- Read: The digital revolution has failed
- “as the web declines, we need to consider what a better alternative could look like and the political project it would fit within”
- Right on. That would be digital ecosocialism in my view.
- Generative AI has a ferocious environmental impact.
- Generative AI is further concentrating power with Big Tech.
- Watched: Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain
- Shocking, the violence that was meted out by the police on picketing miners. Seemingly premeditated.
- Then perjury.
- All seemingly coming directly from the wishes of Margaret Thatcher.
- The media apparently complicit, a piece of state apparatus.
Author: Neil Mather
- Listened: Medium Anxiety
- Listened: How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked
- Fun story.
- Ransomware.
- I did not know that WannaCry was by the North Korean state.
- Listened: What do the Tories consider extreme?
- Distributed digital gardens.
- Watched: Ant-Man.
- I can’t seem to find an IRC bouncer that you can easily install on YunoHost…
- What would AI for the people look like?
- My biggest problem with AI are its environmental impact and the fact that it is in the hands of a cabal of big tech firms using it to turn a profit.
- Is there a way it could be retained? Publicly owned, democratically governed, socially useful, and existing within planetary boundaries?
- Watched: Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain
- Episode 2. Focuses on the Battle of Orgreave.
- Police brutality. State violence.
- Read: A Modern Anarchism (Part 1): Anarchist Analysis
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)Having the best tools does you absolutely no good unless you’re going to use them. Collecting notebooks, fountain pens, or even typewriters is useless (other than their inherent beauty) without their use.
Loving your use of real life index cards.
- Read: Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten
- Contemplating whether I should send webmentions from my digital garden.
- Maybe, maybe not.
- There’s plenty of ways to send webmentions from a static site, plenty of people doing it.
- So I could, but I wonder if I should.
- Perhaps webmentions should only be sent when I post a more considered long-form article, or when I post something to my stream.
- Not sure.
- Should I send webmentions from my digital garden?
- Listened: How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy
- Most people think recycling is all you need to do to prevent waste.
- Reframe the message and move people’s consciousness up the waste hierarchy.
- Buy Nothing New Month.
- Really interesting discussion around societal norms and reuse (e.g. what happens when you give second-hand presents at kids’ birthday parties…)
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)The Europe PKM Summit 2024 coming up on March 22 – 23 looks like a who’s-who of the tools for thought crowd. I’m putting together a few ideas myself… https://pkmsummit.com/
- Kickstarted the spacemacs / spacemacs packages update dance.
- Because of the error “Invalid type in command series” from org-super-agenda.
- As always, kind of wish I hadn’t. Updating spacemacs 2024-03-12.
- I created a quick function to help extract bold sections from text into bullet points.
- Most narrative text is usually just verbose prose around a few relevant points.
- So when I’m parsing some text, I bold the relevant bits.
- Then I pull those out to review them as bullets.
- This function helps quickly pull the bold text into bullets.
- Love the fact you can so easily configure Emacs to do this kind of thing!
- Listened: Brian Merchant, “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech”
- Spam.
- Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
- Incredibly irritating.
- With comments like
1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0). - We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
- Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
- The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full
- Listened: The cybernetic jacket
- The left receives threats that Jakarta is coming.
- A reference to the brutal murder of Communists in Indonesia.
- Read: The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)
- The Jakarta Method.
- CIA involvement in brutally violent suppression of communist societies.
- Read: For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought