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.

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).