Kind: Notes

Brilliant evening at [[Piel View House]] in Barrow at the reopening event for [[Full of Noises]].

Live music from [[Secluded Bronte]] was an absolute treat! Did not know what to expect and got some kind of wild mix of The Fall, Half Man Half Biscuit and Can.

Bumped in to someone from the Repair Cafe who makes experimental music. Rad.

Discussed the possibilities of [[live coding]] and [[circuit bending]] workshops which would be amazing.

Feeling very enthused.

I needed some decent bags for lugging stuff to the Repair Cafe and I got a mammoth Dell laptop bag and a slightly more bijou Wenger bag for £3 each from the charity shop 2nd hand and I could not be happier. So. many. pockets! I think I might have a hitherto unbeknownst bag fetish.
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.
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