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fraud

Modern Slavery: Understanding Indian Recruitment Fraud

The scale of "Desi consultancy" outsourcing and H1B scams infesting IT through job sites such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice, and others has reached an almost unmanageable level. The breadth and sophistication of these schemes is staggering, and cheap AI subscriptions have made things 1000x worse. What's difficult for US domestic

gender

Are Men "In Crisis" For Not Doing What Women Expect?

Reality is not conforming to ideology, yet again. Men behaving in ways women do not expect, or understand, or demand, does not a crisis make. Neither does effeminate men not liking the way other men are behaving. Men are watching podcasts and porn instead of reading the newspaper, going to

education

Western Civ And How Teachers Made The West A Taboo

In the late eighties, a trend emerged from universities out of an evil trifecta: a) the collapse of the alternative communist society; b) rebellion against "Western Civ", and c) the adoption of "critical pedagogy" in teaching. Suddenly, a chilling era of "political correctness" descended from the humanities, prompting the "Science

pornography

Reversing The Catastrophic Social Experiment With On-Demand Pornography

Pornography isn't just a social menace, it is a biological weapon which short-circuits the brain's reward system. Freedom is only virtuous if it enables human flourishing, and it is now beyond doubt from the West's three-decade, wide-scale experiment with this former backroom titillation it is responsible for a metastasizing disease

screenwriting

100 Screenplay Ideas In 10 Seconds With AI

Put yourself in a studio executive's shoes. Why you would you sift through 1000 bad ideas when you could commission the ones you could design to hit the target audience the hardest? What's the point of screenwriters anymore, exactly? They are human editors to AI-generated material, recruited for their expertise.

democracy

The Internet Era Is A Repeat Of The Printing Press & The Reformation

They call it "Our Democracy" vs "Populism". We are in a titanic Reformation-esque power struggle between old-world Representative Democracy and the emerging new world of technological Direct Democracy, driven by the Internet. Our representatives and the institutions are desperately trying to cling on to power as an incumbent aristocracy, and

narcissism

Covert Vulnerable Narcissists: A Most Virulent Species

At its heart, narcissism is the simple disease of self-idealisation. The worship of one's self. Excessive, unjustified pride. 6% of any population, and 10% of personality disorder diagnoses show some form of it. Scientists use different tests: the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale, the Pathological Narcissistic Inventory, and

chemistry

A Novel Method For Producing MDMA From Moskachan A

Theoretical chemistry is tremendous fun. It can be a wonderful intellectual challenge. MDMA is a fantastic ChemGolf target because, like most phenethylamines, the production routes are well-known and internationally-controlled at global and local level. Can we theoretically find a way to produce MDMA which gets around the precursor blacklists as

politics

Starkey Explains The Sixth English Revolution

David Starkey's unique gift is his ability to transcribe in words what history has written invisibly on the hearts of Englishmen. Britain's grumpiest old Cambridge professor has a way of explaining our collective memory in a way which terrifies the entrenched vested interests because he is forensic in detail and

military

Futuristic British Military Hardware

What could the British military look like, if anyone in government took it seriously enough to fund any R&D? DALL-E and Midjourney can be quite fun to experiment with. British Stealth Warship At HarbourMore on stealth ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_ship Futuristic British Aircraft CarrierWe

ai

Our Oppenheimer Moment: When Machines Learned Human Language

You've probably never heard of Jakob Uszkoreit and Menlo Park. You know Sam Altman (OpenAI) and maybe Geoffrey Hinton (the world's foremost AI scientist), but this German researcher gave up his PhD to found a group of 8 people at Google who made a discovery so profound it will now

chemistry

High-Potency Super-Cocaines: The Nightmare Yet To Come

You've heard of Fentanyl, Cathinone "legal highs", and artificial Cannabinoids. What you may not have heard of, are the ultra-powerful artificial cocaines. The first two are over 1000 times more powerful, respectively. There's never been a list of these, until now. Whatever the legality and morality of central nervous stimulants,

ai

Using AI To Draft 100 New UK Acts Of Parliament

Large language models can draft a Bill in seconds, if you word the prompts correctly. If you were an adversarial party who wanted to intellectually flood your legislature with your own doctrine, you'd have a competitive advantage over your opposition. You could swarm the State and make laws all year

chemistry

Nature's Herbarium Pharmacopeia: Strange Psychedelic Plants

Mother Nature's pantry is bursting with electrochemical wonder. Thousands of psychedelic plants have been catalogued by chemists and botanists. As miniature laboratories, they produce molecules of such staggering complexity, its often hard to believe your eyes. It can be hard to find a reference source or encyclopaedia index where you

screenwriting

The Days Of Human Script Readers And Backlogged Writing Rooms Are Over

No machine will ever be able to replace human artistic perception. But Anthropic's new iteration of Claude 3 "Opus" can analyse and review screenplays with staggering levels of insight in a matter of seconds. Anthropic claim: "[Claude 3 Opus] exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks, leading

religion

Who Will The Antichrist Be?

The Omen, Rosemary's Baby, End of Days, Devil's Advocate, Ninth Gate; endless films have captured us about a character who will herald the end of life on planet Earth in an apocalyptic clash of good and evil. Every time someone reaches great power in the West, speculation mounts: Hitler, Bill

uk

The Boomers' Postmodern Legacy Must Be Destroyed

As of today, the UK parliament is considering possibly the worst piece of legislation it has ever conceived: the preposterous "conversion therapy" ban. After WWII, Britain was bankrupt from the effect of fighting two world conflicts. In the thirty years afterwards, it lost seventy territories. We can now see the

science

Documents, Fingerprints, Genetics: Storing & Searching Forensic Data

What goes on in the lab and how does it work? The technology behind crime-fighting and detective work we see on TV screens remains strangely opaque, yet much of it is decades old. And fascinating. The unfortunate consequence is innovation around it remains bottlenecked. Keywords in thousands of documentsThe first

technology

A Searchable Multi-Language Bible In Less Than An Hour With Elasticsearch + Go

As the original corpus, the bible is 66 books containing 31,102 verses, for a total of 783,131 words. Storing that in a database is trivial. Anyone can do it, for free, in less than an hour. If you're a techie, read on. For the impatient, go to: https:

religion

The Osteen Dynasty Deception Has To End

Joel Osteen is 61 years old this year. Twenty years of immensely clever Oprah-shtick have made him $100M+ or more. Decades of this fruitless heresy benefits no-one and is a damning indictment of the postmodern era. Regular readers will, as always, know this kind of article tends to be bad

nuclear weapons

How To Build A Nuclear Weapon

Who hasn't dreamed of constructing a massive atomic bomb in their own underground lair somewhere in the mountains? Well, first you need to understand the theory and mechanics of how atoms destroy entire cities. For more, a great read is Weapons of Tomorrow by Brian Beckett (Plenum Press, 1983). Atoms

homosexuality

Desensitization, Jamming, Conversion: The 1989 Gay Propaganda Bible

How do you take behaviours which provoke disgust in most people and re-brand them, - as not only as acceptable - but celebrated? After they have caused the worst and most lethal disease outbreak in history? A little-known, out-of-print book provides an alarming answer. "After The Ball How America Will

Underwater Science: Supercavitation, Bathymetry, & Acoustic Positioning

Space, space, and more space. Yet the least explored or mapped part of our world is what is underneath us within the great waters of the seas. Seventy per cent of the planet's surface is virtually unknown, and we can only move through it at the speed of a fast

weapons

Ultimate Power: Synthetic Pathogens & Designer Genetic Bioweapons

Post-apocalyptic fiction based on the biological destruction of humankind is a common theme, but how plausible are genetic superweapons (SBWs) wielded by supervillains? Alarmingly, they've been the next frontier in WMDs since the early nineties. We have no idea how far military scientists have got in their R&D,

smart-tv

How To Launch Channels On Smart TV Platforms

Podcasts are rapidly overtaking broadcast and/or cable TV. After YouTube and Rumble, you might need to launch your channel as a perma-bookmark on the devices themselves. That means Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung, LG, and more. It's daunting. Server-Side Video Broadcasting BasicsSetting up the backend video farm for