2021-06-06

• I love [[koreader]] and feel like it is a critical piece of software. Ebook platform monopolies like Kindle and Kobo have control of information. koreader lets you liberate your hardware from them. I hope I can soon use something like [[Open Book]] and have libre hardware, too.

• [[Open Book]]:

  As a society, we need an open source device for reading. Books are among the most important documents of our culture, yet the most popular and widespread devices we have for reading — the Kobo, the Nook, the Kindle and even the iPad — are closed devices, operating as small moving parts in a set of giant closed platforms whose owners' interests are not always aligned with readers'.

  https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

• I think [[IndieWeb]] is an example of [[Nested-I]] and [[Ubuntu Rationality]] as per [[Free, Fair and Alive]].

  • Not unrelatedly, Jack Jamieson's dissertation on the IndieWeb is called [[Independent Together: Building and Maintaining Values in a Distributed Web Infrastructure]].

• Jammed: Blamstrain - List

• Listened: [[Kate Raworth on Why Our Times Demand 'Doughnut Economics']]

  • This is a lovely interview. Raworth is full of energy and very inspiring. I never finished the book yet (a reflection on me, not the book…) but Doughnut Economics sounds very [[Commons]] friendly.
  • https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/kate-raworth-why-our-times-demand-doughnut-economics

• Listened: [[The Sunset of the Californian Ideology? w/ Richard Barbrook]]

  • Really excellent interview with Richard Barbrook. He talks about the [[Californian Ideology]] and where it stemmed from. It it was to be updated now, he says it would be the [[Shenzhen Ideology]].
  • Also really interesting to hear about his work on games and how they can be used for political purposes and training. Talks about [[Guy Debord]] and his [[A Game of War]]. Makes me think of some of the [[Tesa Collective]] games.

• Jammed: Brothomstates - Brothomstates Vs Bill Yard

• Bookmarked: [[The Commons, Short and Sweet]]

• Idea: decentralised podcast discovery engine. Built with [[Agora]]. Like [[Huffduffer]] or [[Listen Notes]], but a commons.

• Bookmarked: [[Commons P2P wiki requirements]]

• Bookmarked: [[Distributed wikis on solid]]