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Grant RichmondOver the last few months I have been completely rebuilding my social reader Together. So I felt I should write a post about it to highlight what’s changed and show off what Together has to offer.
First off just a little info on the idea of a social reader: A social reader is an application that can …
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“What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resourceslike the Internetin common? Can debates over digital access be guided by Tom Paines theories of democratic economic redistribution? And how is Elon Musk not a visionary but a throwback to Victorian-era utopians?”
I dunno.� I fail to be excited by any of it any more, unless it comes with an explicit intent to improve social wellbeing, not just vague promises of productivity and efficiency, shit going faster for the sake of it.
The comment section of this blog used to be powered by Disqus. At its core, Disqus works pretty well. But I don’t like the fact that it pulls in a lot of JavaScript to make it work. It’s also not the prettiest UI. I’ve recently replaced Disqus comments with webmentions.
The comment section of this blog used to be powered by Disqus. At its core, Disqus works pretty well. But I don’t like the fact that it pulls in a lot of JavaScript to make it work. It’s also not the prettiest UI. I’ve recently replaced Disqus comments with webmentions.
Demos of personal websites and the opportunity to create, update or experiment on your personal website
Very enjoyable. They play a lot of Loscil so I’m down with that.
There seemed to be a protest or march taking place earlier in San Francisco.
#London #CapitalRing
#London #CapitalRing
What I took from this digest is how atomisation, isolation and disenfranchisement are fertile grounds for totalitarianism.� Without community and society you lose your sense of self and become easy prey for messages of totalitarianism.� Someone will come along and claim to represent you, and give an outlet for diesenfranchisement.
Once in a totalitarian society, people disengage from analytical and political thought.� The only thing that matters is the leader’s vision for the future.� Challenges to that vision are twisted to be from an enemy trying to mislead the public.
Some more photos here: twitter.com/tttooting/status/1147549448807047170
In a nutshell: it’s a political strategy rather than an ideology, where the people’s interests are juxtaposed against a supposed elite.� It can have various host ideologies.� Personalist leaders claim to represent the people.� It’s hard to roll back populist attitudes once activated.
Surveillance by A Frames.
Surveillance Camera,
I am in love with ya
orgcon.openrightsgroup.org/2019/
A conference with topics of data, democracy, privacy, censorship, algorithms and surveillance.
I will watch the keynote from Snowden of course, and then I think the debates on evoting and end-to-end encryption. Maybe IoT and data.
I saw Digital Selves (with visuals from Rumblesan), Vou (+Rumblesan) and Miri Kat (with visuals from hellocatfood).� They all smashed it.
The Museum of Brands also had a display of old radios.� Check out this beauty:
Solid State, aw yeah.� We had a radio that looked like this when I was growing up (although I think it must have been newer than this one.)
Adversarial Interoperability, a useful concept to keep in mind. In part the IndieWeb is a form of this, as it offers a way of staying outside walled gardens, while still being able to pass messages back and forth through its gates (i.e. APIs), through POSSE / sometimes PESOS. Though some platform…
Took out a subscription to the Italian, English language, monthly Renewable Matter, on bio-economics and circular economy. Came across it earlier this week. As part of my open data work I am currently involved in a circular economy project focused on building a longterm oriented and wide ranging das…
Jonas VossPlan would recognise NHS as economic anchor and link health measures to climate goals
This time I did one big walk, hiking from Skelwith up to Swirl How in the Coniston set of fells.� It’s 2630 feet high, just 3 feet shorter than the Old Man of Coniston.� The walk there and back took about 7 hours.
One of my favourite views that I’ve come across in the Lakes is en route to Little Langdale, looking through the Blea Tarn pass towards the Langdale Pikes.� This is a set of peaks rising from the Langdale Valley.� They have great names like Pike O’Blisco, Harrison Stickle, Sergeant Man, Pavey Ark, etc.
(Question: If you cross a stream near Harrison Stickle, is it a Harrison Ford?� Answer: yes. yes it is.)
We did a couple of shorter walks too.� One up the excellently named Iron Keld, leading towards Black Crag.� The signpost on the way is great – you have a choice of paths leading to either “Sunny Brow”, or “Iron Keld” and “Black Crag”.� It feels a� bit like choosing between Hobbiton and Mordor.� But for reference, Iron Keld is much more fun than Sunny Brow – it’s an old pine plantation.
The other short walk was up Loughrigg Fell, which joins Skelwith Bridge and Ambleside. � It’s a low fell but a beauty.� When you get near the top it is has lots of gentle undulations, lots of little paths to explore, and some great panoramic views – down towards Ambleside, over to Windermere, great views of Grasmere and Rydal Water.� This time of year it is covered in ferns and looks a little bit like Tellytubby Land in my opinion.
Loughrigg Tarn is a total beauty spot.� An idyllic smallish tarn on the south side of Loughrigg.� A good spot for taking a dog for a swim and looking over towards the Langdale Pikes from a different angle.� You get a good view down to it from the top of Loughrigg.
I can highly recommend a trip to the Lakes.
Jonas VossI remember muxtape with great fondness. After its demise, I’ve made a bunch of mixtapes using opentape.fm. Selfhosted and all. Will definitely check out duxtape! Thanks for the tip (:
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