curated watchlist

Lily Simpson (10:00:05): Just a couple of words about the wizarding world of Harry Potter, Pottermore, Fantastic Beasts, Wizards Unite, Magic Awakened, Hogwarts Mystery and JK Rowling's blog. A nice short video.

liy: if you don't have to deprogramme from the massive intellectual property empire that has imperialised all collective imagination related to MAGIC??? GOOD! But if you do— like me, someone who grew up attached to the franchise— then please watch this british transwoman's vibrant hair colour fade across 10 hours as she takes a reaaally thorough look at it. why i watched it: i didn't want to contribute to JK Rowling, a proven fascist transphobe who is richer than English royalty, get even richer

Jessie Gender (4:17:13) Despite understanding some of the hydra heads that form from it - the apparatus, functions, and nature of antisemitism are often less understood on a deeper level because despite its long history and that it frequently intersects with other bigotries, it is not based directly on poverty, skin color or colonized status. It’s also historically quite flexible, constantly evolving to fit the numerous contexts it crops up within. As a result, leftist groups can often miss it when it appears. There is also a question that often goes unaddressed in the binary framework of a propagandizing neo-colonial power that works to perpetuate its power versus those who fight it endlessly. Can antisemitism exist within leftist movements fighting for Palestinian autonomy and self-determination?

0:00 - Introduction 28:23 - Part 1: How Antisemitism Functions 47:25 - Part 2: The History of Zionism 1:45:56 - Part 3: Zionism as a Political Ideology 2:32:18 - Part 4: Zionism as an Emotion 3:07:35 - Part 5: Antisemitism on The Left 3:39:29 - Part 6: Anti-Zionism 4:05:06 - Conclusion 4:13:40 - Outro

CJ the X (27:12): unpacking my thoughts on online performance through the burning of an innocent sacrificial lamb

references C. Thi Nguyen, Trust and Sincerity in Art (2021) https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/1139/

Storied (11:12) Language is an integral part of how cults keep their members bonded, isolated and obedient. Covers research on speech patterns, thoughts-terminating cliches, jargon can function as a linguistic conspicuous consumption

also references Amanda Montell’s book Cultish

language empowers cult leaders to create a mini universe around their followers. the only defense is from knowledge as widely as possible. that way no one person has the power to shape your reality

Elliot Sang (1:09:28): Learning from the history of Korean women to understand contemporary gender wars.

on the uniquely patriarchal conditions of korea, marriage strike, child penalty, brief history and context of how women are seen in korea, korean female deities, catholicism in korea, women adopting each other to have legal rights of care, the real work of gender liberation is done by women quietly doing community care work

the problem of fighting for rights at the expense of other people’s rights

mqbirkholz (44:57)

00:00 - 19:22 : Part I: Gramsci, Hegemony, and Common Sense 19:22 - 44:57 : Part II: Anarchy, Communism, and Other Bad Words

Elliot Sang (1:01:12) liy: A deep dive on tea

TIME STAMPS 00:00 introducTion 03:28 i like To cha cha 10:49 myThs 19:15 briTish Tea 36:59 The beginnings of chai

Dean Spade directed this (liy: yes, author of Mutual Aid!) (56:06) "Pinkwashing" is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote themselves as "gay friendly" to improve their public image. Israel is the country most famous for this strategy, having initiated it as part of a rebranding campaign has been engaged in for the last decade.

Synopsis: In 2012, activists in the Pacific Northwestern region of the US responded to an Israeli Consulate-funded pinkwashing tour featuring Israeli gay and lesbian activists that was coming to the region. Local queer Palestine solidarity activists exposed the "Rainbow Generations" tour as pro-Israel propaganda and got some of the events, including the tour's centerpiece event hosted by the City of Seattle's LGBT Commission, cancelled. A significant backlash ensued involving the Seattle City Council and Seattle's leading LGBT and HIV organizations. Through the inspiring story of these activists' victory, "Pinkwashing Exposed" explores how pinkwashing works and what local activists are doing to fight back.

This film was edited by Amy Mahardy, directed by Dean Spade.

"Pinkwashing Exposed" was made in Seattle, on Duwamish Land. The Duwamish are in a long fight for recognition by the US government. Right now they are trying to raise $100,000 to hire an expert witness to review 31,000 pages of documents provided by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as part of their fight for recognition. We can help by donating. duwamishtribe.org/give.html

This film is closed captioned in English.

For more on this film, visit: https://pinkwashingexposed.net/

Irene / Thought Spot (32:59)

TIMESTAMPS

Intro 00:00-03:06 Magic Mind 03:07-05:13 What is Ego Death? 05:14-06:02 Negative impacts of no Ego 06:03-07:05 Ego Death in childhood 07:06-09:27 Fear of being perceived 12:48-13:42 Painfully self-aware 13:43-15:23 Links to masking 15:24-15:56 Links to BPD 15:57-16:52 Being perceived accurately 16:53-17:43 Part of survival 17:44-20:13 Scapegoating 20:14-21:50 Questioning your reality 21:51-21:41 Positive effects 21:42-30:14 Closing thoughts 30:15-33:00

Anark (29:19) In this video, I go over the 8 steps for wrecking organizations laid out by the CIA in its Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

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• Intro
• CIA Field Manual
• Preface
• Do everything through channels
• Make speeches
• Refer to committee
• Bring up irrelevant issues
• Haggle over precise wordings
• Refer back to decisions
• Advocate caution
• Be worried

liy: Feels like calling a friend over for an hour to break it down for you, who pulls up links and watches them with you, yells at bad takes so you don't have to... all without the possibility of losing that friendship. not really an essay so the time flies by (1:03:47)

• He breaks it down like he's running media literacy 101 daycare for a generation younger than him (because he is),
• he answers questions in chat along the way,
• his examples are clear but not gory,
• and his editors are very good at cutting together a tight explainer video out of a much longer livestream.