2026-04-09

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Why You Should Buy a Laptop Now - The Looming Supply Chain Crisis of 2026.]]
    • A bad take on the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
    • Counterpoint: No, don’t ‘buy a laptop now’. Do what you can to keep the one you already have lasting longer.
  • [[Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis and the Potential Impact on the Smartphone and PC Markets in 2026]]
    • Background to the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
  • [[Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles]]
    • An example of [[software obsolescence]] and [[premature obsolescence]].
    • You might be tempted to resist via jailbreaking and installing [[koreader]], and trying to dedrm your books via [[Calibre]], or just re-download via [[Z-Library]].

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Beyond Capitalism II]]
    • More details on Benanav’s plan.

• [[death and suffering]]

• [[in memoriam]]

2026-04-07

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
    • "environmentalists and socialists will need to recognize their common struggle and how that connects with the broader “movement of movements” seeking a Great Transition."
    • Google Scholar alert
  • We just released the industry’s first ever nature report.
    • "Businesses need to start seeing [[biodiversity loss]] as a core business risk. We need to think beyond just lowering emissions"
      • Via: [[Fairphone]] newsletter

• [[Stapelberg]] told me about [[MQTT]], classic pubsub that works (tm)! Nice.
• [[Jonas]] told me about [[Lissajous curves]]!
• [[EC 2026]]

2026-04-06

• [[Read]]:

  • [[How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity]]
    • Sound likes… [[Agora]]!

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[The value of an idea is determined by its relationship to others]]
  • [[Don’t spend too much time on a main note]]

• I had a great long weekend so far with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and friends!
• Met [[June]], [[MS]] and other friends on Friday.
• We biked a lot with [[KM]] and it was great :)
• Then tonight I came over to [[ZW]] ~ [[ZWZ]] with [[MS]]
• [[digital garden]]
• [[tailscale]]

2026-04-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
    • "a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a [[collaborative zettelkasten]]"
    • [[Bob Doto]]‘s website

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The Difference Between Hub Notes and Structure Notes Explained]]

• I’m going to experiment with refactoring some of my overstuffed concept notes.

  • Into smaller main notes, hub notes, and structure notes.
  • I think I’ll start with [[ecosocialism]] and [[digital ecosocialism]].
  • [[Refactoring some of the notes in my garden]].

2026-04-03

• [[Read]]:
  • [[Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes]]
    • On crafting [[main note]]s in [[zettelkasten]].
    • The description of different [[types of information]] might be helpful.
    • As a way of avoiding calling every main note a ‘claim’ - which is kind of what I’ve been doing, insofar as I’ve been doing zettelkasten.

2026-04-02

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
    • "The “[[Germany Stack]]” is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination with European partners and to be implemented entirely as [[Free Software]], since only the four freedoms enable [[digital sovereignty]]."
  • Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
    • "we’ll zoom in on the [[main note]] itself: a brief look at its components, followed by thoughts on how to craft the primary unit of information it contains, and how to reinforce it with additional information"

• I am doing a bit of a rejig to my site.

  • I’m deprecating the WordPress side of things and moving those bits to Emacs/org.
  • WordPress has served me very well for the ‘stream’ side of my online presence in the past, but I don’t have the time or need to use WordPress right now.
  • So I’ve set https://doubleloop.net to currently redirect straight to https://commonplace.doubleloop.net.
  • Commonplace I’ve always referred to as my digital garden, but it also contains elements of the stream, and long-form articles, within it.
  • I’ll make those a bit more easily discoverable.

2026-03-30

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The state of Right to Repair in 2026 (and a recap of our work last year)]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Beyond Capitalism]]

2026-03-29

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Is capitalism dead?]]:
    • About [[the end of capitalism]].
    • Unfortunately, it’s all about the end of capitalism in the bad sense - of it being replaced with something worse.
    • Surveys [[McKenzie Wark]] and [[Capital is Dead]], Varoufakis and [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]], Mason and [[Post-capitalism]].
    • Also [[Wolfgang Streeck]] and [[Richard Westra]] and [[Karen Hao]] who I had not come across before.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The rise of end times fascism
    • "The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them"
    • [[Is capitalism dead?]]

• Wrote:

  • Going to start writing latest [[Emacs Carnival]] post today.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions]]

• Seen a couple mentions of [[Readeck]] lately.

  • Someone recommending it over [[Wallabag]].

2026-03-28

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Think You’re Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
    • "a tool to help organizations figure out where they stand when it comes to [[digital sovereignty]]."
    • It’s Foss newsletter
  • Is capitalism dead?
    • "it is now easier to imagine [[the end of capitalism]] than the end of the world"
  • Digital Colonialism, Ecological Crisis and the Limits of Techno-Primitivism
    • "examines the intertwined dynamics of [[ecological crisis]], [[digitalisation]], and [[techno-primitivism]] through a genealogical and syncretic lens."
    • [[tripleC]] mailing list

2026-03-27

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
    • "how infighting has ripped [[the left]] apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide"
    • The Guardian newsletter
  • What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
    • "Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort"
  • modal.cx
    • "Modal is a new independent collective Building [[emancipatory software]] for an uncertain world"
• I wonder whether I should use for example Betula for my bookmarks.
  • Maybe, maybe not. I’ll think about what the benefits might be.
  • But I’m fine with them living messily in my garden for now.