2026-05-18

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• Reform UK and digital technologies
• Zettled:
  • Reform UK uses TikTok as a core component of its communication strategy
  • Reform use targeted digital campaigns to deliver messages that speak directly to the priorities of local communities
• Listened:
  • Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
    • Quite a mind expanding listen. I think I'm starting to grasp it, and it's more just getting used to new terminology than a particularly complicated concept, I think.
    • Closed and open sounds like it could have interesting parallel to horizontal and vertical in organisational ecology.
    • It's unclear to me how anything in this theory applies to actually changing the world, but it's either that it's a case of better understanding the enemy in order to then figure out how to overthrow it, or simply that I haven't clocked it yet.
    • Ah fair enough at the end that question comes up and he says he has focused on description rather than alternative. Jan Groos points to some possible leftist similarities.
• Data brokers. Vacuuming up your data, then asking you to opt out of them using it.
• I seem to be having the usual post fresh install snappiness, which is nice. Like I say everytime, I should do it more often…
  • I've gotten back up and running pretty quickly.
  • The main thing I need to improve on is how I have slightly different config between my personal and work configs for Emacs, and I haven't yet got a decent way of checking those changes in.