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Ordered randomly.

• RobWords — Lots of trivia about English as well as some other languages, some focusing on etymology, others on alphabet and so on..
• Tapakapa — Quick explainers, recently focusing on country flags (there should be a -logy word for flags knowledge, I don't remember) EDIT: vexillology, as a few people pointed out
• Carefree Wandering — Philosophy; Religion: specifically Daoism and Confucianism; Media theory; Identity "technolgies", specifically the concept of "profilicity"
• Unsolicited Advice — Philosophy explainers; more approachable and less academic than the previous one, I guess
• Ben Eater — 8-bit CPU made on breadboard fame, hands on explainer of computer architecture, networking, electronics and so on
• Patrick Boyle — On finance, mostly for entertainment purposes
• LegalEagle — In-depth analysis and discussion on American law and reporting on recent prominent legal cases
• TechAltar — "Analytical videos about tech companies"
• rewboss — A Brit living in Germany, with some videos on recent events, local history, cultural tidbits from a personal perspective
• PolyMatter — In depth analysis of almost random, yet important matters
• Computerphile — Like Numberphile, but with computer scientists instead
• Artem Kirsanov — Computational neuroscience explainers
• LowSpecGamer — History of (home) computing with focus on gaming; I am most impressed with the story/lore of 6502, 8080, Z80, ARM CPUs, how they came about etc.
• NativLang — Linguistics, going quite in-depth, yet remaining approachable for the rest of us
• Reducible — Computer science explainers with high quality animation, reminiscent of 3blue1brown
• Faultline — "Telling human stories through geography"
• Explaining Computers — Operating systems and computer hardware, SBCs review, explainers
• The Present Past — History
• Lawarch — Deep-dives in politics, history etc.
• fern — "Armchair documentaries, almost weekly"
• Acharya Prashant — Spirituality

I remember there was an effort to rename Coq, it turned out.. well? https://rocq-prover.org/

As for git.. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git It doesn't seem it would be renamed.. However, got seems to be quite a nice acronym: https://gameoftrees.org/