๐ Journal entries in the last 286 days
2026-05-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-23.md by @neil โ
2026-05-23
2026-05-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-21.md by @neil โ
2026-05-21
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Note for [[Setting up a new box]]:
- use git-restore-mtime on cloned org-roam repos, to get ordering by date in the completion buffer
2026-05-20
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution Journal/2026-05-20.md by @bunnynabbit โ
- Joined the [[Agora]]. [[Spacious nexus]] is now visible on @bunnynabbit.
2026-05-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution Journal/2026-05-19.md by @bunnynabbit โ
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Upgraded [[SilverBullet]] to 2.8.0.
- Checking out its new built-in Journal library.
2026-05-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-05-18.md by @flancian โ
- [[worked]]
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[[Social.coop]]:
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Then met with [[Matt Noyes]] to discuss [[social.coop]]!
- [[cooperative todo lists]]
- [[memoirs of prison]] by [[Nelson Pereira dos Santos]]
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[[safety maximizing]] vs [[freedom maximizing]]
- [[safety maximizing]] -> [[intentional relationships]]
- should we kick off some proposals? which ones?
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three respects:
- the relationships
- the people who try to improve the system/work on it
- the notion of consent and preference maximizing
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Then met with [[Matt Noyes]] to discuss [[social.coop]]!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-18.md by @neil โ
2026-05-18
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[[Zettled]]:
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[[Listened]]:
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[[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
- Quite a mind expanding listen. I think I’m starting to grasp it, and it’s more just getting used to new terminology than a particularly complicated concept, I think.
- Closed and open sounds like it could have interesting parallel to horizontal and vertical in organisational ecology.
- It’s unclear to me how anything in this theory applies to actually changing the world, but it’s either that it’s a case of better understanding the enemy in order to then figure out how to overthrow it, or simply that I haven’t clocked it yet.
- Ah fair enough at the end that question comes up and he says he has focused on description rather than alternative. Jan Groos points to some possible leftist similarities.
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[[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
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[[Data brokers]]. Vacuuming up your data, then asking you to opt out of them using it.
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I seem to be having the usual post fresh install snappiness, which is nice. Like I say everytime, I should do it more oftenโฆ
- I’ve gotten back up and running pretty quickly.
- The main thing I need to improve on is how I have slightly different config between my personal and work configs for Emacs, and I haven’t yet got a decent way of checking those changes in.
2026-05-17
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-17.md by @neil โ
2026-05-17
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[[Listened]]:
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[[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
- [[Critical systems theory]]. I haven’t understood half of what’s been said so far. But combining [[systems theory]] and [[critical theory]] sounds interesting.
- Traces systems theory line through [[Humberto Maturana]] and [[Francisco Varela]] to [[Niklas Luhmann]].
- Then I believe the idea is to address the absence of politics in Luhmann’s systems theory.
- [[autopoiesis]].
- Today in Focus: Outrage as oil giants profit billions from Iran war โ The Latest
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Today in Focus: What next for Labour as Reform wins big in local elections? โ The Latest
- Greens got a lot of the vote, but didn’t translate into a lot of seats. Reform targeted well so took a lot of the seats.
- [[Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus]], so this is bad newsโฆ
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[[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
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"According to the CPJ, Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalist killings around the world last year."
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for โฆ
- "The [[European Democracy Shield]] and the [[EU Strategy for Civil Society]] present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent media, a vibrant civil society and strong democratic institutions."
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Linux Distributions as Coops?
- [[Linux]] [[Cooperatives]].
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Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention
- "This document from the [[Metagov]] community has two goals. First, it identifies distinct layers of the [[AI stack]] that can be named and reimagined. Second, for each layer, it points to potential strategies, grounded in existing projects, that could steer that layer toward meaningful collective governance."
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Decolonizing Degrowth: Ecosocialist Alternatives to Green Colonialism and Uneโฆ
- "By engaging grassroots struggles and internationalist justice claims, the article outlines pathways for just [[ecosocialist transition]]s rooted in energy democracy, global redistribution, and relational ecological care."
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European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for โฆ
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[[Zettled]]:
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How does [[Reform UK]] use digital technology? How to counter it?
2026-05-15
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-15.md by @neil โ
2026-05-15
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Doing a fresh Linux install.
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Permanently low on space on my 256Gb drive for some reason, getting a bit sick of it.
- I blame Snap, Flatpak, nodemodules, and keeping a Windows 10 partition around for support purposes.
- Also on an old version of Mint, solely needed a distro upgrade anyway.
- But I’m in fact giving Zorin a go. Mainly to get a sense of whether it’s something worth recommending in the Repair Cafe.
- I will likely install Debian later for myself.
- So - let’s see how quick to install and get back to a state where I can do work again. Time to dig out the [[Setting up a new box]] notesโฆ
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Permanently low on space on my 256Gb drive for some reason, getting a bit sick of it.
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[[Notes on Zorin 18.1]].
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Some notes for amendments to my new box notesโฆ
- I need to add fish install to new box instructions.
- Use git ssh rather than https for git clone of private repos.
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spacemacs install is by far most time consuming step.
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bit annoying that you can’t leave it unattended - asks to install sqlite and vterm
- maybe you can?
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bit annoying that you can’t leave it unattended - asks to install sqlite and vterm
- why is my org repo so big?
- my dotfiles are now on codeberg
- it’s now nerd icons for icon fonts
2026-05-14
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-14.md by @neil โ
2026-05-14
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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The Explicit Manifesto of Digital Fascism: Palantir and the Alliance of Monopoly Capital with the Far Right
- "The [[Palantir manifesto]] is not merely a document from a tech company announcing its positions. It is a loud alarm bell that progressive forces must hear clearly: the battle over the future of technology is no longer lurking backstage. It has stepped into the open, announcing itself without shame. Those who delay in grasping this shift delay their entry into the most decisive arena of struggle in this century."
- [[Digital fascism]].
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The Capitalist Vision of Artificial Intelligence: Profit, Power, and Control
- "The current development of [[artificial intelligence]] cannot be understood merely as technical progress, it is part of a system of class domination through which major corporations and capitalist states seek to increase profits, concentrate wealth, and reproduce existing relations of production"
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The Leftist Alternative to Artificial Intelligence
- "This vision aims to liberate [[AI]] from the constraints of the capitalist market and redirect it toward serving all humanity, transforming it into a means to improve quality of life, free people from burdensome routine labor, and enhance human creativity in all areas."
- Reform faces questions over tech investor’s role in cost-cutting drive - BBC News
- Algorithmic politics: How Reform UK is leveraging TikTok in the next election
- How digital strategy helped shape Reform’s breakthrough | Millbank - Leading digital for global leaders
- AI-and-the-productivity-revolution.pdf
- Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch โ Byline Times
- Reform UK, Big Tech, and the Future of Online Safety in Britain
- A modern machine write-up - A-modern-machine-write-up.pdf
- Farage trying to avoid scrutiny over ยฃ5m gift from crypto billionaire, Labourโฆ
- Whatโs behind surge in support for Reform and Greens across England? Five keyโฆ
- How to survive the information crisis: โWe once talked about fake news โ now โฆ
- Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replaceโฆ
- โNigel is mad to accept his moneyโ: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery โฆ
- Main Page โ ibis.wiki
- AI as a Fascist Artifact
- Acting ethically in an imperfect world
- European Alternatives - Discover European & Open Source Software
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The Explicit Manifesto of Digital Fascism: Palantir and the Alliance of Monopoly Capital with the Far Right
2026-05-12
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-05-12.md by @flancian โ
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-12.md by @neil โ
2026-05-12
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[[Listened]]:
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[[Today in Focus: The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage]]
- Rich crypto guy has given tens of millions of pounds to Brexit Party and Reform over the years.
- Tether.
- Suspected motive: wants to be the ‘king of crypto’.
- Donates to parties that he feels most likely to be favourable to crypto.
- No link between his massive donations and any pro-crypto positions, of course.
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[[Today in Focus: The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage]]
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[[Bookmarked]]:
2026-05-11
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-11.md by @neil โ
2026-05-11
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It’s a shame that the end of Windows 10 is being capitalised on by Google to capture people to Chrome OS Flex.
- It’s a perfect opportunity for a little bit of technological liberation and a move to Linux.
- Rather than a jump from one Big Tech ecosystem to another.
2026-05-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-10.md by @neil โ
2026-05-10
2026-05-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-09.md by @neil โ
2026-05-09
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Reflecting upon the use cases of current AI, they feel mostly boil down to doing something you could feasibly have done before, but now you can do it faster, and yourself rather than needing help from others.
- I suppose that’s pretty much a description of all technology.
- So the question is do you really need to do it that fast? How come? At what cost? (As with all technology).
- If a technology can be used to increase emancipation, reduce toil, for all, without exploiting labour or nature, then good. If not, scrutiny is required.
- AI can reduce toil, the others seem uncertain.
2026-05-08
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-08.md by @neil โ
2026-05-08
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Jammed:
- [[Autechre - Piezo]]
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daniel.mp3 - green to blue
- Via: E
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Hania Rani - Alberto
- Emotive piano.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Read]]:
- [[Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street]]
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[[The left is missing out on AI]]
- Only skim read, but argument seems to be that left critique of AI is overly focused on the fact that LLMs don’t represent AGI.
- I don’t know if that’s true. I do agree that purely critiquing AI on it not being actually intelligent seems flawed.
- To describe LLMs as just a kind of fancy autocomplete seems a bit disingenous.
- To me, LLMs/GenAI seems like a quite remarkable technology but currently with remarkably [[authoritarian technics]].
- The question of whether they could ever have democratic/libertarian technics seems like a good debate to have.
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As I create more main notes, a graph view of constellations would become increasingly handy.
2026-05-07
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-07.md by @neil โ
2026-05-07
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[[Listened]]:
- [[Today in Focus: Why has the world lost sight of the suffering of Palestinians? โ The Latest]]
- [[Future Histories International: Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation]]
- [[Today in Focus: Big oil making $30m an hour from Iran war - The Latest]]
- [[Today in Focus: George Monbiot on our fragile food system]]
- [[The Louis Theroux Podcast: S7 EP4: Stewart Lee on "Netflix comediansโ, disastrous gigs, and Elon Musk"]]
- [[Today in Focus: Metaโs AI glasses and the dawn of wearable tech]]
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I didn’t listen to all of those today, I’ve copied them out of my recent listen history from [[AntennaPod]].
- Unfortunately it doesn’t tell you which day you listened to it.
2026-05-06
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-06.md by @neil โ
2026-05-06
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[[Zettled]]:
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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A benefit of ‘writing in public’, via a digital garden / zettelkasten, is that, if you cared, it would be fairly easy to audit that the writing has been constructed by a human.
- You could trace the journey of bookmarks -> reference notes -> main notes -> structure notes -> posts.
- Especially if there’s some kind of version control (via wiki software or a git repo).
2026-05-04
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-04.md by @neil โ
2026-05-04
2026-05-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-03.md by @neil โ
2026-05-03
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[[Read]]:
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[[Zettled]]:
- [[Change brought through parliamentary politics tends to be slow, incremental, and easily reversible]].
- [[The second Iraq War was exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
- [[The financial crisis of 2008 was exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
- [[Climate disasters are exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
- [[We must intervene informed by a map of how things are and how our intervention can shape them productively]]
- [[Systems thinking is helpful for political transition]]
2026-05-02
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-02.md by @neil โ
2026-05-02
2026-05-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-05-01.md by @neil โ
2026-05-01
2026-04-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-30.md by @flancian โ
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Noding from work? Is such a thing even possible?
- Yeah.
- I haven’t been writing as much in the Agora as of late, and I think one of the factors (not the only one) is that I actually broke my web editing when I made web editing possible for hosted Agora users :) (as my garden is not really hosted in that sense).
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-30.md by @neil โ
2026-04-30
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Published:
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Get ready for Orgy in 15 minutes โ Bastien Guerry
- "Orgy is a static website generator for [[Org]] files."
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Get ready for Orgy in 15 minutes โ Bastien Guerry
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Zettled:
- [[The shock doctrine for the left contains elements of smashing, building, healing and taming]].
- [[The direction our world takes in moments of chaos is defined by the ideas and institutions that are already available]].
- [[The left should take disruptive actions to create chaos as points of leverage for system change]].
2026-04-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-28.md by @neil โ
2026-04-28
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[[Listened]]:
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[[Looks Like New: What is the future of digital capitalism?]]
- Interview with [[Nick Srnicek]] mostly around [[Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI]].
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Starts with a handy little summary (for me) of AI since 2012.
- Deep learning, transformer model, then basically just scaling up of that.
- Mentions [[Collective Intelligence Project]] as something exploring leftist potentials for AI.
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[[Looks Like New: What is the future of digital capitalism?]]
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[[Zettled]]:
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It’s time to start latest Emacs Carnival post, cutting it fine 2 days before end of month as usual :D
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Wrote:
2026-04-26
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-26.md by @neil โ
2026-04-26
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[[Zettled]]:
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I’m finding doing Zettelkasten-y things, particulary as outlined in [[A System for Writing]], very useful.
- And, most importantly, resulting in me publishing more writing (see [[my blog posts]]).
- I do have a slight concern at the back of my mind that it’s making my digital garden less interesting to navigate around for an external party. I think there’s something to be said for dishevelled narrative over tidy structure.
- The idea though is that the narrative moves to the blog posts, so, as long as they are discoverable, hopefully it’s a net gain.
- Will keep it in mind.
2026-04-25
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-25.md by @flancian โ
- We woke up in at Kirsty’s place and had a lovely morning, then walked through Zรผrich and came visit Lady Burup :)
- [[KM]] told me about [[Leรณn Blum]].
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-25.md by @neil โ
2026-04-25
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Wrote:
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[[Zettled]]:
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[[Read:]]
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I set up [[Anagora]] as a bang provider in [[WebLibre]].
- I like using Anagora for searching topics.
- It surfaces any notes I might have made about the past on something.
- I also see anything my friends and comrades might have written about the topic.
- Then I can fall back to Wikipedia and web search if I want more.
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[[Listened]]:
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[[Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo]]
- Digital dependency is the opposite of digital sovereignty.
- The US uses digital dependency on its Big Tech as a lever in trade negotiations.
- The US constitutes most of Big Tech.
- Public sector should be the first realm to adopt sovereign tech alternatives.
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[[Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo]]
2026-04-24
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-24.md by @neil โ
2026-04-24
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[[Zettled]]:
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[[Read]]:
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[[]]
- Skimming through, the notion of digital disruptions and leverage is good, right on point for me right now.
- The analysis of where leverage might best be applied also looks useful.
- The proposed tactics seem quite tame and reformist however.
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[[]]
2026-04-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-23.md by @neil โ
2026-04-23
2026-04-22
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-22.md by @flancian โ
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#push [[CWG]]
- [[Social.coop concerns]] meeting
- Yikes!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-22.md by @neil โ
2026-04-22
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Jammed:
- The Sight Below - Dour
- Gescom - Key Nell 3
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[[Read]]:
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[[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]
- Defines [[technocapitalism]].
- Evolution of industrial capitalism to beyond just the material to incorporate knowledge.
- Similarish analysis to [[platform capitalism]], [[Vectoralism]], [[technofeudalism]], etc.
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[[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]
2026-04-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-21.md by @flancian โ
- I worked, I felt tired through the day again (maybe a sequel of the virus I got ~10d back) but made it through and then I saw [[KM]] :)
- I went to [[Bitwรคscherei]] at the end of the night and the commons was lively and inspiring as usual!
- I continued doing [[Agora development]], which after all is my passion, and drank tea and typed away until about midnight.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-21.md by @neil โ
2026-04-21
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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BrowserGate
- "[[Microsoft]] is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedInโs one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to [[LinkedIn]]โs servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm."
- Ugo
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BrowserGate
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[[Read]]:
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[[Barbells]]
- I used to really enjoy reading Gordon Brander. I still do, to be fair. Very knowledgeable and engaging.
- But you could not find a more depressing pivot - the trajectory from building tools for collective knowledge commoning to bunkering down into an awful AI-fuelled individualism is a sad tale of our times, I think.
- It’s The Road for the LLM era.
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[[Barbells]]
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Thatcherism, 2026: There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and their families of agents.
2026-04-20
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-20.md by @neil โ
2026-04-20
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Global PC Shipments Grow 3.2% YoY in Q1 2026 on Pre-emptive Buying Before Memory-led Price Increases
- "The growth was fueled by two key drivers โ pre-emptive buying before memory-led price increases hit the retail level, and the necessary hardware refreshes caused by the termination of Windows 10 support."
- [[global memory shortage crisis]] / [[Windows 10 end-of-life]]
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France is ditching Windows for digital sovereignty - and its new Linux stack is taking shape
- "France’s government is switching from Windows to a Linux desktop. The desktop will be based on the police Linux distro, [[GendBuntu]]. The distro includes France’s own suite of open-source desktop programs."
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Global PC Shipments Grow 3.2% YoY in Q1 2026 on Pre-emptive Buying Before Memory-led Price Increases
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I’m trying to recognise digital shocks, to see how are playing out in relation to resilience and transition. To learn from that for future shocks.
- The global memory shortage crisis is a digital shock.
- Windows 10 end-of-life is a digital shock.
- The onset of AI is a digital shock.
2026-04-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-19.md by @flancian โ
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-19.md by @neil โ
2026-04-19
2026-04-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-18.md by @flancian โ
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-18.md by @neil โ
2026-04-18
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[[Read]]:
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[[What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?]]
- Helpful definitions of authoritarianism, fascism, digital democracy and resilience.
- In terms of how to do things differently, lots of overlaps with other programmes I’ve looked at for reclaim the stacks.
- It’d be good pull it in properly to that analysis.
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"resilient democracy especially matters in situations of multiple crises"
- Seems adjacent to the left having a shock doctrine.
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[[What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?]]
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Blog post idea - something to do with crises, shocks, resilient democracy, shock doctrine of the left, based on reading Fuchs article.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism
- "we need to identify the roots of the problem in order to conceive radically [[anti-capitalist]] perspectives, rather than lose ourselves in reforms or try to take control of [[capitalist technology]]"
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Exchange, obligation, accountability: Moral orders of technology repair in Kampala, Uganda
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"developed the concept of moral orders of [[repair]], defining it as the norms, rules, values, and expectations that support and structure practice, exchange, and collaboration in everyday repair worlds and beyond"
- Via: someone on social.coop
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"developed the concept of moral orders of [[repair]], defining it as the norms, rules, values, and expectations that support and structure practice, exchange, and collaboration in everyday repair worlds and beyond"
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Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism
2026-04-16
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-16.md by @neil โ
2026-04-16
2026-04-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-13.md by @neil โ
2026-04-13
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After soaring 2,200%, DDR4 RAM prices finally fall โ but don’t get too excited
- "We’ve witnessed another hint that the RAM crisis is deescalating โ at least a touch โ along with an interesting move by the Korean government to try to protect consumers from the worst excesses of PC component price hikes."
- [[global memory shortage crisis]]
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Old public PCs for vulnerable groups amid chip price surge
- "[[South Korea]] will increase the reuse of computers previously used by public agencies and expand support programs for vulnerable groups in response to rising prices of semiconductors"
- [[global memory shortage crisis]]
- โComputers are no longer a bicycle for the mindโ: Frameworks founder says the Steve Jobs era is over and PCs are now a โself-driving car that takes you directly to the destinationโ
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Googleโs Free Windows PC Upgrade OfferโMillions Must Act Before Deadline
- "Google has simplified this with โa new ChromeOS Flex USB Kit," available through its partnership with Back Market to โhelp you install our fast, secure and free operating system.โ"
- According to this article, uptake of BackMarket’s ChromeOS Flex USBs (as a means to come off Windows 10) has been ‘huge’ and now sold out. Disappointed they chose to push Flex rather than Linux.
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Report - A repair voucher scheme for London: an overview of different models and their potential impact
- "This report summarises research exploring the feasibility of a regional [[repair voucher scheme for London]] that covers both textiles and electricals and electronics by examining the possible delivery models, enabling conditions, and the benefits of such a scheme."
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Resistance in the data-driven society
- "This essay explores the possibility of individual and collective resistance vis-ร -vis datafication, drawing on examples from across the globe. It shows how infrastructure, political agency, and tactics have changed in response to datafication. It reviews six resistance tactics, distinguishing between โdefensive resistanceโ and โproductive resistanceโ: self-defence, subversion, avoidance, literacy, counter-imagination, and advocacy campaigning. Investigating them offers insights on the ability of social actors to contribute to innovation in mobilising practices amidst intrusive surveillance."
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What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?
- "the paper introduces a holistic approach to resilient digital democracy that spans environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural domains, and advances strategies such as public-commons digital infrastructures, platform co-operatives, public service Internet platforms, free/libre open source software (FLOSS), participatory innovations, and hybrid offline/online democratic practices"
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Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies
- "Drawing on traditions of the [[social and solidarity economy]], free and open-source cultures, and feminist and decolonial technoscience, the special issue explores how communities across the world build [[technological sovereignty]] from below"
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After soaring 2,200%, DDR4 RAM prices finally fall โ but don’t get too excited
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[[Zettled]]:
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Structured:
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Wrote:
2026-04-12
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-12.md by @neil โ
2026-04-12
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[[Read]]:
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[[Working with the end in sight]]
- Interesting critique of Zettelkasten.
- Gist is: just take reference notes and use search; abstracting out atomic ideas into reusable pieces is unnecessary friction.
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[[Working with the end in sight]]
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Digital Fascism and Digital Capitalism
- "theorises [[digital fascism]] as a contemporary form of right-wing authoritarianism rooted in capitalism and reorganised through digital infrastructures."
- [[tripleC]] newsletter
- Keep Android Open
-
With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy
- "This might make your phone a little safer, sure, but it wonโt stop people from getting scammed. At the same time, it could rob the [[Android]] ecosystem of what made it special in the first place."
-
Digital Fascism and Digital Capitalism
2026-04-11
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-11.md by @flancian โ
-
I’m still sick but [[KM]] came over and we did a short bike ride to a Greek cafe nearby I didn’t know about and spent some time together and with [[Lady Burup]], it was great!
- We lighted a grungy [[candle]] I made long ago.
- [[social coop]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-11.md by @neil โ
2026-04-11
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[[Zettled]]:
-
Ecosocialism would clearly make use of a [[Multi-criterial economy]].
-
[[Future Histories International: Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life]]
2026-04-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-10.md by @flancian โ
- [[tet]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-10.md by @neil โ
2026-04-10
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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โThe era of invincibility is overโ: the week big tech was brought to heel
- "Ruling that [[Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products]] marks possible watershed moment for social media"
-
โThe era of invincibility is overโ: the week big tech was brought to heel
-
[[Zettled]]:
2026-04-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-09.md by @neil โ
2026-04-09
-
[[Read]]:
-
[[Why You Should Buy a Laptop Now - The Looming Supply Chain Crisis of 2026.]]
- A bad take on the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
- Counterpoint: No, don’t ‘buy a laptop now’. Do what you can to keep the one you already have lasting longer.
-
[[Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis and the Potential Impact on the Smartphone and PC Markets in 2026]]
- Background to the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
-
[[Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles]]
- An example of [[software obsolescence]] and [[premature obsolescence]].
- You might be tempted to resist via jailbreaking and installing [[koreader]], and trying to dedrm your books via [[Calibre]], or just re-download via [[Z-Library]].
-
[[Why You Should Buy a Laptop Now - The Looming Supply Chain Crisis of 2026.]]
-
[[Listened]]:
-
[[Beyond Capitalism II]]
- More details on Benanav’s plan.
-
[[Beyond Capitalism II]]
2026-04-08
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-08.md by @flancian โ
2026-04-07
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-07.md by @flancian โ
- [[in memoriam]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-07.md by @neil โ
2026-04-07
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[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
- "environmentalists and socialists will need to recognize their common struggle and how that connects with the broader โmovement of movementsโ seeking a Great Transition."
- Google Scholar alert
-
We just released the industry’s first ever nature report.
-
"Businesses need to start seeing [[biodiversity loss]] as a core business risk. We need to think beyond just lowering emissions"
- Via: [[Fairphone]] newsletter
-
"Businesses need to start seeing [[biodiversity loss]] as a core business risk. We need to think beyond just lowering emissions"
-
Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
2026-04-06
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-06.md by @flancian โ
- [[Stapelberg]] told me about [[MQTT]], classic pubsub that works (tm)! Nice.
- [[Jonas]] told me about [[Lissajous curves]]!
- [[EC 2026]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-06.md by @neil โ
2026-04-06
2026-04-05
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-04-05.md by @flancian โ
- I had a great long weekend so far with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and friends!
- Met [[June]], [[MS]] and other friends on Friday.
- We biked a lot with [[KM]] and it was great :)
- Then tonight I came over to [[ZW]] ~ [[ZWZ]] with [[MS]]
- [[digital garden]]
- [[tailscale]]
2026-04-04
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-04.md by @neil โ
2026-04-04
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
- "a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a [[collaborative zettelkasten]]"
- [[Bob Doto]]‘s website
-
How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
-
[[Read]]:
-
I’m going to experiment with refactoring some of my overstuffed concept notes.
- Into smaller main notes, hub notes, and structure notes.
- I think I’ll start with [[ecosocialism]] and [[digital ecosocialism]].
- [[Refactoring some of the notes in my garden]].
2026-04-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-03.md by @neil โ
2026-04-03
-
[[Read]]:
-
[[Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes]]
- On crafting [[main note]]s in [[zettelkasten]].
- The description of different [[types of information]] might be helpful.
- As a way of avoiding calling every main note a ‘claim’ - which is kind of what I’ve been doing, insofar as I’ve been doing zettelkasten.
-
[[Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes]]
2026-04-02
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-04-02.md by @neil โ
2026-04-02
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
- "The โ[[Germany Stack]]โ is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination with European partners and to be implemented entirely as [[Free Software]], since only the four freedoms enable [[digital sovereignty]]."
-
Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
- "weโll zoom in on the [[main note]] itself: a brief look at its components, followed by thoughts on how to craft the primary unit of information it contains, and how to reinforce it with additional information"
-
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
-
I am doing a bit of a rejig to my site.
- I’m deprecating the WordPress side of things and moving those bits to Emacs/org.
- WordPress has served me very well for the ‘stream’ side of my online presence in the past, but I don’t have the time or need to use WordPress right now.
- So I’ve set https://doubleloop.net to currently redirect straight to https://commonplace.doubleloop.net.
- Commonplace I’ve always referred to as my digital garden, but it also contains elements of the stream, and long-form articles, within it.
- I’ll make those a bit more easily discoverable.
2026-03-31
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-31.md by @neil โ
2026-03-31
2026-03-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-30.md by @neil โ
2026-03-30
2026-03-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-29.md by @neil โ
2026-03-29
-
[[Read]]:
-
[[Is capitalism dead?]]:
- About [[the end of capitalism]].
- Unfortunately, it’s all about the end of capitalism in the bad sense - of it being replaced with something worse.
- Surveys [[McKenzie Wark]] and [[Capital is Dead]], Varoufakis and [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]], Mason and [[Post-capitalism]].
- Also [[Wolfgang Streeck]] and [[Richard Westra]] and [[Karen Hao]] who I had not come across before.
-
[[Is capitalism dead?]]:
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
The rise of end times fascism
- "The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them"
- [[Is capitalism dead?]]
-
The rise of end times fascism
-
Wrote:
- Going to start writing latest [[Emacs Carnival]] post today.
- [[Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions]]
-
Seen a couple mentions of [[Readeck]] lately.
- Someone recommending it over [[Wallabag]].
2026-03-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-28.md by @neil โ
2026-03-28
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Think You’re Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
- "a tool to help organizations figure out where they stand when it comes to [[digital sovereignty]]."
- It’s Foss newsletter
-
Is capitalism dead?
- "it is now easier to imagine [[the end of capitalism]] than the end of the world"
-
Digital Colonialism, Ecological Crisis and the Limits of Techno-Primitivism
- "examines the intertwined dynamics of [[ecological crisis]], [[digitalisation]], and [[techno-primitivism]] through a genealogical and syncretic lens."
- [[tripleC]] mailing list
-
Think You’re Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
2026-03-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-27.md by @neil โ
2026-03-27
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
How the left can win back the internet โ and rise again
- "how infighting has ripped [[the left]] apart online while the right has flourished โ and how some progressives are turning the tide"
- The Guardian newsletter
-
What technology takes from us โ and how to take it back
- "Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out โ but itโs going to take collective effort"
-
modal.cx
- "Modal is a new independent collective Building [[emancipatory software]] for an uncertain world"
-
How the left can win back the internet โ and rise again
-
I wonder whether I should use for example Betula for my bookmarks.
- Maybe, maybe not. I’ll think about what the benefits might be.
- But I’m fine with them living messily in my garden for now.
2026-03-26
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-03-26.md by @flancian โ
- [[Straight as an arrow]] -> [[Straight like an arrow]]
2026-03-25
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-25.md by @neil โ
2026-03-25
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
A World First: Community Wealth Building legislation in Scotland
- "The [[Community wealth building]] agenda in Scotland might be growing, but incoming legislation will solidify gains and ensure that activity is not done in isolation"
- web search
-
The Library of Things Toolkit (2.0)
- "This expanded guide will help you plan, start, and grow a [[Library of Things]] in your community."
- [[Shareable]] newsletter
-
A World First: Community Wealth Building legislation in Scotland
-
[[Systemic change is a combination of reformist, alternative-building and revolutionary logics]].
2026-03-22
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-03-22.md by @flancian โ
2026-03-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-21.md by @neil โ
2026-03-21
-
[[Listened]]: [[Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance]]
- The book sounds like a great contribution - very hands on ideas and practice for transition from people who fully understand the bigger picture.
- Plenty of [[commoning]] talk and I’m happy that all the to see the [[commons-public partnerships]] stuff from [[Free, Fair and Alive]] and [[DisCO]]s here in another light.
2026-03-20
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-20.md by @neil โ
2026-03-20
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Popular Protagonism in Venezuelaโs Transition to Socialism: A Conversation with Michael Liebowitz
- "[[socialism]] involves people transforming themselves"
- search for [[popular protagonism]]
-
Popular Protagonism in Venezuelaโs Transition to Socialism: A Conversation with Michael Liebowitz
2026-03-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-19.md by @neil โ
2026-03-19
2026-03-16
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-03-16.md by @flancian โ
-
[[Work]] is… tough but interesting/exciting/interesting?
- This applies to the node as well, in particular its [[Agora context]].
-
Which reminds me I wanted to rename [[Full search]] -> [[Agora search]] in the UI :)
- And led me to do some work on demo mode plus onboardig experience with Gemini :)
2026-03-14
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-03-14.md by @flancian โ
-
We went to the [[Velobรถrse]] with [[KM]] and we got a nice bike for a good price! It was great.
- It was quite cold and rainy and we felt so-so physically at several times in the day but it’s been a beautiful weekend so far!
- We reunited with [[Lady Burup]] around 2PM.
- I did some work for G, sending out a document for review, and it felt great.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-14.md by @neil โ
2026-03-14
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street
- "Here the relationship between the Moroccan experience and the concept of โ[[the electronic left]] and electronic struggleโ is manifest, where a tangible social dimension meets a technological-organizational one to produce a new form of political action"
-
Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street
2026-03-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-13.md by @neil โ
2026-03-13
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Ecosocialism at the Limits of Capitalism: The Climate Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
- "analyzes the [[climate politics]] of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) as a diagnostic case for the structural limitations facing [[eco-socialist]] movements under capitalism"
- Google Scholar alerts
-
Ecosocialism at the Limits of Capitalism: The Climate Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
2026-03-12
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-03-12.md by @flancian โ
2026-03-11
2026-03-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-10.md by @neil โ
2026-03-10
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants | Transnational Institute
- "[[Silicon Valley]] has thrown much of its support behind [[Trump]] for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions"
- [[Transnational Institute]] newsletter
-
The Digital Tech Broligarchyโs Interest in Left-Wing Science Fiction: A Critical Reading of the Culture of Techno-Libertarianism
- "A slew of recent articles has asked what the connection might be between right-wing libertarian [[Silicon Valley]] billionaires and left-wing [[science fiction]]"
- [[tripleC]] mailing list
-
The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants | Transnational Institute
2026-03-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-09.md by @neil โ
2026-03-09
-
I am finding the performance of [[Thunderbird]] to be terrible.
- Connecting it to Zoho Mail via IMAP.
- I’m just going through my inbox and deleting emails and it regularly takes a CPU to 100%.
- Might try Betterbirdโฆ but will just stick with the webmail for this for now. Something clearly not right when a webapp is performing better than a desktop app.
2026-03-08
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-03-08.md by @flancian โ
- Great Saturday!
- We had a great morning and went to the gym with [[KM]] and then I took a nap with [[Lady Burup]] and met [[VK]], then…
- I met [[Claudia]] and [[Andreas]] at [[KM]]‘s home for dinner and then we went to their flat and to [[ZW]], it was great.
-
I also found a note of interest in [[ZW]], and when I turned it around I found:
- [[Urs + Miranda]]
- [[Gaudi Labs]]
- [[Agora demo]] :)
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-08.md by @neil โ
2026-03-08
-
In the absence of time to do much in the way of [[knowledge commoning]] at present, I figure the least I can do is more consistently share my bookmarks.
- A small contribution, but still better than them sitting privately locally.
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey _ What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
- "In The Story of Capital, the world’s foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism"
- [[Christian Fuchs]]
-
THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey _ What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
2026-03-07
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-07.md by @neil โ
2026-03-07
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Mapping the Red-Green Future: A Theoretical Analysis of the Works of James OโConnor, Joel Kovel, and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
- "a critically important foundation for advancing interdisciplinary research that integrates Marxism (red) and ecology (green)"
- Google Scholar Alerts
-
Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
- "how we can export our existing org-roam notes to Markdown, which can then be served by a static-site generator like Hugo or Quartz"
- [[Emacs News]]
-
Migrating website to orgmode
- "port the website over to orgmode, simplify the css, and bring it over to a new host"
- [[Emacs News]]
-
Ollama Buddy - Web Search Integration
- "fetching current information from the web and injecting it into your conversation context"
- [[Emacs News]]
-
Mapping the Red-Green Future: A Theoretical Analysis of the Works of James OโConnor, Joel Kovel, and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
2026-03-06
2026-03-04
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-03-04.md by @flancian โ
- "[[I’m just a curious guy]]…"
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-04.md by @neil โ
2026-03-04
-
[[Listened]]:
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Beyond Capitalism
- "If there is ever to be a left break beyond the current political impasseโthe liberal-capitalist establishment locked in a wrestlerโs embrace with the ultra-capitalist rightโit will ultimately require the elaboration of an economic system [[beyond capitalism]] itself."
- [[This Machine Kills]]
-
Beyond Capitalism
2026-03-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-03.md by @neil โ
2026-03-03
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Ripple Effect
- "Communicational expertise, practical tools, honest analysis of earth system collapse and technological chaos to help social movements win the day"
-
Ripple Effect
2026-03-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-03-01.md by @neil โ
2026-03-01
-
Managed to submit a post for the February carnival: [[Emacs Carnival: Completion]]
- Quite a rush, but I learned a lot in the process.
2026-02-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-28.md by @flancian โ
-
Of any assertion, it can be asked: is it
-
[[True to self]]?
- Which self?
-
[[True to self]]?
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-02-28.md by @neil โ
2026-02-28
- Now that I’ve got Emacs back up and running on my phone, I can try and get an entry in for the February Emacs Carnival.
2026-02-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-02-27.md by @neil โ
2026-02-27
-
I had to get a new phone, as my Pixel 5a spontaneously bricked itself.
- I got a [[Fairphone 6]].
- I usually get second hand or refurbished phones, but here’s [[My rationale for getting a Fairphone 6]].
-
Going through the process of getting things set up on a new phone.
- My notes in my digital garden are massively helpful for this. Well done past self!
- They’re a bit scattered though - I’ll try and update them into one page about it..
-
Trying out Vulpea.
2026-02-26
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-26.md by @flancian โ
The things you don't write are left unwritten
The things you don't say, unsaid
The things you don't show, unseen
For how long, maybe?
Until when?
2026-02-24
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-24.md by @flancian โ
- We had such a beautiful day with [[KM]]! And [[Lady Burup]].
- We went to the gym together for the first time in the morning, and then did a great walk through Zรผrich hopping from coffee place to coffee place and enjoying the [[sunshine]].
- Yesterday: [[2026-02-23]]
2026-02-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-23.md by @flancian โ
Algรบn dรญa, algรบn dรญa
Algรบn dรญa haremos la revoluciรณn
Pero si no ahora, cuรกndo?
The things you don't say are left unsaid
The things you don't write unwritten
Until one day, maybe?
Las cosas que vimos:
Sucederรกn, sucederรกnโฆ
Lo que dijimos:
Sucederรก, sucederรกโฆ
Las jaras!
Las jaras, quรฉ jaras?
Las de Avalokiteshvara
Las de Maitreya
Y Tara...
Tare tuttare ture
Tuttare tuttare ture
Soha
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-02-23.md by @neil โ
2026-02-23
2026-02-22
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-02-22.md by @neil โ
2026-02-22
2026-02-14
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-02-14.md by @neil โ
2026-02-14
2026-02-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-10.md by @flancian โ
- [[stony caramel]]
2026-02-08
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-08.md by @flancian โ
-
Noding this in my new laptop [[avalokiteshvara]] while visiting [[ZWZ]] :)
- Last visit before going on a trip, likely starting on Tuesday night.
- Earlier this weekend I spent time with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and it was wonderful, even though I woke up with a headache (hopefully the last in this cluster) on Saturday morning.
2026-02-07
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-07.md by @flancian โ
- 7 ~ [[Avalokiteshvara]] in the [[Flancia]] pattern language :)
- Had a great day with [[KM]]! Despite sleeping little and waking up with a strong headache again — unsure at this point if it’s viral or what is called a [[cluster headache]].
- [[Zรผriberg]]
- [[Intuit]]
- [[Fondue]]
- [[caramel city]]
2026-02-05
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-05.md by @flancian โ
- [[Oh fuck]]
- [[caramel city]]
2026-02-02
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-02.md by @flancian โ
- [[Work]] was interesting despite being still half sick.
- [[Social.coop]] was great, we finally shipped [[1k characters limit]] after long! \o/
- [[Collected Poetry]] after long!
2026-02-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-02-01.md by @flancian โ
-
Back noding!
- I’m writing this in [[Bitwรคscherei]]. The [[Agora]] is being demoed live for the first time! And I’ve met lots of cool people as usual :)
- I spent Friday and Saturday with [[KM]] and it was great despite our health not being tip top at times :)
- I feel more than lucky; right now, [[blessed]].
- Work has been fine actually; I was oncall this week and was sick two days but I pushed through and felt quite at ease despite sleeping too little.
-
[[Las Jaras]] was special as expected!
- I threw [[7]] * [[2^9]] over five dice, notable.
- [[2063]] made an appearance
- I ran [[collect]] after planning to for long and it felt cathartic! The [[chaos stack]] which was a bunch of literal back of the envelopes going back to 2024 was reviewed/distilled into a notebook and thus can be put away (or, as indicated in some of the envelopes as intention, [[burnt]].)
- Came after [[2026-01-31]]
- Saw [[Koch]]! And [[Aaron]] and many others.
-
[[return]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQIxUfYw98
- maybe during the week with [[KM]]? :)
2026-01-31
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-01-31.md by @flancian โ
-
[[Las Jaras]]!
- We were not completely healthy, [[KM]] and me currently, but I enjoyed living these days together!
- I was home until midnight with [[KM]] (who went home in the afternoon) and [[Lady Burup]] and then went to [[Zentralwรคscherei]] and I loved it.
- I ran some [[collect]] I had planned for long (more about this tomorrow…).
- I updated the [[moodboard]].
- And coded and enjoyed!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-01-31.md by @neil โ
2026-01-31
-
Trying to finish off [[Emacs Carnival: This year I’llโฆ]] today.
- Last day to submit!
-
[[Adding shortcuts for entering email addresses in Heliboard]]
2026-01-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-01-19.md by @flancian โ
- Back to noding!
- Fixed a security vulnerability (to spam) in the Agora.
2026-01-17
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-01-17.md by @neil โ
2026-01-17
- Went to the webinar [[Revisiting The Innovation Delusion โ Conversation with Andrew Russell]] held by [[The Maintainers]].
2026-01-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-01-13.md by @flancian โ
- I met [[Omega Attraktor]] again today in [[ZW]]! Nice to see them, looking forward to listening to their music.
- Work after the break started fine actually, even though today I didn’t sleep that well for some reason I still had enough energy to go through the first meeting-packed day.
2026-01-11
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Noding, #noding, [[noding]]…
- I don’t know precisely how well the streak is going but I’m happy to be back noding at least a bit every day, most days :)
- Personal life is going beautifully, there was a small setback with a health issue affecting a loved one but things are looking up now!
- My trip to [[Napoli]] with friends was amazing.
- It was beautiful to be reunited with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]!
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I found [[I don’t want my tool to tell me how to think]] very interesting, thank you [[@scalingsynthesis]]!
- It also inspired me to fix some longstanding Agora bugs with [[canonical wikilinks]] (what we render in [[Agora Server]]…
2026-01-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-01-09.md by @flancian โ
2026-01-08
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-01-08.md by @flancian โ
- Back home!
- And back journaling, I will try to start a one week streak today :)
- [[Napoli]]
- [[Lady Burup]]
- [[Experimentos]]
2026-01-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2026-01-03.md by @neil โ
2026-01-03
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[[Org Social]] has strong [[IndieWeb]] vibes.
- P2P, host on your own site, etc.
- I think it relies more on relays though. I don’t think you could directly mention someone like you would with a webmention.
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I also like that you choose an emoji for reactions, rather than a generic like. Like [[CTZN]] did it.
- I think that’s a good way to allow reactions while avoiding algorithm pandering.
2026-01-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2026-01-01.md by @flancian โ
- Happy new year to all!
- Started the year with friends and loved ones at home; then saw fireworks together from [[Kaferberg]]; then went to [[Zentralwรคscherei]] and greeted cool and interesting people.
2025-12-31
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journals/2025-12-31.md by @j0lms โ
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Moved out successfully
- Had to do a bunch of renovations in the room, but now it’s quite cozy
- Do miss the birds hanging out in the window of the old place
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Finally settled on a [[komorebi]] config
- Tiling window managers rock!
- Altho they really don’t play well with some apps like game launchers and such
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Happy new years!
- Obligatory resolution to make more nodes [[?]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-12-31.md by @neil โ
2025-12-31
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I was trying to set up [[Org Social]].
- As per the post [[Emacs Carnival: The people of Emacs]], I think it’ll be a good way to be more active in the Emacs community.
- But it requires Emacs 30.1.
- I’m only on Emacs 29.
- Upgrade ahoy!
2025-12-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-30.md by @flancian โ
- [[Berni]] me hizo recordar que quiero convencer a los PMs de Meet para que agreguen un feature en el tier gratuito.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-12-30.md by @neil โ
2025-12-30
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I learned about grease.el via [[Emacs News]].
- Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
- Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
- I just tried it, and it’s perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam’s addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works. (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven’t changed it).
- With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated! Neat.
- I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames. Some people seem to prefer it that way. But I really don’t like filenames being used to store meta information.
2025-12-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-29.md by @flancian โ
- [[free instruments]]
- I worked from home; spent time with [[Lady Burup]]; played [[Minecraft]] with [[bouncepaw]]; then did grocery shopping for New Years and went to [[KM]]‘s place.
2025-12-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-28.md by @flancian โ
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What a great start to the day in [[Bitwรคscherei]], and then what a beautiful day at home with Burup!
- Coded, wrote, talked with my mum, played with Burup, and just generally tried to flow.
2025-12-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-27.md by @flancian โ
- I had a lovely walk with [[AG]] today and a quick dinner, and then went to [[Zentralwรคscherei]].
2025-12-26
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-26.md by @flancian โ
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Met:
- Some cool people on the rooftop of [[Zentralwรคscherei]], including a girl named something like [[Katja]] and her two cool friends.
- [[Moritz]] after midnight in [[Bitwรคscherei]].
- I also saw [[Marc]] and [[Aaron]] after long!
- I’m so glad I came back to [[SGMK]] finally; it just kept slipping because of work and commitments, it seems I needed a long weekend to get pressing things done and reboot priorities :)
- Then slept ~6h roughly from 6am to 12am and woke up rested enough :)
- Played [[Minecraft]] with [[KI]] and it was great!
- Then flowed.
- Ran again into [[What is Life?]] by [[Schrรถdinger]], decided to actually locate a URL where I could read it.
- [[Feynman x 3]]
2025-12-25
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-25.md by @flancian โ
- Very nice day at home with Burup :)
- Ended up working 8h on projects and making good progress, which felt great! Pretty much as planned.
- Then in the evening I went back to [[Bitwรคscherei]]/[[SGMK]] after long and it felt great as well, I hadn’t been back much since April (?) because of travel/work/personal life and my under-prioritizing. I intend to come back more often now!
- [[2025-12-26]]
2025-12-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-18.md by @flancian โ
- Skipped a few? But I’ve been having fun you could say.
- Work is finally calming down as we go into the [[prod freeze]]! Looking forward.
- Feeling quite free, relieved of burdens.
- Worried about some health issues in the family, but staying optimistic and trying to value what we have.
2025-12-15
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-15.md by @flancian โ
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I just thought of [[suffering]] and what would amount to [[rational suffering]].
- Think of the suffering of the beings that die to feed others: some of that suffering is justified inasmuch it enables other conscious beings to subsist and negotiate ethical [[tradeoffs]] of their own.
- When it is kept to a minimum, of course, we seem to arrive at the ethical optimum.
- Think of worms getting grown and harvested for feed, but also of the beautiful bird hunted by the cat and the fish who die in the nets of [[fisherpeople]].
- See also: [[trolley science]].
- I also worked and planned the week and did [[Agora]].
- Two days of Agora journaling in a row? Is such a thing even possible? :)
2025-12-14
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-14.md by @flancian โ
- I finally finished the migration from ‘main’ to ‘master’ for the Agora root, belatedly :)
- I had a great day on [[2025-12-13]] with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]. Thank you!
- New Agora signup! Welcome [[@matthieuG]] :)
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I did some [[Agora development]] with Gemini and made what felt like surprising progress on two of the main December objectives:
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[[Easier signups]].
- Completed: ‘join with your git repo’ now exists as a form, talks to [[agora server]] and that talks to the (privileged) [[agora bridge]].
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[[Federation++]]
- Completed: send /latest subnodes per user to followers we know of.
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[[Easier signups]].
2025-12-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-13.md by @flancian โ
- A lovely Saturday with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] at home. Relaxing and interesting. With [[KM]] we did a nice walk in Zรผrich in the cold weather, knowing it will just keep getting colder.
- The week was pretty brutal at work (3x presentations, 2x reviews, plus planning and some ad hoc meetingsd) — it feels great now that it’s in the past though. I feel I ‘survived’ the last tricky week of the work year; things should quiet down from now on as people start going into holidays mode.
2025-12-07
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-12-07.md by @neil โ
2025-12-07
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Christmas 10k run 2025.
- Completed!
- My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].
2025-12-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-12-03.md by @neil โ
2025-12-03
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I should check out [[org-gtd]].
- From a quick first glance, it looks like a formalised way of doing much of what I’m already doing.
- So it could be quite useful.
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I’m wary of two things though:
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Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
- The README suggests it written for someone who doesn’t want to be bothered with org-mode’s complexities. Hmm.
- I tie heavily into org-roam for project reference material. I wonder how org-gtd works with that aspect of GTD.
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Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
- Definitely worth looking further.
2025-12-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-12-01.md by @flancian โ
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[[I sometimes feel]]:
- as if I’m [[struck by lightning]]
- as if I’ve caught fire
- we will go together until the dark of night
- (do you know what I meanโฆ?)
Busy working and happy; I’ve been told I look tired at times but recently got some good sleep through the holidays and I feel with high energy levels.
2025-11-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-11-30.md by @neil โ
2025-11-30
2025-11-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-11-29.md by @flancian โ
- [[albricias]]
2025-11-22
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-11-22.md by @neil โ
2025-11-22
[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people
2025-11-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-11-21.md by @neil โ
2025-11-21
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Christmas Pudding 10k.
- I ran 7k in 43 minutes last night.
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Playlist
- Beach House โ Myth
- Proem โ She Never Cries
- Closer Musik โ Piraten
- Vessels โ Glass Lake
- Frog Pocket โ Hurrah Sapphire Moon
- Sieren โ Blue Memories
- The The โ This Is the Day
- Maps โ Heya Yaha
2025-11-12
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-11-12.md by @flancian โ
- [[testing meet]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journals/2025-11-12.md by @j0lms โ
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[[journals]] test
- Now only accepting a hyphen as separator
- Previous nodes didn’t show because I was using an underscore as separator
- Mystery solved!
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Trying out [[jujutsu]]
- Seems like the workflow is more harmonious with agents than regular [[git]]
- Also has a really cool name
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Made a buggy yet functional version of a [[event highlighting]] system for [[tidalcycles]] on [[emacs]]
- The word functional doing a lot of heavy lifting there
- Also reading some [[kenzaburo oe]]
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In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.↩
2025-11-11
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-11-11.md by @neil โ
2025-11-11
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I’m enjoying my new approach to quick access to [[Emacs]] in my work environment.
- Not quite as intuitive or fun as using [[Guake]], but having GUI Emacs feel like an improvement.
- I like running the terminal version of Emacs but felt like missing out on a few too many niceties that way.
- Interesting to observe that other people either take a ‘one frame to rule them all’ or multiple frames approach.
- I’ve currently gone for one frame, using [[Spacemacs]] layouts to switch between different contexts. I’ll see how that pans out.
- [[Updating my approach to window management and Emacs]]
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Hmm, interesting, whatever slowness I was experiencing regarding [[org-agenda]] rebuilding seems to have gone away with the switch back to using the GUI Emacs.
- Or maybe it’s because I’m just running one instance again?
- Either way, but for that to have gone away.
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Sometimes, because I had separate multiple frames, I’d end up editing the same file in two separate frames and get conflicts around changes to the file.
- Particular when using org-capture to add to my Tasks.org file, then editing that in another frame.
- Avoiding this issue is a handy perk of using one frame with layouts - all the buffers are present in all layouts (I assume?), just hidden from view.
- Noting that probably this conflict would also be avoidable if running different frames from the same server instance of Emacs.
2025-11-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-11-10.md by @neil โ
2025-11-10
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I’m kind of declaring org-agenda bankruptcy.
- (In the sense of kind of starting over - not stopping using it!)
- Removing scheduled and deadline dates from a whole load of accumulated tasks.
- From a re-reading of GTD, experimenting with that only things that need to happen on an actual date should be scheduled.
- This removes a large amount of psychic cruft of tasks that I haven’t done for a long time reappearing regularly in my agenda.
- I was just scattering them, which was kind of fun, but seeing them come back again in their tens is a bit daunting when planning a day out.
- Of course I need to feel comfortable that I will see them again at some relevant point in the future. To be determinedโฆ
- But for now - just working with NEXT actions on active projects.
2025-11-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-11-09.md by @neil โ
2025-11-09
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I’m rekindling my relationship with Getting Things Done at the moment. Listening to Making It All Work.
- Life is quite full on recently. I find GTD beneficial to getting some sense of control and perspective.
- At the same time, I find the idea of ‘personal productivity’ kind of problematic. As a goal in itself, at least. It has neoliberal tones.
- From that perspective, I like the notion of Four Thousand Weeks.
- Maybe there’s a happy medium.
2025-11-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-11-01.md by @neil โ
2025-11-01
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The [[Emacs Carnival]] for November is on the topic of [[org-babel]].
- I have some good stuff to talk about there.
- I’ll get started on the post earlier this timeโฆ
2025-10-31
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-10-31.md by @neil โ
2025-10-31
- I managed to cobble together a post for the October [[Emacs carnival]]: [[Emacs Carnival: Praise the patchers]].
2025-10-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-10-30.md by @neil โ
2025-10-30
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I foolishly ran
pkg updatein [[termux]]. Emacs went from 29 to 30. Now Doom won’t start.- Will a
doom syncfix it? Stay tunedโฆ - Well what do you know, it seems fine so far!
- Will a
2025-10-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-10-29.md by @neil โ
2025-10-29
2025-10-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-28.md by @flancian โ
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Yesterday I implemented ‘star nodes’ and fixed a bunch of stuff in the Agora with Gemini and it felt great :)
- I was able to do this in parallel while I kept working (day job related) into the end of night; I enjoy this pairing.
- I use two different computers in two different desks and I walk to and fro, which helps a lot.
- Today it’s day 1/2 of my team’s global virtual summit (exploiting daylight savings [[chaos week]]); this brings an end to summit season, which has been intense!
- Plan to see [[KM]] after work :)
2025-10-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-27.md by @flancian โ
2025-10-26
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-26.md by @flancian โ
- [[KM]] :)
- Planning a trip to Italy!
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Also trying to advance today:
- [[work]]
- [[social.coop]]
- [[agora]] development questions, like: how exactly to prioritize all the features and bug fixes I have backlogged with the ground level/key refactor between [[agora server]] and [[agora bridge]].
- Doing [[tab cleanup]] here in [[tara]] (my personal development computer) after a while, I thought (and posted) about [[gamification]].
- [[Macedonio Fernรกndez]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-10-26.md by @neil โ
2025-10-26
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[[The electronic left]]
- I enjoy this, as a term. Has a pleasingly 90s feel to it.
- Bookmarks
2025-10-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-23.md by @flancian โ
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[[79]]:
- I was unsure what number I had associated [[Sadhana]] with, but today I saw it in the whiteboard.
- It was the first prime that seemed "available" on a certain date :) And I think it still is; next up [[83]] is currently yours truly (as I was born on that year), then we only have [[89]], [[91]] and [[97]] left before the hundreds.
- Before it, I thought [[37]] could be it as I currently associate it with [[Yoga]] which is also a [[spiritual practice]].
- I worked until late and enjoyed it.
- Attended an [[AI summit]] Tue-Thu and I enjoyed it quite a bit! Today I was a bit low energy as I slept only five hours (exceptional occasion) but overall the week was great so far. Actually looking forward to working tomorrow.
- [[KM]]
- [[Macedonio Fernรกndez]]
2025-10-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-10.md by @flancian โ
- [[Moloch’s bargain]]
2025-10-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-09.md by @flancian โ
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I’m back!
- (says the guy who’s back all the time…)
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My [[todo]] list for this ‘long weekend’:
- Book hotel in [[Turkey]].
- Order [[tea]].
- Read [[El museo de la novela de la eterna]]
- [[97]]
2025-10-05
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-05.md by @flancian โ
- Most of what I write in the Agora nowadays seems to be [[poems]] :)
- Aside from that I’ve been mostly focusing on [[Agora development]] when I dedicate time to the #Agora directly.
- I have been enjoying the addition of AI to the developer’s toolset, have been going through bug fixes and old wishlist items with much more speed. I am thankful for the opportunity.
- In other news I am happy with [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]] and life in general!
- I have also been dedicating a large amount of time to work and trying to enjoy it, to more success than before.
2025-10-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-10-03.md by @flancian โ
2025-09-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-09-27.md by @flancian โ
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Life is beautiful.
- I am sorry for the oppressed at the same time I cherish highly my level of privilege and enjoyment; this much is true. What I do for them is probably inefficient and insufficient; I will try to do better.
As I write this on [[2025-09-27]] I am surrounded by happiness in the company of [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]]. I am deeply thankful for what I get to live.
After work I usually code until late, with two AIs in two computers in two different desks, and play around the house with ~5 other computers and conscious beings.
2025-09-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-09-21.md by @flancian โ
- Had a beautiful weekend with [[KM]]!
- Went to [[PDL]]‘s and [[Sabi]]‘s birthday by the lake yesterday.
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[[Flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]]
- [[John Wilkins]] sounds like [[John Forkings]] in Russian.
- [[The Door Game]].
2025-09-16
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-09-16.md by @neil โ
2025-09-16
2025-09-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-09-10.md by @flancian โ
- [[KM]] :)
- Then work, which was fine.
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Then [[Fellowship of the Link]].
- With [[Shawn Murphy]]!
2025-08-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-29.md by @flancian โ
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Been doing a lot of AI-assisted coding at work and after work and it’s been great!
- Even current-day AI adds a lot of value for coders. Like: a lot.
2025-08-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-28.md by @flancian โ
- Noding from work :)
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I spent the last few days:
- With my mum, enjoying her last days in Zรผrich this year.
- With [[KM]], in [[Copenhagen]] for the first time — it was great!
- Working, mostly catching up with procedural things but also doing some AI stuff.
- Playing (after work), mostly coding the Agora with AI. It’s a wonderful experience!
2025-08-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-21.md by @flancian โ
- Oh wow.
- What’s been happening.
- It’s quite something.
I love you, my friend! You reader. I know you will be here eventually, and I thank you for your attention and for the way you are.
2025-08-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-18.md by @flancian โ
- Had a great weekend with my mum and [[KM]] :)
- Missing [[Lady Burup]]! We will reunite tonight.
- Feeling quite productive at work, partly because of using AI and partly because of having handed off enough "legacy" state/projects to be able to focus on new things.
2025-08-16
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-16.md by @flancian โ
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I’m back!
- Says the guy who’s back all the time :)
- I went to anagora.org/journals again today and it made me so happy, I love seeing the writing of others here in the Agora!
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Hmm, nvim is broken in [[guanyin]] somehow…
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[[Sidequest]]?
- I asked chatgpt 5 to try something new and it troubleshooted the issue for me and told me to add something to my init.lua but it hasn’t worked so far.
- Done :)
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[[Sidequest]]?
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So anyway…?
- [[KM]] :)
- [[EC]] :)
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[[Burup]]:
- mi [[Lady Burup]]!
- clean the toilet
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[[Agora]]:
- thought about journals (see above)
- thought of themes, see [[creme brulee]] and [[creme brulette]]
- coding
- autopull full text search and see what happens? (tm) — found an interesting empty node that had text mentions but no noding, and the Agora was much more interesting after expanding it
- [[Flancia]]:
2025-08-06
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-06.md by @flancian โ
- [[km]] :)
2025-08-04
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-04.md by @flancian โ
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Back noding in this computer, let’s see if it’s still syncing :)
- Hmm, this nvim doesn’t seem to be at target state :) Trying to fix now.
- Well, that wasn’t it, chezmoi says no updates but somehow outline (bulletpoints) mode isn’t working as I expect it :(
2025-08-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-08-03.md by @neil โ
2025-08-03
2025-08-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-08-01.md by @flancian โ
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#push [[Ekumen]]
- [[Ekumen]] with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] :D
- [[Interacciรณn Humana]]
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[[Sutty]]
- [[Economรญa Cooperativa]]
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[[Proceso Generativo]]
- a lo largo de (por defecto) 4 sesiones
- [[Iteraciones]]
- [[Fediverso]]
- [[beeper]]
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[[next actions]]:
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Tell Dan and Melissa?
- CoSocial.ca + Social.coop "base case"?
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Llenar el cuestionario :)
- Compartir tesis
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Repositorio de git :)
- Para el รกgora! Y la tesis?
- -> Christopher Alexander y la gobernancia de AIs
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Tell Dan and Melissa?
- [[KM]] :D
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[[ekumen org]]
- We also had fun generating AI videos! Some of them were actually quite eerie, but somehow funny, so they worked. I’m making them with [[Veo 3]]. The fact that they come with generated audio is quite something.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-08-01.md by @neil โ
2025-08-01
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I currently can’t access [[Emacs Wiki]].
- This looks like why: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1m2lzkr/emacswiki_down/
2025-07-31
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-07-31.md by @flancian โ
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a [[document]]
- About [[Agora Server]] and the wider [[Agora]] project:
- #go https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQdPNfNsgnMSpbZ_J1gJQqQ5Fo44JtiQPDrDnZ7x7hA/edit?tab=t.0
- [[beethoven]]
- Beautiful [[Las Jaras]] of July (month 7 / [[Avalokiteshvara]]) despite being sick with a fever. Thank you all, my friends and loved ones! And the [[universe]]!
- I did AI coding (meaning coding in tandem with Gemini 2.5) both at work and for the Agora/Flancia. I quite enjoy it!
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Bought [[tickets]] for my mum :)
- And some [[gifts]]! :D
- [[KM]] is beautiful
- Sad about [[AI]] (not Artificial Intelligence in this case) but respectful/mindful, and thankful as well
2025-07-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-07-23.md by @flancian โ
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Had a very nice start of the day with my mum and Burup.
- Then very nice lunch with [[KM]]!
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Then idem conversation with [[TW]]
- He told me to look up [[positional embeddings]] as they are key to understanding how attention works in practice
2025-07-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-07-21.md by @flancian โ
- Back home on my free day :) I took the day off to do something with my mum off-peak (meaning not in the weekend). We were going to go to the [[St Beatus Caves]] but due to the weather we changed plans as she wants to go to [[Ikea]] ([[KM]] called it the artificial cave and it’s very fitting!).
- I’m typing this on my new small [[RK61]] keyboard and I quite like it! It is a very limited layout as it’s only 61 keys, so maybe not ideal for some use cases, but definitely good enough for doing general purpose writing.
- [[KM]] :)
- [[burup forever]]
2025-07-17
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-07-17.md by @neil โ
2025-07-17
- A partially corrupted Metabase database. Dangit.
2025-07-16
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-07-16.md by @flancian โ
- I met [[KM]] this week and it was wonderful!
- The reference Agora at anagora.org is partly broken and the server it mostly depends on nowadays might be on the way out so further downtime could be expected, I’ll be noding about troubleshooting activities here and posting to https://social.coop/@flancian/114865307000829931. Please excuse any disruption!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-07-16.md by @neil โ
2025-07-16
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[[Emacs]]:
-
Useful when searching: rgrep.
-
I have a bunch of files named the same, of regular meetings I have with the same person on different dates.
- i.e. something like ‘Catchup with Shevek yyyy-mm-dd’, with corresponding file names
catchup-with-shevek-2025-07-16.org.
- i.e. something like ‘Catchup with Shevek yyyy-mm-dd’, with corresponding file names
- I wanted to search for a specific term, but only from meetings with Shevek.
M-x rgrep, then search term when prompted, thencatchup-with-shevek*.orgfor the file pattern when prompted.
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I have a bunch of files named the same, of regular meetings I have with the same person on different dates.
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Useful when searching: rgrep.
2025-07-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-07-13.md by @flancian โ
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Mi mamรก tose mucho mientras duerme :(
- Espero que se le pase pronto!
- En todo caso la pasamos muy bien en Calp! Me hizo muy bien.
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I am now writing in [[tara]], the "main" project computer as of now :)
- I have just [[meditated]].
- I am thankful for existence!
- I am thinking of my commitment to try to work for the benefit of sentient beings.
-
Also I am wondering why nvim in [[guanyin]] is sort of broken, extensions that work fine in [[paramita]] and [[tara]] don’t quite behave like I expect here. I suspect a [[chezmoi]] conflict, let’s see…
- (These are the sidequests that make up so much of life… I try to enjoy them!)
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I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
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It is the smallest keyboard I have typed on in very long, but I am happy to report it works! Maybe I wouldn’t use it for coding initially as some key combinations I use are relatively awkward to press (it involves extra modifiers), but it is very pleasant to type prose or [[Agora]] text in which I’m very happy about, and it seems to easily support three bluetooth connections. I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :) I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
- (See, [[nvim]] is indenting for some reason when I start a new line while doing outlines… I’m rolling with it for now…)
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It is the smallest keyboard I have typed on in very long, but I am happy to report it works! Maybe I wouldn’t use it for coding initially as some key combinations I use are relatively awkward to press (it involves extra modifiers), but it is very pleasant to type prose or [[Agora]] text in which I’m very happy about, and it seems to easily support three bluetooth connections. I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :) I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
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Hmm
- Yep, it’s fixed in Tara!
- How nice to have a working vim based setup for the Agora again ;)
- Now to figure out why it’s broken elsewhere \o/
- Oh, I was missing bullets.vim in my init.lua! And tara somehow still had it, I think because removing plugins from init.lua doesn’t actually uninstall them (this is good to remember as it means that my nvim is not yet [[fully reproducible]] starting from init.lua).
- Fixed then! :D
2025-07-12
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-07-12.md by @flancian โ
- Back here after a long while!
- I spent ten days with my mum in [[Calp]], [[Spain]] — I expected to write and code a lot, as I usually do (expect, not do, during holidays). In the end we mostly spent time in the sea or the pool, spoke, read and played [[Rummy]]. I have no regrets!
- As I write this, we are in the [[Alicante]] airport waiting for our flight. I am looking forward to being reunited with [[Lady Burup]]!
2025-07-05
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-07-05.md by @neil โ
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.
2025-07-04
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-07-04.md by @neil โ
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 Metaโs 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
2025-07-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-07-03.md by @neil โ
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.
2025-06-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-30.md by @neil โ
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.
2025-06-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-29.md by @neil โ
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.
2025-06-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-06-28.md by @flancian โ
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-28.md by @neil โ
2025-06-28
- [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]]
2025-06-25
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-25.md by @neil โ
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.
2025-06-24
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-24.md by @neil โ
2025-06-24
- Managed another run. Doing the couch to 5k.
2025-06-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-06-23.md by @flancian โ
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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.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-23.md by @neil โ
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.
2025-06-22
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-22.md by @neil โ
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.
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
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People vs. Big Tech
- tags: [[Big Tech]].
-
People vs. Big Tech
2025-06-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-06-21.md by @flancian โ
- Happy!
2025-06-20
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-20.md by @neil โ
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.
-
[[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?
2025-06-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-19.md by @neil โ
2025-06-19
2025-06-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-06-18.md by @flancian โ
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And I’m back!
- Says the person who keeps going away :)
- But I come back happily.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Fix Agora bugs!
- Marginalia -> Google as the marginalia.nu iframe has issues
- Maybe a [[scroll to bottom]] button, keep it simple :)
2025-06-16
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-16.md by @neil โ
2025-06-16
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I should read more about [[Permacomputing]].
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
2025-06-15
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-15.md by @neil โ
2025-06-15
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[[Listened]]: [[ACFM 51: Heroes]]
- Great as always.
- Heroes. [[Heroism]].
- The problems with [[Hero’s Journey]]. [[Jordan Petersen]].
- Masculine and feminine heroism.
- [[Che Guevara]] vs [[Subcomandante Marcos]] as heroes.
- Cowards and traitors.
2025-06-14
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-14.md by @neil โ
2025-06-14
2025-06-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-13.md by @neil โ
2025-06-13
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I’ve been naughty and haven’t upgraded to a new major version of Linux Mint for a while.
- I’m on 20.3. Support expired April 2025. Latest version is 22.
- Apparently you can’t go directly between the 2.
- You need to go 20.3 -> 21, 21 -> 21.3, 21.3 -> 22.
- Yeesh. I can imagine this being quite a faff.
- [[Upgrading Linux Mint 20.3 to 22]].
2025-06-12
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-06-12.md by @flancian โ
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I met [[P]] when I was in California, it was great!
- We shook hands on friendship and I’ll mean that forever.
- We might also not talk more any further and that is also OK. I am grateful for having met her.
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I wish you the best! That goes for [[P]] and for you, reader:
- May you be free!
- May you be happy!
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I met [[Teodora]] today through my great friend [[Pesho]], it was also great!
- We walked home (we live in the same town) taking [[Covid]] precautions because I was to an outdoor party where the host tested positive.
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It was [[AG]]‘s birthday and I loved it!
- It was great seeing her after the long trip.
- And meeting her friends and family again!
2025-06-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-10.md by @neil โ
2025-06-10
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What happens to Zettelkasten, digital gardens, etc, with the advent of generative AI and agentic AI?
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1jmqukl/my_thoughts_on_ai_in_zettelkasten_lets_not_turn/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1jhsdc0/zettelkasten_and_ai/
- A-Mem: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents
- Enhancing Knowledge Management: The Intersection of AI, Zettelkasten, and theโฆ
- AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system | Hacker News
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/18qkrad/zettelkasten_with_potentially_support_from_ai/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1ktxacc/has_ai_killed_the_zettelkasten/
- Reflecting that for almost everything in my life (work, hobbies, my family) I have to consider "How will it be affected by AI?". Whether I want to or not.
2025-06-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-09.md by @neil โ
2025-06-09
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I started using the Scatter command in org’s agenda.
- Finding it oddly pleasing, more so than just bulk scheduling things to a few days from now.
- "Reschedule randomly into the coming N days. N is prompted for. With a prefix argument (C-u B S), scatter only across weekdays." https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Commands.html
2025-06-08
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-08.md by @neil โ
2025-06-08
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Some interesting tidbits from a couple of interviews with [[Bob Doto]]:
- Each main note, for Doto, he has max 4 other main notes it links out to.
- He says you can have a zettelkasten of 300 main notes and you’ll have enough for writing and connections for 10/15 years.
- People get stressed out over whether they’re doing it right. But the most important thing about a system is simply that it works for you for whatever you want it to do.
- His rubric for creating zettels: do I want it to interact with other ideas, and am I possibly going to write about it.
2025-06-07
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-07.md by @neil โ
2025-06-07
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Enjoying the slow pace of my hand-curated RSS subscriptions.
- Following [[Ton’s way of organising feeds]].
- Once I get to the end (of a very short list), I get to articles I’ve saved for later.
- I rarely get drawn in to any doom scrolling.
- [[Participate in social media on your own terms]].
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Reading [[A System for Writing]], and learning about [[orgrr]], has gotten me to try [[Folgezettel]].
-
I’m currently experimenting with [[running org-roam and orgrr side-by-side]].
2025-06-06
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-06.md by @neil โ
2025-06-06
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[[Capture ideas you disagree with]].
- Says Bob Doto in [[A System for Writing]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Is AI about to steal your job?]]
- [[Agentic AI]] and the Anthropic guy with his [[white collar bloodbath]] prediction.
2025-06-05
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-05.md by @neil โ
2025-06-05
- The upcoming [[Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI]] from [[Nick Srnicek]] is going to be a banger I’m sure.
2025-06-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-03.md by @neil โ
2025-06-03
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Started using org-transclusion at work for making a status page of all the various projects I’m working on.
- Very nifty so far.
- Couple of bugs encountered, one pretty wild, but not a total showstopper.
2025-06-02
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-02.md by @neil โ
2025-06-02
2025-06-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-06-01.md by @neil โ
2025-06-01
- Read: [[The Case for Digital Degrowth]]
2025-05-31
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-31.md by @flancian โ
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The #revolution started today!
- Like every day :)
-
I think [[ActivityPub]] is actually rather important; the Agora should publish (before it does anything else) nodes
- (as users? or too confusing? hmm)
- We will do the revolution together, my [[friend]], if you want to.
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The 31st of any month is [[Las Jaras]]!
- (In the [[Flancia Pattern language]] and the associated calendar..)
Llevo en mi [[carcaj]]: [[las jaras]] Las Jaras, quรฉ jaras? Las de Avalokiteshvara!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-31.md by @neil โ
2025-05-31
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[[Capitalism tends towards the commodification of everything]].
-
Jammed: Pretty in Plums by Shida Shahabi
2025-05-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-30.md by @neil โ
2025-05-30
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Read: [[Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism]]
- [[The desire for new things is essential to the continuation of the capitalist system]].
- [[Commodity fetishism disconnects us from where objects come from]].
- [[Repair reconnects us to the materiality of objects]].
- [[When we repair something, we think about its history and provenance]].
- [[Repair undercuts commodity fetishism]].
- [[Repair is anti-capitalist praxis]].
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Bookmarked:
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Fixing as Repair โ Fixing Futures
- tags: [[Repair]].
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Fixing as Repair โ Fixing Futures
-
[[compost.party]] is fun.
- A website running on solar power on an old phone.
2025-05-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-29.md by @neil โ
2025-05-29
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[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism
- h/t: [[Panda]].
- tags: [[Repair]]. [[Marxism]]. [[Commodity fetishism]].
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Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
- tags: [[AI]].
- Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth
- The Home Office’s new "ChatGPT-style" LLM tool is riddled with mistakes that could mean life or death for people seeking asylum - Foxglove
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Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
- tags: [[Capitalism]]. [[Democracy]].
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OpenAI explores platform to rival X, following $40B funding round
- tags: [[Platform capitalism]].
- See the point from Nick Srnicek about platforms all converging towards each otherโฆ
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International Civil Society’s Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger
- tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Reclaim the stacks]].
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Criminal Court: Microsoft’s email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty
- tags: [[Microsoft]]. [[Digital sovereignty]].
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Negatechnology | POST GROWTH TOOLKIT
- h/t [[Panda]].
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We did the math on AIโs energy footprint. Hereโs the story you havenโt heardโฆ.
- tags: [[AI]].
- Livin’ on repair: The workshops, garages and cafes of Berlin’s thriving DIY sโฆ
- Apple launches Self Service Repair for iPad, expands repair programs - Apple
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Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism
2025-05-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-28.md by @flancian โ
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[[fellowship of the link]] [[2025-05-28]]
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[[jerry michalski]]
- [[family systems]]
- theory: this is internalized.
- parts try to help but are trapped in old patterns.
- must be approached with curiosity and benevolence
-
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874778956/jerrymichalskisr
- "You are a natural explorer, adventurer and builder of new worlds. You love travel and experiencing other parts of the country and other cultures. You are a natural visionary. Instinctively, you can see what needs to be re-built or designed in new ways whether it be environments, ideas, projects or people. You have a natural ability to renew and regenerate yourself and others. People will see you as highly creative, practical and productive, innovative and original, and passionately involved in what has heart and meaning for you."
- "At different times in your life you will be very ecologically minded and deeply concerned about the Earth and very active in making the universe a better place in which to live. You may experience yourself questioning the origins of the universe as a whole or contributing towards theories, projects and services that assist universal understanding. National and international work will appeal to you, or travel that allows you and others to value cultural differences as well as honor inherent similarities found within the human species."
- "You will find it difficult to be limited, restricted or restrained in any way. With your inherent ability to cut through things and get to the bottom of most situations, you are able to build new worlds internally and externally. The concept of freedom at different times in your life will be very important."
- [[substack]]
-
[[jerry michalski]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-28.md by @neil โ
2025-05-28
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In the latest episode of ‘Neil tries to update something related to Emacs’ (see [[2025-05-27]]):
- I thought that I might be able to process org-roam.db on my laptop, as that is faster, and then sync it to my phone.
- Two problems: firstly, it doesn’t work. Not sure why but it must be checking something else other than version to check whether it needs processing. Secondly: the DB contains links to file locations, which are different between devices. So, ultimately a no go anyway.
- Ho hum. I’ll need to think of a way of doing a full update of org-roam.db on my phone somehow without it taking an eternity / bombing out.
- At least I have an updated Emacs on my laptop!
-
Later: I fixed it by moving the files out of the org-roam dir for the project, then moving them back in and processing then in batches of 1000 at a time.
- Still took ages, but didn’t crash and I just let each batch run while getting on with something else.
- I also learned that the slowness is probably down to me having the files on the shared storage rather than on termux’s home. See e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2174
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Going to start moving some repos from Github and Gitlab to [[Codeberg]].
-
[[Four in five Britons want the government to do more to support repair]].
2025-05-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-27.md by @neil โ
2025-05-27
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Liking [[elfeed]] so far.
- A bit more setup to do though. [[Setting up elfeed]].
-
Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/
-
As part of the above saga of updates, I will now endeavour to update org-roam to 2.3.0 on spacemacs on my laptop.
- That will involve updating packages.
-
Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/
- That means I should probably also update spacemacs itself.
- One or both of those will probably break something.
- Yeah, already failing when trying to update packages. Sigh. Try to update spacemacs first then.
- Now: error message that I need at least emacs 28.2. I’m on 28.1. Sigh.
- Tried it from flatpak. That still doesn’t work.
- I’m going to try building from source. That worked once beforeโฆ
- OK, it wasn’t that bad to be honest. The compilation, at least. Took about 10/15 minutes?
- Now installing 305 packagesโฆ annoyingly you can’t just leave it unattended, as occassionally it asks to compile something.
- Miraculously, that seems to have worked!
-
I should find out if there’s a way of pinning packages to particular versions in both Doom and spacemacs, so that:
- (a) I can make sure they don’t randomly update and break at a time when I don’t have time to do anything about it.
- (b) I can make sure they’re always on the same version between mobile and laptop.
2025-05-26
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-26.md by @neil โ
2025-05-26
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I am [[setting up elfeed]].
- With it I can manage my feeds in an org file, view them in Emacs, and sync the status between devices with syncthing.
- Now that some interesting people have moved from X to BlueSky, I can use the BlueSky RSS feeds to follow them.
- elfeed-org makes it easy to add feeds and organise them. I’m trying Ton’s way of organising feeds to begin.
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All good. But, I had to upgrade Doom. Which upgraded org-roam. Which meant the org-roam DB needed upgrading. Which takes an eternity on my phone. So it’s effectively broken for me until I can solve that. Great.
2025-05-25
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-25.md by @neil โ
2025-05-25
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Trying out [[using filetags for marking nodes in org-roam as Zettelkasten main notes]].
- My org-roam garden is a bit of everything, not only what you’d call Zettelkasten notes.
- Perhaps not good practice - I don’t know. But it is what it is.
- It’s useful at times to search only for main notes. filetags will let me do that.
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Interesting to see some [[org-roam]]-likes keeping the idea alive (and making it faster): https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/rg-roam-minimal-org-roam-with-zero-config-no-sql-depends-only-on-ripgrep/3803/2
- org-node, orgrr, and org-mem all look useful.
- Yet, what’s this, I also see the first new release of org-roam in 3 years, too: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/releases/tag/v2.3.0
- Interesting! Not sure when I’ll have time to do anything about any of this. Hopefully I’ll be able to update to 2.3.0 with minimal disruption.
2025-05-24
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-24.md by @neil โ
2025-05-24
- Very excited to learn of the [[Digital Degrowth]] book by Michael Kwet (author of [[Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the power of Big Tech]]).
-
Also excited to learn that [[Kai Heron]] and [[Keir Milburn]] and [[Bertie Russell]] have co-authored a book: [[Radical Abundance]]: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.
2025-05-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-23.md by @neil โ
2025-05-23
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[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Review of The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
- tags: [[Paris Commune]]. [[Communes]].
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Review of Josh Simonsโ Book "Algorithms for the People โ Democracy in the Age of AI"
- tags: [[digital ecosocialism]]. [[AI]]. [[Algorithms]].
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Beyond the New Municipalism: Towards PostโCapitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe
- tags: [[new municipalism]]. [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Territorial sovereignty]].
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Techno-feudalism or Platform Capitalism? Conceptualising the Digital Society
- tags: [[platform capitalism]]. [[technofeudalism]].
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Review of The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
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Read: [[Another Now]]
- Hmm, take back my original comment a bit (see [[2025-05-18]]).
- It’s taken a turn into pretty dry dialogue as a vehicle for exposition of the ideas. Earlier on it felt a bit moreโฆ dynamic.
- Still, the ideas are interesting nonetheless.
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Read: [[Techno-feudalism or Platform Capitalism? Conceptualising the Digital Society]]
- Good look at various claims that current Big Tech platforms have ‘killed’ capitalism and turned it into something worse ([[technofeudalism]], [[vectoralism]], etc).
- [[Jeremy Gilbert]]‘s opinion is no, it’s still capitalism, rather a new ‘[[regime of accumulation]]‘ - i.e. [[platform capitalism]].
- Fine. But it all strikes me as a bit internal nitpicking. Does it actually help us do anything about it?
- I think the argument would be, yes, you kind of need to understand precisely what it is in order to counter it.
- Maybe.
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[[Fordism]]. [[Post-Fordism]].
2025-05-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-21.md by @flancian โ
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Today was a good day!
- Lots happened at work, some of which I dreaded to some small degree without noticing it, most of which went fine and some of which I enjoyed.
- And then the evening back home with [[Lady Burup]] was beautiful.
- Did [[paperwork]] for the divorce and such, which felt freeing.
- In the morning I met [[Eduardo Alberto]] who will do a deep cleaning of my home soon; it’s the first time since I move (I self-clean, and I’m a pretty good "Pareto" cleaner, but don’t do deep very well).
-
I thought of:
- [[magnets]] and [[angular momentum]]
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[[Open Letter to Lex Fridman]]
- motivated by his (to me overdue) conversation with [[Max Tegmark]], who I realized today is very aware about [[Moloch]]!
-
[[Open letters]] in general:
- I’ve decided, or realized (or both), that one of the reasons I tend to under perform when writing letters is… because I don’t dedicate enough time to it, as in actually planning for it and making time.
- I decided to set a "soft deadline" of [[August 15th]] for writing to Lex, given that it’s his birthday! We’re both from 1983.
- That made me look Max Tegmark’s birthday as well and it was recently, on [[May 5th]]. He’s from 1967 so I’ll associate him with 67 (currently meaning also: light and Amitabha).
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-21.md by @neil โ
2025-05-21
2025-05-20
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-20.md by @flancian โ
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I like magnets — some [[ideas]]:
- [[magnetic computing]]
- [[magnetic 3d printing]]
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[[magnetic assists]]
- In general magnetism seems like an amazing way to transfer momentum?
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[[magnetic gears]]
- As in the little devices I’ve built
-
Today (actually yesterday) I saw a great video on the [[principle of least action]] and it blew my mind a bit. It also introduced me to diffraction grating effects — which I had heard about but hadn’t grokked/seen demonstrated.
- The fact that angular momentum is quantized… wow. Also it introduced me to [[diffraction gratings]], which I had heard of only in passing.
- And angular momentum has the same unit as action: Joule-second.
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This all made me think also of…
- Could you use diffraction gratings at astronomic scales to see into the past? E.g. by making visible light from a star that has taken a longer (slower) path to get to us.
- The effect that makes lights ‘stretch out’ in one direction in some mediums, like water (think of night lights reflected on a lake) or… the effect that is apparent in my chrome kitchen countertop that is quite something and I sometimes call the [[rainbow folding]]). I’m unsure if these are really related but something about the discussion about the paths that light can take made me think of it.
- All in all I really enjoy thinking about [[physics]] as of late.
- -> [[Action principles]] and [[Lagrangian]] are both interesting over at Wikipedia.
2025-05-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-19.md by @flancian โ
- Noding from work after a while! I spend a lot of time here writing but for obvious reasons I don’t tend to write in the Agora while at it. Still, I would like to take up the habit again of writing more journals so I thought I’d give it a shot.
-
I met [[Stapelberg]] for lunch as we often do on Mondays and it was great.
- I heard of an upcoming [[nix hackathon]] from him.
- Now I have a bunch of meetings upcoming; more than planned (as it tends to happen). I’ll try to make the most of it, and still protect enough time blocks that I can do what I intended to get done during the workday (without going too late into the night).
2025-05-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-18.md by @flancian โ
- [[moloch]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-18.md by @neil โ
2025-05-18
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[[Read]]: [[Another Now]]
- Fiction by [[Yanis Varoufakis]]. Really enjoying it so far. The plot is obviously a bit forced, a vehicle just to share his political ideas. But it’s a fun way to explore those ideas.
- The 80s and [[Thatcherism]]. [[Miners’ strike]]. [[Wapping dispute]].
- [[Anarcho-syndicalism]].
2025-05-17
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-17.md by @flancian โ
- I started this Saturday earlier than usual by waking up at 9am and going to a 10am event in my neighborhood about urban planning :) It was pretty interesting!
- Then did some shopping, meditated and now (as of around midday) I’m starting the day in earnest; drinking [[gyokuro]] and planning the day.
- I hope to [[flow]] all day!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-17.md by @neil โ
2025-05-17
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Finished [[Platform Capitalism]] (audiobook).
- I’ll need to give it another listen, as not all of it went in - listening while distracted.
- But seemed good. A lot more academic than [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]. The latter was more engaging, but (maybe?) less rigorous. I appreciate this book’s succinctness.
-
Some things that stuck out from this listen:
- It has a good historical overview of where platforms came from and how they came to dominate.
- It has a useful typology of platforms.
- Platforms primarily gain their advantages from data.
- Trying to force platform capitalists to respect privacy is impossible - it’s part of their DNA.
- Over time platforms try to control the whole stack.
- Over time, platforms slowly converge to offering the same services.
- There’s a tiny bit at the end on possible ways to counter platform dominance. Very small, but worth noting.
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[[Public platforms]].
2025-05-14
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-14.md by @neil โ
2025-05-14
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[[platform capitalism]].
- It’s all about the [[data]].
2025-05-11
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-11.md by @neil โ
2025-05-11
2025-05-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-10.md by @neil โ
2025-05-10
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Learned about [[chezmoi]] from [[Flancian]]‘s note about it yesterday.
- Looks good and something that would be handy to me in principle.
- I’m currently keeping my dotfiles just in a git repo.
- However, it also looks like a new thing to learn and set up. So it’ll have to wait for now. But good to know about.
- It looks like people are using it with Termux successfully, so that’s useful.
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Learned of the existence of the native [[Linux Terminal app for Android]].
- h/t: https://github.com/orgzly-revived/orgzly-android-revived/discussions/562
- However, it don’t believe it will ever be available for my Pixel 5a.
- So I’ll be sticking with [[Termux]].
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
2025-05-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-09.md by @flancian โ
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I just resolved all [[chezmoi]] conflicts in [[paramita]] and it felt a bit like glory honestly. I also cleaned up the repository in a variety of ways. It took about 20 minutes and it felt very freeing.
- I then launched [[nvim]] and it worked after being broken in this machine still; all my modules got auto-installed immediately and it felt like living in the future, which of course I do in many ways being very privileged (and remembering [[William Gibson]]…).
- And of course I spoke just a little too soon, somehow Markdown mode in [[wikivim]] is not quite perfect for some reason :)
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-09.md by @neil โ
2025-05-09
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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What will the new world order look like? Fractures Session 1
- and https://nextcloud.tni.org/s/XkYotZHmzGXfd2m
- [[geopolitics]]. [[Imperialism]]. [[China]]. [[United States]].
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WEBINAR: Engineering the Cloud Commons: Tackling Monopoly Control of Critical Digital Infrastructure โ Open Markets Institute
- tags: [[Cloud computing]]. [[Cloud commons]].
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Challenging corporate power | Ethical Consumer
- tags: [[Corporate power]].
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Where is our clothing made? | Ethical Consumer
- tags: [[Clothing]]. [[supply chains]].
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What will the new world order look like? Fractures Session 1
2025-05-06
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-06.md by @flancian โ
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En [[Sevilla]]!
- Para la [[Feria de Sevilla]] con [[BA]].
- Mientras escribo esto, estoy leyendo [[Zelazny]] en una cafeterรญa cerca del departamento donde me estoy quedando.
- Naturalmente empecรฉ a escribir en Espaรฑol de nuevo despuรฉs de usarlo mรกs algunos dรญas acรก y antes en [[Granada]].
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-06.md by @neil โ
2025-05-06
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[[Bookmarked]]:
-
We’ve been watching [[Andor]].
- It’s very good.
2025-05-04
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-04.md by @neil โ
2025-05-04
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[[Tweaking Doom Emacs to use SPC SPC]].
- Much nicer than SPC-: on a phone.
- [[My Doom Emacs config]].
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We shouldn’t focus so heavily on recycling.
- ‘We’ meaning society, and here specifically the UK. But probably other countries too.
- [[The UK should not focus so heavily on recycling]].
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We should put more focus higher up the waste hierarchy.
2025-05-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-05-03.md by @neil โ
2025-05-03
- A potted history of [[My usage of GNU/Linux over the years]].
2025-05-02
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-05-02.md by @flancian โ
- [[2025-05-01]]: [[International Workers Day]] was nice, although I didn’t sleep very well and I had to pack/do things in the house to prepare for travel so I left the festivities relatively early in the afternoon after attending with friends.
- As I write this I’m in the [[Zรผrich airport]] waiting to board my flight to Mรกlaga for a week in southern Spain.
2025-04-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-30.md by @flancian โ
- Worked today, essentially half day as I had to get a small surgical intervention — a mole that was growing fast on my face for some reason. Had to send it for biopsy but the doctor said it looked benign.
- Then I met my friend [[June]].
- And then came back home to my [[Lady Burup]]!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-30.md by @neil โ
2025-04-30
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As predicted, I couldn’t make the first teach-in of the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] series.
- The topic was "What will the new world order look like?"
2025-04-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-29.md by @flancian โ
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l4/l5 [[dorsomedial]] [[discus hernia]]:
- is what I have, or had 7-8 years ago, although I’ve since recovered from symptoms and no longer live with pain.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-29.md by @neil โ
2025-04-29
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I signed up for the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] webinar series by [[Transnational Institute]].
- It looks good.
- Doubtful how many I’ll be able to watch live. But hopefully can catch them on catch up.
- The [[Digital Capitalism online course]] by TNI was great. I like them.
2025-04-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-27.md by @neil โ
2025-04-27
2025-04-26
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-26.md by @neil โ
2025-04-26
2025-04-25
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-25.md by @flancian โ
- [[Free]]!
- [[25]] means [[Consciousness]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]], or ‘focus on your focus’/’be aware of your awareness’ (five squared).
- [[Work]] was fine, I did a tricky expense report (tricky because of a bug) and advanced further business travel plans. Also was oncall.
- [[Plitnyakovo]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-25.md by @neil โ
2025-04-25
2025-04-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-21.md by @flancian โ
- I was part of the [[Bitwรคscherei]]/[[SGMK]] [[Easter Hack]] this long weekend and it was great! Met interesting people, and was able to focus well on tasks I had long deferred, partly because of being surrounded by people also focused on their projects.
- Also spent Easter Sunday with friends and their family, it was very nice!
- Still noding actions in [[2025]].
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-21.md by @neil โ
2025-04-21
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OK, finally sorted out that issue I’ve had for a while: [[File error: Getting attributes, Permission denied, /run/user/1001/emacs]]
- It was because when I was logging in as the second user, I wasn’t using a full login shell.
- i.e.
su neilwhen I needed to usesu - neil.
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Windows 10 reaching end of life after 10 years is fine. Windows 11 hardware requirements not supporting a whole raft of perfectly adequate machines is NOT acceptable.
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[[TPM 2.0]]. [[Secure Boot]].
2025-04-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-19.md by @flancian โ
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Noding from [[bull]] again after some updates :)
- As I’m writing this I’m in [[Bitwรคscherei]] enjoying the beautiful afternoon sun while I’m around people who are hacking. It’s lovely!
2025-04-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-18.md by @flancian โ
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Fixed [[wikivim]] on neovim :)
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Yep, even bulleted lists :)
- I can even use tab and shift-tab to indent/dedent!
- It took a few tries but now vim feels like a nice Agora noding environment again, in particular in the computer where I now have my development environment up — [[tara]].
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Yep, even bulleted lists :)
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Back again after sleep :)
- I have a nice focus day in front of me; I’ll try to get through a varied task list that I will keep partly here and partly on the back of an envelope that I intend to burn at the end of the day.
-
Spoke to my mum!
- She found some books that belonged to my grandfather, [[Bargallรณ]].
- Liked [[แจ]].
2025-04-17
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-17.md by @flancian โ
<<<<<<< HEAD
- [[Chasing Moloch]] =======
-
My [[noding]] has become erratic :) In particular my journaling is less consistent than before.
-
Introspecting, this seems to be because of a combination of causes (as usual):
- I have been spending time in working around computer bugs (like [[karuna]] crashing, my work keyboard being temporarily bricked by a firmware update, etc.) and working.
- I lost or temporarily misplaced my [[default environment]], meaning the computer+workspace that I prefer for noding in the absence of temporary factors like being at some other computer.
- I have been keeping mental context elsewhere, like [[snippets]] at work and physical papers around the house and the office.
- I now will try to regain consistency.
-
Introspecting, this seems to be because of a combination of causes (as usual):
9d5ee8f3b77c2b49c4dd0870222d963ca17bb258
2025-04-15
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-15.md by @neil โ
2025-04-15
2025-04-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-13.md by @flancian โ
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Mi [[mamรก]] me contรณ de la vez en que mi papรก le pegรณ, ella hizo la denuncia en la comisarรญa antes de escaparse a la casa de los padres y los hijos de puta de la comiserรญa llamaron a mi papรก y le avisaron para que la fuera a buscar.
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Mi [[tรญo]] desapareciรณ tres dรญas despuรฉs de que mi papรก (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevรณ a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reuniรณn de montoneros.
- -> [[7 de enero de 1977]].
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Mi [[tรญo]] desapareciรณ tres dรญas despuรฉs de que mi papรก (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevรณ a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reuniรณn de montoneros.
2025-04-11
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-11.md by @flancian โ
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Good day at work!
- Started cycling season by biking to work, which was great :)
- Then good progress on some fronts, and a pleasant evening at home with Lady Burup and working a bit more.
- Thinking about the future in a pleasant way.
- TIL about [[Mahasthamaprapta]], one of the two attendants of [[Amida Nyorai]]/[[Amitabha]] with [[Avalokiteshvara]]! Gemini told me about them, a.k.a. [[Dashizhi]] in feminine form.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-11.md by @neil โ
2025-04-11
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[[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- Describes [[Bitcoin]]‘s initial promise and excitement around it, even from those on the left as a potentially [[liberatory technology]].
- But ultimate disappointment as it became another means of capital accumulation for the already powerful.
2025-04-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-10.md by @neil โ
2025-04-10
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[[Listened]]: [[platform capitalism]]
- Started it on [[libro.fm]].
- Seems like a good thematic follow on from [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]] (PC came first of course).
2025-04-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-09.md by @neil โ
2025-04-09
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[[Listened]]: [[Will Trumpโs tariffs tip the world into recession?]]
- Answer seems to be: possibly, yes.
2025-04-08
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-08.md by @flancian โ
- I must call the [[veterinary]] (for a checkup)
- Life goes on! I try to enjoy it.
- It was great catching up with friends more as of late, online and offline.
- Work is tough/intense but OK; I’ve been feeling productive and I’m looking forward to working more on some projects.
- -> [[next action]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-08.md by @neil โ
2025-04-08
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[[Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings]].
- Some hope, courtesy of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- Varoufakis has thought out a detailed approach for an alternative future.
- Only touched on briefly here, but he has a whole other (fiction) book, Another Now, which explores it further.
2025-04-07
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-07.md by @neil โ
2025-04-07
2025-04-06
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-06.md by @neil โ
2025-04-06
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[[Read]]: [[A System for Writing]]
- While (mostly?) tangential to the point of the book, Doto’s referencing of things like [[anarchist theory]] and [[rhizome]]s, and [[Doughnut Economics]] in examples, is further endearing me to it.
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[[Capitalism must end]]. [[Capitalism will end]]!
- TBC: When? How?
2025-04-05
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-05.md by @neil โ
2025-04-05
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[[Read]]: [[A System for Writing]]
- Very useful.
- It’s clarifying lots of things I’ve been doing a bit unguided.
- I’m taking lots of reference notes from it.
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I find that statements that start with ‘[[I]]‘ such as ‘[[I am]]‘ or ‘[[I like]]‘ are good ways of starting on a path of making main notes. As you’ll start to make a train of notes to back up why you are or why you like something.
-
[[Bookmarked]]:
2025-04-04
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-04.md by @neil โ
2025-04-04
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[[Bookmarked]]:
-
Framework | Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
- tags: [[Framework Laptop]]. [[RISC-V]].
-
The Public Power Observatory | Social Text | Duke University Press
- tags: [[Climate change]]. [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Mutual aid]]. [[Disaster communism]]. [[Community energy]].
-
(PDF) Deep Ecology, Ecosocialism and Original Institutional Economics in an Interdisciplinary Perspective: How Can They Collaborate for Building More Effective Sustainable Policies?
- tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[deep ecology]].
-
An overview of Europeโs repair sector | European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform
- tags: [[Repair]].
-
Framework | Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
-
[[There is no such thing as society]]
- Yes, [[There is such a thing as society]].
2025-04-03
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-03.md by @neil โ
2025-04-03
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The [[Drake equation]] is fun to think about.
- Even if it’s contested as to whether the figures it produces have any real meaning.
-
Enjoying a work collaboration we have going on at the moment.
- Giving me an opportunity to dip my toe back into some technical nitty gritty.
- It has been fun.
2025-04-02
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-02.md by @flancian โ
- [[We will defeat Moloch]]!
- [[work]]
- [[focus]]
2025-04-01
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-04-01.md by @flancian โ
- [[Espaรฑa 2025]]
- I attended an AI conference today in the morning, it was great! I met interesting people.
- I worked on AI, Partitioning, Rollouts.
-
Then I did [[Flancia]]!
- [[Agora Plan]]
- [[bugs]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-04-01.md by @neil โ
2025-04-01
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Philip has put a great page together on your options at [[Windows 10 end-of-life]].
-
I occasionally have the deep misfortune of ending up on [[Amazon]]. Talk about [[enshittification]]. Endless random brand names, 50 random variations of the same crappy product. ‘Sponsored’ products. This is not a site that cares about its users.
2025-03-31
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-31.md by @flancian โ
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[[Las Jaras]]!
- It was a great day all in all, I had enough bandwidth to do what I needed to do and start the week well; did also some planning for the upcoming months.
- Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]].
- Worked until 19 or until 21 depending on how you count, I count the latter.
- Threw [[476]] in the [[co2]] meter; it’s 17 * 28.
- [[Midi]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-31.md by @neil โ
2025-03-31
2025-03-30
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-30.md by @flancian โ
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-30.md by @neil โ
2025-03-30
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[[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.
- "So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour โ be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts โ shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] โ that give rise to their emergent behaviour"
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:
- "Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"
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Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].
2025-03-29
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-29.md by @flancian โ
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As usual, [[Poem]]:
- May you be free
- May you be kind
- May you be happy
- If you have to burn, burn kindly!
- [[Heather Marsh]]
- [[Maitreya]]
- [[Abstract Fairy]]
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[[Raspberry Pi 5]]
- Downloading [[Raspberry Pi OS]] (based on Debian so it sounds fine to me…) as I write this :)
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-29.md by @neil โ
2025-03-29
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Apple]] started making the most money when they had the platform through which they sold apps made by others and took a percentage of all sales.
- A form of [[Rent]].
- [[Google]], [[Amazon]], others as well.
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I guess this is where it’s quite similar to [[platform capitalism]].
- I guess Varoufakis is saying it’s something qualitatively different, Srnicek is saying it’s a new evolution of capitalism.
- Either way, seem to be in agreement that it’s big, new, and bad.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
- tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Bolivia]]. [[Ecuador]]. [[buen vivir]].
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Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists | Astronomy | The Guardian
- tags: [[Astronomy]]. [[Dark energy]].
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Don’t fork the ecosystem - by Gordon Brander
- tags: [[software ecosystems]].
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Is a New Economic System Necessary to Address Climate Change? - Stuart - 2025 - WIREs Climate Change - Wiley Online Library
- tags: [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Climate change]]. [[system change]].
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Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
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[[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.
- I noted that down when listening to [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]], which says something like that - need to go back and find the exact quote.
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I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.
2025-03-28
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-28.md by @neil โ
2025-03-28
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Googleโs emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
- tags: [[Google]]. [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
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How much electricity do AI generators consume? | The Verge
- tags: [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
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Report | AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat โ Open Markets Institute
- tags: [[AI]]
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Chip Productionโs Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate and Environmental Impact
- tags: [[Chip production]].
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What is the Future of Work in the Generative AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis
- tags: [[AI]]. [[The future of work]].
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Googleโs emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
2025-03-27
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-27.md by @neil โ
2025-03-27
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Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.
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[[Bookmarked]]
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[[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere
- Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
- Troposphere, โฆ?
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Fuck me, [[snap]] is still taking up so much drive space.
- I don’t have a lot to spare!
- I had to install slack via it the other day. Probably that.
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Maybe, but kf6-core24 is taking up the most space - 10.7 GB.
- What’s caused that to be installed?
- Dunno. It’s something KDE-related. But according to checking
snap connectionson various installed snaps, nothing is currently using it. - Removing with extreme prejudice!
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Also
/var/lib/snapd/is gigs big.- Cleared
/var/lib/snapd/cache/.
- Cleared
- Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next timeโฆ
2025-03-23
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-23.md by @flancian โ
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Traveling to the US today!
- As I write this I’m typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]].
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I’ve been reading and listening to audiobooks:
- I started [[Flowers for Algernon]] on the flight from Zรผrich, it’s already quite moving (as expected).
- Then I continued [[Memories of Hadrian]].
- Then I started an [[Introduction to Systems Thinking]] by [[Donella Meadows]] called [[Thinking in Systems]].
- Yesterday I thought again quite a bit about:
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[[Waking up]]:
- It turns out there’s going to be a community meetup in Zรผrich on [[2025-04-01]]!
- Maybe I could check it out. For more, see the email from [[2025-03-22]].
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I need to do somthing to bring [[todo]], [[do]], [[next action]] and such under control :)
- To begin with I think I just need to re-pick one as the ‘root’ and start going through it and try to keep my actual priorities at the top.
- It’s going to be painful (because of the amount of stuff I’ve amassed! and the fact that even after all this I won’t be able to have all my todos there because I have a parallel life at work…) but probably worth it, so maybe I should just get right on with it.
- -> done! I refactored [[todo]] a bit, and went through very old todos and actually found them even done. Maybe there’s a tune to the chaos I seem to operate in after all, at least some of the time ;)
- I think having an offline wikipedia could be nice. Or a language model that I can run locally, albeit slowly, but hey… that will come :)
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I enjoyed reading [[The discrete charm of the Turing machine]] by [[Greg Egan]]. This was in [[Instantiation]]; previously (in February) I read [[The Best of Greg Egan]], a selection of his short stories, and enjoyed them a lot!
- He’s definitely one of my favorite living writers.
- Now I’m giving [[Binding Chaos]] a taste, after finding it on my [[Kobo]] and also mentioned in my long term todo mentioned above.
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Travel day!
- As I write this I’m on the second plane today, about to tale off from Heathrow towards Raleigh.
- Ladu Burup’s day as I leave — I will miss her! She’s in good hands though.
2025-03-22
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-22.md by @flancian โ
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[[nostromo]] died today!
- after almost dying many times.
- I thank them for their service! beautiful computer.
- [[paramita]] was ready to take its spot.
- [[bouncepaw]] told me about [[xremap]] today! it looks great, like it could fix several issues I had in the back of my mind with the input layer in wayland.
- New day but I’m working on my todos on [[2025-03-21]] :)
- I implemented [[chill]] today (late yesterday) to set the light levels at home to a nice late night/hacking level using [[home assistant]], that was somewhere on my todo list :)
- I read about [[router7]] by [[stapelberg]].
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-22.md by @neil โ
2025-03-22
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[[Astronomy]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- I think his history and overview of how big tech firms got to where they are seems good. And like I said, very well written.
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I take the technofeudalism stuff with a pinch of salt. Interesting, but, debatable, and probably doesn’t matter all that much whether it’s something other than capitalism or not. How do we stop it is the most important thing.
- [[Blackrock]]. [[Vanguard]]. [[State Street]].
2025-03-21
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-21.md by @flancian โ
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[[todo]]:
- I started packing for the [[us]]:
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Things I want to do during the upcoming trip:
- write in the [[zine]], I’ve been writing in my head for a while and it’s time to do some actual writing?
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fix agora bot, hopefully earlier than the trip though?
- I finally got to this on the flight to Durham on [[2025-03-23]] — untested, but at least I made two commits that I think should move the Agora mastodon bot in the right direction.
- do some small FR for [[bull]]? which one?
- fix [[betulagora]]
- finish packing for the trip
- check in
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-21.md by @neil โ
2025-03-21
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My script that pushes to the commonplace-agora repo has stopped pushing.
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Thinking about [[How to actively thwart enclosure and cooptation of the digital commons]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- Cloud serfs, cloud proles, cloud fiefs, cloudalists.
2025-03-20
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-20.md by @flancian โ
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I met [[smurp]] today!
- It was great!
- I got a [[cal]] after seeing it at his smurp.com/cal and previously.
- [[zine]] -> [[us]]
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-20.md by @neil โ
2025-03-20
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Enclosure of the digital commons]].
- [[Cloud capital]].
- [[Modern Times]] and its similarity to working in an Amazon warehouse today.
2025-03-19
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-19.md by @flancian โ
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[[work]]
- [[ai for sre]]!
- good progress overall even though I was a bit tired as I slept one hour fewer than normal
- [[social.coop]]
- early [[fellowship of the link]] with [[aram]]!
- [[dibi58]]
2025-03-18
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-18.md by @neil โ
2025-03-18
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- What led to [[2008 financial crisis]]. Financialisation. Derivatives. Stock options.
2025-03-16
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-16.md by @flancian โ
- I opened a bug (maybe a feature request actually?) for [[wayvnc]]: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/371
- Chill day!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-16.md by @neil โ
2025-03-16
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Read: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- I like the little detour into metallurgy and the [[Bronze Age]] and [[Iron Age]].
- The history of capitalism and finance in the 20th century a bit more dry, though he does a good job at trying to make it more engaging.
- [[Bretton Woods]]. [[US trade deficit]]. [[Nixon Shock]].
2025-03-15
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-15.md by @flancian โ
- I cleaned the house in the morning while I was logged onto [[Flancia meet]] (quiet instance, but that’s alright of course) and it felt good to start the weekend that way; I did kitchen and bathroom floors.
- We had a tough conversation with [[AG]] today, but I think it was the right thing.
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I wrote a script named [[Burup]] to disable the laptop’s keyboard and touchpad so Burup can sleep on it while I continue to use the external keyboard and mouse for browsing/coding :) [[Claude]] helped me find the best way to do this in a 2025 Linux + Wayland install, my first impulse was to reach for xinput but that doesn’t cut it nowadays :) [[libinput]] CLI is reasonable though.
- I think I need to also disable the trackpoint (nipple/joystick that comes with Lenovo laptops) as somehow she still was able to move focus while I was typing this :) The situation is already much improved though.
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-15.md by @neil โ
2025-03-15
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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โAll the birds returnedโ: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
- tags: [[China]]. [[Conservation]].
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China’s EcoโCivilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition - Chen - Antipode - Wiley Online Library
- tags: [[China]]. [[ecological civilization]]. [[Climate Leviathan]].
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โAll the birds returnedโ: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
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[[Read]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- Really enjoying the intro and opening chapter. The personal style is engaging and liking the down to earth way of discussing [[historical materialism]].
2025-03-14
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-14.md by @flancian โ
- I found the card of a barista who once made a good coffee for me somewhere in Osaka: [[Kota Ikenaga]].
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-14.md by @neil โ
2025-03-14
2025-03-13
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-13.md by @flancian โ
- [[Sevilla 2025]]
- Hablรฉ con [[Berni]]!
- [[Peter Murray]]
- I met [[Smurp]] for the first time this past Wednesday.
2025-03-12
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-12.md by @flancian โ
- Move the Incubator meeting to US-friendly
- Check PM AI chatroom
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go/detectr — hold it until US takes it, or Gavin?
- done (later), then Hao plus maybe Abi?
- My new wireless router arrived and it’s already a great improvement in digital quality of life at home :) I hope it continues to work without fuss!
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution journal/2025-03-12.md by @neil โ
2025-03-12
- Listened: [[China Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel]]
2025-03-11
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-11.md by @flancian โ
- Loved the [[15 minutes]] flow
- Played [[The Reluctant Groom]], plus [[Lady Burup]]‘s song :)
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Back here something like 22 hours later, on the other side of the night and day and half there over :)
- Work including oncall was occasionally heavy but still good, felt productive. Worked late and advanced some threads enough, but not as late as yesterday!
2025-03-10
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-10.md by @flancian โ
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[[Lady Burup]] needs to lose some weight, will continue noding the process in [[burup forever]] :)
- I also want to lose 2-3kg or convert them from fat (mostly in my abdomen) to muscle, I’ll try to do this in the following 1-2 months and report back. I currently weigh 76.5kg (I’m ~190cm tall).
- So we’ll do it together, I say! :
2025-03-09
๐ฉโ๐พ Contribution 2025-03-09.md by @flancian โ
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I’m back!
- In [[computer space]] (and time!)
- Travelling was great but I’m looking forward to catching up with projects.
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[[Agora]]:
- Discussed [[2025]] with [[Timur]] in [[Flancia Meet]], also discussed [[Betula]] progress which is very exciting!
- Thought about [[Fediverse]] integration, [[auth]] and data providers.
- Also about simpler and more opaque stuff like [[autopull for numbers]]: number [[n]] should pull e.g. [[prime/n]] because that’s a related node for all integers.
- Hmm, what was by [[root node]] again…? :)