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]]

2026-04-26

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Digital dependency is the opposite of digital sovereignty]].
  • [[The US uses digital dependency as a weapon in trade negotiations]].
  • [[The US constitutes most of Big Tech]].
  • [[The public sector should be the first arena we push for sovereign tech alternatives]].

• I’m finding doing Zettelkasten-y things, particulary as outlined in [[A System for Writing]], very useful.

  • And, most importantly, resulting in me publishing more writing (see [[my blog posts]]).
  • I do have a slight concern at the back of my mind that it’s making my digital garden less interesting to navigate around for an external party. I think there’s something to be said for dishevelled narrative over tidy structure.
  • The idea though is that the narrative moves to the blog posts, so, as long as they are discoverable, hopefully it’s a net gain.
  • Will keep it in mind.

• We woke up in at Kirsty’s place and had a lovely morning, then walked through Zürich and came visit Lady Burup :)
• [[KM]] told me about [[León Blum]].

2026-04-25

• Wrote:

  • [[A digital shock doctrine for the left]]
  • [[Some thoughts on digital capitalism]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[We must understand digital capitalism in order to transition away from it]].
  • [[In digital capitalism, the accumulation of capital and power is mediated by digital technologies]]
  • [[Digital capitalism has economic, political, and cultural dimensions]].

• [[Read:]]

  • [[Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective]]

• I set up [[Anagora]] as a bang provider in [[WebLibre]].

  • I like using Anagora for searching topics.
  • It surfaces any notes I might have made about the past on something.
  • I also see anything my friends and comrades might have written about the topic.
  • Then I can fall back to Wikipedia and web search if I want more.

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo]]
    • Digital dependency is the opposite of digital sovereignty.
    • The US uses digital dependency on its Big Tech as a lever in trade negotiations.
    • The US constitutes most of Big Tech.
    • Public sector should be the first realm to adopt sovereign tech alternatives.

2026-04-24

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Capitalism is prone to crisis]].
  • [[Rapid societal transformations are common]].

• [[Read]]:

  • [[]]
    • Skimming through, the notion of digital disruptions and leverage is good, right on point for me right now.
    • The analysis of where leverage might best be applied also looks useful.
    • The proposed tactics seem quite tame and reformist however.

2026-04-23

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo]]

• #push [[CWG]]
  • [[Social.coop concerns]] meeting
  • Yikes!

2026-04-22

• Jammed:

  • The Sight Below - Dour
  • Gescom - Key Nell 3

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]
    • Defines [[technocapitalism]].
    • Evolution of industrial capitalism to beyond just the material to incorporate knowledge.
    • Similarish analysis to [[platform capitalism]], [[Vectoralism]], [[technofeudalism]], etc.