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@attie isn't the channel owned by some weird conglomerate now?

@gsuberland @attie it is, and it's "a good thing" according to the video describing it!

tbh Derek deserves a break tho.

@xabean @attie I'm cool with him having a break, I'm less cool with using the channel's reputation as a vehicle to deliver content that cheapens it.

@xabean @attie I may be somewhat of an outlier in terms of how deeply annoyed I am by anything in the category of "education-shaped but not actually that educational" though.

@gsuberland @attie I legit wonder how they had so many technical people *in* the video, and either chose not to spot-check the video with them, or they all gave it a 👍

@gsuberland @attie it'd be like having huygensoptics in a video about the hubble telescope, and then be all "Yeah, the magnetosphere fucked up the mirror because it's made of aluminum, because, ya know, magnets."

@xabean @attie I'm still on the fence about HuygensOptics. his stuff is mostly cool, but some of it feels... a bit fringe? I didn't really notice at first but then he talked about something I knew about and it confused me, and in the process of trying to figure out why it wasn't lining up I ended up stumbling into a conversation between very qualified physics people who were like "this is some crank theory nonsense, what the hell is he even talking about".

@gsuberland @attie interesting, I had no idea. I was thinking you techies + the RF video was the effect that I can only presume licensed medical doctors experience when watching House MD "this is bullshit" and the entertainment value is lost because there's so much fuckery that they can't see past.

I think that's why I can chill watching House, but things tech adjacent can be grating if it's targeting normies and taking significant artistic liberty with explanations.

@xabean @attie I am a fan of entertainment and I am a fan of education, but I absolutely cannot abide "edutainment" that shucks the responsibility to actually educate or, much worse, teaches misinformation for the sake of an entertaining narrative.

stuff like House is entertainment. it has no responsibility to educate, it can freely take liberties as far as suspended disbelief will carry. it may be jarring to professionals but that's different from pretending to inform and then misinforming.