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OM on Kalanick

Jack Baty

14 Mar 2026

The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff! – On my Om

As an entrepreneur, I love Kalanick, because he makes for a great story. He knows how to do bombast right. And he knows how to play the victim right. He has the right quotes. And he knows how to stumble over himself. In short, a media person has to love Kalanick.

Gross. I don't know Kalanick personally, but intuition tells me he's kind of an asshole and I want no part of anything he does.

Alan Moore on comics and fascism

I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.

Photo: Dad's garage wall

What an interesting configuration of stuff on the wall of my dad's garage. I wanted a photo of the Dali print he has hanging for some reason. Turned out the whole photo ended up as some sort of recursive surreal thing.

I got bored

The past couple of weeks my blogging has been, let's say, chaotic. I rebuilt the Tinderbox file that manages and generates daily.baty.net. I spent more time tinkering with Pure Blog. I tidied up bits of my Hugo workflow. I even considered bringing the wiki back. Yesterday,

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Alan Moore on comics and fascism

Photo: Dad's garage wall

I got bored