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NCC1701DEngageon Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

You listen to Yuval Noah Harari?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2m77KGMIKZCD0Kw35-4shQ

NCC1701DEngageon Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most

Here is an interesting channel doing predatory plants:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nQ1UONnucPttZ96w8Jk4A

NCC1701DEngageon US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)

>Perun's Youtube channel has been a great deep-dive source into the war economy in general.

You watch the Good Times Bad Times channel too by any chance?

NCC1701DEngageon Mark Zuckerberg ‘visibly frustrated’ over worker’s vacation question

>it may not be the best time to change employers.

Literally the lowest unemployment rate since the '90s Internet Boom.

NCC1701DEngageon Mark Zuckerberg ‘visibly frustrated’ over worker’s vacation question

If the company was doin' a heckin' success he'd probably be a less grumpy boi.

But as it stands the company is flailing publicly in a very noticeable way with the Metaverse and Oculus and the (frankly insane and ridiculous) push for VR. Their main brand is now such a joke that they are trying to change the name of the company (unsuccessfully; I've seen FAANG used more than once here in the last couple days).

I think it is possible that the stench of failure from the Metaverse is going to start to infect their remaining successful brand: IG.

No wonder Mark is a grumpy boi.

NCC1701DEngageon What Is Tom Bombadil Doing in the Lord of the Rings?

Fascinating thread.

I've always felt that Bombadil represented things which did not yield to logical interpretation by Enlightenment reasoning; hence him being left completely opaque by Tolkien in his backstory explanations (and generally acting nonsensically within the narrative). This does not exclude the interpretations that he represents a kind of pre-Modern nature spirit and in fact seems to support and synergize with those interpretations. It synergizes particularly well with his immunity to technology as discussed in the replies by @jpgcrowley.

NCC1701DEngageon Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

You know about Omeleto, TheCGBros, and ALTER in addition to DUST? Omeleto also has a sci-fi specific side-channel.

Those are the well known ones, but there is also smaller channels like Sci-Fi Central and Screamfest which also put out longer-form (for YouTube) fictional shorts (and some feature length stuff).

NCC1701DEngageon Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

You watch any of the TLDR channels for news? I just found them not too long ago.

NCC1701DEngageon Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

If you're looking to find more interesting content on YouTube you might want to check this out:

https://channelgalaxy.com/id%3DUCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/

They have lists of channels by similarity. That one is the list for the Y Combinator channel. You can look up a different channel in the search bar on top of the page.

I've definitely found a bunch of new channels through it, like Yannic Kilcher and pretty much the whole AI section of YouTube. Despite watching stuff like Robert Miles and Lex Fridman YouTube never showed me the depth of the AI section on its own. After I found it the YouTube algorithm started showing me videos in the new areas I was discovering which brought even more content.