The thing about online safety policy is that it basically breaks people's brains. I truly believe that at least some of the intense projection of adult anxiety onto young people reflects the relationship those adults have with their own devices and social media accounts
Imagine freely and proudly admitting that you’ve got a special keyboard shortcut dedicated to screaming at someone you’ve never met online
I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society broadly too.
"Models" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Thanks @carvalhais.org for inviting me to write this.
If houses had been set on fire *by* ethnic minority people, I suspect the BBC would have somehow rediscovered the active voice
Just what will it take for politicians and media to act in the best interests of the country and to give voice to the majority of voters… who are decent and liberal? Instead of trashing the place, chasing after the approval of ignorant racists who seem to have a total monopoly on their attention.
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
If you’re trying to understand why oil prices have not kept rising as the Gulf of Hormuz has remained closed, this is a good starting point. Existing inventory and strategic reserves have served their purpose, but only for so long. resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2026/06/our-oi…
Investing in new oil infrastructure? This should keep you up at night.
"Just as remarkable as the abrupt import fall is the absence of major visible disruptions to everyday life in China. Tourists are still traveling, factories are still running and store shelves have plenty of toilet paper.'