# 2026-05-25

-   Wrote:
    -   [[We need a digital shock doctrine for the left]].
    -   I'm struggling a bit to finish this off.
    -   I think it's because I seem to be trying to write it with the tone of an academic article of sorts, whereas right now it's really blog post territory.
    -   I have rough thoughts and questions, areas to read more.
    -   If I try and present it as thorough research I'll never finish it. I think I'll change the tone.

-   Jammed:
    -   Hania Rani - On Giacometti: A Live Performance at Atelier in Stampa 
        -   Listening to this in the shade of a tree in the sunshine at the cemetery while R sleeps in the buggy. Peaceful.
        -   Very emotive piano performance.

-   A view in [[Ulverston cemetery]]

![[../photos/ulverston-cemetery.jpg]] 

-   Perhaps a good way to distinguish myself from an AI is to speak more of my embodied experiences as a human in the world.
    -   I tend to keep those private, but worth considering.

-   [[Listened]]:
    -   [[Today in Focus: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest]]
        -   Not very interesting really. Two of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world fighting over more power and wealth.

-   [[Bookmarked]]:
    -   [Free and open-source software as (non-) liberatory technology](https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/free-and-open-source-software-as-non-liberatory-technology/?utm_source=perplexity)
    -   [Automating science](https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/05/19/automating-science.html)
    -   [The Ghost of the Author: Mechanisation, Metricisation and Narrative Contraction in the Age of AI](https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1835/1701)