YouTube Is F*ing Over Creators. Again. They really do it. Not for the first time, and probably not for the last time. STOP PLAYING MONOPOLY!
YouTube Is F*ing Over Creators. Again.
Story time: 9/11
Story time: 9/11
5 Signs You’re Watching Propaganda
5 Signs You’re Watching Propaganda
YouTube is a pain in the a***
Trying to exterminate AI slop channels, many real channels get in friendly fire. YouTube is a pain in the a***.
The Most Powerful Tech Billionaire You’ve Never Heard Of
Marc Andreessen blasts regulation, yet government cash built his fortune. Antitrust laws saved his company.
The biggest midterm spender warns against “playing God” while profiting from surveillance.
His fairy tale promises abundance for all, but returns flow only upward.
Why Elon Musk can never get Iain M. Banks
Why Elon Musk can never get Iain M. Banks. Hippies With Guns! The Culture of Iain M. Banks.
The Culture of Iain M Banks : the utopia that actually works
Science Fiction with Damien Walter explores Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, analyzing its origins in British science fiction and its depiction of a post-scarcity society managed by benevolent AI. The series is examined as a profound exploration of intelligence, power, and political imagination.
Alex Meyers is what happens when YouTubers are completely out of their depth
Alex Meyer and the movie “Obsession” or the Nostalgia Critic and “The Wall” – sometimes YouTubers are out of their depth…
LegalEagle Is Promoting A Homophobic Moral Panic
Devin Stone aka LegalEagle recently posted a YouTube video titled “’I’m Suing Meta, TikTok, Snap”. He is taking part in furthering a moral panic with indissoluble homophobic roots that is currently being used to obliterate our rights.
Mass surveillance and censorship laws DO NOT harm Big Tech.
Meta is currently using the “Social Media Addiction” Trial verdict to destroy anonymous internet access for everyone.
This lawsuit is backed by the Heritage Foundation and Morality in Media. Far-right Christian fundamentalist hate groups!!I was actually in the room for the “Social Media Addiction” lawsuit.
Kaley’s mom made her life a living hell. Her mom was weighing her every day, telling her she’s fat. Her mom physically abused her. Her father physically abused and abandoned her.
Yet, her unhappiness is solely blamed on her making fan edits on Instagram and Instagram messaging the few friends she had.
When you put that liability on Instagram, you abdicate everyone else’s responsibility. They don’t have to prosecute these child abuse cases because they can just blame it on Instagram!!Ironically, this girl currently works in social media marketing. And her abusive mom has now been rewarded with millions of dollars.
And it’s so harmful because they’re continually telling children that social media is causing their problems. And then when these kids quit social media and they become even more isolated and depressed, they blame themselves.
The whole point of this lawsuit is to punch holes in Section 230.
Taylor Lorenz
This whole thing is just a complete racket. It’s horrible. It’s rewarding abusive parents and scam lawyers who want to push this moral panic and set a legal precedent that is being used to obliterate our rights.
Why Fascists Love Stories That Hate Them
In this video essay, we dive into media literacy and media studies to explore why audiences can watch the exact same story and walk away with completely different interpretations. Through franchises like Superman, Star Wars, and Star Trek, we examine how storytelling, ideology, and audience interpretation interact, and why some of the most openly anti-authoritarian stories in popular culture continue to be embraced, or rejected, by different viewers.
Along the way, we’ll explore Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding model, Reception Theory, Cultivation Theory, and the ways media shape public perception over time. We’ll also look at the work of Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas, the evolution of the Man of Steel from his earliest comics to James Gunn’s Superman, and how ideas about empathy, representation, power, and heroism continue to influence modern political and cultural debates.
Whether you’re interested in Superman, Star Trek, Star Wars, media literacy, communication theory, film analysis, pop culture, storytelling, media studies, political communication, or the relationship between entertainment and society, this video explores how the stories we love don’t just reflect culture, they help shape it.