Notes

The common narrative of a monolithic China wielding their large scale businesses to exert state control internationally is lazy and flawed. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3157237/china-suspends-tencent-updating-existing-apps-or-launching-new-apps

Occasionally, I substitute my normal tea for more peppery masala. Drinking it strongly reminds me of Mumbai and takes me back to the beautiful chaos of Indian streets.

Happy Diwali, y’all!

This speculation is a nice counterpoint to my climate pessimism and distaste for Elon Musk.

🇳🇱 Mijn langdurige verblijfsvergunning is geaccepteerd! (My permanent residency has been approved!)

I’ve recently discovered David Rutledge’s The Philosopher’s Zone and am bingeing on it.

Today I listened to an episode with Aileen Moreton-Robinson who (rightly) criticizes rationalist Enlightenment philosophy for being reductionist and understanding the world through segmentation, as opposed to her indigenous Australian tradition which focuses on the relationships between things and systems.

Shortly after this I listened to Steven Nadler describe Spinoza, my favorite Enlightenment precursor, as treating the relationships between things and their contexts within systems as fundamental to his ethics.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ philosophy contains multitudes.

I understand why Apple needs to be a “good citizen” and introduce content scanning, but I share the EFF’s concerns about what is being lost. 😞