I’m pretty open to all varieties as long as the narrators voice isn’t terrible.
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_Lg
Aaron created RSS, and was an early developer of Reddit. A visionary of accessible information and information technology.
Since his death, the direction the internet has gone has been in ways that he would very much be taking issue with.
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The BBC made an excellent documentary on pig butchering scams:
https://pi.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=bW4wYV0V-5s
I knew someone who was a victim of one of these scams from 2019 - 2023
Edit: Sorry, you specifically said youtube. Cringe Link O’Chest moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW4wYV0V-5s
And I also commented twice. Ugh, what a train wreck.
I thought you said:
The BBC made and excellent documentary on pig butchering screams
I was like fuck 😳
Lmao but fr I wish that scam had a different name, one that makes it a bit more apparent how the scam works. I get the idea of the hog being fattened and slaughtered, but that’s way too metaphorical imo
Oh that’s funny. I thought pig butchering scams involved, somehow, shenanigans around the business of literally butchering pigs. Geez
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Ha! And I can still read it even after you deleted it. How embarrassing /s
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PBS is pretty much constantly putting out high quality documentaries https://youtube.com/@frontline
I liked their videos on Uvalde, North Korea, and 20 Days in Mariupol
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Any of Dan Olson’s videos will fit the bill, probably.
Here’s two of his best, in my opinion.
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Brian Deer’s 2004 documentary “MMR: What they didn’t tell you”
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Radiohead - Meeting People is Easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhblCCLXh3g
The World’s End: The Making Of ‘Day Of The Dead’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKTl51U8HVk
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DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q
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This is perfect! I can’t wait. Do you have a favorite?
Here are some that I enjoyed:
Mongolia: Rise and fall of an empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRipDEuuiyg
Betrayal and brainwashing: North Korea and the defector influencers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjeBPn03n_o
Unbridled greed and growth - Challenging global corporations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wip-HzeXBU
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Please don’t recommend people zizek, that guy’s a total cryptofash.
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I consider him fine upto the Zizek-Peterson debate
That’s when you noticed the guy was fucked up. He’s been spouting shit long before you noticed that “oh this guy actually sucks” It would be like if you said “oh no Vaush used to be good until he started NATO simping” my brother he was always a pedo-nazi you just didn’t see it because he was saying shit you agreed with. How much you agree with someone is the single worst metric you can use for trustworthiness.
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I don’t know what to say. Good for you that you got something positive out of it, but who knows what kind of damage they’ve done as well.
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Uh oh, what did badempanada do…?
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The Century of the Self, a multi-part series on the Genesis of contemporary US Public Relations and propaganda, politics and the godfather of it all, Edward Bernays.
Watched it once 20 years ago and still think of it in reference to many broken business, government and political approaches.
Link to part 1 below from bot.
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I really liked “small brained american” travelling from Ireland to Japan (on a motorcycle). It starts slow and kind of boring in the UK but the later parts are so good. Less commentary, just showing life. He is visiting “dangerous” countries like Ukraine, Iraq and Myanmar, but focussing on the normal people’s everyday lifes, while being a “small brained american”.
The whole playlist:
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But it’s not a “narrator” style documentary.
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The Fog of War w robert mcnamara. A fascinating and honest telling of the vietnam war from one of its main architects. In it, the guy basically admins to committing war crimes. Not big on history/war documentaries, but this is one that really made an impact on me and changed the way I see the world. Not depressing or gory, at least I didn’t think it was.
I am honestly very disappointed by documentaries in general. Rarely do I find them informative enough or not biased. They are generally made for the masses who know 0 (or even less than that?) about a subject.
If your goal is education, I suggest a book or a course. Now, for motivation and just “time wasters”, they are fine.
The one documentary I watched and enjoyed was alphaGo. It was nice feeling the stress of the match and seeing how they handled it, the setups and whatnot.
