Posts tagged politics

The idiot child god and where he will lead us.

On the occasion of the johnsonites’ rewriting the rules on political corruption to suit themselves.

People attacking carbon offsets or net zero emissions are attacking the wrong target and harming their cause. The problem is that the things we call ‘carbon offsets’ are not carbon offsets and ‘net zero’ is not net zero: they are lies. That’s what they should attack.

Or, a theory about the mess we’re in.

In the old, more innocent days of the internet — the days when people naïvely assumed that nazis were figures from a dark past, fading slowly into history — people who were very pedantic about prescriptive rules of grammar were often called ‘grammar nazis’. We did not think, then, that grammar nazis might be unconsciously encouraging actual nazis. But I think they were, and are.

Or: the Cummings-Johnson effect.

I thought it would be interesting to get an idea of how many people will die because Dominic Cummings thought it was fine to ignore the lockdown rules, and Boris Johnson agreed with him. So I wrote a program to explore this Cummings-Johnson effect.

Anyone who says that the facts show that men are innately better than women in computing either does not know the facts, does not understand them, or is lying.

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.