Alex Coppen

hollywood

Solving Velikovsky's Open Screenwriting Problems

In 2016, then-doctoral candidate Joe Velikovsky published his Ph.D thesis "Twenty-Four Open Problems In The Movie Screenwriting Domain", which was based on David Hilbert's 23 Mathematical Problems from 1900. An expanded version of the original idea appears on his website with forty-three items. Joe's work is extraordinary, in an

film

No, Hollywood. It's Not OK If It's A Sex Doll

There are days when you really have to ask yourself whether there are people in a studio lot's in-house dive bar somewhere, or an art gallery opening, champing at the bit to see how far we can go down the rabbit hole of sexual depravity before an armed invasion of

politics

It's Finally Time To Burn Down Parliament

Edmund Burke's idea of representative democracy, of MPs forming their own judgments, has collapsed and come to its end; our attorneys think themselves our rulers. It's successor, the era of direct democracy, via technology, has arrived. "The building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are

narcissism

Scorpions Under Rocks: Unmasking Highly Skilled Narcissists

There are thousands of articles teaching you how to recognise if you're in a relationship with a narcissist. But what if you could identify the chameleon disguise beforehand so you never got dragged in? Narcs are amazingly skilled at hiding their nature. One in twenty people suffers NPD; one twenty-five

social science

Magnus Hirschfeld: The Fraudulent Reinvention Of A Depraved German Butcher

It seems, in order to be lionized in the social sciences, one must be fixated on raping children, subverting one's culture to dissolution, or misrepresenting obscurantist pseudoscience as fact. The staggering effort to rehabilitate one of the most grotesque figures of the last century as a compassionate messianic visionary of

chemistry

New Psychedelic Drugs With AI/Machine Learning, Using Searchable Clandestine Chemistry Data

Until the 2010s, chemists like Papa Shulgin and others had to take random guesses at new molecules in a highly-labour-intensive process which could take years. It was paper, and pen. And imagination. In the age of networking cloud computing, machine-learning (ML) can create thousands of suggestions in a matter of

MI6

Semper Occultis? What Exactly Is Going On At MI6?

What few mention about the mantra "our successes are private, but our failures are public", is its dual face: anonymity and mythos function as a useful way of avoiding scrutiny. Distracting from your failures by claiming it's wrong to judge without seeing your successes isn't helpful, for the simple reason

abuse

Operation Hydrant: The Staggering Scale Of Child Sexual Abuse In Elite UK Circles

You probably haven't heard of Operation Hydrant. Why? It's an honest and interesting question you need to ask. It's the official police investigation into people of "public prominence" accused of serious sexual crimes, set up in 2014. What you definitely don't know is the numbers. Take a deep breath. You're

hollywood

Your Real Visitor's Guide To Old, Secret, and Scandalous Historic Hollywood

Don't pay for a tour. Forget Disneyland, the Studio tours, Griffith Observatory, Rodeo drive,Walk of Fame, and the museums. Hollywood has a century of the most bizarre, controversial history in the strangest places you probably haven't heard of. You pay to put your own star on the Walk of

programming

An OO Backend Dev's Crash Course To React Native

At some point in your career, you're going to get asked if you can fix that React thing. Or put together an app quickly for a church or charity. If you're someone who works on the backend, it's slightly distasteful peering into the world of front- end people. JavaScript developers

psychology

Living With The Horror Of Borderline Personality Disorder

You've met someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), aka emotional dysregulation, or "borderline psychotic". 95% of the time, it's a girl. You know the one. She keyed his car; screwed two different guys on a coke binge; has Daddy issues. She goes from ultra-obsessed, through to disgust, via desperate pleas

politics

The Conveniently Selective Memory Of Peter Tatchell

Lionised by the Pink Mafia at the Guardian & BBC as the hero of the so-called "gay rights" movement in the UK, Peter Tatchell succeeded at tying moral outrage to political campaigns via PR stunts, As the de facto "respectable" and "proper" face of this cultural phenomenon, he has a

medicine

Birth Control, Antidepressants, Autism, Gender Dysphoria

By all metrics, there is a serious and harrowing crisis of women's mental health, and not simply due to the Covid pandemic or social media usage. When you start to put some of these pieces together, you notice something: there's biological correlation. The evidence for causation isn't apparent, but nobody

politics

The Remarkable Tales of Saint Lauren Southern

Regular readers will know ending up on this page as a "curious case" never bodes well. Following in the footsteps of humble martyrs everywhere, agent provocateur Lauren Southern recently produced a feature film-length (!) mea culpa / apologia / auto-ethanography - detailing the conspiracy against her by a raving hive of narcissistic adult

blockchain

Hollywood's Byzantine Generals Moment: It's Time For A Decentralised Live P2P Movie Streaming Network

Amazon recently bought MGM, the last old-school studio in Hollywood. We're now in the laps of Big Tech: the kind of people who describe Friday night at The Pictures as "content". Our future as it currently stands is studios and production companies being commissioned to produce stale, woke garbage for

ai

Engineers Of The Robotic Soul

How does a deep learning neural network "conceive" of itself, from what it has been fed by humans? More importantly, what are these people doing and why are they doing it? What is going to be the result of some of the world's most biased and ideologically-possessed activists going to

los angeles

A Brit's Guide To Actually British Things In Los Angeles

There are plenty of guides to British things in LA, but 99.9% of them are written by affected American transplants who are obsessed with Britishness despite never having visited the country. Or have visited London once. They are what these people think is British. Brit-ish you might say. If

politics

Gender Theology: Body Thetans, Gnostic Priestesses, and Mengele Medicine

Sexual revolution, as Marcuse noted, always precedes political revolution, because sexuality is the fastest, surest way to derange people. As the basic instinct of life itself, its power is formidable, and its deracination underwrites social collapse. Disrupt it, and it has a catastrophic waterfall effect on almost everything else downstream.

blm

BLM, Saint Floyd, & Ifa Witchcraft

If lesbian feminist Marxists organising Maoist riots and embezzling millions of dollars from white liberal women into property wasn't weird enough for you already, it turns out the whole thing was Occult religious rite. According to public conversations, BLM's founders are priestesses of a nutty West African religion named Ifa.

sociology

Cracking The Fraudulent Story Code Of The Social Science Cult

Whether we like it or not, humans think in stories; parables, even. They help us pass moral education down the generations. We are exceptionally vulnerable to their power, for good reason; they help us understand a world which overwhelms us. The stories we tell others, and ourselves, are our sense

politics

The Western Techno-Maoists' War On The Working Class

There is a historical term for "cancel culture" and the angry desecration of tradition by a subset of radicals with familiar beliefs: Maoism. Every abusive communist uprising has been suffixed with the rallying call of "justice" for a century. This time it's emerged from sociology anLd based around social issues,

technology

MedVault: A Blueprint For Secure Medical QR Codes

QR codes are designed to be like postcards on lampposts. They are not designed to contain private information. They are meant to be openly scannable by anyone at all in full public view. As such, they are the least appropriate medium to be placing any kind of personal medical information

video

Replacing Cable TV, Netflix, and Spotify With HDHomeRun, Jellyfin, and Volumio

There are a myriad of reasons to drop TV subscriptions and video apps, but it's hard to know where to start to create your own. It's much, much easier than you think and cheaper than you'd imagine. However, it does take a little work and a bit of tech reading.

politics

Anatomy Of A Professional Media Smear Campaign

The coordinated attacks on Joe Rogan have ended up providing a fascinating look into how they are organised. Through a layered maze of obscure, opaque front organisations, political operatives launder curated material designed to spread calumny which will colour the public's opinion of someone and ensure it cannot be traced

technology

The Absolute State Of Big Tech

In January 2022, Twitter removed a damning thread by a Silicon Valley insider which received such enormous blowback the shockwave lasted for days. Pseudonymous user Hazard Harrington, who claims to work within FAANG, narrated his view on the industry situation. It's a partisan account, but it's one we all recognise