Think of it this way: You have all this data to help you improve your videos, if the data meets certain criteria your video gets seen. Your video matters. For those who are trying to make a living making videos it's critical.

But, you don't know what those criteria are. Some of your videos get 100,000s of views some get only 100s. The algorithm decides.

Also, you know one of the criteria is uploading regularly, daily ideally. So you have a relentless work schedule.

2/

Once again I'm seeing a creator I like as a person, someone who cares about science get obsessed and maybe a little delusional about little blips and kinks in the watch-time graphs for his videos.

You see suddenly "the algorithm" hasn't been boosting his videos like before. He didn't change anything the views just dropped off. And so he's looking for a reason he can control for this happening.

But... it might not be anything rational. They change the algorithm all the time. 5/

It reminds me of standardized testing.

Why say "like and subscribe" ? Because the data from YouTube proves that when people ask they get more likes. Having a lots of likes means a video is going to be popular. If YouTube determines that a video "will" be popular then it does things... that *make* it popular.

(The people who do well on this test go to the best schools that's why we let them in to the best schools.)

It's enough to make a person crazy. 4/

My advice is to avoid depending on YouTube if you have the option. It's not a good work environment.

I hope that this guy comes out of it. I'm not kidding when I've said it's driven other people mad. Like they had to get therapy because of it... which sounds funny ... until you think about what it would really be like.

Thanks for letting me share about this. It's weighing on me today--

6/6

* Isopods have 7 pairs of legs all pretty much the same length.

* 74** logic gates have ... 7 pairs of legs all the same length!

Coincidence? I think not!

Clearly, each isopod contains 4 logic gates. This Armadillidium vulgare has 4 AND gates. Don't forget to connect power & ground legs & use pull-down resistors on inputs.

(best practice is to simply ask the rollie to position itself in your circuit.)

Like most natural systems. they use micro-voltages, don't use standard 5V power sources.

On tumblr everyone was livid about this fake photo of a "baby peacock" -- it captured many of the things that worry people about AI art-- the tendency to fill in what people expect, not what is true. The stereotyping, and reversion to archetype. The lost nuance.

But, because of this photo I got to learn that real baby male peacocks "practice" with little tufts of display feathers. Look at these lil boys!

I belive in prison abolition.
But also I am a strong supporter of creating a "Horny Jail Industrial Complex" to contain the things I see on tumblr.

I recognize zero contradiction in these views and, in fact, they complement each other.

Put a dental office in the basement of a school and offer free dental care for students.

Then compare the grades, income, success points whatever you want with any similar school without a free dentist.

Or just skip this part and trust me and put dentists in all the schools.

@peterb

A whole generation is never going to drop this and I'm living for it.

@powerllama @darius “anonymous overlords” — what kind of creepy server are they on?

That said I do think it could be more clear that DMs are like putting a note on a coworker’s office door— not like sending an encrypted email. Though who ever used twitter dms for anything sensitive anyway?