2021-10-17

• for some reason I thought at midnight: 17 is prime
• [[herbert von karajan]]
• [[paula trama]]
• finished cleaning my [[firefox]] tabs using [[tabfs]]
  • it’s annoying tabfs is a temporary extension so I need to re-set-up every time, but the coolness makes it be worth it
  • honestly I don’t get why unsigned extensions can’t persist in Firefox
• [[meditate]] now
  • yeah, that was a great idea as usual
• [[proc]]
• [[agora]]
  • [[agora dashboard]]
• [[la roche posay]]
• [[versarial interop]]
• [[applying mindfulness]]

• [[doi]]
• [[sci-hub]]
• [[z library]]

2021-10-17

• Reading: [[A People’s Guide to Capitalism]]. Enjoying it muchly thus far. Making clear a bunch of concepts I’ve sort of half-grasped before, but never really fully. Not saying I fully do yet either, but it’s helping for sure.

  • [[Capitalism]]
    • [[Primitive accumulation]]
    • [[Slavery]]
  • [[Commodity]]
    • [[Use-value]]
    • [[Exchange-value]]
    • [[Labour theory of value]]

• Robot dogs with guns. What could possibly go wrong.

  • https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42717/robot-dogs-can-now-have-6-5mm-assault-rifles-mounted-on-their-backs

• [[Philanthropy]]

  • The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power | The Nation

• Imagine the end of [[Facebook]]

  • Imagine the End of Facebook | LibrarianShipwreck
  • Can The Public Sector Displace Facebook’s Unprecedented Corporate Power?

• Follow the [[rhythm]] of the [[environment]].
• What do you need to make do and mend? If you specialize in something, you will over prepare for that thing and underprepare in everything else. If you have something new, ask: how will it break? how will you maintain it? who knows how to maintain it when it breaks?
• Prepare for the worst.
• In Disneyland, horses wear horseshoes with a polyurethane coating that help them clop louder. Is there something that makes footsteps quieter?
• Disney counted the number of steps that a person would walk before throwing trash on the ground- that was about thirty steps, so they make trash cans thirty steps apart.
• Nerdwallet optimized everyday finance calculators and generators to match Google searches, so that when you search for a ‘mortgage calculator’, etc, you find Nerdwallet. Similarly, Shopify comes up when you search for a business name generator.
• 1. Figure out how people find what they’re looking for. 2. Make what you have easy to find wherever they’re looking for it.

20211017

• [[Bordiga]] tried to figure out where the communist movement should go after [[WW2]]
• some left communists reject [[democracy]] wholesale: even historic democracy was a class formation
• the “left” of [[left communism]] refers being to the left of the Marxist center i.e. the [[Comintern]]
• [[left communists]] are critical of [[unions]]
• [[unions]] are the atomic form of workers power but they can also serve capital interests
• union power needs to link up with council power like in the early Soviet Union
• the dutch [[council communists]] collapsed as a tendency
• [[syndicalists]] were limited at a firm level whereas council communists and left communists wanted to transcend that
• Bordiga was critical of the popular front

• [[doi]]
• [[sci-hub]]
• [[z library]]

[z library]: ../pages/z library.md "z library" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"