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Month: July 2019
Looking forward to reading this – “Future Histories” by Lizzie O’Shea
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2960-future-histories
“What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources—like the Internet—in common? Can debates over digital access be guided by Tom Paine’s theories of democratic economic redistribution? And how is Elon Musk not a visionary but a throwback to Victorian-era utopians?”
Listened to a thing about the fourth industrial revolution, so called. Driven by things like machine learning, AI, nano materials, biotech, additive manufacturing, sensors and IoT, autonomous vehicles.
I dunno. I fail to be excited by any of it any more, unless it comes with an explicit intent to improve social wellbeing, not just vague promises of productivity and efficiency, shit going faster for the sake of it.
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Let’s get seditious… seditious
Listening to SF 10-33 station on Soma FM. “Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic.”
Very enjoyable. They play a lot of Loscil so I’m down with that.
There seemed to be a protest or march taking place earlier in San Francisco.
Welsh Harp Open Space
#London #CapitalRing
The pond at Barn Hill in Fryent Country Park.
#London #CapitalRing