Kind of tired watching trash from YT.

Edit: Thanks for all the replies. It’s good to see that there are still gems in YouTube.

53 points

Technology connections

Every frame a painting

Alt shift x

Dad how do I

Food wishes

Kurzgesagt In a nutshell

Primitive technology

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Technology Connections is SO GOOD.

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cue the smooth oboe transition into bloopers

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Kurzgesagt tends to push a lot of pseudoscience (e.g. carbon capture tech) and other stuff following the investment interests of their founders.

I like their animation style and honestly I wish they used proper data sources, however if you check the sources they mention on some of their more dubious videos they all come from some made up source.

This is particularly upsetting with everything related to parroting whatever Bill Gates is pushing (artificial meat, carbon capture, inequality is the teacher’s fault, climate change isn’t that bad, etc.)

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Adding on to this; There’s a video by The Hated One who initially broke this story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI&pp=ygUVa3Vyemdlc2FndCBwcm9wYWdhbmRh

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Have you watched their response?

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI&pp=ygUVa3Vyemdlc2FndCBwcm9wYWdhbmRh

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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Good to know, thanks for the info!

In that case: Skeptics guide to the universe and their sister channel alpha quadrant six

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Seeing where the money is is a good way to see why someone says what they do. That’s disappointing. I’m mostly there for their space videos personally and so far there doesn’t seem to be any propaganda there.

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Kurzgesagt is great!

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Climate Town - Does a decent job explaining climate-related topics and still makes them interesting.
Jay Foreman - Very funny map trivia.
JerryRigEverything - A bit too much promotion on some stuff, but really comprehensive tear downs.
MIT OpenCourseWare - learn good.
Pop Culture Detective - Deconstructive pop culture tropes that make you think a lot.
SNES drunk - retrogaming (not just SNES) but well done, 0% additives just prime content.
stacksmashing - electronics trivia and hardcore reverse engineering.
The National Gallery - If you’re into history, this is an excellent channel about art trivia. I’m not much into art and this is always top quality for me.
Tom Scott plus - Tom Scott does British telly stuff like playing board games or chasing people on the streets with an apple tag.
Voices of the Past - This is slow, exhaustive history for nerds. Worth it if you want to let the story wash all over you.
Vox - slightly left leaning great journalism, albeit sometimes too brief to explain complex topics.
Weird History - They get some stuff wrong, but it’s still entertaining.
Project Farm - Wanna buy an angle grinder? Now you do.
Insider - Had a series of “How Real Is It?” videos that let professionals describe stuff seen in movies, and it is both entertaining and a learning experience.
Corridor - Some stuff of dubious quality but if you’re interested in FX, it’s good.
LegalEagle - Law is hard, but is law fun?
brian david gilbert - Existential horror camouflaged as comedy.
PBS Space Time - Good but hard space science.
BurtBot - Orcs with normal voices.
Joel Haver - Neat if you’re into deadpan humor.
Taskmaster - Probably some of the best british television available in YT.

Bonus round:
Practical Engineering - How stuff is built but explained well enough that even I can understand it.

Plus, use FreeTube, not You Tube. Don’t be a slave of their terrible algorythm and all the recommendations will turn out to be of your taste.

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Map men map men map map map men men men.

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I love Vox, but I would call it more than slightly left leaning.

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The journalists, sure. The company, less so.

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The company, less so.

Well, it’s neither a non-profit nor a worker-owned co-op, so that’s to be expected.

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Technology Connections

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Love this guy. He’s such a nerd! My kind of people

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The only thing I would like to be improved is his rambling. But other than that: great content and I especially like his humour and acting.

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I actually kind of like that about him, usually (I’m not gonna watch an hour long video about electric car chargers ffs).

To me, it makes the videos seem a bit less scripted and more like just a guy talking about things he’s passionate about.

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Ben Eater. He’s been explaining the low level details of how computers work. Literally building a functioning computer from nothing but a cpu and a breadboard. Incredibly good explanations.

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I learned more from that guy than I did from the “intro to computer engineering” class I took for my CS degree.

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I started in the industry doing 6502 assembly language programming and I’m still learning a ton from him!

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I mean, he also built a functioning CPU on breadboards.

One of my favorite video series on youtube

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And for those who have watched all Ben Eater’s videos, I highly recommend James Sharman’s 8 Bit CPU from scratch playlist. I’ts a bit less step-by-step-tutorial, but it covers more ground than Ben.

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In the same vein, check out CuriousMarc, especially the series about restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer to working order. (They actually finish up by simulating a moon landing.)

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Laura Kampf

Simone Giertz

MKBHD

Tom Scott

Mark Rober

Climate Town

Jay Foremen (Map Men)

Daily Dose of Internet

Captain Disillusion

Casually Explained

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Tom Scott would be my top pick for quality YouTube not tied to a specific hobby. His videos are great.

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Besides his educational content, he also has some pretty good (still somewhat educational) game show type series, like Citation Needed and Two Of These People Are Lying (links to the playlists).

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Also runs a podcast game show called Lateral which is pretty fun to listen to. Last I checked only highlights were uploaded to YouTube, and full episodes are on typical podcast services

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I really wish Two Of These People Are Lying would make a comback

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