Kind: Notes

We need to do more to ensure open government data is used for purposes with social value. Data sets related to society are digital public assets that should be contribute to common wealth.

It has been misused in the past as a means to legitimate the privatisation of public services.

I need a few read throughs of this report to take it all in… but it has a lot of good food for thought.

https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/digital-public-assets.html

Industrial Action

youtube-dl -f ‘bestaudio[ext=m4a]’ https://invidio.us/watch?v=ZOgwP9wROrY

just sayin’

Providing free and fast broadband to all households and businesses is great. I’m not so sure about one state-owned organisation running the entire network though. I wonder if state assistance to local, publicly-owned local initiatives might be better.

Groups like B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) have done a great job setting up local, rural broadband, building community in the process.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/11/internet-for-all/
https://b4rn.org.uk/

Being on the left, sometimes:

Classic Monty Python 😀

People’s Front of Judea: ‘The only people we hate more than the Romans.. are the Judean People’s Front’

Sometimes feel powerless from the other side of the world. But solidarity is always needed for those in struggle.

‘On his way to exile, he wrote that he is “very grateful to the solidarity of the people, brothers from Bolivia and the world who reach out with recommendations, suggestions and expressions of recognition that give us encouragement, strength and energy. They moved me to tears. They never abandoned me; I will never abandon them.”’

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/11/bolivias-far-right-coup/

I’m thinking that the only built-in interaction I want a social network to have is ‘reply’.

‘The Brazilian working class and the left is under attack of a vicious political project that is globally articulated with the most reactionary currents in the world. We can only beat the populist right with an internationalist working class movement. Our weapon is solidarity, our struggle is international.’

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/11/lula-livre/

seize the means of connection

Mind a bit blown by an intro to the ideas in Caliban and the Witch.