Interesting discussion with David Harvey on Marxism as primarily a means of analysis of capital, and what kind of role a state could play in alternate forms of government. https://youtu.be/EL7zEVhPHQU
Kind: Notes
The main reasons for the pro-Uber argument seem to be the loss of ’employment’ for some of its drivers, and the convenience, affordability, and (debatable) safety for passengers. So people are really arguing for jobs and good public transport. Is Uber the best avenue for that? I don’t think so. They run at a huge loss in order to dominate the market, and once that happens prices will go up, and eventually jobs will go. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/23/uber-transport-for-london-tfl-drivers-hardship-sadiq-khan-supports-ban
“With the welfare state, most of these commons were state-ified, i.e. managed by the state, and no longer by the commoners themselves. […] Today, with the crisis of the welfare state, we see the re-development of new grassroots solidarity systems, which we could call ‘commonfare’, and the neoliberalisation and bureaucratisation of the welfare systems may well call for a re-commonification of welfare systems, based on public-commons partnerships.” http://commonstransition.org/history-evolution-commons/
Having fun making animations with perlin noise in p5js – so cool – https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/450418
Is there something on Android that allows me to copy/insert macros? e.g. If I want to insert (or just copy to clipboard) the current date/time in a particular format.
A society beyond consumerism: https://newint.org/blog/2017/09/14/consumerism-disappointment
So many ideas, things to do, things to learn. So little time. Can’t possibly get it all done. Solution: Co-operate with others 🙂
Scrapy – an open source framework for extracting the data you need from websites. https://scrapy.org/
Wot wot, a new Star Trek series?! Looks a bit action-oriented, not idea-oriented like the heyday of TNG. But still, could be fun. https://www.netflix.com/title/80126024
Exporting Clock Entries from org-mode to CSV: http://unconj.ca/blog/exporting-clock-entries-from-org-mode-to-csv.html