# 2021-05-15

-   Pretty excited to be reading in [[Free, Fair and Alive]] about the links they make between [[complexity science]] and the [[Commons]].
    -   I studied [[Evolutionary and adaptive systems]] way back when, and its nice when various themes of my life link together.

-   [[Preston]] is hiring a [Social Value and Partnerships Officer](https://jobs.preston.gov.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CHPE01002).  "The Social Value and Partnerships Officer will be responsible for extending and embedding social value activity and developing an Anchor Network."  Looks like you basically work on [[Community wealth building]] all day, looks pretty good!

-   I've got [[RSS-Bridge]] set up to pick up RSS feeds from Facebook pages now.  I subscribe to them in [[Aperture]] and can read them in my a [[social reader]] e.g. [[Indigenous]] . That, combined with some Twitter feeds coming from Twitter Atom, is letting me keep up with what's going on locally pretty well so far.
    -   Hey, it works for Facebook groups, too.  Nice!

-   As I've mentioned before ([[Getting a phone]]), whenever I get a new (second hand) phone, I try to cross-reference repairability with [[LineageOS]] support.  [[sustaphones]] is very handy in that it does just that  (for battery replacement, at least).

-   Read: [[The Privatisation of Manchester]]

> Since the dawn of the neoliberal period in the 1980s, however, public land has been subject to privatisation on a massive scale. In his recent book The New Enclosure, Brett Christophers found that a staggering 10% of Britain’s total landmass has been privatised during this period, equivalent to land worth £400 billion.