Kind: Notes

“On this evening in the City of Light, a hundred million connected devices sing through the wires and the aether. Of the waves that ripple through the urban fabric, at whatever scale, very few escape being captured by them, and represented in bursts of binary data. Enciphered within are billions of discrete choices, millions of lives in motion, the cycling of the entire economy, and, at the very edge of perception, the signs and traces of empire’s slow unwinding.”

Radical Technologies has a cracking first chapter.

Saw Sorry to Bother You. Laugh out loud funny at times. Pro-worker, anti-capitalist, touches on race and slavery. Moral of the story – don’t sell out for money. Definitely worth a watch!
About halfway through, and I’m enjoying Consider Phlebas so far.  It’s my book I’m reading at night at the moment, and it’s ticking the boxes for that (nicely written and not too taxing).  It’s not a really strong plot, but kind of a series of gripping set pieces and cinematic imagery.  Slightly overly masculine in viewpoint I think.

One part of it was a bit bloody grim.

The Bits and Baums conference looks like it was really good. A coming together of leftist techies and environmentalists to find common ground and common demands and strategies.

“Civil society and a critical scientific community have the skills and the strength to help shape digitization in the long term. We cannot merely leave digitization to business and politics.”

A good wide breadth of areas of tech covered in their demands too. Looks promising. Would like to go if there is one next year.

https://www.degrowth.info/en/2018/12/a-conference-for-digitalization-and-sustainability-reflections-on-bits-baume/

Hmm, noticed a couple of things to sort out indieweb-wise:

– replies/likes via micropub don’t seem to send webmentions?
– replies/likes via micropub are created as WordPress link posts, not asides, so I need to do the same thing as I did with asides to fix the problem with too much content being sent through