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.

2024-04-21

• Soccer96 - I was gonna fight fascism

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.

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…

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]]

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]]

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 :)

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]]

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]]

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.

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]]

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]]

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]]

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).

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.

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.

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]].

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]]

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.

• Did I tell you I love [[silverbullet]]? :)
  • https://silverbullet.md
  • [[agora development]]:
    • I want to [[embed]] it in the [[Agora]] as [[default editor]].
    • I would love to contribute [[plugs]] to it.
• I remembered [[Chungking Express]].
• Started the day beautifully with [[AG]].
• [[Work]] was alright really!
  • Thinking about [[Zooglers]].
  • Thinking about [[Democracy]].
• [[yoga with x]]

2024-02-23

• [[Listened]]: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 2]]

  • [[Mute Compulsion]] chapter 2.
  • [[Power]] and [[Marxism]].
  • [[Historical materialism]].
  • Violence and the state.
  • [[Hegemony]], [[ideology]].
  • First, there was too much focus on violence and the state. Then, pendulum swing to ideology and hegemony.
  • Both necessary, but missing out economic power.
  • Mau pulls in his team - Marxist feminists, Marxist ecologists, and labour theory types.

• Trying out [[fish]] shell on [[termux]] to make command line life a little easier on the phone.

  • Loving it so far. Makes me wonder why I’m still using bash on desktop.
  • For reference: [[My fish in termux setup]].

• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/111982933447532073 pull

• [[2024-02-23 21:32:40+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
  • Back here on [[2024-02-23]]: the transition goes so-so, I use the main https://social.coop interface a lot as I’m part of the admin group and I need to e.g. help keep it up to date.But I still enjoy [[Elk]] ;)

2024-02-22

• [[Listened]]: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 1]]
  • [[Power]]. [[Capital]].

2024-02-21

• Regarding [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]], it’d be good to also surface claims that have no supporting evidence linked to them.

• Second day using [[silver bullet]], enjoying it a lot!
  • I like how I was able to specify a full path for a new page, in this case journal/2024-02-20, and it just worked (tm).
  • I also like the [[autocompletion]] for links it has; it is better than [[wiki vim]]‘s (which, granted, maybe I didn’t really get the hang of) and [[logseq]]‘s (faster).
• [[work]] was tough given that I’m still not fully recovered from flu/virus and there are some interpersonal issues that take energy to deal with, but also satisfying as I did manage to get some things done.
  • Also my team is really great, every time I go back to team-specific tasks it feels like a breath of fresh air!
• Talked to [[Berni]] and it was great.
• [[AG]] did a surprise certification today after work, impressive :)

2024-02-20

• For reference: [[My orgzly searches]].

• [[Pulling out useful information from Gravity Forms entry meta]]

• [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]]

• [[Silverbullet]] doesn’t follow the convention of using journal/ for journals; and I wonder if that’s not actually quite reasonable. Why wouldn’t an ISO-formatted-date node be enough? That’s what the [[Agora]] parses as journals ;)
• Honestly I’m maybe fine moving to journal-dir-less but I’d like to find a shortcut to ‘go/create today’s note’. I haven’t found this in menus yet.
• [[heart sutra]]

• [[work]]:
  • [[ER-CH]]
  • [[Open Letter to Z]]:
    • Advanced communications to all [[Zooglers]] incrementally.
    • [[Open Letter to Zooglers]]
• [[Open Letter to M]]:
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]
• Tried [[silverbullet]] finally and I like it!
  • Running it with [[docker]] and in [[vim mode]] :D 🥰
  • I noded on [[202-02-19]] without the journal/ prefix from there a bit earlier.
  • I need to figure out a few more things, like how to create journal nodes easily, and then it would seem like I’m set
  • It’s looking like it could be embedded in the [[Agora of Flancia]] as default editor for [[managed gardens]]!
  • Posted to [[Agora channels]] about it.
• Felt sick all day, including stomach pain — is this what they call a [[stomach flu]]? :)
  • Felt better stomach wise around the time I finished work (from home), but developed a fever — not terrible though, 37.2 with clear body feelings of flu
  • Trying to rest/play tonight.
• [[@neil]] told me earlier in the week about [[pattern]] by [[gordon brander]]: https://gordonbrander.com/pattern/, looking forward to reading it.
  • also about the [[neil experiments]] with [[connections]]:

    • I’ve played with them on my site here - https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/well-connected and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/new-connections

  • I agree experimenting more with interesting connections is promising also in [[Agora contexts]].
• [[Ivo]] told me about [[link and think]].
• I’m trying to install [[return to monkey island]] on [[nostromo]], which is Linux (I previously played it on my Windows gaming machine). Hope it works!

2024-02-19

• [[Listened]]: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]

  • More good stuff.
  • Description of working in some distribution warehouse was pretty wild.
  • They dislike [[The Ministry for the Future]].

• Read: [[Mute Compulsion]]

  • After recommendation in [[Forest and Factory]], and [[Jathan Sadowski]] raving about it.
  • In addition to coercion ([[violence]]) and consent ([[ideology]]), there is the mute compulsion of [[economic power]].

• Listened: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction]]

  • Very handy chat about [[Mute Compulsion]].

• [[Social reproduction]].

2024-02-18

• Read: [[Forest and Factory]]

  • Finished it.
  • Good stuff. Provocative.
  • The suggestion to focus on hard science fiction for our utopias seems a good one.
  • Though I don’t know if their piece really does that.
  • They just combine a focus on production with handwaving, rather than reproduction with handwaving.
  • Their salient point is really that we’ve stopped thinking about production, which I think is a good one.
  • Also lots of nuggets of wisdom in the footnotes to be mined.

• Listened: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]

  • Great discussion. Based around [[Forest and Factory]]. Loads of good stuff.
  • Their insistence on starting from present conditions and working towards for me thinking about [[complex systems]] and [[chaos theory]], [[sensitive dependence on initial conditions]] in particular. Is it logical to try and completely map the present to then try and cause the future? Maybe.
  • Maybe an alternative is the utopian way of doing it. Think of elements of your desired future as attractors of sorts, then focus on how your can leverage the path of history towards those. Maybe that’s a combination of both. It obviously can’t hurt to know the present conditions, but to then assume you can trace a clear path from now to the future seems wrong.
  • Yeah I think you need both. A clear understanding of present conditions. A clear idea of how you want society to function - your attractors. And then you nudge it from A to B, making use of [[shocks]], [[leverage points]], etc.
  • They make the point that a lot of utopias focus on reproduction rather than production. (Superstructure rather than base?).

• #push [[spas]]
  • [[solbad]] near [[schönbühl]] near [[bern]] looks nice for a special day: https://www.aqua-spa-resorts.ch/en/solbad-spa-schonbuhl/about-solbad-spa
• #push [[charles darwin]]
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/11/charles-darwin-entire-personal-library-revealed-first-time
• #push [[canary islands]]
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-survive-alone-1000-years-desert-islands-off-africa
• [[live]]
• back to [[hypergraph categories]] after loooong :) https://via.hypothes.is/https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.08304.pdf
  • …which reminds me I wanted to finish that other category theory paper, [[a rosetta stone]] ;)
• [[future of knowledge]]

2024-02-17

• Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

  • Finished it. Enjoyed it. Would recommend.
  • Need to go back and note it up a bit.

• Read: [[Theories of International Politics and Zombies]]

  • "How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion"
  • Fun.
  • I remember some of [[Robert Biel]]‘s articles saying how [[international relations]] was a field that applied systems theory to politics, so was looking for something that is a bit of an easy primer - this seems like it!

• [[Shower thought]].

  • I want to make sure that I document at least the top two or three salient claims from every book and article that I read.
  • Otherwise it seems like wasted effort.
  • I’ll tag book files such that I can run a query that pulls out those that I’ve read but have no associated claims.
  • To do so will be a positive act of [[knowledge commoning]].

• On good days like today I often find myself [[vacuuming]], [[watering the plants]], [[writing]], [[booking meetings]].
  • I find myself [[playing]]!
• [[16]] stands for [[Right Mindfulness]] in the [[pattern]] language I’m working on :)

2024-02-16

• Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

  • Nearly finished it now.
  • Very good all in all. Very readable intro to some economics concepts, in particular through a critical lens of capitalism.
  • Very easy to read. (As such not the most rigourous analysis, but thats fine)
  • Interesting to note he uses ‘experiential’ value rather than use value.
  • His brief suggestion of a solution to capitalism is that we need more democracy rather than more markets.
    • In ownership of the means of production and in control over how we treat the environment.

• Read: [[Forest and Factory]]

  • Deep dive into the logistics of production of motors.
  • Interesting, but still not convinced that this constitutes a scientific account of transition, in the language of their own critique.

• How repairable is a [[Vision Pro]]?

  • "…you’ve more chance of walking to Venus than getting the Apple Vision Pro repaired if you damage it." – Why Vision Pro is a repair nightmare | TechFinitive

• I’d like to add a ‘[[New connections]]‘ page to my garden.

  • [[Adding a new connections page to my garden]].

• [[Flancian]] told me about [[Orgzly Revived]].

  • This is very good news to me.

• [[eduardo carlas sala]]
• [[josé rené ivanec]]

2024-02-15

• Read: [[The high cost of Uber’s small profit]]

2024-02-14

• Volunteer at [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] for the first time in a few months.
  • [[Ulverston Repair Cafe, February 2024]]

• [[yoga with x]] to start the day :)
  • and to finish it!
  • and the other way around, etc. ;)
  • [[go/flow]] means anagora.org/go/flow
• [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

2024-02-13

• Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
  • So far: very interesting.
  • But unnecessarily disdainful in tone to some of the other projects that it is critiquing. We’re all on the same side here!
  • And, so far, while very interesting, the vision for the future they outline is just as lacking in scientific rigour as any of the projects that they are critiquing.
    • Going to assume that the science bit is going to come later.
  • Unflinching mentions of carbon capture and storage / direct air capture is a bit of a red flag.

• [[I’m back]]!
  • It sure took some time.
  • But [[per aspera ad astra]]. I try to enjoy the ride :)
  • I am, after all, often
    • [[free from suffering]]

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]].

2024-02-12

• Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
  • Subtitle: The Science and the Fiction of Communism.
  • Heard about it from the This Machine Kills podcast.
  • Very interesting. A modern day update on the topic of [[Socialism: Utopian and Scientific]].
  • Critiques a bunch of things I’ve read recently as utopian, in the sense of lacking any practical route from the here and now to there.
    • Fair comment - though I’ve appreciated them, I’ve thought similar.
  • Not got to their own prescription for transformation yet.

2024-02-11

• Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

• Read: [[A Half-Built Garden]]

• [[car analogies]]

2024-02-10

• Read: [[AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.]]
  • [[data centre]]s. [[AI]].

2024-02-09

• [[Read]]: [[How to stop a data center]].

  • How organisers in Santiago stopped the development of a data centre in their locality.
  • Seemed to be mostly information campaigns around water usage.
  • Less drastic than [[How to Blow Up a Data Centre]].

• Read: [[Imagining social movements: from networks to dynamic systems]]

  • [[social movement]]s and [[complex systems]].

2024-02-08

• Had to give up on [[Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality]] for now.

  • It’s intensely and densely philosophical. A bit too much for me (especially when reading it in the middle of the night…)
  • I still like the premise though, so maybe I’ll just try and read the conclusion.

• Started on [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]] instead.

  • Subtitle: A Brief History of Capitalism.
  • Easier to read, that’s for sure.
  • I think some of his broad sweep of history of agriculture and surplus and economics might need a bit of fact-checking. c.f. [[The Dawn of Everything]].
  • Talks about [[Enclosure Movement]]. How [[Debt]] played a big role in genesis of capitalism.

• Slightly less intense but still emotionally tough day at work (dealing with layoffs as part of the [[employee representation]] group).

• Tough day at work (dealing with layoffs as part of the [[employee representation]] group).

• [[work]]
• [[olof]] told me about [[the moth]] (storytelling)
• [[tindallgrams]]

2024-02-05

• Watched: [[Kohei Saito: "Climate Crisis and Ecological Revolution"]]
  • On [[Degrowth communism]].
  • I actually watched this a while ago, just noting it now.
  • I remember he mentioned [[commoning]] as an important aspect.

• [[jambarree]]

2024-02-04

• Listened: [[The Santiago Boys]].
  • Finished the first episode. (Ep 1: A Blast in Manhattan).
  • Chiefly about the political milieu in Chile at the time, and then how Fernando Flores invites Beer to work with them.

• [[Flancia meet]]
  • with [[bouncepaw]] we set up https://flancia.org/meet pull as a landing page for it, I like the result!
  • it made me revisit good old flancia.org after a while — and it felt good. Maybe I should go back to writing more on it? I say, not for the first time.
• [[AG]] is wonderful

• The following was written by [[Lady Burup]]
• (a lot of dashes/empty list items, unsure how she wrote all these)

-OOOOAPI||||||||||

• (more :))

-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Back to regular programming :)

• [[sadhana]]
• [[Lojong]] seems linked to a long list of contemplative [[slogans]]
  • [[Chekawa Yeshe Dorje]]
• [[Tonglen]]
• [[Bootstrap]]
• [[Open Letters]]:
  • [[Open Letter to Google]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • #meta for each of these, I’d love to be able to easily set up a [[Google Doc]] and link it. I wonder if I should begin by just signing up for the right Google API and make that happen?
    • You could imagine a Google Doc-hosted stoa… in some universe, if not in this one :)
• I did some processing of [[social coop registrations]], [[go/cwg/bugs]]. I enjoyed it. Interesting as usual. Yielded a pointer to…
  • [[digital commons coop]]

• [[e acc]]:
  • Somehow I arrived at [[e acc]] ([[e/acc]] is not a good Agora link as slashes usually mean actions, and action e/ currently doesn’t exist). I can instantly relate mildly with their utopian side I guess, even as I dislike many of their positions and their super-capitalist stance. Also [[Shkreli]] is involved, sigh.
  • [[techno optimist manifesto]]
• I read (re-read? I don’t think I’ve forgotten it, but I did read a lot of SSC at one point) [[Scott Alexander]]‘s review of [[Age of Em]].

• [[Mohammed Aldhari]]
• [[AG]]
• [[Lady Burup]] <- [[Burrup Peninsula]], which I found in a Firefox session and enjoyed once again :D
• Also I found out that [[Flancia]] seems to actually be a common name in some countries?! Twitter search found a lot of people with Flancia in the name, some with accounts older than mine.
  • Nice plot twist, thanks universe as usual.

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 :)

• [[open letters]]
  • [[nostromo]] 3
  • [[sila]] 8
  • [[paramita]] 8
• [[yoga with x]]
  • [[flow]]

2024-02-02

• Read: [[Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality]]

  • Enjoying it. I am sympathetic to the idea of a [[secular spirituality]] of some kind.
  • Jones is continuing his referencing to [[cybernetics]] and [[complex adaptive systems]] that was present in [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]], so I’m enjoying it on that level too.

• Listened: [[The Missing Revolution w/ Vincent Bevins]]

  • On the uprisings of the 2010s and their failure to manifest as leftist revolutions in the long-term.
  • On the problems of [[horizontalism]]. Bit of [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]].
  • Interview is a bit one-sided, Marxist-Leninist, missing the nuance of [[Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal]] I think.
  • Still, really interesting, and based on on the ground accounts of what happened, so definitely to take heed of.

• #push [[outlook]]

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.

• #push [[agora]]
  • [[agora nugget]]
  • [[agora chapter]]
  • [[an open letter to the agora]]

I’ve been writing about the Agora for about 5 years now: https://github.com/flancian/flancia/commits/master/pages/agora.md.

• [[bootstrap]]

• [[work]]
  • [[er-ch]]
    • [[ntf]]
• [[open letters]]
• [[nuggets]]

2024-01-31

• Read: [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]]
  • Finished it. Reading it in lots of 20 minute late-night bursts while doing childcare.
  • Very good. Primary focus on movement building, organising.
  • Combination of left politics and complex adaptive systems is right up my street.
  • Also touches on [[organisational ecology]], [[care work]].
  • Would like to apply some of the concepts to [[reclaim the stacks]].
  • Particularly the description of using (and creating) shocks as points of leverage and transition is useful.

• [[open letters]]:
  • [[carta abierta a milei]]
  • [[open letter to google]]
  • [[open letter to musk]]
  • [[open letter to the agora]]
• thank you [[Buddha]]!
  • [[glory be to the light of consciousness]]
  • [[four noble truths]]
  • [[eightfold path]]
    • [[right view]]
  • [[bodhicitta]]
  • [[bodhisattva]]
  • [[four seals]]
• [[Flancia]]!
  • Free day from [[work]] — back tomorrow :) I did two little things only that took 30 minutes async.
    • took a quick walk and made a quick dash to the supermarket
    • [[bettwanzen]] project continues :)
    • more [[laundry]] while listening to the [[audiobooks]]
    • cleaned the kitchen surfaces including cabinets — long in the making!
  • [[agora development]]
    • fixed [[turtle]] :)
      • In two ways. Two degrees of brokenness came up while browsing and I decided to just fix it :)
      • It felt great!
  • Got to [[four seals]] again when I picked up [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]], and also to [[Madyamaka]] for the first time.
    • This happened because the way of the [[Bodhisattva]] is at [[AG]]‘s place. Also looking forward to continuing that.
    • I want to read more about [[Nagarjuna]].
• I listened to [[David Whyte]] and an interesting snippet on [[Future Discounting]] in [[Waking Up]]. Thanks [[Sam Harris]] as usual!
• [[music]] and sound
  • [[usb midi]]
  • [[rosegarden]]
  • [[mynoise]] led me to [[ozora]] festival and [[radiozora]]
  • [[free soundfonts]]
• [[yoga with x]]

2024-01-29

2024-01-28

• Came across [[Graham Jones]]‘ work via [[#ACFM]] and enjoying it.
  • Reading: [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]]
  • Listening: [[Red Enlightenment (podcast)]]

• In [[Flancia]] there are no [[gag orders]], I think.
  • This sends me bac a few years — I started writing [[against gag orders]] early on for no clear reason that I remember, and now it has become again relevant.
• I had a weird [[Dream]].
• [[Buddhism]]:
  • [[Jatakas]]:
    • [[Banyan Deer]]
    • [[Elephant King]]
• [[flancia meet]]

• In [[Flancia]] my [[Flancia]] is your [[Flancia]]!
• I keep meaning to write about [[dust theory]], and make the connection that [[bouncepaw]] surfaced — an acquaintance of his seems to have arrived at similar concepts to this and others derived I have thought of.
  • To me this plus the [[Dharma]] of Buddha Gautama, as interpreted and expanded by his [[Sangha]], provides a cohesive religious cosmology that feels potentially truthful. Maybe we are the feelings, perceptions, mental formations of emergent systems in the dust, arising — like [[boltzmann brains]] linked but disjoint in space-time.
  • -> [[Unasanu]] by [[Ilya Sheprut]]
• [[work]]
  • was long but good :)
• [[social coop]]
  • [[social coop tech group]]
• [[staubsauging]] gegen die [[bettwanzen]] :)
• [[forbrydelsen]]
• [[Buddhism]]:
  • [[Anatapindika]]
  • [[Fo Guang Shan]]

2024-01-24

• Listened: [[#ACFM Trip 4: Love and Hate]]

• Listened: [[#ACFM Trip 5: Consciousness Raising]]

• Listened: [[#ACFM Microdose: Theories of Consciousness]]

• 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.’

  • From Foxglove’s newsletter on 24th January 2024.
  • Very keen to see where they go with this.

• [[Flancia]] in [[AG]]‘s with her and [[Lady Burup]] :)

• [[gate gate]]
  • [[paragate]]
  • [[parasamgate]]
  • [[bodhi svaha]] [[bodhi satta]]
• -> [[Flancia]]!
  • in Flancia there are many [[forks in the road]] [[forks on the road]]
  • [[AG]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
  • [[Taixu]]

I finished [[Taixu]], meaning the translation by [[Charles B. Jones]] and his commentary. I am thankful for it!

• [[Open Letters]]:
  • [[Open Letter to Google]]:
    • for now [[corp only]]
    • maybe to go public with the [[occasion]] of the 20th anniversary of the [[founders letter]]

  • [[Open Letter to the Agora]]:

  • [[Open Letter to Flancia]]
  • [[Open Letter to all religious]]
• Trying to help [[Mohammed]]:
  • [[Mohammed Plan]] ~ [[Plan Mohammed]]
• [[mynoise]]
• [[yoga with x]]:
  • love [[yoga with adriene]]

• [[Dave Mills]] passed away a few days back.
• [[Flancia meet]]
  • Planning the weekend and the last ten days of January today.
  • [[Agora development]]
    • [[neobooks]]:
      • Inline node subnode transclusion support
      • add [[opengraph]]
      • review/accept vera’s sqlite PR
    • [[fediverse]]:
      • The [[ActivityPub site]] is published on https://github.com/w3c/activitypub
      • make user resolution work for anagora.org?
      • make follows work by returning an accept follow activity
        • also honor [[undo follow]] activity
        • do we need a database for all this? probably yes? so then review vera’s PR first
      • surface recent subnode edits as posts per user?
      • look into [[federated search]]?

• [[maitreya]]
• [[organizing circle]]
• [[2024-01-05]]
• [[fellowship of the link]]:
  • [[layoffs]]
  • [[neobooks]]:
    • [[nuggets]]
      • how to assemble them as they are read contiguously
    • [[design from trust]]:
      • list of [[nuggets]]
      • [[neobooks]]
        • book number one
          • [[CA]] don’t make it too Obsidian-wild, keep it as text-first as possible to begin with
      • [[transclusion]] in [[obsidian]]
      • https://obsidian.rocks/an-introduction-to-obsidian-properties/

• [[work]]
  • tough with [[layoffs]] wave 3 going on, plus [[social plan]] negotiations for all waves
  • but people are great
• [[social coop]] organizing circle meeting was great!
• [[open letters]]:
  • [[Open letter to the Agora]]
  • [[Open letter to Google]]
• I’ve had [[unbundling tools for thought]] open as a tab for maybe over a year now — should I read it?
• I ask myself this kind of question often, as I’m managing tabs a lot of the time (I have many across many computers), often on the way of getting something else done.
  • I want to trust myself to eventually do some things, like reading this, but even though I very often add things to the Agora (through [[Betula]] or manually) to keep track of them, there are so many that I will probably never get to most of them.
    • And maybe that’s OK!
    • Leaving links behind is better than nothing ;)

2024-01-16

• Listened: [[#ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box]]
  • First in the ACFM series.
  • Discuss [[Acid communism]], [[counterculture]], [[consciousness raising]]. [[The role of culture in politics]].

• [[Flancia]]:
  • [[AG]] :)
  • [[work]]
  • [[Mohammed]]
  • [[social.coop]]
  • Caught up with friends, asynchronously! :)
• I got a letter from [[Solidar Suisse]], checking them out.
• I enjoyed the AI generations in [[Agora of Flancia]].
  • I need to make copy-paste of the raw markdown easier.
  • Copy/paste should preserve bullet points in particular! Maybe it did before the [[ul styling]] shipped?
• YIL about [[Kaya Yanar]]. Also watched [[George Carlin]] clips.
• [[Why aren’t there more effective altruisms]]: https://nayafia.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-more-effective-altruisms
• [[ywa]], [[ywx]]

• [[Suffering]] came and went on [[2024-01-13]]
• This year I’d like to explore the [[Jhanas]] more.
  • I picked up [[Leigh Brasington]]‘s [[Right Concentration]] again.
• I upgraded [[ubuntu]] and that somehow broke [[poetry]].
  • -> [[install poetry]] fixed it
• [[open letters]]:
  • I’m reading [[Carta Abierta a Buenos Aires Violento]] by [[Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer]].
    • On its back cover there’s a list of other open letters that publishing house [[Emecé]] put out in the 70s, by:
      • [[André Maurois]]
      • [[Salvador Dalí]]
      • [[André Soubiran]]
      • [[Jean Cau]]
      • [[Robert Escarpit]]
      • [[Françoise Parturer]]
      • [[Jen François Revel]]
      • [[Gilbert Cesbron]]
      • [[Alfred Fabre-Luce]]
      • [[Silvina Bullrich]]
      • [[Ulyses Petit de Murat]]
      • [[Jean Fourastié]]
    • I notice that besides Gudiño Kieffer, Dalí and Bullrish they all seem/sound French. I wonder if there was a significant Open Letter movement in France for some reason? I will research it.
      • Wikipedia says that [[J’accuse]] by [[Zola]] is one of the most prominent ones — that might have left its mark particularly in French culture, eliciting more instances of this form.
      • [[Letter from Birmingham Jail]] by [[MLK]] I didn’t know about, and it sounds [[interesting.]]
      • [[Yorkshire Slavery]] as well.
• Read about [[Andreas Gursky]], [[Kiki de Montparnasse]].

2024-01-14

• Listened: [[Trip 39: Protest]]
  • On the topic of [[protest]].
  • Individual, collective. Marches, non-violence, [[direct action]], boycotts etc.
  • Whats effective and what isnt? Effective might mean different things, e.g. could be political change but could also be just connecting and energising a movement.

• [[Flancia]]!
• [[13]]:
  • Stands for
    • [[Right Action]] ~ [[Right Conduct]]
    • [[Bodhicitta]] (second occurrence)
  • …in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
• [[AG]]
  • thank you!
• I re-watched:
  • [[Spirited Away]]:
    • loved it, I didn’t quite remember how surreal+beautiful it is
    • saw it after seeing [[Miyazaki’s last]] recently
  • [[Seinfeld]]:
    • Started with two classics; [[the stakeout]] and [[the jacket]].
• I remembered:
  • [[Avalokiteshjara]]
• I’ve been meaning to write [[open letters]] for some while now. So I think I’ll just do ahead and [[do it]].

2024-01-13

• Listened: [[Microdose: A Festive 50 for 2023]]
  • Some good recs in here. To come back to and jot them down.

• i forgot my journal app was still being hosted. yay cloudtech.
• got a new job at cascadia health as a peer support. essentially im an unlicensed therapist.

• [[Flancia]]:
  • Flancia is a container for [[My favourite things]]:
    • The common good
    • Happiness
    • Freedom from suffering
    • Science
    • Technology (inasmuch as it improves the world, which it does plenty)
    • Art
    • Knowledge
    • My friends and loved ones (inasmuch people are embodied as a composition of things)
      • Like [[Lady Burup]]
      • And you know who
    • The Agora (inasmuch it might show others the way to its [[entelechy]])
• [[Gone]]:
  • A [[poem]].
    • Gone
    • [[Gone beyond]]
    • [[Gone kindly]]
      • if you have to go,
      • go kindly!

I had noding "my favourite things" in a post-it so I decided to do it right here using a push above.

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[AG]]
    • [[6]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]:
    • [[23]]
    • [[Burrup Peninsula]] exists, I found out about a week ago
  • [[Mamá]]
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
    • [[7]]
  • [[Tara]]
    • [[21]]
    • -> I did [[music]] / [[piano]], it was lovely! I was inspired by [[AG]].
  • [[Maitreya]]
    • [[17]]
    • -> [[Las Jaras]] did some writing :)
      • [[31]]
  • [[bettwanzen]] response advances :) second room was cleaned up (first pass), first one is rehabilitated (will try sleeping in it tonight!)
  • [[agora development]]
    • [[ul]] :)

• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/111706100120258148 pull

• [[2024-01-06 00:10:18+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
  • an [[agora]], [[2024-01-06]] :)

• [[5]] stands for the [[commons]] and [[focus]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]]
• [[work]]
• [[AG]] :)
• [[flancia meet]] to start the year!
  • [[fediverse]]
    • Agora now lists users in .well-known/webfinger and even serves profiles :)
  • [[akkoma]] is like [[pleroma]] but better
  • [[merveilles]]: #go https://hub.merveilles.town
  • [[c2]]
  • [[new sincerity]]
  • [[I don’t care about Russian]] as a setting
  • [[categories]] and [[regexes]]
  • [[remote development]]
  • [[las jaras]]
  • [[caddy]] web server
• #go https://music.youtube.com/browse/VLPLtG4zc89ZUfEJHOZ9O4CI-WuIHdDPB-L4

• [[4]] stands for the [[four noble truths]] and 2*2, meaning "[[fork]], fork" in the [[Flancia Pattern language]]
• [[work]]
• dinner with [[AG]]
• [[recta intención]]

• All my computers tend to be melting down all the time. They run out of RAM and CPU. It all feels quite un-ecological, but I guess we’re all betting on becoming a higher level [[kardashev]]?
  • I’d like to keep [[Flancia sustainable]] though.
    • This led me to [[future studies]].
• [[work]]
• [[fotl]]
• [[agora development]]
  • make it so that [[opensearch]] document is utf-8 so chrome stops ignoring Agora Search (presumably) :)
    • I think the actual issue is that new Chrome only loads [[opensearch]] data when the user performs a search in the root of the webpage, e.g. https://anagora.org pull — and currently the Agora just redirects to /index so this never happens. Hmm.
      • Maybe I should just remove that redirect.
• [[fediverse]]
• [[yoga with x]]

• Happy [[2024]] to everybody reading!
  • May you be happy! May you be free! May you [[thrive]]!
• [[work]]:
  • paged at 6.30AM.
• [[AG]]
• [[Laundry]], as in most of the last few days due to the ongoing [[Bettwanzen]] response — trying to enjoy every cycle, some cycles are more fruitful than others :)
• [[social coop]]:
  • Last day oncall for the [[CWG]].
  • Reviewed some progress on the discussion about [[Fedipact]] and whether we should be listed as signatories
  • Check poll
  • Check registrations
  • Check moderations

[[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 :)

• [[social coop]]
  • Having an interesting conversation with [[3wc]] and [[ntnsndr]].
  • Sent oncall handoff to [[sam]]
  • Oh no, I forgot the [[twg]] meeting earlier today!

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]]?

• [[Agor.ai]]:
  • Nine syllables:
    • [[agorai]], [[agor.ai]];
    • [[Agorai]]!

• [[neobooks]]:
  • [[open letters]]:
    • [[open letter to milei]]
  • [[pattern languages]]
• enjoying the book on the [[disciples of the buddha]] a lot
  • It started with [[Sariputta]] and [[Mahamogallana]] ~ [[Maha Moggallana]].
• I cleaned one of the bedrooms after [[bed bugs]] fumigation; it was a lot of work (8h straight) but I took it as exercise and enjoyed the process.
• [[yoga with x]]

• [[31]] is [[Las Jaras]]:
  • a [[poem]]:
    • Las Jaras, qué jaras?
    • Las tiradas con recta intención:
    • Las de Maitreya;
    • Las de Avalokiteshvara;
    • Las de Tara!
• [[Silvester]]:
  • As they call it here in Switzerland.
  • Happy [[2024]] all! May it be free from suffering to as many beings as possible.
  • Going to a party tonight!
• [[bedbugs]]:
  • Still going through [[The Great Wash]], as this period of doing lots of laundry to make sure no bed bugs (fully developed or in egg form) survive in clothes and bedlinen.
  • I’ve been trying to do loving kindness with the bed bugs as individuals and as a species, even as they are dying in droves in the fumigated bedrooms.
• [[2024]]:
  • Thinking of planning.

• Saturday oncall at home doing laundry and some shopping two minutes away carrying my laptop in Coop — cozy :)
  • I renamed my second work laptop to [[Sariputta]] and I already like it more.
  • Also finished some paperwork and responded some personal messages.
• [[social coop]]
  • some discussion about [[Fedipact]] and whether we should be listed as signatories
  • there were a few polls but the one that voted (majority) block was blocked, so the actual needed fraction of votes wasn’t accomplished

• Strange day, it started down but then went up :)
  • Paid bills, donated to [[unicef]].
• [[Work]]
  • CL review
  • Some approvals
  • Oncall handoff
• Agora project
  • Check if patera is still down and fix it
• [[social.coop]]
  • [[twg]] dates discussion
  • registration / moderation
  • PR review

• [[Flancia]]!
  • Flancia is here, in the protopian sense as always: I finally took a decisive step in the [[Kampf Gegen Bettwanzen]] :).
    • The [[fumigator]] came and disassembled and sprayed the two bedrooms.
    • I hope the [[bed bugs]] don’t suffer while they die.
      • May they be [[free from suffering]], like all!
  • [[fellowship of the link]]:
    • on [[patronage]] vs [[engagement fees]]
    • [[universal basic income]] vs the income we want/need
    • on [[jobs]] vs [[tasks]]
    • [[veil of ignorance]] ~ [[original position]]
    • [[musk]] and [[milei]]
      • https://anagora.org/open+letters pull
      • [[doing]]
        • [[open letters]] should pull items in [[cartas abiertas]]
    • [[neobooks]]
      • [[design from trust]]
        • -> [[what if we trusted you]] in [[agora of the link]]
  • [[agora project]]
    • [[patera]] is down
    • logging into [[hetzner]]
  • [[jerry]]:
    • [[wikipedia]] article didn’t have link to [[TheBrain]]!
      • corrected :)

• at [[AG]]‘s :)
• thinking about/working on the [[fediverse]]:
  • [[agora development]]
  • [[pinhole]] (basic [[bluesky]] interop)

• [[Happy Holidays]] to all!
  • At the very least, ones [[free]] from suffering and affliction!
• [[25]]:
  • [[Burn]]
  • Burn Kindly!
  • If you have to burn,
  • [[Burn Kindly]]!
• [[Bluesky]]:
  • [[brid.gy]]
  • [[snarfed]] told me about [[pinhole]], trying it out
    • it worked :)
    • forked it: https://codeberg.com/flancian/agora
• I feel like this next one [[december adventure]] might be [[fediverse]] week:
  • [[pinhole]] led to me running ‘my first individual activitypub server’ in a way, it got me hooked maybe
    • it contains a minimum workable implementation of the core of activitypub within it, as [[flask]] routes
      • I could incorporate this into either [[agora server]] or [[moa]]? the author seems open to a fork even though they are not interested in adding features themselves
  • someone told me to read https://americanbuddhist.net/2022/12/14/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-jack-dorsey/ — it turned out being something written ~precisely 1y ago :)
• [[nils frahm]]

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[Flancia meet]]
    • quiet in the morning, used it for planning :)
    • [[agora development]]
      • I want to continue in the vein of [[december adventure]], with small improvements and some new experimental features.
        • This will continue through the whole weekend ;)
    • [[fediverse]]
      • Yesterday I tried one bridge between [[Bluesky]] and the [[Fediverse]] and it failed, but I want to try again :)
        • it failed again: bluesky.bovine.social. It looks promising though, I opened an issue in the Codeberg repo and took the chance to set up my [[Codeberg]] profile at last.
        • I also gave https://brid.gy a try and it was able to log into my Mastodon and Bluesky both, but it seems designed to cross-post between those and [[webmentions]] only/first.
          • This made me think that I should really implement webmentions in the Agora?
    • I also want to take some time to see friends IRL :)
      • Happy about this!
      • [[Pesho]]
      • [[AG]]

• [[Avalokiteshvara]]!

Digo, ahora que empiezo a escribir en el escritorio número 7.

Finalmente exporté [[goodreads]] e importé en [[bookwyrm]]: .

• As an aside, I miss the capability of pasting pictures/media in the Agora. I used to have it in Obsidian, maybe I should run it or [[Logseq]] again.
  • They are both clients that are easier to recommend that my current [[wiki vim]] setup anyway… :)
  • [[Agora Development]]:
    • If you save to [[Drive]], [[Dropbox]], [[NextCloud]], [[Syncthing]] it should work as if you were saving to [[git]].

• I got a new [[Aufenthantsbewilligung]] and I ended up reading [[art 61]] and others, interesting.
  • [[art 68]] deals with expulsion

• [[doing]]
  • Considering getting back into [[Bluesky]]
  • I’ve been wondering what to do about Twitter -> [[X]]
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1738295705196716343 pull

• [[bard]]

• [[flancia]]
  • got a [[blood test]] and turns out I’m anemic, good to know, will try to correct :)
  • [[work]]
  • [[fellowship of the link]]
  • [[december adventure]]:
    • [[this feature is cooler than you thought]]

• [[work]]
  • [[working while working]] :)
• [[flancia]]:
  • [[writing while writing]]
  • [[Avalokiteshvara somos nosotros]]
• [[social coop tech]]

• Because of [[Uposatha]] days I feel the need to know the phase of the moon. I wonder what time it’ll come out tonight as well; it’s been cloudy so I haven’t been keeping track.
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora development]]
    • [[december adventure]]:
      • shipped some ‘quality of life’ and ‘polish’ improvements to anagora.org in the last few days.
      • [[css spinner]] was useful
      • [[doing]]:
        • now shifting focus to providing endpoints, in the sense of:
          • [[agora apis]]
          • [[integrations]] with other [[apis]]
            • [[chatgpt]], [[bard]], [[mistral]], etc.
        • [[api]]
          • commit something — anything :)
            • this means exposing the right existing methods at this path I guess :)
        • fix [[mastodon bot]] integration
          • the wikilinks it dumps are not clickable due to an encoding issue, I’ve been wanting to solve that for a while
      • [[agor.ai]] ~ [[agora network]]
        • remembered that [[agora network]] is important
        • as planned I will try to continue improving the agor.ai setup and try to provide useful Agoras to others
        • Wrote out a [[call for agoras]], meaning people can propose possible Agoras to build
          • link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai already exist on the new-style setup, which I must continue to [[improve/upgrade]]
• [[above]]:
  • [[overhead]]

• [[work]]
  • was alright!
• [[flancia]]!
  • [[apero]]
    • with the [[neighbours]] and [[AG]]
  • [[15]]: [[uposatha]] day if you go by straight decimal/solar calendar date instead of the (I believe) more traditional lunar
  • [[spiel]]:
    • I found [[spiel/agora]] again after more than two years :D
      • it’s great, I like it even more than last time
      • I think even before it gets [[fediverse]] support (for login) it may already be one of the best chat platforms I’ve seen
      • [[matrix]] could/should look like this

• [[cwg]]

• [[Bettwanzen]] inspection finally came and results were relatively positive:
  • These are [[bed bugs]] indeed.
  • And, as I was hoping, they are only in the main bedroom — haven’t spread to the guest room where I’ve been sleeping or anywhere else it seems \o/
• [[work]]
  • yep
  • prod meeting — interesting topics came up. I think they will feed in what we’re trying to write
  • then I reviewed 5x roadmaps and edited a document I’d been meaning to dedicate time to :D
• [[flancia]]
  • a [[poem]]:
    • [[8]] syllables that are worth [[162]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]]:
      • [[Merge]], merge, merge;
      • as we [[fork]] we’ll [[merge]]!
      • (3, 3, 3 — as we 2 we’ll 3)
• [[Fediverse clients]]:
  • I like [[elk]] most of all currently
  • and the descendants of [[Pinafore]], like [[Enafore]]
  • and [[Phanpy]]
• Thought of [[7]] (as an example number):
  • Numeric nodes should probably auto-pull known number-related nodes like [[hex]] and [[prime]]? In particular in the [[Agora of Flancia]] these contains utilities.
• [[december adventure]]:
  • [[new style pulls]] for social media.
  • [[misc]]
    • fix [[micro.blog]]? builds on ‘canonical’ concept which I’ve tackled a bit previously
    • reintroduce autopull/pull all and fold all
      • in the sense of a button that pulls resources - maybe on both agora-level and node-level?
      • also maybe s/search/go/, try it out
        • would interact nicely with that old [[double click]] idea: if you’re already at the node and you press go, it redirects to the go link if there is one known
• thought about [[web rings]]:
  • [[xxiivv]]: https://webring.xxiivv.com/#random
  • [[a11y]]: https://a11y-webring.club/

• [[Flancia]]:
  • [[December Adventure]]
  • [[work]]
  • [[Selva Negra]]
• [[poems]]:
  • fork, fork, fork!
    • as we merge we’ll [[fork]]!
  • agua, agua, [[agua]]:
    • agua para los sedientos!
  • [[yoga with x]]:
    • was great and chaotic :)
  • [[december adventure]]
    • thinking about this December as an introduction to [[2024]]!
• [[Milei]] asumió
• [[Schwarzwald]] over the weekend with [[AG]] :)

2023-12-10

• Listened: [[Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site]]

  • Great to be living so close to this.
  • Still, the story about how they revealed login credentials in the background of a Countryfile episode is hilarious.

• Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Trust]]

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[flancia meet]] with [[j0lms]] in the night (before bed) and with [[bouncepaw]] in the morning.
  • [[postmarks]]
• [[Schaffhausen]]
• [[Schwarzwald]]
• [[Indiana Jones]]
• [[Yoga with X]] -> [[framatalk]]

2023-12-09

• [[Error U130 on Canon Pixma MG6150]]