Pauline Hanson is actually stupider than Trump. Which takes effort. But she’s put in the hours. (View Post)

1) Announce a policy which fundamentally unpopular with both your party and many others. 2) Defend the policy with a dogged insistence 3) Force your few allies to expend political capital defending i… (View Post)

What happened is that the social media companies experimented to find ways to increase “engagement” - time spent on the site. So the advertisers got people spending more time looking at the adverts. … (View Post)

My 17 year old thinks that doom scrolling and targeted negative feedback is the problem. The later is where people end up with a feed saying that “Your life is hopeless because of X. You are worthles… (View Post)

It would have been perfectly possible to setup a site to issue tokens that verify only age. You login, and get issued a token that gives your age. Nothing else. Then that is passed to sites you want … (View Post)