2024-04-28

• [[Ecology]]

  • [[Keystone species]]

• I should put more images in my garden.

  • I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.

• Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].

  • National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
  • Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
  • Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.

• Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
• Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
• I thought about [[telling stories]].
• [[Google]]:
  • [[Letter from the Founders]]
  • [[2004 update]]

2024-04-27

• [[Digital weeding and watering]]

  • Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
  • This has been very useful already.
  • I’ve found:
    • pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
    • duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
    • pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
    • mistakenly created pages
  • And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.

• I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.

  • [[The Mechanic and the Luddite]]

2024-04-26

2024-04-23

• Read: [[What a waste: our study shows almost half of electricals sent for recycling could be reused]]
  • [[The Restart Project]] set up in a Household Waste Recycling Centre (in Brent, London).
  • Assessed the reusability of products being brought in for recycling.
  • Shocking results: almost 50% could have an easy second life (either fully functional as is, or in need of only minor repair).
  • There needs to be less focus on recycling, and much more on reuse and repair.
  • Filtering and diverting initiatives should be mandatory.

2024-04-22

• [[Listened]] to [[There’s hope yet for UK waste and repair policy, with Green Alliance]]