"Sandbagging describes someone who underperforms (usually deliberately) in an event. The term has multiple uses, such as a driver who competes in an event in a series below their level of expertise to finish high."

"In that spirit, I am not proposing that an army of politicised, militarised programmers rises up to overthrow corrupt regimes (armed only with keyboards, text editors and plenty of coffee). Far from it. My only hope is that we gain a better understanding of the unique position of influence we occupy."

"Fourier had no truck with the idea of changing people. All the different things inside their heads was just what they were like - and you worked with that extraordinary range of human nature and channelled it to create societies in which everyone played a role suited to their nature. His vision is wonderfully optimistic. Even potential murderers are allowed to work off their psychotic impulses - as butchers."

"Fourier's romantic innocence seems intensely shocking to us today - because it seems so naive and optimistic. But it is their power to shock us in this way that potentially makes these long-forgotten utopian ideas genuinely revolutionary. You may not believe in fairies, but in today's world it's hard to believe in the infallibility of the laws of free-market economics. So which one would you choose?"

Thermo-electric saucepan with a functioning USB port in the handle.

"The people who most heavily rely on pseudonyms in online spaces are those who are most marginalized by systems of power. “Real names” policies aren’t empowering; they’re an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people."

"A UK border agent lost his job after authorities discovered he’d placed his wife on a terrorist watch list in an attempt to rid himself of her. The woman was left stranded in Pakistan for three years because she was unable to fly back to the UK after visiting relatives, according to the Daily Mail. The agent’s act was only detected after he applied for a promotion, and a background check revealed that his wife was on the watch list. He was reportedly sacked for “gross misconduct.” The unidentified agent worked at the UK Border Agency’s headquarters in South London. He worked with a unit that was responsible for maintaining the watch list. His promotion would have given him an even higher security clearance."

"Once inside, the scratching and clinking of the slate gives way to the low hum of the mountain. It’s less like a noise with a source, and more like everything around is resonating somewhere in the range between hearing and feeling. It’s quite something."

"the Westphalian system never existed in the first place. It was mostly American theorists making up “the Westphalian system” because the idea of international law made Americans feel better. The real world was always about bandits, terrorists, anarchists, mercenaries, and naked exercises of cynical power, and if we could get our heads around that, we wouldn’t have to sweat a New Dark Age because we wouldn’t be able to tell it from common reality."

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Put it on wheels! :)

Must get back to this