Woke up with a sore throat, didn't feel great through the day but made it through the work day. I think I'm feeling better now, nothing serious it seems :)
Watching: [[Don't Look Up]]
I like Iain M. Banks and I'm currently re-reading [[Look to Windward]] because in [[Red Plenty]] it was described it as an example of a 20th century [[Marxian idyll]]. It's good and all but I'm reading the [[Culture]] now as kind of all premised on [[Prometheanism]] / [[fully automated luxury communism]]. I'm gonna reread [[A Wizard of Earthsea]] (last read as a young teen!) by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] next as in [[Half-Earth Socialism]] they describe that as [[Jennerite ecological scepticism]] and that is more my bag lately.
I am writing this in the flight from Portland to London.
After my [[dreams]], and the [[poem]], and what happened this weekend, I keep thinking about [[arrows]]. It may sound like an obsession but it feels more like [[inspiration]].
It was my mum's birthday today. I'm happy she's visiting soon!
Started skim reading (ironically?) [[How To Take Smart Notes]].
Joined the [[Bonfire]] playground but haven't got time to do much on there at the mo. But I really love the mission they have around social media so following with great interest.
Reading a bit on [[Antonio Gramsci]] apropos [[site of struggle]].
[[Patrice Lumumba]]
Yesterday we went on a beautiful walk at sunset with [[Chris]], it was great!
At the lookout point we met [[Enrique]] and we became friends.
Haven't written a journal in a little bit. I'm always stoked for the agora-ui frontend I wrote. [[eat your own dogfood]]
Writing this on the flight to Seattle. My connection in [[Charlotte]] was tight but I made it just fine in the end.
(I wonder who you are, you reading this. If you are interested consider leaving an annotation using the Hypothesis side bar or reaching out :)
Thank you for reading!)
Some things aren't meant to be, I guess. Not in this timeline. It is with pain I experience their loss; accepting the pain I let them go.
I met Ritchie again in the streets of Durham. He was no worse off than last time, but not doing great. We had ice cream together and we walked and talked for a while.
Read: [[The Dialectics of Space]]
[[Naked]]
Read: [[Review: People's Republic of Walmart]]
[[Open Infrastructure Map]] is absolutely fascinating. Check out all the power stations, turbines, electricity lines, gas, oil, water pipelines, etc are near you. Built on top of [[Open Street Map]] data (what an amazing project OSM is).
Equally fascinating is [[OSM Landuse Landcover]]. Dead interesting to compare urban areas, agriculture and wilderness. No surprise that near me there is a ton of pasture grazing and crop farming, a bit of urban sprawl, and a depressingly small amount of woodland and forest.
Took me a bit to find https://death.andgravity.com/f-re on verbose regular expressions! Luckily the right search terms were iterated towards...
Listened: [[BACK TO NATURE: tackling the biodiversity and climate crises]]
[[Tipping point]]
I keep coming back to the same refrain: "I will show you the shape of my heart."
(I love you. Yes, you.)
Listened: [[What is true digital inclusion?]]
[[Grover]]
[[Another world is possible]]. But more than that - [[Another world is necessary]].
Learning more on [[Markets vs planning]], finding it interesting how [[Friedrich Hayek]]'s stuff on markets as a decentralised information processing system on the surface chimes with what I like about complex systems. And central planning is discordant with what I like about complex systems.
A veces siento que el [[Γ‘gora]] estΓ‘ hecha de luz, de bits en el espacio-tiempo fluyendo arbitrariamente cerca de la [[velocidad de la luz]].
Starting taking [[voice notes]] (again).
Been reading the Winter 2022 issue of [[Tribune]] on my Kobo. [[Tribune Winter 2022]].
[[Flancian]] suggested a [[node club]] on [[utopian socialism]].
Listened: [[Is the UK heading for a recession?]]
Listening: [[How to feed the world without destroying it]]
[[Appropedia]]
I feel as if something is turning. It might not be much longer.