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Originally Posted by demonrail666

5 years ago I'd have disagreed with you and still think twitter might be overstating it but i certainly think you can learn more from access to youtube than you can on most degree courses right now. And it's free.

i was trying to joke about rose mcgowans qualifications but that backfired i guess

but yes, if we could have more youtubes like the one we just saw it would be amazing.

khan academy in a way holds that kind of promise—universal education free to all. it’s more basic courses though. oh there is udemy and lynda.com for actual courses. and there are ted talks, and didn’t stanford have free classes online long ago?

the only issue with the youtubes is the quality of the discussion

e.g. on a jordan peterson video some eejit will write: “watch jordan peterson RAPE a radical feminist”. jeezus, with friends like that who needs enemies. they confirm the mischaracterizations.

but yeah i need to learn a lot of new material lately and gave up on any notion of a course or courses. the internet is a magnificent thing if you can sidestep the eejits. who are legion, but eh. there’s an immense wealth out there.

oh and i finally got a twitter account actually. i just use it like the rss feeds of old— read-only mode. i get updates from a ton of good sources i could not afford to subscribe to. helps me scope out a greater territory and weed out redundancies.