• [[2022-12-23]] was nice.
  • met [[d]].
• today I did some laundry and some last minute shopping; now I'm writing this in the train to [[Lausanne]].
  • I'll be back tomorrow with my [[Lady Burup]].
• [[music]]
  • during the train ride I went through my old [[thumbs up]] set a bit
  • I remembered I liked some of [[Pusha T]]'s tracks, so I listened to his new album, [[it'salmost dry]].
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[agora chapter]]
      • Started changing 'we' and 'the author' to I -- the more important thing is to coalesce into one. I'll make a call later on whether 'I' or 'we' reads better?

2022-12-24

• Reading: [[Less is More]]

  • Really good opening on all the current environmental crises currently occurring as part of the [[Anthropocene]] (or more accurately the [[Capitalocene]]).
  • And a great history of [[Capitalism]]. Arguing that [[commoning]] was what brought an end to [[Feudalism]], and that capitalism, the [[Enclosure Movement]] and [[colonialism]] was the response.

• Listening: [[Trip 30: Gifts]]

  • Was listening while doing chores. Enjoyed the [[Marxian analysis of Christmas]] and Santa Claus.

• Listening: [[Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism]]

  • Very interesting interview with [[Benjamin Bratton]]. Talking about [[socialist calculation debate]], [[cybernetics]]. This idea of [[Synthetic catallaxy]].

• Listening (a while ago): [[42. TECH FOR GOOD]]

Saturday, 12/24/2022

17:55 thinking about suburbs

An older man - worn, weathered, with dirty clothes, perhaps working class, sitting next to me in this starbucks is flipping between some sort of RTS game and a series of apple notes titled "ideas/inventions". I hope he makes it big.

having to walk twenty minutes to bethany village - the nearest shopping center with people to my family's home in Portland - is miserable. I miss Allston; I miss a city where anything is fifteen minutes away by bike, and a little further by bus. Berlin was perfect, Stockholm was almost there. I can't wait to be back and walk in a liveable city. Taking so much time to get everywhere deters me from going out and doing anything - and that sucks the life out of me!