2024-03-24
*- We watched Soul again.
- Such a lovely film. Heartwarming message, great music, great visuals, funny for the whole family.
- I listened to What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins
- Vincent Bevins again on his book If We Burn.
- Really interesting stuff.
- I like the very loose analogy between what happened to the internet and what happened to the movement of the squares.
- Basically a form of The Tyranny of Structurelessness in both.
- Also listened to Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor
- Insecurity and security - in more of social and psychological meanings of the word than the technical sense.
- Claim: Capitalism requires insecurity.
- Claim: Social insurance is a bulwark against insecurity.
- Also by Astra: The Dads of Tech and The People's Platform.
- We have national insurance in the UK.
- Wonder when it was introduced?
- Never really thought much about insurance before.
- Superficially it seems a boring topic. But this and Jathan Sadowski podcast discussion (How the World Became Uninsurable) recently making me realise it's kind of fundamental and sadly mostly privatised.
- Returning a little to IndieWeb for following activity streams. I had been using the Fediverse for a while, but I find it a bit too fast paced, a bit too attention grabbing. For me. IndieWeb is kind of slow social media and that suits me fine.
- hyperorg could be useful for me.
- Either for publishing wiki to web, or could be a useful internal parser for the Agora? Python based.
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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