- I finally managed to start (just as it’s finishing!) the Digital Capitalism online course from the Transnational Institute.
- “6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world”
- The first week of which is titled ‘What is digital capitalism?’
- I’m most looking forward to week 6 – titled ‘What’s the alternative? The digital world we want to live in’
- And the tripleC special issue on digital capitalism just came out.
- Apropos of the above, for node club (AKA Homebrew Commons Club) I’m going to write about digital capitalism
Kind: Articles
- Ecology
- I should put more images in my garden.
- I stumbled on the page on Jean Baudrillard, which has no text. But the picture is fun.
- Finally finished watching Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain.
- National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
- Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
- Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.
- 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.
- 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.