Author archive

Gay-money research disproves intersectionality theory    (2018.10.08)

A new research paper shows that “Black” and “Latinx” gays and lesbians are sometimes less poor and more likely to own their own homes than White ones. (So much for “intersectionality”)

DataLounge comment of the week    (2018.09.23)

What thread it’s from doesn’t actually matter

The Kalman/Spiekermann Paradox    (2018.09.13)

There aren’t any designers who get away with murder anymore. Tibor and Spiekermann were about it

Everything wrong with consensus homosexualist culture in a single photograph    (2018.09.08)

Two photographs

Old-timers    (2018.09.05)

Web “pioneers,” all of whom are now above age 45, have a duty to be nice to each other, and not Anil Dash–level snide

Apparent first use of “eldergay”    (2018.09.03)

In the Times last June

Fontmemes (& bookmarks)    (2018.08.29)

Fontmemes, plus the worst bookmarks export ever

“Discounted cashflow analysis”    (2018.08.22)

“depending on their sort of discounted cashflow analysis of their projected lifetime fuck earnings will actually fuck themselves to death if an opportunity presents itself that they will never see again”

“Djibouti has always been Chinese”    (2018.08.17)

500 years from now, the Chinese will be able to say with a straight face that Djibouti was always Chinese. Four centuries before that, queer and trans* will have entirely rewritten (this means lied about) gay and lesbian history