Author: Neil Mather
- Learned about Bunny Fonts from James.
- Looks great. GDPR friendly, and a much simpler way of of replacing Google Fonts than replacing Google Fonts remote server usage with a locally-served font.
- Replacing Google Fonts with Bunny Fonts.
- (What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?)
- Listened: Digitalisation and the Security State
- Important stuff. Everyone should listen to this.
- The connection between digital technology companies and state surveillance and violence.
- Israel is a major source of surveillance and weapons technology companies, selling to US and Europe technologies they have built to control the Palestinian people.
- Listened: How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel
- Some of the discussion around counties reclaiming agency over their trade overlaps with the material on the digital trade agenda in the Digital Capitalism online course.
- Listened: How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel
- Imperialism and neocolonialism.
- Unequal exchange.
- I finished off Week 3 of the Digital Capitalism online course.
- This week the topic was Digital colonialism.
- With mostly a focus on Data colonialism.
- In that focus on data I feel perhaps it omits some other colonial practices – such as in mining, manufacture and disposal related to ICT.
- Still – good stuff.
- Started listening to the masterclass for week 4, on the digital trade agenda.
- The point about why corporations love trade deals is really enlightening – easy way for them to bypass democratic discussion; lobby to get their way; once a trade deal is made, it’s very hard to change.
- Learning about ecology on Kinnu, I realise that it’s a great source of ideas for thinking in systems.
- It’s the ultimate system, basically.
- I think The Systems View of Life would be about this to some degree.
- Listened: Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development
- Mostly Ulises Mejias‘ section.
- Data colonialism is his topic, works on it with Nick Couldry.
- He outlines the scale of the land grab of colonialism.
- Makes the connection to data colonialism.
- Draws a line from Cheap Nature to Cheap Labour to Cheap Data (the first two based on Jason W. Moore‘s ideas I’m assuming).
- Mostly Ulises Mejias‘ section.
- World-Ecology.
- I’d like to redesign the look and feel of my digital garden.
- Nothing drastic, but to move more to a representative aesthetic.
- I want to try to maintain the cheap-n-cheerful weird web vibe, but also incorporate more of a nature-labour-technology solarpunk-ish look.
- I want my digital garden to be more visual, less textual.
- To be fair it is majority text, but I still want it to feel a bit more visual.
- My commonplace moodboard
- Listened: Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development
- From Digital Capitalism online course
- A mention of “Within the system, against the system, and beyond the system”
- Matches exactly with resist, regulate, recode
- Cooperation Jackson and the Jackson-Kush Plan are explicitly ecosocialist in outlook.
- There’s a good summary of ecosocialism in the intro to Jackson Rising Redux.
- They also work on the principle of instituting non-reformist reforms.
- What might some non-reformist reforms for digital ecosocialism be?
- Digital counterpower