2022-12-16

• Read: [[New EU rules for smartphones and tablets: still far from a true Right to repair]]

• Reading: [[Platform Socialism]]. Liking the chapter on [[guild socialism]] and [[democratic planning]], heavily featuring [[G. D. H. Cole]] and [[Otto Neurath]]. And the subsequent chapter on [[civic platforms]], featuring [[platform cooperativism]], [[new municipalism]], [[public-commons partnerships]].

• Re-read [[Radical Technologies]] by [[Adam Greenfield]] and it remains an absolute banger. Thorough critique of the technologies you see bandied around as part of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ - smartphones, IoT, AR/VR, blockchain, digital fabrication, automation, ML/AI. Fair, but mostly damning, and still right on point 5 years since publication. The last two chapters on the Stacks, possible futures and tactics are gold.