# 2026-05-18

-   [[Reform UK and digital technologies]]

-   [[Zettled]]:
    -   [[Reform UK uses TikTok as a core component of its communication strategy]]
    -   [[Reform use targeted digital campaigns to deliver messages that speak directly to the priorities of local communities]]

-   [[Listened]]:
    -   [[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
        -   Quite a mind expanding listen. I think I'm starting to grasp it, and it's more just getting used to new terminology than a particularly complicated concept, I think.
        -   Closed and open sounds like it could have interesting parallel to horizontal and vertical in organisational ecology.
        -   It's unclear to me how anything in this theory applies to actually changing the world, but it's either that it's a case of better understanding the enemy in order to then figure out how to overthrow it, or simply that I haven't clocked it yet.
        -   Ah fair enough at the end that question comes up and he says he has focused on description rather than alternative. Jan Groos points to some possible leftist similarities.

-   [[Data brokers]].  Vacuuming up your data, then asking you to opt out of them using it.

-   I seem to be having the usual post fresh install snappiness, which is nice.  Like I say everytime, I should do it more often…
    -   I've gotten back up and running pretty quickly.
    -   The main thing I need to improve on is how I have slightly different config between my personal and work configs for Emacs, and I haven't yet got a decent way of checking those changes in.