• 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.

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.

[[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.

[[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).

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

[[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]]

• [[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]].

[[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]]