# 2026-05-17

-   [[Listened]]:
    -   [[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
        -   [[Critical systems theory]]. I haven't understood half of what's been said so far. But combining [[systems theory]] and [[critical theory]] sounds interesting.
        -   Traces systems theory line through [[Humberto Maturana]] and [[Francisco Varela]] to [[Niklas Luhmann]].
        -   Then I believe the idea is to address the absence of politics in Luhmann's systems theory.
        -   [[autopoiesis]].
    -   Today in Focus: Outrage as oil giants profit billions from Iran war – The Latest
    -   Today in Focus: What next for Labour as Reform wins big in local elections? – The Latest
        -   Greens got a lot of the vote, but didn't translate into a lot of seats. Reform targeted well so took a lot of the seats.
        -   [[Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus]], so this is bad news…

-   "According to the CPJ, Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalist killings around the world last year."
    -   Guardian newsletter
    -   [[Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalistic killings around the world in 2025]]

-   [[Bookmarked]]:
    -   [European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for …](https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/news/european-democracy-shield-and-eu-strategy-civil-society-pave-way-stronger-and-more-resilient-2025-11-12_en) 
        -   "The [[European Democracy Shield]] and the [[EU Strategy for Civil Society]] present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent media, a vibrant civil society and strong democratic institutions."
    -   [Linux Distributions as Coops?](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8h2a39/linux_distributions_as_coops)
        -   [[Linux]] [[Cooperatives]].
    -   [Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention](https://metagov.org/cg-ai/) 
        -   "This document from the [[Metagov]] community has two goals. First, it identifies distinct layers of the [[AI stack]] that can be named and reimagined. Second, for each layer, it points to potential strategies, grounded in existing projects, that could steer that layer toward meaningful collective governance."
    -   [Decolonizing Degrowth: Ecosocialist Alternatives to Green Colonialism and Une…](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2026.2661069) 
        -   "By engaging grassroots struggles and internationalist justice claims, the article outlines pathways for just [[ecosocialist transition]]s rooted in energy democracy, global redistribution, and relational ecological care."

-   [[Zettled]]:
    -   [[Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus]]

-   How does [[Reform UK]] use digital technology? How to counter it?