Those who know me will put two and two together, but the rest of you can wonder why and what. This. There's a story about the beginnings of Operations Research, I think from De Landa's War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, which goes like this: trying to figure out what bits of bombers required... Continue Reading →
The Murray Andersen Syndrome – of #climate memory-holes, farces and doom (natch)
No, not that Murray Anderson. No, not that one either. Let me describe it to you, and see if you can figure it out for yourself. Stuff embeds better that way anyhow. In reverse order. (drum roll please) Everybody secretly knows that the game is rigged, the war is over, that the fine words and... Continue Reading →
Explaining *that* video #AustralianFires #ScottyfromMarketing #fear #patriarchy
Earlier today the Australian Prime Minister released an astonishingly tone-deaf advert – branded as Liberal Party – spruiking the role of “Our Defence Forces”. As the Guardian noted, it met with derision from the Australian Defence Association and Piers Morgan. In this short piece I want to explore what I think is going on, and... Continue Reading →
Looting the Ivory Tower “The work after ‘it’s too late’ to prevent dangerous #climate change
(Blog posts about academic articles and what value they might have for activists.) Article Moser SC. The work after “It's too late” (to prevent dangerous climate change). WIREs Climate Change. 2020;11:e606. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.606 The TL;DR If you have read much on social and psychological responses to climate change you will have come across the work of... Continue Reading →
A year from now… aka The Glasgow Shitshow #COP26 #socialmovements
Right now there's a lot of politicians flapping their meat in Madrid, at the 25th "Conference of the Parties" to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Late next year they will be flapping their meat in Glasgow. It will be the first COP to be held in the UK (though there was 1994's... Continue Reading →
Excruciatingly obvious advice following excruciating event. Innovate4GodsSake
Tell your attendees what it is that they are going to be asked to solve. Tell them that in a preliminary email Or two. Tell them that when they arrive In writing. In big letters. Maybe with some cartoons/graphics. (Perhaps not in rubbish videos with awful sound quality. #justsaying) Respect their intelligence and their time... Continue Reading →
Sequential Consensual Autophagous Meetings
First I will treat you as ego-fodder. You will sit in rows, or in a circle,and you will listen to me drone on and on about my hobby-horse du jour. I don’t care what you know about the topic. I don’t want to take time away from hearing my own voice to hear your perspectives.... Continue Reading →
Oh god, how hard IS IT, really? Meetings that don’t suck. #oldfartclimateadvice
Hi everyone, there's a lot of us in this room, and the tables aren't really helping. I know it is gonna take a minute, and the "Elf and Safety" types may be upset, but I want to spend one of our precious 57 remaining minutes stacking the tables against the wall and making a circle... Continue Reading →
Probably time for the XR post I haven’t been writing, because…
I have an article coming out that has come out on The Conversation (yes Sarah, yes Matt, you are both right) that may cause some fur to fly. This post is for readers of that who want/demand to know where I stand. I will keep it brief and try to keep the glibsnark to tolerable levels... Continue Reading →
Sucking on the hopium pipe
In 2002 I got some weird-ass bug, probably from having been in Cambodia. I ended up in a lot of pain (probably as much as in my life) and on a hospital gurney. And then they gave me some morphine. Holy mother of God that stuff is the shit. You just... the pain just... you... Continue Reading →
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