Generally “I just found a name for a rhetorical technique on Wikipedia and now I am going to bandy it around all week” irritates the hell out of me, but this is classic Chesterton’s Fence and you are… (View Post)

Having had some experience of working with people from all the major tech companies, Facebook is the only one that genuinely strikes me as malevolent. Google I don't personally like, but corporately … (View Post)

I don’t see any substantive difference between “social media” as per Twitter/Facebook etc. and the FidoNet boards I used in the late 80s. Except that my phone bill is cheaper these days. Similarly ou… (View Post)

Ironic that this moan about social media, posted on a form of social media, ends with a sentence citing the part of popular culture most beloved by the worst part of social media - the “red pill” as … (View Post)

“only an idiot would call an election that would see a general election campaign that would straddle Christmas” January election nailed on then? (View Post)