- Enjoying the This Machine Kills podcast.
- All the episodes I’ve listened to have been excellent discussions on socialism and digital technologies so far.
- Having another attempt at getting RSS feed publishing working for commonplace. This time without trying to use a tempdir, caused too many problems last time.
- Listened: Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head
- Listened: No King But Ludd (ft. Brian Merchant)
- Blood in the Machine definitely sounds worth a read.
- org-roam on the mobile with Termux is going well. Using it regularly.
- Going to start posting my daily journal/log in the stream as well. So it’s a bit more discoverable/subscribeable.
- Been reading through Doughnut Economics again. Appreciating the chapter on systems thinking.
- Hugo Blanco passed away.
- Watching Captain Fantastic. A lot of fun. Points out the problems of American (Western) society. Is what they have in the woods any better though?
Author: Neil Mather
- Listened: The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov).
- Finished it off. Such an interesting discussion.
- Listened: The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)
- Really fascinating discussion on Cybersyn and its relevance today.
- The idea of it being relevant as a leftist ‘myth’ (in the good sense) is really interesting.
- It’s quiet in the Agora right now. But I’m sure peeps will be back.
- I basically never write code anymore for work purposes. I guess I’m OK with that right now. But I feel one day soon the pendulum will swing back from lead to coder again.
- I’m perhaps less interested in code for code’s sake these days, and more interested in the design of systems.
- Finished The Internet Con.
- Need to copy over the notes. Lots of good thoughts from Doctorow in there.
- On things like interoperability, monopoly, anti-trust, DRM, Big Tech, etc.
- Maybe not quite as actionable a programme for change as the incendiary opening made me excited for. But I’ll definitely reaffirm comcom as a process for change in reclaim the stacks work.
- Boox handwriting recognition missing whole words out
- Boox Firmware v3.5
- Starting having a go at an Iterative Enquiry diagram for digital ecosocialism. Definite work in progress.
- Listened: Anthony Hodgson, “Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World”
- Read: Thatcherite conservatism is on its last legs. I’ve had a disturbing glimpse of what might replace it
- Why is Peter Thiel giving talks to Conservatives in the UK? Probably not unrelated to trying to get NHS contracts for Palantir.
- Storing my SSH keys in KeePassXC
- Using SSH keys in Termux for Git
- Listened: How We Show Up with Mia Birdsong