholer54. He’s one of the oldies, right up there with DarkMatter2525.(probably my favorite), Professor Dave Explains, Myles Power and Martymer 81. Oh, and in this vein there’s a (relatively) new kid on the block: Forrest Valkai aka Renegade Science Teacher.
Professor Dave if you wanna watch someone get absolutely demolished.
Also:
LockPickingLawyer
How To Cook That
Captain Disillusion
Pilot Debreif
Stand-Up Maths
It’s a mix of interesting and meh to me, but if Stand-up Maths got your interest, you might want to take a look at Numberphile as well.
I actually converted from Numberphile to Stand-Up Maths as it’s a bit lighter on the maths whilst still being Quite Interesting ™. Both good channels though!
Nice! Now that you said that, I actually ran into Stand-Up Maths after a few Numberphile videos, as well, so I totally get it.
I might be in a niche. Here’s my fav, Religion for Breakfast, Let’s Talk Religion, Esoterica, Al-Muqaddimah, Tablets and Temples, Useful Charts. Not religious but I like Religious Studies because it’s overlaps to history.
In addition, the Crash Course series to Religious Studies by PBS is also very good.
Also few history channel, Dan Davis History, A Historian’s Craft, Kings and Generals
I always liked how religious studies overlaps philosophy and mythology. Whether someone is religious or not, there’s been an awful lot of thinking about ethics, morality, and thinking, that may be generally interesting. Also, seeing trends and commonality across mythologies, seeking understanding across mythologies may apply regardless whether you’re religious
