Posts tagged doomed

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

‘Those who control the present can rewrite the past’ — Anne Fortier

In 2016 you voted for brexit. But you voted for it because the leave campaign lied to you, of course: not because you didn’t like foreigners very much and didn’t care very much about your children’s future.

Whatever you think about brexit, there is something which matters more. And brexit is not compatible with that thing.

Welcome to the age of the clown fascists.

Tough and competent.

What sort of people will vote for Trump in 2020, if he lasts that long?

All serious historians agree that the Apollo programme of the 1960s and early 1970s was the highpoint of western civilisation.

Sometime in the middle of 2019, the UK will have a new prime minister. He¹ will have considerable power to control whether, when and how the UK leaves the EU.

Clarke’s third law is that

any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

It does not apply to organisations who want to intercept communications: if it’s claimed that they can do something which requires magic, then in fact they can’t do that.