Neil's Digital Stream

• Zettled:
  • We haven't reached the end of history.
  • The left needs a programme of building and promoting alternative institutional forms.
  • Big Tech controls the digital commanding heights of the economy.
• Wrote:
  • A digital shock doctrine for the left

• Published:
  • Emacs Carnival: Starter Kits
• Bookmarked:
  • Get ready for Orgy in 15 minutes — Bastien Guerry
    • "Orgy is a static website generator for Org files."
• Zettled:
  • The shock doctrine for the left contains elements of smashing, building, healing and taming.
  • The direction our world takes in moments of chaos is defined by the ideas and institutions that are already available.
  • The left should take disruptive actions to create chaos as points of leverage for system change.

• Listened:
  • Looks Like New: What is the future of digital capitalism?
    • Interview with Nick Srnicek mostly around Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI.
    • Starts with a handy little summary (for me) of AI since 2012.
      • Deep learning, transformer model, then basically just scaling up of that.
    • Mentions Collective Intelligence Project as something exploring leftist potentials for AI.
• Zettled:
  • A shock doctrine is a political strategy for navigating crises.
• It's time to start latest Emacs Carnival post, cutting it fine 2 days before end of month as usual :D
• Wrote:
  • Emacs Carnival: Starter Kits

• Zettled:
  • Digital dependency is the opposite of digital sovereignty.
  • The US uses digital dependency as a weapon in trade negotiations.
  • The US constitutes most of Big Tech.
  • The public sector should be the first arena we push for sovereign tech alternatives.
• I'm finding doing Zettelkasten-y things, particulary as outlined in A System for Writing, very useful.
  • And, most importantly, resulting in me publishing more writing (see my blog posts).
  • I do have a slight concern at the back of my mind that it's making my digital garden less interesting to navigate around for an external party. I think there's something to be said for dishevelled narrative over tidy structure.
  • The idea though is that the narrative moves to the blog posts, so, as long as they are discoverable, hopefully it's a net gain.
  • Will keep it in mind.

• Wrote:
  • A digital shock doctrine for the left
  • Some thoughts on digital capitalism
• Zettled:
  • We must understand digital capitalism in order to transition away from it.
  • In digital capitalism, the accumulation of capital and power is mediated by digital technologies
  • Digital capitalism has economic, political, and cultural dimensions.
• Read:
  • Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
• I set up Anagora as a bang provider in WebLibre.
  • I like using Anagora for searching topics.
  • It surfaces any notes I might have made about the past on something.
  • I also see anything my friends and comrades might have written about the topic.
  • Then I can fall back to Wikipedia and web search if I want more.
• Listened:
  • Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo
    • Digital dependency is the opposite of digital sovereignty.
    • The US uses digital dependency on its Big Tech as a lever in trade negotiations.
    • The US constitutes most of Big Tech.
    • Public sector should be the first realm to adopt sovereign tech alternatives.

• Zettled:
  • Capitalism is prone to crisis.
  • Rapid societal transformations are common.
• Read:
  • Leveraging Digital Disruptions for a Climate-Safe and Equitable World: The D^2S Agenda
    • Skimming through, the notion of digital disruptions and leverage is good, right on point for me right now.
    • The analysis of where leverage might best be applied also looks useful.
    • The proposed tactics seem quite tame and reformist however.

• Read:
  • Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism
• Listened:
  • Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo

Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).

• Neil's Digital Garden
• Neil's Digital Stream

• Anagora - Neil's Digital Stream