film Fumigating The Radiation Poisoning Of Critical Theory From Screenwriting Art is not about activism; drama is not about deconstruction; stories are not sociology; plots are not about propaganda or "power dynamics"; arcs are not "analysis"; ideas are not ideology;
USSR Reanimating the Corpse of the Alternative Society What do you do when you don't have any ideas? You reanimate the old ones other people had, and give them a new name. Internationalists and activist political groups are
screenwriting Story Plot Structures: How Plays, Games, And Movies (Don't) Work A good story tells itself. If you are finding yourself stuck and attempting to force the events of a story, your story sucks. Or, you suck at telling stories. Stories
screenwriting Story Catalysts: Accelerators, Instigators, Initiators, Inciters You've got that dramatic arc you want to play out in the scene, but how do you start it? What kicks off or provokes the action? You need a catalyst
foucault Michel Foucault: prolific, serial paedophile rapist of children Foucault is the most cited scholar in the humanities. His homosexual proclivities, and subsequent death from AIDS in 1984, are well-known. It turns out his nature was much worse than
science A Better Mind: The Great Unknowns & The Great Values Our generation's most brilliant minds are burning CPU time explaining, to our least functional minds, the basic concept of the link between sex and gender; despite having more knowledge than
technology Getting The Soviet Republic Of Big Tech Out Of Your Life If Big Tech platforms are now countries, they seem to resemble communist dictatorships like the USSR or the People's Republic of China. Silicon Valley's big Utopian, transhumanist ideas are looking
software Quick Delivery Of A Web App For Android & Desktop Increasingly there's a growing need to develop and publish across technological platforms, for many different reasons. One of them is vendor lock-in, where you want clients to depend on an
marcuse The Toxic Disciples of Marcuse "...the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements” on the Right, and the aggressively partisan promotion of speech, groups, and progressive movements on the Left" is
politics A Generation's Time To Legislate A 21st Century Magna Carta On June 19 1215, a new era dawned which would end up transforming the world. Archbishop Langton finalised a document of 63 clauses written in Latin to make peace between
politics The Hopelessly Partisan Impartiality of Fact Checkers Whenever anyone claims they are offering the "correct" perspective of the facts in a political context, you should be highly suspicious. Cynical, even. Aspiring to the "correct" version or opinion
laravel The A-Z of Laravel & A Maze of Development Shortcuts Engineering is a discipline which can be a harsh teacher; repetition can be porous or opaque in how it educates you to optimize, and not simply through immiseration. We have
politics Reform & Reclaim: The Lion Takes a Stroll Laurence Fox is on his way to becoming a man of history, if he can build an alliance with numbers and a structured ideology. The UK may be led by
politics Say What You Like About Trump, But Something Isn't Right Here How did one of the least popular candidates in a primary gather the most votes in American history without campaigning? Democrats only win when they show up in large numbers
communism A Compendium of Communist Dirty Tactics Amongst communism's many, many problems is the one searing elephant in the giant empty room: why the proletariat never show up and come along. From Lenin, to Gramsci, to Mao,
screenwriting Deadly Sins of Screenwriting Art has month purposes, but its sacred one is to reveal truth. Greek mythology and the Bible all speak in stories. Aristotle uses the same word as St Paul to
christianity The Increasingly Strange Case of Ravi Zacharias Why would the most famous Christian apologist since C.S Lewis own spas, threaten suicide in an email to a married woman, have a secret corporate board, settle lawsuits with
china Fourth Generation Culture Warfare and the Trojan Tiger Despite obvious comparisons to Orwell's literary observations of Stalin's regime, it's impossible not to notice how the Chilling Effect from the recent social media mania in liberal Western democracies is
screenwriting Understanding How The Other Species Communicates: A Study For Life Tucked away in Leigh Michaels' (LeAnn Lemberger's) excellent writers' guide, "On Writing Romance" (2007), is a fascinating snippet about male/female relations which wouldn't be amiss in the self-help section
academia The Academic Virus Deliberately Designed for the Corruption of Everything "We're trained Marxists", says Patrisse Khan-Cullors into a webcam recently. "We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao, learning all types of global critical theory and
history Re-Print: Anonymous Letter From the Department of History, UC Berkeley The following letter was sent by a black history professor to 2 academic colleagues: Wilfred Reilley (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kentucky State University) and Thomas Sowell (Professor of Economics,
marxism The Ugly Spectre of Marxism Raises Its Medusa Head Again If you're a Marxist, say you're a Marxist. Don't use the unjustified killing of a black man by abusive police officers as a cynical proxy for your attempts to succeed
samsung Battling With Samsung SmartThings IoT: A Lesson In the Importance of Terminology & Lessening The Pain You've suffered. You've gone round in circles. You've re-read the same page multiple times. You've even drawn it out on a few whiteboards. You've read it again. You've tried to
software Electrifying APIs With Websockets: WAMP + REST Websockets is a fantastic real-time technology which has struggled to catch on because of the significant knowledge gap between fast-moving frontend developers, and more traditional server-side programmers. To understand how
hollywood Toxic Tropes & Hollywood Economics That Hollywood sees itself as a vehicle for social engineering is no secret. Whether it's the countless pro-America military extravaganzas (Top Gun, anyone?) or the mockery of it (Team America:
