Month: October 2019

I found a book from 1997 on my brother’s bookshelf in the house where we grew up, called Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.

The first section is called Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?

It looks pretty amazing. Beautifully, it has loads of pencil annotations from my brother.

I would love to read it. But I’ll be honest with myself, I haven’t started and finished a non-fiction book for a long time. I’m genuinely better in hypertext.

I uninstalled Tusky. It’s a great libre app for Mastodon. But after a morning spent losing about an hour (or more!) of time scrolling through the timelines, before even getting out of bed, I figured it’s something I don’t need on my phone. Keep the firehose at arms length. If I want to for some reason just scroll through everything on Mastodon, I’ll go to a website and login.

(Counterpoint: I did find some really interesting things while surfing the timelines…)

In 1976 the Lucas Plan from Lucas Aerospace was outlined by workers – a strategy to avoid job losses by transitioning to production of things useful to society. Some of those things were heat pumps, solar cell technology, wind turbines and fuel cell technology.

“The proposals were rejected out of hand by L.A. management”

Could have been a mini green new deal in 1976…

http://lucasplan.org.uk/story-of-the-lucas-plan/

https://twitter.com/powellds/status/1181618447798722560