#london
Year: 2018
Mind the Gap
“On this evening in the City of Light, a hundred million connected devices sing through the wires and the aether. Of the waves that ripple through the urban fabric, at whatever scale, very few escape being captured by them, and represented in bursts of binary data. Enciphered within are billions of discrete choices, millions of lives in motion, the cycling of the entire economy, and, at the very edge of perception, the signs and traces of empire’s slow unwinding.”
Radical Technologies has a cracking first chapter.
Saw Sorry to Bother You. Laugh out loud funny at times. Pro-worker, anti-capitalist, touches on race and slavery. Moral of the story – don’t sell out for money. Definitely worth a watch!
I am all for the idea of more direct civic participation in society and the removal of an elite governing class. I can see why not having ‘expert’ knowledge would be a thorny issue tho. I wouldn’t see it as not trusting normal people, just a recognition that a lot of issues require in-depth knowledge. I presently wouldn’t trust myself to make a suitably informed decision on many complex issues outside my area of knowledge.
That said, it works for juries, and if there was a strong civil service and adequate time for researching important decisions, I’m sure it could work.
I don’t know much about the details of sortition – would love to hear more of your views.
Posting via micropub from inside emacs with mp.el (https://github.com/dg01d/mp.el) !
Love finding tracks from netlabels on archive.org.
Pinklogik – Heavenly Orchid (Marshmello Mix by theAudiologist)
Ambient, cinematic, chilled. Uncertain future.
I don’t know the full history but Thomas Sankara sounds like he was a genuinely radical and revolutionary leader. Anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, feminist. Public education and health policies. Assassinated.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/sankara-the-che-of-africa
Engels & Pizza Express
#manchester
Homes for people, not for profit
No more deaths on our streets
No property, no poverty, lets do this properly
iPhone X R
About halfway through, and I’m enjoying Consider Phlebas so far. It’s my book I’m reading at night at the moment, and it’s ticking the boxes for that (nicely written and not too taxing). It’s not a really strong plot, but kind of a series of gripping set pieces and cinematic imagery. Slightly overly masculine in viewpoint I think.
One part of it was a bit bloody grim.