David Edgar's website

Friday, 16 May 2025

Political Compass sent me a post-election survey and one of the questions was something like how much did I enjoy the election. And I used to find the whole thing fascinating, and probably would have answered "Very" once upon a time. But then I became radicalised and disenfranchised. One of - by no means the greatest, but one of them for sure - causes for that was the insistence by deeply unserious people that I should take their performative hissy seriously. Their sky-is-falling caterwauling for the benefit of the rusted-ons and the brokens, duly reported on by the media that tied itself to this stupid circus. Fucking thirteen year olds would look at the carry on about Comey's "8647" photo and go "Aren't you being a bit childish?"

Nevertheless, 86 47. Preferably into the Sun, but the sea will suffice.

Saturday, 11 January 2025

🔖 Bad shape

what is a modern corporation but a legal spell for turning reasoning beings into temporarily vacant machines?

Just one of a dozen clarifying lines. Masnick's Impossibility Theorem gets trotted out a lot, disingenuously I think by a lot of people who aren't Mike Masnick. Kissing is essentially saying "Yes, but" in this piece. Both should be read together.

Sunday, 06 February 2022

🔖 On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant

The article that became David Graeber's book, Bullshit Jobs