Shaun’s back with another feature length explaination of how it’s a mistake to expect that fixing people is all it takes to fix a broken system via the world of Harry Potter. This was actually very insightful for me. I had already agreed with the values, and it’s easy to see the benefits of a working system from the top down, but it was a new angle for me to look at how only focusing on the issues of individuals can cause us to be detrimental to the greater good. Putting a better person in charge of a broken system only works as a detriment to that person. …I’m not summarizing that very well. Shaun said lots of really good, specific points about a variety of issues that I found extremely valuable to a comparatively under-assuming generalization of systemic problems.

Just some cartoons of Unsanity Tom

“Mr. Hechinger quotes not one line, refers to not one scene, analyzes not one theme from the film—but simply lumps it indiscriminately in with a “trend” which he pretends to distinguish (“a deeply anti‐liberal totalitarian nihilism”) in several current films. Is this, I wonder, because he couldn’t actually find any internal evidence to support his trend‐spotting? If not, then it is extraordinary that so serious a charge should be made against it (and myself) inside so fuzzy and unfocussed a piece of alarmist journalism. Hechinger is probably quite sincere in what he feels. But what the witness feels, as the judge said, is not evidence—the more so when the charge is one of purveying “the essence of fascism.””

-Stanley Kubrick

Converted the logo of Water Warriors YEG to a 3D printed badge.

If you’re going to upscale your cult-classic show to 1080p, please don’t run it through a smoothing filter. I really don’t think it’s worth quadrupling the storage it uses.