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Read [[Digitalization and the Anthropocene]], liked how they look at historical examples of ICT in relation to environment and society, such as cuneiform script in Sumer, accounting and printing in British industrialization.

They say ICTs have always had deep effects on political agency and resource
extraction, and now more so than ever with digitalization.

(they call ‘digital’ ICTs what I have always thought of as just ICT, and the widespread
deployment of digital ICTs as "digitalization")

Something reminded me that I volunteered once on a thing where we went to a festival on its last day to collect discarded tents. Hundreds, field after field of them, just been bought for 2 days and then left behind like disposable rubbish.

We collected as many as we could that were not wrecked for distribution to refugees in Calais / Dunkirk. I guess the others just got binned. Unbelievable waste.

I have been reading [[Thinking in Systems]] a little the last week and absolutely loving it.
The stock and flow diagrams are a fun way to think about things. Reminded me that I used to enjoy graph theory back in the day, in no small part because l just liked drawing out little pictures of nodes and edges.

I started reading [[The Annual Migration of Clouds]]. Early days but seems like a decent bit of post apocalyptic climate science fiction. The thing with the ‘Cad’ is interesting. After hearing about gut microbiomes of late I’m up for a bit of fungal symbiosis.

This is a nice podcast interview about [[Ivan Illich]] and his work.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/012-l-m-sacasas-on-ivan-illich

Enjoyed doing some [[synchronized pomodoros]] with @flancian@social.coop today.

I was doing a review of a peer’s presentation. Got it finished. Pomo power.

Today’s pomos were brought to you by https://stream.resonate.coop/artist/17002/release/scherven-2001-2002 and https://stream.resonate.coop/artist/13936/release/sakura courtesy of [[resonate]]

Immensely proud of this #project.

Open Repair Alliance dataset increases to 81,000 records of community repair

@zenlan@mstdn.social and me have been plugging away at this for years now at @restartproject@mastodon.green.

Defining a standard for community repair data, i.e. the kind of stuff you log at a #RepairCafe, coordinating the pooling of data collected by lots of different partners, wrangling it all together and releasing it as one big #OpenData set.

Started out as an idea back in 2017 and now there’s over 80,000 records and it has been used in #RightToRepair campaining.

#DataCommons

Digital Climate Justice

Thursday 9th February, 17:00 – 18:20 CET

"How do colonial legacies and enduring colonial dynamics driving the technological industrial complex play out in the climate justice landscape? What movements or initiatives have been successful so far when it comes to resisting climate injustices driven by digital technologies?"

https://digitalfreedomfund.org/another-tech-is-possible/

Lovely

"If capitalism is a disease, then it’s one that eats your flesh – and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that harvest to tourists who pay to visit your headstone."

— [[A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things]]

Genuine question: can anyone point me to a practical usage of actor-network theory? (from Bruno Latour). I read [[Technology appropriation in a de-growing economy]] and they discuss a Marxist spin on ANT. For the purposes of appropriating technology from Big Tech for degrowth ends. And while I like all the words, I can’t quite get a grasp on what it really means and what you’d actually do…