Stuff to follow

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Ben Westgate:
https://twitter.com/ansalhar

Hard to put this guy into words, but it's a strange new wave masculist (Something that I'm mildly obsessed with ATM).
There's also a small network of people he's a part of that post in the same style, with the same general messages and memes.

The thing is, it's a Poe's Law situation. It might be sarcastic/ironic, or it may be in earnest, but either way I can neither tell the difference, nor care. It all seems solid to me.

Other members of this circle include:
https://twitter.com/ConquerorVlad
https://twitter.com/MichaelPorfirio

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Ross Scott
https://youtu.be/R-JAICJ0k4Q
Notable for his Game Dungeon series, reviewing mostly old and usually odd/unique games that are bad but all have notable experimental elements to them. I really liked that genre of comedic game reviewing from 2010, he's one of the last few that do it well I think.
Also makes Freeman's Mind, which he lives off of but I'm not huge on.

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Here's another fringe greenpill rec. Nether Beast Underground Muscle, AKA Expanding Universe Innovations. Bodybuilder and spiritual medium who rejects all conventional lifts, has invented some of his own exercises (the chest shrug) and is in contact with numerous alien races through his astral projections. He blew up last year because of /fit/ and an endorsement from fitness youtube guy AlphaDestiny but it was quickly found that he wasn't actually natty and faked some of his lifts (a clever fake bench press and a not so clever fake reverse planche). The story is actually pretty fascinating, there's a Danknet episode about it, which alerted me to the fact that he's back on youtube. I mostly just like listening to his comfy quasi-spiritual, mind over matter fitness advice, but there's no doubt about the fact that he's actually strong as all hell. Strong messiah complex coming from the guy but actually genuinely motivational stuff.

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Just want to give a shout out to a good radio show that's been running longer than I've been alive. Prime boomercore.
https://archive.org/details/crapfromthepast

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Caspian Report
Easily digestible geopolitics, as factual as I can understand.

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Caspian Report
Easily digestible geopolitics, as factual as I can understand.

I enjoy their videos, too. Good recommendation. If you like Caspian Report, you might also like Strategy Stuff on YouTube. It's a channel that covers geopolitical and wartime strategy, but usually the subject matter is historical, rather than contemporary. Here's my favorite video by Strategy Stuff:

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Ben Westgate:
https://twitter.com/ansalhar

Hard to put this guy into words, but it's a strange new wave masculist (Something that I'm mildly obsessed with ATM).
There's also a small network of people he's a part of that post in the same style, with the same general messages and memes.

The thing is, it's a Poe's Law situation. It might be sarcastic/ironic, or it may be in earnest, but either way I can neither tell the difference, nor care. It all seems solid to me.

Other members of this circle include:
https://twitter.com/ConquerorVlad
https://twitter.com/MichaelPorfirio

Michael Porfirio is the origin of the esoteric-weird-right "before the smoking ban / no one talks about this" poasting format. He has a PUA blog somewhere aswell that hasn't been updated in awhile. He seems to have largely moved on from coaching nerds to curating a distilled version of his advice on a half satire half deliberately obtuse twitter acc. Little else is known of his personal life. The new e-commerce shill crowd and old PUA crowd on twitter parody his format because it is an effective means of conveying information (i.e. a meme).

Its a cool and aloof way to share his knowledge with the plebs, and more learnered scholars can intuit the deeper meaning of his satire.

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Wordworking
Woodworking videos are comfy I like watching people with skills I lack
Matthias Wandel
https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel
https://woodgears.ca/
Jeremy Schmidt
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0T7tv ... jaTtparOZw

Donovan Worland
I've been subscribed to this guy at least since his sub count was 2 digits. Politics, readings from books, exercise, DJ-ing and conspiracy-type stuff. A great variety and I like listening to him speak.
https://www.youtube.com/user/donworland/videos

Brick Experiment Channel
Scientific lego destruction
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsFdM ... aUw/videos

Primitivism/luddite/survival type stuff
Grandpappy's hardtimes survival
https://grandpappy.org/ Old timer's take on economic collapse and prepping
Primitive Technology
Well-known. Interesting to see how he does more technologically advanced stuff as he goes on. Big enough that there are copy-cat channels. Explanations are in the subtitles but you can probably tell what he's doing without it.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JX ... dBA/videos
Low Tech Magazine
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ Interesting takes on eco alternatives
Kris Harbour
Guy who built his own house and is now building a new one. Interesting stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5rT7F ... Wzw/videos

Marty Black/MarphitimusBlackimus/Slappy Cromwell
Primarily known for extensively documenting Half-life 1
https://www.youtube.com/user/MarphitimusBlackimus

Rob Ager/Collective Learning/Collative Learning
https://www.collativelearning.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/robag88/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC72yyR ... pgQ/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG0_xo ... g7g/videos
Primarily film analyses

Tom7
http://tom7.org/
http://radar.spacebar.org/
https://www.youtube.com/user/suckerpinch
Computer (mad) scientist

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More NYshit! NormalBobSmith is a guy who literally just hangs out and people watches in Union Square all day. It is now a kind of capsule of pre-2016 culture although he still makes his way around I think. http://www.normalbobsmith.com/amazingstrangers/

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Technology Connections is a fairly interesting channel, relating to, you guessed it: technology.
Here is a nice little video by the channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

And here is a comment that I found interesting.

If you do not know why the Sunbeam Co. stopped making these in 1997 you do not know about "Chainsaw Al", noted as one of the worst CEO's of all time. Al Dunlap who died just this year, made his reputation through massive layoffs supposedly for cost cutting reasons, everywhere he went. The scheme was repeated in other companies, by other CEO's including the one in charge where I worked a whole career: the Hughes Aircraft Co. Al was worse, though, as his accounting frauds also contributed to his ability to generate impressive short term profits. Look him up. Now to Sunbeam. They had a great reputation and like such companies they had a loyal, but aging workforce ripe for the picking. Al and the others of his ilk specialized in mining corporate reputations, and in the sunbeam case "modernizing" the product line as cheaply as possible. That toaster needed an experienced worker to calibrate the sensitive switch, and of course the engineer/manager who oversaw the many mechanical (analogue) pieces that had to remain in tolerance to perform as the ones you have still did. They were probably among the first to be offered a packaged early retirement. The rest of the workers just had to find something else in a job market that had already been decimated by the recession of '93. In my case I survived several layoffs to eventually take my retirement after the part of Hughes I worked at had been sold for half again more than GM had paid for the whole company 5 years prior. I like to say that that deal reflected the Reagan era "Voodoo economics" made famous by George Bush Sr. way back when he ran for president in 1980 before he was invited to join Reagan on the ticket. GM had complained when they bought Hughes that the main capital of the company "Went down the elevators and out the front door every day at 4 PM." Then the first thing they did was start layoffs. Much of that "capitol" was among the first to skeedaddle, leaving behind a lesser grade of engineer, myself included due to cupidity about how the world works. Selling large amounts of the workplace buildings or leasing them to other companies followed on. Those of us remaining had to double up in our offices. Unpaid overtime became a necessity to fulfill contracts. That toaster illustrates that we once had great engineering talent, and intellectual property to hold ourselves above the ordinary, much of it now in the hands of Chinese manufacturing, while we languish in a "bean counters" paradise.