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TDK: Когда рак на горе свистнет!
Severance over the Boondock’ Nest Jeremiah 13:23.“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good who are accustomed to evil and even trained to do it.” По-вашему, фраза «когда рак на горе свистнет» выглядит странно? Оцените, как это выражение звучит на других языках: на латышском — «когда отелится моя сдохшая в прошлом году корова»; на немецком — «когда…
YOU'VE BEEN PLAYED
WRITTEN WITH A.I. You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All by Adrian Hon argues that gamification—the use of game mechanics like points, badges, streaks, achievements, and leaderboards—has evolved from a way to make games engaging into a powerful tool for behavioral control. While gamification can occasionally be beneficial, Hon contends it is…
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR ORTHODOXY
WRITTEN WITH A.I. Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy (2019) by Dmitry Adamsky argues that since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia’s nuclear establishment have developed a deep symbiotic relationship. The result is what Adamsky calls “nuclear orthodoxy”: the belief that Russia’s spiritual mission and its nuclear deterrent mutually reinforce one another. Core…
«Metaphors We Live By»
WRITTEN WITH A.I. Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson is one of the foundational books of cognitive linguistics. Its central argument is that metaphor is not just a poetic device—it is a fundamental way humans think. Core Thesis We understand abstract concepts through metaphors grounded in physical experience. For example: ARGUMENT IS WAR “He attacked my position.” “She…
RE:The Zionism of Network (1976)
Blue Collar Workz | The Zionism of Network (1976) Here’s the text with punctuation and paragraphing added while keeping the content unchanged: All right, so this story is about Howard Beale, who was the network news anchorman on UBS TV. Oh, in 1976, the film Network had a bit of a sweep on the Oscars. Won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. Now,…
Зелёный Слоник - от Сорокина?
WRITTEN WITH A.I. Зелёный слоник вполне можно рассматривать как произведение в линии «после Рабле → после де Сада → после Сорокина», где телесность и деградация уже не освобождают человека, а демонстрируют распад языка, смысла и самой гуманистической картины мира. Если у Рабле телесный низ — это: избыток жизни, карнавал, плодородие, смех как здоровье культуры, то у «Зелёного слоника» низ…
RE:BASKIN. «METADECEPTION»
WRITTEN WITH A.I. The central argument of Stevie Baskin’s “meta-deception” essay is that modern mentalism no longer merely deceives audiences in the traditional magician’s sense (“I will fool you with tricks”), but instead performs a second-order deception: it obscures what kind of deception is taking place. The essay spends hours building this distinction. Traditional magic historically…
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade
WRITTEN WITH A.I. The Curse of the Marquis de Sade by Joel Warner is less a biography of Marquis de Sade than a detective story about the physical manuscript of his unfinished novel The 120 Days of Sodom — a tiny 12-meter scroll that passes through revolutions, collectors, black markets, Nazis, thieves, avant-garde intellectuals, and finally a modern financial scandal that the book compares to a…
Homer and South Park
101: Freemium isn’t free. WRITTEN WITH A.I. The early seasons of South Park were, in retrospect, closer to animated operetta than to standard sitcom. From “Cartman’s Mom Is a Dirty Slut” to “Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics,” entire plots hinged on fully staged musical numbers—structured, harmonized, and often reprised. Songs weren’t decorative; they carried narrative and satire at once. This…
ИКОНОПИСЬ. Владимир Микушевич. Урожай Преображения.
Во времена цеховой системы в Европе ученик, чтобы стать мастером, должен был создать шедевр. В России подобным «шедевром» для изографа становилась икона Преображения. Это требовало глубокого укоренения в традиции русской иконописи. Одним из величайших образцов является «Преображение» Феофан Грек (в Государственная Третьяковская галерея). Чтобы понять её символику, нужно обратиться к Евангелию:…
Liberium Veto: Frostpunk 2
History Abridged @JackRackam | How 500 Poles Became Black WRITTEN WITH A.I. The first Frostpunk was a brilliant but narrow parable: a survival city-builder wrapped around a moral thesis — authority hardens in the cold. Its systems were tight, but its politics were mostly theatrical. You signed laws; people obeyed. Dissent existed as mood, not as structure. The “slippery slope” from Emergency…
Zack Snyder and Ayn Rand.
image source: https://theplaylist.net/20210504/ @OwlCritic | Your Least Favourite Person’s Favourite Book A MUST: WATCHMEN. RE: Ayn Rand’s BIOSHOCK Revisiting «The Cabin in the Woods». @AnthonyGramuglia | Zack Snyder Copies a Messy 80s Film Zack Snyder has directed several notable films, including Dawn of the Dead (2004), 300 (2006), Watchmen (2009), Man of Steel (2013), and Zack Snyder’s…
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
WRITTEN WITH A.I. Author: Richards J. Heuer Jr.Published by: CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence (1999) Core Thesis Heuer argues that intelligence failures are primarily psychological, not informational. Analysts usually fail not because they lack data, but because the human mind is wired to misinterpret, filter, and distort information in systematic ways. The book is essentially a…
RE: "The Graduate" suburbia
@GFRscreenwashed | How Men Were DESTROYED By The Most Popular Movie Of A Generation The argument is that The Graduate didn’t just reflect a cultural shift—it helped engineer one.After World War II, many American men returned home and moved to the suburbs, seeking independence, stability, and control over their lives. Suburbia offered space, ownership, and freedom from centralized systems. But…
SATURN; THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
This is the only time I will touch on the subject. WRITTEN WITH A.I. If one were to presuppose that The Lord of the Rings film trilogy functioned as a hindsight symbolic mass ritual blueprint for the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, then the films must be treated not as entertainment but as mythic architecture. In this interpretive frame, narrative becomes liturgy, spectacle…
MUST: ROOM 237
WRITTEN WITH A.I. Room 237 explores a series of interpretive theories about The Shining (directed by Stanley Kubrick). The documentary doesn’t argue for one “correct” reading—it presents several mutually incompatible interpretations to show how meaning is constructed. Here are the main narratives explored: 1. The Native American Genocide Theory This reading claims the film is about the…
СОРОКИН. СКАЗКА.
@ShortVersion_ru | Владимир Сорокин | Изнанка плоти и смысла Вы когда-нибудь задумывались, что происходит со сказкой, когда в неёвгрызается реальность? В мире Владимира Сорокина чудеса пахнут не ванилью, а сырым мясом и старым железом. Здесь привычные тропы — это не путь к спасению, а анатомический разрез, обнажающий всё самое тёмное в человеческой природе. Мы привыкли, что добро побеждает зло.…