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 with the trouble.
The week's doomscrolling in review: Issue 1
Casting your ballot in bad times
There's been enough said about newspapers that are withholding editorial endorsements this election year, but when optimism isn't journalistically honest, how should an editorial section do its job?
Insurrection is a value-neutral term
As we get ready for another election in the U.S., insurrection may became a left wing value again. That's fine.
Moving shop soon
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. I think I migrate this blog as much, if not more, than I post anything on it. It’s been at a number of domains and across a few different kinds of platforms. It’s been
Hello friend
This was the "hello world" post that every new website always comes with. I've simply given it a mild edit to more reflect my snarky yet approachable and affable tone that you'll eventually come around to.
All the little bombs
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Remember that time when Israel set up a front company to build pagers, walkie-talkies and some solar equipment branded by official makers and turned batches of them into little improvised explosive devices to be shipped around
The anthropomorphism trap
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. The generative AI industry seems to be aiming all its innovation at what it sees as its chief competitor: human beings. The companies working to make us redundant have some pretty sound business cases for it: