# 2021-05-30

-   Bookmark: [[Governing the Information Commons]]
    -   "norms around ownership are so taken for granted that even projects expressly devoted to empowering users by wrestling ownership and control from big companies still encode these norms."
    -   https://www.glizzan.com/2020/03/04/governing-the-information-commons.html
-   [[RSS-Bridge]] is not working out that well so far for bridging Facebook and Twitter to be honest. I keep getting the same old posts reappearing in my feed reader.
-   It's been a nostalgic pleasure to have stumbled on old thoughts of mine from 15 years ago.  Even though I was hosting it independently, the timelineliness of it all made me nonchalant - about my own thoughts!  I got lucky that the Internet Archive has saved some of what I appear to have thought were ephemera to me at the time.  With digital gardening I feel I'll be more respectful of my notions going forwards.
-   [[Repair and jobs]]
    
    > To say nothing of the impact on jobs: landfilling a kiloton of ewaste creates <1 job; recycling that waste creates 15 jobs, while repairing it creates 200 good, local jobs that can't be offshored (you don't send a phone overseas for repair).
    > 
    > https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r

-   [[Working from near home]]

-   [[Receiving webmentions via nginx]]

-   [[Modephone]] - "the phone that pays you" - sounds hellish.

-   [[Nexta-Live]]
    -   "At its peak Nexta had 2 million subscribers"

-   [[Mass surveillance]] in [[India]]
    
    > Under the laws, encryption – which keeps communications on the app private and inaccessible to outside parties – would have to be removed from [[WhatsApp]] in India and messages would have to be put into a “traceable” database. The government would then be able to identify and take action against the sender if any content was ruled “unlawful
    > – [WhatsApp sues Indian government over ‘mass surveillance’ internet laws | Indi…](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/whatsapp-sues-indian-government-over-mass-surveillance-internet-laws)

-   The legal challenge is the latest escalation of a battle between big tech companies which have a huge and growing user base in India, and the Indian government, led by prime minister Narendra Modi, which has brought in increasingly heavy-handed measures to regulate the online sphere, which is seen as a space for dissent.

-   [[Influencer]]
    
    > French and German YouTubers, bloggers and influencers have been offered money by a supposedly UK-based PR agency with apparent Russian connections to falsely tell their followers the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is responsible for hundreds of deaths.
    > – [Influencers say Russia-linked PR agency asked them to disparage Pfizer vaccin…](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/25/influencers-say-russia-linked-pr-agency-asked-them-to-disparage-pfizer-vaccine)

-   I am reminded by Wayback Machine that for a brief period in time my blog strapline was: "**annulled by idle gusts of electronic massacre since 2006**".  Quite prescient, past me.
    -   That being from a quote of [[Alexander Cockburn]]:
        
        > There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre
        
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-   [[Property]]

-   [[Sociocracy]].  "A patterns-based approach to organisational change."