Alex Coppen

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

covid

Who Are The Behavioural Insights "Nudge Unit" And 77th Brigade?

Does a government have any kind of authority to use psychological theory or military resources against its own citizens? Is it lawful to privatise a "social purpose" company of civil servants which can evade accountability to the public or its elected representatives? Since when did Western governments decide Soviet-style experimentation

politics

The One Thing Missing From The "Great Reset": Democratic Consent.

Nobody voted for it. Nobody even had the chance to cast a ballot or have a say. Its "designers" have never been elected and hardly anyone knows their names. Our "leaders" seem to think democracy is a bit of a drag to their plans for humanity's supposed greater good and

science

Reverse Transcriptase, Antibody-Dependent Enhancement: Did A Lab Leak Interrupt China's Assembly Of A Genetic Weapon?

Chairman Mao put it bluntly: power comes from the barrel of a gun. The world's power is held by those with nuclear weapons. The Second World War was ended with them and created two superpowers. To be the world's most powerful superpower, you need the world's most powerful weapons. What's

screenwriting

The Hollywood Writer's Wokescore™ - A Geiger Counter For Filtering Out Irradiated Garbage

We all know it when we see it. Audiences are experts in sensing – and ignoring - the intentions of writers and filmmakers when they attempt to surreptitiously program their perception of reality. Stalin became fascinated with it and made the industrial capture of the art form a top political priority.

The Neo-Malthusian Hypothesis: Are Elites Now Acting On Their Scientific Gnosticism?

In 1798, Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he theorised  the notion of a catastrophe occurring due to population growth exponentially outpacing agricultural production. In the 60s and 70s, Neo-Malthusianism took off with books such as The Limits to Growth, and China's

academia

Alfred Kinsey & John Money: Psychopathic, Serial Sexual Predators

You'd be forgiven for not knowing who these two people were, and there's a reason you don't. These "fathers of the Sexual Revolution" form the intellectual and supposedly moral basis of modern thinking around gender and sexuality. However, if you take a look at the men behind the ideas, what

communism

Repackaging Communism As The End Goal Of Civil Rights Movements

From the Black Liberation Army to Womens' Liberation to the Gay Liberation Front to Black Lives Matter, all rights movements have co-opted tactics linking back to the Soviet Union to achieve their goals: manipulating language, demanding "justice" for injury, pathologising detractors, infiltrating institutions, suppressing dissent, indoctrinating children, and worse. All

los angeles

The Sane Person's Guide To Los Angeles

So you did it. You transplanted from somewhere else far away to the glittering City of Angels on the sunny west coast; full of wonder, bluster, and hopey-changey stuff. You read three hundred Reddit threads and fetishistic digital blog articles about the 10 things you need to know, only to