This is fantastic, thanks!

Sorry to hear this! Hope it has / will pass.

I've got super basic h-entry markup on my wiki

e.g. http://xray.p3k.io/parse?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommonplace.doubleloop.net%2Frevolution-in-the-twenty-first-century&pretty=true

would prefer "currently stewarded by" :)

Sorry to hear about the rough week - glad to hear it may have passed.

I think the commercial/exploitative nature of these platforms goes a bit against the ethos of building a knowledge commons.

If the idea is music search, maybe [[musicbrainz]] and [[bandcamp]] are alternatives?

Sorry to hear - I hope it passes soon for you.

Matrix vibes

Yearning for nature?

Hegemony

Anti-war?

anti-capitalist?

Anti-technology?

Definitely not a good thing...

Not a good thing, then...

Old gods, modern materials.

That's interesting. Perhaps the technologists usually portray technology as beneficial, and the poets critique it?

It's good to get this context on Brautigan - useful to know the person behind the poem.

This does sound good.

Brautigan seems a bit of an odd one...

Ah interesting, I didn't realise it was a collection.

I feel he focuses too much on migration and less on inequality. He says that mass migration is a genuine economic problem for countries, but doesn't give any figures to back that up. I haven't read much that can legitimately place economic woes as the result of mass migration. The figures that it has increased seem legit. And the argument that it is a convenient scapegoat to present to the disenfranchised is undoubtedly true. But poverty and inequality are not the result of migration, surely? They are the result of neoliberal policies. Migration doesn't cause inequality and poverty. It has unfortunately become the scapegoat for it.

The larger point stands, however - migration is going to increase if our global interference continues as it is (war and climage change being the biggest factors.) And if we don't properly address anti-immigrant sentiment and the causes of it, we are in a lot of trouble.

Jeff Sachs makes the argument that inequality and anti-migrant sentiment are the two driving forces behind Brexit vote. He places the blame for both mass migration and inequality with globalization (and neoliberalism, I assume).

As if this wasn’t tenuous enough, it turns out Mr Ahmad is actually a convicted terrorist in the sense that he spent 11 years imprisoned without trial for hosting a website that allowed two articles supporting the Taliban to be posted in 2000-01. Following extradition to the US, he was eventually released after a trial where the judge described him as ‘generous, humane and empathetic’ and a ‘good person’ who was never interested in terrorism. Mr Khan had been part of a high-profile campaign to prevent the extradition to the US, as had numerous other politicians including current mayor Boris Johnson and current Tory mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith.

https://tabloidcorrections.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/daily-mail-launch-shameful-and-desperate-attack-on-sadiq-khan/

This refers to a funeral of a Muslim lady in his constituency, which Mr Khan attended and – as local MP – shook hands with some of the attendees. One of these hands belonged to ‘convicted terrorist’ Babar Ahmad who exchanged ‘brief pleasantries’ with Mr Khan before he moved on.

https://tabloidcorrections.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/daily-mail-launch-shameful-and-desperate-attack-on-sadiq-khan/