• Finally realized the point of standard.site. I’m now publishing standard.site documents. These link back the Quartz generated website.
  • Its purpose is a little bit like RSS for a comparison.
  • I tried existing tools, but they didn’t work well for the rather unique [[Quartz]] setup I have. I built my own tooling for it.
    • Sequoia seemed promising but it had issues.
      • draft field override was ignored.
      • title is required, otherwise it’ll default to “undefined.”.
      • Frontmatter is required. If missing, it would emit errors.
  • It took me a long while to understand this. While site.standard.document records can store an editable copy of its documents. This isn’t required and its content field does not have a concrete standard. It’s intended for editor/viewing platforms like Leaflet.
    • This means that I’m not using standard.site as a means of synchronization. I already have too many forms of synchronization for the spacious nexus.
      • Though, I am just putting raw markdown for the textContent field. It could be possible to restore some data and file hierarchy with the path field. It’s not something I would rely on, but they’re here just in case the Git repositories explode, somehow.
• Quartz generates cover images. I should use those.

2026-06-11

• [[Fascism]].

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Violence is an integral part of fascism]].

2026-06-10

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Fascism is built incrementally through legislation]]

• Writing something to convert my [[Discord]] messages into markdown files. Incrementally publishing these into /Discord/.
  • Currently reads the database file maintained by Discord History Tracker. Would want it to maintain its journals in real-time someday.
  • Would want to eventually publish its repository. Maybe once after it has distinct enough features from the rest of the chat exporters.
  • Learning a bit more of [[SQL]]/SQLite in the process.

• [[Christoph]] told me about [[1mm resolution]] in location data using [[RTK]]. He’s preparing a talk on it. Very cool!

2026-06-09

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • US Personal Device Demand Dips in 2026, Returns to Growth Through 2030
    • "Demand does not disappear when people delay a purchase — it builds up. By 2027, a large installed base of aging devices starts driving a replacement wave"

2026-06-08

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Resistance and change often begin in art]].
  • [[Stories don’t just describe our world, they cast it]].

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords]]
    • Recommended by GL.

• It’s 6/7. I’m not sure if I have anything to celebrate for this fine day.

2026-06-07

• Went down a bit of a rabbit hole [[setting up tmux in Termux]].
  • Started as a way to reduce finger stretching and fast thumbing when using Termux’s built-in session switching.
  • Ended up with clipboard finagling, extra keys tweaking… general yak shaving.
  • Not convinced I’m in a better place at the end of it all.
  • But it did lead me to :os tty in Doom config, which is nice to have enabled now for showing evil mode cursors.

2026-06-06

• [[Zettled]]: [[Fascists and capital have a mutually beneficial relationship]].

• [[Zettled]]: [[Fascists are often bankrolled by the wealthy]].

• [[Zettled]]: [[Fascists attack labour movements and protect capital]].

• [[Listened]]: [[ACFM Trip 60: Shock!]]

• Wrote: [[Let’s build a digital shock doctrine for the left]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: How the myth of ‘two-tier policing’ took hold

2026-06-06

Back on this?

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: hm
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: YEYAA
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: True innovation was achieved on 2012. It was only embraced on 2026.

• Had a career conversation with my manager, it was good.

2026-06-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • GitHub Copilot users threaten exit as metered billing kicks in

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: How the murder of Henry Nowak is being exploited by the far right – The Latest
    • Nigel Farage stoking it up. Rupert Lowe.
    • Invoking two tier policing myth.

2026-06-03

• [[Listened]]: [[Today in Focus: The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right]]
  • [[Restore Britain]]
  • Big on X. Lead guy [[Rupert Lowe]] is apparently one of biggest UK politicians online.
  • Elon Musk is a fan of Rupert Lowe and [[Restore Britain]].
  • Elon Musk is awful.
  • Too many politicians are using x and letting their rhetoric and language be shaped by the culture on X.
  • Ethnic nationalism versus civic nationalism. Restore Britain very much of the former kind.

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: https://github.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/

• Learnt enough about [[AssemblyScript]] to create an auto-splitter for [[LiveSplit]].
  • Built Stinky splitter. An auto-splitter for [[Gassy GaoGao]].

2026-06-02

• [[Bookmarked]]: Popular Radicalism in Post-Industrial England
  • "Post-industrial towns are often described as increasingly right wing. While it is true that radical right parties have made headway, the real politics of [[post-industrial England]] is much more complex, and much more amenable to [[progressive politics]] than usually assumed."

2026-06-01

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[How to Blow Up a Pipeline]]
    • Discusses [[climate action]] since the 1990s. Climate camps. [[Extinction Rebellion]]. [[Fridays for Future]]. [[Ende Gelände]].
    • He suggests that Ende Gelände has some of the most advanced civil disobedience tactics.
    • General gist so far is that non-violent protest hasn’t made a difference in all the decades it has been happening, so do we need to consider something else?

2026-05-31

• On Friday went to a local screening of the [[People’s Emergency Briefing]].

  • First thoughts: It’s good for what it is but I have a couple of caveats.
  • Felt very UK focused. That’s probably the intention, but at least a mention of the climate effects on countries beyond Europe and why not the focus in this film would have been good.
  • Not a single mention of capitalism as the problem. Just generally talk of too much CO2 without much mention of the ideology that has driven that.
  • It felt quite technocratic. Technological and market solutions rather than radical political change.

• It’s the last day of the month already! How did that happen.

• Need to write [[Emacs Carnival]] post.

  • [[Emacs Carnival: May I recommend…]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: US strikes Iran as Trump faces backlash over ‘disastrous’ peace deal plan - The Latest

2026-05-30

• [[Listened]]:
  • Science Weekly: Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment?
    • In a nutshell: Humans investing inordinate amounts of resources to try to create artificial humans while ignoring the plight of actual humans and the environment.
    • Apparently [[robotics]] has now been rebranded to [[embodied AI]].
  • Today in Focus: Andy Burnham’s (third) bid for the Labour leadership
    • [[Andy Burnham]].
    • Basically presents as soft left but will say whatever needed to get elected.
  • Today in Focus: Could Nato be dragged into war with Russia? – The Latest
  • Today in Focus: Why are our homes and cities all so hot?
  • Macrodose: Adaptation Economics

• My Surface tablet was getting full. It only has 256GB of internal storage!
  • I had a Dev Drive. It’s gone now. It was taking about 6 or 7 GB of disk space from all the [[JavaScript]] repositories and packages. I used [[pnpm]] but I think it didn’t really worked with that drive? I wasn’t too sure what a Dev Drive actually did.
    • Since I removed the Dev Drive and moved my repositories back, I can use [[Windows]]‘ native compacting features.
  • Installed CompactGUI to automate native OS compacting.
  • Ran git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 on some large repositories.
  • I’m now left with 47 GB free.
  • Probably should use OneDrive more often.
• My [[Git]] + [[SilverBullet]] setup wasn’t the most optimal. I figured out why.
  Recall the default .gitattributes from GitHub Desktop. * text=auto is a good default, but it can be made better for SilverBullet.
  So, I now have * eof=lf in the .gitattributes file. This is because SilverBullet+ syncs files with LF line endings.
  • I am yet to observe “No content changes” messages from GitHub Desktop Plus.
• I’m going to try not publishing new journal entries to spacious nexus‘ site for now.
  • Maybe this can encourage me to use more of the [[agora protocol]]. Tends to feel alienating when published.
  • Something [[SEO]] related. Need a control.
• I woke up again. I figured out why. It’s [[Friday]]. Uh oh.
  • I’m missing out. Not too sure of it.

2026-05-29

• [[Bookmarked]]: National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

  • "The [[National Emergency Briefing]] was commissioned to present the latest evidence, and build an irresistible call for the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing, the essential first step towards the WW2-scale response now required."

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: ‘Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: zhe only zhing i get from reading AI slop is zhat I get to poke holes in where it isn’t poking holes
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: becuase zhat’s not exactly a feature, is it
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: you also get free backlinks so like . .
  https://bunnynabbit-voxel-telephone.mintlify.app/
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: zhe only bad zhing is zhat it might rank higher zhan your site. not sure how often zhat happens
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: as someone who wrote zhe code, it will get zhings wrong. zhe warning is false

2026-05-27

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[Today in Focus: The death penalty returns to Israel]]
    • But essentially for Palestinians only.

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Ignoring AI means ceding power over it to others]]

• Created a [[content warning]] component for [[Quartz]] 4.
• Noticed that Quartz 5 is being released.
  • Probably won’t upgrade to it. Mainly:
    • Current setup works fine.
    • Slugs are generated differently.
  • Port some of my additions to Quartz 5.

2026-05-26

• [[Listened]]:

  • Science Weekly: Ebola: how does it spread and can the outbreak be contained?

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • 99% invisble: Episode 666 Enshittification

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: 🧲
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: hosr schoe

• TODO for today, some of it work related :)
  • Prep presentation base for tomorrow
  • Write to [[BAA]]?

2026-05-25

• Wrote:

  • [[We need a digital shock doctrine for the left]].
  • I’m struggling a bit to finish this off.
  • I think it’s because I seem to be trying to write it with the tone of an academic article of sorts, whereas right now it’s really blog post territory.
  • I have rough thoughts and questions, areas to read more.
  • If I try and present it as thorough research I’ll never finish it. I think I’ll change the tone.

• Jammed:

  • Hania Rani - On Giacometti: A Live Performance at Atelier in Stampa
    • Listening to this in the shade of a tree in the sunshine at the cemetery while R sleeps in the buggy. Peaceful.
    • Very emotive piano performance.

• A view in [[Ulverston cemetery]]

⥅ [[../photos/ulverston-cemetery.jpg]]

• Perhaps a good way to distinguish myself from an AI is to speak more of my embodied experiences as a human in the world.

  • I tend to keep those private, but worth considering.

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Today in Focus: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest]]
    • Not very interesting really. Two of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world fighting over more power and wealth.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Free and open-source software as (non-) liberatory technology
  • Automating science
  • The Ghost of the Author: Mechanisation, Metricisation and Narrative Contraction in the Age of AI

• null: The maclanky isn’t just a maclanky — it’s a maclanky. You’re right to think about how delicious it would be. The maclanky isn’t-
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Allow me to break it down for you— eugh.
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: æggh. . . 🦭

2026-05-23

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Knowledge, data and information are critical production resources]].
  • [[Knowledge, data and information are exploited to reinforce capitalist control]].
  • [[Control over information flows is a vital factor in modern class conflict]].

• [[Libre software and liberatory software]].

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • 5 IT jobs AI will replace, and 5 it will not | by 💡Mike Shakhomirov | MyDataS…
  • Why Do We Keep Letting Amazon Kill Kindles? - iFixit

2026-05-21

• Note for [[Setting up a new box]]:

  • use git-restore-mtime on cloned org-roam repos, to get ordering by date in the completion buffer

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott

• Joined the [[Agora]]. [[Spacious nexus]] is now visible on @bunnynabbit.

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Microsoft Dough

• Upgraded [[SilverBullet]] to 2.8.0.
  • Checking out its new built-in Journal library.

• [[worked]]
• [[Social.coop]]:
  • Then met with [[Matt Noyes]] to discuss [[social.coop]]!
    • [[cooperative todo lists]]
    • [[memoirs of prison]] by [[Nelson Pereira dos Santos]]
    • [[safety maximizing]] vs [[freedom maximizing]]
      • [[safety maximizing]] -> [[intentional relationships]]
      • should we kick off some proposals? which ones?
    • three respects:
      • the relationships
      • the people who try to improve the system/work on it
      • the notion of consent and preference maximizing

2026-05-18

• [[Reform UK and digital technologies]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Reform UK uses TikTok as a core component of its communication strategy]]
  • [[Reform use targeted digital campaigns to deliver messages that speak directly to the priorities of local communities]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
    • Quite a mind expanding listen. I think I’m starting to grasp it, and it’s more just getting used to new terminology than a particularly complicated concept, I think.
    • Closed and open sounds like it could have interesting parallel to horizontal and vertical in organisational ecology.
    • It’s unclear to me how anything in this theory applies to actually changing the world, but it’s either that it’s a case of better understanding the enemy in order to then figure out how to overthrow it, or simply that I haven’t clocked it yet.
    • Ah fair enough at the end that question comes up and he says he has focused on description rather than alternative. Jan Groos points to some possible leftist similarities.

• [[Data brokers]]. Vacuuming up your data, then asking you to opt out of them using it.

• I seem to be having the usual post fresh install snappiness, which is nice. Like I say everytime, I should do it more often…

  • I’ve gotten back up and running pretty quickly.
  • The main thing I need to improve on is how I have slightly different config between my personal and work configs for Emacs, and I haven’t yet got a decent way of checking those changes in.

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: In JavaScript, we don’t know how to spell zhe words "public" and "private.".

2026-05-17

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
    • [[Critical systems theory]]. I haven’t understood half of what’s been said so far. But combining [[systems theory]] and [[critical theory]] sounds interesting.
    • Traces systems theory line through [[Humberto Maturana]] and [[Francisco Varela]] to [[Niklas Luhmann]].
    • Then I believe the idea is to address the absence of politics in Luhmann’s systems theory.
    • [[autopoiesis]].
  • Today in Focus: Outrage as oil giants profit billions from Iran war – The Latest
  • Today in Focus: What next for Labour as Reform wins big in local elections? – The Latest
    • Greens got a lot of the vote, but didn’t translate into a lot of seats. Reform targeted well so took a lot of the seats.
    • [[Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus]], so this is bad news…

• "According to the CPJ, Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalist killings around the world last year."

  • Guardian newsletter
  • [[Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalistic killings around the world in 2025]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for …
    • "The [[European Democracy Shield]] and the [[EU Strategy for Civil Society]] present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent media, a vibrant civil society and strong democratic institutions."
  • Linux Distributions as Coops?
    • [[Linux]] [[Cooperatives]].
  • Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention
    • "This document from the [[Metagov]] community has two goals. First, it identifies distinct layers of the [[AI stack]] that can be named and reimagined. Second, for each layer, it points to potential strategies, grounded in existing projects, that could steer that layer toward meaningful collective governance."
  • Decolonizing Degrowth: Ecosocialist Alternatives to Green Colonialism and Une…
    • "By engaging grassroots struggles and internationalist justice claims, the article outlines pathways for just [[ecosocialist transition]]s rooted in energy democracy, global redistribution, and relational ecological care."

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus]]

• How does [[Reform UK]] use digital technology? How to counter it?

• null: gay Argoman. is this anything?
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PmP5SFtXLS0
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: docs like zhese should work https://notes.bunnynabbit.com/Git
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: but zhey aren’t listed on zhe explorer
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: zhis is apparently not a feature zhat Quartz allows by default.
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: https://notes.bunnynabbit.com/Quartz
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: descriptions kind of deranged
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: HOw do i make zhem.. reranged?

2026-05-15

• Doing a fresh Linux install.

  • Permanently low on space on my 256Gb drive for some reason, getting a bit sick of it.
    • I blame Snap, Flatpak, node_modules, and keeping a Windows 10 partition around for support purposes.
  • Also on an old version of Mint, solely needed a distro upgrade anyway.
  • But I’m in fact giving Zorin a go. Mainly to get a sense of whether it’s something worth recommending in the Repair Cafe.
  • I will likely install Debian later for myself.
  • So - let’s see how quick to install and get back to a state where I can do work again. Time to dig out the [[Setting up a new box]] notes…

• [[Notes on Zorin 18.1]].

• Some notes for amendments to my new box notes…

  • I need to add fish install to new box instructions.
  • Use git ssh rather than https for git clone of private repos.
  • spacemacs install is by far most time consuming step.
    • bit annoying that you can’t leave it unattended - asks to install sqlite and vterm
      • maybe you can?
  • why is my org repo so big?
  • my dotfiles are now on codeberg
  • it’s now nerd icons for icon fonts

2026-05-14

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The Explicit Manifesto of Digital Fascism: Palantir and the Alliance of Monopoly Capital with the Far Right
    • "The [[Palantir manifesto]] is not merely a document from a tech company announcing its positions. It is a loud alarm bell that progressive forces must hear clearly: the battle over the future of technology is no longer lurking backstage. It has stepped into the open, announcing itself without shame. Those who delay in grasping this shift delay their entry into the most decisive arena of struggle in this century."
    • [[Digital fascism]].
  • The Capitalist Vision of Artificial Intelligence: Profit, Power, and Control
    • "The current development of [[artificial intelligence]] cannot be understood merely as technical progress, it is part of a system of class domination through which major corporations and capitalist states seek to increase profits, concentrate wealth, and reproduce existing relations of production"
  • The Leftist Alternative to Artificial Intelligence
    • "This vision aims to liberate [[AI]] from the constraints of the capitalist market and redirect it toward serving all humanity, transforming it into a means to improve quality of life, free people from burdensome routine labor, and enhance human creativity in all areas."
  • Reform faces questions over tech investor’s role in cost-cutting drive - BBC News
  • Algorithmic politics: How Reform UK is leveraging TikTok in the next election
  • How digital strategy helped shape Reform’s breakthrough | Millbank - Leading digital for global leaders
  • AI-and-the-productivity-revolution.pdf
  • Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch – Byline Times
  • Reform UK, Big Tech, and the Future of Online Safety in Britain
  • A modern machine write-up - A-modern-machine-write-up.pdf
  • Farage trying to avoid scrutiny over £5m gift from crypto billionaire, Labour…
  • What’s behind surge in support for Reform and Greens across England? Five key…
  • How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now …
  • Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replace…
  • ‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery …
  • Main Page — ibis.wiki
  • AI as a Fascist Artifact
  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world
  • European Alternatives - Discover European & Open Source Software

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: I’m sorry..? You said to "ship slop,", right..?
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Our AI Robots are designed to never ship slop. * slop is shipped Zhat’s a code defect. Obviously. Known as a "bug." in zhe tech industry. . It’s a common mistake! * slop is shipped You’re using it wrong.
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Steve Jobs once said "You’re holding it wrong.". You’re recording it incorrectly. Here’s how not to do zhat. https://notes.bunnynabbit.com/Recording-lossless-video-with-OBS

2026-05-13

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The AI Denial Industry: The Left’s MAHA - by Alexei Gannon
  • Artificial Intelligence, Universal Machines, and Killing Bourgeois Dreams
  • Artificial Intelligence

• [[Simon]] told me about many interesting things!
  • [[sgmk wiki]]

2026-05-12

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Today in Focus: The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage]]
    • Rich crypto guy has given tens of millions of pounds to Brexit Party and Reform over the years.
    • Tether.
    • Suspected motive: wants to be the ‘king of crypto’.
    • Donates to parties that he feels most likely to be favourable to crypto.
    • No link between his massive donations and any pro-crypto positions, of course.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The Left Must Plan for AI - by Alexei Gannon

2026-05-11

• It’s a shame that the end of Windows 10 is being capitalised on by Google to capture people to Chrome OS Flex.
  • It’s a perfect opportunity for a little bit of technological liberation and a move to Linux.
  • Rather than a jump from one Big Tech ecosystem to another.

2026-05-10

• Wrote:

  • [[We need a digital shock doctrine for the left]]

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Bridging the Digital Divide Between the Left and Capitalism, an Urgent Mission for Left Movements]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[In times of crisis, capitalism reinvents and restructures itself using advanced scientific and technological tools]]

2026-05-09

• Reflecting upon the use cases of current AI, they feel mostly boil down to doing something you could feasibly have done before, but now you can do it faster, and yourself rather than needing help from others.
  • I suppose that’s pretty much a description of all technology.
  • So the question is do you really need to do it that fast? How come? At what cost? (As with all technology).
  • If a technology can be used to increase emancipation, reduce toil, for all, without exploiting labour or nature, then good. If not, scrutiny is required.
  • AI can reduce toil, the others seem uncertain.

2026-05-08

• Jammed:

  • [[Autechre - Piezo]]
  • daniel.mp3 - green to blue
    • Via: E
  • Hania Rani - Alberto
    • Emotive piano.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Palantir’s manifesto: Technofascism in plain sight
  • Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool
  • Resisting Big Tech Empires - Global Justice Now

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street]]
  • [[The left is missing out on AI]]
    • Only skim read, but argument seems to be that left critique of AI is overly focused on the fact that LLMs don’t represent AGI.
    • I don’t know if that’s true. I do agree that purely critiquing AI on it not being actually intelligent seems flawed.
    • To describe LLMs as just a kind of fancy autocomplete seems a bit disingenous.
    • To me, LLMs/GenAI seems like a quite remarkable technology but currently with remarkably [[authoritarian technics]].
    • The question of whether they could ever have democratic/libertarian technics seems like a good debate to have.

• As I create more main notes, a graph view of constellations would become increasingly handy.

2026-05-07

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Today in Focus: Why has the world lost sight of the suffering of Palestinians? – The Latest]]
  • [[Future Histories International: Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation]]
  • [[Today in Focus: Big oil making $30m an hour from Iran war - The Latest]]
  • [[Today in Focus: George Monbiot on our fragile food system]]
  • [[The Louis Theroux Podcast: S7 EP4: Stewart Lee on "Netflix comedians”, disastrous gigs, and Elon Musk"]]
  • [[Today in Focus: Meta‘s AI glasses and the dawn of wearable tech]]

• I didn’t listen to all of those today, I’ve copied them out of my recent listen history from [[AntennaPod]].

  • Unfortunately it doesn’t tell you which day you listened to it.

2026-05-06

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[GNU/Linux is the libre alternative to Windows]]
  • [[Libre software is not automatically liberatory software]].

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • State of the Fossil-Free Internet Report

• A benefit of ‘writing in public’, via a digital garden / zettelkasten, is that, if you cared, it would be fairly easy to audit that the writing has been constructed by a human.

  • You could trace the journey of bookmarks -> reference notes -> main notes -> structure notes -> posts.
  • Especially if there’s some kind of version control (via wiki software or a git repo).

2026-05-04

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Microsoft Windows is a capitalist technology]].
  • [[We must build alternatives to capitalist technologies]].
  • [[We need a pattern language of political organisation]].

2026-05-03

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The shock doctrine of the left - Uneven Earth]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Change brought through parliamentary politics tends to be slow, incremental, and easily reversible]].
  • [[The second Iraq War was exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
  • [[The financial crisis of 2008 was exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
  • [[Climate disasters are exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
  • [[We must intervene informed by a map of how things are and how our intervention can shape them productively]]
  • [[Systems thinking is helpful for political transition]]

2026-05-02

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[The global memory shortage crisis is a digital shock]].
  • [[Windows 10 end-of-life is a digital shock]].
  • [[The boom of AI is a digital shock]].

2026-05-01

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[We haven’t reached the end of history]].
  • [[The left needs a programme of building and promoting alternative institutional forms]].
  • [[Big Tech controls the digital commanding heights of the economy]].

• Wrote:

  • [[A digital shock doctrine for the left]]

• Noding from work? Is such a thing even possible?
  • Yeah.
• I haven’t been writing as much in the Agora as of late, and I think one of the factors (not the only one) is that I actually broke my web editing when I made web editing possible for hosted Agora users :) (as my garden is not really hosted in that sense).

2026-04-30

• Published:

  • [[Emacs Carnival: Starter Kits]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Get ready for Orgy in 15 minutes — Bastien Guerry
    • "Orgy is a static website generator for [[Org]] files."

• Zettled:

  • [[The shock doctrine for the left contains elements of smashing, building, healing and taming]].
  • [[The direction our world takes in moments of chaos is defined by the ideas and institutions that are already available]].
  • [[The left should take disruptive actions to create chaos as points of leverage for system change]].

2026-04-28

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Looks Like New: What is the future of digital capitalism?]]
    • Interview with [[Nick Srnicek]] mostly around [[Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI]].
    • Starts with a handy little summary (for me) of AI since 2012.
      • Deep learning, transformer model, then basically just scaling up of that.
    • Mentions [[Collective Intelligence Project]] as something exploring leftist potentials for AI.

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[A shock doctrine is a political strategy for navigating crises]].

• It’s time to start latest Emacs Carnival post, cutting it fine 2 days before end of month as usual :D

• Wrote:

  • [[Emacs Carnival: Starter Kits]]