-
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.
2024-12-19
-
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]].
-
Try interesting food (of course) :)
-
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 operatingtwo years ago. - I’ll also look for an alternate instance, and try to set up a migration flow (for keeping followers).
-
[[agora bot migration]]:
2024-12-11
2024-12-09
- 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.
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.
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.
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]]
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 β 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 Β» 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
-
As one might have noticed, I’m logging bookmarks in the journal stream.
2024-12-04
-
[[Read]] some [[Wasteland]].
- [[Agbogbloshie]]
- [[Basel Convention]]
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]].
-
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]]
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.
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.
-
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]].
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 anotherβ¦
- Or you try and reduce how much of it there is in the first place.
-
This is part of why I’m finding [[Wasteland]] so interesting.
2024-11-29
-
Watched [[Why Spaced Repetition Doesn’t (Always) Work]]
- Clickbaity title, but good points about [[spaced repetition]].
-
[[Wasteland]]
- [[2024-11-27]] took place as well (linking it so I can then go node it :)
- Interesting conversation in [[Agora discuss]]!
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.
-
To me it felt like a description of [[IndieWeb]] without really mentioning IndieWeb.
- 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 HallarΓ‘s]] for the first time in A (what I remembered/whistled) and in B (as per the recording by [[Inti Illimani]]).
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?)
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).
- 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!
2024-11-24
-
[[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
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It is an example of the [[Ritualize Togetherness]] pattern of commoning, too.
-
I like it as a concept for nudging people to write in their blogs.
- back to the office finally, after a few days sick working from home! it was nice going back.
2024-11-22
-
Downloaded [[Wasteland]] from [[libro.fm]].
- Butβ¦ 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.
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?)
-
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)
2024-11-20
-
[[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]]? :)
-
[[Ekumen]]:
- [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!
2024-11-19
-
[[causal loop diagram]]s.
-
Looking at Lend Engine and MyTurn as software options for our [[library of things]].
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?
- [[17]] stands for: [[Right Concentration]], [[Maitreya]] :)
- We’re planning on going to the cinema with friends today to watch [[Anora]].
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.
-
Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
- I heard and read of [[Mathilde Sanders]]
- Excited about yesterday finding:
2024-11-16
-
[[Doughnut Economics]]
- Some mentions of [[Libre software]], [[knowledge commons]], [[Cooperatives]] as parts of an economy that is distributive by design.
- Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
- I heard of [[Mathilde Sanders]]