Notes in my digital slipbox
*planted: 18/04/2026last tended: 20/05/2026
Tangled up inside my digital garden are a good number of Zettelkasten-style notes. I am following the pattern of zettelkasten as outlined in A System for Writing.
1. Main notes
There are 111 notes tagged as main notes.
The 12 most recently modified:
- We cannot depend upon structures to do the work of culture
- Most libre software projects are entirely lacking in the principles of governing a commons
- Prefer the subjective over the objective
- Libre software is primarily about liberal freedom
- Libre software is not automatically liberatory software
- Coops can turn in to bad actors if there is no culture of commoning
- Ignoring AI means ceding power over it to others
- Free software affords digital self-governance
- Free software is a gift economy
- Libre software must be embedded in ecosocialist political practice for it to be liberatory
- Economic justice goes hand in hand with social justice
- Liberatory software contributes to social, economic and political transformation
2. Reference notes
There are 51 notes tagged as reference notes.
The 12 most recently modified:
- Future Histories International: Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
- Future Histories International: Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism
- Future Histories International: Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism II
- Governing the Information Commons
- Today in Focus: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest
- Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning
- After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia
- Nathan Schneider on Cooperatives and Digital Governance
- Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”
- Bridging the Digital Divide Between the Left and Capitalism, an Urgent Mission for Left Movements
- Decentralized and rooted in care: envisioning the digital infrastructures of the future
- Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
3. Structure notes
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4. Hub notes
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5. Elsewhere
5.1. In my garden
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