Johanna DrottTo dry the wet, or why it is time to leave TwitterI 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, 2023Oct 18, 2023
Johanna DrottSend in the troops (remix)The nation must restore order. The military stands ready.Jun 4, 2020Jun 4, 2020
Johanna DrottFlattening the Corona curve, in common sense termsThe 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, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Johanna DrottOn the futility of debating the US presidential electionA control system needs to be at least as complex as the system it controls. The same goes for analytical frameworks.Jan 19, 2020Jan 19, 2020
Johanna DrottTaking stock of a decade, or: a survivor’s guide to the 2020sThis has been, without doubt or equivocation, a decade. Things have happened, then continued to happen, then kept happening, and then…Dec 31, 2019Dec 31, 2019
Johanna DrottOn school shootings, computer games and social alienationIt is easy to blame school shootings on computer games. Like most easy solutions, it is also wrong. Here is why.Sep 17, 2019Sep 17, 2019
Johanna DrottWhy 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, 2019Aug 21, 2019
Johanna DrottThe edgelord case against free speechIf yelling into the void solved the problem, then most of them would have been solved minutes after the first shitpostMar 31, 2019Mar 31, 2019
Johanna DrottThe ontology of the attention economy, explained by means of cat picturesCat pics are the apex predators of the attention economy, and you know itDec 30, 2018Dec 30, 2018
Johanna DrottHear ye! Hear ye! The last call for the actually existing American free pressThe 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 covfefeNov 21, 2018Nov 21, 2018