wonk
How to reduce corporate spying
on me, hopefully
2018-12-12
– 2021-04-14
Contemporary rationalists and contrarians
Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition
2020-09-06
– 2021-03-31
Science; Sociology and institution design for
Scientist, falsify thyself
2020-05-17
– 2021-03-30
Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat
The high price of cheap talk in the mass media
2017-02-12
– 2021-03-21
Moloch, mazes and slack
2020-03-17
– 2021-03-05
Political axes
Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society
2021-03-01
– 2021-03-02
Memetics
Taste and opinion dynamics
2020-01-30
– 2021-02-27
Journalism, normative
2020-01-26
– 2021-02-19
Nowhere to hide
A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter
2019-07-13
– 2021-01-03
Clickbait bandit problems
Skinnerian human behaviour control, limbic capitalism
2017-05-18
– 2020-12-01
Weaponised social media
Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape
2019-10-21
– 2020-12-01
Hardened desktop operating systems
Also amnesiac and/or anonymous
2019-09-11
– 2020-11-13
Moral philosophy
2014-08-04
– 2020-11-03
Bureaucracy
Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
2020-02-02
– 2020-10-26
Solarpunk
A tomorrow worth retiring to
2019-10-29
– 2020-10-15
Rhetoric
Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
2017-06-07
– 2020-10-05
Community
Engineering, maintaining, organizing
2020-02-02
– 2020-09-26
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
– 2020-09-21
Gamification
“Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked
2019-10-27
– 2020-09-21
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
– 2020-09-14
Climate crisis
The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations
2011-12-13
– 2020-09-10
Contemporary horrorists
On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts
2019-12-23
– 2020-09-09
Harm minimisation for corporate social network users
The alternative to harm minimisation for social pariahs
2017-04-05
– 2020-09-07
Trousers
2020-09-05
DIY VPN access point
2020-08-16
– 2020-08-29
Virtual private networks
On browsing the internet confidentially collectively
2017-04-15
– 2020-08-29
Model fairness
2018-11-29
– 2020-08-21
Modern conspiracy mania
You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to
2020-08-16
– 2020-08-17
Dilemmas of collective action
2014-11-25
– 2020-08-01
Dunning-Kruger theory of mind
Our ignorance of our ignorance of others
2020-06-18
– 2020-07-14
Designing less toxic social media
2020-07-12
Miscellaneous fashion desiderata and musings
2020-07-10
Pornography
Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour
2020-04-22
– 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
Science, history and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2020-06-05
Sexy plants
2020-05-28
Diversity, cultivating
2020-05-27
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
Oh, Sydney
The rum corps in New South Boomerstan
2019-03-05
– 2020-05-12
Contact tracing
Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest to control
2020-03-21
– 2020-05-10
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
Survey modelling
Adjusting for the Lizardman constant
2019-08-29
– 2020-04-21
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
Groupthink, diversity and the wisdom of crowds
2019-09-22
– 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
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
Beneath the beach, the barbed wire
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
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