• What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
• [[Search and Seizure]].
• Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
  • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
  • How am I going to do X?
  • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
  • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
  • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
  • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
  • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
  • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
  • Add conflict as the video goes on
  • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
    • South Park
  • Include a [[Why]]
  • Keep ending short but with a payoff
• Incident management game collapsed:: true
  • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
• A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Redefine the fight"
  • Aviate navigate communicate
• [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
• Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
• [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
• "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
• [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
  • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
  • Textile Onion
  • Winterfat
  • Chokecherry
  • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
  • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
  • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
• “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
• Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
• Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
  • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
  • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
• "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
• "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
• John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
• Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
• [[Copywriting swipefile]]
• A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
• "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
  • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."

2024-06-15

• The [[social model of disability]] is very interesting.

2024-06-07

• [[Human physiology]]

  • Cardiovascular system
    • Pumping blood, supplying nutrients and removing waste.
  • Respiratory system
    • Breathing. Gas exchange.
  • The human body is amazing. All of these intricate interconnected systems working away all of the time.

• Listened: [[Jeremy Corbyn & Mhairi Black: Left Culled, Centre Cracked and Right Reformed?]]

• Listened: [[The ‘blue wall’ road trip: Tories jumping ship?]]

  • Exploring whether previous Tory strongholds will be turning Liberal Democrat or other in the upcoming election.
  • I like these John Harris roadtrip interview style episodes where he goes and chats to real people around the country.

• Listened: [[New Frank Hester allegations]]

  • New allegations that the main Tory donor is a bit of a shit (misogynistic, racist). Shocker.

2024-06-06

• [[Digitisation]] vs [[digitalisation]]
  • Digitisation is basically turning the act of encoding analogue into digital.
  • Digitalisation is the wider process of more and more of processes of society being digitised and filtered through digital processes.

2024-06-05

• Listened: [[Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate]]
  • [[Keir Starmer]] and [[Rishi Sunak]] both being uninspiring from the sounds of it.
  • No clear winner. Unlikely to change opinion polls much.

2024-06-04

• Why the fuck is [[The Guardian]] advertising some private healthcare subscription to me on their podcasts.

• [[Commonism]].

  • Discussed in Agora Discuss.

• Listened: [[Election Extra: Nigel Farage is back]]

  • [[Nigel Farage]], opportunist extraordinare, now leader of [[Reform UK]] party.
  • Bad for the Tories, which is usually good, but generally just bad for everyone all round. Especially if he gets elected to Clacton.

2024-06-03

• Listened: [[Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?]]

  • Teflon Trump. He’ll still run. And this will make no difference to people who already like [[Donald Trump]].
  • Best hope is that maybe it will affect some swing voters.

• Listened: [[Has there been a purge of the leftwing of the Labour party?]]

  • Shitty treatment of [[Diane Abbott]] and [[Faiza Shaheen]].
  • Attempts to stop them running as Labour candidate.
  • General bad treatment of candidates from the left of the party.

2024-06-02

• [[Read]] / [[Listened]]: [[Taming Big Techification? The European Digital Markets Act]]

  • [[Digital Markets Act]]
  • [[The EU has no homegrown Big Tech companies of its own]]

• Read: [[Children die of malnutrition as Rafah operation shifts threat of famine in Gaza]]

2024-05-31

• Learned about [[Bunny Fonts]] from James.

  • Looks great. GDPR friendly, and a much simpler way of of replacing Google Fonts than [[replacing Google Fonts remote server usage with a locally-served font]].
  • [[Replacing Google Fonts with Bunny Fonts]].
  • ([[What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?]])

• [[Listened]]: [[Digitalisation and the Security State]]

  • Important stuff. Everyone should listen to this.
  • The connection between digital technology companies and state surveillance and violence.
  • Israel is a major source of surveillance and weapons technology companies, selling to US and Europe technologies they have built to control the Palestinian people.

2024-05-29

• [[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
  • Some of the discussion around counties reclaiming agency over their trade overlaps with the material on the [[digital trade]] agenda in the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].

2024-05-28

• [[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
  • [[Imperialism]] and [[neocolonialism]].
  • [[Unequal exchange]].

2024-05-26

• I finished off Week 3 of the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].

  • This week the topic was [[Digital colonialism]].
  • With mostly a focus on [[Data colonialism]].
  • In that focus on data I feel perhaps it omits some other colonial practices - such as in mining, manufacture and disposal related to ICT.
  • Still - good stuff.

• Started listening to the masterclass for week 4, on the digital trade agenda.

  • The point about why corporations love trade deals is really enlightening - easy way for them to bypass democratic discussion; lobby to get their way; once a trade deal is made, it’s very hard to change.

• Learning about ecology on Kinnu, I realise that it’s a great source of ideas for thinking in systems.

  • It’s the ultimate system, basically.
  • I think [[The Systems View of Life]] would be about this to some degree.

2024-05-24

• [[Listened]]: [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]

  • Mostly [[Ulises Mejias]]‘ section.
    • [[Data colonialism]] is his topic, works on it with [[Nick Couldry]].
    • He outlines the scale of the land grab of [[colonialism]].
    • Makes the connection to data colonialism.
    • Draws a line from [[Cheap Nature]] to [[Cheap Labour]] to [[Cheap Data]] (the first two based on [[Jason W. Moore]]‘s ideas I’m assuming).

• [[World-Ecology]].

2024-05-22

• I’d like to redesign the look and feel of my digital garden.
  • Nothing drastic, but to move more to a representative aesthetic.
  • I want to try to maintain the cheap-n-cheerful weird web vibe, but also incorporate more of a nature-labour-technology solarpunk-ish look.
  • I want my digital garden to be more visual, less textual.
    • To be fair it is majority text, but I still want it to feel a bit more visual.
  • [[My commonplace moodboard]]

2024-05-21

• [[Data colonialism]]
  • Mentioned in [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]

2024-05-20

• [[Listened]]: [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]
  • From [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • A mention of "Within the system, against the system, and beyond the system"
  • Matches exactly with [[resist, regulate, recode]]

2024-05-19

• [[Cooperation Jackson]] and the [[Jackson-Kush Plan]] are explicitly [[ecosocialist]] in outlook.

  • There’s a good summary of [[ecosocialism]] in the intro to [[Jackson Rising Redux]].

• They also work on the principle of instituting [[non-reformist reform]]s.

  • What might some non-reformist reforms for [[digital ecosocialism]] be?

• [[Digital counterpower]]

2024-05-17

• Read: [[Critique of techno-feudal reason]]

  • Well, sort of read it - actually half listened to it via Wallabag while taking the bubba out for an early walk.
  • Dense and erudite, as you expect from Morozov.
  • Didn’t follow half of it this first time around to be honest, but I take away the basic message that he’s critical of the general idea of [[techno-feudalism]].

• [[There is no capitalism without colonialism]].

2024-05-15

• [[Listened]]: [[The dangers of digital capitalism]]
  • Excellent webinar from [[Transnational Institute]].
  • On [[digital capitalism]] and more.
  • Some great speakers, I should find out more about them.
    • I’ve come across [[Jack Qiu]] before from [[Goodbye iSlave]].

2024-05-13

• [[Listened]]: [[Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism]]

2024-05-12

• After a long hiatus, low-key writing [[Reclaim the Stacks: reflections, May 2024]].

• Reading [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue]]

2024-05-11

• [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • I finished Week 1.
  • (Mostly - not had chance to go through all the further materials yet.)

2024-05-04

• Read through some of the materials from week 1 of [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
  • What is [[digital capitalism]]?

2024-05-03

• I finally managed to start (just as it’s finishing!) the [[Digital Capitalism online course]] from the [[Transnational Institute]].

  • "6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world"
  • The first week of which is titled ‘What is digital capitalism?’
  • I’m most looking forward to week 6 - titled ‘What’s the alternative? The digital world we want to live in’

• And the [[tripleC]] special issue on digital capitalism just came out.

  • [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]].

• Apropos of the above, for [[node club]] (AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]) I’m going to write about [[digital capitalism]].

2024-04-28

• [[Ecology]]

  • [[Keystone species]]

• I should put more images in my garden.

  • I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.

• Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].

  • National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
  • Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
  • Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.

• Read [[Palestine speaks for everyone]]

2024-04-27

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• [[Digital weeding and watering]]

  • Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
  • This has been very useful already.
  • I’ve found:
    • pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
    • duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
    • pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
    • mistakenly created pages
  • And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.

• I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.

  • [[The Mechanic and the Luddite]]

• [[Repairing a Dell Latitude E7450]]

2024-04-26

2024-04-23

• Read: [[What a waste: our study shows almost half of electricals sent for recycling could be reused]]
  • [[The Restart Project]] set up in a Household Waste Recycling Centre (in Brent, London).
  • Assessed the reusability of products being brought in for recycling.
  • Shocking results: almost 50% could have an easy second life (either fully functional as is, or in need of only minor repair).
  • There needs to be less focus on recycling, and much more on reuse and repair.
  • Filtering and diverting initiatives should be mandatory.

2024-04-22

• [[Listened]] to [[There’s hope yet for UK waste and repair policy, with Green Alliance]]

2024-04-21

• Soccer96 - I was gonna fight fascism

• [[Listened]] to [[Seto Kaiba is My Role Model]]

2024-04-20

• Changes in the [[forces of production]] come into conflict with the [[relations of production]].

  • The infinite replicability of digital assets is in conflict with the wishes of corporations who profit from artificial scarcity.
  • From memory, I think Paul Mason discusses this in Post Capitalism.
  • Also the phrase [[What is possible in the information age is in direct conflict with what is permissible]] from [[the Telekommunist Manifesto]] comes to mind.

• [[Listened]] to [[The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield]]

• [[Listened]] to [[How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe]]