2025-04-03

• The [[Drake Equation]] is fun to think about.
  • Even if it’s contested as to whether the figures it produces have any real meaning.

2025-04-01

• Philip has put a great page together on your options at [[Windows 10 end-of-life]].

  • https://wiki.restarters.net/Windows_10_End_of_Life pull

• I occasionally have the deep misfortune of ending up on [[Amazon]]. Talk about [[enshittification]]. Endless random brand names, 50 random variations of the same crappy product. ‘Sponsored’ products. This is not a site that cares about its users.

2025-03-31

• [[Pathways that I’ve done on Kinnu]]

2025-03-30

• [[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.

  • "So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour – be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts – shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] – that give rise to their emergent behaviour"

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero
    • tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Net zero]].
  • In defense of digital commoning
    • tags: [[Digital commons]].
  • #2 – Symphonies of Imagination
    • In particular, the solarpunk-flavoured essay on Repair.
    • [[Solarpunk]]. [[Repair]].
  • Use Emacs in GUI mode on Android (using Termux and Termux X11)
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].
  • Emacs + Termux on Android: Code, Org-mode and Agenda, Dired, Magit and more…
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].

• [[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:

  • "Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"

• Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].

2025-03-29

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • [[Apple]] started making the most money when they had the platform through which they sold apps made by others and took a percentage of all sales.
  • A form of [[Rent]].
  • [[Google]], [[Amazon]], others as well.
  • I guess this is where it’s quite similar to [[platform capitalism]].
    • I guess Varoufakis is saying it’s something qualitatively different, Srnicek is saying it’s a new evolution of capitalism.
    • Either way, seem to be in agreement that it’s big, new, and bad.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Bolivia]]. [[Ecuador]]. [[buen vivir]].
  • Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists | Astronomy | The Guardian
    • tags: [[Astronomy]]. [[Dark energy]].
  • Don’t fork the ecosystem - by Gordon Brander
    • tags: [[software ecosystems]].
  • Is a New Economic System Necessary to Address Climate Change? - Stuart - 2025 - WIREs Climate Change - Wiley Online Library
    • tags: [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Climate change]]. [[system change]].

• [[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.

  • I noted that down when listening to [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]], which says something like that - need to go back and find the exact quote.

• I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.

2025-03-28

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
    • tags: [[Google]]. [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • How much electricity do AI generators consume? | The Verge
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • Report | AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat — Open Markets Institute
    • tags: [[AI]]
  • Chip Production’s Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate and Environmental Impact
    • tags: [[Chip production]].
  • What is the Future of Work in the Generative AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[The future of work]].

2025-03-27

• Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.

• [[Bookmarked]]

  • A Political Ecology of the Repair Manual
    • tags: [[Repair]]. [[repair manuals]].
  • Geographies of Digital Wasting
    • tags: [[Waste]]. [[supply chains]].
  • Thinking about 12 aspects of personal information/knowledge management
    • tags: [[personal knowledge management]].

• [[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere

  • Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
  • Troposphere, …?

• Fuck me, [[snap]] is still taking up so much drive space.

  • I don’t have a lot to spare!
  • I had to install slack via it the other day. Probably that.
  • Maybe, but kf6-core24 is taking up the most space - 10.7 GB.
    • What’s caused that to be installed?
    • Dunno. It’s something KDE-related. But according to checking snap connections on various installed snaps, nothing is currently using it.
    • Removing with extreme prejudice!
  • Also /var/lib/snapd/ is gigs big.
    • Cleared /var/lib/snapd/cache/.
  • Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next time…

• [[How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century]]

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • [[Feudalism]]. [[Rent]].

2025-03-23

• [[Circular economy]].

2025-03-22

• [[Astronomy]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • I think his history and overview of how big tech firms got to where they are seems good. And like I said, very well written.
  • I take the technofeudalism stuff with a pinch of salt. Interesting, but, debatable, and probably doesn’t matter all that much whether it’s something other than capitalism or not. How do we stop it is the most important thing.
    • [[Blackrock]]. [[Vanguard]]. [[State Street]].

2025-03-21

• My script that pushes to the commonplace-agora repo has stopped pushing.

  • Turns out it’s because the SSH key has expired.
  • Since when did my SSH keys have expiry dates?
    • I guess it’s a gitlab setting.
  • I sshed to my server, created a new key, copied it to gitlab, all from my phone. God bless you [[Termux]] and [[fish]].

• Thinking about [[How to actively thwart enclosure and cooptation of the digital commons]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • Cloud serfs, cloud proles, cloud fiefs, cloudalists.

2025-03-20

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • [[Enclosure of the digital commons]].
  • [[Cloud capital]].
  • [[Modern Times]] and its similarity to working in an Amazon warehouse today.

2025-03-18

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • What led to [[2008 financial crisis]]. Financialisation. Derivatives. Stock options.

2025-03-16

• Read: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • I like the little detour into metallurgy and the [[Bronze Age]] and [[Iron Age]].
  • The history of capitalism and finance in the 20th century a bit more dry, though he does a good job at trying to make it more engaging.
  • [[Bretton Woods]]. [[US trade deficit]]. [[Nixon Shock]].

2025-03-15

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • ‘All the birds returned’: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
    • tags: [[China]]. [[Conservation]].
  • China’s Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition - Chen - Antipode - Wiley Online Library
    • tags: [[China]]. [[ecological civilization]]. [[Climate Leviathan]].

• [[Read]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • Really enjoying the intro and opening chapter. The personal style is engaging and liking the down to earth way of discussing [[historical materialism]].

2025-03-14

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism w/ Yanis Varoufakis]]

2025-03-12

• Listened: [[China Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel]]

2025-03-08

• Listened: [[Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism: An Introduction]]

• God, [[snap]] is eating up a lot of space on my drive.

  • I think I’ll try to avoid using it in future.

• [[Bookmarked]]

  • The UN Is Working To Open Source Your Government: For Better Or Worse
  • A reading group for hopeful technologists — Careful Industries
  • Out of the Graveyard, into the Fire: A Review of Slow Down and Marx in the Anthropocene
  • Why has PKK leader called on group to dissolve – and why does it matter?

2025-02-15

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead - marcan.st
  • The free software commons
  • Eight Pro-Social Platforms that Didn’t Work
  • I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? | Nightingale
  • From Data to Art: Making “Rat Revolution” | Nightingale
  • The populistisation of green politics and the greening of populism: an examination of environmental populism in Europe

2025-02-01

• Having an absolutely tedious time trying to figure out why the WiFi keeps on dropping out on some of the devices in our house.

2025-01-31

• [[The Word for World is Forest]]

• Lots of interesting people post interesting things on [[LinkedIn]]. If I want to read them, I have to use that platform. Accursed network effects.

2025-01-26