Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:

In message <10vjo90$25pfj$1@dont-email.me>, at 10:52:16 on Mon, 1 Jun
2026, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> remarked:

Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:

In message <BS2TR.20$wjw4.19@fx15.ams1>, at 22:45:53 on Sun, 31 May
2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:

Yes, it?s a random collection of old railway clips. But even the UK ones >>>> aren?t particularly relevant to the script. Basically, it?s a
padded essay
with added random illustrations. Even when relevant, they don?t
add much to
the narrative. Unfortunately, this is true of a lot of longer YouTube
videos, particularly ones like this that have no new content or analysis. >>>> The problem isn?t any dodgy AI or irrelevant US clips, but simply that >>>> there was no reason at all to make or watch the video.

So I?m not sure why Roland brought it to our attention.

Too make the points you mention. The meeja today (and Youtube is the
most-watched meeja of all now) is swamped with AI slop that much of
the public apparently swallows as the truth. It needs to be called out.

Even the non AI stuff on YT is largely rubbish. Content padded out,
terrible presentational skills of narrators, infested with adverts for
snake oil products.

I have a Channel-Creator account, which comes with being able to view
other people's stuff advert-free.

Most recent (not-railway, sorry; mid-Wales): https://youtu.be/mGfyRsSgmY

EV, which I think charged up en-route due to being downhill. The most butt-clenching part about five minutes in.

Just occasionally it?s useful to see how something practical is
achieved that is more easily shown in video than described in writing.

But where do you source that "writing". Cycle down to the library on the
two days a week it's still open?

By writing I didn?t mean pen and paper. Rather a web page with text.
Similar annoyance with the BBC news site showing increasing amounts of
video shorts without a text transcript. I can read a text news story in
about a tenth of the time it takes to view the video. I?ll give them a pass
for where the video is necessary, eg the recent Amazon rocket explosion. No amount of text quite conveys what the video shows.




--- PyGate Linux v1.5.15
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 12:22:09 -0000 (UTC), Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:

In message <10vjo90$25pfj$1@dont-email.me>, at 10:52:16 on Mon, 1 Jun
2026, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> remarked:

Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:

In message <BS2TR.20$wjw4.19@fx15.ams1>, at 22:45:53 on Sun, 31 May
2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:

Yes, it?s a random collection of old railway clips. But even the UK ones >>>>> aren?t particularly relevant to the script. Basically, it?s a
padded essay
with added random illustrations. Even when relevant, they don?t
add much to
the narrative. Unfortunately, this is true of a lot of longer YouTube >>>>> videos, particularly ones like this that have no new content or analysis. >>>>> The problem isn?t any dodgy AI or irrelevant US clips, but simply that >>>>> there was no reason at all to make or watch the video.

So I?m not sure why Roland brought it to our attention.

Too make the points you mention. The meeja today (and Youtube is the
most-watched meeja of all now) is swamped with AI slop that much of
the public apparently swallows as the truth. It needs to be called out. >>>

Even the non AI stuff on YT is largely rubbish. Content padded out,
terrible presentational skills of narrators, infested with adverts for
snake oil products.

I have a Channel-Creator account, which comes with being able to view
other people's stuff advert-free.

Most recent (not-railway, sorry; mid-Wales): https://youtu.be/mGfyRsSgmY

EV, which I think charged up en-route due to being downhill. The most
butt-clenching part about five minutes in.

Just occasionally it?s useful to see how something practical is
achieved that is more easily shown in video than described in writing.

But where do you source that "writing". Cycle down to the library on the
two days a week it's still open?

By writing I didn?t mean pen and paper. Rather a web page with text.
Similar annoyance with the BBC news site showing increasing amounts of
video shorts without a text transcript. I can read a text news story in
about a tenth of the time it takes to view the video. I?ll give them a pass >for where the video is necessary, eg the recent Amazon rocket explosion. No >amount of text quite conveys what the video shows.

One place for serious text is Substack, but others include newsletters or social media. Even X still includes quite a
bit of serious text if you know where to look for it, such as Andrew Neil's writings.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.15
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)