Title essentially. Youtube’s algorithm is hot garbage, so I can’t search for anything anymore without a ton of AI slop and rage bait. So, who do you go to for actual good long form videos? Exposes, scandals, behind the scenes, documentaries, film, travel, transit, who do you recommend I follow?

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    • Cutting Edge Engineering (heavy machinery repair done incredibly well…addictive to watch)
    • Martijn Doolaard (restoring cabins in the Italian Dolomites)
    • AvE (though I’m pretty sure he’s conservative)
    • Primitive Technology (an anthropologist that recreates primitive technologies like kilns and huts)
    • Watcheyes (amazing ASMR watch repair)
    • Clickspring (ambitious machinist projects)
    • 3Blue1Brown (beautiful info graphics to explain concept topics)
    • The Signal Path (a pro electrical engineer talking about and repairing advanced electronics)
    • Democracy Now (leftist news)
    • Tech Ingredients (a professor and his students inventing tech gadgets and sharing their work)
    • Applied Science (one of the most advanced and ambitious YouTube scientist inventors out there)
    • Cody’s Lab (a brilliant guy who lives on a ranch doing science and metallurgical experiments)
    • NileRed (excellent YouTube chemistry channel with incredibly ambitious projects)
    • Fireship (articulate infographic explainer of tech news)
    • Mental Outlaw (news and leftism)
    • Behind the Bastards (podcast about the worst people in history)
    • Two Minute Papers (an AI researcher reacts to new research papers)
    • bigclivedotcom (a brilliant electrical engineer’s musings)
    • Hackaday (a podcast that talks about news stories on Hackaday which is a feed of impressive electronic maker projects)
    • The Amp Hour (pro electrical engineers chatting)
    • Andreas Spiess (an IOT maker sharing his work)
    • Tsoding (a brilliant Russian software engineer screencasts his wizardry)
    • Tsoding Daily (a brilliant Russian software engineer screencasts his wizardry)
    • No Boilerplate (BEAUTIFUL explanations of the features of different programming languages)
    • CinemaStix (REALLY solid documentaries about films and filmmakers)
    • Pitching Ninja (the smartest pitching analyst by a mile)
    • Jeff Geerling (super thorough computer hardware and software reviews, builds, experiments, and musings)
    • Strange Loop Conference (YouTube channel for this really good conference with tons of brilliant talks from software engineers and language authors)
    • Impure Pics (a really helpful channel for Haskellers and Purescript people)
    • Psionic Audio (an amp repair guy that doesn’t bring his fucked up life into his channel and alienate all of us like Uncle Doug)
    • Computerphile (really solid explanations of complex topics by researchers and professors in all fields of computer science)
    • Abom79 (a really solid machinist that does a good job walking you through everything he does)
    • Tweag (a brilliant software engineering company’s channel)
    • Serokell (a brilliant software engineering company’s channel)
    • NixCon (all things Nix/NixOS)
    • IOG Academy (a brilliant software engineering company’s channel)
    • Mend It Mark (an electronics repair guy with the kindest disposition)
    • Man Carrying Thing (politics and satire)
    • Vimjoyer (excellent infographics and walkthroughs of technologies)
    • HasanAbi (politics) 🇵🇸✊🏽
    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      AvE (though I’m pretty sure he’s conservative)

      You’re right. AvE went completely off the deep end during the height of Covid, and revealed that his being a scumbag isn’t just doing a bit for the camera.

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        Do you have a link to his undoing?

        His knowledge of everything mechanical and electronic is pretty useful though. I’ve learned a TON from him but now I prefer Cutting Edge Engineering to scratch that kind of itch.

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            Was really disappointed when that one came out… His stuff was great up to that point but now it feels… It’s got an ick now.

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      Good list, many hits with my list. Let me recommend “Tally Ho” and “Escape to Rural France” to you, although the latter might be too short for “long format” with 10 minutes per episode, give or take.