2026-04-26

• [[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.

• We woke up in at Kirsty’s place and had a lovely morning, then walked through Zürich and came visit Lady Burup :)
• [[KM]] told me about [[León Blum]].

2026-04-25

• 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.

2026-04-24

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Capitalism is prone to crisis]].
  • [[Rapid societal transformations are common]].

• [[Read]]:

  • [[]]
    • 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.

2026-04-23

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo]]

2026-04-22

• Jammed:

  • The Sight Below - Dour
  • Gescom - Key Nell 3

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]
    • Defines [[technocapitalism]].
    • Evolution of industrial capitalism to beyond just the material to incorporate knowledge.
    • Similarish analysis to [[platform capitalism]], [[Vectoralism]], [[technofeudalism]], etc.

• I worked, I felt tired through the day again (maybe a sequel of the virus I got ~10d back) but made it through and then I saw [[KM]] :)
• I went to [[Bitwäscherei]] at the end of the night and the commons was lively and inspiring as usual!
• I continued doing [[Agora development]], which after all is my passion, and drank tea and typed away until about midnight.

2026-04-21

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • BrowserGate
    • "[[Microsoft]] is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to [[LinkedIn]]’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm."
    • Ugo

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Barbells]]
    • I used to really enjoy reading Gordon Brander. I still do, to be fair. Very knowledgeable and engaging.
    • But you could not find a more depressing pivot - the trajectory from building tools for collective knowledge commoning to bunkering down into an awful AI-fuelled individualism is a sad tale of our times, I think.
    • It’s The Road for the LLM era.

• Thatcherism, 2026: There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and their families of agents.

2026-04-20

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Global PC Shipments Grow 3.2% YoY in Q1 2026 on Pre-emptive Buying Before Memory-led Price Increases
    • "The growth was fueled by two key drivers – pre-emptive buying before memory-led price increases hit the retail level, and the necessary hardware refreshes caused by the termination of Windows 10 support."
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]] / [[Windows 10 end-of-life]]
  • France is ditching Windows for digital sovereignty - and its new Linux stack is taking shape
    • "France’s government is switching from Windows to a Linux desktop. The desktop will be based on the police Linux distro, [[GendBuntu]]. The distro includes France’s own suite of open-source desktop programs."

• I’m trying to recognise digital shocks, to see how are playing out in relation to resilience and transition. To learn from that for future shocks.

  • The global memory shortage crisis is a digital shock.
  • Windows 10 end-of-life is a digital shock.
  • The onset of AI is a digital shock.

• I went to [[ZW]] near midnight and I met old and new friends!
  • Old: [[Koch]] [[Marlon]] [[Tyson]] [[Aaron]]
  • New: [[Uwe]] [[Jara]]
• [[2026-04-18]] was also great!
• [[Remember]]

2026-04-19

• Structured:

  • [[Digital shocks, resilience and transition]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Resilience is the capacity of a system to survive crises, disruptions, shocks, and attacks]].
  • [[Resilience is not necessarily a good thing]].
  • [[Capitalism is a very resilient system]].

• [[KM]] left early to go to Graubunden; I spent the day with Burup playing and coding, went to the gym, transplanted some plants, and then met [[KM]] in beautiful [[Wipkingen]] where we originally met. We had a lovely evening!

2026-04-18

• [[Read]]:

  • [[What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?]]
    • Helpful definitions of authoritarianism, fascism, digital democracy and resilience.
    • In terms of how to do things differently, lots of overlaps with other programmes I’ve looked at for reclaim the stacks.
    • It’d be good pull it in properly to that analysis.
    • "resilient democracy especially matters in situations of multiple crises"
      • Seems adjacent to the left having a shock doctrine.

• Blog post idea - something to do with crises, shocks, resilient democracy, shock doctrine of the left, based on reading Fuchs article.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism
    • "we need to identify the roots of the problem in order to conceive radically [[anti-capitalist]] perspectives, rather than lose ourselves in reforms or try to take control of [[capitalist technology]]"
  • Exchange, obligation, accountability: Moral orders of technology repair in Kampala, Uganda
    • "developed the concept of moral orders of [[repair]], defining it as the norms, rules, values, and expectations that support and structure practice, exchange, and collaboration in everyday repair worlds and beyond"
      • Via: someone on social.coop

2026-04-16

• [[Read]]:
  • [[What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?]]

2026-04-13

• [[Read]]:

  • [[How the left can win back the internet – and rise again]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • After soaring 2,200%, DDR4 RAM prices finally fall — but don’t get too excited
    • "We’ve witnessed another hint that the RAM crisis is deescalating — at least a touch — along with an interesting move by the Korean government to try to protect consumers from the worst excesses of PC component price hikes."
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]]
  • Old public PCs for vulnerable groups amid chip price surge
    • "[[South Korea]] will increase the reuse of computers previously used by public agencies and expand support programs for vulnerable groups in response to rising prices of semiconductors"
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]]
  • ‘Computers are no longer a bicycle for the mind’: Frameworks founder says the Steve Jobs era is over and PCs are now a ‘self-driving car that takes you directly to the destination’
    • "[[Framework]], the computer company fixated on letting you define and endlessly update your PC, is now taking a stand against the cloud, AI, and the lack of PC [[ownership]]"
  • Google’s Free Windows PC Upgrade Offer—Millions Must Act Before Deadline
    • "Google has simplified this with “a new ChromeOS Flex USB Kit," available through its partnership with Back Market to “help you install our fast, secure and free operating system.”"
    • According to this article, uptake of BackMarket’s ChromeOS Flex USBs (as a means to come off Windows 10) has been ‘huge’ and now sold out. Disappointed they chose to push Flex rather than Linux.
  • Report - A repair voucher scheme for London: an overview of different models and their potential impact
    • "This report summarises research exploring the feasibility of a regional [[repair voucher scheme for London]] that covers both textiles and electricals and electronics by examining the possible delivery models, enabling conditions, and the benefits of such a scheme."
  • Resistance in the data-driven society
    • "This essay explores the possibility of individual and collective resistance vis-à-vis datafication, drawing on examples from across the globe. It shows how infrastructure, political agency, and tactics have changed in response to datafication. It reviews six resistance tactics, distinguishing between “defensive resistance” and “productive resistance”: self-defence, subversion, avoidance, literacy, counter-imagination, and advocacy campaigning. Investigating them offers insights on the ability of social actors to contribute to innovation in mobilising practices amidst intrusive surveillance."
  • What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?
    • "the paper introduces a holistic approach to resilient digital democracy that spans environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural domains, and advances strategies such as public-commons digital infrastructures, platform co-operatives, public service Internet platforms, free/libre open source software (FLOSS), participatory innovations, and hybrid offline/online democratic practices"
  • Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies
    • "Drawing on traditions of the [[social and solidarity economy]], free and open-source cultures, and feminist and decolonial technoscience, the special issue explores how communities across the world build [[technological sovereignty]] from below"

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[A lot of people use Meta products]]
  • [[The world uses Meta products for some positive functions]]

• Structured:

  • [[Why and how to move away from Meta]]

• Wrote:

  • [[Reminder: abolish Meta]].

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.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Digital Fascism and Digital Capitalism
    • "theorises [[digital fascism]] as a contemporary form of right-wing authoritarianism rooted in capitalism and reorganised through digital infrastructures."
    • [[tripleC]] newsletter
  • Keep Android Open
    • "In August 2025, [[Google]] announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the [[Android]] platform without first registering centrally with Google"
    • [[F-Droid]]
  • With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy
    • "This might make your phone a little safer, sure, but it won’t stop people from getting scammed. At the same time, it could rob the [[Android]] ecosystem of what made it special in the first place."

• 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.

2026-04-02

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
    • "The “[[Germany Stack]]” is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination with European partners and to be implemented entirely as [[Free Software]], since only the four freedoms enable [[digital sovereignty]]."
  • Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
    • "we’ll zoom in on the [[main note]] itself: a brief look at its components, followed by thoughts on how to craft the primary unit of information it contains, and how to reinforce it with additional information"

• I am doing a bit of a rejig to my site.

  • I’m deprecating the WordPress side of things and moving those bits to Emacs/org.
  • WordPress has served me very well for the ‘stream’ side of my online presence in the past, but I don’t have the time or need to use WordPress right now.
  • So I’ve set https://doubleloop.net to currently redirect straight to https://commonplace.doubleloop.net.
  • Commonplace I’ve always referred to as my digital garden, but it also contains elements of the stream, and long-form articles, within it.
  • I’ll make those a bit more easily discoverable.