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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, Stanford University). It's re-printed here in its entirety. Just over one hundred years ago in "My Larger Education" (1911), Booker

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 Comrade Lenin. Don't pretend you had any feelings for the man or his family over the excitement of the opportunity

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 code around it. You've discussed it. Then you came back round and had to study it again. You even gave

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 to bridge the divide, there's a significant investment of time and energy required to ascend the learning curve. What's All

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: World Police) or the ever-pervasive America Saves The World Again schema, the perception of Tinseltown as an engine for manipulating

software

Programmable Cloud Wifi Networks, Linux Router APIs, And Smarter Hospitality

To answer your question, yes, there are Wifi routers with APIs you can talk to in order to dynamically configure their settings, like hotspots and SSIDs. Wifi doesn't have to suck; it can be as programmable as any other IoT hardware. You don't have to flirt with ugly open source

10,000 HLS/RTMP Live Video Streaming Servers With Docker + Nginx

It used to be hours of tedious work, combined with expensive proprietary licenses for single-server software desperately straining a CDN. Video streaming was a pain. A real pain. If it wasn't the client CPU speed and bad codecs, it was the ISP bandwidth, or the server capacity. If you want

An Arduino Wifi Racetrack For Remote Controlled Toy Cars & Boats

Why? Because inside every man is a six year-old waiting to re-emerge. Sometimes you don't need a reason for a project. You simply do it because its awesome level breaks the charts, and/or for no damned reason at all. What if we could power this bad boy in a

blockchain

Censorship-Proof Blockchain DNS Systems

The Blockchain is many things. It's undoubtedly a work of genius to a problem most people don't realise even exists because we take it for granted so often. It's provoked an unstoppable wave of idealistic innovation, mostly from libertarian ideologues and tech oddballs, on top of curious sharks in the

COVID-19: The Movie

You can substitute the word "Coronavirus" for "zombie" and the context is almost the same. Fear of disease is right at the bottom of the human brain stem. Stay at home. Don't go outside. Stay safe. The Infected are roaming the streets. Someone tested positive. Your loved ones are at

academia

Dedicated New Site for The Devils' Glossary

With dozens of new entries, one of the most popular posts on the site - and the reason for a ban from a popular writing website bombarded with activist trolls - is now available on its own subdomain in a new format for easier browsing. You can access the recently-updated

drugs

Illegal Chemistry Vol.2 - New/Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)

Alexander Shulgin died in 2014, but his legacy lives on. Breaking Bad finished, and captivated viewers in a way most producers couldn't have imagined. In the period of 2009-2017, 803 new substances of abuse had been reported onto the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Early Warning

political correctness

Sandbox Theory: Silicon Valley's Matrix Experiment

The notable increase of globalism in the 1990s, particularly the Internet age, has yielded a realignment of our politics in the Western world to a re-emergent paradigm of individualism vs. collectivism. Not since the Industrial Revolution and its Communist Manifesto has there been such a pronounced dynamic of the people

mathematics

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) For Adventurous Types

It's a deceptively complex mathematical conundrum. You have 5, 10, or 20 destinations you want to batch together into a road trip. You need to find the fastest and/or most efficient - i.e. optimal - between them, geographically-speaking. Our brains work so fast, so effectively, we barely notice

maps

The Most Extraordinarily Sci-Fi Places On Planet Earth

Most of us have only been able to see the planet since 1972. Amazing as it might seem, we had no idea what our floating rock really looked like until the infamous "Blue Marble" photo was taken by Apollo 17. There are some exceedingly strange places on this planet, which

education

How did we get here? A primer guide to understanding unreality

It can often feel as if the world has gone mad or turned upside down. How did we get from the age of reason to barely knowing or caring what truth is anymore? The answer is complex. But mostly, half a century of academic imposters who couldn't work out the

php

Supercharged Laravel: Action Processors, Data Caching, and Model Composites

Laravel has a lot of detractors, but there are two things of which any developer can be certain: a) whether you like it or not, PHP is undoubtedly the most widely deployed language of the web (read: employability), and b) it's unbeatable for rapid prototyping of ideas. What started as

political correctness

The Devil’s Glossary of 2019 Newspeak

Ever wonder where that fashionable nonsense crazypeople preach all over the media and internet comes from? Where that bizarrely-Orwellian academic phrasing originated? Confused about internalized hegemonic patriarchy-centric-discourse over heterobinaries? Who came up with all this crap? A lot of imposters trying to pass themselves off as academics. With too much

extremism

Outdated Foes On New Platforms

Children lie dead. Barely hours after the mass murder of 49 people, interest groups from all ends of the spectrum claim the latest appalling slaughter is confirmation of their existing beliefs. Everyone generates a simple low-resolution explanation to use for their own purposes. We all know what comes next: arguments

free speech

The Glorious, Subversive Chaos of Free Speech

What’s the easiest way to convert a swing-thinker to a moderate? Expose them to extremism. Want to convert an ordinary person into an extremist? Tell them what they’re allowed to say, and what they’re not. People don’t appreciate being told what to say or think. It’

christianity

How Snakes & Charlatans Corrupted Christianity Back To The Neopagan Self-Help Section

Ask your dealer if New Thought Word of Faith Neopaganism is right for youPaganism and Christianity have a long, fractious history. Broadly-speaking, Christians regard Pagans with a spiritual distrust; in return, Pagans tend to regard the Church as an oppressive structure to be liberated from back to their ancient

political correctness

A Descent Into The Laundry Dungeon of Political Correctness

Broadly-speaking, most people tend to find the concept of “political correctness” plain annoying. For others, it is an undemocratic, totalitarian overreach by a cabal of coordinated left-wing nutjob academics who want to turn the world into a giant adult playpen (“fascism pretending to be manners”). For the rationally-minded, however, something

brexit

Uncaging The Slumbering British Lion

Nobody likes waking up.There’s a myth Brits complain. It’s a shallow analysis and stereotype for those who are indifferent to history. What is being witnessed is our DNA: every side dissenting about almost everything. Dissent is not a synonym for complaint. Traveling teaches you many things.

bible

RocketBible: The Bible As A Semantic Data API

The Bible isn’t a “book”. It’s a corpus of 66 books, divided into 2 volumes, placed into a canonical order to show the lineage of a divine plan (meta-narrative) from start to finish. The literature is often used by language researchers as test material as it’s a

screenwriting

Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway

Screenwriting is a lot like the guitar: easy to pick up, but incredibly hard to master. Anyone can play a campfire version, but becoming Steve Vai takes a mystical, quasi-Herculean combination of raw talent, practice, and discipline. Writing for the screen, in theory, is simple: 1 page is 1 minute,