- How do you socialise something that has been privatised?
- i.e. how do you enact deprivatisation.
- Watched: Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Listened: Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)
- Luddism.
- Claim: Free software movement was a form of Luddism.
- Great example. Hackers were clearly not anti-technology, they were concerned about the enclosure of technology for capitalism.
- A ‘trick’ I use when I have some issue with a particular file in my org-publish pipeline on my remote server.
- In
org-publish-project-alist
, set:base-extension "foo"
.- By default it is “org”, looking at all files with org extension.
- By setting it to foo, the publish process won’t find any files. Except..
- Set up
:include
to include the file that’s got the issue.- e.g.
:include ("file-with-a-problem.org")
- e.g.
- There’s probably a better way of doing it than this, but it gets me by for now.
- In
- Nice, I replaced a
cl-loop
with amapconcat
in some of my output formatting, e.g. in Well-connected. mapconcat feels a bit more functional style, and it also gets rid of the superfluous parentheses I had in the output. - I might try and add Pagefind to my published garden.
- Trying fish out on desktop.
- While on mobile I found them incredibly helpful, I actually find it all of the autosuggestions a bit distracting at first.
- I’ll see how it pans out.
- Listened: How the World Became Uninsurable
- Insurance sector has had huge losses four years in a row.
- Due to the general ongoing collapse of the world.
- They are hiking insurance premiums as a result.
- Claim: We need to eliminate the private insurance sector.
- Also bit of a chat about neo-Luddism too.
- I’ve been enjoying using Python in org.
- Workbook style.
- Kind of literate programming/thinking/prototyping.
- A couple of times I get to a point where it makes more sense to put figures in a spreadsheet.
- But spiking it out in Python is way more interesting for me.
- Read: Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
- Listened: Capitalist Manufacturing // Manufacturing Communism – Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez)
- On the need for an understanding of production in order to harness it for communism.
- That is – how do we actually manufacture things?
- Listened: The socialist spoon
- Ep 2 of The Santiago Boys.
- Coup in Brazil supported by US.
- US trying to foment the same against Allende.
- Setting up of cybersyn and the war room.
- ITT.
- The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)
- Also brings to mind the show Upload.
- And of course Black Mirror.
- Work Notes 2024-02-26
- ‘Dear Data Subject’ and other great ways to start an email.
- Matomo.
- They mention that they are now using a data broker for “customer and prospect data enrichment”.
- “We process this personal data on the basis of legitimate interest. Without the information we will not be able to customise our communications with you to best meet your needs”.
- I find the wording a bit weaselly to be honest. Better would be “We want this information so we can more likely retain and get new customers”. Fine – just be honest about it.
- You can opt-out. Not opt-in?
- Using Python in org, I was getting: Importmagic and/or epc not found.
- Listened: The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)
- Digital decay
- Digital memorials
- Makes me think of the film Coco…
- Transhumanists
- magit doesnt work properly for me in termux for some reason. I can stage but I cant commit.
- No biggie as I just git from the terminal instead. But still, would be good to get to the bottom of it.
- Had a quick play with Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims using Metabase.
- Easy enough to do. But has the downside for me at the moment that it’s only accessible on my laptop, which I’m not often using at the moment outside of work.
- Knowledge commoning.
- AI
- Listened: The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)
- Various topics related to tech and death.
- Digital estates. What do you do with people’s digital life when they die?
- Dead labour. Extracting value from people event after they’re dead.
- Customising some key bindings would make one-handed phone tending my garden in Emacs in termux easier.
- Let’s have a look how best to do that…
- Read: AI deepfakes come of age as billions prepare to vote in a bumper year of elections
- Bloody tech bros building their shit without any democratic process or thinking through the repercussions.
- Listened: TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 2
- Mute Compulsion chapter 2.
- Power and Marxism.
- Historical materialism.
- Trying out fish shell on termux to make command line life a little easier on the phone.
- Loving it so far. Makes me wonder why I’m still using bash on desktop.
- For reference: My fish in termux setup.
- Regarding Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims, it’d be good to also surface claims that have no supporting evidence linked to them.