Journal

• Read:
  • Is capitalism dead?:
    • About the end of capitalism.
    • Unfortunately, it's all about the end of capitalism in the bad sense - of it being replaced with something worse.
    • Surveys McKenzie Wark and Capital is Dead, Varoufakis and Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?, Mason and Post-capitalism.
    • Also Wolfgang Streeck and Richard Westra and Karen Hao who I had not come across before.
• Bookmarked:
  • The rise of end times fascism
    • "The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them"
    • Is capitalism dead?
• Wrote:
  • Going to start writing latest Emacs Carnival post today.
  • Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions

• Bookmarked:
  • Think You're Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
    • "a tool to help organizations figure out where they stand when it comes to digital sovereignty."
    • It's Foss newsletter
  • Is capitalism dead?
    • "it is now easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of the world"
  • Digital Colonialism, Ecological Crisis and the Limits of Techno-Primitivism
    • "examines the intertwined dynamics of ecological crisis, digitalisation, and techno-primitivism through a genealogical and syncretic lens."
    • tripleC mailing list

• Bookmarked:
  • How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
    • "how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide"
    • The Guardian newsletter
  • What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
    • "Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort"
  • modal.cx
    • "Modal is a new independent collective Building emancipatory software for an uncertain world"
• I wonder whether I should use for example Betula for my bookmarks.
  • Maybe, maybe not. I'll think about what the benefits might be.
  • But I'm fine with them living messily in my garden for now.

• Bookmarked:
  • A World First: Community Wealth Building legislation in Scotland
    • "The Community wealth building agenda in Scotland might be growing, but incoming legislation will solidify gains and ensure that activity is not done in isolation"
    • web search
  • The Library of Things Toolkit (2.0)
    • "This expanded guide will help you plan, start, and grow a Library of Things in your community."
    • Shareable newsletter
• Systemic change is a combination of reformist, alternative-building and revolutionary logics.

• Listened: Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance
  • The book sounds like a great contribution - very hands on ideas and practice for transition from people who fully understand the bigger picture.
  • Plenty of commoning talk and I'm happy that all the to see the commons-public partnerships stuff from Free, Fair and Alive and DisCOs here in another light.

• Bookmarked:
  • Popular Protagonism in Venezuela’s Transition to Socialism: A Conversation with Michael Liebowitz
    • "socialism involves people transforming themselves"
    • search for popular protagonism

• Listened:
  • ACFM Microdose: The Green Party
• Listened:
  • Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance

• Listened:
  • This Machine Kills: 437. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 1 (ft. Aaron Benanav)
• Bookmarked:
  • Beyond Capitalism
    • "If there is ever to be a left break beyond the current political impasse—the liberal-capitalist establishment locked in a wrestler’s embrace with the ultra-capitalist right—it will ultimately require the elaboration of an economic system beyond capitalism itself."
    • This Machine Kills

• Bookmarked:
  • The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants | Transnational Institute
    • "Silicon Valley has thrown much of its support behind Trump for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions"
    • Transnational Institute newsletter
  • The Digital Tech Broligarchy’s Interest in Left-Wing Science Fiction: A Critical Reading of the Culture of Techno-Libertarianism
    • "A slew of recent articles has asked what the connection might be between right-wing libertarian Silicon Valley billionaires and left-wing science fiction"
    • tripleC mailing list

• Bookmarked:
  • Ecosocialism at the Limits of Capitalism: The Climate Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
    • "analyzes the climate politics of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as a diagnostic case for the structural limitations facing eco-socialist movements under capitalism"
    • Google Scholar alerts
• Are the Green Party of England and Wales ecosocialist?

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