{"podcast":{"title":"A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D","slug":"a-ghost-in-the-machine-by-daniel-d-5588479","podcast_index_feed_id":5588479,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/921447.rss","website_url":"https://aghostinthemachine.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/921447/11d44234fa539ffbbbab9d1df6659a64.jpg","author":"A Ghost in the Machine: part absurdist humor, part armchair philosophy, and part political dissidence! It's all part of Life's rich pageant!","episode_count":7,"summary":"I'm a regular human trying to make sense of this crazy clownworld. Let's compare notes and share strategies.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-06T16:17:38.560274+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-ghost-in-the-machine-by-daniel-d-5588479"},"episode":{"title":"How Dare You Say Lindsay Clancy Is a Psyop?!","slug":"how-dare-you-say-lindsay-clancy-is-a-psyop","published_at":"2026-09-05T16:29:41+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-ghost-in-the-machine-by-daniel-d-5588479/how-dare-you-say-lindsay-clancy-is-a-psyop","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-ghost-in-the-machine-by-daniel-d-5588479","url":"https://aghostinthemachine.substack.com/p/how-dare-you-say-lindsay-clancy-is","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/214312528/791a803d006ff275394cbbd94f02cf8f.mp3","summary":"In this episode, I share my thoughts about the Lindsay Clancy case (which I touched on in yesterday’s post ). Fortunately, I heard these very interesting details from Owen Benjamin before I got too emotionally invested in this controversy: Obviously, anyone who would kill children like this should be executed, and all the more so if she is too mentally defective to know that killing children is wrong. With that caveat out of the way, I also know that the social engineers (1) hate us and want to harm us and (2) use stories like this to manipulate us and to divert our time, energy, and attention towards things that benefit them and harm us. And I know that they lie. Constantly. About everything. And no lie is too big for them to tell with a straight face. Whether this facts of this case really happened or not, the bottom line remains this: be cautious, because the social engineers are doubtlessly steering the public controversy in a harmful direction. First, there’s the take-away for young men and women, especially white middle-class men and women, which is, “Don’t marry or have children.” If you’re a man, you’ll believe that your sweet and cheerful girlfriend is capable of becoming a homicidal maniac and butchering her own children.. If you’re a woman, you’ll believe that if this madness could seize Lindsay Clancy and compel her to murder her own young children, then it could probably happen to you as well, so … better not risk becoming a mother! And we know how anti-natalist the messaging to young educated whites has been for a very long time, and we know who has been promoting that message incessantly. Second, there’s the push for full-term abortions. If they can recenter the Overton Window around whether it’s okay for women to have post-birth abortions, then they’ve…","meta_description":"In this episode, I share my thoughts about the Lindsay Clancy case (which I touched on in yesterday’s post ). Fortunately, I heard these very interesting…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2728,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-ghost-in-the-machine-by-daniel-d-5588479/episodes/how-dare-you-say-lindsay-clancy-is-a-psyop/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-ghost-in-the-machine-by-daniel-d-5588479/how-dare-you-say-lindsay-clancy-is-a-psyop.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}