Youtube channel recommendations
Bout time we had a thread for this :)) So here 'tis.
The video thread is great for individual videos - but what do we do if we want to recommend a whole Youtube channel rather than an individual video, I hear nobody ask.
Well, nobody, you post those recommendations here.
I'll start with 2 very different channels.
1. Beau of the Fifth Column (and indeed, The Fifth Column itself).
I frikken love this guy. I must have watched about 2 hours worth of short videos, and have yet to find one I haven't found interesting and thought provoking.
here are a few examples of his stuff:
About mistakes people make prepping for disaster survival...
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More recently, about looting and state response in the wake of the hurricane
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An appeal to Generation X
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Good thread ma'am.
I follow a lot of channels that will minorly offend the lot of you, so I have chosen to highlight my least offensive recommendation. It's very American, so take that under advisement.
TheReportOfTheWeek is a young gentleman who dresses exclusively in old-style suits, parts and manages his hair with extreme care, speaks like an old-timey radio announcer, and reviews fast food items.
He's not funny; he's eccentric, and it's charming. It feels like he has chosen to go right along with his eccentricity, and it works beautifully for him. For example, he doesn't use his real name, or any sort of real name, he just refers to himself as "The Report of the Week" which is oddly satisfying.
In this new era of YouTube celebs, here is one that nobody saw coming. I like that part about our new media landscape. Never in a million billion years would the old media have given this cat air time. But he found an audience.
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Good thread ma'am.
In this new era of YouTube celebs, here is one that nobody saw coming. I like that part about our new media landscape. Never in a million billion years would the old media have given this cat air time. But he found an audience.
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This, right here, is why I love youtube.
One of my favourite channels is Blind Wave. A group of RL friends who started a website commenting on the various things they enjoy, which then turned into a Youtube channel, with gaming, reactions, original content, cooking shows, podcast etc etc. Some stuff it's all of them, some stuff will have different pairings, or trios.
With Youtube revenue and patreon support they've managed to get a little studio set up, and they have a regular audience - I watched their Game of Thrrones reactions, and there were people sending in gifts to go on the desk during reactions, that were serious GoT merch - like, how much does the official collection of full colour maps cost??
They've carved out their little niche, grown their audience and are doing all sorts of entertaining and creative stuff with it.
Frikkin awesome.
Also he is great - I am totally watching more of his stuff.
Re:
I follow a lot of channels that will minorly offend the lot of you, so I have chosen to highlight my least offensive recommendation.
- I don't think we should be offended by a video channel. Or rather, I don't think we should be offended by your posting it. If we don't like a channel, we don't have to watch their videos.
I would just assume I wasn't the person you were recommending the video to :P
[eta] I sometimes wander through videos that are completely against my beliefs or opinions - it's interesting to get the other viewpoint - it's pretty essential if you disagree with that worldview that you have some understanding of what it is you are actually disagreeing with. And occasionally you happen upon a sliver of common ground, or something that makes you reassess your own worldview.
Well I did just finally hit the subscribe button on Nazi Pug guy
Count Dankula. I don't know if I'm gonna stick with him... I don't know how far UKIP he is exactly, he went and talked to them, but he's funny, and representin' the free speech. And from here, to hear that deep Scottish accent really makes it more entertaining.
In this segment he tells the tale of Mad Jack Churchill and it's a fine tale indeed.
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'archery and bagpipes'
Hahahah. That's fucking awesome.
I like his style. he's an excellent story teller.
"You can't help but respect a man who brings a sword to a fuckin' gunfight... and fuckin' wins." :D :D
Well I started down the
Joe Rogan Experience pathway, and that led to
Jordan Peterson and the entire Intellectual Dark Web.
Former professional attention whore and addict
Russell Brand is changing his profession to Deep Thinker; sometimes he seems overwrought and boring, other times it seems like he is truly onto something.
I subscribe to the
Philadelphia Eagles channel, but I'm not offering that as a recommendation, except that the Eagles are the finest team in all the land, led by Our Savior, Ginger Jesus.
I have stayed a
Jonathan Pie fan. For some reason, his is the only anti-Trump comedy snark I can enjoy. I think he comes at it from a slightly different angle than our doctrinaire left.
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Woodturner 21
This guy is a 3rd generation production woodturner in England. He's been production turning for close to 40 years and you can see the kind of skill that only comes with thousands and thousands of hours of practice. Absolute economy of movement and sure cuts. 37 yrs x 50 weeks x 40 hours =74,000 hours.
His technique is astounding. It's so relaxing to watch. Some of his videos have the sound of the turning, which is music in itself, others have (or had) added music.
The guy is super nice and friendly, and comes across as humble.
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AvE is a Trip , shoppy talk but funny
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This old Tony is funny
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Abom is a classy dude
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All Metal working vids ( Mostly )
Oh and the Scottish Granny
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Watch it all the way thru with out laughing , i dare ya !!!
Not sure if I ran across this here or not, but
this guy is recreating the antitkythera mechanism.
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Stewie Griffin is all grown up and now he builds custom guitars. This is Crimson guitars YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars
I've been binging it while I await my new guitar and repairs to the old one.
Well, now, what does he mean by Stewie Griff--ohnowIgetit.:yesnod:
He annoyed me at first... But then I got past that.
This one isn't on the you tube channel, but it's done a bit better. He does voice over in post production instead of the manic yammering in the first couple builds I watched, and it is more informative and you don't have to endure as much silliness.
https://crimsonguitars.com/the-9-hour-custom-guitar-challenge-videos-in-real-time/
There are a handful of other builds there too. I watched the 100 minute and 12 hour guitars first, and am currently on episode 2 of that link ^ up there.
I think I might try this guitar building thing.
Bruce gave me a huge slab of wood.... You happen to remember what kind of wood that is, xo? I have some sepele and some wenge, as well....
So this is research, really.
That's racist.
African-American Walnut
I follow a bunch of various makers.
This guy is fun. His accent reminds me of home.
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Ohhh - I am totallly sending my brother a link to that.
@ UT -
Hopefully this plays outside the UK.
Jonathon Pie on 'Mansplaining' - from his live show - (nsfw):
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:) plays here. Thank you, that's some good Pie! (And yeah, you women-folk are hardcore!)
Well I did just finally hit the subscribe button on Nazi Pug guy Count Dankula.
Youtube just demonetized his entire channel.
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That sort of thing is going to slash away YouTube's relevance very quickly.
What relevance, as an entertainment alternative to the Netflix or Hula?
And now there is the very silly
Pewdiepie vs T-Series subscriber count battle.
Pewdiepie is fun. He's a Swedish gamer, who cracks funny at memes. T-Series is an Indian music video channel... not silly at all, just mainstream Indian culture. It's an actual battle for what would be far and away the top subscribed YouTube channel. (These two channels have 85M subscribers and I believe the #3 contender has about half those numbers.)
Pewds is now making it into a huge comic battle, inside joke for the fans, as if it's critically important that we all subscribe and "smash Like" on videos so he can defeat T-Series. It is in the spirit of Boaty McBoatface and Pewds clearly understands that. He takes himself very un-seriously. Which is surely why he's popular.
"Bitch lasagna" Pewd's fake rap song to focus the battle
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...I frikken love this guy. I must have watched about 2 hours worth of short videos, and have yet to find one I haven't found interesting and thought provoking.
here are a few examples of his stuff:
About mistakes people make prepping for disaster survival...
...More recently, about looting and state response in the wake of the hurricane...
Nice thread here DanaC.
Great info overall. For the majority of my adult life I've been living short term at a given place, then moving on. Short term - move, Short term - move. For years. I'm good at it when most others are not.
It doesn't make me sad either. Moving.
So, when the subjects are taking care of yourself, preparing for situations that are beyond your control, and surviving those situations in reasonable comfort short term, I'm paying attention.
I completely agree with the notion that just having guns is not going to get you through the crisis. And that one is none. Two is one. And many other ideas shared in the videos.
It's also great to read your enthusiasm for the whole idea of prepping. That you don't need to be preparing for the coming communist invasion to benefit from these suggestions. Natural disasters are a very real reason to take some time and effort in preparing.
I'll also share a little gem free of charge from my little group of roaming contractors that I've never seen online.
Rice and dry dog food.
Shortly after I move in, there's a big bag of both somewhere in my crashpad.
Much cheaper than the freeze dried Mountain house stored food and something to give out in a time of great hunger. First the rice, then the dog food. Not exactly FEMA rations but if you're hungry...
At the end of the contract, there's always a nice dog nearby I can gift the dry food and rice to.
Cheap insurance.
Good channels to watch. Nice thread!
Do they ever mention to include a big bag of salt? You can preserve what you kill for eating later, without having refrigeration.
I'm thinking meteorite here rather than civil instability
Yeah, I was reading about this guy who has a plan to feed 6 billion people with fungi and weird shit in case of nuke war, big space rock, or super volcano. He was saying any of those would practically blot out the sun for at least two years.
Then it dawned on me, that would render all those solar panels almost useless.
Do they ever mention to include a big bag of salt? You can preserve what you kill for eating later, without having refrigeration.
I'm thinking meteorite here rather than civil instability
Good call.
It's cheap, non-toxic, not flammable and not terribly incriminating when the FBI breaks the door in.
I'll add it to my list.
Good call.
It's cheap, non-toxic, not flammable and not terribly incriminating when the FBI breaks the door in.
I'll add it to my list.
It's quite salty.
Not so much with lime and tequila.
Hmmm curing meat with salt is a little more difficult than I thought,
this page says it wants low-but-not-freezing temperatures for a month. But it also says you can brine the meat in jars, and doesn't say it has to be any particular temperature for that.
It also says you can smoke the meat, and that seems like the best way.
Ah, but with just salt you can ferment veggies! Of course you have to grow/find them first, but they last basically forever without refrigeration, plus the probiotics will help you fight off all the dysentery you'll be getting from those failing sanitation systems.
It's nice if you can stay put; but, if you have to be on the move it doesn't make the weight cut.
I have subscribed to
PewDiePie, to help him try to
defeat T-Series.
PewDiePie is fine light entertainment for the Interneterati youth. Gaming, memes, being all meta, cracking wise in an internet-millennial sort of way.
J: You're watching that PewDiePie guy?
UT: Yes he's funny
J: He looks like a bro. Is he a bro culture guy?
UT: No he's Swedish.
PewDiePie
throws around the n-word in his videos and has
promoted neo-Nazi channels on his channel.
Anyone who knows PewDiePie knows that is Vox being Vox. It is what they do. And it is revolting.
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Is the Alt-right revolting as well?
I don't have time to tease out whether inside jokes are really jokes, so I'll leave him to the tragically hip. I've become much more reflective about what I expose my brain to. Going deep into any counter-culture is stimulating and fun but from my immersive libertarian experience I know that I often left common sense in the cloak room.
I been watching BBQ porn lately
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Is the Alt-right revolting as well?
It depends on your definition of alt-right! Originally it meant the revolting white nationalists, including nazi Richard Spencer who apparently coined the term. But many people heard the term out of that context, and came to believe it describes some different vague righty group. At this point, Ben Shapiro is often described as alt-right. Shapiro is an orthodox Jew. The white nationalists hate him.
PewDiePie links hundreds of sites when he uses identifies meme creators and whatnot. Linking creators is a courtesy. Just linking to a site doesn't indicate any kind of philosophical agreement. Notice that the Cellar currently links to such a site. Intent matters. Intent is everything.
Guilt by association is revolting. It recalls the red scare, where you could be blacklisted just for being friends with a "known Communist", or attending a meeting to find out what it was about. Today, link to Nazis? Make jokes about Nazis? Well then you must be one.
What, Griff is a nazi? Well the Toad said so. Hey did you hear Toad said Griff is a nazi?
Reading for comprehension is passe, skimming for gossip is the ticket, just grab things to tweet before somebody beats you to it, truth be damned. :(
You can just grab 'em by the tweet.
I been watching BBQ porn lately
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I stopped at 1:20. He's got pepper seeds everywhere. They're in everything.
I'm pretty sure that didn't happen.
Make jokes about Nazis? Well then you must be one.
The BBC tried to hire Dankula to do a panel show; and this allowed the entire thing to blow up today, as the Beeb could legitimately be challenged as offering a platform to a Nazi-adjacent convicted hate criminal. BBC had to recant and fire him.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bbc-scotland-drop-nazi-salute-14081982
There were headlines saying "Nazi pug criminal", and I can't imagine what someone would make of that moniker, if they didn't know the Dankula back story.
It depends on your definition of alt-right! Originally it meant the revolting white nationalists, including nazi Richard Spencer who apparently coined the term. But many people heard the term out of that context, and came to believe it describes some different vague righty group. At this point, Ben Shapiro is often described as alt-right. Shapiro is an orthodox Jew. The white nationalists hate him.
But allowing the term to describe some different vague righty group allows you to claim that the people you are describing are Nazis. Hence it allows you to tag people you disagree with as the worst people on earth. This is extremely false, and extremely bad, but it has been allowed to happen by people who should know better.
Today New Zealand's major book retailer banned Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules For Life".
We have entered the book-burning phase of the Brown Scare.
There is absolutely nothing political about the book. It's basically a self-help book peppered with Peterson's observations. Everyone should read it, it's 100% wonderful. I have, and I feel it has done nothing short of improving my life. Peterson isn't even all that righty. He's a traditionalist if you could say anything about him.
Meanwhile, book they did not ban, still on the shelves:
Mein Kampf.
That book has probably done more to bring misguided young men away from the extreme right than any of the anti-indoctrination schemes currently targeting at risk youth.
Truth!
Peterson's biggest point is: empty nihilism leads to resentment. Disappearing into resentment is literally a personal hell on earth. But getting your life sorted out, by taking responsibility, is where you find meaning in life, and that is the antidote to that nihilism and resentment.
That's exactly what a resentful shitposting possible shooter with no life needs to understand.
Bingo.
He is also telling disaffected and unhappy young men (mainly) to stop trying to fix everybody else and society at large until they've sorted themselves out - clean your room before you try to clean the world
I think you can't have a full discussion about why young people are experiencing historical levels of stress, anxiety, depression, nihilism, resentment, and the effects that cascade from there, without addressing the tangible impact of the lack of economic opportunities that are available to the group of people who grew up during the 2008 recession.
I personally suspect that the rise of young, white, male violence is coming from a group of boys who saw their fathers and grandfathers being able to support a family and maintain patriarchal dominance over society by simply being a reasonably proficient, regular (white), middle-class dude. I'm sure they're asking why that social contract has betrayed them. Of course they have nihilism and resentment.
What are we telling them-- pull yourselves up by the bootstraps?
No, it has nothing to do with that
Oh, okay. Dodged a bullet there.
Get it? Dodged a bullet?
That isn't Peterson's message though. His is more of a ...exert control over your own life in a small way - you can't control the world, but you can give yourself a clean room as a first step to taking control of your life and your ability to respond to the world and opportunities (of whatever kind) when they arise. To develop a sense of personal responsibility and competence in the face of sometimes profoundly difficult situations. To not be overwhelmed and find a way to direct your efforts to your own advantage - to do what you can to make your own little part of the world, yourself, your family your friends a better place to be,starting with yourself.
When I first started at the place I work, wee had a conversation in our little training group with our trainer about stress and coping with corporate bullshit and targets and all that - he had been for some kind of stress counselling at one point after a minor breakdown a few years earlier and the counselor employed the metaphor of the hula hoop of control.
I still find myself occasionally thinking - hang on, this is not within my hula hoop of control, i really need to stop fretting about it :P What can \I tackle that is within my control?
It's not just that "times are tough"*. It's WAY worse than that! In the end, we all die!
And all our loved ones die. Often with great pain and suffering. Before that, you will have to deal with a remarkable amount of pain and suffering yourself. The promise that "everything will made all better" disappears when we become adults and realize that the condition "all better" doesn't really exist and nobody is going to make it right.
So, life sucks and then you die is the default human condition. Peterson: So what are you going to do about that?
* Times are always tough. By almost any measure, our current time is arguably the least-tough time humanity has ever experienced. Life expectancy, the end of total war, the end of scarcity.
The richest person on earth, 200 years ago -- and every King in every Kingdom in history -- would have given it ALL up, in return for the miracle of modern dentistry.
But even in these marvelous times, we find ourselves nihilistic, jaded, desperately unhappy. It is a crisis of meaning.
Fair enough. Reminds me of 'Man's Search for Meaning' by Viktor Frankl.
"...chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positively about, and then immersively imagining that outcome."
Here's where I got all that
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Times are always tough. By almost any measure, our current time is arguably the least-tough time humanity has ever experienced. Life expectancy, the end of total war, the end of scarcity.
End of scarcity if you can afford it. There's an awful lot of people who can't, which is even worse than when everyone is suffering from scarcity. Then it becomes "why me" piled on.
I was kind of thinking, what good is the miracle of Modern Dentistry if you can't afford to go to the dentist? Things being better on average doesn't make it better for the people who it's not better for.
What we were discussing has very little to do with that. That was an aside as an example of what tough times are in relation to history. It was meant to show that this need for meaning affects us aside from how tough things are, either in history or for any of us personally.
When we were in tight tribes we were given our burden and the results of not picking it up were pretty obvious. I liked his example infrastructure and of the linemen. Those skills take some time to develop and those jobs are dangerous. People get killed every day doing the little things that keep civilization intact. It is unheralded heroism when a garbageman gets killed by a car. That loss of life is not celebrated as it should be.
The life I'm celebrating this week was that of a college biology professor. He remained inquisitive to the end. He was interested in everything and had great respect for the infrastructure of civilization. One of his passions was the canal networks. What I'm getting at is this, human suffering should not become a left right divider. (If I'm not extrapolating too much from a short video)
I've been watching stuff like this lately.
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I would have cooked that chicken till the thigh read 180F. But that's just me.
Just to add to the ridiculousness - I saw this in the news yesterday:
Dr Jordan Peterson: Cambridge University fellowship rescinded
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-47656933
Fucking ridiculous. Unless someone is advocating racial or gender-based (or any other brand of bigotry) violence or discrimination - or is known to be linked to a group or party that advocates this - or if they as an academic are perpetuating dangerous and outmoded pseudo-scientific theories (like eugenics or racial hierarchies) I do not understand why a university would rescind a fellowship.
In a university you want a multiplicity of views and academics. I could understand it if he was going to be lecturing in clinical psychology and was intent on teaching something that had been discredited or show to be harmful - at that point you absolutely shouldn't let that person become part of the faculty - but he is a) a highly respected psychology professor who, while currently operating at the fringes off his field in many ways, is nonetheless highly skilled and experienced - and b) was supposed to be collaborating on a theological course examining theological texts from a psychological perspective. If he goes in with something wild nobody gets hurt by that.
About the only rationale I could see for not allowing someone like Peterson to be a part of the university is that he has made himself too well known in the political sphere and that'snot the done thing for professors - it loses the sense of objectivity and potentially damages the balance of collegial respect between faculty and students. It'd ok to pop up in the news from time to time to discuss your field of expertise or comment on something affecting the university sector- but you don't want to be known for that as an academic.
I don't think that is what this is though. I think they have bowed to pressure from a small bunch of students who have labeled him enemy of trans-rights and poster boy for the alt right and then whipped a bunch more less informed students into a frenzy of outrage.
When I was younger the people we wanted to prevent having a public platform were actual fascists - known members of white supremacist groups (one of them had been secretly recorded at a meeting exhorting his followers - 'muslims are cockroaches - and what do we do with cockroaches?') or academics still trying to push damaging 'gay cure' ideas long after it had proven to be devastatingly harmful to most of the people who were persuaded to follow that route- that was about it ... that shit is dangerous -
Peterson isn't advocating a refusal to recognise the basic humanity of trans people, or agitating for them to be segragated off from the rest of society or anything bad - imo about LGBTQ people. He didn;t even refuse to use neutral pronouns - he refused to use a cumbersome and unintuitive list of made up pronouns that can change at any moment and carry the force of law. That doesn't make him an enemy of trans people. They should save their ire for the people who are actually advocating harmful policies and views (go picket the politician that defunds groups supporting LGBTQ at risk youth for instance)
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I think Peterson's greatest 'crime' is his unwillingness to condemn and give up on the alt-right people. Out and out fascists he has condemned thoroughly and often - but he does that thing that winds people up where he actually tries to understand the people in that milieu - who are they, why are they attracted to that philosophy, how can they be reached and drawn back towards a healthier balance? He isn't looking at them and seeing them only as their political or cultural stance - he is seeing them as human beings with complex psychologies and characters.
To quote Oprah ( I know, right?) 'both things can be true'. Someone can have good qualities (kindness, humour, bravery) and still perform terrible acts or hold deeply distasteful views. The one doesn't negate the other.
Nobody wants to understand the other side. It's all battle lines and team loyalty. You have to fly a flag - so which flag are you flying?
Beautifully put!
Peterson's other fault is not having an elevator speech. He runs deep and he's hard to take in all at once. That makes him a good target, because you can say he is anything, and people won't be able to prove otherwise.
Even after watching two Rogan casts with the guy, I was still like, I can't sum this guy up. He's so interdisciplinary, he has a lot to say about a lot of things.
a theological course examining theological texts from a psychological perspective
I watched the first few of his biblical series. I'm a lifelong atheist/agnostic and I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Religion, from a Darwinian perspective! The book of Genesis describing the coming online of human consciousness - and having wild insights that modern science proves out! I wish I had more time to put into it, because it's like going back to university and taking a course from a really good prof who tells you amazing things that change your understanding.
But I guess we don't have to go back, in order to do that. It turns out YouTube is a better school than Cambridge. Why: no fucking STUDENTS.
You have to fly a flag - so which flag are you flying?
AND follow the instructions, guidelines, and limits of perspective that come with the flag.
And now there is the very silly Pewdiepie vs T-Series subscriber count battle.
"Bitch lasagna" Pewd's fake rap song to focus the battle
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Butt hurt T-Series went to court in India and forced YouTube to take down the above video in their country
They couldn't take a diss video, so they went and had it blocked! Along with "
Congratulations", another diss video which Pewds made believing that T-Series had passed him (although he remains #1, probably due to bot activity).
In "Congratulations", he pointed out a bit of illegal activity that T-Series was involved with...
... and said with a wink, so sorry that the media might hold past events against them
(as the media did to Pewds)
I'm not even mad at India, this is simply hilarious.
That book has probably done more to bring misguided young men away from the extreme right than any of the anti-indoctrination schemes currently targeting at risk youth.
On Sunday the NYTimes, being the NYTimes, put an entirely anecdotal story on their front page claiming that YouTube radicalized a young man who watched too many right wing videos and got sucked down a hell hole
They are pushing this narrative really hard right now, and it's great for them, because they get to put non-radical people they don't agree with in their infographic, and say look, you can't watch, like Jordan Peterson, because he is not a Nazi but we're saying he's somehow right next to them.
This is now the satanic panic of the 2010s, with worried parents saying YouTube offers "gateway drugs" of youtubers who are not necessary all-in right wing but maybe they are on the edge of it
Combined with the Maza/Crowder dustup and several other old-media non-stories about YouTubers -- what we are actually seeing now is old-media striking out against YouTube and individual YouTubers, because money! Individual YouTubers are taking the news and explaining it. NYTimes and Vox don't like that, because that is supposed to be their job. It's hard for them when you notice that people are doing a better job of it than they are, and not accepting their narratives.
But, obviously, anyone can take the news and just interpret it, and some people wind up quite good at it... better than the old media, even
~
The Babylon Bee,
which is The Onion of this era, is there to satirize the Times article:
YouTube Is Radicalizing Members Of The Right And Left To Have Actual Conversations
...which was a phenomenon you could actually see in the Times anecdote: this "radicalized" guy was also watching intellectual dark web and lefty videos by the end of his radicalization
Like The Onion used to, the Bee has a better sense of it than the Times.
Very interesting.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
The Straight Pipes
New car test drives and reviews. They're quite goofy, but present info in a watchable manner.
Can't possibly be legit... OR CAN IT????
From the About: "Join us for inter-species psychic life readings by Pearl, the ascended squirrel, along with the entertaining and informative series on Proper Opossum Care..."
9 years' worth of opossum content!!! Is she self-aware? Is she nuts? How could she not be legit after 9 years??
That is the biggest opossum I've ever seen performing on YouTube.
That's because it spends the whole video eating. ;)
I made it One minute and four seconds. That woman gives me the willys.
Makey:
Adam Savage's Tested - Random making and VR hardware reviews
Simone Giertz - Builds shitty robots
Primitive Technologies - Makes things starting with just his own two hands and some lovely wilderness.
Clickspring - Remaking the Antithykara mechanism, referenced before.
Mathy:
Numberphile/
Numberphile 2 - Random mathy things
Vi Hart - Random mathy things
Standup Maths - Random mathy things
Singing Banana - Random mathy things
Other:
First we Feast - fun celebrity interviews while eating progressively hotter wings.
Accused Farms - Computer game-related content and commentary
OskarPuzzle - Makes puzzles
Cyriak - weird
My kids watch Cyriak sometimes. Just a straight-up acid trip.
I have recently become a little addicted to the youtuber, Blaire White. Given how well known she is this one might not be new to others :P
Her politics are to the right on a lot of stuff (she is a republican) but not so far to the right that I can't see her point, even if I disagree with it.
On other issues she expresses views I agree with - like her take on a lot of the current LGBT and 'SJW' activist scene. As a trans woman herself, on the right politically, she brings some interesting balance.
She's very entertaining and has opened my eyes to a bunch of stuff that hadn't really crossed my radar particularly around the trans rights movement and LGBT community and some of the more extreme nonsense coming out of the current radical feminist scene
I don't think this stuff has hit the UK with quite as much force as in the US but it is a growing issue nonetheless.
I'm not going to shit on 'the Left' because there is still a core that is traditional left, with people fighting against actual inequality and promoting genuine inclusivity. And, there was always a strand of the left that was bat shit crazy - and there was always a strand of well-meaning middle-class academics and students 'fighting for the oppressed' and signing up to marxist parties because they were intellectually supportive of the working classes, without any real affinity for working-class culture.
But the current generation of activists have a strand that makes the bat shit crazy of my youth look sane.
It isn't enough any more to recognise oppression or systemic inequality and work towards change - now we are inventing oppression, often eclipsing the real inequalities and issues, and movements, or responses to real problems get hijacked by this destructive wing of ... I say left but a lot of this isn't really 'left', it sits outside the left/right political dialectic, often running directly counter to what has been understood as left wing in the past and also counter to what has been understood as right wing.
From what I have read and watched, some of this may have been a conscious effort by disillusioned marxists to transpose the core dialectic from a class analysis that incorporates race and gender to a classless self-identity and intersectionality based analysis, effectively obliterating the main ideas that actually united the left at some level (and still does for the mainstream, non-Youtube and campus based left)
Anyways - I'm rambling.
Some of Blair's videos.
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A lot of traditionally liberal thinking is getting crowded out with this form of bullshit.
I think of my very liberal mom, ex-arts administrator for the state, who said to me as we watched the
New Year's Day Mummers Parade: "The government ought to promote this, make it easier to see; it's actually a type of working class folk art, and it's really rare for something like that to develop and last."
All I could think was, oh, ma, it's so sad, things changed and you didn't notice it: this parade is just a tad too white. The city stopped helping pay for even the services for it in 2009... $1M out of our $4.5B budget, we can't afford it, they said...
So that's how fuck working class folk art became the official policy.
It's white, so what? It's also traditional, does everything have to change, to be updated to current racial/sexual balance? Should we add blacks wearing white face? Does everything have to pass the politically correct task force approval? If so we'll have no heritage left. Listen to your mother!
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I just started Part 3 of Homo Deus. Harari has a gift of telling you what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear. He can very dispassionately discuss the emotionally turbulent issues that plague our time.
I've watched a few of these now, and I am struck with genuine sympathy for many of these often life long republicans grappling with the need to get rid of Trump for the sake of the nation.
Its horrible when your party lurches off in a different direction. I really bad for your average, generational republican.
I remember as a kid watching stuff about American politics and elections, and while the two sides were very different, they both seemed to meet each other on a lot of shared assumptions and values - it was perfectly possible for democrat and republican to get along with each and work together.
Where are the statesmen and stateswomen now? Where are the reasoned and rational ?
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The Ds and Rs get along fine if their owners let them off leash. But the owners saw they were playing too nice so they had to be kept on a short leash and snarling.
Divide and conquer, baby.
I've watched a few of these now, and I am struck with genuine sympathy for many of these often life long republicans grappling with the need to get rid of Trump for the sake of the nation.
Its horrible when your party lurches off in a different direction. I really bad for your average, generational republican.
I remember as a kid watching stuff about American politics and elections, and while the two sides were very different, they both seemed to meet each other on a lot of shared assumptions and values - it was perfectly possible for democrat and republican to get along with each and work together.
Where are the statesmen and stateswomen now? Where are the reasoned and rational ?
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That man has a broken heart. I feel bad for him and our country.
Ladies and germs, the Japanese Ambassador...
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