Eclectic explorations of science, technology, policy, and power with emphasis on tyranny, structural violence, and how spreadsheets can be deadlier than bullets
Vaccines, epidemiology, superstition, magical thinking, and the perception of risk
6 Nov 2025
Agnostic
Meandering discussion of religion, agnosticism, philosophy of science, epistimology and journalistic malpractice
1 Nov 2025
Sweetgrass-Online
Meandering discussion on money, econommics, politics, healthcare, sortition, web hosting, theory/philosophy of justice, social contracts, the so-called paradox of tolerance, due process, scaling, and sweetgrass
1 Nov 2025
Density
Thoughts on urban density and parks vs suburban sprawl
28 Oct 2025
0.000003%
On Graham Platner and the demistocrats' aversion to standards when it comes to
11 Oct 2025
Recalibrate
A few remarks on my last episode and changes going forward
7 Oct 2025
Greta
On Greta Thunberg and reflecting on the last two ( and almost 80 ) years. Image of Greta Thunberg from Wikimedia Commons by Kushal Das
27 Sept 2025
James Franken
Complaining about endless SPAM from James Carville and Al Franken and the party / people devoid of standards or depth of analysised beyond being 「 vibes-based 」 Image via KABC/The Atlantic
26 Sept 2025
The Wheels on the Bus
Talking about public transit in developed countries vs the US, the Arizona Board of Reagents, and a brief meditation on broad strokes of where I'd like to be and what I'd like to be doing.
20 Sept 2025
Inflections
Fairly rambly / unstructured discussion about the end of my trip, returning to the US and the way sometimes in life we have opportunities to make big course changes without expending much effort ( though a lot less on that than originally intended )
17 Sept 2025
Words Have Meanings
Discussion of trigger-words and terms that people use and are put off by withouth understanding what they mean ( partly through ignorance and partly due to deliberate obfuscation ) Image Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist Angus Maguire.
16 Sept 2025
Pack Lightly
Talking about travel - where to go, why, and how; Image from The History Trust of South Australian, South Australian Government via Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
15 Sept 2025
Charlie Kirk
This is not actually about Charlie Kirk, himself, but some things that his death has brought up and that some friends have mentioned and asked me about. Image Crowder who is completely fungible with Kirk Change My Mind debate-me-bro meme
6 Sept 2025
Swiss Cheese
Public health and the roll of vaccines and other interventions, the bipartisan road to hell that got us here and「 literally everything is covered in literal shit 」
Advertising; The Crazy Ones script that I got and started reading here I *thought* was fake audible-air-quotes「 AI 」slop but it turns out it was ( I think ) probably just a longer / less edited and refined version ( I hate that crap so much; it makes everything impossible ). Image by Matthew Yohe, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82773576
29 Aug 2025
Politics Primer
A brief history of the US, colonisation, where we are, how we got there, and a bit about what needs to be done
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