Day job is spent on digital safety and cyber security for the world's edge cases. Opinions are many, varied, subject to drift, and all his own. Moonlights as an author of perpetually unwritten books.
all politics is local
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 special
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.
doomscroll
This week's doomscroll review lacks a format, a theme, and even a chronology. Enjoy.
all politics is local
The grieving period is now over. It wasn't that useful, anyway. Welcome to the five stages of resistance.
treacherous.tech
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.
doomscroll
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.
all politics is local
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.
doomscroll
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.
all politics is local
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.
all politics is local
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.
doomscroll
Welcome to my attempt to start what may or may not be a weekly, or bi-weekly, or mid-weekly curation of my doomscrolling sessions, possibly with colour commentary along the way. This week's has a very American political vibe because that's what's dominating my socials
all politics is local
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?