An article by Andy Baio examining how AI companies use datasets and models from academic and nonprofit research groups. It describes Meta's Make-A-Video using Shutterstock clips and YouTube videos collected by Microsoft, and notes nonprofit datasets used for Stable Diffusion and other models. It argues this outsourcing shifts accountability and legal liability away from corporations.
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The Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive is a list and archive of tools developed by the DMI and affiliates. It notes that some tools are actively maintained and others are not. Featured tools include 4CAT, Issuecrawler, YouTube Data Tools and Zeeschuimer.
Filmot searches within YouTube subtitles, captions and transcripts, and phrases can be enclosed in double quotation marks. The site states it indexes over 1.7B transcripts across 1.5B videos and 84M channels, and that logged-in users can add private notes to videos and enable daily email reports for new results.
KISS Translator is a simple, open-source bilingual translation extension and userscript. It supports bilingual webpage translation, input-field translation, selection word lookup, and mouse-hover translation, and includes YouTube bilingual subtitles with configurable subtitle styles. It lists built-in services such as Google, Microsoft, Baidu, Tencent, DeepL, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Ollama, and DeepSeek. The README notes that provider plugins, Local AI, file translation, and automatic clipboard translation are available only in the Chrome/Edge and Firefox extension builds, not in userscripts and other clients.
LG TV Homebrew is a guide for installing updatable third-party apps on LG TVs running webOS 2015 or later using webOS Dev Manager and Developer Mode auto-renewal. It states that rooting is not needed and lists extra apps such as ad-free YouTube, Twitch, Kodi and Nuvio. It notes Developer Mode expires after 42 days.
RabbitHoles AI, now operating as Slashspace, is an AI-native infinite canvas platform for deep work, research, and learning. It supports multi-step research tasks, allows users to branch AI responses to maintain context, supports integrating PDFs, web pages, YouTube videos and notes as context, and includes an orchestrator mode for automated work planning. The platform works with Claude, ChatGPT, user-provided API keys, and local AI models, and offers a 3-day free trial.
Recast Studio is an AI-powered video editor for marketing teams that turns webinars, podcasts, interviews, and Zoom recordings into social-ready clips in minutes. It also generates posts, show notes, and blogs from the same recording, and offers transcript-based editing and direct publishing or scheduling to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
RTutor is a website and open-source project for analyzing data; users upload data, ask questions, and receive results in seconds. The site states that the RTutor website and source code are free for non-profit organizations only, with licensing required for commercial use. It also notes an 8-minute YouTube video for first-time users.
Soundslice is a web-based tool for creating and using interactive sheet music. It syncs notation with real recordings such as YouTube or MP3 audio. The player allows clicking notes to jump to moments in a video, looping sections, slowing playback and transposing. A notation and tab editor is free for basic usage. It also offers a sheet music scanner and works in a browser on any device.
Trans Voice Party is a resource hub for trans voice training. It lists starting-point guides, community links such as Reddit and Discord groups, YouTube channels, documentation, masculinization and androgynization resources, and teachers. It also notes outdated resources from roughly 2019 or older.
YT Upload Clear is a page providing JavaScript code intended to delete all uploaded songs in YouTube Music. The code is pasted into the browser console on the library page. The page notes that the process is slow.
A step-by-step guide for streaming and saving YouTube videos in the MPC-HC player using yt-dlp as a helper. It explains placing yt-dlp.exe and ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder, opening links and saving copies, plus quality selection and notes on which builds are available.