It works, but not all that well. The hair that comes back tends to be really thin.

I had postcard white-guy Jesus hair, hanging to the middle of my back, straight and reddish blond. A beard too. I went bald in my mid-40s and now what’s left around the fringes is white. People who see pictures of me from back in the day don’t recognize me.

an official capacity that wasn’t officially sanctioned.

Can you explain what that means? Because he either was or wasn’t.

14 years of Conservative government has left the BBC senior ranks full of Tory placeholders and shills.

Trump had already announced his policies. This was the markets pricing in those expectations. It’ll get worse if his tariffs are anything more than empty threats.

“They go low, we stand by.”

The toothless watchdog won’t even growl.

Exactly. The necessary actions are the same regardless of which flavor of fascism Trump is serving up.

If I say “There’s a raving maniac pointing a Glock at my head,” the last thing I want to hear is “Well, acksualllly, that one was manufactured under license in Serbia…”

Haven’t heard too much from them lately.

The bot farm has moved on.

They’re doing it because organizations run by white males aren’t viable unless propped up by the power of the state.

I had the opportunity (OK, I was paid some serious money to do it) to run a team of software and systems people who were all gentile cis males, mostly white. I’m one of those myself. It was an international gig with some other peculiar restrictions as well. It turned out to be an interesting management challenge, of the “slow horses” variety. These were not the ultra-high-talent outliers, for the most part, though many were graduates of universities associated with the elite. Having such a restricted talent pool forced me (and my management team) to think hard about the work we were doing and how to minimize the risks of fuck-ups. We were successful, but it was like trying to ride a motorcycle with both eyes tied behind my back. Before that, I’d been on a job where I was empowered to recover a failed project, and I had carte blanche on hiring decisions and anything budgetary that wasn’t outright silly. So this was a shock. When I finished the (very long) project, everything seemed easy afterwards.

All DEI is, in essence, is not going out of your way to support the current dysfunctional legacy hierarchy. Even now, I’m cautious about hiring from organizations and institutions that are frequented by the well-connected and privileged. Cronyism is a pig of a problem, and if I see someone operating an old-boy’s network, their ass is gone. And that’s not just true of WASPs. The elite recruitment and clannishness problem is also severe in many other countries.

As an aging white male myself, instead of whining about DEI, I used a different strategy to advance at work: I made myself able to compete with anyone in the world. If you’re not prepared to do that, you shouldn’t be in a global business. And rigging the system to protect your homies just leaves you fat, complacent and easy pickings for people who know what they’re doing. Why do you think Musk is sucking up to Trump? It’s because he knows that, in a fair fight, his ass will be handed to him. Even without his ketamine issues and egomania, he’s not up to the job.

believe diversity is a admiral goal for an organization.

Well, at least a general objective.

When they say “DEI,” they mean no more affirmative action for the dimwit sons of rich and well-connected white people.

The lesson of history is to first come for the Nazis.

Spineless headline of the week, there. “Flatness of Earth: Views Differ.”

Gabbard is going to be compartmentalized. They’re never going to let her near anything that matters.

But it’s very much luck of the draw.

It’s not a policy, it’s a proposed constitutional amendment.

Well, even more, it’s just performative ass-licking.

Because its the one that has consequences.

A lot of their other transgressions have consequences. They’re doing them anyway.

He’s president for life now.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 – No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death.

If they are not bound by law, neither are we.