- 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
Author: Neil Mather
- Listened: The cybernetic jacket
- Ep 4 of The Santiago Boys.
- strike action across Chile.
- And how Allende‘s government deal with it, with the help of the Cybersyn team.
- Watched: Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain
- Finished the first episode. Focused on Shirebrook. The division between strikers and those that crossed the picket line. Still raw.
- Concept maps seem like something I’d be interested in. A visual way of organising knowledge focusing on the relationships between concepts.
- Vulpea and publicatorg look like they might be useful for my org-roam life.
- Listened: Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners
- Spring Statement 2024.
- This is a budget for big earners and big owners.
- It’s not good for public services.
- Don’t think I’ll be able to do a new connections page.
- At least not easily.
- It would require amending org-roam to allow for link annotations.
- See chat at https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/recording-the-date-that-connections-were-made/3379
- Adding a new connections page to my garden
- Listened: What if we became better Protopians?
- Good discussion, but it seemed more utopian than protopian.
- Lots of nice things listed for how the future could be. But, not much discussion on how to get there. Even in protopian increments.
- Listened:Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust
- Read: Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support
- Read: What’s the latest on Right to Repair in the EU? And what it means for the UK
- Been having fun looking at repairability scores from the French repair index as displayed on Amazon.fr.
- Impressive how prominent they are (being mandated to be placed next to the price).
- Claim: The free software movement is an example of neo-Luddism.
- Claim: The right to repair movement is an example of neo-Luddism.
- Both sound defensible – both movements are clearly not anti-technology, just anti the political economy of how software and hardware are controlled and commodified to the detriment of society.
- US PIRG has a short report on what it considers to be the best laptop brands for repairability.
- Listened: Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust
- Nice to see a mention of the Austrian Repair Bonus voucher scheme in National Geographic Kids.
- Plus we (The Restart Project) get a shoutout 🙂
- Read: A political ecology of the repair manual
- A lovely-looking political and philosophical ode to the repair manual by Shannon Mattern.
- Ive only skim read it for now. But check out some of the historical and hand-drawn manuals.
- Like with The Maintainers, there’s also the expansion of the concept of repair and maintenance to the wider social context.
- iFixit and Lenovo.
- Listened: Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)
- What could technology created under a different value system look like?
- He gives right to repair as another example of neo-Luddism.
- Right on. With that and free software, I seem to fit the description.
- How do you socialise something that has been privatised?
- i.e. how do you enact deprivatisation.
- Watched: Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Listened: Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)
- Luddism.
- Claim: Free software movement was a form of Luddism.
- Great example. Hackers were clearly not anti-technology, they were concerned about the enclosure of technology for capitalism.
- A ‘trick’ I use when I have some issue with a particular file in my org-publish pipeline on my remote server.
- In
org-publish-project-alist, set:base-extension "foo".- By default it is “org”, looking at all files with org extension.
- By setting it to foo, the publish process won’t find any files. Except..
- Set up
:includeto include the file that’s got the issue.- e.g.
:include ("file-with-a-problem.org")
- e.g.
- There’s probably a better way of doing it than this, but it gets me by for now.
- In
- Nice, I replaced a
cl-loopwith amapconcatin some of my output formatting, e.g. in Well-connected. mapconcat feels a bit more functional style, and it also gets rid of the superfluous parentheses I had in the output. - I might try and add Pagefind to my published garden.
- Trying fish out on desktop.
- While on mobile I found them incredibly helpful, I actually find it all of the autosuggestions a bit distracting at first.
- I’ll see how it pans out.
- Listened: How the World Became Uninsurable
- Insurance sector has had huge losses four years in a row.
- Due to the general ongoing collapse of the world.
- They are hiking insurance premiums as a result.
- Claim: We need to eliminate the private insurance sector.
- Also bit of a chat about neo-Luddism too.
- I’ve been enjoying using Python in org.
- Workbook style.
- Kind of literate programming/thinking/prototyping.
- A couple of times I get to a point where it makes more sense to put figures in a spreadsheet.
- But spiking it out in Python is way more interesting for me.
- Read: Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?