Daniel Harper

Interesting how about 2 weeks ago the right wing manosphere was calling Sydney Sweeney mid, and now she's the epitome of beautiful. Wonder what has changed.

Just finished a fun recording on the 2024 NOSFERATU. Expect it late afternoon Monday. With @danielharper.bsky.social & @timescarcass.bsky.social.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as though a million wine moms shouted "orange man bad" and a million smug leftists refused to listen.

$200m Saddam Hussein style gaudy gold ballroom, but not school lunches for poor kids.

Every time someone posts about the structural and inherent limitations of LLMs there are loads of people in the replies confidently asserting AI will overcome all its current limitations, and they remind me of the people in the 1960s who were confident we would have colonised the galaxy by 1999.

IDSG Bonus 42: The Two Popes (2019) | Jack Graham Get more from Jack Graham on Patreon

NEW IDSG Bonus Ep, exclusive for patrons. @danielharper.bsky.social & I chat about 2019's The Two Popes, starring Anthony Hopkins as Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis. www.patreon.com/posts/idsg-b...

YouTube video by Some More News The "Mysterious" Case of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump - SOME MORE NEWS

I've seen little better commentary on just how absurd Trump's claims about Esptein are than today's @somemorenews.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3huT...

dang

Jack and I discuss the only two stories that anyone is allowed to talk about for the last week or two, but I still think we got to places that no one else did. Share around if you feel the same.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Published while @danielharper.bsky.social and I were recording and saying how much we wanted to know who else was in the book...

I don't think so Tim.

YouTube video by Matt Walsh Netflix is Rebooting Captain Planet...And It's ALL Leftwing PROPAGANDA

Link here if you want to poison your brain and watch for yourself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wIl...

Matt Walsh is one shade removed from being a literal Nazi, and I find him fascinating. There will be an IDSG episode down the line when I've done all the other shit I need to do first.

God this is so stupid. I shouldn't have created this thread because I'd have to spend an hour cutting clips and posting here to properly explain the stupidity. He ends talking about how only people who do drugs and gay people get AIDS, and that Captain Planet poisoned minds when covid came.

Walsh then gets really weird about this, in the sense that the crowd applauds Captain Planet saying "if he had any other disease than AIDS you would applaud him for playing here today." Walsh brings up syphilis/gonorrhea, because of course we shouldn't applaud teenagers for having venereal disease?

The next clip is about Captain Planet giving a lecture about how casual contact with AIDS patients will not actually give you the disease. Look, the clip is a bit cringe but I suppose providing accurate medical information to children is somehow beyond the pale?

"Eugenics" was, of course, a very mild early 90s discussion about overpopulation, meant for children. I really was expecting a silly kid's show from my childhood to be endorsing death squads because Walsh is a very responsible journalist.

Okay, he is actually making the point that the original was both "lame" (his words, I don't use that slur of course) and "woke, woker than you remember probably" and is now trying to show that it's in favor of eugenics somehow? Will continue watching and share the inanity.

A screenshot of a Matt Walsh YouTube video, entitled "Netflix is Rebooting Captain Planet...And it's ALL Leftwing PROPAGANDA." Walsh is in black and white, sitting in his normal studio.

Fucking hell. (I get Matt Walsh notifications on YouTube daily at this point -- it's a real perk of doing the work that I do.)

I haven't watched this yet -- does he not realize the *original* Captain Planet was totally woke by his standards?

Daniel & I are moving the IDSG bonuses away from cinematic pope-ology now and we have some interesting ideas for forthcoming bonus eps. Stay tuned.

Up for Patrons of either Jack or myself in... a day or two, whenever Jack gets it edited.

Stuckey: It's not against even trying to feel how they feel. It is allowing feeling how they feel to lead you to justify what they are doing - which happens in abortion and the gender debate and the sexuality debate and the justice debate and the immigration debate. Because we feel so deeply for this one purported victim, we say, well, maybe deportation is wrong, or maybe I should affirm this person's stated gender, even though it mismatches their biology, or maybe I should affirm the right to have an abortion because I feel so deeply for this person's plight. That is when your empathy has led you in a bad direction and has turned toxic.

I see that with a lot of progressives, and I call it misplaced mothering. I think a lot of progressives take those that they see as victims under their wing. For example, the man who identifies as a woman who wants to go into the women's bathroom or wants to play against women in sports. They see this person as marginalized, as vulnerable, as misunderstood, and they feel so deeply for them. They feel so deeply for their pain that they have a hostile reaction to anyone who comes against their chosen victim, this person that they care for — in the same way that a mama bear would have a hostile reaction to someone who is trying to attack her cubs. That is how I think a lot of deeply feeling progressives feel about illegal aliens or whoever they see as a victim. Those of us who are on the other side of the issue they actually see as oppressors. As enemies of their chosen victims. I think that's why it causes the absolute cruelty that we often see from progressives who simultaneously say that they are deeply empathetic and loving.

Yeah, this lady is just a bad person actually.

NYT OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Is Toxic Empathy Pulling Christians to the Left? How Allie Beth Stuckey is holding the line on the right.

Are you too empathic and caring. Here’s why you should be more of a piece of shit.

I hear your criticisms and take them to heart. To be clear I work independently and have never worked for any of these organizations -- every dime I make for this work is given by individuals. I have never collaborated with any organization in an official or unofficial capacity.

Jack and I have both been unequivocal in that we both believe that what's going on in Gaza is a genocide and that we do not support the ADL. I regret that we made a passing mention to our audience (who, like you, undoubtedly understands these issues) and I will clarify in the next episode.

This episode of Posting Through It, guested by @vegastenold.bsky.social (who used to work there) does a great job of describing the issues here. api.substack.com/feed/podcast...

No one on IDSG supports the ADL, which as you say supports the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Jack said and I agreed that there is nonetheless good information to be found there about far right movements.

YouTube video by I Don't Speak German 133: THE MAMDANI REACTION

YouTube edition of the new IDSG. @danielharper.bsky.social & I talk about the reaction against Zohran Mamdani, from the NYT running a smear from a fascist blogger to Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk deciding that the Islamopocalypse is here. youtu.be/npBd7CXzxL0

how quickly we went from age verification for pornography sites, to social media, to search engines. a reminder that, yet again, it is essential to listen to sex workers when they raise concerns about how technology is being tested on them.