I was watching this youtuber called Charles Veitch and now I’m addicted. That’s a first. He’s a right winger who makes long videos walking the streets of Manchester commenting on anything from protests in support of Palestine to drunks and addicts in the streets. There’s just so much to unpack in those hour long videos.
I’m left wing, but he’s not wrong about everything. He has to walk around with multiple bodyguards for his own safety because he’s being physically attacked by what he calls ‘Balaklava boys’, young men, mostly Muslim, dealing drugs and in other ways showing criminal tendencies, being intimidating. Smack dap in the very center of Manchester.
Anyone has the right to free speech in the UK without fear of being physically attacked. The open display of alcoholism, drug abuse, lewd behaviour, intimidation, physical violence, and more, is really distopian and a problem regardless of which side on the political spectrum you are. Although I disagree, I can see where some of the right wing ideas come from, and that’s sobering.
Anyway, I guess I should share a link here, this is from Saturday: https://youtu.be/9B34WgDI718
A shallow wade into the link between birds and dinosaurs.
Which, I posted it the other day as much because of my response to it as the interesting parts of it (and it is really interesting to me).
But I watched that whole thing making cute noises and other silliness because chickens. That shouldn’t take away from the information in the video though. Just because I’m a sappy old bastard about chickens doesn’t mean it isn’t a solid presentation of how our knowledge of the past and the present is ever changing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bq4yjq-Fxo
“The latest way fast fashion is tricking us” - 12 minutes
Explains who fast fashions brands are trying to switch their image to appear more “durable”. Quite interesting.
Animal eyes are weird. Science is awesome.
Thanks!
I love Max Miller’s Tasting History and just watched this one last night
I giggle at the idea of a time traveler finding comfort food at mcdonalds and I wonder what they would think of our processed version!
That’s a great episode!
This video about Kowloon Walled City:
https://youtu.be/hoNclh1K_zY
(Channel: DamiLee)Have to add another one that I saw sort of recently: A reaction video from a channel normally about craftsman work, but he was watching video of the building of the Empire State Building in 1932. His professional amazement and constant pausing and commenting gives so much more than the original video, which is great in of itself.
https://youtu.be/8taEllwQ2iE roons - a modular, mechanical marble computer. I liked it so much I’ve been trying to reverse engineer it to make my own!
Moving History is an interesting channel that recently has been using the latest AI to bring old pictures to life. All of the videos are great with minor nitpicks from the commentary on how smiles, teeth, and other details are a bit too perfect and similar due to limitations of that AI. But this one was probably my favorite, not just from the animation of the oldest photographs we have, but from the existential thoughts given:
Almost all of us are in the same boat of living our brief lives and then after a while being forgotten. We’re not famous enough to be preserved in some history book. These people only had a couple of minutes of their time preserved in a single picture, but only seen by few, until now. Now they’re remembered by thousands or more, anyone who sees the video.
Also been seeing a lot more of vintage footage circa 1900 on Youtube of video of various things, almost lost but recovered, enhanced, and colorized by AI tools. This is a good purpose for that technology.
