Quick Youtube summaries
As someone who watches a LOT of Youtube, I need to either get an idea of what a video's about, or sometimes save some details about it in a personal archive. Though I don't have a Gemini Pro…
youtube
7 posts
Best of Lex
Had been recommending Lex Fridman to my wife for a while, and she finally tried it out, with one of the best episodes of all, the one with Yuval Noah-Harari. She later asked me about other possible o…
Following the war
I had been watching this channel for several months now. It goes into incredible detail and truly highlights the scope and horror of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Of course, there are biases etc that…
Craters
An overview of the largest craters on the earth, and the explosions that caused them. And if you like this sort of thing … it’s a good channel that has … well, a lot of stuff in this vein.…
Foreign policy makes no sense
I found this interview with Jake Sullivan: You may skip the first fifteen minutes. There is also an accompanying transcript: https://www.cfr.org/event/leslie-h-gelb-memorial-event-common-sense-and-s…
Tolkien songs
I liked the version of “Far over the misty mountains cold” from the first Hobbit movie. The poem with words is from the novel, and there is one version from the older 1977 movie — but there is a “bet…
Zizek
A few recent Zizek (long) videos (from my Youtube watch history): * On ideology as anti-hope * From mid-last year, an interview at Jacobin * A joint appearance last year with Yanis Varoufakis * T…