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Climate crisis The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2021-08-01

Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing, (self-)governing 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-29

Contact tracing Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest 2020-03-21 – 2021-07-28

Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2021-07-27

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2021-07-27

Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21

Trauma, managing 2021-07-19 – 2021-07-19

Media virality Strategic modelling for content creators 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15

Journalism, normative 2020-01-26 – 2021-07-13

DIY VPN access point 2020-08-16 – 2021-07-13

How to reduce corporate spying on me, hopefully 2018-12-12 – 2021-07-12

Clickbait bandit problems On using computers to program humans 2017-05-18 – 2021-07-12

Harm minimisation for corporate social network users The alternative to harm minimisation for social pariahs 2017-04-05 – 2021-07-12

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2021-07-11

Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-08

Survey modelling Adjusting for the Lizardman constant 2019-08-29 – 2021-07-06

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds 2019-09-22 – 2021-07-05

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 2021-05-01 – 2021-07-05

Moral philosophy 2014-08-04 – 2021-07-01

Free speech and (social) media dynamics Upon the diverse camps of people using their freedom of speech to accuse one another of depriving them of it 2020-02-01 – 2021-06-30

Contemporary techno-horrorists On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts 2019-12-23 – 2021-06-29

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind On anthropomorphising humans 2020-06-18 – 2021-06-25

Metis and .*-rationality The cash value of belief, high modernism and cargo culting, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, and local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2021-06-21

Oh, Sydney The rum corps in New South Boomerstan 2019-03-05 – 2021-06-17

Sexy plants 2020-05-28 – 2021-05-29

The property market is pollution Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat 2021-05-26 – 2021-05-27

Where next Sydney freaks? 2021-04-11 – 2021-05-26

What is your Sydney housing endgame? 2021-04-11 – 2021-05-26

Pornography Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour 2020-04-22 – 2021-05-07

Queerness 2021-05-06

Diversity, oddness and multiculturalism in humans On clone wars 2020-05-27 – 2021-05-03

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2021-04-25

Modern conspiracy mania You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to 2020-08-16 – 2021-04-25

Contemporary rationalists and contrarians Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition 2020-09-06 – 2021-04-24

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2021-03-30

Moloch, mazes and slack 2020-03-17 – 2021-03-05

Political axes Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society 2021-03-01 – 2021-03-02

Nowhere to hide A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter 2019-07-13 – 2021-01-03

Hardened desktop operating systems Also amnesiac and/or anonymous 2019-09-11 – 2020-11-13

Solarpunk A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2020-10-15

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2020-10-05

Gamification “Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked 2019-10-27 – 2020-09-21

Trousers 2020-09-05

Virtual private networks On browsing the internet confidentially collectively 2017-04-15 – 2020-08-29

Model fairness 2018-11-29 – 2020-08-21

Dilemmas of collective action 2014-11-25 – 2020-08-01

Designing less toxic social media 2020-07-12

Miscellaneous fashion desiderata and musings 2020-07-10

Financial markets Descriptive engagement with reality of 2015-03-14 – 2020-07-02

Economics of insurgence 2015-02-02 – 2020-07-01

Research discovery Has someone answered that question you have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2020-06-26

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2020-06-25

Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming 2017-02-04 – 2020-06-23

Sex and sexology Incorporating smut, lewdness, and prurience 2020-06-07 – 2020-06-18

How to reduce government spying on you 2018-12-12 – 2020-05-27

Getting along Tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic; Causes, pathologies and consequences of, and suggestions for 2017-02-19 – 2020-05-25

But what can I do? The stuff to do to make a better society is so easy that it is embarrassing if you are not doing it 2020-02-06 – 2020-05-19

The money laundry, ownership and control Paypal for the 1% 2020-05-13

Cooperation amongst humans 2014-11-04 – 2020-04-27

Cooperation in evolutionary context 2020-04-27

Waste, and the late capitalist industrial metabolism 2017-05-11 – 2020-04-22

Post stratification Making the optimal lemonade from the fruit life gave you 2020-04-22

How to reduce criminals spying on you 2018-10-03 – 2020-04-09

Confidentiality How to maintain it 2014-08-23 – 2020-04-09

Social factors in information security Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences 2018-11-21 – 2020-04-09

Climate crisis versus ML 2020-04-02

The surveillance society All-seeing like a state 2017-02-09 – 2020-03-19

Capitalism’s end game What money wants 2014-12-31 – 2020-03-17

Gender Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2020-03-06

Selling uncertainty On the marginal price of ignorance 2016-05-25 – 2020-02-18

Anthropic principles It seems normal because of who you are 2020-02-15

Games, computer, recreational 2020-01-22 – 2020-02-06

Medicalisation 2020-01-28

Learning in adaptive systems On staring into scopophilic abysses 2019-10-19 – 2020-01-22

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2020-01-22

Applied psephology 2016-07-12 – 2020-01-20

Australian authoritarianism When the cops come in the night it is time for your loved ones to ask “where the bloody hell are ya?” 2019-08-20 – 2019-12-18

Trusting information Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads 2017-02-09 – 2019-11-25

Sharing / gig economy Turking your ride 2015-03-22 – 2019-11-21

Narrative 2019-10-27

Who I donate to Expensive value signalling 2019-08-21 – 2019-10-08

Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2019-10-05

Crisis, collapse etc All your base are belong to dust 2018-10-15 – 2019-08-27

Low impact fashion Suiting australia 2019-04-18

Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13

Weaponised design 2014-10-10 – 2019-03-11

First aid If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong 2019-02-12

Attention economy 2012-01-13 – 2018-05-28

Facebook messages pro-forma response It doesn’t work but it’s worth trying 2018-04-28

Moral calculus 2014-08-04 – 2017-11-21

“Business Leadership” The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research 2016-05-25 – 2017-11-10

Better homes and societies On destinations 2017-11-01

Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2017-06-20

Marketing psychology 2017-04-27 – 2017-05-29

Sustainability Anthropocene not heard 2011-04-15 – 2017-05-16

Diversity in Electronic Art 2016-09-01 – 2016-08-23

Prepping for the end of (my access too) the (industrialised) world 2016-06-19

Altruism 2014-08-05 – 2015-06-18

Science for policy 2011-08-07 – 2014-11-26

Econophysics 2011-04-13

Honours thesis 2010-12-16