There was a time when Rebecca Black and her song, ‘Friday’ was a meme. It was popular for millions of people to tease, torment, stalk and threaten the life of a thirteen year old girl because of a music video, the digital mob was hungry for another child effigy to burn. The vitriolic obsession over Black was especially concentrated among, the screen names of 4chan who thought it would be funny to share online the school, house and class schedule of the teenage girl. Due to events out of her control she had become internet famous which meant she now belonged to the world. Many people love to...

In many ways Heinrich Himmler is the depiction of a perfect historical villain. A chief Nazi and a key player in the mass murder of millions of human beings in the name of State policy and the religious ideology of Nazism. Towards the end of the war, as it was obvious that Germany was losing their was a softening in his self-image in the hopes that should he take over from Herr Hitler, then he could sue for peace with the Allies or should he be captured by them, then they would see a humanity in him. He did some easing back on mass killings in areas, showing a mercy of sorts for some....

There’s optimism among the small government conservatives, liberty nationalists and MAGA hardliners from the first weeks of Trumps second presidency. The exposure of USAID to the world, revealing waste, nefarious conduct and ideologically bias that only proves that they were right. The US government is fascinating, it’s full of departments and agencies that continue to conduct themselves with little or no oversight or do things in secret or in the open. The government trips over itself, works against it’s own claimed interests but above all else it allows presidents and the government itself...

She looks up and pleads for mercy. Then the drone operator makes the decision to kill her. We get to see the life and death of war, the intimate terror as the mostly young are killed on the battlefield. Social media accounts share the misery with pornographic delight, the human beings in fear and pain who die are props or disregarded as objects. For a gaming addicted online world, maybe they are just seen as NPC’s. If they are a Ukrainian, then some take glee at the thought of their destruction as though it is a slight against their government or Western foreign policy itself. If it’s a...

The original Nosferatu is a masterpiece, a relic from an pioneering era of cinema that pushed boundaries yet to be found. The fact that we have the original at all is an accomplishment, an unauthorised copy of Dracula that was meant to be destroyed. An early copyright infringement strike where the widow of Bram Stoker sought royalties and the destruction of the movie that was inspired by her late husbands work. The names of the characters and locations were changed though for all intensive purposes in a period when Dracula was not public domain, it was legally decided to be wrong and thus...

“That's it, mum, goodbye,” he is dying, dead, a Ukrainian soldier in his last moments caught on helmet camera makes his peace. The eight minutes leading up to his death have been shared on social media, a close combat struggle between him and his Russian counterpart. With his left eye stabbed, his own blade turned onto him and pushed into his neck, the Ukrainian soldier talks calmly to his foe who stops the attack. They share a moment, a break in the absurdity of war. “The world is so beautiful. Let me leave calmly. Go away, please.” The Russian soldier bids his enemy farewell and adds, “You...