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This absurd parody proves that all TED Talks really do sound the same

sudshr47 October 19, 2018

It’s not just you: A lot of TED Talks sound the same.

Comedian and writer Keaton Patti — who imagined what a White House press briefing written by a bot might sound like — just shared a new imagined bot script, this time parodying the language of lofty TED Talks.

The “visibly clothed” TED TALKER opens the bizarrely inspirational lecture — given in a “place where you can talk” — with an anecdote about his or her grandfather, who was “paid for for being old.”

“He told me there’s just enough plastic in the ocean for someone to marry,” the TED TALKER states. “But we’re almost out of time.” The audience doesn’t care much about the actual TED Talk, but are insistent that they be shown graphs. Read more…

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‘Shitty Robots’ creator Simone Giertz’s TED Talk is a must-watch

sudshr47 May 10, 2018

YouTube creator Simone Giertz, who is famous for her “shitty robots” videos, released a TED Talk on Wednesday. Predictably, it’s wonderful, and you should watch it.
In the 12-minute talk, Giertz focuses on the value of making useless inventions, …

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TEDxBrussels organizer drags presenter off stage during anti-censorship talk

sudshr47 March 6, 2018

Get ready for your head to explode.

In the middle of TEDxBrussels talk on March 5 that focused on censorship, a male event organizer walked onto the stage and physically dragged the female presenter off. And the kicker? The theme of the entire TEDx event was Brave New World — as in, yes, the Aldous Huxley book about a dystopian future wherein an all-powerful state controls the lives of its citizens.

And it only gets worse from there.

According to the TEDxBrussels website, the presenter, artist Deborah De Robertis, was in the middle of a piece addressing past censorship of her artwork. The forcible removal of her from stage was so absurd, reports the Netherlands newspaper NRC Handelsblad, that audience members initially applauded thinking it was a statement about censorship. Read more…

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