What's the Criterion Collection? The Criterion Collection is a home-video label that restores and re-releases important classic and contemporary films from around the world: art-house staples, world-cinema classics and cult favorites, usually packaged with essays, commentaries and other extras. Among film fans, it'…
Confession: I own almost 600 games. Do I play them? No. I open my library, scroll, get overwhelmed, and boot up something I've already played for hours on end. So I built the fix — a "shuffle" button for my entire game library. One click and it…
description: I had some notes based off a recent Patreon subscriber lecture by Plastic Pills Critical Theory and Philosophy podcast about "Structuralist Metaphysics". I decided to pose to Claude some questions about it... and after some refinement had Claude construct the following document. But first, I'll…
New Episode: The Kayfabe Presidency & The Border Spectacle In this episode, our AI hosts take my notes and outline to explore the intersection of professional wrestling logic and modern immigration policy. They dive into the concept of "kayfabe"—the professional wrestling term for the "open secret&…
Even though I enjoy thinking about politics, it can be easier to have a political conversation at times with someone who is not invested in it. Because they have not been completely indoctrinated yet, they don’t particularly care so will not out of the gate reject what you say…
The Nature of Gender: Between Fluidity and Rigidity The truth of what is being communicated regarding gender and language is, in many respects, different from the particular "culture war" debates that dominate the public square. It is a "common sense" viewpoint that you just are what…
I might get a lot of flak for this. Many born again Christians speak of a hope for Donald Trump to be “saved”. They might support him and like that he “likes Christians” but hope for a “born again” moment for Trump. After all the smearing of Mamdani by outlets…
I saw a post supposedly by an educator expressing frustration about a lack of interest amongst students, and an inability to think without leaning on the internet's instant answers. There were many people in the thread discussing it, blaming a lack of economic prospects and/or capitalism. I…