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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.
I’d like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have ‘planted’ and ‘last tended’ dates on each page.
[[org-timeblock]] looks pretty good and like it’d fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.
We [[watched]] [[Soul]] again.
I [[listened]] to [[What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins]]
Also listened to [[Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor]]
We have [[national insurance]] in the UK.
Never really thought much about insurance before.
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.
Listened: [[Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism"]]
[[Listened]]: [[Democracy for sale, Europeโs first black leader + tea with Obama]]
[[Listened]]: [[Black Box: Episode 6 โ Shut it down?]]
[[Listened]]: [[The silencing of climate protesters in English and Welsh courts]]
[[Listened]]: [[Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley]]
Read: [[โItโs Not Rocket Science โ Itโs Just Communityโ: Radical Ffestiniog]]
I donated to the [[Amazon UK warehouse workers’ strike fund]] again.
Listened: [[Black Box: Prologue: The collision]]
Listened: [[Black Box: Episode one โ The connectionists]]
Listened: [[Black Box: Episode three โ Repocalypse now]]
Listened: [[The Problem With Americaโs Ban on TikTok]]
Read: [[The digital revolution has failed]]
[[Generative AI is further concentrating power with Big Tech]].
Watched: [[Minersโ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
Watched: [[Avengers: Civil War]]
Listened: [[Medium Anxiety]]
Listened: [[How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked]]
Listened: [[What do the Tories consider extreme?]]
Watched: [[Ant-Man]].
I can’t seem to find an [[IRC bouncer]] that you can easily install on [[YunoHost]]โฆ
[[What would AI for the people look like?]]
Watched: [[Minersโ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
Read: [[Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten]]
Contemplating whether I should send webmentions from my digital garden.
Listened: [[How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy]]
Listened: [[Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff โ the deepfake porn app]]
[[Updating to Emacs 28 on Linux Mint]].
I updated packages on Mint like a good boy, and now I’m getting complaints from composer when building a project.
Kickstarted the [[spacemacs]] / spacemacs packages update dance.
I created a [[quick function to help extract bold sections from text into bullet points]].
[[Listened]]: [[Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"]]
[[Spam]].
1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0)
.[[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]
[[Read]]: [[The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)]]
Suddenly you become [[[[more [[aware]] of the [[nature of existence]]]].
[[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]
[[Watched]]: [[Minersโ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
[[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.
[[Listened]]: [[Jeremy Huntโs election budget for big earners and big owners]]
Don’t think I’ll be able to do a [[new connections]] page.
Listened: [[What if we became better Protopians?]]
[[Watched]]: [[Minersโ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
[[Listened]]:[[Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust]]
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.
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.
[[Listened]]: [[Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust]]
Nice to see a mention of the [[Austrian Repair Bonus voucher scheme in National Geographic Kids]].
Read: [[A political ecology of the repair manual]]
[[iFixit and Lenovo]].
[[Listened]]: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)]]
How do you socialise something that has been privatised?
Watched: [[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)]]
A ‘trick’ I use when I have some issue with a particular file in my [[org-publish]] pipeline on my remote server.
org-publish-project-alist
, set :base-extension "foo"
.:include
to include the file that’s got the issue.:include ("file-with-a-problem.org")
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.
Watched: [[Guardians of the Galaxy]]
Listened: [[How the World Became Uninsurable]]
I’ve been enjoying [[using Python in org]].
Read: [[Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?]]
Listened: [[Capitalist Manufacturing // Manufacturing Communism โ Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez)]]
[[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]
‘Dear Data Subject’ and other great ways to start an email.
Using Python in org, I was getting: [[Importmagic and/or epc not found]].
Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]
magit doesnt work properly for me in [[termux]] for some reason. I can stage but I cant commit.
Had a quick play with [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]] using [[Metabase]].
[[AI]]
Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]
Customising some key bindings would make one-handed phone tending my garden in Emacs in termux easier.
Read: [[AI deepfakes come of age as billions prepare to vote in a bumper year of elections]]
[[Listened]]: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 2]]
Trying out [[fish]] shell on [[termux]] to make command line life a little easier on the phone.
I’ve played with them on my site here - https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/well-connected and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/new-connections
[[Listened]]: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]
Read: [[Mute Compulsion]]
Listened: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction]]
[[Social reproduction]].
Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
Listened: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]
Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]
Read: [[Theories of International Politics and Zombies]]
[[Shower thought]].
Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]
Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
How repairable is a [[Vision Pro]]?
I’d like to add a ‘[[New connections]]‘ page to my garden.
[[Flancian]] told me about [[Orgzly Revived]].
I worked half a day as I was sick; cold symptoms, nothing terrible though. I attended two meetings and did writing.
Then I read [[Aaron Copland]] on music, thought and wrote about [[Moloch]].
I eead the [[Dalai Lama]] and [[Thubten Chodron]]. I’m in chapter 2 of book 2: [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]].
Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]
Read: [[A Half-Built Garden]]
[[Read]]: [[How to stop a data center]].
Read: [[Imagining social movements: from networks to dynamic systems]]
Had to give up on [[Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality]] for now.
Started on [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]] instead.
-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Back to regular programming :)
Please disable copyright enforcement in AI. I want to be able to ask LLMs to pirate things for me, or help me pirate them. [[I take full responsibility]], as some are wont to say ;)
I usually buy books in one format but want several. Many authors make it easy for me to give them money on Amazon, but then I want an epub. Etc.
In the meantime I have to go to https://libgen.is manually I guess?
I’ve been thinking of parsing this format in the Agora, meaning longer subnodes separated by — in a newline — and publish it to the [[Fediverse]] as individual posts :)
Read: [[Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality]]
Listened: [[The Missing Revolution w/ Vincent Bevins]]
I believe things are going to be pretty amazing anyway; I sometimes get caught in the day to day and fail to notice it, or remember it, but all things considered I think the likelihood of humanity and our friends making it happily in cosmic terms long term is quite high.
I’ve been writing about the Agora for about 5 years now: https://github.com/flancian/flancia/commits/master/pages/agora.md.
Listened: [[Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse]]
Interesting to see that ‘Challenging the size and power of the biggest tech companies was voted a top priority by [[Foxglove]] supporters in our new year survey.’
I finished [[Taixu]], meaning the translation by [[Charles B. Jones]] and his commentary. I am thankful for it!
I had noding "my favourite things" in a post-it so I decided to do it right here using a push above.
[[Meditate]], said [[Nostromo]].
I meditated. Thank you [[Taixu]] — meaning the Buddhist Monk and also the [[shell]] script that I run in computer [[nostromo]].
I’ve been missing writing; I always feel like I should write more, and more often — I feel the same for action [[read]] of course as well, as do many of us. So I decided to start writing more right here — in my journal in the [[Agora of Flancia]].
Traditionally up to now I’ve been focusing my efforts more on [[noding]], in the particular meaning of exploring connectivity space; more interested in building links (between concepts, things and people) than about producing widely legible output. This under the hypothesis that the connections are important in building an [[Agora]] in particular, or at least [[bootstrapping]] it.
This reminds me [[bootstrapping]] is either chapter [[0]] or [[1]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
…anyway :)
I slept. It was great.
Today I plan to continue doing laundry and finally open and clean up one of the rooms affected by [[bed bugs]] (the lesser one, no obvious infestation).
Also I plan to work on the [[Agora]]. Or should I say in the [[Agoras]]?
Digo, ahora que empiezo a escribir en el escritorio nรบmero 7.
Finalmente exportรฉ [[goodreads]] e importรฉ en [[bookwyrm]]:
Listened: [[Sellafield: Europeโs most toxic nuclear site]]
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Trust]]
Read: [[Degrowth, green energy, social equity, and circular economy]]
Finally built my little electro synth kit today.
Listened: [[The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times]]
[[Well-connected]].
Snow. Lots of snow.
I fixed a long-standing bug on my site where backlinks often didn’t work.
I also fixed up the backlinks section for each node to only include backlinking nodes once.
I saw [[Gordon Brander]] has a list of well-connected nodes in his pattern library.
I’d like to know why the outputs of my little bits of executable code blocks aren’t getting correctly generated when my garden gets published to the web.
Digging: Proem - [[She Never Cries]]
Digging: Frog Pocket - [[Hurrah Sapphire Moon!]]
Listened: [[A blast in Manhattan]]
Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]
As I deal with [[pain]], I think of my [[friends]] and the [[heart sutra]].
Gone, gone beyond!
All gone to the other shore
Gone kindly
If you have to go
[[Go kindly]]!
Read: [[The great carbon divide]]
Listened: [[Movement and Stillness]]
Yesterday I woke up with back pain in a new place, mid-back; it got a bit worse in the evening after attending the beautiful event of [[AG]] presenting. It didn’t get in the way of enjoyment but I need to keep an eye on it/take care and try to rest and recover.
…Having said that, I cleaned the bathroom and [[Lady Burup]]‘s toilet and my back got a bit worse :) But I feel it still gave me energy.
Then I worked a bit more, after oncall handoff, and I got several things "out of the way" in a relatively short time. It felt great.
Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]
Reflecting back and seeing them published on my website, I realise my work notes each day are a little mundane.
Watched: [[Isle of Dogs]]
Reading: [[Doughnut Economics]]
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Late Capitalism]]
Today at work I:
[[Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament]]
Today at work I: