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The Internet Has Gone Foul. [Part IV of IV]
“Automation and cybernation can play an essential role in smoothing the transition to the new society… The computer can be used to direct a network of global thermostats to pattern life in ways that will optimize human awareness. Already, it’s technologically feasible to employ the computer to program societies in beneficial ways… There’s nothing at … Read more
The Internet Has Gone Foul. [Part III of IV]
…Now, the story that I want to tell you began in 1971, in the middle of the year. I’d been going around, using this model that I have explained to you, in big companies, in agencies, in all sorts of places. And then I suddenly got a letter which very much changed my life. It … Read more
The Internet Has Gone Foul. [Part II of IV]
Welcome back. For those of you just joining us, I ended Part I where Stafford Beer’s Designing Freedom begins, in a “little house… in a quiet village on the western coast of Chile”. With the benefit of hindsight and history, we now know that Beer was describing the town of Las Cruces — but we’ll … Read more
The Internet Has Gone Foul. [Part I of IV]
“Let me tell you some things I find productive. Positive reinforcement. Negative reinforcement. Honesty. I’ll tell you some things I find unproductive: constantly worrying about where you stand based on inscrutable social clues, and then inevitably re-framing it all in a reassuring way so that you can get to sleep at night. No, I do … Read more
Fear and Loathing is the Campaign Trail ’23 (Part III of III)
“Speak not to me of blasphemy, man, I’d strike the Sun if it insulted me! Look ye, Starbuck: all visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. Some inscrutable yet reasoning thing puts forth the moulding of their features. The White Whale tasks me; he heaps me. Yet he is but a mask. It is the … Read more
Fear and Loathing is the Campaign Trail ’23 (Part II of III)
At a time when free and fair elections are a concern in democracies around the world, we need to be vigilant when it comes to ours being undermined. — Kelvin Goertzen, 23rd Premier of Manitoba, 23 August 2019 Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand,Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch’d: Cut … Read more
Fear and Loathing is the Campaign Trail ’23 (Part I of III)
…Ah. Yes, well then. Hmm. Me? Oh, fine, thanks. How have you been? Alright, okay fine. Well, my last post to this blog was published in November 2019, so I guess the first big update I have to share is that I’m bald now. ‘Bald’, yes – a bald man. It’s not so much that … Read more
Sample Page
This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger … Read more
Cats Can Be Chonky, Your Website Should Not: Page Weight And Other Common SEO Pitfalls
I’ve been loath to write on the topic of Search Engine Optimization (or “SEO”) since opening my consultancy and starting this blog. In fact, if you flipped through the pages describing Kairos Media’s services, you’d find that they barely mention SEO at all, save for a passing reference when talking about website planning and architecture. There are … Read more