Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: politics

Maybe sometimes it’s the “people who matter” who should “nerd harder”?

2025/10/30
Nixon: You may not have read about the time he told a dinner party at the White House, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead”

2025/10/01
1933: The Technocrats’ Magazine | Technocracy Inc | Internet Archive

2025/06/20
One massive, glorious upside of the supposed “end of factchecking” is that Americans are finally learning how to Satire without a safety net

2025/01/22
Meanwhile, back in the UK, I look forward to Jeremy Clarkson being named home secretary… oh wait, the Tories lost?

2024/11/13
what’s an authoritarian?

2024/11/08
Perhaps Trump is the next Joyce?

2024/09/04
A terrifying example of the Chinese deep fake misinformation which is going to disrupt the American election

2024/09/02
JD Vance offers a prime example of why teenagers need end-to-end encryption and closed messenger groups for personal data safety

2024/08/16
It doesn’t matter which party is in power, the UK for the time being will remain hostile to the Internet; but at least there will be change elsewhere

2024/07/05
UK politicians still do not understand the Streisand Effect

2024/06/25
Am listening to the audiobook of “Politics on the Edge” by @RoryStewartUK; 4 chapters in and I’m uncannily reminded of James Herriot’s “All Creatures Great & Small” meets “The Thick Of It”

2024/06/19