Neil's Digital Stream

planted: 02/04/2026last tended: 18/06/2026

My stream, a companion to the garden.

1. Recent daily logs

My 7 most recent daily notes. (A list of all can be found at the Journal index).

Listened:
- Today in Focus: Starmer resigns as UK prime minister - The Latest
  - Keir Starmer gone.
  - Good riddance. What a waste of Labour power.
  - Some absolute horseshit in his resignation speech.

Today is summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere.
- The longest day of the year.
- Solstice = sun stands still.
There's a sign in the churchyard from Cumbria Wildlife Trust saying that it's a flower-rich area.
- It looks very nice. Like a wildflower meadow.
Bookmarked:
- US Personal Device Demand Dips in 2026, Returns to Growth Through 2030
Bookmarked:
- Ethical AI Companies | Ethical Consumer
Bookmarked:
- France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Listened:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  - Scranton and Franzen - Climate fatalism
  - Paul Kingsnorth.
  - "Easier to imagine geoengineering than reengineering the economy."
  - Learning to die rather than learning to fight.
  - All emissions make a contribution to aggregate damage done. So all attempts to reverse emissions are worth it.
  - Mentions earth first, monkey wrench ing. Describes problems with deep ecology.
  - deep green resistance and its problems.
    - Reverse of earlier issue - they think violence without a movement is enough.
  - Ende Gelände black pump shutdown.
    - Example of how far right comes to defence of capital.

Zettled:
- There are various definitions of terrorism.
Zettled:
- Terrorism is the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror.
  - Via How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
  - This is Malm's particular definition of terrorism.
It strikes me that if one were to work on a collaborative zettelkasten, then hub notes would be quite key.
- As a means to discover main notes.
- It's very unlikely people would use the same titles for main notes, so hub notes become the, well, hub from which you find other's views on a topic.
- This reminds me of something Bill Seitz said once in relation to twin pages and sister sites…. I wonder if I can find that again.
  - Something like this, but I think somewhere it's even more explicit http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/SmashedTogetherWords
Bookmarked:
- UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action activist marks 'dangerous' move against right to protest
  - "The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end."
Zettled:
- Criminal damage is not terrorism.
  - Via Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action activist marks 'dangerous' move against right to protest
2026 Makerfield by-election: phew.

Listened:
- Today in Focus: Starmer resigns as UK prime minister - The Latest
  - Keir Starmer gone.
  - Good riddance. What a waste of Labour power.
  - Some absolute horseshit in his resignation speech.

Today is summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere.
- The longest day of the year.
- Solstice = sun stands still.
There's a sign in the churchyard from Cumbria Wildlife Trust saying that it's a flower-rich area.
- It looks very nice. Like a wildflower meadow.
Bookmarked:
- US Personal Device Demand Dips in 2026, Returns to Growth Through 2030
Bookmarked:
- Ethical AI Companies | Ethical Consumer
Bookmarked:
- France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Listened:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  - Scranton and Franzen - Climate fatalism
  - Paul Kingsnorth.
  - "Easier to imagine geoengineering than reengineering the economy."
  - Learning to die rather than learning to fight.
  - All emissions make a contribution to aggregate damage done. So all attempts to reverse emissions are worth it.
  - Mentions earth first, monkey wrench ing. Describes problems with deep ecology.
  - deep green resistance and its problems.
    - Reverse of earlier issue - they think violence without a movement is enough.
  - Ende Gelände black pump shutdown.
    - Example of how far right comes to defence of capital.