MachineMachine /stream - search for face https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[archive.ph]]> https://archive.ph/2023.09.16-062709/https%3A//forge.medium.com/the-only-way-to-resist-the-attention-economy-28cafd0d2699

Top highlightThe New Self-HelpThe Only Way to Resist the Attention EconomyQuitting Facebook isn’t the answerWe live in an age where there are many systemic abuses that should be refused. I propose that one great place to start is the abuse of our attention.

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Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:37:29 -0800 https://archive.ph/2023.09.16-062709/https%3A//forge.medium.com/the-only-way-to-resist-the-attention-economy-28cafd0d2699
<![CDATA[The Marvelization of Cinema]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmxfVWDgMM

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About this video essay: We've all felt it: the movies have changed. But how so exactly, and why? And what can be done about it? In this extensive critique, I try to capture the decline of modern cinema in one unifying theory.

00:00 The Marvelization of Cinema 01:52 What is Storytelling Entropy? 06:26 Hollow Franchises 11:15 Meta-References to Nowhere 17:40 Corporate Passion 25:23 Breaking the Cycle 33:08 Meaningful Engagement

Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking

My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear

Media included: 12 Angry Men; 2001 A Space Odyssey; A Good Day to Die Hard; A Hidden Life; Aftersun; Ahsoka; Alien; Alien vs. Predator; Aliens; Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania; Asteroid City; Avengers Age of Ultron; Avengers Endgame; Avengers Infinity War; Babylon; Barbie; Batman Begins; Batman v Superman; Blade Runner 2049; Captain America Civil War; Captain America The First Avenger; Captain America The Winter Soldier; Citadel; Deadpool; Decision to Leave; Die Hard; Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; Dune; Dungeons and Dragons; Eternals; Foundation; Fast X; Free Guy; Game of Thrones; Ghostbusters Afterlife; Ghosted; Gladiator; Godzilla; Godzilla vs Kong; Goodfellas; Inception; Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Iron Man 3; Iron Man; John Wick Chapter 3 & 4; Jurassic Park; Jurassic World; Jurassic World Dominion; Lawrence of Arabia; Loki; Mission Impossible 1, 2, Fallout, Rogue Nation & Dead Reckoning; Moon Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi; Ocean's Eleven; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; Past Lives; Predator 1 & 2; Red Notice; Secret Invasion; Seven Samurai; Shang-Chi; She-Hulk; Spiderman 1 & 2; Spider-Man No Way Home; Star Wars A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, The Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi & the Rise of Skywalker; Synecdoche New York; Terminator 1, 2 & Dark Fate; The Dark Knight, The Amazing Spider-Man 2; The Avengers; The Fabelmans; The Falcon and the Winter Soldier; The Flash; The Godfather 1 & 2; The Gray Man; The Hobbit Trilogy; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; The Rings of Power; The Matrix 1 & 4; The Mummy; The Prestige; The Thing; The Witcher; Thor Love and Thunder; Thor Ragnarok; Thor The Dark World; Top Gun; Top Gun Maverick; Transformers Rise of the Beasts; Uncharted

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Music: Dexter Britain - Hoursglass Jo Blankenburg - Dirt Dexter Britain - Your Own World Alaskan Tapes - Swimming and Dancing and Floating in Circles Dexter Britain - Headspace Cultus - Between Mountains Dexter Britain - Air Dexter Britain - Raising

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Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:35:31 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmxfVWDgMM
<![CDATA[John Carpenter: We Wouldn’t Stand a Chance Against “The Thing”]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ

Stephen is delighted to welcome one of his favorite directors, the Master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Watch as they discuss his 1982 classic film, “The Thing,” and stick around for a peek into Carpenter’s directing process for his latest project, “Suburban Screams.”

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Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:35:00 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ
<![CDATA[Watching Neural Networks Learn]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkwXa7Cvfr8

A video about neural networks, function approximation, machine learning, and mathematical building blocks. Dennis Nedry did nothing wrong. This is a submission for #SoME3

My Links Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emergentgarden Discord: https://discord.gg/ZsrAAByEnr

Links and Content: On Mathematical Maturity, Thomas Garrity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHU1xH6Ogs4 Earth Rotation Loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiQdLP2mBJE Modeling Shell Surfaces: https://www.geogebra.org/m/xtv7zpn5 Fourier Features Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10739 Code for mandelbrot/image approximations: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/mandelbrotnn Code for line/surface approximations: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/ManimApproximations

Music: https://youtube.com/@acolyte-compositions

Timestamps (0:00) Functions Describe the World (3:15) Neural Architecture (5:35) Higher Dimensions (11:55) Taylor Series (15:20) Fourier Series (21:25) The Real World (24:32) An Open Challenge

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Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:00:33 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkwXa7Cvfr8
<![CDATA[An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media | Knight First Amendment Institute]]> https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illustrated-field-guide-to-social-media

This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators in other countries and subcultures.

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Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:33:12 -0700 https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illustrated-field-guide-to-social-media
<![CDATA[The Satire Hidden in ALIEN's Production Design | Making Alien]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWHPbVSMms

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In this video, we take an in-depth look at the dark satire injected by Ron Cobb into the production design of Alien’s Nostromo spaceship that highlights the fact that the true monster of Alien is not the creature but the Weyland-Yutani corporation itself.


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(Alien Anthology) bit.ly/3J5gnYz (Crews Project) Semiotic Standard - bit.ly/428Kvc0 (Speculative Identities) Weylan-Yutani Logo - bit.ly/3Nb3yNI (alienfilmspedia) bit.ly/3N6OGjh (Rinzler 132) The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler (The Beast Within) https://bit.ly/3f6ri87 (Nathan) Alien Vault: The Definitive Story Behind the Film by Ian Nathan (Cinefantastique V09) Making Alien - Cinefantastique V09 (Alien Commentary) Alien Blu-ray Commentary (ASC Scott) American Cinematographer - The Filming of Alien - https://bit.ly/39jUhTu (Space Truckin’) Space Truckin’ – the Nostromo - Alien Series - http://bit.ly/3Qb6XfU (Mediascene #35) Mediascene Issue #35 (Martin for Starlog) Starlog Magazine Issue 026 (ASC Vanlint) American Cinematographer - Alien and Its Photographic Challenges - https://bit.ly/3tw6nj0 (Giger’s Alien) https://youtu.be/yEf3z1WnVI4

Music: Epidemic Sound

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Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:35 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWHPbVSMms
<![CDATA[Do birds have faces?]]> https://twitter.com/therourke/statuses/1605895581263618052 ]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2022 03:58:37 -0800 https://twitter.com/therourke/statuses/1605895581263618052 <![CDATA[How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html

A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic among pundits and politicians.

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Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:51:50 -0700 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html
<![CDATA[How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html

A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic among pundits and politicians.

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Tue, 06 Sep 2022 07:51:50 -0700 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html
<![CDATA[Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/

The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment overwhelmingly considers this prospect something that might happen in the far future, if at all.

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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:51:09 -0700 https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/
<![CDATA[Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/

The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment overwhelmingly considers this prospect something that might happen in the far future, if at all.

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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:51:09 -0700 https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/
<![CDATA[How This A.I. Draws Anything You Describe [DALL-E 2]]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ

Art takes a unique combination of skill, creativity the very human element of aesthetic taste. But what if the visual arts also fall to AI. In this episode we discuss Dall-E 2, a powerful text to image generator that's set to shake things up.

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--- About ColdFusion --- ColdFusion is an Australian based online media company independently run by Dagogo Altraide since 2009. Topics cover anything in science, technology, history and business in a calm and relaxed environment.

» ColdFusion Discord: https://discord.gg/coldfusion » Podcast I Co-host: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jKUaNXSnuW52CxexLcOJg » Twitter | @ColdFusion_TV » Instagram | coldfusiontv » Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ColdFusioncollective » Podcast Version of Videos: https://open.spotify.com/show/3dj6YGjgK3eA4Ti6G2Il8H https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coldfusion/id1467404358

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--- "New Thinking" written by Dagogo Altraide --- This book was rated the 9th best technology history book by book authority. In the book you’ll learn the stories of those who invented the things we use everyday and how it all fits together to form our modern world. Get the book on Amazon: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook Get the book on Google Play: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingGooglePlay https://newthinkingbook.squarespace.com/about/

Sources:

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf

https://fortune.com/2022/04/06/openai-dall-e-2-photorealistic-images-from-text-descriptions/

https://www.engadget.com/open-a-is-dall-e-2-produces-fantastical-images-of-most-anything-you-can-imagine-170056814.html

https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-open-ai-dall-e-2-images-111840375.html

https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-images-from-prompts-using-clip-and-stylegan-1f9ed495ddda

My Music Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkpFfEMF0eMJlh9xXj2lMw

//Soundtrack//

Burn Water - Nostalgia Dreams

no spirit - leaves covered by snow

Burn Water - Does it Get Easier (clean)

Nils Frahm - You (Teen Daze Rework)

Jon Hopkins - The Wider Sun

Ben Böhmer - Flug & Fall

Kidnap Kid - Moments (feat. Leo Stannard)

Hammock - Wasted We Stared at the Ceiling

Burn Water - Fate

» Music I produce | http://burnwater.bandcamp.com or » http://www.soundcloud.com/burnwater » https://www.patreon.com/ColdFusion_TV » Collection of music used in videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOrJJKW31OA

Producer: Dagogo Altraide

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Fri, 22 Apr 2022 06:07:45 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ
<![CDATA[MiSTer FPGA in 2022: A Primer Guide to Retro Gaming's Hardware Emulator / MY LIFE IN GAMING]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhT6YYRH1EI

Coury and Try go over what it's like to get started with the MiSTer FPGA project in 2022 - the parts you need, the processes required to set it up, what you need to do to get great audio and video, and what kinds of fun things you can do with the many console, computer, handheld, and arcade cores! You might just see that it isn't nearly as hard as you thought it was!

► Resources

► MiSTer Development & Documentation :: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel :: https://mister-devel.github.io/MkDocs_MiSTer/

► MiSTer Social Resources :: https://misterfpga.org/ :: https://discord.gg/misterfpga

► MiSTer YouTube Resources :: https://www.youtube.com/MiSTerFPGA :: https://www.youtube.com/MiSTerWalrusFPGA :: https://www.youtube.com/VideoGameEsoterica

:: https://www.youtube.com/LusRetroSource

► Chapters 00:00 - Opening 1:55 - Part 1: MiSTer Overview 6:45 - Part 2: Core Focus: Atari Consoles, ColecoVision and other Pre-NES Consoles 12:06 - Part 3: Building your MiSTer 19:26 - Part 4: Core Focus: NES and Super NES 27:38 - Part 5: Setting up the SD Card 33:34 - Part 6: Core Focus: PC-Engine/Turbografx-16 & Neo Geo 44:18 - Part 7: MiSTer OS, Input Options and other Odds 'n Ends 53:51 - Part 8: Universal MiSTer Settings, Editing the .ini File 01:05:16 - Part 9: Core Focus: Sega Master System, Game Gear, Genesis/Mega Drive and Sega CD 01:20:16 - Part 10: MiSTer Audio and Video Settings 01:37:07 - Part 11: Core Preview: MiSTer PlayStation 1 01:43:32 - Part 12: Core Focus: 486 PC, Commodore 64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Sharp X68000 02:10:07 - Part 13: Core Focus: Game Boy / Color, Game Boy Advance, WonderSwan, Atari Lynx 02:25:25 - Part 14: Core Focus: Capcom CPS-1 & CPS-2, Sega System-16 and more Classic Arcade Games 02:37:02 - Ending


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Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:00:35 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhT6YYRH1EI
<![CDATA[ROSALÍA - MOTOMAMI (ROSALÍA TikTok LIVE Performance)]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y51P8HNpwaM

Esta pieza ha sido creada para ser visionada desde un dispositivo móvil. Los contenidos cambian de orientación, así que es recomendable bloquear la orientación de la pantalla en los ajustes y sujetar el dispositivo con las dos manos.

This piece has been created to be viewed from a mobile device. The contents change orientation, so it is recommended to lock screen orientation in settings and to hold the device with both hands.

ROSALÍA TikTok Live Performance

Listen & Download ‘MOTOMAMI’ out now: https://rosalia.lnk.to/MOTOMAMI

Shop the official store: https://rosalia.lnk.to/merch

SAOKO 0:27 CANDY 2:07 LA FAMA 4:06 BULERÍAS 5:23 CHICKEN TERIYAKI 7:26 HENTAI 8:56 BIZCOCHITO 10:35 G3 N15 14:08 MOTOMAMI 15:38 DIABLO 16:45 Abcdefg 17:53 LA COMBI VERSACE 18:59 COMO UN G 21:35 CUUUUuuuuuute 24:07

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ROSALÍA #MOTOMAMI #ROSALIAMOTOMAMI

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Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:00:09 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y51P8HNpwaM
<![CDATA[I gave my microwave a soul with AI and it tried to kill me]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1G5b_2PYj0

Share this so it isn't my last episode. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/SrDAqQzQ

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Thanks for the wild ride, friends. This one was a joy (and hell) to make. Make sure you follow me closely on social media - got some big announcements to make this week!

I really appreciate you all, specially those of you who dig deep into the description to find hidden bits like this :)

This channel never really blew up the way I thought it would but it brought me close with some of the most passionate people I've ever seen and I'll always be eternally grateful.

Love ya,

Swooty McBooty

Special thanks to: Austin Beaulier (for helping me get the epic smooth shots in the memories sequence) Cix Liv (for all his expert insight as Dimitri) Max Noir (for dealing with all the bs of making this video for almost a year lmao) Stephen Hodgson (for helping out hugely with GPT-3 code)

Chapters!

00:00 - Teaser 00:38 - Introduction 02:35 - Jeff Bezos' Tale 04:22 - The Brain Transplant 05:07 - GIANT METAL DEATH MACHINES 06:00 - Okay Let Me Explain GPT-3 For Real Now lol 07:10 - Writing Fake Memories 09:30 - PLOT TWIST! An Old Friend 11:20 - Ad-Break 12:24 - The Conversation Begins 13:36 - Microwave Gets Personal 14:45 - Microwave Politics 15:43 - Oh God He Likes Hitler 16:18 - Dramatic Question Montage 19:34 - Unintended Consequences 20:19 - Microwave PTSD Montage 21:12 - The Murder Attempt 23:04 - Lucas Moves Far Away... 23:33 - ... To Uganda LOL 24:22 - Haunted By Nightmares 24:53 - Talking to an Expert 26:34 - Is Magnetron Fake? 27:06 - The Final Conversation 30:12 - Goodbye, Magnetron 31:34 - Is it over? 32:15 - Outro / Sad Announcements 34:20 - Goodbyes & Reminiscing

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Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:00:11 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1G5b_2PYj0
<![CDATA[An Honest Conversation On The Problem With NFTs & Cryptocurrency, with @Folding Ideas]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8St36RjHd2E

In this episode, Chelsea speaks with Dan Olson from @Folding Ideas to discuss his recent explainer video on the danger of crypto and NFTs.

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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:43:51 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8St36RjHd2E
<![CDATA[The Problem With NFTs]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

If someone pitches you on a "great" Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.

Sources and Further Reading https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/ https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/03/11/nfts-crypto-grifters-try-to-scam-artists-again/ https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/ https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/crypto-absurd.html https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchains-are-not-what-they-say/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/who-goes-crypto-eth-bitcoin-etc-financialization-gamestop-class-wealth/ https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1478017698676228099?s=20 https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/cryptocurrency-is-garbage-so-is-blockchain-3e80078e77fe https://marker.medium.com/fintech-is-a-scam-a-listicle-in-eight-parts-7b6161f3a35a https://naavik.co/business-breakdowns/axie-infinity/#axie-decon= https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-future-is-useless-expensive https://twitter.com/NFTtheft https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-11-05-baseless-nft-hype-hits-a-crescendo-but-its-play-to-earn-thats-worth-watching-opinion https://www.technollama.co.uk/platform-is-law-the-cautionary-tale-of-stolen-nfts https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/02/12/libra-shrugged-chapter-6-banking-the-unbanked/ https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed

Written and performed by Dan Olson

Crowdfunding: https://www.patreon.com/foldablehuman Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman 00:00:00 Preface 00:01:12 0. In 2008 The Economy Collapsed 00:07:09 1. Bitcoin 00:18:18 2. Ethereum 00:24:34 3. The Machine 00:39:07 4. NFTs Exist To Get You To Buy Crypto 00:57:54 5. The Unbearable Cringe Of Crypto 01:11:46 6. A Self-Organizing High Control Group 01:16:57 7. Crypto Reality 01:25:36 8. There Is No Privacy On The Chain 01:32:52 9. If This "Looks Like Scam" Then Every NFT Room I'm In Looks Like Scam LOL 01:38:29 10. Play To Earn Exists To Get You To Buy Crypto 01:46:39 11. We're All Gonna Make It And By "We" I Mean "Us" Not You 01:56:08 12. DAOs Exist To Get You To Buy Crypto 02:13:21 13. I Know It's Rigged, But It's The Only Game In Town

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<![CDATA[Break Bread]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41B5YonixBs

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After a few months of “success” on the platform, I sat to contemplate my journey from unknown content creator scraping for views to hot new video essayist and legit “left tuber”. This contemplation led to numerous questions and ponderings, and as I dived into those questions I started to get frustrated the answers that I arrived at. I got tired of people asking me “where have you been this whole time” when I knew I had been just quietly treading water, wondering why my videos weren’t being seen, and wondering why I barely saw any creators in the mold of what I wanted to do.

To explore these emotions, I talked to a variety of creators and experts on the nature of YouTube as a media platform the algorithmic systems that govern it, and the greater culture around it. I delved into my own concerns and observations about the landscape of YouTube, especially “left tube”.

This video is my thesis on what challenges I and other black creators face.

00:00 Intro 02:12 How Did I Get Here? 08:22 The Untold History of Breadtube/Lefttube 33:17 No Favors From the Algorithm 1:09:10 Problems in the Community

Creators Featured Voice Memos for the Void - https://www.youtube.com/c/voicememosforthevoid Jordan Harrod- https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod/videos The Storyteller- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStorytellerAJ CJ the X- https://www.youtube.com/c/CJTheX Noah Samsen- https://www.youtube.com/c/NoahSamsen khadija Mbowe- https://www.youtube.com/c/KhadijaMbowe T1J- https://www.youtube.com/c/the1janitor Legal Eagle- https://www.youtube.com/c/LegalEagle Hank Green- https://www.youtube.com/c/SciShow

Channels Mentioned Yara Zayd- https://www.youtube.com/c/Yharazayd Kolpeshtheyardstick- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Vj51Kp7qPC102MsA98Fww Victory- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8JTStI16odEK-N3JJcMmpw

DJ Trackmatic- https://www.instagram.com/trackmatic_idris/?hl=en https://youtube.com/channel/UCqeWnr-XOv2x8jr2fW72mnA

Resources-

Pewdie Pipeline by Noncompete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw&t=1029s

The Alt Right Playbook series by Innuendo Studios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

Not So Awesome (channel awesome fall out documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvedKSaHCBQ

Implicit Bias Primer- https://www.simplypsychology.org/implicit-bias.html

Implicit Bias Association Harvard Study- https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

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Physiognomy — the attempt to interpret a person’s character by means of their face — was one of those things that educated 19th-century Europeans knew wasn’t supposed to work. In his 1806 work The Phenomenology of Spirit, philosopher G.W.F.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:51:31 -0800 https://longreads.com/2018/10/03/the-return-of-the-face/
<![CDATA[The elites are laughing in our faces - spiked]]> https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/01/the-elites-are-laughing-in-our-faces/

COP26 is gearing up to be a grotesque spectacle. We are about to witness Versailles levels of extravagance and hypocrisy.

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