Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Spring Equinox!



The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project
Image credit: Hunter Wells
Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky. Known to some as an analemma, the figure-eight curve was captured in exposures taken on the indicated dates only at 18:38 UTC from the exact same location south of Stephenville, Texas.

Hunter Wells, Analemma process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGkLhf2XGo


March 20, 1917: Vera Lynn was born in London. She was known as the British "Forces Sweetheart" during the Second World War. Her 2 most famous songs were: We’ll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover. I wonder how many funerals this song has played?






Lynn's 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity.

She had a long life: Dame Vera Lynn: Forces' Sweetheart dies aged 103


100 years later and nothin much has changed.






March 20, 1970: White rabbit used to test for nerve gas at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado. Shutdown in 1992, the location is now Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.




MELTDOWN (1977) - John Carpenter nuke movie that didn't make it to screen. Sounds like an epic opening & ending!


John Carpenter has described this never-made script as “kind of HALLOWEEN in a nuclear power plant,” and that does indeed sum it up.  Based loosely on the 1976 novel THE PROMETHEUS CRISIS by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, MELTDOWN is one of several unmade screenplays written by Carpenter in the years leading up to HALLOWEEN that directly informed that iconic film, and perhaps the best of them.

As in HALLOWEEN, minimalism appears to have been Carpenter’s guiding principle.  MELTDOWN’s narrative is simplicity incarnate, with a psychopathic worker in a nuclear power plant shutting it down and reprogramming its computers to do his bidding.  We never learn much about this individual, identified throughout as “The Figure,” or his motives, which accords with Carpenter’s conception of Michael Meyers in HALLOWEEN (who was initially referred to only as “The Shape”) and his retrospective statement that “It always bugged me that you always had to go into so much detail about evil or killers in the movies…I remember seeing THE TOWERING INFERNO.  It’s a fire—period, the end” (THE TOWERING INFERNO, for the record, was also based on a Scortia-Robinson novel).

Story & script:  COVERAGE CASE STUDY: Meltdown by John Carpenter


Training for WWIII battlefield, or patrol the citizens of big cities and replace humans too, coming soon.

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1902414579000312081



I guess Seattle PD is reopening the Cobain case.


Courtney Love Applies for UK Citizenship to Flee ‘Emperor’ Trump


Wow, the Economist sure knows how to set people at ease, don't they? I was apprehensive about transhumanism long before seeing this. Now, I can't wait to get my brain chip, my booster, and a new pair of arms.


More arms? More boosters!


A deep wound dripping blood.


The AI Century - "The Anti-Social Century has been bad enough: more anxiety and depression; more “need for chaos” in our politics. But I’m sorry to say that our collective detachment could still get worse. Or, to be more precise, weirder." (Derek Thompson; The Atlantic)

The Most Expensive Thing You’ll Ever Pay For

Meanwhile, everywhere you look it’s being promoted that we’re supposed to spend all of our time we aren’t talking to each other, we must talk to AIs instead.

You don't really understand suburbs until you realize that they are concentration camps exquisitely designed to keep you from socializing and keep you watching TV. In time, the consumption of video increases, the interaction with others decreases, neighbors come and go until you don't really know anyone in a meaningful way in your community.

From there, bring the financial squeeze to slowly shrink home size. Let the physical health problems build due to sedentary living, let the streaming video raise your anxiety, let the loneliness bring on mental illness. Such people are well on their way to living in a pod. More so than they'd ever imagine.


BACK TO SCHOOL Clip - "Professor Terguson" (1986) Sam Kinison
“I didn’t know you wanted to get involved in the discussion, Mr. Helper.”