Neil's Digital Stream

• Bookmarked:
  • US Personal Device Demand Dips in 2026, Returns to Growth Through 2030
    • "Demand does not disappear when people delay a purchase — it builds up. By 2027, a large installed base of aging devices starts driving a replacement wave"

• Zettled: Fascists and capital have a mutually beneficial relationship.
• Zettled: Fascists are often bankrolled by the wealthy.
• Zettled: Fascists attack labour movements and protect capital.
• Listened: ACFM Trip 60: Shock!
• Wrote: Let's build a digital shock doctrine for the left
• Listened:
  • Today in Focus: How the myth of ‘two-tier policing’ took hold

• Bookmarked:
  • GitHub Copilot users threaten exit as metered billing kicks in

• Went down a bit of a rabbit hole setting up tmux in Termux.
  • Started as a way to reduce finger stretching and fast thumbing when using Termux's built-in session switching.
  • Ended up with clipboard finagling, extra keys tweaking… general yak shaving.
  • Not convinced I'm in a better place at the end of it all.
  • But it did lead me to :os tty in Doom config, which is nice to have enabled now for showing evil mode cursors.

• Zettled:
  • Resistance and change often begin in art.
  • Stories don't just describe our world, they cast it.
• Listened:
  • Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords
    • Recommended by GL.

• Note for Setting up a new box:
  • use git-restore-mtime on cloned org-roam repos, to get ordering by date in the completion buffer
• Bookmarked:
  • Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott

• Zettled:
  • Knowledge, data and information are critical production resources.
  • Knowledge, data and information are exploited to reinforce capitalist control.
  • Control over information flows is a vital factor in modern class conflict.
• Libre software and liberatory software.
• Bookmarked:
  • 5 IT jobs AI will replace, and 5 it will not | by 💡Mike Shakhomirov | MyDataS…
  • Why Do We Keep Letting Amazon Kill Kindles? - iFixit

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