Weeknotes W26 2022

Sunday

• Started skim reading (ironically?) [[How To Take Smart Notes]].

  • I’ve encountered most of the ideas before via the numerous articles and posts written about it.
  • I need to spend more time turning literature notes / quotes from books in to my own understanding.

• [[Social media is important because everything is social]].

• Joined the [[Bonfire]] playground but haven’t got time to do much on there at the mo. But I really love the mission they have around social media so following with great interest.

• Reading a bit on [[Antonio Gramsci]] apropos [[site of struggle]].

• [[Patrice Lumumba]]

  • Read: Patrice Lumumba: Why Belgium is returning a Congolese hero’s golden tooth

• [[There is no such thing as an ungoverned space]].

Monday

• [[Calculating effort estimates and scheduled times in org-mode]]
• [[Emacs note taking systems]]

Tuesday

• Watching: [[Don’t Look Up]]

• I like Iain M. Banks and I’m currently re-reading [[Look to Windward]] because in [[Red Plenty]] it was described it as an example of a 20th century [[Marxian idyll]]. It’s good and all but I’m reading the [[Culture]] now as kind of all premised on [[Prometheanism]] / [[fully automated luxury communism]]. I’m gonna reread [[A Wizard of Earthsea]] (last read as a young teen!) by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] next as in [[Half-Earth Socialism]] they describe that as [[Jennerite ecological scepticism]] and that is more my bag lately.

• I feel happy discovering more and more as I get older that sci-fi books I took off my Mum’s bookshelf as a kid are in fact often allegorical for some kind of radical politics that I had no idea of at the time.

• [[Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World]]

Friday

• Listened: [[Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, "Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power"]]

• Listened: [[Richard Seymour, "The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism"]]

• [[Adding more storage space to YunoHost / NextCloud on Hetzner]]

Saturday

• Read: [[For a Red Zoopolis]]

  • Very good. On [[eco-socialism]]. I like the description of a what [[abundance]] could actually mean.
  • Also introduced me to the idea of a [[Zoopolis]]…

• I have oscillatory waves of activity on my garden.

  • Sometimes I have blocks of focus on the mechanics of how the garden works.
    • All the PKM, zettelkasten, smart notes, kind of stuff.
  • Then periods of time spent on the actual content.
    • Reading, taking notes, writing about politics, technology, the environment, etc.
  • Occasionally there is a moment of harmony between the waves where the two almost intersect.
    • e.g. critical theory of social media, how digital gardens, the Agora, fit in to that, etc.

• Chat with Flancian

  • FlanciaCam
  • Flancian tour of America
    • Portland
    • homelessness
    • ‘illegal’ encampment
      • 30,000 in San Francisco
    • Housing First
    • is homelessness a complicated or complex system
      • if there are X people without homes, can we just give X homes to solve the problem?
        • [[David Peter Stroh, "Systems Thinking For Social Change"]]
          • [[Adam Day, States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance]]
          • similar to [[Seeing Like a State]]
        • too top down?
      • c.f. [[universal basic income]]
        • perhaps a simplistic approach, yet in present society money gives agency
  • walking and meditation
    • otter.ai
      • what about libre alternatives?
  • [[counterantidisintermediation]]

• Listened: [[Matt Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"]]

  • More [[eco-socialism]].
  • I listened while doing household chores so have less notes. But it’s a good podcast.
  • Marxist approach - emphasis on class struggle, movement building, trade unionism.