wonk
Squads
Small scale collectivism
2022-06-25
– 2022-09-25Contemporary techno-horrorists
On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts
2019-12-23
– 2022-09-25How to communicate
with humans
2019-04-02
– 2022-09-25Physical infrastructure
2022-09-24Multi-agent self
2022-09-11Modern conspiracy theorising
You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to
2020-08-16
– 2022-08-30Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-08-26Status
The original karma system
2019-10-25
– 2022-08-26Contemporary rationalists
Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition
2020-09-06
– 2022-08-09Social factors in information security
Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences
2018-11-21
– 2022-08-07Cohousing in Australia
Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation somewhere
2021-09-25
– 2022-08-06Urbanism
Stuff about cities
2014-12-25
– 2022-08-06Futurism
Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting
2014-12-31
– 2022-08-06Pluralism
2020-02-01
– 2022-08-06Economic inequality
Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature
2014-10-29
– 2022-08-06Trapped beliefs
Thinking now what made sense then
2022-04-09
– 2022-08-06Community governance
Coordinating human beings by application of social force
2020-02-02
– 2022-08-05Models of inequity
Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity so we an address it
2017-08-13
– 2022-08-03Mechanism design for reputation systems
Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning…
2014-08-05
– 2022-08-02Microstressors
Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions
2020-02-01
– 2022-07-28Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-07-28Designing social movements
Synthetic biology for utopian egregores
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-27Conflict theorist models of coordination
2022-07-20
– 2022-07-24Trauma and resilience
2021-07-19
– 2022-07-23Australia
You’re standing in it
2020-01-25
– 2022-07-14Dilemmas of collective action
2014-11-25
– 2022-07-05Rituals and beliefs that bind
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-05Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-07-03Real estate economics
Rentiers and the future
2022-01-24
– 2022-06-30Moral wetware
What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate?
2020-04-27
– 2022-06-30Gender identity
Political and/or empirical engagement therewith
2017-08-13
– 2022-06-25Invasive arguments
Weeds in public discourse
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-25Rhetoric
Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
2017-06-07
– 2022-06-24Tokenism or table stakes?
“The least you can do” is the minimum unviable product
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-23Political axes, political correlations
Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society
2021-03-01
– 2022-06-12Designing less toxic social media
2020-07-12
– 2022-06-11Cheap talk
Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc
2020-02-01
– 2022-06-10Institutions
Stable orbits in human systems
2014-10-29
– 2022-06-10Privacy while web browsing
Browsing the internet without giving corporations my personal information for free
2018-12-12
– 2022-06-09Institutions and governance for, and using, mass conversation
Discourse red in tooth and claw versus the sovereign
2020-02-01
– 2022-05-30Who I donate to
Expensive value signalling
2019-08-21
– 2022-05-30The Illawarra
The cheaper bit underneath Sydney comprising Wollongong etc
2022-05-27Applied psephology
2016-07-12
– 2022-05-25Memetics
Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc
2020-01-30
– 2022-05-14But what can I do?
The stuff to do to make a better society is pretty easy it turns out
2020-02-06
– 2022-05-02Climate crisis
The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations
2011-12-13
– 2022-05-02Casual anthropic principles
Convenience-sampling lived human experience
2020-02-15
– 2022-05-01Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds
Information cascades
2019-09-22
– 2022-04-22Voting Systems
Mathematics and economics of ballots
2014-09-22
– 2022-04-21Model fairness
2018-11-29
– 2022-04-21Social media if you must
Harm minimisation for corporate social network users
2017-04-05
– 2022-04-21Growing up
2022-04-13Myths
Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives
2022-02-20
– 2022-04-07Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04
– 2022-04-04Attention economy
2012-01-13
– 2022-04-03Science; Sociology and institution design for
Scientist, falsify thyself
2020-05-17
– 2022-03-06Journalism, normative
Sensors for the superorganism
2020-01-26
– 2022-03-04Race, politics of
Ethnicity too
2021-12-20
– 2022-03-04Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds
How to win elections and influence people
2020-08-30
– 2022-03-03Sydney lifestyle theme village
The sunniest mortgage farm in the Southern Hemisphere!
2019-03-05
– 2022-02-28The social brain
Rubber-duck-typing
2011-12-09
– 2022-02-27Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Moloch, slack and hyperselection
Weak selection versus goodharting, 内卷, involution
2021-12-25
– 2022-02-22Moral calculus
2014-08-04
– 2022-02-19Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat
Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies
2017-02-12
– 2022-02-13Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Cooperation in evolutionary context
‘Cui bono’ for selfishness
2020-04-27
– 2022-02-07Sexual ethics and institutions
2020-06-07
– 2022-02-07Sociology and politics of information
Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society
2022-01-09
– 2022-02-02Ethical consumption
Socialism as a Service
2020-02-06
– 2022-01-30Dunning-Kruger theory of mind
On anthropomorphising humans
2020-06-18
– 2022-01-28Prepping for the end of (my access to) the (industrialised) world
2016-06-19
– 2022-01-24Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions
Lay theories of social mechanisms
2022-01-20Dunning-Kruger theory of society
Lay theories of groups
2022-01-20Sex and sexology
Incorporating smut, lewdness, and prurience
2020-06-07
– 2022-01-17Social psychology
Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated?
2017-02-20
– 2022-01-14Hardened desktop operating systems
Also amnesiac and/or anonymous
2019-09-11
– 2022-01-11Metis and .*-rationality
High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge, normies and sects
2017-07-24
– 2022-01-02Group size
Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination
2011-12-09
– 2022-01-02Diversity as an end in itself
On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
2021-12-13Diffusion of innovations
Epidemiology of widgets
2020-01-30
– 2021-12-10Gamification
“Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked
2019-10-27
– 2021-11-18Cooperation amongst humans
2014-11-04
– 2021-11-12Sexy plants
2020-05-28
– 2021-11-02Better homes and societies
On destinations
2017-11-01
– 2021-10-27Trousers
2020-09-05
– 2021-10-27Fashion
Theory and practice of hip garments
2020-07-10
– 2021-10-27Survey modelling
Adjusting for the Lizardman constant
2019-08-29
– 2021-10-24Weaponizing social media
Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape
2019-10-21
– 2021-10-24Research discovery
Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet?
2019-01-22
– 2021-10-13Narrative
2019-10-27
– 2021-10-10The property market is pollution
Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat
2021-05-26
– 2021-09-25Science for policy
Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves
2011-08-07
– 2021-09-22Clickbait bandit problems
On using computers to program humans
2017-05-18
– 2021-09-16Australian authoritarianism
Beneath the beach, the barbed wire
2019-08-20
– 2021-09-06Governance of the commons
On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time
2014-10-29
– 2021-09-02Baby’s first private cloud
2021-08-08
– 2021-08-20Games, computer, recreational
2020-01-22
– 2021-08-02Community
Engineering, maintaining, organizing…
2020-02-02
– 2021-07-29Contact tracing
Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest
2020-03-21
– 2021-07-28Science
History, sociology and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2021-07-21Media virality
Strategic modelling for content creators
2016-08-30
– 2021-07-15How to reduce corporate spying
on me, hopefully
2018-12-12
– 2021-07-12Bureaucracy
Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
2020-02-02
– 2021-07-08Moral philosophy
2014-08-04
– 2021-07-01Where next Sydney freaks?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26What is your Sydney housing endgame?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26Pornography
Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour
2020-04-22
– 2021-05-07Queerness
2021-05-06Nowhere to hide
A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter
2019-07-13
– 2021-01-03Solarpunk
A tomorrow worth retiring to
2019-10-29
– 2020-10-15Financial markets
Descriptive engagement with reality of
2015-03-14
– 2020-07-02Economics of insurgence
2015-02-02
– 2020-07-01Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming
2017-02-04
– 2020-06-23How to reduce government spying on you
2018-12-12
– 2020-05-27The money laundry, ownership and control
Paypal for the 1%
2020-05-13Waste, and the late capitalist industrial metabolism
2017-05-11
– 2020-04-22Matching and weighting
Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you
2020-04-22How to reduce criminals spying on you
2018-10-03
– 2020-04-09Confidentiality
How to maintain it
2014-08-23
– 2020-04-09Climate crisis versus ML
2020-04-02The surveillance society
All-seeing like a state
2017-02-09
– 2020-03-19Capitalism’s end game
What money wants
2014-12-31
– 2020-03-17Selling uncertainty
On the marginal price of ignorance
2016-05-25
– 2020-02-18Medicalisation
2020-01-28Learning in adaptive systems
On staring into scopophilic abysses
2019-10-19
– 2020-01-22Trusting information
Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads
2017-02-09
– 2019-11-25Sharing / gig economy
Turking your ride
2015-03-22
– 2019-11-21Smartypants cities
2014-12-25
– 2019-11-05Crisis, collapse etc
All your base are belong to dust
2018-10-15
– 2019-08-27Low impact fashion
Suiting australia
2019-04-18Hollow states
Skim government when fat cats drank the cream
2019-03-13Weaponised design
2014-10-10
– 2019-03-11Facebook messages pro-forma response
It doesn’t work but it’s worth trying
2018-04-28“Business Leadership”
The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research
2016-05-25
– 2017-11-10Marketing psychology
2017-04-27
– 2017-05-29Sustainability
Anthropocene not heard
2011-04-15
– 2017-05-16Diversity in Electronic Art
2016-09-01
– 2016-08-23Altruism
2014-08-05
– 2015-06-18Econophysics
2011-04-13Honours thesis
2010-12-16