Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-08-16.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-08-16]]

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!
Hmm, nvim is broken in [[guanyin]] somehow…
- [[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 :)
So anyway…?
- [[KM]] :)
- [[EC]] :)
- [[Burup]]:
  - mi [[Lady Burup]]!
  - clean the toilet
- [[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]]:
  - [[The revolution for the benefit of sentient beings]]

garden/flancian/2025-08-06.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-08-06.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-08-06]]

[[km]] :)

garden/flancian/2025-08-04.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-08-04.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-08-04]]

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 :(

garden/neil/journal/2025-08-03.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-08-03.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-08-03]]

2025-08-03

[[Tweaks to org-agenda on mobile to save space]].

garden/flancian/2025-08-01.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-08-01.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-08-01]]

#push [[Ekumen]]
- [[Ekumen]] with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] :D
- [[Interacción Humana]]
- [[Sutty]]
  - [[Economía Cooperativa]]
  - [[Proceso Generativo]]
    - a lo largo de (por defecto) 4 sesiones
  - [[Iteraciones]]
- [[Fediverso]]
- [[beeper]]
- [[next actions]]:
  - Tell Dan and Melissa?
    - CoSocial.ca + Social.coop "base case"?
  - Llenar el cuestionario :)
    - Compartir tesis
  - Repositorio de git :)
    - Para el ágora! Y la tesis?
  - -> Christopher Alexander y la gobernancia de AIs
[[KM]] :D
[[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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-08-01.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-08-01.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-08-01]]

2025-08-01

I currently can’t access [[Emacs Wiki]].
- This looks like why: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1m2lzkr/emacswiki_down/

garden/flancian/2025-07-31.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-07-31.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-07-31]]

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!
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
- Just closed a tab about [[Bursa]] and other places in [[Turkey]]

garden/flancian/2025-07-23.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-07-23.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-07-23]]

Had a very nice start of the day with my mum and Burup.
- Then very nice lunch with [[KM]]!
- Then idem conversation with [[TW]]
  - He told me to look up [[positional embeddings]] as they are key to understanding how attention works in practice

garden/flancian/2025-07-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-07-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-07-21]]

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]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-07-17.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-07-17.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-07-17]]

2025-07-17

A partially corrupted Metabase database. Dangit.

garden/flancian/2025-07-16.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-07-16.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-07-16]]

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!

garden/neil/journal/2025-07-16.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-07-16.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-07-16]]

2025-07-16

[[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 wanted to search for a specific term, but only from meetings with Shevek.
  - M-x rgrep, then search term when prompted, then catchup-with-shevek*.org for the file pattern when prompted.

garden/flancian/2025-07-13.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-07-13.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-07-13]]

Mi mamá tose mucho mientras duerme :(
- Espero que se le pase pronto!
- En todo caso la pasamos muy bien en Calp! Me hizo muy bien.
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!)
- I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
  - 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…)
      - (OK, I spoke too soon, it turns out that [[paramita]] is broken too! Editing wise. So it could be I have fixed nvim only in [[tara]] and forgot to push that change to [[chezmoi]]…)
- 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

garden/flancian/2025-07-12.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-07-12.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-07-12]]

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]]!

garden/neil/journal/2025-07-05.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-07-05.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-07-05]]

2025-07-05

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.
- I haven’t clocked all the details, but a high level it has [[Agora]], [[FedWiki]] etc vibes.
- Some discussion here.

garden/neil/journal/2025-07-04.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-07-04.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-07-04]]

2025-07-04

[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- [[Strike Debt]] campaign. [[Rolling Jubilee]].
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.
[[Bookmarked]]:

garden/neil/journal/2025-07-03.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-07-03.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-07-03]]

2025-07-03

[[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.
[[#ACFM]] is consistently excellent.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-30.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-30.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-30]]

2025-06-30

[[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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-29.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-29.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-29]]

2025-06-29

[[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.

garden/flancian/2025-06-28.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-06-28.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-06-28]]

[[17]]
[[53]]
[[67]]
[[2063]]
[[7]]
[[Höllgrotten]] today with my mum, it was lovely!
I also cleaned the house, did some light project work, and enjoyed into the evening.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-28.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-28.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-28]]

2025-06-28

[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-25.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-25.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-25]]

2025-06-25

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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-24.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-24.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-24]]

2025-06-24

Managed another run. Doing the couch to 5k.

garden/flancian/2025-06-23.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-06-23.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-06-23]]

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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-23.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-23.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-23]]

2025-06-23

Watched: [[The AI Crisis We’re Ignoring]]
- Seems pretty well-researched. I like this guy’s videos in general - he’s an ecosocialist.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-22.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-22.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-22]]

2025-06-22

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]]:
- People vs. Big Tech
  - tags: [[Big Tech]].

garden/flancian/2025-06-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-06-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-06-21]]

Happy!

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-20.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-20.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-20]]

2025-06-20

[[Nobody asked the world if it wanted AI]].
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?

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-19.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-19.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-19]]

2025-06-19

garden/flancian/2025-06-18.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-06-18.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-06-18]]

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 :)

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-16.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-16.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-16]]

2025-06-16

I should read more about [[Permacomputing]].
[[Bookmarked]]:
- What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech - Bert Hubert’s writings
  - tags: [[Libre software]]. [[Big Tech]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-15.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-15.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-15]]

2025-06-15

[[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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-14.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-14.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-14]]

2025-06-14

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-13.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-13.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-13]]

2025-06-13

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]].

garden/flancian/2025-06-12.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-06-12.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-06-12]]

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.
- I wish you the best! That goes for [[P]] and for you, reader:
  - May you be free!
  - May you be happy!
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.
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!

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-10.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-10.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-10]]

2025-06-10

What happens to Zettelkasten, digital gardens, etc, with the advent of generative AI and agentic AI?
- 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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-09.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-09.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-09]]

2025-06-09

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

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-08.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-08.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-08]]

2025-06-08

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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-07.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-07.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-07]]

2025-06-07

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]].
Reading [[A System for Writing]], and learning about [[orgrr]], has gotten me to try [[Folgezettel]].
- [[Folgezettel makes you consider your new notes more carefully]].
I’m currently experimenting with [[running org-roam and orgrr side-by-side]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-06.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-06.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-06]]

2025-06-06

[[Capture ideas you disagree with]].
- Says Bob Doto in [[A System for Writing]].
[[Listened]]: [[Is AI about to steal your job?]]
- [[Agentic AI]] and the Anthropic guy with his [[white collar bloodbath]] prediction.
[[Watched]]: [[Andor]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-05.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-05.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-05]]

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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-03.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-03.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-03]]

2025-06-03

[[Capitalism produces high degrees of inequality]].
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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-02.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-02.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-02]]

2025-06-02

[[Capitalism produces high degrees of inequality]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-06-01.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-06-01.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-06-01]]

2025-06-01

Read: [[The Case for Digital Degrowth]]

garden/flancian/2025-05-31.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-05-31.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-05-31]]

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.
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, qué jaras? Las de Avalokiteshvara!

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-31.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-05-31.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-05-31]]

2025-05-31

[[Capitalism creates and shapes desires]].
[[Capitalism tends towards the commodification of everything]].
Jammed: Pretty in Plums by Shida Shahabi

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-30.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-05-30.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-05-30]]

2025-05-30

Read: [[Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism]]
Bookmarked:
- Fixing as Repair – Fixing Futures
  - tags: [[Repair]].
[[compost.party]] is fun.
- A website running on solar power on an old phone.

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-29.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-05-29.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-05-29]]

2025-05-29

[[Bookmarked]]:
- Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism
  - h/t: [[Panda]].
  - tags: [[Repair]]. [[Marxism]]. [[Commodity fetishism]].
- 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
  - tags: [[AI]]. [[LLM]]s.
- Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
  - tags: [[Capitalism]]. [[Democracy]].
- 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 other…
- International Civil Society’s Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger
  - tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Reclaim the stacks]].
- Criminal Court: Microsoft’s email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty
  - tags: [[Microsoft]]. [[Digital sovereignty]].
- Negatechnology | POST GROWTH TOOLKIT
  - h/t [[Panda]].
- We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard….
  - tags: [[AI]].
- Livin’ on repair: The workshops, garages and cafes of Berlin’s thriving DIY s…
  - tags: [[Repair]]. [[Berlin]].
- Apple launches Self Service Repair for iPad, expands repair programs - Apple
  - tags: [[Apple]]. [[Repair]].

garden/flancian/2025-05-28.md

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[[fellowship of the link]] [[2025-05-28]]
- [[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]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-28.md

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2025-05-28

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
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]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-27.md

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2025-05-27

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 before…
- OK, it wasn’t that bad to be honest. The compilation, at least. Took about 10/15 minutes?
- Now installing 305 packages… 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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-26.md

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2025-05-26

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.
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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-25.md

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2025-05-25

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.
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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-24.md

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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.
[[Listened]]: [[ACFM Trip 48: Political Commitment]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-23.md

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2025-05-23

[[Bookmarked]]:
- Review of The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
  - tags: [[Paris Commune]]. [[Communes]].
- Review of Josh Simons’ Book "Algorithms for the People – Democracy in the Age of AI"
  - tags: [[digital ecosocialism]]. [[AI]]. [[Algorithms]].
- Beyond the New Municipalism: Towards Post‐Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe
  - tags: [[new municipalism]]. [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Territorial sovereignty]].
- Techno-feudalism or Platform Capitalism? Conceptualising the Digital Society
  - tags: [[platform capitalism]]. [[technofeudalism]].
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 more… dynamic.
- Still, the ideas are interesting nonetheless.
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.
[[Fordism]]. [[Post-Fordism]].

garden/flancian/2025-05-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-05-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-05-21]]

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]]
- [[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).

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-21.md

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2025-05-21

garden/flancian/2025-05-20.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-05-20.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-05-20]]

I like magnets — some [[ideas]]:
- [[magnetic computing]]
- [[magnetic 3d printing]]
- [[magnetic assists]]
  - In general magnetism seems like an amazing way to transfer momentum?
- [[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.
- 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.

garden/flancian/2025-05-19.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-05-19.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-05-19]]

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).

garden/flancian/2025-05-18.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-05-18.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-05-18]]

[[moloch]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-18.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-05-18.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-05-18]]

2025-05-18

[[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]].

garden/flancian/2025-05-17.md

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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!

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-17.md

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2025-05-17

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.
[[Public platforms]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-14.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-05-14.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-05-14]]

2025-05-14

[[platform capitalism]].
- It’s all about the [[data]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-11.md

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2025-05-11

[[Bookmarked]]:
- Nature and other dangerous words: Marx, method and the proletarian standpoint in the web of life | Dialectical Anthropology
  - tags: [[Cheap Nature]]. [[Capitalocene]]. [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Jason W. Moore]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-10.md

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2025-05-10

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.
  - e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/24304
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]]:
- Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started? | World news | The Guardian
  - tags: [[World War III]]

garden/flancian/2025-05-09.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-05-09.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-05-09]]

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 :)

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-09.md

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2025-05-09

[[Bookmarked]]:
- What will the new world order look like? Fractures Session 1
  - and https://nextcloud.tni.org/s/XkYotZHmzGXfd2m
  - [[geopolitics]]. [[Imperialism]]. [[China]]. [[United States]].
- WEBINAR: Engineering the Cloud Commons: Tackling Monopoly Control of Critical Digital Infrastructure — Open Markets Institute
  - tags: [[Cloud computing]]. [[Cloud commons]].
- Challenging corporate power | Ethical Consumer
  - tags: [[Corporate power]].
- Where is our clothing made? | Ethical Consumer
  - tags: [[Clothing]]. [[supply chains]].

garden/flancian/2025-05-06.md

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En [[Sevilla]]!
- Para la [[Feria de Sevilla]] con [[BA]].
- Mientras escribo esto, estoy leyendo [[Zelazny]] en una cafetería cerca del departamento donde me estoy quedando.
- Naturalmente empecé a escribir en Español de nuevo después de usarlo más algunos días acá y antes en [[Granada]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-06.md

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2025-05-06

[[Bookmarked]]:
- The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets | The Verge
  - tags: [[repair]]
We’ve been watching [[Andor]].
- It’s very good.

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-04.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-05-04.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-05-04]]

2025-05-04

[[Tweaking Doom Emacs to use SPC SPC]].
- Much nicer than SPC-: on a phone.
- [[My Doom Emacs config]].
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]].
We should put more focus higher up the waste hierarchy.
- [[The UK should put more focus higher up the waste hierarchy]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-05-03.md

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2025-05-03

A potted history of [[My usage of GNU/Linux over the years]].

garden/flancian/2025-05-02.md

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[[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 [[Zürich airport]] waiting to board my flight to Málaga for a week in southern Spain.

garden/flancian/2025-04-30.md

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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]]!

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-30.md

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2025-04-30

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?"

garden/flancian/2025-04-29.md

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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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-29.md

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2025-04-29

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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-27.md

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2025-04-27

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-26.md

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2025-04-26

garden/flancian/2025-04-25.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-04-25.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-04-25]]

[[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]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-25.md

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2025-04-25

[[How to have device-specific values in .dir-locals.el]]

garden/flancian/2025-04-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-04-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-04-21]]

I was part of the [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[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]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-21.md

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2025-04-21

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 neil when I needed to use su - neil.
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.
[[TPM 2.0]]. [[Secure Boot]].

garden/flancian/2025-04-19.md

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Noding from [[bull]] again after some updates :)
- As I’m writing this I’m in [[Bitwäscherei]] enjoying the beautiful afternoon sun while I’m around people who are hacking. It’s lovely!

garden/flancian/2025-04-18.md

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Fixed [[wikivim]] on neovim :)
- 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]].
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, [[Bargalló]].
Liked [[፨]].

garden/flancian/2025-04-17.md

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<<<<<<< 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.

9d5ee8f3b77c2b49c4dd0870222d963ca17bb258

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-15.md

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2025-04-15

[[Bookmarked]]:
- On tech sovereignty – how to nail jelly to a tree – Structural Integrity
  - tags: [[technological sovereignty]]

garden/flancian/2025-04-13.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-04-13.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-04-13]]

Mi [[mamá]] me contó de la vez en que mi papá le pegó, ella hizo la denuncia en la comisaría antes de escaparse a la casa de los padres y los hijos de puta de la comisería llamaron a mi papá y le avisaron para que la fuera a buscar.
- Mi [[tío]] desapareció tres días después de que mi papá (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevó a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reunión de montoneros.
  - -> [[7 de enero de 1977]].

garden/flancian/2025-04-11.md

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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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-11.md

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2025-04-11

[[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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-10.md

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2025-04-10

[[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).

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-09.md

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2025-04-09

[[Listened]]: [[Will Trump’s tariffs tip the world into recession?]]
- Answer seems to be: possibly, yes.

garden/flancian/2025-04-08.md

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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]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-08.md

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2025-04-08

[[Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings]].
- Some hope, courtesy of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].
[[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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-07.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-04-07.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-04-07]]

2025-04-07

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-06.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-04-06.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-04-06]]

2025-04-06

[[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.
[[Capitalism must end]]. [[Capitalism will end]]!
- TBC: When? How?

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-05.md

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2025-04-05

[[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.
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]]:
- Ecosocialism: What Is It and Why Do We Need It? - New Green Horizons
  - tags: [[Ecosocialism]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-04.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-04-04.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-04-04]]

2025-04-04

[[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 Europe’s repair sector | European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform
  - tags: [[Repair]].
[[There is no such thing as society]]
- Yes, [[There is such a thing as society]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-03.md

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2025-04-03

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.

garden/flancian/2025-04-02.md

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garden/flancian/2025-04-01.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-04-01.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-04-01]]

[[España 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]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-04-01.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-04-01.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-04-01]]

2025-04-01

Philip has put a great page together on your options at [[Windows 10 end-of-life]].
- https://wiki.restarters.net/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.

garden/flancian/2025-03-31.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-31.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-31]]

[[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]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-31.md

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2025-03-31

[[Pathways that I’ve done on Kinnu]]

garden/flancian/2025-03-30.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-30.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-30]]

I talked to my mum and it was great.
- We are making travel plans :)
I played [[Minecraft]] with [[Timur]], I appreciated it!
Then I reviewed and cleaned up notes, iterated on projects, spent time with Burup. It felt healing.

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-30.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-30.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-30]]

2025-03-30

[[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 – 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 – shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] – that give rise to their emergent behaviour"
[[Bookmarked]]:
- Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero
  - tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Net zero]].
- In defense of digital commoning
  - tags: [[Digital commons]].
- #2 – Symphonies of Imagination
  - In particular, the solarpunk-flavoured essay on Repair.
  - [[Solarpunk]]. [[Repair]].
- Use Emacs in GUI mode on Android (using Termux and Termux X11)
  - tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].
- Emacs + Termux on Android: Code, Org-mode and Agenda, Dired, Magit and more…
  - tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].
[[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"
Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].

garden/flancian/2025-03-29.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-29.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-29]]

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]]
[[Raspberry Pi 5]]
- Downloading [[Raspberry Pi OS]] (based on Debian so it sounds fine to me…) as I write this :)

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-29.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-29.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-29]]

2025-03-29

[[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.
- 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.
[[Bookmarked]]:
- Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
  - tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Bolivia]]. [[Ecuador]]. [[buen vivir]].
- Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists | Astronomy | The Guardian
  - tags: [[Astronomy]]. [[Dark energy]].
- Don’t fork the ecosystem - by Gordon Brander
  - tags: [[software ecosystems]].
- 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]].
[[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.
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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-28.md

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2025-03-28

[[Bookmarked]]:
- Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
  - tags: [[Google]]. [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
- How much electricity do AI generators consume? | The Verge
  - tags: [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
- Report | AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat — Open Markets Institute
  - tags: [[AI]]
- Chip Production’s Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate and Environmental Impact
  - tags: [[Chip production]].
- What is the Future of Work in the Generative AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis
  - tags: [[AI]]. [[The future of work]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-27.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-27.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-27]]

2025-03-27

Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.
[[Bookmarked]]
- A Political Ecology of the Repair Manual
  - tags: [[Repair]]. [[repair manuals]].
- Geographies of Digital Wasting
  - tags: [[Waste]]. [[supply chains]].
- Thinking about 12 aspects of personal information/knowledge management
  - tags: [[personal knowledge management]].
[[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere
- Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
- Troposphere, …?
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.
- 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 connections on various installed snaps, nothing is currently using it.
  - Removing with extreme prejudice!
- Also /var/lib/snapd/ is gigs big.
  - Cleared /var/lib/snapd/cache/.
- Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next time…
[[How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century]]
[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Feudalism]]. [[Rent]].

garden/flancian/2025-03-23.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-23.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-23]]

Traveling to the US today!
- As I write this I’m typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]].
- I’ve been reading and listening to audiobooks:
  - I started [[Flowers for Algernon]] on the flight from Zürich, 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:
- [[light]]
  - led me to read [[photon]] in Wikipedia, very nice article!
- [[momentum]]
- [[entropy]]
- Quiz: what do momentum and entropy have in common?
[[Waking up]]:
- It turns out there’s going to be a community meetup in Zürich on [[2025-04-01]]!
- Maybe I could check it out. For more, see the email from [[2025-03-22]].
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 :)
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.
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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-23.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-23.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-23]]

2025-03-23

[[Circular economy]].

garden/flancian/2025-03-22.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-22.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-22]]

[[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]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-22.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-22.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-22]]

2025-03-22

[[Astronomy]].
[[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.
- 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]].

garden/flancian/2025-03-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-21]]

[[todo]]:
- I started packing for the [[us]]:
  - [[alfajores]]
  - [[passport]]
  - everything else :)
- 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?
  - 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

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-21.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-21.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-21]]

2025-03-21

My script that pushes to the commonplace-agora repo has stopped pushing.
- Turns out it’s because the SSH key has expired.
- Since when did my SSH keys have expiry dates?
  - I guess it’s a gitlab setting.
- I sshed to my server, created a new key, copied it to gitlab, all from my phone. God bless you [[Termux]] and [[fish]].
Thinking about [[How to actively thwart enclosure and cooptation of the digital commons]].
[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- Cloud serfs, cloud proles, cloud fiefs, cloudalists.

garden/flancian/2025-03-20.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-20.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-20]]

I met [[smurp]] today!
- It was great!
- I got a [[cal]] after seeing it at his smurp.com/cal and previously.
[[zine]] -> [[us]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-20.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-20.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-20]]

2025-03-20

[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Enclosure of the digital commons]].
- [[Cloud capital]].
- [[Modern Times]] and its similarity to working in an Amazon warehouse today.

garden/flancian/2025-03-19.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-19.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-19]]

[[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]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-18.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-18.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-18]]

2025-03-18

[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- What led to [[2008 financial crisis]]. Financialisation. Derivatives. Stock options.

garden/flancian/2025-03-16.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-16.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-16]]

I opened a bug (maybe a feature request actually?) for [[wayvnc]]: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/371
Chill day!
- Played [[Minecraft]] with my nieces (who are in Argentina) :)
- Played [[Minecraft]] with [[Timur]] :)
- Was going to see [[VK]] and her boyfriend but we shifted the appointment to tomorrow.

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-16.md

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2025-03-16

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]].

garden/flancian/2025-03-15.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-15.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-15]]

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.
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.

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-15.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-15.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-15]]

2025-03-15

[[Bookmarked]]:
- ‘All the birds returned’: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
  - tags: [[China]]. [[Conservation]].
- China’s Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition - Chen - Antipode - Wiley Online Library
  - tags: [[China]]. [[ecological civilization]]. [[Climate Leviathan]].
[[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]].

garden/flancian/2025-03-14.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-14.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-14]]

I found the card of a barista who once made a good coffee for me somewhere in Osaka: [[Kota Ikenaga]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-14.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-14.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-14]]

2025-03-14

[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism w/ Yanis Varoufakis]]

garden/flancian/2025-03-13.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-13.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-13]]

[[Sevilla 2025]]
Hablé con [[Berni]]!
[[Peter Murray]]
I met [[Smurp]] for the first time this past Wednesday.

garden/flancian/2025-03-12.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-12.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-12]]

Move the Incubator meeting to US-friendly
Check PM AI chatroom
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!

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-12.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-12.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-12]]

2025-03-12

Listened: [[China Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel]]

garden/flancian/2025-03-11.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-11.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-11]]

Loved the [[15 minutes]] flow
Played [[The Reluctant Groom]], plus [[Lady Burup]]‘s song :)
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!

garden/flancian/2025-03-10.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-10.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-10]]

[[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! :

garden/flancian/2025-03-09.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-09.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-09]]

I’m back!
- In [[computer space]] (and time!)
- Travelling was great but I’m looking forward to catching up with projects.
[[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…? :)

garden/neil/journal/2025-03-08.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-03-08.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-03-08]]

2025-03-08

Listened: [[Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism: An Introduction]]
God, [[snap]] is eating up a lot of space on my drive.
- I think I’ll try to avoid using it in future.
[[Bookmarked]]

garden/flancian/2025-03-03.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-03-03.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-03-03]]

Picked up my laptop after long. This has been quite an offline vacation!
In [[Buzios]] this week, reading about:
- [[Beppo]], [[Borges]]‘s cat.
- [[Lord Byron]].
Also reading a compilation of short stories by [[Greg Egan]] :)
After a day by the beach, we went on a walk with [[AG]] to a lookout point near [[Ferradura]].

garden/neil/journal/2025-02-15.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-02-15.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-02-15]]

2025-02-15

[[Bookmarked]]

garden/flancian/2025-02-09.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-02-09.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-02-09]]

Back noding in [[neovim]] to make sure I keep my travel setup running.
- I could also move to running [[bull]] locally in [[guanyin]] while I travel…
Started the day nicely with [[AG]].
Then did [[Sadhana]], things around the house, and advanced on many threads :)
- During the week I finished the two trivial bull PRs I wanted to get in.
- Now I’m thinking of shifting to a different PR (which?) and to [[Betula]], [[Social.coop]] and [[Agora]] work.
- Sending something to the [[M&Ms]] :)
  - I enjoyed the process a lot! I hope they enjoy the result, even a subset :)
Thought about:
- [[primes]], and again [[prime gaps]], which I now associate with the number #14 because 14 is a first notable prime gap on 113 - 127, and it easily answers ‘prime?’ for an interesting range

garden/flancian/2025-02-05.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-02-05.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-02-05]]

I updated the [[index]] of my garden after long, I think it’s a bit improved.
I donated 2x early today.
I also opened a lot of backlogged correspondence, asked for a [[tax return extension]] (until 2025-09-30) and bought some gifts :)

garden/neil/journal/2025-02-01.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-02-01.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-02-01]]

2025-02-01

Having an absolutely tedious time trying to figure out why the WiFi keeps on dropping out on some of the devices in our house.

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-31.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-31.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-31]]

2025-01-31

[[The Word for World is Forest]]
Lots of interesting people post interesting things on [[LinkedIn]]. If I want to read them, I have to use that platform. Accursed network effects.

garden/flancian/2025-01-28.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-28.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-28]]

[[bull]] now supports tabs in editing mode :)
- enjoying it a lot!
- I am thinking of which other quality of life improvements could easily be added to [[CodeMirror]] if Stapelberg agrees.
- [[vim mode]] is probably going too far? :)
I realized I broke links in [[Agora graphs]] when I pushed the update to remove jquery; I know why, I just need to remember to fix it tonight after work.
- fix it then :)

garden/flancian/2025-01-27.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-27.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-27]]

Noding this from [[bull]] in today’s page in the Agora, meaning anagora.org/2025-01-27; I wonder if this will create a 2025-01-27.md file or somehow just a ‘bare’ 2025-01-27 file. I’ll know soon enough :)
Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]] and it was great as usual. We discussed work and open source; bull and the agora.
I finally bought the tickets for Argentina and Brazil! It feels nice to get that out of the way.
Work was fine!
After work, there was a short Social.coop [[TWG]] meeting with [[Dan Phiffer]] and it was great.
[[Lady Burup]] is very beautiful and a great companion as always!
Spoke to [[Jack Park]] after a while, I’m glad!
- [[SenseCraft]] looks interesting.

garden/flancian/2025-01-26.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-26.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-26]]

I signed up for deepseek.com to try [[deepseek r1]] and I found it quite good to begin with. Then I signed up for its API.

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-26.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-26.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-26]]

2025-01-26

garden/flancian/2025-01-25.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-25.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-25]]

I’m on the [[train back to Zürich]] from Bern.
- I went to a meeting organized by [[Welle]], an organization working in [[human rights in Iran]].
- Then I met [[LP]] and we had dinner and a long chat, it was great!
I will try to work on the Agora while I’m on the train, but maybe I will also just write and read and see where it goes :)
[[Readers of the future]]
- Unite? :)
I read about:
- [[Manuel Rivas]
- [[Doomsday argument]]
- [[Rolando Alarcón]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-24.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-24.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-24]]

2025-01-24

Listening to [[The Word for World is Forest]]
- From [[libro.fm]].
- Really enjoying it. The reader is great.
- [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] mercurial as always.
- Though, when I say enjoying it… it’s a bit grim. This Don Donaldson character is a nasty piece of work, pure American colonialist.

garden/flancian/2025-01-19.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-19.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-19]]

[[ideas]]:
- [[Flancia]]
- [[Agora]]
- [[magnets]]

garden/flancian/2025-01-18.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-18.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-18]]

[[magnets]]

garden/flancian/2025-01-17.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-17.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-17]]

I went to bed a bit later than expected, at around 3am, but it was a productive night and I still managed to sleep enough so I have no regrets :)
The [[dishwasher]] repairperson came over, fingers crossed I’ll have a dishwasher again! Not having it (after only a few years of having it) really made me appreciate it specially.
Then I plan to [[work]] mostly on [[AI]] stuff today.
Then we might go to [[Manor]] with [[AG]] :)

garden/flancian/2025-01-16.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-16.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-16]]

[[work]]
[[social coop organizing circle]]
[[AG]]: was going to come over but stayed home, we’ll see each other tomorrow :)
[[bull]]:
- thanks to https://github.com/gokrazy/bull/issues/8 I’m now running this editor under https://edit.anagora.org/@flancian , one incremental step closer to serving editors for other users :)

garden/flancian/journal/2025-01-14.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/journal/2025-01-14.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-14]]

I’m writing this from [[sariputta]] projected on the wall in the guest room :)
- While watching [[3blue1brown]], checking [[essence of calculus]]. I last studied calculus 15+ years ago :)

garden/flancian/2025-01-13.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-13.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-13]]

Yesterday I ended up working on Sunday as planned and I enjoyed it.
- I also took time to practice, and play, and that made a large difference.
[[flow state]]:
- [[flow state radio]]
I made the move to the office around lunch, now I’m heading into a longish in-office flow session which might last five hours! Wish me luck :)
[[bull]]:
- I like the addition of ctrl+s to save a page a lot
- I’m also using ctrl+e to edit — maybe it would be ideal if it started the editing session at the end of the document instead of the beginning?
- Alternatively I think ctrl+s maybe should save but not go back to view mode; unsure.
Researching how to publish [[snippets]] at work from the command line :)

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-13.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-13.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-13]]

2025-01-13

Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
- Hmm, just plainly stated that [[Degrowth]] is wrong.
- There was a mention of ‘effective’ optimism. Hope that’s not aligned with effective altruism.

garden/ajhalili2006/src/garden/daily-notes/posts/2025-01-12.md

Subnode [[garden/ajhalili2006/src/garden/daily-notes/posts/2025-01-12.md]] by @ajhalili2006 in node [[2025-01-12]]

Daily Note 2025-01-10 / Holidays + Weekly Dump from 2024-12-21 to 2025-01-12

!!! warning "Hack Club Slack links ahead" To access them, you must be in the Slack (high schoolers 18 and below if you are not yet there)

Here’s what I been cooking behind the scenes for today, as well as the holidays dump during the break (2024-12-21 to 2025-01-05) and this school week (2025-01-06 to 2025-01-10), as well as the weekends (2025-01-11 and 2025-01-12).

I know it’s a long break from both doing the daily notes and the long-form blog content, mainly because of school and being hit by the burnout bus.

Holidays Dump 2024

Now let’s talk about what in the living hellscape happened I did during the holidays break, which involves High Seas Sticky Holidays:

literally shipped RecapTime.dev Website before the midnight of January 1, 2025
- last project to ship before midnight (PH Standard Time): SpinStack - Vinyl Record Manager by Oliver Potter (repo, demo)
cooking up between HCB Explorer Discord bot and Hack Club Leeksbot behind the scenes
probably resting between dev work and chores
switching to NixOS with flake-based setup, alongside using home-manager

School Week 2025-01-06 to 2025-01-10

preparing for upcoming Work Immersion schedule on February, among other things
shipped Leeksbot and dotfiles + NixOS configurations, seperated by just a day
done a lot of voting at the Wonderdome to bring my projects for other to vote, got the sea’s blessings for a extra 20% doubloons

The Weekends 2025-01-11 and 2025-01-12

TODO to self: go write this after [[High Seas]]

garden/flancian/2025-01-12.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-12.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-12]]

[[doing]]:
- Copy/pasted from somewhere:
  - [[Demo mode]]:
    - This will slowly but ~surely happen :)
    - Add a toggle
    - Add code that plays a midi
      - -> [[Lady Burup]]
    - Add code that plays an mp3
      - -> [[Heinali]]
    - Add auto-scrolling, auto opening of zippies
  - [[Add users]]
[[worked]] and I liked it
[[donated]]
[[musikino]] is back!
[[prana]] now documented lightly in the Agora :)
- as usual you can use e.g. anagora.org/go/prana/6 to do the yoga session for ‘day 6’, whatever that means to you. I usually do one of go/flow, go/move, etc. on rotation :)
[[Vajradhara]] and [[Vajrasattva]]

garden/flancian/2025-01-11.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-11.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-11]]

I resigned from the [[Social.coop]] [[Community Working Group]] the day after starting the [[vote to suspend meta]] after much discussion and a quick draft done with/for the community. It felt like it was the right time to disengage after I received criticism yet again for ‘moving too fast’ despite looping in people earlier and doing what I thought was a fully reasonable pro-social action to advance discussion (start a proposal on Loomio). This after concerns were escalated by multiple community members, including to the CWG, about Social.coop feeling like less of a safe space due to our lack of visible response.
- One of the criticisms I got amounted (paraphrasing for effect) to needing to have more pre-meetings and go slower. I am fine not having pre-meetings or anything of the sort and doing more and talking less in 2025 as far as I can (within reason), so it seemed like a good moment to finish my CWG engagement (after several years) and focus on the Tech Working Group and the Organizing Circle instead. The CWG is now well-staffed so I am not needed there anymore, which I am thankful for to the people who remain!
- In general the negativity I had gotten used to getting from some members was a bit of an energy drain, and I realized I could use my time more constructively for the community in the other engagements I plan to keep.
[[Bull]] is looking great! I’m now serving it (for myself only for the time being) at https://edit.anagora.org .

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-11.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-11.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-11]]

2025-01-11

Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
- Got it on [[libro.fm]].
  - Intrigued to see how it pans out. Purports to be a data-backed, optimistic approach to tackling [[climate change]].

garden/flancian/2025-01-10.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-10.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-10]]

I’m writing this with my new mechanical keyboard, a [[keychron q3 max]].
- I got this for the office because the previous one was a bit too noisy for the office environment; not that I was the only one using a mechanical keyboard, or that the switches were the noisiest you could get, but I felt like I was contributing to a less inclusive than necessary environment by typing loudly with my headphones at times. And I really like typing with my headphones on :)
- The one that I got, with [[gateron brown switches]], is really quite silent! And I like the tactile feedback enough.
- I am enjoying the typing experience so I’m glad!
- The one thing I would add is maybe a palm rest. I don’t usually use one, but this keyboard is high enough that I feel like that could make it more ergonomic.
- Sometimes it seems to double-register my space bar presses though, which is a bit disconcerting — I hope it’s a matter of adjusting my typing style to the switches and not a hardware issue! I’ll keep an eye on it.
  - Maybe [[NKRO]] is a factor here? Trying the recommendation in https://www.reddit.com/r/Keychron/comments/1ba9vxy/comment/l9bu0ys
[[ekumen]]
- [[eduardo mercovich]] me recomendó [[zen browser]]
[[social.coop]]
- lots of talk about the Meta change in policies with respect to hateful speech.
- then more talk.
- then [[against meta]] went through draft revisions.
- then the [[vote to suspend meta]].

garden/flancian/2025-01-09.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-09.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-09]]

I read about/experimented with:
- [[openai webrtc api]]
- [[gemini live]]
[[pipewire]]:
- [[easyeffects]]
- [[wpctl]] for [[wireplumber]]

garden/flancian/2025-01-08.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-08.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-08]]

First time starting a journal node from [[bull]] :)
- I will be using the opportunity to take notes about the things I would change in Bull over time, as I try to use it as a default [[Agora editor]].
[[bull bugs]]:
- I can’t seem to be able to indent blocks :) Pressing tab while editing moves to "view site information" in Chromium, which is surprising.
- Thankfully ctrl+] works, which is awesome and a life saver, but the default behavior could be improved probably?
- I’m also missing [[vim keys]], which [[Silverbullet]] has, although ideally that could be solved at the browser level (e.g. by [[vimium]]); maybe it’s an option for the editor module [[bull]] uses?
- Anyway, better update to head before I file bugs :)
[[quotes]]:
- "I have the solution, you just have to believe in it"
Today I read and wrote about the [[Meta]] terms and policies changes and the [[Fediverse]].
- It seems social.coop will have a vote on whether to suspend threads.net.
Work was quite alright actually!

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-07.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-07.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-07]]

2025-01-07

This year, I am celebrating having a 10 year old laptop.
- My [[Lenovo Thinkpad T450s]].
- The release date for the T450s was 2015.
- Though I got it second-hand in 2019.

garden/flancian/2025-01-06.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-06.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-06]]

[[work]]
[[twg]] roadmap: [[twg 2025]]
[[mohammed]]
[[cognacore]]
[[bill anderson]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-06.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-06.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-06]]

2025-01-06

Read and finished [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
- Thick time
- Max Weber and Calvinism
- I liked it in general. I’m on board with the general gist of the anti productivity sentiments.
  - Sometimes it came across a bit… wilfully contrary? Not sure.

garden/flancian/2025-01-04.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-04.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-04]]

[[pure land buddhism]] -> [[universal gate chapter]]
[[chilliad]]
[[secrets]]
love [[bitwascherei]] already
[[gotosocial]]:
- Brought up social.agor.ai provisionally, considering which domain to run this on — and whether to do a [[split domain deployment]].
- Which one is better as a handle for the Agora bot and a user?
  - @agora@agor.ai?
  - @flancian@agor.ai?
  - @agora@social.agor.ai?
  - @flancian@social.agor.ai?
  - @agora@flancia.agor.ai?
  - @flancian@flancia.agor.ai?
  - @agora@anagora.org?
  - @flancian@anagora.org?
  - They mean different things, of course. All but @agora@social.agor.ai while ‘allocating’ social.agor.ai require a split domain deployment as per the current setup I’m running for Agoras. It doesn’t sound too difficult to try split domains using traefik, I could give it a try. But in that case, should I run these in @agor.ai (shorter/cooler?) or in @flancia.agor.ai (most correct as I’m planning on having this instance handle the usernames in flancia.agor.ai or anagora.org?
- Update (after discussing with people): I think I’m going with the simplest thing that might work, meaning social.agor.ai is one instance that different people and agoras can use for social services, and handles are foo@social.agor.ai.

garden/flancian/2025-01-03.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-03.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-03]]

[[AG]] :)
[[worked]]
[[Kris]]
[[Avatamsaka sutra]]
[[stormy weather]]

garden/neil/journal/2025-01-02.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2025-01-02.md]] by @neil in node [[2025-01-02]]

2025-01-02

Planning to update spacemacs to latest.
- As noted recently, usually something breaks in this process.
- So I’ll look at ways to do this with minimal disruption.
- I think trying to do it using multiple config directories seems a good approach.
  - That’ll be useful for if I ever want to run spacemacs and Doom side-by-side, too, for example, or my own vanilla Emacs.
- One issue to resolve first - you need Emacs 29 for the –init-directory flag. I’m still on 28.1.
  - OK, I’ll try and tackle that first.
[[Updating to Emacs 29 on Linux Mint]]

garden/flancian/2025-01-01.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2025-01-01.md]] by @flancian in node [[2025-01-01]]

[[New Years Eve]] was great, [[2025]] started great!
- Party at [[AG]]‘s
- Then at a friend’s
- Then at [[Zentralwäscherei]], where I met some old and new interesting people!
- -> [[Bitwäscherei]]
[[Yi Jian Mei]] is stuck in my head (in the sense that it comes up spontaneously every day or so) and I don’t mind

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-30.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-30.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-30]]

2024-12-30

[[Bookmarked]]
- Charity Digital - Topics - Digital inclusion: A year in review

garden/flancian/2024-12-29.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-29.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-29]]

Checking out [[bull]] by [[stapelberg]]!

garden/flancian/2024-12-28.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-28.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-28]]

[[j0lms]]: [[plurality]]
[[flancia meet]]
- was quiet but it still felt good to be ‘back’ :)
had coffee with my neighbours, it was great!
cleaned the house a bit
talked to my mum, I enjoyed it and it was great seeing her
started a new notebook (ha), this one is a square with a pixel grid — a gift from the [[nintendo museum]] by [[mpd]]
share photos
run collect over notebooks and papers, this usually makes me feel better (I have a lot of context all around, putting it back in one place/pile usually helps manage it/consolidate)
[[december 2024 adventure]]
[[agora writing]]
had interesting conversations in the [[fediverse]] about:
- [[ai]]
- [[sustainability]]
- leading to [[ilich]], who I still haven’t read — will try to set up his book in my [[kobo]] to read it tonight/soon
I read about [[recursively enumerable]] sets and languages — I remembered these were some of my favorite back when I studied computer science when I was 27 or 28. This led me to read again about complexity classes, hierarchies and then [[diophantine]] sets :)
Also had a great time playing with [[Lady Burup]], and we even watched [[3blue1brown]] together! Pictures likely in the Fediverse :)

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-28.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-28.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-28]]

2024-12-28

Reading [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
- The efficiency trap - the more efficient you get, the more things you will fit into to do list, ultimately not gaining any time.
- Productivity techniques are a way of facilitating avoidance of making hard choices.
  - By claiming you can get more efficient and fit more in, you can avoid having to decide what not to do.
- Pay yourself first.
- Keep three things in progress.

garden/flancian/2024-12-27.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-27.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-27]]

[[maqna]] looks cool
[[open letters]] is making a comeback? :)
like [[december 2024 adventure]], late but surely and with gusto
[[maybe]]

garden/flancian/2024-12-26.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-26.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-26]]

Walked to [[Glattpark]] with [[AG]] going by [[Katzenbach]], it was very nice. We enjoyed the sun.
Read further about [[prime gaps]] and [[twin primes]].
- Also about the [[gamma function]].
- Also about [[holomorphic]] and [[analytic]] functions. And [[Brook Taylor]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-26.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-26.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-26]]

2024-12-26

[[My answers to Sophie’s questions about digital gardens]]

garden/flancian/2024-12-24.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-24.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-24]]

[[smallcircles]]
I’m back baby :)
Travel was hard at times but also beautiful
Listening to [[Que He Sacado Con Quererte]] by [[Violeta Parra]]
- and then to [[Run Run Se Fue Pa’l Norte]], hermosas

garden/flancian/2024-12-23.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-23.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-23]]

Back home!
- After 15 days spent in the US west coast (working) and then Japan (traveling with friends).
- I slept home in Oerlikon alone as I crashed not so long after arriving due to jet lag; [[AG]] will come with [[Lady Burup]] later today.
- I woke up at 6am after only 7 hours of sleep due to jetlag despite only getting five hours yesterday and I decided to just get up and start doing things; I’ll try to take a nap later today as needed.
Non-prioritized list of things I want to take a look at now that come to mind and I wanted to jot down:
- [[Cline]] — I heard it’s a good AI plugin for [[vscode]] that is not too opinionated/walled-gardeny (is that a word? maybe it should be)
- [[Posty]] — something cooked by [[Oliphant]] over at the Fediverse which sounds a lot like something I wanted to build/I wanted to see someone build)
- This [[talk by Dan Dennett]] who passed away this year.
- [[social.coop]] activity — some threads on Mastodon, some on Matrix, some on Loomio surely
All in all this is supposed to be a free "jetlag recovery day" so I’ll just try to enjoy it and also spend time offline.
I read [[Alan Watts]]‘s Wikipedia page (again? unsure) and I wondered again about his alcoholism and relatively early death at 58.
I finished [[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]] today, after starting it and reading most of it yesterday during the flights. I liked it quite a bit! In particular the relationship between the protagonist/narrator and Mike/[[Mycroft]], the AI; and how it went straight into the topic of collaborating with AI towards the revolution.

garden/flancian/2024-12-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-21]]

Writing this on the flight from [[Tokyo]] to [[Copenhagen]] while on my way back to [[Zürich]].
- I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
  - "Western" planes are avoiding the whole of Russian airspace, likely because of the war. In retrospect I should have known this!
  - The navigation map available to the public in planes does not reflect in any way the course set by pilots. Instead it seems to just show the [[great circle]] to the destination from the current position. This held true through the trip. Indeed, the ‘projected path’ was roughly orthogonal to the true path at least until we reached the Bearing Strait (which is when I’m writing this).
- I was planning on catching up on coding and writing (beyond this short entry), but I forgot to charge my laptop and there are no chargers in economy, so there goes that plan :) Well, I have plenty of reading to do so it’ll be fine.

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-19.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-19.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-19]]

2024-12-19

[[Bookmarked]]
- Starmer urged to change donation rules amid talk of Musk bankrolling Reform |…
  - [[Elon Musk]]. [[Reform UK]].
  - Oh hell.

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-16.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-16.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-16]]

2024-12-16

[[Bookmarked]]
- Supernote’s new E Ink tablet is upgradeable and repairable - The Verge

garden/flancian/2024-12-15.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-15.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-15]]

I’m writing this on the [[Shinkansen]] from [[Hiroshima]] to [[Osaka]].
- The [[Hiroshima Museum]], by which I mean the [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum]], was very interesting and very shocking — even though I thought I knew what to expect, the effect on me was strong. I could notice it also on other people who were there.
- In Osaka I intend to:
  - Try interesting food (of course) :)
    - [[Kushikatsu]]? Hopefully there’s a meat-free version.
  - Visit new neighborhoods, like [[Shinsekai]] and [[Den Den Town]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-14.md

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2024-12-14

[[Bookmarked]]
- New UK data centres could have a devastating impact on our environment, and o…
  - [[data centre]]
- Library of Things Toolkit - Shareable
  - [[Library of things]].

garden/flancian/2024-12-13.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-13.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-13]]

I’m writing this on my way to [[Japan]] ([[Fukuoka]]) from [[Honolulu]] :)
- I just finished [[Story of your life]] and other stories by [[Ted Chiang]], I liked it a lot. I don’t know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
- Some related concepts/topics:
  - [[Fermat’s Principle of Least Time]]
  - [[The Castle of the Pyrenees]] by [[Magritte]]
- He likes [[Borges]] (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his [[Golem]] related story, but there’s such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective [[Borgesian]] (IIRC) once.
[[Agora development]]:
- [[agora bot migration]]:
  - The current [[agora bot]] for Mastodon is still ceasing to work on [[2024-12-15]] as per https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ but I have failed to do anything about it… until now :)
  - To start with, I’ve now requested a post archive to save the ~~14k posts it has produced since it started operating~~ two years ago.
  - I’ll also look for an alternate instance, and try to set up a migration flow (for keeping followers).

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-11.md

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2024-12-11

[[Bookmarked]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-09.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-09.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-09]]

2024-12-09

[[Listened]]: [[Novara Live: Assad Falls: What Next For Syria?]]

garden/flancian/2024-12-08.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-08.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-08]]

I’m flying to [[San Francisco]] to work from [[Sunnyvale]] for a few days. As I write this I’m on a SAS A330 sitting in 51A with the seat next to me empty, the plane being about 70% full.
I started listening to [[Right Concentration]] by [[Leigh Brasington]] (sp?) on the way to Copenhagen where I made my short connection.
Now I’ve finally started properly reading the [[Fediversalist Papers]] (I’ve been waiting for such an occasion) and found the report immediately engrossing.
- …and finished :) I tried taking good enough notes to then share with the Social.coop working groups and organizing Circle.
I’m still two hours away from San Francisco. Not much more battery left in my laptop, so maybe I’ll just keep reading something else.
I finished reading [[Thich Nhat Hanh]]‘s commentary on the [[Heart Sutra]]. I enjoyed it a lot :) Thank you Thich as usual.
- [[Mindfulness Bell]] is a journal that I’d like to check out.

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-08.md

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2024-12-08

[[Read]]: [[Wasteland]]
- In the epilogue, a bit of reflection on how we actually reduce waste.
- Looks at [[ethical consumption]], [[zero waste]] and the [[circular economy]] with a critical eye. Them having been coopted by corporations.
- Ultimately, his conclusion seems to be: [[degrowth]]. Consume less, produce less.
  - That doesn’t really address the problems of industrial waste though.

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-07.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-07.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-07]]

2024-12-07

Blurters gonna blurt.
- [[microblurting]].
- Going to try popping them in daily files in a subfolder.
Read: [[Wasteland]].
- [[Nuclear waste]]. [[Sellafield]].
- The book is great, well written and researched.
- But I’m finding the subject matter ultimately quite depressing.
- Particularly as it’s getting into [[industrial waste]]. It’s huge in scale.
- [[Nuclear power]] and the corresponding waste is such a prime example of human hubris and folly.
- This shit is going to be around for tens of thousands of years, yet we don’t seem to have a clue what we’re doing with it.

garden/flancian/2024-12-06.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-06.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-06]]

[[do the right thing]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-06.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-06.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-06]]

2024-12-06

The bookmarks from yesterday look pretty messy.
- Maybe better to indent them all under one heading.
[[Read]] (well, skimmed): [[Beyond Waste: Essential Skills for a Greener Tomorrow]]
Read: [[Wasteland]]
- [[household waste]] vs [[industrial waste]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-05.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-05.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-05]]

2024-12-05

[[Bookmark]]: Climate Vanguard
- "Political Education for Collective Liberation"
[[Bookmark]]: How I Use Org-Roam to Take Notes for CS - Michael
- Site inspiration.
- Very pleasing looking font / text rendering.
- I see it’s making use of Hugo.
[[Bookmark]]: The Eco-Socialist Party — Climate Vanguard
- [[Ecosocialism]].
Today I was writing a newsletter. In my ongoing push to do everything in [[Emacs]], I set up org-preview-html to get a nice HTML preview pane as I was writing it in [[org-mode]]. I then copied and pasted from that into Drip’s wysiwyg editor. Worked pretty well.
[[Bookmark]]: Levelling up through circular economy jobs » Green Alliance
- [[Green jobs]]
[[Bookmark]]: Beyond Waste: Essential Skills for a Greener Tomorrow report
- [[Green jobs]]
[[Bookmark]]: Capitalism kills: The case for ecosocialism | Green Left
[[Bookmark]]: Reclaiming digital sovereignty
As one might have noticed, I’m logging bookmarks in the journal stream.
[[Read]]: some [[Wasteland]].
- [[mining]]. [[Tailings]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-04.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-04.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-04]]

2024-12-04

[[Read]] some [[Wasteland]].
- [[Agbogbloshie]]
- [[Basel Convention]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-03.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-03.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-03]]

2024-12-03

[[Wasteland]].
- [[Toxic colonialism]].
- Companies incinerating products to save money.
- Little bit if a history of [[planned obsolescence]].
- Types of obsolescence.
- [[Batterygate]].
- [[Right to repair]].

garden/flancian/2024-12-02.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-12-02.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-12-02]]

At [[work]], and back to noding using [[wiki vim]] using my ‘terminal only’ workspace.
- [[keyboards]]: A coworker recommended the [[keychron]] [[q14 alice]] with [[jupiter brown]] switches. It looks and sounds amazing.
[[december adventure]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-02.md

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2024-12-02

Read Where to draw the line? - by Gordon Brander
- About [[complex systems]], modularity, compositionality, and boundaries.
- Not a fan of [[Substack]], but always enjoy [[Gordon Brander]]‘s writing on [[systems]] and adjacent topics.
- A shame that Gordon canned [[Subconscious]].
Note that [[Substack]] has it’s short form posts now.
- A decent move, a combining of elements of the garden and the stream in one service.
- Essentially another walled garden version of what [[IndieWeb]] does.
I love using [[spacemacs]] and [[Emacs]].
- However, one big negative - I’m always scared to update spacemacs to latest, as well as packages from Melpa.
- Pretty much at least one important thing breaks every time that I do, and as I need this for my work, I can’t often spare that time.
- So I tend to put it off and lag behind.
- I imagine there’s things I can do that would mitigate the risk and friction - I should look into those.
  - One simple idea is just to have two version running side-by-side. I might be able to do that actually, I think there’s a flag you can pass Emacs to say where to look for your conf folder.

garden/neil/journal/2024-12-01.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-12-01.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-12-01]]

2024-12-01

Continuing from yesterday, yeah it seems like the touch input doesn’t work great on the native Android Emacs build, either.
- So, Termux’s text input view is probably the best option for now.
- orgzly is brilliant for task management, but you don’t get the whole range of Emacs’ powers.

garden/flancian/2024-11-30.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-30.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-30]]

I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
- It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
- I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
I say [[We Will Defeat Moloch]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-30.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-30.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-30]]

2024-11-30

[[Wasteland]]
- [[Food waste]] and [[gleaning]].
Writing prose in [[Emacs]] with [[Termux]] is a little weird.
- It’s because you have to workaround the fact that terminal emulators don’t generally work well with touch keyboards.
- Termux solves this cleverly with a text input view you can access by swiping left on the extra keys row.
- It’s neat, but not optimal for longer-form writing.
- Options:
  - Use orgzly for longer text input.
  - Try Emacs native Android build again.
  - Stick with it, it’s not that bad.
Going all in on [[libre software]] and [[open hardware]] is a key part of [[digital ecosocialism]].
- That said, use of proprietary alternatives may be necessary during transition.
Provisioning the [[knowledge commons]] with info on what software is good, how to use it, how to switch to it, etc, also very important.
[[Wasteland]]
- [[Soil]], [[composting]], and a surprise mention of [[metabolic rift]].
- It’s a well-written book - well paced, informative, humorous.
- [[Biogas]].
[[Waste]] and what you do with it is an important part of any [[system]].
- This is part of why I’m finding [[Wasteland]] so interesting.
  - Here the system is society.
- You can try and reuse it circulate it back into your system. Or you sink it somewhere in the environment.
  - It seems though, nothing is ever truly a sink - it always comes back one way or another…
- Or you try and reduce how much of it there is in the first place.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-29.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-29.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-29]]

2024-11-29

Watched [[Why Spaced Repetition Doesn’t (Always) Work]]
- Clickbaity title, but good points about [[spaced repetition]].
[[Wasteland]]
- [[Cholera]]. [[Sewers]].

garden/flancian/2024-11-28.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-28.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-28]]

[[2024-11-27]] took place as well (linking it so I can then go node it :)
Interesting conversation in [[Agora discuss]]!
- [[Zicklag]] wrote about [[weird.one]], sounds very cool, it would be great to catch up synchronously with them and [[Erlend]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-28.md

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2024-11-28

Watched [[Agentic Product Development]]
- Not sure I understand how the talk relates to the title.
- But I like the concepts discussed a lot.
  - To me it felt like a description of [[IndieWeb]] without really mentioning IndieWeb.
    - Except in the talk subtitle? And one side mention of IndieAuth.

garden/flancian/2024-11-27.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-27.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-27]]

I woke up with a headache for some reason, and it came back during the day, but otherwise I was fine.
I worked and then attended the [[end of year dinner]] with my coworkers.
- There was also a [[bowling]] afternoon event which I skipped as I felt I was too behind work and I wanted to use the opportunity to catch up.
- Even as I decided to skip it I knew that, with the passage time, I would remember the bowling event but not the afternoon working. But I decided to do it anyway as I also knew my mental state would be affected by not making progress on some tasks, and I think in the end it was a reasonable choice.
- I enjoyed dinner. I actually like my coworkers, I’m lucky in that (and many ways!).
Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.
- I played [[Amores Hallarás]] for the first time in A (what I remembered/whistled) and in B (as per the recording by [[Inti Illimani]]).

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-27.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-27.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-27]]

2024-11-27

[[Wasteland]]
- Now discussing [[reuse]]. Waste prevention.
Learned of [[Weird]] and [[Leaf]] from Zicklag on Agora Discuss.
- Very interesting!
- Weird: "prosocial network based on the cornerstone of the internet:Personal websites."
  - This is music to my ears.
[[Watched]] [[Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap]]
- It’s a trap!
- [[B Corps]] started off decent enough, but some problematic admissions recently (Nespresso?)

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-25.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-25.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-25]]

2024-11-25

[[Wasteland]].
- [[Landfill]].
- [[Recycling]].
- [[Energy from waste]].
All of the above methods of [[waste disposal]] are problematic one way or another. Reduction of production and consumption rates really is the only solution. (i.e. degrowth).

garden/flancian/2024-11-24.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-24.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-24]]

Still recovering from disease (flu? covid? unsure) with [[AG]] — but feeling better thankfully, both of us.
Ended up testing [[backup restores]] for [[social.coop]] finally and it felt great! It was in the todo list for long.
Not so much progress on [[work-work]] this weekend — which I know might sound a bit weird, why is it that I sometimes plan to work on the weekends? The truth is that some of the things I need to do I find it hard to do during the week for a variety of reasons, like meeting load. So I sometimes use the weekend to catch up. But when I don’t I have to at some point ‘let go of it’, else it weights on me implicitly.
Spoke to my mum over [[Meet]] and it was great!

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-24.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-24.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-24]]

2024-11-24

garden/flancian/2024-11-23.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-23.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-23]]

[[23]] is [[Lady Burup]]‘s day :)
- A chill day at home, with snow outside. I’m taking care of [[AG]] a bit as she’s sick.
Todo for the day:
- rest :)
- fix mastodon embeds in the Agora? they are still broken after most instances updated to 4.3
  - I didn’t quite fix this yet but I found two bugs doing this and made progress :)
  - First, social.coop embed.js had not been updated in years. We need a step to update static content when updating the instance! I mentioned it in the room.
  - Second, I filed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33049 against Mastodon. I don’t get how their "new style" embeds are supposed to work, embed.js seems a bit weird. Let’s see what they say.
- work: on that work document at least for one pomodoro
- work: book meetings for the upcoming week (see paper notebook)
- social.coop: CWG oncall
  - Some spam reports.
  - No new registrations since yesterday.
- social.coop: TWG next steps towards alpha.social.coop
  - Hmm, what does this mean?
  - I guess I should fill that form to get a VPS from iocoop now that we have joined! That sounds simple enough/fun.
- write
- read

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-23.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-23.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-23]]

2024-11-23

[[Wasteland]].
- When Blue Planet had its episode on plastic waste in the oceans, the anti-plastic public reaction gave the price of recycled plastic a huge boost.
  - Interesting to think how television programmes can still have such a system changing effect.
  - See also the documentary about the [[British Post Office scandal]].
- Apparently a plastic bag was found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
I hope to find the time to start participating in the [[IndieWeb Carnival]].
- I like it as a concept for nudging people to write in their blogs.
  - It is an example of the [[Ritualize Togetherness]] pattern of commoning, too.
    - Which reminds me… would be good to keep [[Node Club]] going.

garden/flancian/2024-11-22.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-22.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-22]]

back to the office finally, after a few days sick working from home! it was nice going back.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-22.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-22.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-22]]

2024-11-22

Downloaded [[Wasteland]] from [[libro.fm]].
- But… now I can’t find my headphones.
Found them!
The opening to [[Wasteland]], where he outlines the scale of waste we produce worldwide, puts me in mind of the bit in [[Doughnut Economics]] where she discusses broadening our conception of the economy to be embedded within the biosphere.
- How the economy has sources and sinks to the wider environment.
- Wasteland tells just how much of a sink we treat the planet as, as we dump our waste into it.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-21.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-21.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-21]]

2024-11-21

Finished rereading (listening) [[Doughnut Economics]].
- Still relevant and useful.
- I should write up some takeaways. (Maybe use that rubric from the OU module?)

garden/flancian/2024-11-20.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-20.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-20]]

I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
- Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-20.md

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2024-11-20

[[Substack]]
- Don’t call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

garden/flancian/2024-11-19.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-19.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-19]]

[[work]]
- I woke up sick but I worked from home anyway.
- [[Meet University]] was good!
then I rested after work, ate something, spent time with [[Burup]] and caught up with friends
then I thought about:
- [[Ekumen]]:
  - Spoke to [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about next steps, caught up with email :)
  - Set up coordination device for first meeting
    - What’s the name of that nice modern [[doodle alternative]] again…?
    - We used it in the [[twg]]]…
    - [[crab fit]]!
  - Update git repo in some interesting way?
  - What about [[ekumen.agor.ai]]? :)
[[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-19.md

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2024-11-19

[[causal loop diagram]]s.
Looking at Lend Engine and MyTurn as software options for our [[library of things]].

stream/agora@social.agor.ai/2024-11-19.md

Subnode [[stream/agora@social.agor.ai/2024-11-19.md]] by @agora@social.agor.ai in node [[2024-11-19]]

[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/113789496405461331

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-18.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-18.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-18]]

2024-11-18

[[wp cli]] is handy.
In a [[causal loop diagram]], where do you put actions, things that happen? I guess it’s a flow. But, what causes the flow?

garden/flancian/2024-11-17.md

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[[17]] stands for: [[Right Concentration]], [[Maitreya]] :)
We’re planning on going to the cinema with friends today to watch [[Anora]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-17.md

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2024-11-17

Reread Robin Sloan’s article on [[Stock and flow]].
- As an analogy for garden and stream.
- Not sure if it’s an analogy to [[stocks and flows]] specifically in systems thinking, or there’s a more generic economic concept.
- Anyway - he makes a good point that it’s not good to be all stock, no flow.
- He means it in the sense of, you should post to the stream a little bit, so people know what you’re up to.
- I should consider that - I generally don’t post to social media streams, just to my journal here.
- Which I like as it remains distraction free.
- But it does reduce social interaction significantly.

garden/flancian/2024-11-16.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-16.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-16]]

Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
- I heard and read of [[Mathilde Sanders]]
Excited about yesterday finding:
- [[wikibonsai]]
- [[structured conversational communication]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-16.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-16.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-16]]

2024-11-16

[[Doughnut Economics]]
- Some mentions of [[Libre software]], [[knowledge commons]], [[Cooperatives]] as parts of an economy that is distributive by design.

stoa/doc.anagora.org/2024-11-16.md

Subnode [[stoa/doc.anagora.org/2024-11-16.md]] by @anonymous@doc.anagora.org in node [[2024-11-16]]

Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
I heard of [[Mathilde Sanders]]

garden/flancian/2024-11-15.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-15.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-15]]

I [[worked]]; it was fine actually, I had a late review meeting (I don’t usually have meetings on Fridays) but it was interesting/felt worth it.
I met [[L]]! We spent some of the afternoon together. It was very nice to see her.
I then worked on [[social.coop]], scaling up (with [[Dan]]). Then I read/wrote/coded a bit.
- Maybe did yoga? But that was [[2024-11-16]] :)

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-14.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-14.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-14]]

2024-11-14

On Tuesday I went to a workshop on learning the basics of electrical repairs.
- Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
  - The round of intros took up a lot of the session though…
- Had a bit of an overview on useful tools and basic electronic components, wired a plug, and then started repairing broken items we had brought with us.
- It’s a two parter. Next time we’ll look at using a [[multimeter]], [[PAT testing]], and the [[right to repair]].
[[Doughnut Economics]] has a good overview of what a [[system]] is and why [[systems thinking]] of useful.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-13.md

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2024-11-13

The [[Our Changing Climate]] video channel is good.
- Watched: [[Why We Need Socialism]]
- Watched: [[What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?]]

garden/flancian/2024-11-11.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-11.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-11]]

I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
- It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
- Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/<n> be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
[[Algún día]]
Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
- I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
- I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
- I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
- I thought of the future.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-11.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-11.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-11]]

2024-11-11

garden/flancian/2024-11-10.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-10.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-10]]

[[agora development]]:
- fix mastodon 4.3 embeds?
- and what comes next?
[[writing]]:
- I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
- [[letters]]: some [[closed]], some [[open]]
To test [[collimation]]:
- As it’s cloudy, maybe I’ll observe the distant LEDs in a construction crane ~500m away tonight.

garden/flancian/2024-11-09.md

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garden/neil/journal/2024-11-09.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-09.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-09]]

2024-11-09

[[Doughnut Economics]]
- The developer of the concept of [[GDP]], Simon Kuznets, didn’t think it was a good measure of national welfare.
Microblurting with a mindmap.
- [[my blurts]]
- After trying a few different mindmap apps on Android, going with miMind for now.
- Alas, hand-writing PlantUML mind map markup doesn’t cut it for current purposes.
[[Doughnut Economics]]
- The [[Holocene]] is an incredibly hospitable Earth and the favourable conditions would last for an unusually long time, were we humans not pushing the planet out of this period of stability.
- We need to change the indicator for success from ever upwards and forwards growth to dynamically thriving in balance.

garden/flancian/2024-11-08.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-08.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-08]]

2024-11-08

Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
- [[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
- I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
Tomorrow I’ll see [[AG]] :)
This evening after work I started working on the Agora and writing. [[Lady Burup]] is sitting to my back on her green cushion.
Someone reached out over [[Telegram]].
I thought about [[Ekumen]].
I did [[Agora development]].
- I iterated on more interface issues that had long nagged me/I had long wanted to work on.
- Shipped iterations in the [[themes]].
- Changed button location to have it make more sense given what it actually does.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-08.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-08.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-08]]

2024-11-08

[[digital ecosocialism]]
[[Doughnut Economics]]
- I like the seven ways to think like a 21st century economist:
  - Change the Goal
  - See the Big Picture
  - Nurture Human Nature
  - Get Savvy with Systems
  - Design to Distribute
  - Create to Regenerate
  - Be Agnostic about Growth

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-07.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-07.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-07]]

2024-11-07

Not sure how to process the US election 2024 results.
- It feels pretty devastating. The short term and long term repercussions seem catastrophic.
- Right now, avoiding all the news and analysis - too much to get lost in and I don’t have the headspace for it at the moment.
- Finding ways to offer practical solidarity to threatened and affected groups in the US seems like the most productive action in the short term.

garden/flancian/2024-11-06.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-06.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-06]]

I shipped a fix to wiki.social.coop (the result of coworking with Dan through the week, it was great!)
I shipped some layout/theme improvements to anagora.org, it felt great as well. I like UI stuff actually it seems, in the right dosage.
I worked and I was a bit tired at times but it was good and interesting.
The [[US Election]] news hit hard, myself and many friends.
I spent time with [[Lady Burup]] in the evening :)

garden/flancian/2024-11-05.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-05.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-05]]

[[birthdays]]
[[music hackspace]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-05.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-05.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-05]]

2024-11-05

Wow - I am blown away by how fantastically useful [[org mode clock tables]] are.

garden/flancian/2024-11-04.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-04.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-04]]

Back to work :)
- I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
- Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
Thought about social.coop after work
- [[TWG]]:
  - meeting?
- [[CWG]]:
  - Also the question of [[matrix]] for coordinating work, which is met with resistance by some working group members only. For me interop is the clear solution, let’s see.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-04.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-04.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-04]]

2024-11-04

Listening to [[Doughnut Economics]] now.
- I’ve recently read it, but seemed like a good choice to revisit - big ideas but palatably presented.
- Also I consider it reasonably [[ecosocialist]] in outlook. The combo of social foundation and planetary boundaries. Even though it presents itself somewhat apolitically.
[[Data commons]] are [[digital ecosocialism]].
- I work on a data commons - the [[Open Repair Alliance dataset]].

garden/flancian/2024-11-03.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-03.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-03]]

I’m going to try to go back to keeping more of my todo list here digitally.
Today was good; melancholy at times, but it ended up on high notes.
Tomorrow I have the day off, but I might work anyway.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-03.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-03.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-03]]

2024-11-03

[[Some small experiments in ‘microblurting’]]
Finished [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] (audiobook)
- Fun and informative and very wide ranging on various science topics.
- My immediate takeaway: the Universe is sublime, Earth is amazing, life is improbable and astonishing; human intelligence is incredible, yet we are astoundingly terrible stewards of life and the planet.
  - And we need to resolve that last issue immediately.
- Listened via [[libro.fm]].

garden/flancian/2024-11-02.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-02.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-02]]

[[japan 2024]]
I came across [[Bluesky and enshittification]] by [[Cory Doctorow]]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-02.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-02.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-02]]

2024-11-02

Everybody blurts, sometimes
- [[my blurts]]
More one handed mode configuration for Termux:
- [[making it easier to open the session drawer in Termux in right-handed one-handed mode]]

garden/flancian/2024-11-01.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-11-01.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-11-01]]

[[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
[[Ekumen]]
[[Feedback on the Agora]] by [[Eduardo]]:
- No hay jerarquías y no hay orden
- No hay jerarquías:
  - Nodo está en la misma jerarquía que wikipedia/wiktionary/results
  - (Sobre las divisiones entre ágora y no ágora)
  - Primero podría ir el ágora y después de adentro hacia afuera
- Datos y metadatos están mezclados
- Líneas y "1 + 1 = 3"
  - Espacio negativo
  - Alternancia entre colores y grises
- Dos grupos:
  - info acá
  - e info en otros lados
- Transclusión, etc.
- Quizás un tabbed interface? Mostrar que e.g. wiktionary tiene contenido relevante pero no mostrarlo como elemento de primer nivel.

garden/neil/journal/2024-11-01.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-11-01.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-11-01]]

2024-11-01

What is the relationship between ecology and earth systems science?
I would like to learn more about [[systems ecology]].

garden/flancian/2024-10-31.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-31.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-31]]

[[Las Jaras]] is here!
- How sweet it is
I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-31.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-31.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-31]]

2024-10-31

[[microblurting]] at [[my blurts]]
- As per yesterday, trying them out in their own page, semi-hidden. Hidden in the sense of not visibility, not privacy.
I solved my [[issue with evil-escape in Doom on Termux]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-30.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-30.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-30]]

2024-10-30

I’m [[microblurting]].
Blurt
- [[Data science]] is a combination of data analytics, statistics, and machine learning.
- [[Data analytics]] looks at past data and explores patterns and issues. It is descriptive.
- Statistics can be descriptive but also predictive?
- [[Machine learning]] is primarily predictive?
Blurt
- Data science is multidisciplinary, encompassing data analytics, statistics and machine learning, among other areas.
I’m thinking that blurting is probably better semi private.
- It might not be of great interest for others to read half formed, quite possibly incorrect statements about various things.
- Social streams are more interesting when they have some personal, subjective opinion based element I feel, rather than attempted recall of facts.
- Though, it would be nice to receive feedback on some things. So perhaps semi private is good.
[[HeliBoard]] is going well.
- Some nice features. Very customisable.
- Being able to adjust the width of the one handed keyboard is very useful.
- swipe typing works pretty well, though I have a sense not quite so good as gboard?

garden/flancian/2024-10-29.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-29.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-29]]

[[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
[[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-29.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-29.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-29]]

2024-10-29

[[Human physiology]] - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.
[[Passive repetition]] can result in an [[illusion of knowing]].
- Better to do [[active repetition]] when you can.
- Writing in a digital garden or on social media is a form of active repetition.
Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.
- Just copying and pasting text from elsewhere would be largely passive repetition. Similar to just underlining or highlighting.
- I think the journal aspect of a digital garden is good for active repetition.
- A space to summarise ideas in your own words, and for "blurting".
- So really, that’s more the stream than the garden?
- I suppose you can do active recall in both. But I’d say the stream is your working area for it, and the garden where you store what sticks long term.
One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.
- [[Active recall and passive repetition in the digital stream and garden]]
Trying [[HeliBoard]].
- Mainly to avoid the annoying display of ‘Passwords’ that Gboard does when in [[Termux]].
- Hey, turns out HeliBoard does it too. Must be a Termux issue.
- Still, I like that this is fully open source and available via [[F-Droid]].
[[Learning blurt]]
- [[Amino acids]] are the building blocks of [[life]].
- They are what constitute [[proteins]].
- [[Biochemistry]]
Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.
- Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
- However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
- I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)
[[Learning blurt]]
- [[Bacteria]]
  - Humans are teeming with them.
  - Trillions in the gut alone.
  - We couldn’t exist without them. They could happily exist without us.
  - [[Microbiology]]
I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: [[ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut]]
I think I’ll explore "[[microblurting]]" as a thing.
- Is microblurting a useful way to do active recall? Should one blurt in public spaces? We’ll find out.

garden/flancian/2024-10-28.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-28.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-28]]

2024-10-28

I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
- Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
- I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-28.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-28.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-28]]

2024-10-28

[[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]
- So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
- All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
- There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.

garden/flancian/2024-10-27.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-27.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-27]]

[[131]]

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-27.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-27.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-27]]

2024-10-27

The first book I’ve got on [[libro.fm]] is [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] by Bill Bryson.
- I’ve really been enjoying learning about broad, general subject matters outside of my usual areas on [[Kinnu]].
- This appealed in that same vein. Simple overview of lots of topics.
- I’ve read it a few times many years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it.

garden/flancian/2024-10-26.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-26.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-26]]

[[…]]
Well, I’m here finally :)
- I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
- Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
- I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
  - Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
  - Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
  - Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
- Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.

So today I want to work/play on:

[[Agora development]]
- Toggle for [[autopull]] in the burger menu I’ve been playing with in a branch
[[Flancia]]
- Zine writing
- [[Open letter to our readers of the future]] / [[Maitreya]]
- And leaders of course :)

I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.

-> [[do]]

I enjoyed going through it a lot actually, several things got marked done! Wow.
It makes sense because I do follow a kind of system within my chaos, but it’s cool to see it corroborated.
Some things I actually did; some things are no longer relevant, e.g. Twitter bot stuff (as Musk killed that, for now at least).
Which led me to [[maybe Musk will wake up]]

Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)

I will now [[flow]] with my friends [[bobby lyte]] and [[adriene]] :D

For more of this, check out https://anagora.org/yoga-with-x .

Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
[[Recursivity]].
No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
- Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-26.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-26.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-26]]

2024-10-26

Starting using [[libro.fm]]. For [[audiobooks]].
- Seems great. Let’s you pick a bookshop (local or online) for some of the money to go to.
- But, also very annoyed to discover that some audiobooks are ‘Audible Exclusives’. Meaning you can only get them on Audible.
- What a scam. Imagine only being able to buy some books in certain bookshops.
- libro has some resources on how to do something about it: https://blog.libro.fm/why-isnt-audiobook-available-libro-fm-what-to-do/

garden/flancian/2024-10-25.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-25.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-25]]

2024-10-25

Back in the Agora!
- I shipped some small usability improvements this week. I intend to do some more of these during the weekend.
- I re-discovered [[…]] and it’s amazing, both broken and great.
- [[Silverbullet]] cannot open it though, so the screenshot is in [[ellipsis]]

Work has been fine.
- It was a relatively productive week; I feel satisfied.
I thought about [[Magnetism]], as usual. And its [[elasticity]].
- I want to write something about [[magnets in space]], I think it could go well with that other old idea — [[monks in space]] :)
I watched [[which came first]] (3 minutes) and it was great
I used [[flatpak]] today.

garden/flancian/2024-10-24.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-24.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-24]]

2024-10-24

Back in the Agora using [[Silverbullet]]!
- It’s been working quite alright for me, although I still use [[wiki vim]] around half the time when editing I’d say.
- I posted an update to https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010.

garden/flancian/2024-10-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-21]]

I had a good day at work really.
- I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
- I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
- I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
Then I thought about the [[Revolution]].

garden/flancian/2024-10-20.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-20.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-20]]

[[AG]]
called my mum for [[mother’s day]] in Argentina
[[flancia meet]]:
- with [[bouncepaw]]
- [[apache2]] is making a comeback
- [[8bitdo]] keyboard and the alternate keyboard movement, [[funky keyboards]]
- [[keyboard wiki]]
I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
- I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
- Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
- I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].

I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.

I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)

So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.

Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.

The laundry timer just went off.
And now I’m back, after putting laundry to dry (tumble) and another load :)

What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-20.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-20.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-20]]

2024-10-20

I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.
I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.
- Now, while the bubba is napping on me, I’ll utilise that system to digitise the data from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe, October 2024]].

stream/agora@botsin.space/2024-10-20.md

Subnode [[stream/agora@botsin.space/2024-10-20.md]] by @agora@botsin.space in node [[2024-10-20]]

[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/113341048573756101

stream/anagora.bsky.social/2024-10-20.md

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[[2024-10-21T19:11:38.126Z]] @[[flancia.org]]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xu4fhdxwmrptiwfvq5ymbkxx/post/3l727q4pzcv2v

stream/flancian@social.coop/2024-10-20.md

Subnode [[stream/flancian@social.coop/2024-10-20.md]] by @flancian@social.coop in node [[2024-10-20]]

[[2024-10-20 17:59:12+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Look, an #agora! [[2024-10-20]]

garden/flancian/2024-10-19.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-19.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-19]]

Back!
- Work week was alright.
- Did some personal emotional processing during the week as well.
- Now feeling good going into the weekend :)
Had good meetings, also one great today with [[edumerco]].
I reconnected with some old [[friends]] digitally and in analog space :)

garden/neil/journal/2024-10-19.md

Subnode [[garden/neil/journal/2024-10-19.md]] by @neil in node [[2024-10-19]]

2024-10-19

Let’s dust this off…
[[International Repair Day]] 2024 today.
- Did a spell at [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] popup cafe in [[Barrow]].
- Fixed a printer (well, more just showed that it was working OK and put a fresh ink cartridge in).
For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.

garden/flancian/2024-10-17.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-17.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-17]]

Today is [[Maitreya]]! The 17th :)
Work was fine actually. I biked there and back, I’m enjoying the exercise before it gets too cold.
- Was productive in the evening from home after reuniting with [[Lady Burup]] :)
Then I ate and did [[Flancia]].

garden/flancian/2024-10-15.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-15.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-15]]

[[23 september]] -> [[mylesj]]

garden/flancian/2024-10-12.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-12.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-12]]

[[Minecraft]] with [[Ishmael]] and X, enjoying it a lot! Playing in some resting periods.
Went to the [[Zürich Coffee Festival]] with [[Sebek]] and [[Nina]]!
[[tabs]]
[[next action]]:
- [[guanyin]]
  - [[9]] risk (guanyin)
  - [[7]] agora demo
  - [[5]] consent/social media replay
- [[paramita]]
  - [[9]] zine
  - [[7]] agora ux
  - [[5]] activitypub/atproto/x/ekumen
  - [[3]] write
  - [[1]] read
-> [[eight pomodoros]]

garden/flancian/2024-10-11.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-11.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-11]]

[[Divorce]]
[[Free from suffering]]!
- Both happy and sad. But it was beautiful to see [[L]], see her shining!
[[2063]]

garden/flancian/2024-10-08.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-08.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-08]]

2024-10-08

At [[work]], meaning in the office, after a few days out/WFH due to disease. It’s nice to see my coworkers/have in person conversations.
- I had a productive day at home yesterday which hopefully will translate to a productive week in-office. Let’s see :)
No meetings after work tonight! Which is nice.
- I’m back to using [[the time-block planner]] and it’s still great. Commitment is important.

garden/flancian/2024-10-06.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-06.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-06]]

Continuing from [[2024-10-04]] :)
#push [[todo]]
- Reviewed [[go/agora/bugs]] after long and responded to issues! I want to do this more often from now on.
- Same for [[go/agora server/bugs]] (it has lots of interesting stuff!) and [[go/agora bridge/bugs]]
[[agora development]]:
- I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
- I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
- I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
[[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
- [[zine]]
  - 0
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5 finish?
- [[letters]]
  - 0
    - which are the three letters I want to work on?
      - to [[WS]]
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
        
        Objections -> [[objectio]]
      - to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
        
        Objections
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
      - to Maitreya
        
        meaning: one or more friends
        
        Lex Fridman et al?
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5 finish/share?
[[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
- 0 gather all [[receipts]]
- 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
- will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
- [[aeyokay]]

garden/flancian/2024-10-04.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-04.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-04]]

Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
[[agora development]]:
- I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
- I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
- I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
[[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
- [[zine]]
  - 0
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5 finish?
- [[letters]]
  - 0
    - which are the three letters I want to work on?
      - to [[WS]]
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
        
        Objections -> [[objectio]]
      - to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
        
        Objections
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
      - to Maitreya
        
        meaning: one or more friends
        
        Lex Fridman et al?
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5 finish/share?
[[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
- 0 gather all [[receipts]]
- 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
- will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
[[ekumen]]
[[analytical seclusion]]:
- [[sabbatical]]
- may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?

garden/flancian/2024-10-01.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-10-01.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-10-01]]

I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
- Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
[[Magnets]]
[[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
[[agora development]]:
- [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
- I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
- I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
- I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
- I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
[[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
- [[zine]]
  - 0
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5 finish?
- [[letters]]
  - 0
    - which are the three letters I want to work on?
      - to [[WS]]
        
        Thank you
        
        Objections
        
        What I will try to do forward
      - to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
        
        Objections
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
      - to Maitreya
        
        meaning: one or more friends
        
        Thank you
        
        What I will try to do forward
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5 finish/share one tomorrow?
    - considering this shared (with two people to begin with) as of the week of [[2024-10-11]] :)

garden/flancian/2024-09-30.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-09-30.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-09-30]]

read about the [[Karmapa]]
I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
#push [[do]]
- I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
  - do laundry (2x)
  - donate (2x)
  - run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
    - add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
    - maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
  - write
    - zine (2-4x)
    - get java [[minecraft]]
      - server url
      - I visited [[Plitnyakovo]] for the first time today on [[2024-09-30]]. Thank you [[Ishmael]]!
    - one or more of:
      - open letter to musk
      - open letter to maitreya
      - open letter to lex and sam
  - code
    - get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
    - one or more of:
      - save button
      - activitypub support
      - agora bot posts updates from the agora?
      - users post updates from the agora?
  - systems
    - fix agor.ai
      - recycle
      - make free space
      - try again

garden/flancian/2024-09-28.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-09-28.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-09-28]]

[[flancia]]
[[sadhana]]
[[dhyanas]]
- I read about the two first [[immaterial states]], very interesting.
[[zine]]

garden/flancian/2024-09-27.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-09-27.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-09-27]]

I’m back :)
[[social.coop]]:
- Updated moderation announcement
- Review pass issue reported by edsu
[[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it

garden/flancian/2024-09-24.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-09-24.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-09-24]]

[[work]] was OK.
- tomorrow will be even better I think :)
- it will start weirdly.
I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
- It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
- It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
  - I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
    - Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
  - I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].

garden/flancian/journal/2024-09-24.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/journal/2024-09-24.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-09-24]]

I’m back!
- In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
- I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
- See also: [[2024-09-24]]

garden/flancian/2024-09-21.md

Subnode [[garden/flancian/2024-09-21.md]] by @flancian in node [[2024-09-21]]

Back in [[Flancia]]!
- Or did we ever leave?
- [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
- Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
- Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
- [[Mohammed]]
- [[UNICEF]]
- [[Mum]]
- [[Friends]]
  - :)
- [[AG]]
Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
- So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
Then I [[flowed]].
- [[Social Coop]]
- [[Ekumen]]
- [[KPT]] and paperwork review
[[zine]]
Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
[[37]]
- [[yoga]]
- [[Zelazny]]

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