2026-06-13

• I’d like to start a blog carnival themed around leftist digital politics.
  • I think blog carnivals are great. A fantastic way to [[ritualise togetherness]] in a community, and an excellent nudge to blog regularly.
  • I’ve been doing the [[Emacs Carnival]] for a good few months now.
  • I’ve not yet found time for the [[Indieweb Carnival]], but I’d like to.
  • We used to do [[node club]] on Agora too, which is pretty similar to a blog carnival.
  • A carnival on lefty tech politics would be a good motivator to write, and a fun way to find the writings of others too.

2026-06-12

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Social media is pivotal in enabling far-right agitators to mobilise internationally]].
    • via [[How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’]]
  • [[Language shapes what we think and what we can think]].
    • via [[Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords]]

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[How to Blow Up a Pipeline]]
    • Says [[Extinction Rebellion]]‘s analysis of non-violence is misleadingly selective of history of past movements.
    • [[Women’s suffrage]], [[Civil Rights Movement]], anti-apartheid, [[Poll tax]]. All had wings using violence that arguably contributed to the movement.
    • Talks about [[Radical flank effect]].
    • Malm not a fan of [[Gandhi]] overall.
    • Discusses [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[MK]]. Non-violence until it was ineffective. Then violence.

• Finally realized the point of standard.site. I’m now publishing standard.site documents. These link back the Quartz generated website.
  • Its purpose is a little bit like RSS for a comparison.
  • I tried existing tools, but they didn’t work well for the rather unique [[Quartz]] setup I have. I built my own tooling for it.
    • Sequoia seemed promising but it had issues.
      • draft field override was ignored.
      • title is required, otherwise it’ll default to “undefined.”.
      • Frontmatter is required. If missing, it would emit errors.
  • It took me a long while to understand this. While site.standard.document records can store an editable copy of its documents. This isn’t required and its content field does not have a concrete standard. It’s intended for editor/viewing platforms like Leaflet.
    • This means that I’m not using standard.site as a means of synchronization. I already have too many forms of synchronization for the spacious nexus.
      • Though, I am just putting raw markdown for the textContent field. It could be possible to restore some data and file hierarchy with the path field. It’s not something I would rely on, but they’re here just in case the Git repositories explode, somehow.
• Quartz generates cover images. I should use those.

2026-06-11

• [[Fascism]].

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Violence is an integral part of fascism]].

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: The jailing of Germany’s most wanted woman
    • [[Red Army Faction]].
    • In the opinion of one of the interviewees, RAF were never particularly successful in their aims - the bigger protest movement was what brought change.

2026-06-10

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Fascism is built incrementally through legislation]]

• Writing something to convert my [[Discord]] messages into markdown files. Incrementally publishing these into /Discord/.
  • Currently reads the database file maintained by Discord History Tracker. Would want it to maintain its journals in real-time someday.
  • Would want to eventually publish its repository. Maybe once after it has distinct enough features from the rest of the chat exporters.
  • Learning a bit more of [[SQL]]/SQLite in the process.

• [[Christoph]] told me about [[1mm resolution]] in location data using [[RTK]]. He’s preparing a talk on it. Very cool!

2026-06-09

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • US Personal Device Demand Dips in 2026, Returns to Growth Through 2030
    • "Demand does not disappear when people delay a purchase — it builds up. By 2027, a large installed base of aging devices starts driving a replacement wave"

2026-06-08

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Resistance and change often begin in art]].
  • [[Stories don’t just describe our world, they cast it]].

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords]]
    • Recommended by GL.

• It’s 6/7. I’m not sure if I have anything to celebrate for this fine day.

2026-06-07

• Went down a bit of a rabbit hole [[setting up tmux in Termux]].
  • Started as a way to reduce finger stretching and fast thumbing when using Termux’s built-in session switching.
  • Ended up with clipboard finagling, extra keys tweaking… general yak shaving.
  • Not convinced I’m in a better place at the end of it all.
  • But it did lead me to :os tty in Doom config, which is nice to have enabled now for showing evil mode cursors.

2026-06-06

• [[Zettled]]: [[Fascists and capital have a mutually beneficial relationship]].

• [[Zettled]]: [[Fascists are often bankrolled by the wealthy]].

• [[Zettled]]: [[Fascists attack labour movements and protect capital]].

• [[Listened]]: [[ACFM Trip 60: Shock!]]

• Wrote: [[Let’s build a digital shock doctrine for the left]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: How the myth of ‘two-tier policing’ took hold

2026-06-06

Back on this?

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: hm
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: YEYAA
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: True innovation was achieved on 2012. It was only embraced on 2026.

• Had a career conversation with my manager, it was good.

2026-06-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • GitHub Copilot users threaten exit as metered billing kicks in

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: How the murder of Henry Nowak is being exploited by the far right – The Latest
    • Nigel Farage stoking it up. Rupert Lowe.
    • Invoking two tier policing myth.
  • Today in Focus: Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

2026-06-03

• [[Listened]]: [[Today in Focus: The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right]]
  • [[Restore Britain]]
  • Big on X. Lead guy [[Rupert Lowe]] is apparently one of biggest UK politicians online.
  • Elon Musk is a fan of Rupert Lowe and [[Restore Britain]].
  • Elon Musk is awful.
  • Too many politicians are using x and letting their rhetoric and language be shaped by the culture on X.
  • Ethnic nationalism versus civic nationalism. Restore Britain very much of the former kind.

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: https://github.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/

• Learnt enough about [[AssemblyScript]] to create an auto-splitter for [[LiveSplit]].
  • Built Stinky splitter. An auto-splitter for [[Gassy GaoGao]].

2026-06-02

• [[Bookmarked]]: Popular Radicalism in Post-Industrial England
  • "Post-industrial towns are often described as increasingly right wing. While it is true that radical right parties have made headway, the real politics of [[post-industrial England]] is much more complex, and much more amenable to [[progressive politics]] than usually assumed."

2026-06-01

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[How to Blow Up a Pipeline]]
    • Discusses [[climate action]] since the 1990s. Climate camps. [[Extinction Rebellion]]. [[Fridays for Future]]. [[Ende Gelände]].
    • He suggests that Ende Gelände has some of the most advanced civil disobedience tactics.
    • General gist so far is that non-violent protest hasn’t made a difference in all the decades it has been happening, so do we need to consider something else?

2026-05-31

• On Friday went to a local screening of the [[People’s Emergency Briefing]].

  • First thoughts: It’s good for what it is but I have a couple of caveats.
  • Felt very UK focused. That’s probably the intention, but at least a mention of the climate effects on countries beyond Europe and why not the focus in this film would have been good.
  • Not a single mention of capitalism as the problem. Just generally talk of too much CO2 without much mention of the ideology that has driven that.
  • It felt quite technocratic. Technological and market solutions rather than radical political change.

• It’s the last day of the month already! How did that happen.

• Need to write [[Emacs Carnival]] post.

  • [[Emacs Carnival: May I recommend…]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: US strikes Iran as Trump faces backlash over ‘disastrous’ peace deal plan - The Latest

2026-05-30

• [[Listened]]:
  • Science Weekly: Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment?
    • In a nutshell: Humans investing inordinate amounts of resources to try to create artificial humans while ignoring the plight of actual humans and the environment.
    • Apparently [[robotics]] has now been rebranded to [[embodied AI]].
  • Today in Focus: Andy Burnham’s (third) bid for the Labour leadership
    • [[Andy Burnham]].
    • Basically presents as soft left but will say whatever needed to get elected.
  • Today in Focus: Could Nato be dragged into war with Russia? – The Latest
  • Today in Focus: Why are our homes and cities all so hot?
  • Macrodose: Adaptation Economics

• My Surface tablet was getting full. It only has 256GB of internal storage!
  • I had a Dev Drive. It’s gone now. It was taking about 6 or 7 GB of disk space from all the [[JavaScript]] repositories and packages. I used [[pnpm]] but I think it didn’t really worked with that drive? I wasn’t too sure what a Dev Drive actually did.
    • Since I removed the Dev Drive and moved my repositories back, I can use [[Windows]]‘ native compacting features.
  • Installed CompactGUI to automate native OS compacting.
  • Ran git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 on some large repositories.
  • I’m now left with 47 GB free.
  • Probably should use OneDrive more often.
• My [[Git]] + [[SilverBullet]] setup wasn’t the most optimal. I figured out why.
  Recall the default .gitattributes from GitHub Desktop. * text=auto is a good default, but it can be made better for SilverBullet.
  So, I now have * eof=lf in the .gitattributes file. This is because SilverBullet+ syncs files with LF line endings.
  • I am yet to observe “No content changes” messages from GitHub Desktop Plus.
• I’m going to try not publishing new journal entries to spacious nexus‘ site for now.
  • Maybe this can encourage me to use more of the [[agora protocol]]. Tends to feel alienating when published.
  • Something [[SEO]] related. Need a control.
• I woke up again. I figured out why. It’s [[Friday]]. Uh oh.
  • I’m missing out. Not too sure of it.

2026-05-29

• [[Bookmarked]]: National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

  • "The [[National Emergency Briefing]] was commissioned to present the latest evidence, and build an irresistible call for the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing, the essential first step towards the WW2-scale response now required."

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: ‘Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: zhe only zhing i get from reading AI slop is zhat I get to poke holes in where it isn’t poking holes
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: becuase zhat’s not exactly a feature, is it
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: you also get free backlinks so like . .
  https://bunnynabbit-voxel-telephone.mintlify.app/
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: zhe only bad zhing is zhat it might rank higher zhan your site. not sure how often zhat happens
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: as someone who wrote zhe code, it will get zhings wrong. zhe warning is false

2026-05-27

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[Today in Focus: The death penalty returns to Israel]]
    • But essentially for Palestinians only.

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Ignoring AI means ceding power over it to others]]

• Created a [[content warning]] component for [[Quartz]] 4.
• Noticed that Quartz 5 is being released.
  • Probably won’t upgrade to it. Mainly:
    • Current setup works fine.
    • Slugs are generated differently.
  • Port some of my additions to Quartz 5.

2026-05-26

• [[Listened]]:

  • Science Weekly: Ebola: how does it spread and can the outbreak be contained?

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • 99% invisble: Episode 666 Enshittification

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: 🧲
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: hosr schoe