culture
November 29, 2019
Nephews & Nieces
Posted by franc under culture, humanities, terrorism | Tags: I'm throwing up sedatives again |Leave a Comment
December 22, 2017
When Translated Camgirl Chats Go Wrong
Posted by franc under camgirls, culture, feminism, internet, religionLeave a Comment
June 6, 2015
[PSA] Feminist Frequency: In Breach of Non-Profit Legal Obligation #Gamergate
Posted by franc under censorship, cults, disinformation, ethics, gender feminism, hyperreality, identity politics, misandry, moral panic, propaganda, pseudo-science, yellow journalism | Tags: #gamergate, anita sarkeesian, charlatans, femfreq, feminist frequency, frauds, IRS, non-profits, panhandlers |1 Comment
It’s bad enough that Anita Sarkeesian is a flagrant con artist milking, realistically, 100’s of thousands of dollars out of the gender hysteria industry from a combination of thoroughly debunked pseudo-sociology desperately seeking to establish a causative link between gaming and sexism, and perpetual “damsel in distress” mewling victim psychodramatics (which, ironically, is one of the main recurring complaint themes in Sarkeesian’s meagre video output) – but she is doing so with the same tax-exempt status as legitimate charities that actually attempt to help their communities.
Reproduced in full from –
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1smhvea
Feminist Frequency: In Breach of Non-Profit Legal Obligation #Gamergate
May 22, 2015
The Heirarchy Of Sciences
Posted by franc under conspiracists, cults, gender feminism, identity politics, misandry, pseudo-history, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Andrea Dworkin, balloons full of cottage cheese, Catharine Mackinnon, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, sabrina erdely, The Beached Whale, The Prune, The short fat prick |Leave a Comment
[of course this is not a jibe at genuine feminists, embarrassed by the label, like Based Mom, Mercedes Carrera, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al. They know what I mean]
May 5, 2015
Fixing The Internet For Social Justice Warrior Petals
Posted by franc under censorship, cults, gender feminism, identity politics, information technology, internet | Tags: echo chambers, fuck off and leave us alone, Ministry of Truth, safe spaces, thought police |Leave a Comment
Inside North Korea’s Naenara Browser
Up until a few weeks ago, the number of people outside of North Korea who gave much thought to the Internet infrastructure in that country was vanishingly small. But the speculation about the Sony hack has fixed that, and now a security researcher has taken a hard look at the national browser used in North Korea and found more than a little weirdness.
The Naenara browser is part of the Red Star operating system used in North Korea and it’s a derivative of an outdated version of Mozilla Firefox. The country is known to tightly control the communications and activities of its citizens and that extends online, as well. Robert Hansen, vice president of WhiteHat Labs at WhiteHat Security, and an accomplished security researcher, recently got a copy of Naenara and began looking at its behavior, and he immediately realized that every time the browser loads, its first move is to make a request to a non-routable IP address, http://10.76.1.11. That address is not reachable from networks outside the DPRK. (more…)
May 15, 2013
Fucking Andrea Dworkin (1994)
Posted by franc under censorship, cranks, cults, culture, gender, history, internet, media, misandry, moral panic, nonsense, politics, propaganda, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Andrea Dworkin, Catharine Mackinnon, Christina Hoff Sommers, date rape, fear, gender feminism, Jeffrey Dahmer, Katie Roiphe, loathing, Lorena Bobbitt, Porn Wars |[12] Comments
The time was 1994 and, downunder at least, it was when the last great wave of gender feminist lunacy was peaking before sanity once more prevailed and it disappeared back up its own asshole to hibernate for a decade or so.
Reclaim the Night rallies were still drawing enough numbers to embolden some to splash porn stores with red paint and the great fear-n-loathing du jour was date rape…
The mood of the time, and the surreal deformation of conventional reality that accompanied it, was captured quite creepily in this passage from Christina Hoff Sommers in Who Stole Feminism? – (more…)
May 3, 2013
Kabul Dreams
Posted by franc under art, culture, islam, middle east, music | Tags: Afghanistan, taqwacore |1 Comment
I have previously written of Taqwacore in a blog post that has vapourised. I also briefly mention it here. Primarily Pakistan based, but it has spread elsewhere, as have the various bastard strains of metal. Music is a revolutionary force – you can have all the military interventions you want, but they will never seed social change like angry young folks with guitars. Deny it all you want, but the Sex Pistols did change the world.
Afghanistan has a little known rock subculture too. While not Taqwacore per se, Kabul Dreams echo the sentiments. Three Afghani kids from three separate tribes that spend most of their time butchering each other. There is hope. They have released an album.
Last.fm. Tardbook. WasteOfSpace.
There are worse things to throw a few bucks at.