Kind: Notes

The government is playing chicken with GPs. Ultimately to undermine the NHS. Part of a narrative that Sajid Javid wants to push that it is to blame for any shortcomings. A narrative aided and abetted by papers like the Daily Mail.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/oct/21/face-off-the-government-versus-gps

Heh, Truth Social is an (uncredited) fork of Mastodon.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump

Robot dogs with guns. What could possibly go wrong.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42717/robot-dogs-can-now-have-6-5mm-assault-rifles-mounted-on-their-backs

> If money, according to Augier, ‘comes into the world with a congenital bloodstain on one cheek,’ capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt.

― Marx, Capital, Vol. 1

True fact: the Thinkpad nipple mouse thingy was designed to allow you to carry on working when your cat has rocked up and sat on you and most of the trackpad.

Bookmarked: On the Sustainability of Free Software

> the FSFE demands the publication of a device’s underlying source code under a free licence 30 at the end of support for any software necessary to run or modify the initial functioning of the device.

https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability.html

This so-called Decentralised Wiki appears to be centralised.

https://wiki.lobby.so

hyphapunk

Trying to write a blog post, and reminded how simple it is to make a scrapbook of notes, and how the harder part is moving from a collector to being the creator of some new synthesis. I think partly because I haven’t really been documenting my own notions along the way; not so as to make them easily reusable, at least. They’re there, but need some excavation.