Cut Carbon – Abandon Bitcoin
Bitcoin is more than a rather volatile imitation currency, it is also a huge energy monster.
The digital “mining” to create more Bitcoins and the...
Cheddar Man Tells Us Something Different About Race And Immigration
It is depressingly true that much science - for example, of the roots of homo sapiens and thus of humanity - is politicised. Rather...
Let’s Have The Elizabethan Poor Laws Back! – Says IPPR – Jail The Workshy!
I assume that the lad here just doesn't know what he's talking about rather than IPPR actually recommending the jailing of the bone idle....
Donkey Intelligence Is Heritable – A Bit. Bang Goes The Lefty Theory Of Education
There is a particularly idiot belief over in some corners of the left that we human beings are just tabula rasa. The human being,...
A Little Ross Perot Story On His Death
Really not sure how accurate this is. It's a story that has been rolling around the computing industry for decades so I pass it...
The Human Cost Of Fast Fashion
This is the sort of idiocy that really, truly, grates:
Yes, fast fashion is a disaster, and of course we should be horrified at the...
Classical Music and Status
From our cultural correspondent in Swindon:
From The Guardian
For some businesses, it is the aural equivalent of homeless spikes, deployed to shift or subdue targeted undesirables;...
Grandpa Jez And The TJN Terribly Confused About Amazon’s Tax Payments
Jeremy Corbyn has sent Amazon a 25th birthday card insisting that it should be paying more tax in the UK. He's also insisting that...
As The Police Are Finding Out, Facial Recognition Isn’t Very Good Yet – 80%...
This brave new world where we are all surveyed from remote cameras is taking longer to arrive than many thought it would. The reason...
You’re Right, Your Mobile Is Vastly More Powerful Than The Apollo Computer
A nice little working through quite how much more powerful your iPhone is than the Apollo computer that took men to the Moon:
Would your...