What's the best lecture you've seen in 2025?

Lupe Fiasco presenting Rap Theory and Practice https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zBHRsYhYb-o

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

A lecture about the late Bronze Age collapse and its various and complex causes, by the author of the book of the same name.

I'm a minor history buff with a particular interest in Neolithic and Bronze Age history, and I loved all ~70 minutes of this video!

Honorable mention to anything from Premodernist, especially his top video Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe and its follow up Q&A.

Not from this year specifically (but I only saw it this year): The Polish hackers who uncovered the train manufacturer's repair shenanigans.

• Part 1: Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains – Reverse engineering a train to analyze a suspicious malfunction (2023)
• Part 2: We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure (2024)

Basically Dan Olsen's entire channel - lots of good stuff

RAGS shadow data extraction from LLMs - a horror movie for anyone who cares about data security in a world where people/organisations use LLMs

Not sure if this counts, but Bernard Albertson's "An old mans advice"

I saw one where a guy talked about getting free hotel rooms, and getting a mortgage for a homeless dude. Hacker shit.

Probably one of Sarah Paine's lectures.

This is a good one about Sino-Soviet relations.