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On [[2025-07-05]]
2025-07-05
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I was getting this error:
- Before-save hook error: (wrong-type-argument org-roam-node nil)
- Narrowed it down to when orgrr adds a #+zettel property to the file, it does it before all other properties, and org-roam doesn’t seem to like that.
- I like the look of Jeff Brown’s [[skg]] (Share Knowledge Graphs) project.
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On [[2025-07-04]]
2025-07-04
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- [[Strike Debt]] campaign. [[Rolling Jubilee]].
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Private AI companies profiting off the back of public infrastructure and the commons with no return is not surprising.
- Exploiting commonly owned resources for personal gain is what capitalists have done throughout history.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
- Atmospheric Colonisation and Ecological Imperialism in the World System
- Mark Carney caves to Trump and the tech industry
- Tell the EU: Keep AI within Planetary Boundaries - Green Web Foundation
- Protect Yourself From Metaβs Latest Attack on Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- In Search of a Democratic Eco-Socialist Politics | SpringerLink
- Why should the US decide who can have certain tech?
- Alien | Typeset In The Future
- A Sense of Rebellion
- Excellent! Denmark Set to Replace Microsoft Office with Open Source Alternative
- Wow! German State Ditches Microsoft for Open-Source Software
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On [[2025-07-03]]
2025-07-03
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger referenced favourably.
- Debt is one of the key drivers of individualisation.
- Anti-debt movements, cancellation of student debt, credit card debt.
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On [[2025-06-30]]
2025-06-30
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- To become an indebted person under advanced capitalism is to lose the ability to act collectively with others for democratic goals.
- Student debt changed the logic of education from something communistic to something mercenary and transactional.
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On [[2025-06-29]]
2025-06-29
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- [[Debt: The First 5,000 Years]] by [[David Graeber]].
- [[Everyday communism]]. Sociality.
- Very little in everyday life operates like a market.
- Even the internals of corporations don’t operate like markets.
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On [[2025-06-25]]
2025-06-25
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Trying to figure out why a pair of Bluetooth headphones was suddenly, randomly, no longer pairing correctly to a laptop running under [[Windows 11]], and I am genuinely surprised how bad the experience is.
- Useless error messages. Multiple interfaces to the same operation, unclear why to use one over the other. Different visuals for different config dialogs. Arcane dialogs and squirrelled away options.
- This for a device that was clearly built to work on Windows.
- The trope that [[Linux]] has a bad user experience vs Windows does not seem accurate.
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On [[2025-06-24]]
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Reading [[essays-on-suffering-focused-ethics]]
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Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I’ve actually found them to be the opposite
- Classical utilitarianism is a lot less intuitive!
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Seems like there are parallels with [[buddhism]]
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[[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as nihilistic
- What of the attainment of [[nirodha]]?
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How helpful is it to talk about [[repugnant conclusions]] in the first place?
- [[slippery slope]]
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[[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as nihilistic
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Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I’ve actually found them to be the opposite
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Also reading [[frΓ©dΓ©ric bastiat]]
- Likely the inventor of the now ubiquitous popular economics journalism
- [[broken window fallacy]] [[opportunity costs]]
2025-06-24
- Managed another run. Doing the couch to 5k.
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On [[2025-06-23]]
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The weekend was chill and great!
- Mostly spent time with my mum who is visiting and Lady Burup.
- We went to the river on Sunday as it was very warm (with my mum, not Lady Burup). It was very beautiful.
- I am talking to someone very interesting and that makes my whole life a bit better as well.
2025-06-23
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Watched: [[The AI Crisis We’re Ignoring]]
- Seems pretty well-researched. I like this guy’s videos in general - he’s an ecosocialist.
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On [[2025-06-22]]
2025-06-22
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First jog with the buggy. Not an unqualified success, but good to have done it.
- It’s really hard to steer in jogging mode. Like playing as Bowser after getting used to Toad.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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People vs. Big Tech
- tags: [[Big Tech]].
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People vs. Big Tech
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On [[2025-06-21]]
- Happy!
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On [[2025-06-20]]
2025-06-20
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I’m enjoying using [[orgrr]] for adding [[Folgezettel]] ids to (main) notes.
- For exactly the reasons outlined by [[Bob Doto]] in [[A System for Writing]] (i.e. [[Folgezettel makes you consider your new notes more carefully]]).
- I wish I could use some of orgrr’s other features, but I think they are mostly predicated on the existence of file links rather than id links.
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[[org-node]] looks neat and an improvement over org-roam in many ways.
- I haven’t tried it though, as the feature list described ‘separate note piles’ as a won’t fix.
- Assuming ‘separate note piles’ means different knowledge bases for different purposes, which I guess it does, then I rely on separate note piles quite heavily.
- But then - things like this: https://github.com/meedstrom/org-node/issues/92 and this https://github.com/meedstrom/org-mem/blob/cf3ae8a90d11381910530a7d7ef00883d6b20850/org-mem.el#L85 make it look possible?
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On [[2025-06-19]]
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On [[2025-06-18]]
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And I’m back!
- Says the person who keeps going away :)
- But I come back happily.
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Some days I dedicate very few cycles to the [[Agora]]. Instead I tend to focus on: work, family, friends and thoughts.
- That’s alright! Or more than alright actually.
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To the [[readers of the future]] I say:
- Thank you for being here!
- Please excuse any bumps in the ride :)
As I we pass mid-June I am:
- Thinking of the women in my life
- Enjoying the visit of my mum!
- Enjoying life in general.
I now intend to:
- Take out the remaining paper for recycling.
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Fix Agora bugs!
- Marginalia -> Google as the marginalia.nu iframe has issues
- Maybe a [[scroll to bottom]] button, keep it simple :)