techconnectify.bsky.social
I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
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https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
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Welcome!
If you want a quick assortment of accounts to follow, look for "starter packs" - people build these and they're pretty great! Though you should feel free to prune the list and only follow who looks interesting.
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A more expansive exploration of search engine rot was cut for time, yes. But, while it was partially a happy accident since I didn't know I'd find the piece of stock footage I did, the timing of what is on screen over the "latching onto the wrong context" part is *very* intentional.
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Honestly there's a common thing which I don't get *at all* where people think if the thing they're looking at isn't novel it's not worth their time.
This baffles me as I rewatch Star Trek: TNG for the fourth time.
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For instance, a common complaint I see?
"It leaves videos in there that I've watched."
So the fuck what? It'll probably have that red bar on there to show you that you've watched it. Why does it need to bother you that it's still there?
That's what I mean.
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Correct, I fundamentally disagree with people who say it's "broken"
I've found most of the time what people are really saying is "it doesn't work in the exact way I think it should, and that annoys me so much I won't figure out how I might be able to use it as it is now."
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We are - the function is still there, but only creators can see the actual dislikes percentage, now.
I disagree with YouTube for removing public visibility. The justification was to stop mass dislikes campaigns against marginalized creators, though to be honest I never quite bought that.
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It's like having the space to express complete thoughts, with intonation and body language to boot, might be a good thing for effective communication!
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It's generally always between 98 and 99. I sort of expected this video to dip below 97
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And social media algorithms are, I think, a large reason I have to be this oblique!
I would have loved to have mentioned the study on increasing use of LLMs degrading critical thinking, but "critical thinking" has become a buzzword which, ironically, causes many to stop thinking.
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Worrying about how others might misinterpret me is something I do all the time - and in this case I deliberately didn't make a suggestion beyond "be introspective and look inward" because any specific suggestion would cause a good half of the audience to instantly dismiss the problem as not real.
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And I do want to press you on one thing:
I am not an "expert" on this subject, but I am in a unique position where I get to iterate on my own form of mass communication and figure out what is and isn't landing on folks and why. That informs my argument more than anything else.
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We're not actually in disagreement about anything. The purpose of the video and the way I structured it is to hopefully get people to realize these things.
Though I will say that I think algorithmic feeds are absolutely accelerating the atomization process.
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That part of it isn't new.
What is new is the ability for algorithms to "figure out" those people and steer them toward content which amplifies their thought processes, biases, and behavior.
In the old realm of mass-media, we could at least hold broadcasters to account for falsehoods, etc.
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You are a delight.
Also, *waste
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I have absolutely no evidence which supports this.
Uploaders can choose to prevent uploads from appearing in the subs feed (which they often do when uploading in batches) but outside of that, everything I've subscribed to ends up in my subs feed.
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I sure think so!
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Fun fact! Motorola is called that because they made car radios.
The Victor company produced the wildly popular Victrola line of phonographs, which later began to incorporate radio receivers as well. The "-ola" suffix was so synonymous with audio that radios for cars became "motorolas"
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Yup. This radio's from the early 1950s.
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Try doing an image search for "vintage zenith clock radio" and see if you can pick it out. Then click on the picture that matches and and you'll get lots of information.
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I realize that, but the number of times I have been the person who lets people know the subs feed *exists* tells me there really is a complacency problem.
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I don't really know, but the issue that we are facing right now is that these contexts are becoming blurred.
And now that mass media isn't that mass anymore, information campaigns can easily make their way into "recreational" media.
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You know, helpful people who see that some folks have a bit of a blind spot work to enlighten others.
They don't just make fun of others for not knowing stuff.
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It's actually It's Been a Minute
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That is correct.
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I realized just before posting this that it was pretty close to brainrot, but brainrot is more derogatory than I want the discussion to be.
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they're better than every new toaster on the market except maybe that Japanese one. people deserve to know the truth.
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more and more signs that what really scares the oligarchs about the electric car transition is that home and workplace charging means far fewer opportunities to profit from refueling.
they want us to have to use DC fast chargers.
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tip ring ring ring ring ring ring
BANANAPHONE
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Our turn signal situation has made this very clear, sadly.
The IIHS has been doing much more meaningful work and oversight which in a normal world should be an embarrassment to the government.
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I will not provide any more free labor for these tech giants than I already do, thank you.
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Good for you. I like my phone to make noises so that I know what the notification is before I even look at it, and I refuse to buy another computer for my wrist.
It's actually quite annoying that this feature doesn't exist for users like me who only silence their phones situationally.
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up-to-date Pixel 6a ain't showing it even on silent.
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Boy is the video I just shot gonna freak you out.
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The fact that "explaining to people that annexing Canada would mean declaring war and invading" is considered "politics in youtube videos" is the exact reason it needs to be said.
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I believe I will be calling this out in my next video.
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is this a serious question?
because no. you need a passport or, if going by land or sea, a passport card.
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😐
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christ
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not gonna lie, I expected at least 80% of people to understand they need a passport to cross the border.
perhaps my expectations were too high
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I mean, if you actually understood that Canada is a sovereign nation with the right to self-determination and therefore the United States would have to declare war and invade in order for this fun little idea to happen, you should feel shame.