Notes and links from 2 Oct

A fairly nondescript day. Pottered around a bit and didn’t accidentally start a project, so that’s good. Conserving energy and resting properly. Bit bored though. Trying not to get wound up about the Zionism-is-racism stuff at the Green Party conference. I have no idea if Zionism is or isn’t racism but I’ve had a look at who’s pushing it and they seem to be exactly the sort of wankers who make progressive and community organising such a fucking ballache to be involved with. In my experience they’re incapable of actually doing anything useful and so hide behind ideological purity tests that drain energy and distract from the real work of bringing people together to make a difference. I dearly hope the Greens' policy processes are robust enough to get them to fuck off. Other than that, feeling OK. Today’s links A hacker’s guide to bending the universe — A lovely piece of writing from 2016 by Marcin Wichary about how, as a teen desperate to play Civilization, he made a broken CRT monitor…