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Johanna Drott

Johanna Drott

To dry the wet, or why it is time to leave Twitter

I have holes in my boots. Two holes, to be exact — one for each boot. The effect of this is that whenever the ground is wet, I become…

Oct 18, 2023

Oct 18, 2023

Johanna Drott

Send in the troops (remix)

The nation must restore order. The military stands ready.

Jun 4, 2020

Send in the troops (remix)

Jun 4, 2020

Johanna Drott

Flattening the Corona curve, in common sense terms

The flattened curve, explained through the example of a crowded takeaway place. TL;DR — it’s best when it’s not everyone all at once.

Mar 18, 2020

Flattening the Corona curve, in common sense terms

Mar 18, 2020

Johanna Drott

On the futility of debating the US presidential election

A control system needs to be at least as complex as the system it controls. The same goes for analytical frameworks.

Jan 19, 2020

On the futility of debating the US presidential election

Jan 19, 2020

Johanna Drott

Taking stock of a decade, or: a survivor’s guide to the 2020s

This has been, without doubt or equivocation, a decade. Things have happened, then continued to happen, then kept happening, and then…

Dec 31, 2019

Taking stock of a decade, or: a survivor’s guide to the 2020s

Dec 31, 2019

Johanna Drott

On school shootings, computer games and social alienation

It is easy to blame school shootings on computer games. Like most easy solutions, it is also wrong. Here is why.

Sep 17, 2019

On school shootings, computer games and social alienation

Sep 17, 2019

Johanna Drott

Why people are so angry at Greta Thunberg (and why she is right)

Like a modern day Socrates, she has exposed us all as fools, and now we need to rise to the occasion.

Aug 21, 2019

Why people are so angry at Greta Thunberg (and why she is right)

Aug 21, 2019

Johanna Drott

The edgelord case against free speech

If yelling into the void solved the problem, then most of them would have been solved minutes after the first shitpost

Mar 31, 2019

The edgelord case against free speech

Mar 31, 2019

Johanna Drott

The ontology of the attention economy, explained by means of cat pictures

Cat pics are the apex predators of the attention economy, and you know it

Dec 30, 2018

The ontology of the attention economy, explained by means of cat pictures

Dec 30, 2018

Johanna Drott

Hear ye! Hear ye! The last call for the actually existing American free press

The actually existing press has to own up to the fact that it does not do its job, and that it does so with gusto, alacrity and covfefe

Nov 21, 2018

Hear ye! Hear ye! The last call for the actually existing American free press

Nov 21, 2018

Johanna Drott

Johanna Drott

Discursive anomalies. Anti-content. Theme-resistant. Passive-benevolent. Unrelenting ululations. Hug your bots!

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