# Old YouTube Channel Is Back, AoT#488

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Podcast: [The Age of Transitions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-age-of-transitions-1093502)
Published: 2026-03-02T03:30:48+00:00
Episode link: https://ageoftransitions.libsyn.com/old-youtube-channel-is-back-aot488
Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ageoftransitions/488_Old_YouTube_Channel_Is_Back.mp3?dest-id=227100
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Duration seconds: 3134

## Resource

The old YouTube channel has been brought back, and you will be able to watch the live-stream video versions of The Age of Transitions podcast there from now on. Topics include: reinstating the old YouTube ADDTV channel, live-streaming the podcast, leaving YouTube video, old problem of unwanted ads, new problem of algorithmic dominance, content creation in service to the algo, online super ego, classic conspiracy take of media manipulation vs new emergent media manipulation, technique Jacques Ellul, autonomous systems where technique goes, AI, agentic AI, automation of labor, addictive nature of social media is designed, digital priesthood, artificial synchronicities, Culture Wars as propaganda, ecological disaster of data centers

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