• [[silverbullet]]:
  • should open the daily on startup?
  • [[go/daily]] achieves this for me for now ;) e.g. [[go/daily]] or just use the embed in anagora.org/daily.

• going over "old" (and new) notebooks, trying to make sense of the hugely distributed task list they imply :)
  • happy to see that a lot actually happened in the last 1-2 quarters!
  • I’m thinking this could be a nice ‘tradition’ to reinforce on the [[17ths]], being [[Maitreya day]] ;)
• [[do]]:
  • [[numbers]] pull all number-related actions, e.g. [[557]] (example comes from a notebook) pulls [[hex/557]], [[prime/557]] and any others we have in the future.
  • [[today]] should probably pull today’s date instead of redirecting? maybe!
  • next steps on [[activitypub]]
  • define [[equivalence classes]] in the Agora; right now they’re implicit and a bit of a mess?
  • [[oauth]] is mentioned so often in my todos that I wonder how it is I actually haven’t even started on it!
    • I think at some point I wanted to do these flows through [[agora bridge]] instead of [[agora server]]?
    • But that might have been a mistake/complicating stuff needlessly?
  • [[open letters]] show up profusely in the last 1.5 years, yet I have not properly published a single one since (except by default in the Agora, like pretty much everything I write that is not work related)
    • [[Building Bridges]]
    • [[Beyond Markdown and Git]]
    • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Agora]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Sangha]]
  • develop [[whisper]] as an action (?)
• "[[Flancia]] is a [[Pattern Language]], the [[Agora]] is a [[Pattern Repository]]" — from a notebook.

2024-05-17

• Read: [[Critique of techno-feudal reason]]

  • Well, sort of read it - actually half listened to it via Wallabag while taking the bubba out for an early walk.
  • Dense and erudite, as you expect from Morozov.
  • Didn’t follow half of it this first time around to be honest, but I take away the basic message that he’s critical of the general idea of [[techno-feudalism]].

• [[There is no capitalism without colonialism]].

• [[work]]
• [[ssc]]

• [[True Names]] == [[343]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]]
  • Which I guess can now be said to contain at least 343 patterns :)
  • [[7^3]] calculated mentally (it might be wrong for all I know!)

• [[15]] means [[Right Effort]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]].
• Tough day at work. I got demotivated yesterday after hearing some bad news and that bled a bit onto today. But nothing terrible :)
• [[Fellowship of the link]] was nice and energizing though.

2024-05-15

• [[Listened]]: [[The dangers of digital capitalism]]
  • Excellent webinar from [[Transnational Institute]].
  • On [[digital capitalism]] and more.
  • Some great speakers, I should find out more about them.
    • I’ve come across [[Jack Qiu]] before from [[Goodbye iSlave]].

• Another [[day]], another [[node]].
  • Or more than one :)
  • I definitely need to work on editing though! On doing more of the actual curation and maintenance of an actual [[digital garden]].
  • In the meantime, thanks for making do with all the rough edges ;)
• Resuming [[Agora development]]:
  • I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
    • -> done, or at least started :)
  • I did some [[verschlimmbessern]] on the index to the [[Agora]] on the flight to the US that I never quite pushed — and better that way :) it needs ‘cherrypicking’ to put it mildly. It suffered a lot in directness.
  • Also added support for [[silverbullet]] style [[attachments]].
• [[social.coop]]:
  • No [[twg]] meeting this week, will try to continue working on onboarding [[evan]] to the group.
  • I "installed" alpha.social.coop using [[coop cloud]] but it’s not up yet.
  • [[upkeep]]:
    • You could call it [[life]] ;)
    • [[nostromo]] was getting broken enough that I decided to update Ubuntu to the latest release to unbreak [[wayland]] and some sites in [[chromium]]. It had been long in the making, it’s a bit like house cleaning, it can be relaxing after work :)
    • I tried taking the occasion to also [[garbage collect]] tabs/try some new organizational principles in [[paramita]], [[guanyin]] and [[sariputta]].
• [[GPT 4o]] was released yesterday and I got access.
  • Impressive.
  • But it failed to analyze a video I attached on desktop meaningfully though.

• Noding from a new computer — [[Guanyin]] :)
  • Now back in [[Nostromo]] after work
• Thought of [[17]], and explored 17 musically as [[13 + 4]] (today it’s the 13th) and [[7 + 10]].
• [[digital capitalism]]
• [[yoga with x]]
• I found two notebooks that I had misplaced, or that had anyhow gotten out of my working context. It felt great, in particular one that I call [[25]].
• [[flaming lips]]:
  • [[summertime]]

• It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!

• Trying [[attachments]].
• [[AG]]
• [[Stapelberg]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[17]]
• [[scc]]

2024-05-13

• [[Listened]]: [[Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism]]

• Using both [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] these days, will make a case of checking out how anagora.org renders this and consider improvements
• [[AMITAFO]]

I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.

After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)

• Started the day with [[AG]] in the [[balcony]] :)
  • We managed to also do a mini bike tour before she went to the [[Mothers Day]] festivities :)
• Now thinking of:
  • [[patterns]]
    • as per usual you could say :)
  • [[patents]] (don’t worry, more in the abstract than anything :)
    • relevant to [[digital capitalism]] surely
  • [[visions]]
  • [[true names]]
• I got a small book by Meister [[Yaw Hwa Chin]] in the Chinese supermarket, I want to check them out.
  • it’s titled [[The wisdom, philosophy and education of Buddha and Chinese]]
  • He writes [[AMITOFO]] just before signing; it turns out it’s the Chinese spelling of [[Amitabha]] ~ [[Amitayus]].

2024-05-12

• After a long hiatus, low-key writing [[Reclaim the Stacks: reflections, May 2024]].

• Reading [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue]]

• [[flancia meet]]:
  • [[bouncepaw]]
    • [[pipepunk]] and its evolution
    • [[zine]]

• [[2024-05-10]]
  • I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
  • Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]’

• [[flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] was great!

2024-05-11

• [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • I finished Week 1.
  • (Mostly - not had chance to go through all the further materials yet.)

• Cycled to [[Greifensee]] with [[AG]], it was a beautiful day!
• In the evening we saw [[Episode V]]

• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[Fix the Agora]] :)
  • Make the open letter readable
  • test and iterate on fixes! :)
• [[gone]]

• Back in [[Silverbullet]] on my new work laptop, named after [[Guanyin]].
• Thought about [[Open Letters]] and [[Right Intention]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]]
• [[xkcd machine]]:
  • a [[game]]
  • https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
  • #go https://xkcd.com/2916/
  • uses [[rapier]]:
    • a [[physics engine]]
    • #go https://rapier.rs/
• Working to fix [[agor.ai]]
  • [[hypatia]] ran out of disk at some point and this can really break [[coop cloud]], it seems!

• Back here at [[11pm]]!
  • The work day was long (with a gap in the middle) and interesting :)
  • Now doing yoga and thinking.
• [[mexico city]]
• [[AG]]
• [[L]]
• [[Lady Burup]]

• This May I’m trying to get back into writing in [[node club]] — enjoying it so far!
  • This month the default topic is [[digital capitalism]] :)
• I [[meditated]] — I do not usually mention that I meditate 10 minutes in the morning but I do — and it makes a great difference to pretty much any day in my experience/according to my perceptions!
• I [[worked]]
• Then I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
  • [[AG]]
  • my friends in general!
  • [[light]]
  • [[entanglement]]
  • [[magnetism]]
  • [[open letters]]
  • [[open source]]
• I found out today that [[Hannu Rajaniemi]] is Finnish, not "south asian" (?) as I initially thought :)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi pull born 1978.
• I listened to [[flow state]].

Not necessarily in that order :)

I like [[silver bullet]] but I come back to [[wiki vim]] because it’s on the terminal and that’s where I sometimes want to write.

I like [[senegal town]].

Also: [[mexico city]], [[paris]] :)

• [[BLDGBLOG]]
• Now I’m back in [[silverbullet]]. I’m unsure if I want to unify the journal or not. Probably yes? But I’m curious about e.g. Journal/Month/2024-05 if that exists :)
• [[digital capitalism]]:
  • did a pass over [[Open Letter to Google]], maybe it’s more readable up to… a few paragraphs in? :)
  • I think it is starting to take shape.

• I wonder what a [[quick note]] is meant to be used for in [[silverbullet]] :)

• Back in [[silverbullet]], now using it as a ‘web app’ — meaning after pressing ‘install’ on chromium while visiting edit.anagora.org :) - For now edit.anagora.org only works for this [[flancian]], but I hope soon enough I will be able to offer it to the community.
  • Intend I intend to keep using [[wiki vim]] though, as I value having a terminal client for writing in the Agora - Experimented with a bluetooth keyboard on mobile as a way of having more fluid Agora editing on the go.
  • Tried [[silverbullet]] in firefox mobile and vim mode didn’t quite work :)
  • Also my hardware keyboard is set up to have esc go to the android home screen, which does not go well with vim mode ;)
    • Update: realized I can set the keyboard to [[windows mode]] and it will disable most of what I consider intrusive functionality :)
  • Still the prospect of having a fully featured Agora editor on mobile is thrilling!
• [[agora discuss]]: [[neil]] suggested [[web mentions]] as the ground level on which to build [[agora likes]].
  • I agree it’s an interesting approach; it seems complementary to [[activity pub]] support which I’ve already started working on, inspired by [[bouncepaw]]‘s work on [[betula]].
  • The basic abstraction might be: the Agora publishes, and produces, feeds of social activity in different formats. Their states influence UI elements like emoji reactions and a log of activity.
• A few hours later…
  • [[Winti Tap Jam]]:
    • I’m in [[Winterthur]] in a [[tap dance]] event, against my expectations enjoying it quite a bit! The [[jazz band]] is great, and I didn’t know people could dance like this while interacting with an improvising band. It’s really quite cool.
    • With [[AG]] and [[Nushya]]!
• Really enjoying [[noding from mobile]] quite a bit, it encourages [[live noding]].
• [[open letters]]

2024-05-04

• Read through some of the materials from week 1 of [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
  • What is [[digital capitalism]]?

• [[work]] was fine actually! I finished the weekly todo list I believe to good standard. People at work are great!
  • I keep thinking about the [[python team]] and others of course.
• [[social coop]]:
  • [[cwg]] meeting, it’s great working with both old and new members.
  • discussed onboarding, oncall and [[twg]].
• [[node club]]:
  • [[digital capitalism]]
  • [[cannabis]]
• [[Open Letter to Google]]:
  • read, and [[annotated]], [[the man who killed google search]]
• [[open letter to the Agora]];
  • [[Maitreya]] is the (default) greater warden of the [[Agora of Flancia]]
    • and what this means, in [[node club]] through this [[International Workers Month]] of [[May 2024]] :)
• thinking of [[AG]]

2024-05-03

• I finally managed to start (just as it’s finishing!) the [[Digital Capitalism online course]] from the [[Transnational Institute]].

  • "6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world"
  • The first week of which is titled ‘What is digital capitalism?’
  • I’m most looking forward to week 6 - titled ‘What’s the alternative? The digital world we want to live in’

• And the [[tripleC]] special issue on digital capitalism just came out.

  • [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]].

• Apropos of the above, for [[node club]] (AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]) I’m going to write about [[digital capitalism]].

• Trying [[Obsidian]] after a looong time — after remembering, and then trying on a lark, [[Roam Research]] again :)
  • I also tried [[logseq]] but it did a mega-commit automatically on my garden which almost broke it, not super happy about that (it tried to commit and push a 101MB file that is a database for [[silverbullet]] and probably, granted, should have been in .gitignore).

• Happy [[International Workers Day]]!
  • The last year flew by in some ways :) I remember attending the festivities/events in Zürich yesterday. Looking forward to doing the same today, at least a few hours.
• I got into [[biking]] again and I’m enjoying it tremendously :)
  • We may bike tomorrow with [[AG]].
• I also plan to catch up with [[Berni]]. I have been catching up with friends finally after a hiatus due to [[work]] + [[travel]] and I’m looking forward to the VC!
• [[doxometrist]] told me about [[netwik-obsidian]] as being in [[agora space]]
• [[j0lms]] had good news!
• [[l]] had good news! and we had an interesting conversation
• [[Brunello]], the father of a friend of mine, died last week at [[90]]. I knew him and he seemed like a good and sensitive person. I lighted a candle for him/his memory.
• [[Agora]]!
  • [[Agora development]]:
    • Fixed images, they were broken in prod due to a logger misconfiguration — thank you [[neil]] for reporting!
    • Made some progress towards fixing git.agor.ai — [[hypatia]] got into some weird state after running out of disk.
    • Reached out to [[protopian]] to try to unbreak his garden :)

• [[eminems]]

• Listening to [[Brad Mehldau]].
• Worked with [[jet lag]] — it was alright :)
• [[Pattern Language]]:
  • [[3]] [[7]] [[10]] [[11]] [[12]] [[17]] [[21]] [[23]] [[51]]
• [[Open Letters]]
  • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • I’ll just quit stalling and write two letters I guess, or continue writing them, as I started years ago by now :)

2024-04-28

• [[Ecology]]

  • [[Keystone species]]

• I should put more images in my garden.

  • I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.

• Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].

  • National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
  • Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
  • Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.

• Read [[Palestine speaks for everyone]]

• Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
• Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
• I thought about [[telling stories]].
• [[Google]]:
  • [[Letter from the Founders]]
  • [[2004 update]]
  • [[2019 update]]

2024-04-27

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• [[Digital weeding and watering]]

  • Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
  • This has been very useful already.
  • I’ve found:
    • pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
    • duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
    • pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
    • mistakenly created pages
  • And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.

• I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.

  • [[The Mechanic and the Luddite]]

• [[Repairing a Dell Latitude E7450]]

2024-04-26

2024-04-23

• Read: [[What a waste: our study shows almost half of electricals sent for recycling could be reused]]
  • [[The Restart Project]] set up in a Household Waste Recycling Centre (in Brent, London).
  • Assessed the reusability of products being brought in for recycling.
  • Shocking results: almost 50% could have an easy second life (either fully functional as is, or in need of only minor repair).
  • There needs to be less focus on recycling, and much more on reuse and repair.
  • Filtering and diverting initiatives should be mandatory.

2024-04-22

• [[Listened]] to [[There’s hope yet for UK waste and repair policy, with Green Alliance]]

2024-04-21

• Soccer96 - I was gonna fight fascism

• [[Listened]] to [[Seto Kaiba is My Role Model]]

2024-04-20

• Changes in the [[forces of production]] come into conflict with the [[relations of production]].

  • The infinite replicability of digital assets is in conflict with the wishes of corporations who profit from artificial scarcity.
  • From memory, I think Paul Mason discusses this in Post Capitalism.
  • Also the phrase [[What is possible in the information age is in direct conflict with what is permissible]] from [[the Telekommunist Manifesto]] comes to mind.

• [[Listened]] to [[The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield]]

• [[Listened]] to [[How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe]]

2024-04-19

• [[Replacing Google Fonts usage with locally-served font]]

  • [[What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?]]

• It could be time for a new season of [[Node Club]]…

  • AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]

• I should back up my Doom config on Termux.

  • Given I’ve spent enough time configuring it now that it would be a pain to have to redo it.
  • [[Backing up my Doom Emacs config on Termux]].

• Flying to the [[US]]!
  • Not staying super long, but I’m attending a wedding and visiting a few museums I’ve never visited before.
  • I slept badly tonight, and the day before, due to different reasons — the first night it was due to trip prep, the second it was due to a (surprise, as usual) allergy attack that kept me up/very uncomfortable until late. Happy to have made it to the flight only looking slightly like a cat (because of how my eyes swell, I get a bit of a feline look for hours-days after an attack).
  • Listening to [[Lex Fridman]] with [[Jimbo Wales]] on topics like the history of wikipedia. Very interesting as most Lex conversations I’ve heard as of late!
• [[Agora]]:
  • I’m back in the Agora, finally :) I took a more prolonged break from journaling as I moved with [[Lady Burup]] temporarily to [[AG]]‘s place (she is very kind!) and I adapted my routine to that space; also I’ve been busy at work and with other projects.
  • Thank you [[neil]] for keeping the journaling section of the Agora alive and interesting!
  • I reworked a bit the Agora’s [[README.md]], which is what is rendered at the Agora root URL — e.g. https://anagora.org pull. Hopefully it’s more cogent and informative without being overwhelming. But you tell me :)
  • [[Agora Development]]:
    • Fix local dev environment which is now sending https to itself even though it’s http only due to bug in agora.py:56 :).
• [[Flancia]]:
  • I thought back a bit about the history of Flancia while I was rewriting the above. It’s been running for a number of years at this stage!
  • Maybe I should write a belated update in https://flancia.org pull proper.
    • Include a reference to the [[flancia meet]] landing page.
    • Include a TLDR on what the Agora now is/how it developed through the years/where do we want to go next.
    • Maybe take the opportunity to have some extra fun and write something more clearly fictional again :)

2024-04-18

• I [[listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]].

  • It’s a good episode.
  • I like [[Kai Heron]], and I’ve found the debate between various strands of [[ecosocialist]] thought very interesting.
  • But I also lament the time spent disagreeing amongst ourselves on the left.
  • Is it ultimately useful? What if all this intellectual effort could be spent on bringing about a transition away from capitalism, and towards ecosocialism?
  • I don’t know - perhaps the debate is contributing to that transition, in part, in a roundabout. And I suppose that if we don’t know what we stand for, we can’t meaningfully work towards it.
  • But still. It has vibes of [[The People’s Front of Judea]] vs the Judean People’s Front.
  • Not got to the end yet, so perhaps this will be covered…

• Listened to [[Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)]]

2024-04-17

• [[Listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]]

• [[Listened]] to [[Is the Middle East on the brink?]]

2024-04-16

• [[Shells]].

  • Bash vs Fish vs Zsh vs Nushell? | Lobsters

• Listened to [[Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”]]

  • About Israel’s AI targeting system, "[[Lavender]]".

• Read: [[Emacs: Dead and Loving It]]

  • "What is dead cannot die"
  • [[Emacs]]

• Working on some improvements to the look and feel of my writing mode that I use when in org-roam.for Emacs.

  • [[Improving my Emacs writing mode]]

• [[Lex]]:
  • Listened to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Lex Fridman]] and it reminded me I also like Lex and I think he has lots of potential.
    • Sam came across as a bit more close-minded on some topics than Lex, which tracks with some of the conversations with him I’ve been listening to him recently — he is still one of my favourite public persons though. It’s just that Lex seems to be more of the "open heart hippie" and in that sense closer to me (at least at times).
  • Then listened to his conversation with [[Joscha Bach]] and it reminded me I like Joscha as well.

2024-04-15

• Not sure if this has happened just recently, or I’ve been living with it for a long time, but: case sensitive node search in [[org-roam]] was starting to bug me.
  • Turns out that it’s [[Helm]] that is doing it, when set to the ‘smart’ completion algorithm.
  • I just need to (setq helm-case-fold-search t) and all is good - much smoother completion experience.
  • See: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/v2-case-insensitive-completion-and-backlinks-not-working-as-expected/1701/17
  • In Doom, something different.
  • I’ll pop it in a separate note: [[Turning on case-insensitive search in org-roam]]

• In [[Flancia Meet]] with [[bouncepaw]].
• Started the day in [[AG]]‘s place with her and [[Lady Burup]], it was beautiful :)

2024-04-14

• Listened to [[New Economics Podcast: Should we be going for growth?]]

  • Good discussion.
  • Growth. GDP . Degrowth. Green growth. Decoupling. Doughnut economics. Policies for alternatives to growth. Growthism. Growth is structurally baked in - how to change that?

• [[Listened]] to [[Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism]]

  • LLMs. AGI. Political economy of AI. Neo-Luddism. [[Left spirituality]]. Fun wide ranging discussion.

• [[Habitat loss]].

  • One of the most significant threats to [[biodiversity]].

• [[Film theory]] looks at films and the effect they have on society.

  • I find this really interesting so learning a little on it via Kinnu.

2024-04-13

2024-04-12

• Did a bit more on [[Setting up a literate publish.el with org-babel]].

• The AI [[hackathon]] I’ve been working on went well \o/

2024-04-11

• Learning about [[biodiversity]] via the Kinna app.

  • Variety of species. At various levels.
  • Essential to the health of the planet.
  • Genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity.

• Listened to [[Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha]]

  • Fascinating discussion. Post Capitalism. Post here not meaning ‘after’ but ‘in relation to’. Pluralistic. Past and present examples: Zapatistas. Rojava. Indigenous worldviews. Relational ontologies and OntoShift.

2024-04-10

• Migrating my publish.el to a [[Literate publish.el]].
  • To make it a bit more understandable to others, and also as a push for me to tidy it up.

2024-04-09

• Made good progress on [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].
  • [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]] was incredibly helpful, would have been a bit of a nightmare otherwise.

2024-04-08

• [[Listened]] to [[Should the UK stop arming Israel?]]

  • Drone strike killed seven aid workers. (Some of whom British).
  • While Israel says it was a mistake, suggestion is that this is in line with Israel’s current rules of engagement.
  • UK sells a small amount of arms to the UK. Sunak threatening to stop this unless more aid allowed.

• [[Nonprofits should (almost) never write their own software]]

  • From the [[Aspiration Manifesto]].
  • Being the tech lead for a non-profit that develops our own software - I fully agree. We are currently going through a process of trying to divest as much bespoke code as possible to pre-existing (FLOSS) software.
  • One alternative I see, where no other software exists for the desired purpose, is for non-profits to perhaps be incubators for the software, but always with an intention to [[exit to community]] / exit the software to cooperative.

2024-04-07

• My publish.el file would be a good candidate for a literate config approach. Would make it more useful for other people to make use of then I think. Also would make me tidy it up.

• Listened again to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]

  • [[Parallel Polis]], Vaclav Havel.
  • Touches on similar stuff as recent [[Vincent Bevins]] podcasts re: failed revolutions of the 2010s.
    • Technology helped spread viral messaging for movements, did little to help collective decision making and long-term organisation.
  • Mentions [[Loomio]], [[Action Network]].

• When I get a moment I’ll make a page of gardening tasks for myself.

  • Just simple things like reviewing nodes that haven’t been edited for a long time; reviewing empty nodes to either prune or flesh out; etc.

• [[Ecology]].

  • interaction between organisms and their environment.
  • communities, ecosystems, biomes.
  • producers, consumers, decomposers.
  • food chains, food webs.
  • energy flows, trophic levels.
  • nutrient cycles.

2024-04-06

• If you share your [[commonplace book]] to the knowledge commons, is it then a [[commonsplace book]]?

• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]
• [[cleaning]]
• [[danger]] codes

2024-04-05

• [[Listened]] to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]
  • Love this interview of [[Nathan Schneider]] by [[David Bollier]]. New book out, [[Governable Spaces]]. Sounds like a synthesis of a bunch of recent papers (e.g. [[Governable Stacks]]).
  • Main thesis is about the need for inclusion of democracy in our everyday online tools. To avoid ‘[[Implicit feudalism]]‘.
  • [[Decidim]] referenced favourably.
• And [[listened]] to [[Building human economies using technology]]
  • Bit of a sprawling rambling discussion, but still interesting talking points. Technology, communism. [[Telekommunisten]]. Struggles of leftist tech to get a real foothold. [[Theory of value]].

2024-04-04

• I’m getting more into the groove with [[fish]] on desktop the more that I use it.

  • Still a slamdunk win on Termux.

• I would just like to take a moment to lament the fact that I have received an email inviting me to become a Certified Generative AI Specialist.

• Idle thought: maybe the world would be a better place if the de facto ‘learn to code’ tutorial was not a todo list (individual productivity) but a simple group poll (collective decision-making).

2024-04-03

• A bit more on [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]].

2024-04-02

• Had a quick read about [[Passkeys]].

• Listened to [[Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna]]

• [[deutsch]]

2024-04-01

• [[Listened]] to [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Whose Anthropocene?]]

  • Good discussion - is [[Anthropocene]] a useful term? Maybe [[Capitalocene]] works better? Maybe both have their uses. Good overview of the pros and cons of both.
  • There’s a geological definition of Anthropocene (descriptive), which is interesting and all, but perhaps of more genuine use is it as a definition that motivates us to act to mitigate climate catastrophe (prescriptive).

• Also [[listened]] to [[Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon]]

  • Great discussion. Loads of good stuff in there, listened while doing chores so not much in the way of notes, warrants a relisten.
  • [[Platform Socialism]]. [[Guild socialism]]. [[Subsidiarity]]. Some things best as worker coops, some local municipality, some national. Some global. Global digital services. Take Google into global public ownership?
  • [[DECODE]].

2024-03-31

• Went for a walk and [[listened]] to [[The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)]]
  • [[Silicon Valley Imperialism]].

• Following a stumble through the garden related to [[technology and political economy]], re-reading [[The Telekommunist Manifesto]].

  • [[political economy of network topologies]]
  • [[political economy of free software]]

• Also plan to re-read [[The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution]].

2024-03-30

• [[Adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]] not as straight forward as it could be.
  • Using it as an opportunity to get familiar with ERT. [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]].
  • Should be simpler to write against small tests rather than having to go through the whole publish pipeline.

2024-03-29

• Late night [[listened]] to [[What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)]]

  • [[Social data]].
  • Has [[predictive value]].
  • Three ways to extract [[surplus value]] with it:
    • 1. Just sell it on, e.g. data broker
    • 2. Use it to exploit people based on knowledge from the data
    • 3. Use it to exert power (e.g. Uber’s [[Greyball]] program)

• Also listened to [[The Supermarket into Prison Pipeline]]

• Pretty much always find [[This Machine Kills]] interesting, whatever the topic.

• Thinking about how I would go about [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].

• [[AG]] :)
• [[Lady Burup]] :)
• [[friends]]
• [[work]]
• [[party]] prep
• [[colleen]]

2024-03-28

• I’ve been picking up the [[guitar]] again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I’m really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some [[John Fahey]] too.

2024-03-27

• Re: [[using org-mode for timeblocking]] and [[trying out calfw-blocks]], noticed that someone (haji-ali) has forked and updated both [[calfw]] and [[calfw-blocks]].
  • https://github.com/haji-ali/emacs-calfw
  • https://github.com/haji-ali/calfw-blocks/
  • Might be worth making use of these. Have a read through the fork changelogs.

• [[work]]
• [[social coop]]:
  • [[social coop organizing circle]]

2024-03-26

• Further to [[trying out org-timeblock]], I’m now [[trying out calfw-blocks]].
  • As part of a general attempt to be able to do timeblocking in org-mode. ([[Using org-mode for timeblocking]]).
  • I wouldn’t say it’s going swimmingly… but I’m learning plenty about spacemacs layers, doom config, and use-package. So that’s something.

2024-03-25

• Although in general it feels the same (possibly slower? because I didn’t compile it myself?), one thing that is much faster in Emacs 28 is the parsing of my huge Tasks.org file for work. Thumbs up.

  • [[What’s new in Emacs 28?]]

• I’d like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have ‘planted’ and ‘last tended’ dates on each page.

  • I already have ‘This page last updated: …’ at the bottom of every page.
  • But I’d prefer it right at the top. Not too prominent/distracting, but I have some pretty old pages knocking around now and I’d like people to be aware that they might be outdated.

• [[org-timeblock]] looks pretty good and like it’d fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.

  • I used to use [[Goalist]] on Android and it was great, but I got annoyed that I couldn’t sync it and make use of it anywhere else.
  • So… [[trying out org-timeblock]]. However, hitting a bunch of issues from the beginning.

2024-03-24

• We [[watched]] [[Soul]] again.

  • Such a lovely film. Heartwarming message, great music, great visuals, funny for the whole family.

• I [[listened]] to [[What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins]]

  • [[Vincent Bevins]] again on his book [[If We Burn]].
  • Really interesting stuff.
  • I like the very loose analogy between what happened to the internet and what happened to [[the movement of the squares]].
  • Basically a form of [[The Tyranny of Structurelessness]] in both.

• Also listened to [[Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor]]

  • [[Insecurity]] and [[security]] - in more of social and psychological meanings of the word than the technical sense.
  • Claim: [[Capitalism requires insecurity]].
  • Claim: [[Social insurance is a bulwark against insecurity]].
  • Also by Astra: [[The Dads of Tech]] and [[The People’s Platform]].

• We have [[national insurance]] in the UK.

  • Wonder when it was introduced?

• Never really thought much about insurance before.

  • Superficially it seems a boring topic. But this and Jathan Sadowski podcast discussion ([[How the World Became Uninsurable]]) recently making me realise it’s kind of fundamental and sadly mostly privatised.

• Returning a little to [[IndieWeb]] for following activity streams. I had been using the Fediverse for a while, but I find it a bit too fast paced, a bit too attention grabbing. For me. IndieWeb is kind of slow social media and that suits me fine.

• hyperorg could be useful for me.

  • Either for publishing wiki to web, or could be a useful internal parser for the Agora? Python based.

2024-03-23

• Listened: [[Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism"]]

  • Great interview with [[Yanis Varoufakis]].
  • [[Techno-feudalism]].
  • Ultimate goal: socialisation of cloud capital (i.e. [[Big tech]])
  • Only America and China have cloud capital.
  • Glad they mention [[McKenzie Wark]] - Varoufakis says he agrees with all of it.

• [[Listened]]: [[Democracy for sale, Europe’s first black leader + tea with Obama]]

  • [[Political donations]].
  • New first minister of Wales is first black leader of a country in Europe.
  • [[Rwanda bill]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Black Box: Episode 6 – Shut it down?]]

  • [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] with AI doonerism.
  • Alternate positive view from Alex Hern.
  • One disappointment with the series as a whole is there’s no mention of environmental impact or questioning of who owns AI technology.

2024-03-22

• [[Listened]]: [[The silencing of climate protesters in English and Welsh courts]]

  • Latest in a long line of crackdowns on defences that climate protesters can use in the courts.
  • One of which made it an offence to use the words ‘climate change’ in court.

• [[Listened]]: [[Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley]]

  • Interesting interview and book sounds worth a read.
  • A lot sounds like analysis of problems, but they talk about some potential solutions and examples too. ([[Cooperation Jackson]], [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]], [[The Lucas Plan]])

• Read: [[‘It’s Not Rocket Science – It’s Just Community’: Radical Ffestiniog]]

  • My great grandad was from [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]]. Nice to have this little connection.

• [[work]]
• followed by [[fellowship of the link]]
• followed by [[fediversalist papers]]
• followed by [[feierabend]] :)

2024-03-20

• [[Listened]]: [[Black Box: Episode four – Bing and I]]

• [[Listened]]: [[Black Box: Episode 5 – The white mask]]

• [[Listened]]: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Immediacy (with Anna Kornbluh)]]

• [[Listened]]: [[Novara FM: Not Westminster’s Whipping Boys w/ Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram]]

2024-03-19

• I donated to the [[Amazon UK warehouse workers’ strike fund]] again.

  • https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/amazonstrikefund/
  • They are out on strike today again.

• [[Public interest technology and its origins]]

  • [[Public interest technology]]

• [[work]]
  • lunch with the [[ER-CH]].
  • then some meetings and some focus time! pretty alright :)

• [[work]]
• [[play]]
• [[throw a nine]]
• [[maitreya]]

2024-03-18

• Listened: [[Black Box: Prologue: The collision]]

  • Woman begins dating an AI, finds genuine positivity from it. She suffers from CFS/ME and has to shield from COVID. Presenter talks about ‘AI vertigo’ - dizziness is what is coming with AI. The ‘collision’ of the title refers to the collision between artificial intelligence and us humans. We being the first generations to truly experience it.

• Listened: [[Black Box: Episode one – The connectionists]]

  • Potted history of AI. [[Perceptron]]. [[AI winter]]. [[Geoff Hinton]]. The connectionists. ImageNet victory by [[AlexNet]]. [[AlphaGo]].

• Listened: [[Black Box: Episode three – Repocalypse now]]

  • Replika, the AI companion app. What happens when they update it and mess up people’s companions. A bit like [[site deaths]] but even worse.

• Listened: [[The Problem With America’s Ban on TikTok]]

• A beautiful Sunday with [[AG]] and [[Lady Burup]] :)
• I spoke to my [[mum]] over [[Meet]] and it was great.
  • A friend of a friend of hers who was [[92]] died this week. She is visiting the friend today to console her and spend time with her; the friend is 92 as well and is having thoughts about death.
  • It would make sense that as you grow old you have more thoughts about death, as it’s statistically speaking way more likely.
  • I hope she’s [[free from suffering]]!
• Doing some work — I enjoy working some weekends, it gives me ample time to [[focus]] while still taking it easy / enjoying the moment.
• We took a short (50 minutes roundtrip) but very nice walk as the sun was setting.
• Saw [[12 monkeys]] after many years; certainly for the first time [[after covid]].

2024-03-17

• Read: [[The digital revolution has failed]]

  • "as the web declines, we need to consider what a better alternative could look like and the political project it would fit within"
  • Right on. That would be [[digital ecosocialism]] in my view.

• [[Generative AI has a ferocious environmental impact]].

• [[Generative AI is further concentrating power with Big Tech]].

• Watched: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]

  • Shocking, the violence that was meted out by the police on picketing miners. Seemingly premeditated.
  • Then perjury.
  • All seemingly coming directly from the wishes of Margaret Thatcher.
  • The media apparently complicit, a piece of state apparatus.

• Watched: [[Avengers: Civil War]]

• [[fediversalist papers]]
• [[AI]]
  • I spoke to [[Gemini]] about the [[Agora]] :)
    • [[Gemini Agora]]

• Started the day with [[AG]], [[Lady Burup]], a quiet [[Flancia meet]] .
• Then did stuff related to the [[Fediverse]] (which I enjoy) and then [[AI]]. Took the day free for exploration essentially and enjoyed it.
• [[Primeval Forest]]
• [[Gemini AI]]
• [[Agora Development]]:
  • It felt good to focus on bug fixes and usability for a while, I’ll try to incorporate it into my routine.
  • [[@neil]] brought up interesting topics in [[Agora Discuss]] as usual :)

2024-03-16

• Listened: [[Medium Anxiety]]

• Listened: [[How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked]]

  • Fun story.
  • [[Ransomware]].
  • I did not know that [[WannaCry]] was by the North Korean state.

• Listened: [[What do the Tories consider extreme?]]

• [[Distributed digital gardens]].

• Watched: [[Ant-Man]].

• I can’t seem to find an [[IRC bouncer]] that you can easily install on [[YunoHost]]…

• spoke to [[Jack Park]] about [[Topic Maps]]!

2024-03-15

• [[What would AI for the people look like?]]

  • My biggest problem with AI are its environmental impact and the fact that it is in the hands of a cabal of big tech firms using it to turn a profit.
  • Is there a way it could be retained? Publicly owned, democratically governed, socially useful, and existing within planetary boundaries?

• Watched: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]

  • Episode 2. Focuses on the [[Battle of Orgreave]].
  • [[Police brutality]]. [[State violence]].

• Read: [[A Modern Anarchism (Part 1): Anarchist Analysis]]

2024-03-14

• Read: [[Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten]]

  • Really nice summary from Chris of the minimum that you need to do to keep a ‘zettelkasten’. He cuts through a lot of the unnecessary complexity that has appeared around this.

• Contemplating whether I should send webmentions from my digital garden.

  • Maybe, maybe not.
  • There’s plenty of ways to send webmentions from a static site, plenty of people doing it.
  • So I could, but I wonder if I should.
  • Perhaps webmentions should only be sent when I post a more considered long-form article, or when I post something to my stream.
  • Not sure.
  • [[Should I send webmentions from my digital garden?]]

• Listened: [[How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy]]

  • Most people think recycling is all you need to do to prevent waste.
  • Reframe the message and move people’s consciousness up the waste hierarchy.
  • [[Buy Nothing New Month]].
  • Really interesting discussion around societal norms and reuse (e.g. what happens when you give second-hand presents at kids’ birthday parties…)

• Listened: [[Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff – the deepfake porn app]]

  • Scumbags make app to deep fake nudes of women and girls.
  • The Guardian tracks them down.

• [[Updating to Emacs 28 on Linux Mint]].

  • This time, using a PPA rather than building from source like last time ([[Installing Emacs from source]])
  • I had to manually, naughtily, uninstall the old Emacs binaries from usr/local/bin that had been built from source in order for the new emacs28 binaries from the PPA to be picked up.
  • And, of course, not it’s a new version of Emacs, spacemacs has to get all the packages from MELPA again…

• I updated packages on Mint like a good boy, and now I’m getting complaints from composer when building a project.

  • [[nette/schema v1.2.3 requires php >=7.1 <8.3 -> your php version (8.3.3) does not satisfy that requirement.]] etc.
  • Good-o.

• [[yoga with x]]
  • fixed [[flow]]

2024-03-12

• Kickstarted the [[spacemacs]] / spacemacs packages update dance.

  • Because of the [[error "Invalid type in command series" from org-super-agenda]].
  • As always, kind of wish I hadn’t. [[Updating spacemacs 2024-03-12]].

• I created a [[quick function to help extract bold sections from text into bullet points]].

  • Most narrative text is usually just verbose prose around a few relevant points.
  • So when I’m parsing some text, I bold the relevant bits.
  • Then I pull those out to review them as bullets.
  • This function helps quickly pull the bold text into bullets.
  • Love the fact you can so easily configure Emacs to do this kind of thing!

• [[work]]
• [[ai]]
  • TIL about [[unsloth]]
  • will try to focus this week on colab-style work, organizing a [[hackathon]]
• [[social.coop]]
  • [[moderation]]
  • [[registrations]]
• read about [[p5js]]: https://davidmatthew.ie/p5js-vs-html-canvas/
  • [[pixi]] looks alright
  • [[easel]] seems unmaintained/abandoned
  • I think ‘bare canvas’ might be a better idea for now?
• [[abelard.org]]

• My individual [[Silverbullet]] instance at edit.anagora.org was down for a bit — I ended up updating the container and setting up a crontjob that will do it for me.
  • I’m thinking next step should be to put together a [[coop cloud]] recipe?
  • I’d love to host this for many people in anagora.org or agor.ai.
    • In that case it would make sense to have e.g. flancian.agor.ai be my silverbullet instance, and offer user.agor.ai in general.
    • Same for anagora.org? Or should I start there, I wonder?
• [[abelard.org]] looks [[weird]]/[[interesting]].
  • I got to it via a #hn thread linking to its copy of [[Profession]] by [[Asimov]].
• I keep noding both from [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] and the journal entries end up in different files.
  • I’m not particularly bothered by it — this brings up the question of how to ideally show such things in the [[Agora of Flancia]] :)

2024-03-11

• [[Listened]]: [[Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"]]

• [[Spam]].

  • Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
  • Incredibly irritating.
  • With comments like 1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0).
  • We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
  • Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
  • The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full.

• [[akshobya]]:
  • #pull [[Akshobhya]]
  • led me to [[dharani]]

• Started the day with [[AG]], then cleaned the house quite deeply (it was due) and enjoyed it — it felt freeing.
• Spoke to my mum about birthdays and states of being :)

• Did idea organization/refactoring :)

• Then tried to [[flow]] in [[paramita]] (one of my computers) and [[sariputta]] (another).

• [[agora development]]:
  • Was very fun yesterday! I like fixing bugs and learning more about [[UI]] — what works and what doesn’t :)
  • Today, I have a bug that I want to fix that I can describe with the following words: [[i love you]]

2024-03-10

• [[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]

  • The left receives threats that [[Jakarta is coming]].
  • A reference to the brutal murder of Communists in Indonesia.

• [[Read]]: [[The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)]]

  • The Jakarta Method.
  • CIA involvement in brutally violent suppression of communist societies.

• Read: [[For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought]]

• Great [[Flancia Meet]], then we went to [[Winterthur]] with [[AG]]! Met a [[friend]] there. I enjoyed it a lot.
• Later: [[gyokuro]], [[weed]], writing and coding :)

Suddenly you become [[[[more [[aware]] of the [[nature of existence]]]].

• I read about the [[multiverse]] and [[groups]] again after long — this reminds me that I need to finish reading [[a rosetta stone]] :) I think I will find my paper print or print it again and read it at night.

• Note [[Silverbullet]] is currently journaling at a different path, the Agora should show both in any date-matching nodes.
• [[agora development]]:
  • pull silverbullet editor somewhere in the Agora
    • host silverbullet for people with a docker container + associated git repo (maybe automatically created at git.anagora.org?)
    • write about social hosting :)
  • #pull [[index]] from now-index!
• [[agora discuss]]:
  • write about idea of [[7 ceos]] (e.g. for [[tech corporations]]), [[7 presidents]] (e.g for [[Russia]]).
• write about the nature of existence :)
• [[edit]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • implement URL pulls, it’s been on the todo for quite long! :)
    • this would make [[edit]] work (at least for me, for now) :)
    • this seems to almost work :)
  • look into the bugs that neil reported
    • finding them in [[agora discuss]] led to enjoying that space as usual! :D
• [[what if we became better protopians]]?

2024-03-09

• [[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]

  • Ep 4 of [[The Santiago Boys]].
  • [[strike action]] across Chile.
  • And how [[Allende]]‘s government deal with it, with the help of the [[Cybersyn]] team.

• [[Watched]]: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]

  • Finished the first episode. Focused on [[Shirebrook]]. The division between strikers and those that crossed the picket line. Still raw.

• [[Concept map]]s seem like something I’d be interested in. A visual way of organising knowledge focusing on the relationships between concepts.

• [[Vulpea]] and [[publicatorg]] look like they might be useful for my [[org-roam]] life.

• #pull beautiful [[international women’s day]]!
• went to the [[dentist]] to get an implant fixed (good progress), worked (brought [[pasteis de nata]]), spent the evening with [[AG]] talking about interesting things :)
• then [[2024-03-09]]

• [[AI]]:
  • I went to an interesting [[AI]] talk and learnt about a few new (to me) services/things that look interesting:
    • [[pikaso]] (a paint-to-image generation tool)
    • [[grok]] (a plushie voiced by [[Grimes]])

2024-03-08

• [[Listened]]: [[Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners]]

  • [[Spring Statement 2024]].
  • This is a budget for big earners and big owners.
  • It’s not good for public services.

• Don’t think I’ll be able to do a [[new connections]] page.

  • At least not easily.
  • It would require amending org-roam to allow for link annotations.
  • See chat at https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/recording-the-date-that-connections-were-made/3379
  • [[Adding a new connections page to my garden]]

• Listened: [[What if we became better Protopians?]]

  • With Monika Bielskyte.
  • Good discussion, but it seemed more utopian than protopian.
  • Lots of nice things listed for how the future could be. But, not much discussion on how to get there. Even in protopian increments.

• [[Watched]]: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]

• In the [[Agora of Flancia]], each node is an [[Agora]] — meaning a fork of the Agora that is centered around the node in question and its [[context]].

2024-03-07

• [[Listened]]: [[Stafford is going mad again]]
  • Ep 3 of [[The Santiago Boys]].

• I listened to [[l. a. paul]] with [[sam harris]].
• [[fellowship of the link]]:
  • [[composer]]

• [[work]]
• [[social.coop]] oncall

2024-03-06

• [[Listened]]:[[Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust]]

  • [[Nvidia]].
  • Huge leap in value due to [[AI]].
  • [[AI bubble]]?

• Read: [[Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support]]

• Read: [[What’s the latest on Right to Repair in the EU? And what it means for the UK]]

• Been having fun looking at [[repairability scores]] from the [[French repair index]] as displayed on Amazon.fr.

  • Impressive how prominent they are (being mandated to be placed next to the price).

• [[420 wedding]]

2024-03-05

• Claim: [[The free software movement is an example of neo-Luddism]].

• Claim: [[The right to repair movement is an example of neo-Luddism]].

• Both sound defensible - both movements are clearly not anti-technology, just anti the political economy of how software and hardware are controlled and commodified to the detriment of society.

• US PIRG has a short report on what it considers to be the best laptop brands for repairability.

  • [[US PIRG’s best laptop brands for repairability]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust]]

• [[4]]: the [[Four Noble Truths]] and [[Sariputta]]
• I read previously, but now I’m noding just in case, 10 [[design principles for governing the commons]].

2024-03-04

• Nice to see a mention of the [[Austrian Repair Bonus voucher scheme in National Geographic Kids]].

  • Plus we ([[The Restart Project]]) get a shoutout :)

• Read: [[A political ecology of the repair manual]]

  • A lovely-looking political and philosophical ode to the [[repair manual]] by Shannon Mattern.
  • Ive only skim read it for now. But check out some of the historical and hand-drawn manuals.
  • Like with [[The Maintainers]], there’s also the expansion of the concept of repair and maintenance to the wider social context.

• [[iFixit and Lenovo]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)]]

  • What could technology created under a different value system look like?
  • He gives [[right to repair]] as another example of neo-Luddism.
  • Right on. With that and free software, I seem to fit the description.

• Apparently there was some sort of controversy about a site called [[content nation]] in the Fediverse, and people from [[Mastodon]] came across as conservative/resistant to change/unfriendly to newcomers. I am not surprised.
  • Good thing is I found [[wedistribute]] via the article linked in the node above, and I think I’m liking this site and maybe particularly a podcast they have called [[decentered]].
• I read about [[Jim Simons]] and the [[Medallion fund]] after watching [[Veritasium]]‘s [[The Trillion Dollar Equation]].
• I read about [[Jizo]] a.k.a. [[Ksitigarbha]], which I now associate with number [[6]] (as he vowed to liberate beings in all six Buddhist realms).

• I still haven’t figured out how to make [[silverbullet]] open its daily note where I want instead of Journal/Day/, but maybe it won’t be much longer :)
  • Thankfully in the Agora any and all of these will show up (just independently).
• The article on [[Peter Singer]] led me to read about [[higher and lower pleasures]] — the whole article on [[utilitarianism]] is interesting.
  • TIL [[Karl Popper]] was called a [[negative utilitarian]] because of his preference to [[minimize suffering]]: "Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all."
• My knees hurt from [[Lägern]] but I have no regrets :D

2024-03-03

• How do you socialise something that has been privatised?

  • i.e. how do you enact [[deprivatisation]].

• Watched: [[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]

• Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)]]

  • [[Luddism]].
  • Claim: Free software movement was a form of Luddism.
  • Great example. Hackers were clearly not anti-technology, they were concerned about the enclosure of technology for capitalism.

• Using [[silverbullet]] again :)
• [[Flancia meet]] was quiet as schedules shifted for some participants, but I enjoyed taking the morning to clean up workspaces and play with…
  • [[LLM]], a tool by [[simon willison]].
• Agarré [[Nuevas miradas en torno a la mujer fatal]] después de largo tiempo — un amigo contribuyó!
• Read about [[Ramsay Hunt]] type 2, which my [[dad]] had (with high confidence). It’s one of the many possible sequels of [[herpes zoster]].
• Hiked [[Lägern]] :D

2024-03-02

• A ‘trick’ I use when I have some issue with a particular file in my [[org-publish]] pipeline on my remote server.

  • In org-publish-project-alist, set :base-extension "foo".
    • By default it is "org", looking at all files with org extension.
    • By setting it to foo, the publish process won’t find any files. Except..
  • Set up :include to include the file that’s got the issue.
    • e.g. :include ("file-with-a-problem.org")
  • There’s probably a better way of doing it than this, but it gets me by for now.

• Nice, I replaced a cl-loop with a mapconcat in some of my output formatting, e.g. in [[Well-connected]]. mapconcat feels a bit more functional style, and it also gets rid of the superfluous parentheses I had in the output.

• I might try and add [[Pagefind]] to my published garden.

• Trying [[fish]] out on desktop.

  • While on mobile I found them incredibly helpful, I actually find it all of the autosuggestions a bit distracting at first.
  • I’ll see how it pans out.

• Watched: [[Guardians of the Galaxy]]

• [[ec]]: "Yo adelgacé mucho gracias al vino rosado."
• #push [[Maitreya]]
  • I created a "[[GPT]]" (sigh, I get what they’re going for with the name though :)) called [[Maitreya]]. Some example prompts are in [[Maitreya AI]].

2024-03-01

• Listened: [[How the World Became Uninsurable]]

  • Insurance sector has had huge losses four years in a row.
  • Due to the general ongoing collapse of the world.
  • They are hiking insurance premiums as a result.
  • Claim: [[We need to eliminate the private insurance sector]].
  • Also bit of a chat about [[neo-Luddism]] too.

• I’ve been enjoying [[using Python in org]].

  • Workbook style.
  • Kind of literate programming/thinking/prototyping.
  • A couple of times I get to a point where it makes more sense to put figures in a spreadsheet.
  • But spiking it out in Python is way more interesting for me.

• Read: [[Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?]]

  • [[Neofeudalism]].

2024-02-29

• I am [[using Python in org]] for a few little things.

2024-02-28

2024-02-27

• Listened: [[Capitalist Manufacturing // Manufacturing Communism – Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez)]]

  • On the need for an understanding of production in order to harness it for communism.
  • That is - how do we actually manufacture things?
  • Listened: [[The socialist spoon]]
    • Ep 2 of [[The Santiago Boys]].
    • Coup in Brazil supported by US.
    • US trying to foment the same against Allende.
    • Setting up of cybersyn and the war room.
    • ITT.

• I listened to [[David Edmons]] and [[Sam Harris]] on [[Derek Parfit]], found it highly interesting.
  • I also finished listening to the podcast with [[Peter Singer]], it was great.

• [[social coop]]:
  • [[social coop matrix]]
• I set up [[silverbullet]] over https pointing to my home computer and it’s lovely, I can finally edit my [[garden]] from mobile.
  • While [[paramita]] is on at least, but this is great progress; maybe I should point this to [[nostromo]] which is on more often and I can also remotely enable?
  • But longer term I want to move in the direction of garden (and editor) hosting, I’m already using containers for this…

2024-02-26

• [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]

  • Also brings to mind the show [[Upload]].
  • And of course [[Black Mirror]].

• [[Work Notes 2024-02-26]]

• ‘Dear Data Subject’ and other great ways to start an email.

  • [[Matomo]].
  • They mention that they are now using a [[data broker]] for "customer and prospect data enrichment".
    • "We process this personal data on the basis of legitimate interest. Without the information we will not be able to customise our communications with you to best meet your needs".
    • I find the wording a bit weaselly to be honest. Better would be "We want this information so we can more likely retain and get new customers". Fine - just be honest about it.
    • You can opt-out. Not opt-in?

• Using Python in org, I was getting: [[Importmagic and/or epc not found]].

• I started the day reading about [[Gondar]] and [[Ethiopia]].
• [[recurring meets]]:
  • [[fotl]]
  • [[fedwiki]]:
    • [[video wednesdays]]
• [[Bluesky]]
• [[Laundry]]
• Took a beautiful 1.5h walk with [[AG]] through the fields and the [[forest]] :)
• Cleaned the house a bit.
• Played
• [[Peter Singer]]:
  • Listened to his new episode with [[Sam Harris]] and it was amazing as expected.
    • He always makes a ton of sense.
    • Seems solid in his compassion, maybe I would say enlightened.
    • I thought I would write to him some day but I haven’t done it yet: [[Open Letter to Peter Singer]].
• [[Like an arrow]]

2024-02-25

• Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]

  • Digital decay
  • Digital memorials
  • Makes me think of the film [[Coco]]…
  • Transhumanists

• magit doesnt work properly for me in [[termux]] for some reason. I can stage but I cant commit.

  • No biggie as I just git from the terminal instead. But still, would be good to get to the bottom of it.

• Had a quick play with [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]] using [[Metabase]].

  • Easy enough to do. But has the downside for me at the moment that it’s only accessible on my laptop, which I’m not often using at the moment outside of work.
  • [[Knowledge commoning]].

• Soon :)
• I’m liking [[beeper]] a lot, here’s my [[beeper]] (which is [[matrix]]): https://matrix.to/#/@flancian:beeper.com
• I [[cried]].
  • A [[relative]] send [[30 year old videos]] my way and it was quite an experience to watch them!
  • It felt like relief in some way.
• [[Flancia]]
  • [[Flancia meet]]: at https://meet.evolix.org/flancia
• Read about [[Ahriman]] and [[Zoroastrianism]].
• Trying to figure out how to make [[silverbullet]]:
  • Easily create daily pages for me.
    • For now I need to go to another page and link the current date; or just create a page with the date as its name manually. [[Suboptimal]], although not terrible.
    • Update: it seems the [[Template]] [[plug]] is the way to go: https://silverbullet.md/Plugs/Template
      • Quote: The {[Open Daily Note]} command navigates (or creates) a daily note .
  • Let me navigate to the previous page.
    • This is easy actually, just alt-left as per browser conventions.
  • Now reading about [[plugs]]

• On the plus side, it turns out [[silverbullet]] does have journaling facilities by installing the [[Journal]] library: https://silverbullet.md/Library/Journal

• On the negative side, it defaults to a weird Journal/Day prefix :)
  • I get what they’re going after as apparently they want to support /Week as well, and weekly journals make sense to me.
  • But I prefer a flatter structure than that — looking into customizing.
• Again it took me until 7pm to get into a situation I could call [[focus]], let alone [[flow]]; earlier I did useful things that needed to take place (like cleaning around the house and such), but that produced only diffuse output.
• [[doom]]:
  • On impulse I bought and installed [[doom 2016]] today (it was on sale). I played half an hour and I’m not sure I’m into it. I played and loved [[doom]] and [[doom 2]] as a kid, but this is a newer game and I’m an older person :)
    • The graphics are good and I wanted to try out the ‘shoot at things without much of a plot’ experience again, and I got that.
    • But I don’t like you can’t save/quicksave. It’s all checkpoint based (whyyy).
    • And I didn’t have as much ‘fun’ with it. Maybe it’s too violent to maintain my interest nowadays.
    • But I may yet come back to it.
• [[Moloch]]:
  • By [[Kuprin]]:
    • Makes direct references to the stock market, which surprised me — it was a factor in Russian society earlier than expected (this is from [[1896]].)
    • [[page 72]] in my edition has the first direct reference to [[Moloch]] by name.

2024-02-24

• [[AI]]

• Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]

  • Various topics related to tech and death.
  • Digital estates. What do you do with people’s digital life when they die?
  • Dead labour. Extracting value from people event after they’re dead.

• Customising some key bindings would make one-handed phone tending my garden in Emacs in termux easier.

  • Let’s have a look how best to do that…

• Read: [[AI deepfakes come of age as billions prepare to vote in a bumper year of elections]]

  • Bloody tech bros building their shit without any democratic process or thinking through the repercussions.