TIL I learned the difference between TED and TEDx.
TEDx events are independently organized TED-like conferences that operate under a free license granted by TED. While they follow the general principles of TED, TEDx events are planned and coordinated by volunteers at the local level, aiming to bring the TED experience to a broader audience.
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I’ve never even heard Ted talk. It’s always someone else. SMH.
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Skylar know who Ted is.
Wait I’m lost, is Skylar Ted’s ex?
fuck Ted
I fucked Ted
So what, we’ve all fucked Ted.
For as long as I remember TEDx to exist, I hear people complain that ted talks suck now.
I always ask for example talks, and without fail it was a TEDx talk. And they never know that TEDx talks are very hit or miss in quality.
“proper” TED talks generally (but of course not always) have good quality (although, I haven’t watched any lately. But a couple years ago I watched basically any tech or science related one)
Even proper TED talks can have some big issues. I’m thinking specifically about Kary Mullis getting up on stage and saying anthropogenic climate change isn’t real because he found a study that says there’s a current that fluctuates and absorbs anything we do–or something to that effect. If you didn’t know anything about Kary Mullis and just heard “Nobel prize winner” you might assume he’s credible. In actuality he was a pariah for talking out his ass about things he doesn’t have expertise in and doesn’t understand, specifically his climate and HIV/AIDS denialism.
It’s always a good idea to approach any lecture with a critical view, but I can see why TED talks might warrant extra scrutiny. They project expertise and authority which may or may not actually be credible. The organization has a mottled record of vetting their speakers for actual expertise. (ETA: actual expertise in the content of their talk. Obviously Kary Mullis had actual expertise, just not in the things he said on stage)
For anyone curious, he figured out how to rapidly amplify samples of DNA. While doing that he would routinely cause trouble by doing things like bringing a gun to work and having public arguments with his girlfriend at work. His Wikipedia entry sounds as sane as he is.
Ted always sucked. The whole production is designed for self-promoters to flatter rich liberals and reassure them that they’re good people. Besides, a playlist of just Ted presenters who turned out to be a fraud would be hours of content probably.
I also don’t understand it. If the topic is interesting and important enough, write an article about it, happy to read it. No need to add an unnecessary layer of a human presenting it - if that is needed for anybody to listen, then the topic is not worth our time
The gen pop doesn’t want to read articles
Long form YouTube has taken off, not specifically because people don’t want to learn/read, but because people’s time to actually sit down and read something is limited, so long form videos can be consumed while completing another task.
TED Talks are overrated. Basically it’s just a platform where self-centered pompous people take a microphone and say some of the most obviously sugar-coated shit that they can say. Then everyone in the audience all think that they’ve never heard this before and embrace for how ‘enlightening’ it is, when this guy is probably the 5th guy in line that has said the exact same things as the guy before them.
The barrier for entry for TEDx is very very low, worked with someone in management who had done one they where not with the company long.
I see it like pageants. TED is miss world. TEDx is miss cornfield.
Yuck not Sam Hyde. He is not a good person.
I’ve never heard of him, who is he and what did he do?
Alt-right comedian who confuses his free speech to say bigoted things with a belief that people must find him funny.
He also got into boxing in the way “alpha male” content creators do, left smack talking in the dust and made actual threats against his opponents and their families.
But he’s a comedian so it’s all funny! /s
