2,400,000 views. 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/hebrewbyinbal

My YouTube channel just crossed 2.4 million lifetime views, and I have been sitting here trying to actually picture that number. I cannot.

What I can picture is one person. Someone at their kitchen table pressing play, wanting to understand their grandmother, or read a prayer in the original, or finally feel at home in Israel. Behind this number, that person showed up 2.4 million times.

When I filmed my first Hebrew lesson, I dreamed of reaching a few people who needed it. I never imagined millions of clicks from every corner of the world.

To every one of you who ever watched, learned, commented, or shared, this milestone belongs to you. Thank you for learning Hebrew with me.

Here is to the next million, together. 💙🇮🇱

#LearnHebrew #Hebrew #YouTube #LanguageLearning #JewishLife

Hey all. My new YouTube video is up!

This week's topic is Flock Safety cameras, the institutionalized abuse of this technology, and most importantly, a Suffolk, Virginia engineer who was recently arrested for destroying and defacing the cameras in his town en masse.

If you enjoy the video, please tap the like button. This is a free way to help a small creator in a big way. Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2A66tDGwFo

#YouTube #Technology #Privacy #Flock #JeffSovern #MassSurveillance #CivilLiberties

DuckDuckGo's browser can now block most YouTube video ads without requiring a separate extension.

The feature is rolling out across supported platforms, though DuckDuckGo notes you may occasionally see buffering or ads as YouTube changes how ads are delivered.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/07/duckduckgo-youtube-ad-blocking-browser.html

#DuckDuckGo #YouTube #Privacy #AdBlocking #TechNews

Watch #YouTube Without Ads on the #DuckDuckGo Browser

https://spreadprivacy.com/youtube-ad-blocking/

#privacy #AdBlocker #AdBlocking #advertising

If you are running Android and you want Youtube but without the ...Ick. You really need to chack out pipepipe app. Its a vast improvement over the other youtube apps.
, like Newpipe. #youtube #video #newpipe

Alt...

Screen shot on the about page of Pipepipe app.

I made the mistake of trying to watch a video on YouTube using the official mobile app.

Ads at the beginning of the video.
Ads in the middle of the video.
Ads when you pause the video.
Ads while the video is playing in the form of an overlay.
Ads at the end of the video.

This is complete garbage. What kind of human would subject themselves to this torture on purpose?

#YouTube #enshittification

Google may fucking suck, but... no. That's all I got. ☠️

"A #Google executive told an inquiry on Tuesday that a #YouTube video that falsely claimed a wounded survivor of an #antisemitic massacre in #Sydney was a #crisisactor blooded with makeup had met the platform’s standards and would remain online.

Google #Australia manager #RachelLord was testifying at a government inquiry into the spread of #antisemitism in Australia including an attack by two gunmen on a #Sydney #Hanukkah celebration in December that left 15 dead."

https://apnews.com/article/australia-antisemitic-massacre-inquiry-youtube-5b8b2bf01c13ce4d15a49605844161cc

This game could be used as a huge explainer into how surveillance capitalism works and how people are exploited on both sides of the screen.

MajorOffline: Hae Stack – MajorLinux

https://buff.ly/ANONU8v

#Gaming #HaeStack #Investigation #PointAndClick #Political #Privacy #Puzzle #Steam #SteamNextFest #Surveillance #Capitalism #Tech #YouTube

In deference to US Independence Day, I was thinking about books with a counterfactual historical take – speculative history. I wrote about it.

👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/03/un-discovering-america/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #books #blog #podcast #spotify #video #youtube #short #history #reading #america #europe

In his 2024 financial disclosure, filed a year ago, #Trump reported earning >$600 million in total income.

In addition to the income from #coin sales & other ventures, Trump reported receiving $86.5 million from “ #settlements “ in 5 separate [& pure #extortion] lawsuits against #ABC, #CBS, #YouTube, #Meta & #X.

#law #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #corruption #kleptocracy #emoluments #crypto #MoneyLaundering #crime

I critique and Dis–Integrate Alex O'Connor's Cartesian argument for Panpsychism.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/29/deconstructing-consciousness-without-panpsychism/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Many philosophers I respect support Panpsychism, but Homey don't play dat.

#philsophy #panpsychism #video #youtube #physics #emergence #consciousness #podcast #magic #blog #ontology #reductionism #deflationary #metaphysics #awareness #phenomena #experience #qualia #idealism #materialism

This game could be used as a huge explainer into how surveillance capitalism works and how people are exploited on both sides of the screen.

MajorOffline: Hae Stack – MajorLinux

https://majorlinux.com/majoroffline-hae-stack/

#Gaming #HaeStack #Investigation #PointAndClick #Political #Privacy #Puzzle #Steam #SteamNextFest #Surveillance #Capitalism #Tech #YouTube

Australia's social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers' scrolling habits, researchers have said in a peer-reviewed study that is among the first evaluations of the world-leading measures. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/25/asia-pacific/australia-social-media-ban-impact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #australia #socialmedia #facebook #tiktok #youtube

Consumer advocates demand Safety by Design for all instead of social media bans

The vzbv investigated Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube: Addiction-promoting mechanisms and dark patterns endanger minors despite the DSA.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Consumer-advocates-demand-Safety-by-Design-for-all-instead-of-social-media-bans-11341975.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DigitalServicesAct #Facebook #Instagram #Netzpolitik #Snapchat #SocialMedia #TikTok #Verbraucherschutz #YouTube #news

I’ve uploaded the Contra III Livestream replay to YouTube as well: https://youtu.be/w4CsnjKDsVI

#SNES #RetroGaming #YouTube

His videos remind me a lot of a show I watched on the Discovery channel named Survivorman where the dude went out into the wild and filmed himself surviving.

I don't recommend YouTube channels in general, but Adam makes good content.

#YouTube #tv #travel #camping #amtrak #trains #publictransportation #nationalparks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_hmtuAPTY

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Did the Algorithm Change Your Decisions? | How Your Feed Was Engineered

Right now, somewhere on the internet, a video is being uploaded.

Within seconds, a system that no one elected, no one audits, and no one fully understands decides whether anyone else will ever see it.

Sometimes, it decides no one should.

And that’s the end of it.

In this episode of Plain Meaning, we examine how the modern internet quietly transformed from a system designed to deliver information… into one that decides what information exists for you at all.

It didn’t happen all at once.

It happened step by step.

Feed by feed.

Platform by platform.

Until nearly everything you see online is filtered through a machine making decisions on your behalf.

We trace how:

• Social media moved from profile pages to infinite feeds
• Facebook’s News Feed shifted from chronological to algorithmic control
• Advertising—not user experience—drove the need to control timing and visibility
• “EdgeRank” introduced the first large-scale automated editorial system
• By 2016, every major platform—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube—had adopted algorithmic feeds
• Recommendation systems replaced direct navigation across the entire internet

But this isn’t just a story about technology.

It’s a story about incentives.

Because once platforms controlled what you saw, they didn’t just control engagement.

They controlled attention.

And once attention became the product, the system began optimizing for something far more powerful than clicks.

We examine what happened next:

• How foreign influence operations exploited algorithmic feeds during the 2016 election
• The role of Cambridge Analytica and its parent Strategic Communication Laboratories in psychological targeting
• The scale and strategy of Russia’s Internet Research Agency
• How fake local news accounts built trust before deploying disinformation
• Why most influence content wasn’t political—but divisive
• How algorithms amplified all of it without distinction

And then we go further.

Because 2016 wasn’t the end of the story.

It was the beginning.

We look at how:

• Algorithmic systems shape not just what you see—but how you think
• Platforms reward emotional, extreme, and addictive content
• Foreign-owned platforms introduce new geopolitical risks
• Systems like ByteDance’s TikTok operate differently across countries
• The same algorithmic architecture can produce completely different realities depending on its objectives

This episode is not about one platform.

It’s not about one political party.

And it’s not about one country.

It’s about the system itself.

Because the algorithm isn’t just recommending content.

It’s acting as an editor.

And most of the time, you don’t even realize it’s there.

By the end of this video, the next time you open a social media app, you’ll understand:

Why your attention isn’t fully yours.

Why the world you see isn’t necessarily the world that exists.

And how to recognize when a machine—not you—is deciding what matters.

#Algorithm #SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #NewsFeed #TikTok #Twitter

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https://dev.to/dattran2346/building-a-youtube-to-podcast-pipeline-with-yt-dlp-ffmpeg-and-backblaze-b2-8nm

#Podcast #Podcasts #Audio #Youtube

https://casti.fyi/youtube-to-podcast.html

#Music #Audio #Video #Podcasts #Youtube

https://youtu.be/t4IY7LgLUE0

#NowPlaying #NowListening #Music #Video #SalvatoreGanacci #FatalFury #WorkHardNotSmart #DJ #Techno #Rave #GamingMusic #GamerTunes #Radio #YouTube #YouTubeMusic #EuroBeats