New Year's Doomscroll in Review
This edition is an end-of-year/new-year hodge podge. Before we can fully see off 2024 here's what occupied my feed between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, or around there. Grab your Saturday cup of joe and scroll.
The week's doomscrolling in review: issue 6
This is the Final week's doomscrolling in review for 2024.
Who's to blame? Ranking and allocating responsibility for allowing the next Trump Co. regime (with diagrams where relevant)
Whenever things don't go your way, the instinct is to lay some blame somewhere. Following the re-election of Trump Co., the post-game analysis has been non-stop. Here's my offering on the hierarchy of responsibility.
Xmas guide ahead of the pivot
A little information security is just the thing anyone would love to see in their Christmas sock. Here are some notions for keeping Santa's spies from knowing whether you belong on either his naughty or nice lists.
The week's doomscrolling in review: issue 4
This week's doomscroll review lacks a format, a theme, and even a chronology. Enjoy.
There is no more time for grief
The grieving period is now over. It wasn't that useful, anyway. Welcome to the five stages of resistance.
In praise of bubbles
Platforms are called 'social networks' for a reason. They're aimed at facilitating social exchanges. You build social circles on them. Round things, like bubbles.
The week's doomscrolling in review: Issue 3
Another week's run through the headlines that capture the mudslide of carnage, corruption and 'banality of evil' that you can say is why you still drink.
There is no escape, only movement
After the news dropped that Donald Trump would be moving back into the White House, Google Trends showed that a lot of Americans started searching up how to get themselves out of the country. Here's some notes on doing that.
The week's doomscrolling in review: Issue 2
Welcome to the second session of my favourite hits from this week's morning coffee doomscrolls, a mix of cyber threats, the ongling political fenestration in the U.S. and some notes on the various upheavals around the globe.
Lists for the bad times
As people move through the various stages of grief, over what the U.S. did to itself this week, and speculation as to what it will do to the world next, there is no shortage of advice out there on how to do that.
No predictions, only warnings
A short election night rant. I'm only putting it on semi-main. You've got to subscribe to see it and I make no promises of it being worth the trouble.