Anyway

Domain first, reasoning later

So, being a PhD student, I got some perks: discount on my commute, occasional free meals, and a free .tech domain courtesy of GitHub. I am more of a policy wonk than a programmer, but what kind of student would say no to free stuff?

My first pick was sarcas.tech, but that was unavailable. So, I went with the second-best spelling sarkas.tech, felt closer to home anyway.

Now of course, naming this after a wordplay on “sarcastic” is the least sarcastic thing you can do. No self-respecting satirist would ever introduce themselves that way. But “sarkas.tech” was just sitting right there, for free, and I am… weak.

But now that I have put whatever this is into existence, I feel the need to give it a reason of being. Like a reverse-Descartes, if you will. Exist first, think later.

Anyway, here is my made-up reasoning: sarcasm runs on irony, and tech policy has no shortage of it. A tech promises one thing, and delivers its version of that thing. A regulation aims here, and lands there. The material writes itself. Perhaps none of this is hidden, but it’s certainly not where we tend to look.

I can’t promise that this space is going to be funny, nor will it be useful. But at least it will be paying some attention.