September 17th, 2020

• [[September 19th, 2020]]: ordenar papeles en lixhult y kallax
• [[September 19th, 2020]]: mover lámpara del dormitorio al guest room
• [[September 19th, 2020]]: armar lámpara del dormitorio
• [[September 19th, 2020]]: colgar lámpara del dormitorio
• [[September 19th, 2020]]: comprar atril de estudiante
• [[September 19th, 2020]]: pagar facturas
• [[September 19th, 2020]]: donar
• Defined six-hours-long tweet-free period as an experiment. Seeing how it goes. I can always stash tweets here (?).
  • There is a cold war between shift-tab and ctrl-[ de-indentors and I think I’m rooting for the latter.
  • In the Agora there are circles.
    • After the Arthurian round table. Also, spontaneous loosely coupled groups at parties. Also, G+ I guess?
  • Agora: circles, stoas, gardens.
  • "I was in my late thirties when I finally woke the hell up."
• I should really actually write/finish/publish a draft of [[Caramel City]].
• [[Quick Capture]]

  • check out https://twitter.com/francis_miller/status/1081562810163884032 pull?s=09 [[francis_miller]] as recommended by [[fredgalvao]]

  • https://twitter.com/plesmasquerade/status/1306489522289401857 pull?s=09 [[plesmasquerade]]

2020-09-17

Read: UK awards border contract to firm criticised over role in US deportations

The government has awarded oversight of the UK’s post-[[Brexit]] border and customs data to [[Palantir]], an American tech firm notorious for assisting the Trump administration’s drive to deport migrants from the US.

This is awful.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/17/uk-awards-border-contract-to-firm-criticised-over-role-in-us-deportations

Happy birthday repair.eu

The EU [[right to repair]] campaign has been going for a year, campaigning for:

• Products repairable by design

• Access to spare parts and repair info for everyone

• A EU wide repairability score

  https://repair.eu/news/where-does-right-to-repair-go-next-in-europe/

#RightToRepair

Listened: Revolutionary Left Radio: The Science of Covid-19: Immunobiology, Virology, and Pandemic Politics

This is a great episode of [[Rev Left]] on some of the science behind SARS-CoV-2 and [[COVID-19]].

With a bonus tidbit that the CIA was responsible for an uptick in Polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/covid19