2026-04-12

• [[Read]]:
  • [[Working with the end in sight]]
    • Interesting critique of Zettelkasten.
    • Gist is: just take reference notes and use search; abstracting out atomic ideas into reusable pieces is unnecessary friction.

• I’m still sick but [[KM]] came over and we did a short bike ride to a Greek cafe nearby I didn’t know about and spent some time together and with [[Lady Burup]], it was great!
  • We lighted a grungy [[candle]] I made long ago.
• [[social coop]]

2026-04-11

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[We should resist, regulate and recode Meta]]
  • [[The triad of digital transition strategies]]
  • [[Work within the system, against the system, and beyond the system]]
  • [[The global memory shortage crisis is caused by the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure]]

• Ecosocialism would clearly make use of a [[Multi-criterial economy]].

• [[Future Histories International: Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life]]

• [[tet]]

2026-04-10

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel
    • "Ruling that [[Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products]] marks possible watershed moment for social media"

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products]]
  • [[Meta is bad for the world]]

2026-04-09

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Why You Should Buy a Laptop Now - The Looming Supply Chain Crisis of 2026.]]
    • A bad take on the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
    • Counterpoint: No, don’t ‘buy a laptop now’. Do what you can to keep the one you already have lasting longer.
  • [[Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis and the Potential Impact on the Smartphone and PC Markets in 2026]]
    • Background to the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
  • [[Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles]]
    • An example of [[software obsolescence]] and [[premature obsolescence]].
    • You might be tempted to resist via jailbreaking and installing [[koreader]], and trying to dedrm your books via [[Calibre]], or just re-download via [[Z-Library]].

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Beyond Capitalism II]]
    • More details on Benanav’s plan.

• [[death and suffering]]

• [[in memoriam]]

2026-04-07

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
    • "environmentalists and socialists will need to recognize their common struggle and how that connects with the broader “movement of movements” seeking a Great Transition."
    • Google Scholar alert
  • We just released the industry’s first ever nature report.
    • "Businesses need to start seeing [[biodiversity loss]] as a core business risk. We need to think beyond just lowering emissions"
      • Via: [[Fairphone]] newsletter

• [[Stapelberg]] told me about [[MQTT]], classic pubsub that works (tm)! Nice.
• [[Jonas]] told me about [[Lissajous curves]]!
• [[EC 2026]]

2026-04-06

• [[Read]]:

  • [[How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity]]
    • Sound likes… [[Agora]]!

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[The value of an idea is determined by its relationship to others]]
  • [[Don’t spend too much time on a main note]]

• I had a great long weekend so far with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and friends!
• Met [[June]], [[MS]] and other friends on Friday.
• We biked a lot with [[KM]] and it was great :)
• Then tonight I came over to [[ZW]] ~ [[ZWZ]] with [[MS]]
• [[digital garden]]
• [[tailscale]]

2026-04-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
    • "a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a [[collaborative zettelkasten]]"
    • [[Bob Doto]]‘s website

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The Difference Between Hub Notes and Structure Notes Explained]]

• I’m going to experiment with refactoring some of my overstuffed concept notes.

  • Into smaller main notes, hub notes, and structure notes.
  • I think I’ll start with [[ecosocialism]] and [[digital ecosocialism]].
  • [[Refactoring some of the notes in my garden]].

2026-04-03

• [[Read]]:
  • [[Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes]]
    • On crafting [[main note]]s in [[zettelkasten]].
    • The description of different [[types of information]] might be helpful.
    • As a way of avoiding calling every main note a ‘claim’ - which is kind of what I’ve been doing, insofar as I’ve been doing zettelkasten.