Gulag

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/04/2020 09:01 AM | source: | 10 comment(s) It has been exclusive for PlayStation 4, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered is available for PC through Battle.net. It features a top-down remastering. It features physics-based rendering, better textures and animations, and much more. Classic missions…

Bones of tortured prisoners. Kolyma Gulag, USSR.NOTE: This post largely reprints last year's Victims of Communism Day post, with relatively minor modifications, including the link between the repressive nature of the Chinese Communist Party regime, and its attempts to cover up coronavirus crisis, which may have resulted in its spread…

In an exclusive essay for the Quietus, philosopher and musicologist Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World (2019), meditates on music and listening on lockdown It is hard in the midst of a relentless pandemic not to question the value of one’s customary preoccupations, very much including both…

UN torture expert Nils Melzer drafted a report on psychological torture after previewing a new film on its modern origins. The documentary shows how a well-respected Scottish psychiatrist was covertly funded by the CIA to experiment on his patients in Canada.Stephen Bennett's documentary Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture examines the…

Editor's Note: This is part of a symposium asking what happens if Kim Jong-un died. To read the other parts of the series click here. Joseph Stalin’s communism, the Nazi’s extreme form of totalitarianism, or the totalitarianism aspects of the killing fields seem to have ended, but totalitarianism remains a…

Lying comes naturally to the Chinese Communist government, which will say anything to maintain its tight grip on the reins of power. Officials in Beijing continue to lie about the number of deaths in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus. The official death toll is 2,500, but some 5,000 burial urns were delivered to…

With most of the world on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, video games are seeing a boost in popularity even beyond what they had already established in previous years. So seeing as musicians have been using video games as a way to stay sane on the road and in…

Ryan Chapman hosts Nerd Jeopardy, the online literary game show. Tonight Ryan is joined by Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8, and Adrienne Raphel, author of Thinking Inside the Box. The show—which takes place on Zoom—is being simulcast here via YouTube, so just like normal Jeopardy, you’re just going to have…

On Monday, we wrote about a suprisingly effective but stupid tactic in Call of Duty: Warzone’s Gulag, involving tricking players with in-game sprays. Since the Reddit post revealed the in-game trick, several other players have highlighted their own spray-based tactics. But the tables have already started to turn, and players…

“Climate Action” is the theme of this 50th Earth Day, and it is useful to note that these five decades of apocalyptic warnings truly are amazing in their consistency: Not one actually has come to pass. The juxtaposition of two news stories, respectively from 1988 and from last January, is among the more amusing tidbits from…