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A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D

A Ghost in the Machine: part absurdist humor, part armchair philosophy, and part political dissidence! It"s all part of Life"s rich pageant!

A Ghost in the Machine features hot takes on modern life from Daniel D, a regular human in a world gone mad. Daniel is nerdy and philosophical like Woody Allen, loud and angry like Sam Kinison, and full of shit like a clogged gas station toilet. It"s all part of Life"s rich pageant! aghostinthemachine.substack.com

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59:36

Pride and Identity

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/07/15

Greetings and salutations! This episode is about pride and identity, and the fact that pride based on an unstable or unhealthy identity is 100% of the time the kind of pride that “goeth before the fall,” if it’s not dealt with. Of course, Life has a way of dealing with that kind of pride, sometimes gently dropping hints, other times knocking you on your ass, and of course that’s always unpleasant in the moment, but it’s definitely a blessing in the long run. Think about what an insufferable asshole

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126:33

The PsyOps Only Work Because We Want Them To ...

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/06/23

Warning: this episode gets a bit schizo. For some of you, this is right up your alley. For others, well, just think of all the things you once thought you knew for sure and how many of those narratives have since been exposed as sophisticated confidence tricks. I’m not asking anyone to believe or disbelieve anything I say. I’m just putting it out there because I have found it helpful and think it might be helpful to others, so if it resonates with you, cool. If not, that’s okay too.I discuss the

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57:12

The Inversion of Good & Evil in Vampire Stories

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/06/03

Welcome back to another episode of the regular A Ghost in the Machine Podcast. As many of you already know, I’ve started doing a separate podcast series called “Paging the Everlasting Man,” in which I read chapters of G. K. Chesterton books, starting with Heretics, and give some commentary after each reading. If you like Chesterton, check it out. While not reading Chesterton, I have I recently read (or rather, listened to the audio books of) a couple of vampire novels: The Delicate Dependency, by

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51:41

Good Artists Gone Bad (Rachel Zegler, Syd Barrett &...

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/05/23

I know what my audience wants more of, even though nobody asked for it: more Rachel Zegler! But that’s not all! How about some Syd Barrett, after acid had eaten a hole through his head and his mind had fallen out of it? And while we’re at it, let’s add Charles Manson and his happy, ritual-sacrifice-performing family to the mix! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we will be discussing good artists gone bad: a Marxcissist, a maniac, and a murderer.In the last podcast episode, I discussed the question of what

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97:46

Man vs AI; Ethnonarcissistic Abusive Relationships &...

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/05/04

This episode covers a few recent posts and controversies. I discuss AI, Aristotle, and what it means to be Human; the EthnoNarcissistic Abusive Relationship between whites and blacks and how the magic spell seems to be breaking around certain one-sided taboos; and how Texas Governor Gregory Q. “Hotwheels” Abbott has heroically left his wheelchair to stand with Israel (but not Texas).Man vs AI and what it means to be human…Check out More Than Just Autocomplete: What Anthropic’s New Paper Reveals

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90:50

Navigating Marriage, Parenthood, and the Culture Wars...

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/03/23

Greetings and salutations, podcast listeners! I am excited to bring you this latest episode featuring Aly Dee, Substacker at Femlosophy (ladydrummond.substack.com) and YouTuber at RealFemSapien. We discuss the always-controversial but vitally important issues surrounding gender roles, marriage, and parenthood in a post-feminist world. Though Aly is too humble to declare this about herself, I will say that she and her husband are examples of people who are absolutely crushing it. Though they’ve

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114:43

Hacking Away at the Roots of the Regime Narrative

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/03/14

The one and only Rurik Skywalker, writer and podcast host of The Slavland Chronicles, is back. This time we discuss the nature of the enemy and how to exploit its weaknesses by hacking away at the roots of its narratives. We also delve into some interesting conspiracy theories. It’s a fun conversation.I’m reminded of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. As long as Jack stays in the Giant’s magical realm up in the clouds, he’s helpless and vulnerable, but when the Giant chases him back down to earth,

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23:20

Bronze Age Pervert is to the Dissident Right what the...

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/03/09

In this episode of the podcast, we discuss a recent post on X by Bronze Age Pervert (BAP). Below is a screenshot of his post.And the community note:Here is a link to BAP’s tweet: https://x.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1898073885884731702 and a link to my response: https://x.com/DanielDHumor/status/1898777504610992421.BAP is doing a lot in this post. The word “almost” is doing some very heavy lifting when he claims that “almost all the girls at Epstein Island were 18 or over.” Then BAP straight up lies

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122:36

A New Phase in the Culture War?

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/02/26

My guest on this episode, Mr. John Carter of Postcards from Barsoom, needs no introduction. We had a fun and free-flowing conversation covering all kinds of topics related to understanding the current state of the culture war, how we got here, and where things may be heading. So much has changed so fast, that it can be challenging to put it all in perspective and get a sense for what it all means.Here are a few of the posts and Notes and people that we mention in this episode:Some of John’s

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59:45

Whites Are Acting Like Blacks Politically (for Better...

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/02/17

After being in office for less than a month, Trump has already done a lot of good … but there are definite warning signs that we should not ignore. Recently, Trump met with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Our Greatest Ally and 4 ever BFF Israel, and announced that America will be cleaning up Bibi’s mess in Gaza. Israel broke it; we buy it (and then clean it up, secure it militarily, ethnically cleanse it, and redevelop it). Trump has since doubled down on this pledge.This has provoked some

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110:34

Promethean Fire with Rurik Skywalker

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/01/26

After doing a post about the spiritual importance of optimism, I realized the logical way to follow up that post would be to do a podcast interview featuring one of the bleakest of blackpillers, Rurik Skywalker, because obviously I should immediately alienate all the people who subbed in order to get uplifting hopium from me, right? Well, if you’ve followed me for any length of time, none of this will be surprising, because I’m all over the map in terms of my spiritual journey and artistic

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42:13

Be Careful What You Agree To!

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2025/01/07

Things have been getting really weird lately, with some strange and sophisticated PsyOps that appear to be laying the groundwork for something bigger. People’s OODA loops (“Observe Orient Decide Act”) are being reset with each new breaking story in the news cycle. I have no idea what it all means, or where it’s all heading. All I know is, caution is warranted.Matthew Livelsberger, a Green Beret, was supposedly desperate to alert the American people to the clear and present danger posed by China’s

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46:08

Some Puppet Governments Really Are Better than Others

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/12/15

A couple of recent events may be harbingers of what’s to come: Daniel Penny got acquitted, and Bashar Al Assad got regime-changed. In other words, we’re seeing culture-war victories domestically and NeoCon-artist shenanigans internationally. Some on the dissident Right have pointed to these events as confirmation of their one theory to explain them all: that Zionists completely control the incoming Trump Administration, and that they “allowed” Trump to win election in order to get buy-in from

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67:10

"Why Do You Hate Jews?"

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/12/02

Sometimes I criticize the ADL, AIPAC, or the State of Israel. Usually this provokes a few people to call me a Jew-hating antisemite as they unsubscribe from my blog or block me on Notes. Out of curiosity, I sometimes pull up my past interactions with the aggrieved party, and whenever I do, I notice an interesting pattern: these are almost always the same people who enthusiastically liked and shared and commented on my posts criticizing BLM and black identity politics. Just about every time. They

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50:01

Trump's Win Gave Us a Reprieve

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/11/12

The morning after Election Day, I read the news that Trump had clearly and incontrovertibly won, and I felt a tangible weight lift from my soul. If America is a cancer patient, Trump’s victory was like getting a report that the treatment appears to have been successful, and that the cancer is now in remission. America may not be cancer free, but our situation is not as bad as it once was — and it’s not nearly as bad as it would have been if Kamala the Cackling Commie had won. In this episode, we

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31:54

Kamala Harris Is a Psychopath

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/11/04

Kamala Harris is a psychopath. She cares only about seizing and wielding power, and the only power she cares about seizing and wielding is the power to inflict pointless suffering on others. This explains her commitment to anarcho-tyranny. She doesn’t really care about the “Rule of Law,” or protecting “our democracy,” or supporting the “brave men and women of law enforcement,” or any of the other platitudes she preaches — those are just nice slogans to use as a pretext for seizing and wielding the

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60:44

Can Kamala Harris' campaign sell the sizzle without...

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/10/30

In this podcast episode, we discuss Kamala Harris’ campaign and whether it demonstrates the absolute limits of astroturfing.Globohomo Ziobankster Inc has turned mass-marketing and high-tech influence operations into an art. From “remember the Lusitania” to “two weeks to slow the spread,” they have managed to sell some whopping lies to a gullible public over the past century (if not longer). But has their well of PR magic finally run dry?“Sell the sizzle, not the steak,” is an advertising proverb,

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42:51

Is Eusocial Media Possible?

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/10/20

In this episode, we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media. What are the benefits of online interactions, and how do we keep those benefits, while minimizing the costs?The GoodG.K. Chesterton observed that older technology tends to perform many functions, whereas the new technology that replaces it tends to take only one of those functions and perform it extremely well, while ignoring all the other goods produced by the older tech. An example he gave was the modern light bulb

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33:45

Crashing Through Chesterton's Fence

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/10/04

Here we are, crashing through another one of Chesterton’s fences, with Tim Walz leading the way. In this episode, we discuss the significance of Walz remaining on the ticket, despite the fact that he has been caught lying — or at the very least, making deceptive insinuations and exaggerations — about his military service (or lack thereof). Once upon a time, if the public found out that you had committed adultery, your political career was over, as Gary Hart discovered in 1987. Then came Bill

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71:51

See How the Other Half (of Substack) Lives

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D ·

2024/09/23

This podcast episode is a bit of an experiment: I explore Substack’s home page as it appears to someone new to the platform. What kinds of posts and notes are at the top of the page? What kinds of ideas and perspectives appear to be promoted? If you said “all the latest clownworld craziness,” you are correct.Basically, it’s like there’s a factory where regime narratives are mass produced and then shipped out to the various media platforms, including Substack, where they can be mindlessly consumed by

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