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• A Green Energy Channel for Grown Ups!

  We're getting back to core business today with a good old fashioned review..."Engineering with Rosie" on YouTube is, in my view, one of the best sources of information out there when it comes to the renewable energy transition.The channel is created and hosted by Rosemary Barnes - a renewable energy engineer with two decades of industry experience (and a PhD in wind turbine blade design, and some serious gingerbread skills!). It's a great example of what the internet has always promised us: people with specialised knowledge sharing that knowledge with the world.Rosie produces content that differs from much of the other material in this space, because she comes at it from the perspective of an engineer. She is realistic about the challenges so many renewable energy technologies face, while still showing the incredible progress that is being made all around the world in the transition away from fossil fuels.Her content is probably most appealing to people with at least a grasp of some basic engineering and physics concepts and does sometimes get a bit technical - but I still think it's very accessible and worth checking out even if you're not particularly nerdy in that area.

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• TINY LIES: My $55 hunt for the truth about China's spiky benches

  [Please note: This video was published on my YouTube channel a few months ago.]I recently became obsessed with trying to work out whether China really does have coin-operated park benches that stab you in the butt when your sitting time is up. This 'fact' was all over the internet, and had made its way into the NY Times, The Guardian, NPR, an academic journal, and a professor's book. Turns out, it is absolutely not true.This fixation cost me $55, several days, and a significant chunk of my sanity.To try to move past it, I have made this video taking you on my journey of internet factchecking.

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• Confessions of an Online Ad Actor

  We found him!This is an exclusive interview with "Teddy Reech", aka Scott Curtis - a UGC creator/actor who's done over a thousand ads for social media and online.He's got quite the story to tell about the job he did for the history app people, who it seems were engaged in an AI footage-farming operation.Enjoy his insights into this strange corner of the internet. Oh - and his story about doing ads for boner pills on the internet.

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• Enshittification: AI Apps are just scams and slop

  I recently started receiving ads on social media for "educational" history apps. It soon became clear these were almost all just AI-generated junk apps, or outright scams to steal your money.This seems, to me, yet another symptom of the era of enshittification we're in, which is being turbocharged by AI.There seems to be a flood of these AI apps now, so I thought I should warn you about them. Please, if you know of any educational or history apps that are actually good, useful, and not scams, let us know in the comments!More info at my YouTube channel.

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• Who Really "Knows" Joe Rogan?

  This episode unpacks the podcast that unpacks The Joe Rogan Experience... yes, it gets a bit meta!Hopefully, it'll leave you with some useful take-homes about how to critically assess the world's biggest podcast.Find more reviews at my YouTube channel: The Internet, Reviewed. Or email me with your own suggestions for who I should review next: [email protected]

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