- Read: What a waste: our study shows almost half of electricals sent for recycling could be reused
- The Restart Project set up in a Household Waste Recycling Centre (in Brent, London).
- Assessed the reusability of products being brought in for recycling.
- Shocking results: almost 50% could have an easy second life (either fully functional as is, or in need of only minor repair).
- There needs to be less focus on recycling, and much more on reuse and repair.
- Filtering and diverting initiatives should be mandatory.
Category: journal
- Soccer96 – I was gonna fight fascism
- Listened to Seto Kaiba is My Role Model
- Changes in the forces of production come into conflict with the relations of production.
- The infinite replicability of digital assets is in conflict with the wishes of corporations who profit from artificial scarcity.
- From memory, I think Paul Mason discusses this in Post Capitalism.
- Also the phrase What is possible in the information age is in direct conflict with what is permissible from the Telekommunist Manifesto comes to mind.
- Listened to The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield
- Listened to How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe
- Replacing Google Fonts usage with locally-served font
- It could be time for a new season of Node Club…
- I should back up my Doom config on Termux.
- Given I’ve spent enough time configuring it now that it would be a pain to have to redo it.
- Backing up my Doom Emacs config on Termux.
I listened to Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism.
- It’s a good episode.
- I like Kai Heron, and I’ve found the debate between various strands of ecosocialist thought very interesting.
- But I also lament the time spent disagreeing amongst ourselves on the left.
- Is it ultimately useful? What if all this intellectual effort could be spent on bringing about a transition away from capitalism, and towards ecosocialism?
- I don’t know – perhaps the debate is contributing to that transition, in part, in a roundabout. And I suppose that if we don’t know what we stand for, we can’t meaningfully work towards it.
- But still. It has vibes of The People’s Front of Judea vs the Judean People’s Front.
- Not got to the end yet, so perhaps this will be covered
- Listened to Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)
- Shells.
- Listened to Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”
- About Israel’s AI targeting system, “Lavender“.
- Read: Emacs: Dead and Loving It
- “What is dead cannot die”
- Emacs
- Working on some improvements to the look and feel of my writing mode that I use when in org-roam.for Emacs.
Not sure if this has happened just recently, or I’ve been living with it for a long time, but: case sensitive node search in org-roam was starting to bug me.
- Turns out that it’s Helm that is doing it, when set to the ‘smart’ completion algorithm.
- I just need to
(setq helm-case-fold-search t)and all is good – much smoother completion experience. - See: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/v2-case-insensitive-completion-and-backlinks-not-working-as-expected/1701/17
- In Doom, something different.
- I’ll pop it in a separate note: Turning on case-insensitive search in org-roam
- Listened to New Economics Podcast: Should we be going for growth?
- Good discussion.
- Growth. GDP . Degrowth. Green growth. Decoupling. Doughnut economics. Policies for alternatives to growth. Growthism. Growth is structurally baked in – how to change that?
- Listened to Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism
- LLMs. AGI. Political economy of AI. Neo-Luddism. Left spirituality. Fun wide ranging discussion.
- Habitat loss.
- One of the most significant threats to biodiversity.
- Film theory looks at films and the effect they have on society.
- I find this really interesting so learning a little on it via Kinnu.