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And here I thought we couldn't burn the Library of Alexandria again
In a way we are not. Just building a much bigger library that has no truth in it anymore. And it overshadows our other library, looking much flashier.
Salting the library?
If you want real boring history about the Library of Alexandria, Premodernist's video is great.
Thanks! Saved for later
As a good calm podcast about history, I also like Voices of the Past. Though the quality is uneven depending on the subject.
Dark Ages II: Flooding the Zone with Shit
Turns out it wasn't masturbation, gay sex, D&D, rock & roll, gay marriage, letting women vote, letting black people vote, school integration, pronouns, marijuana, letting gay people adopt, socialism, trans people, millenials, or Barack Obama.
The thing that's actually going to doom humanity is going to be fucking generative AI.
Gen AI is just the latest of a long line of tools that is being weaponized against us.
I blame the human condition to want to be liked and admired, and in this case it's youtube's algorithm that people chase to get likes. People don't upload this shit just so they can use Gen AI.
They do it because they want to feed the algorithm.
Likes and up-votes on posts, achievements, streaks, levels, and so on... Somehow, we figured out that the human brain likes the meaningless number to increase, and humans will spend more time on a site, game, or app, and often do dumb things just to trigger a reward pathway from seeing higher numbers.
It will ruin the internet (already has) but I think it may strengthen real life art and human relationships eventually. But yes, its a shame it was invented.
As I do most nights, I was listening to YouTube videos to fall asleep the other night.
What the fuck?
My partner does this, I will never understand how she can fall asleep with something playing in the background
Trauma
I grew up in a pretty messed up family. We're indigenous so my parents and grand parents went through residential school, I went through boarding school in high school, everyone including me was an alcoholic, people did drugs, messed up shit since before I was born ... but somehow I and my family survived through it all.
But a common thing with me and my siblings was to fall asleep listening to music. Pop songs, rock songs, whatever and I never understood it for a long time .... it was just comforting. Later on after my journey into recovery from alcoholism, I learned it was just a coping mechanism for us ... a way to just distract ourselves to stop us from thinking about sad, depressing, frightening, disturbing or traumatic things.
Oh yeah that makes sense, she went through some shit
Oh damn. I never realized that's why I cannot sleep in quiet.
I do that, for me it’s a form of white noise. There are certain content creators/ panel shows that send me right to sleep. I have issues with racing thoughts and I’ve found out helps quiet that.
Related to the OP post I have to be really diligent on vetting new (to me) content creators. So I end up just rewatching content.
almost the entirely of Britain over a certain age falls asleep to the shipping forecast.
Why is this a news to you? There are many people who listen to music, asmr, white noise, audiobooks etc.
Seriously has no one else in this thread fallen asleep to TV? Lol
I used to listen to my walkman to fall asleep, sometimes I'd pass out in front of Discovery Channel or The Learning Channel, before TLC went to shit they used to play good documentaries
The sound of someone talking for an extended time makes me fall asleep. I always had trouble staying awake in school. Sometime if I'm having trouble sleeping I'll put on YouTube and watch Technology Connections and I'm out in 5 minutes. I think this is related to ADHD but I'm not sure?
I used to listen to classical radio stations as white noise when I wanted to get to sleep.
More recently, if I wake up due to insomnia, I will watch YouTube ASMR Restoration videos. The sound of sandblasting and electrolysis and sanding and polishing acts as a soporific.
I do this too lol. Usually I watch the sasquatch gang to fall asleep
I actually was subbed to Boring History for Sleeping for about a month because it was ok tier 2-3 hour long history videos.
I only started getting suspicious about it being AI after noticing they get pumped out every couple days. Nobody can record that fast and edit that quickly.
Also, the topics jumped so frequently, I stopped listening cause it never stayed on the same topic for a good amount of time before jumping to another continent during a different time period
I've been sleeping to Fall of Civilizations' Mongols episode. Long enough to go to sleep and really soothing voice. Video essays on The Elder Scrolls games also have the same appeal.
I listen to fall of civs in the shower. It's too good for sleeping.
I've been listening to it: https://antennapod.org/deeplink/subscribe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2F104e3eb08%2Fpodcast%2Frss&title=Boring+History+for+Sleep.
I think it progressed. The oldest episodes seemed very genuine, enjoyed listening tbh. The more recent episodes... are unlistenable to me.
They are are really, really bad.
If it ain't Time Ghost, it ain't History
What about Tasting History with Max Miller? Very fun channel where the host makes and eats historical foods while discussing the history of it.
Sounds fun, i just subscribed