2026-03-14

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street
    • "Here the relationship between the Moroccan experience and the concept of “[[the electronic left]] and electronic struggle” is manifest, where a tangible social dimension meets a technological-organizational one to produce a new form of political action"

2026-03-13

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism at the Limits of Capitalism: The Climate Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
    • "analyzes the [[climate politics]] of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) as a diagnostic case for the structural limitations facing [[eco-socialist]] movements under capitalism"
    • Google Scholar alerts

• [[Are the Green Party of England and Wales ecosocialist?]]

2026-03-11

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[ACFM Trip 55: Parties]]

2026-03-10

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants | Transnational Institute
    • "[[Silicon Valley]] has thrown much of its support behind [[Trump]] for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions"
    • [[Transnational Institute]] newsletter
  • The Digital Tech Broligarchy’s Interest in Left-Wing Science Fiction: A Critical Reading of the Culture of Techno-Libertarianism
    • "A slew of recent articles has asked what the connection might be between right-wing libertarian [[Silicon Valley]] billionaires and left-wing [[science fiction]]"
    • [[tripleC]] mailing list

2026-03-09

• I am finding the performance of [[Thunderbird]] to be terrible.
  • Connecting it to Zoho Mail via IMAP.
  • I’m just going through my inbox and deleting emails and it regularly takes a CPU to 100%.
  • Might try Betterbird… but will just stick with the webmail for this for now. Something clearly not right when a webapp is performing better than a desktop app.

2026-03-08

• In the absence of time to do much in the way of [[knowledge commoning]] at present, I figure the least I can do is more consistently share my bookmarks.

  • A small contribution, but still better than them sitting privately locally.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey _ What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
    • "In The Story of Capital, the world’s foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism"
    • [[Christian Fuchs]]

2026-03-07

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Mapping the Red-Green Future: A Theoretical Analysis of the Works of James O’Connor, Joel Kovel, and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    • "a critically important foundation for advancing interdisciplinary research that integrates Marxism (red) and ecology (green)"
    • Google Scholar Alerts
  • Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
    • "how we can export our existing org-roam notes to Markdown, which can then be served by a static-site generator like Hugo or Quartz"
    • [[Emacs News]]
  • Migrating website to orgmode
    • "port the website over to orgmode, simplify the css, and bring it over to a new host"
    • [[Emacs News]]
  • Ollama Buddy - Web Search Integration
    • "fetching current information from the web and injecting it into your conversation context"
    • [[Emacs News]]

2026-03-06

• Listened:
  • [[ACFM Trip 57: Ecology]]

2026-03-04

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[This Machine Kills: 437. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 1 (ft. Aaron Benanav)]]

2026-03-03

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Ripple Effect
    • "Communicational expertise, practical tools, honest analysis of earth system collapse and technological chaos to help social movements win the day"

2026-03-01

• Managed to submit a post for the February carnival: [[Emacs Carnival: Completion]]
  • Quite a rush, but I learned a lot in the process.

2026-02-28

• Now that I’ve got Emacs back up and running on my phone, I can try and get an entry in for the February Emacs Carnival.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Completion]]

2026-02-27

• I had to get a new phone, as my Pixel 5a spontaneously bricked itself.

  • I got a [[Fairphone 6]].
  • I usually get second hand or refurbished phones, but here’s [[My rationale for getting a Fairphone 6]].

• Going through the process of getting things set up on a new phone.

  • My notes in my digital garden are massively helpful for this. Well done past self!
  • They’re a bit scattered though - I’ll try and update them into one page about it..
    • [[Setting up a new phone]].

• Trying out Vulpea.

2026-02-23

• [[The Build & Fight Formula Part 6: Social Digital Infrastructure]]

2026-02-22

• [[Ecosocialism 2024: How capitalism ruined the internet]]
  • [[Lizzie O’Shea]] discusses [[historical materialism applied to technology]].

2026-02-14

• Listened to [[Ian Angus: Why We Need An EcoSocialist Revolution - Socialism 2013]]

2026-01-31

• Trying to finish off [[Emacs Carnival: This year I’ll…]] today.

  • Last day to submit!

• [[Adding shortcuts for entering email addresses in Heliboard]]

2026-01-17

• Went to the webinar [[Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell]] held by [[The Maintainers]].

2026-01-03

• [[Org Social]] has strong [[IndieWeb]] vibes.

  • P2P, host on your own site, etc.
  • I think it relies more on relays though. I don’t think you could directly mention someone like you would with a webmention.

• I also like that you choose an emoji for reactions, rather than a generic like. Like [[CTZN]] did it.

  • I think that’s a good way to allow reactions while avoiding algorithm pandering.

• Moved out successfully
  • Had to do a bunch of renovations in the room, but now it’s quite cozy
  • Do miss the birds hanging out in the window of the old place
• Finally settled on a [[komorebi]] config
  • Tiling window managers rock!
  • Altho they really don’t play well with some apps like game launchers and such
• Happy new years!
  • Obligatory resolution to make more nodes [[?]]

2025-12-31

• I was trying to set up [[Org Social]].
  • As per the post [[Emacs Carnival: The people of Emacs]], I think it’ll be a good way to be more active in the Emacs community.
  • But it requires Emacs 30.1.
  • I’m only on Emacs 29.
  • Upgrade ahoy!

2025-12-30

• I learned about grease.el via [[Emacs News]].
  • Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
  • Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
  • I just tried it, and it’s perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam’s addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works. (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven’t changed it).
  • With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated! Neat.
  • I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames. Some people seem to prefer it that way. But I really don’t like filenames being used to store meta information.

• I finally finished the migration from ‘main’ to ‘master’ for the Agora root, belatedly :)
• I had a great day on [[2025-12-13]] with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]. Thank you!
• New Agora signup! Welcome [[@matthieuG]] :)

• A lovely Saturday with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] at home. Relaxing and interesting. With [[KM]] we did a nice walk in Zürich in the cold weather, knowing it will just keep getting colder.
• The week was pretty brutal at work (3x presentations, 2x reviews, plus planning and some ad hoc meetingsd) — it feels great now that it’s in the past though. I feel I ‘survived’ the last tricky week of the work year; things should quiet down from now on as people start going into holidays mode.

2025-12-07

• Christmas 10k run 2025.
  • Completed!
  • My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].

2025-12-03

• I should check out [[org-gtd]].
  • From a quick first glance, it looks like a formalised way of doing much of what I’m already doing.
  • So it could be quite useful.
  • I’m wary of two things though:
    • Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
      • The README suggests it written for someone who doesn’t want to be bothered with org-mode’s complexities. Hmm.
    • I tie heavily into org-roam for project reference material. I wonder how org-gtd works with that aspect of GTD.
  • Definitely worth looking further.

• [[I sometimes feel]]:
  • as if I’m [[struck by lightning]]
  • as if I’ve caught fire
  • we will go together until the dark of night
  • (do you know what I mean…?)

Busy working and happy; I’ve been told I look tired at times but recently got some good sleep through the holidays and I feel with high energy levels.

2025-11-30

• [[Emacs Carnival: org-babel]]

• [[albricias]]

2025-11-22

[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people

– [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]]