Journals for the last 17 days with entries
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- If you share your [[commonplace book]] to the knowledge commons, is it then a [[commonsplace book]]?
2024-04-05
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[[Listened]] to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]
- Love this interview of [[Nathan Schneider]] by [[David Bollier]]. New book out, [[Governable Spaces]]. Sounds like a synthesis of a bunch of recent papers (e.g. [[Governable Stacks]]).
- Main thesis is about the need for inclusion of democracy in our everyday online tools. To avoid '[[Implicit feudalism]]'.
- [[Decidim]] referenced favourably.
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And [[listened]] to [[Building human economies using technology]]
- Bit of a sprawling rambling discussion, but still interesting talking points. Technology, communism. [[Telekommunisten]]. Struggles of leftist tech to get a real foothold. [[Theory of value]].
2024-04-04
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I'm getting more into the groove with [[fish]] on desktop the more that I use it.
- Still a slamdunk win on Termux.
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I would just like to take a moment to lament the fact that I have received an email inviting me to become a Certified Generative AI Specialist.
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Idle thought: maybe the world would be a better place if the de facto 'learn to code' tutorial was not a todo list (individual productivity) but a simple group poll (collective decision-making).
2024-04-03
- A bit more on [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]].
2024-04-02
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Had a quick read about [[Passkeys]].
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Listened to [[Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna]]
2024-04-01
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[[Listened]] to [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Whose Anthropocene?]]
- Good discussion - is [[Anthropocene]] a useful term? Maybe [[Capitalocene]] works better? Maybe both have their uses. Good overview of the pros and cons of both.
- There's a geological definition of Anthropocene (descriptive), which is interesting and all, but perhaps of more genuine use is it as a definition that motivates us to act to mitigate climate catastrophe (prescriptive).
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Also [[listened]] to [[Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon]]
- Great discussion. Loads of good stuff in there, listened while doing chores so not much in the way of notes, warrants a relisten.
- [[Platform Socialism]]. [[Guild socialism]]. [[Subsidiarity]]. Some things best as worker coops, some local municipality, some national. Some global. Global digital services. Take Google into global public ownership?
- [[DECODE]].
2024-03-31
- Went for a walk and [[listened]] to [[The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)]]
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Following a stumble through the garden related to [[technology and political economy]], re-reading [[The Telekommunist Manifesto]].
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Also plan to re-read [[The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution]].
2024-03-30
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[[Adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]] not as straight forward as it could be.
- Using it as an opportunity to get familiar with ERT. [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]].
- Should be simpler to write against small tests rather than having to go through the whole publish pipeline.
2024-03-29
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Late night [[listened]] to [[What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)]]
- [[Social data]].
- Has [[predictive value]].
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Three ways to extract [[surplus value]] with it:
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- Just sell it on, e.g. data broker
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- Use it to exploit people based on knowledge from the data
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- Use it to exert power (e.g. Uber's [[Greyball]] program)
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Also listened to [[The Supermarket into Prison Pipeline]]
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Pretty much always find [[This Machine Kills]] interesting, whatever the topic.
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Thinking about how I would go about [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].
2024-03-28
- I've been picking up the [[guitar]] again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I'm really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some [[John Fahey]] too.
2024-03-27
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Re: [[using org-mode for timeblocking]] and [[trying out calfw-blocks]], noticed that someone (haji-ali) has forked and updated both [[calfw]] and [[calfw-blocks]].
- https://github.com/haji-ali/emacs-calfw
- https://github.com/haji-ali/calfw-blocks/
- Might be worth making use of these. Have a read through the fork changelogs.
- [[work]]
- [[social coop]]:
2024-03-26
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Further to [[trying out org-timeblock]], I'm now [[trying out calfw-blocks]].
- As part of a general attempt to be able to do timeblocking in org-mode. ([[Using org-mode for timeblocking]]).
- I wouldn't say it's going swimmingly… but I'm learning plenty about spacemacs layers, doom config, and use-package. So that's something.
2024-03-25
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Although in general it feels the same (possibly slower? because I didn't compile it myself?), one thing that is much faster in Emacs 28 is the parsing of my huge Tasks.org file for work. Thumbs up.
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I'd like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have 'planted' and 'last tended' dates on each page.
- I already have 'This page last updated: …' at the bottom of every page.
- But I'd prefer it right at the top. Not too prominent/distracting, but I have some pretty old pages knocking around now and I'd like people to be aware that they might be outdated.
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[[org-timeblock]] looks pretty good and like it'd fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.
- I used to use [[Goalist]] on Android and it was great, but I got annoyed that I couldn't sync it and make use of it anywhere else.
- So… [[trying out org-timeblock]]. However, hitting a bunch of issues from the beginning.
2024-03-24
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We [[watched]] [[Soul]] again.
- Such a lovely film. Heartwarming message, great music, great visuals, funny for the whole family.
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I [[listened]] to [[What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins]]
- [[Vincent Bevins]] again on his book [[If We Burn]].
- Really interesting stuff.
- I like the very loose analogy between what happened to the internet and what happened to [[the movement of the squares]].
- Basically a form of [[The Tyranny of Structurelessness]] in both.
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Also listened to [[Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor]]
- [[Insecurity]] and [[security]] - in more of social and psychological meanings of the word than the technical sense.
- Claim: [[Capitalism requires insecurity]].
- Claim: [[Social insurance is a bulwark against insecurity]].
- Also by Astra: [[The Dads of Tech]] and [[The People's Platform]].
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We have [[national insurance]] in the UK.
- Wonder when it was introduced?
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Never really thought much about insurance before.
- Superficially it seems a boring topic. But this and Jathan Sadowski podcast discussion ([[How the World Became Uninsurable]]) recently making me realise it's kind of fundamental and sadly mostly privatised.
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Returning a little to [[IndieWeb]] for following activity streams. I had been using the Fediverse for a while, but I find it a bit too fast paced, a bit too attention grabbing. For me. IndieWeb is kind of slow social media and that suits me fine.
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hyperorg could be useful for me.
- Either for publishing wiki to web, or could be a useful internal parser for the Agora? Python based.
2024-03-23
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Listened: [[Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism"]]
- Great interview with [[Yanis Varoufakis]].
- [[Techno-feudalism]].
- Ultimate goal: socialisation of cloud capital (i.e. [[Big tech]])
- Only America and China have cloud capital.
- Glad they mention [[McKenzie Wark]] - Varoufakis says he agrees with all of it.
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[[Listened]]: [[Democracy for sale, Europe’s first black leader + tea with Obama]]
- [[Political donations]].
- New first minister of Wales is first black leader of a country in Europe.
- [[Rwanda bill]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Black Box: Episode 6 – Shut it down?]]
- [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] with AI doonerism.
- Alternate positive view from Alex Hern.
- One disappointment with the series as a whole is there's no mention of environmental impact or questioning of who owns AI technology.
2024-03-22
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[[Listened]]: [[The silencing of climate protesters in English and Welsh courts]]
- Latest in a long line of crackdowns on defences that climate protesters can use in the courts.
- One of which made it an offence to use the words 'climate change' in court.
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[[Listened]]: [[Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley]]
- Interesting interview and book sounds worth a read.
- A lot sounds like analysis of problems, but they talk about some potential solutions and examples too. ([[Cooperation Jackson]], [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]], [[The Lucas Plan]])
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Read: [[‘It’s Not Rocket Science – It’s Just Community’: Radical Ffestiniog]]
- My great grandad was from [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]]. Nice to have this little connection.
- [[work]]
- followed by [[fellowship of the link]]
- followed by [[fediversalist papers]]
- followed by [[feierabend]] :)