Arts
For the Fallen
I wasn’t originally planning to pen and submit a piece for today until I saw the terrible news about our Jen the Blue yesterday, and so soon after the equally wrenching loss of Goodnight Vienna. [more…]
Articles by Katabasis
Computing
Civil Contingencies: Preparing for Internet Shutdown and Censorship with Mesh Networks
We have entered the most fraught political and social climate I have yet experienced in my lifetime. Having discussed this with several GPers in person it is clear we need to start seriously considering contingency [more…]
Arts
What a Father Gives
I first began editing the tribute I gave to my Father at his funeral for sharing here in August. Unfortunately that same month we lost yet another member of the family – my Godfather. He [more…]
Politics
There Will Be No Water Cannons To Wash Away The Rivers Of Blood
It’s another week and yes yet another mutual masturbation circle of outrage on social media over complete trivia. I speak this time of the confected “shock” that the water cannons originally purchased by Boris in [more…]
Politics
The Perfidy of Western “Intelligence” Agencies: The A.Q. Khan Case
Preface This article was first published in print nearly ten years ago now, (and under a different name) towards the end of 2008. At the time, Iraq and Afghanistan had clearly become quagmires and there [more…]
Authoritarianism
Germans research ways to chemically control recalcitrant natives
I originally planned to entitle this ‘Through a Scanner, Dumbly’. Unfortunately the title, though mildly amusing, would distract from the deadly seriousness of the topic. I’m desperately hoping that this is another Sokal or “conceptual [more…]
Arts
Zuckerberg is coming to town
(with apologies to John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie) You better watch out You better not cry You better not shitpost I’m telling you why Zuckerberg is coming to town Zuckerberg is coming to town [more…]
Ethics
Absolutism and Abortion
The ongoing vilification of Jacob Rees-Mogg regarding his specific view on abortion is beyond the pale for any society that regards itself as civilised and rational. There is a reason that numerous philosophical dilemmas and [more…]
Uncategorized
The Minority of One
An initial warning to readers is appropriate: Some of you may find parts of this post non-sensical if you’re not remotely interested in science fiction. On the other hand, those of you who are interested [more…]