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I saw [[Gordon Brander]] has a list of well-connected nodes in his pattern library.
I'd like to know why the outputs of my little bits of executable code blocks aren't getting correctly generated when my garden gets published to the web.
Digging: Proem - [[She Never Cries]]
Digging: Frog Pocket - [[Hurrah Sapphire Moon!]]
Listened: [[A blast in Manhattan]]
Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]
As I deal with [[pain]], I think of my [[friends]] and the [[heart sutra]].
Gone, gone beyond!
All gone to the other shore
Gone kindly
If you have to go
[[Go kindly]]!
Read: [[The great carbon divide]]
Listened: [[Movement and Stillness]]
Yesterday I woke up with back pain in a new place, mid-back; it got a bit worse in the evening after attending the beautiful event of [[AG]] presenting. It didn't get in the way of enjoyment but I need to keep an eye on it/take care and try to rest and recover.
...Having said that, I cleaned the bathroom and [[Lady Burup]]'s toilet and my back got a bit worse :) But I feel it still gave me energy.
Then I worked a bit more, after oncall handoff, and I got several things "out of the way" in a relatively short time. It felt great.
Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]
Reflecting back and seeing them published on my website, I realise my work notes each day are a little mundane.
Watched: [[Isle of Dogs]]
Reading: [[Doughnut Economics]]
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Late Capitalism]]
Today at work I:
[[Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament]]
Today at work I:
Today at work I:
When I'm working, I don't log a lot in the journal, I noticed.
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Revolutionary Mathematics]]
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins Β£330m NHS contract | β¦
We had another play of [[Space Cats Fight Fascism]] today.
We spend a not insignificant chunk of our lives just on the upkeep of our household.
Been enjoying [[Superstore]] of late.
We played the [[Rise Up]] board game tonight.
Listened: [[WCV S2: Keir Milburn "Glorious Variation in the Global Working Class"]]
Been enjoying the [[Working Class Voices]] series from GND Media. Good reflections on how the environmental movement involves the working class (and also how alienates it). Main point being - it has to, one way or another, as the working class is the largest class.
Digging Until Here for Years by Proem right now.
Listened: [[WCV2 NY Communities for change "Let's not replace Oil Barons' with Solar Barons'"]]
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: The Stories We Tell]]
Fun, busy [[Repair Cafe]] tonight.
Listened: [[WCV S2: We've run with it like a dog with a burst ball]]
Enjoying the [[This Machine Kills]] podcast.
Having another attempt at getting RSS feed publishing working for commonplace. This time without trying to use a tempdir, caused too many problems last time.
Listened: [[Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head]]
Listened: [[No King But Ludd (ft. Brian Merchant)]]
org-roam on the mobile with Termux is going well. Using it regularly.
Going to start posting my daily journal/log in the stream as well. So it's a bit more discoverable/subscribeable.
Been reading through [[Doughnut Economics]] again. Appreciating the chapter on [[systems thinking]].
[[Hugo Blanco]] passed away.
Watching [[Captain Fantastic]]. A lot of fun. Points out the problems of American (Western) society. Is what they have in the woods any better though?
It's quiet in the Agora right now. But I'm sure peeps will be back.
I basically never write code anymore for work purposes. I guess I'm OK with that right now. But I feel one day soon the pendulum will swing back from lead to coder again.
I'm perhaps less interested in code for code's sake these days, and more interested in the design of systems.
Starting having a go at [[an Iterative Enquiry diagram for digital ecosocialism]]. Definite work in progress.
Listened: [[Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World"]]
Listened: [[Today in Focus: βWeβre totally isolatedβ: inside Gaza as Israelβs war intensifies]]
[[MermaidJS]] seems to have come a long way recently. Might start using it in conjunction with [[PlantUML]].
For all the (supposed) micro-rationalities of [[capitalism]], it produces some huge macro-irrationalities ([[overshoot of planetary boundaries]], [[social inequity]]).
Finished listening to [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante]].
Listened: [[Red Menace: Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future]]
Why bother with org-roam and Termux on my phone? Why not just stick with orgzly for fleeting notes and then process them at the laptop?
[[Planetary sovereign]].
[[Polycrisis]].
Got org-roam working with Doom Emacs in Termux. To a certain degree. Few niggly issues but decent start. [[Setting up Doom Emacs in termux on Android]]
Don't sync org-roam.db between machines.
Getting into org-roam on Termux. Useful extra tool in addition to orgzly for taking fleeting notes on my phone. Actually, Termux is more the processing of fleeting notes into actual notes.
Enjoying the Upstream interview with Breht and Alyson from Rev Left / Red Menace. They seem a bit more tempered here on another show - left to their own devices can sometimes come across tankie. Lots of good discussion of the need for an [[ecology of organisation]] here. [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante]].
Watching Coraline. It's fun. I feel a bit seen by the Dad characterβ¦
This bit of text committed from my phone⦠will it work?
Read: [[Universal basic services: the power of decommodifying survival]]
[[Problem with Kobo Clara HD battery]]. It is draining really fast.
Started reading Kate Soper's [[Post-Growth Living]]. It'll be about how a move away from consumerism will actually bring about a more enjoyable life.
Read: [[Problems with ecosocialism]]
The [[planetary boundaries]] framework defines nine boundaries for the planet, and as of 2023 six of them have been overshot.
Listening: [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante]]
[[Socialism]] is a political philosophy that advocates for [[social equity]], the redistribution of wealth, and the ownership of the means of production.
[[Ecosocialism]] is a political philosophy that brings together socialist politics and environmental politics. [[Social and environmental issues are interconnected and inseparable]].
I am an ecosocialist. [[To be a 21st century socialist is to be an ecosocialist]].
Alternatives to Big Tech that aren't part of a political strategy are just more tech exceptionalism.
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<<<<<<< HEAD
As I write this, I'm roughly above [[Baku]] about to cross the [[Caspian Sea]]. I don't have an internet connection so I'm jotting down these local notes which will be synced to the Agora later.
I guess much has already been said about the relatively rareness of being offline nowadays; I am old enough to remember a time before being online at all was possible; then a time in which being online was rare; then the transition to always-on home internet and then mobile internet. I welcomed each increment of extra connectivity, and I still love how far we've gotten in this respect; but I can also appreciate the focus that being fully offline for a bit seems to bring. If nothing else it announces that the same focus is always available -- behind the impulse to catch up with messages, or check feeds, or read about Baku and the Caspian Sea on Wikipedia (which is surely what I would be doing right now instead of writing these words were I not truly offline.)
I'm thinking a bit of Agora development during these holidays; it might or might not happen, based on all the sightseeing and experiencing we'll be doing out there in the analog world :) But I thought it would still be nice to think of which things I could improve in the Agora if I have some time available.
I might write some [[executable subnode]] or other, if nothing else because they are fun and self-contained.
I think I will try to do one or two quick iterations on the [[Agora Server]] UI, maybe finishing the move to [[zippies]] as base widget as I've already done for nodes, stoas and most sections really. If I am able to move all sections under the search button/field to zippies the UI will probably look a lot more streamlined/be easier to understand, less confusing (this I'm guessing based on earlier feedback). Also it's not hard to do and it is apparent, so it sounds fun.
Moving on to larger things, [[mycoverse]]/[[fediverse]] integration is something I would love to get done in this Q4 2023 so getting started on it would make a lot of sense. I would love to understand what is the minimum that Agora Server would need to do to be able to expose user accounts as Fediverse feeds. Then new/updated nodes could generate something close to new posts/notes? Unsure.
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Listened: [[Jason Hickel]]
Occurs to me that technology-focused ideas around alternatives to Big Tech, that are not explicitly tied to a broader political programme, are themselves a form of [[tech exceptionalism]]. Hence I think [[digital ecosocialism]] is important.
Listened: [[Culture, Power and Politics: Ecosocialism and Degrowth]]
Think the theme of the discursive part of my roundup this month can be around [[ecosocialism and degrowth]], extending that a little bit to an exploration of [[digital degrowth]].
Yesterday was [[Repair Day]] and it went great. Biggest number of events we've ever listed - pulled in events from quite a few different networks, in particular the [[JournΓ©es Nationales de la RΓ©paration]] in France brought in a huge amount.
We launched the [[UK Repair and Reuse Declaration]]. Asking UK policymakers to introduce repair-friendly legislation.
Listened: [[Voices of Fixfest UK 2023]]
Read: [[Most Brits bin electrical items if they break. These 'magic' Repair CafΓ©s are trying to change that]]
Today is [[14 October 2023]] and I am glad you are here with me.
It has been ages since I've in Flancia, sometimes it feels, even as time is varying.
Here is what I call a poem: [[trees]].
This weekend I intend to advance what I call [[open letters]]: documents addressed to groups, openly published even as they are being written.
As of 21:45 CET I did some 'day job' stuff (having chosen it) and started a proposal (open letter, as per the above) that I had on my todo list.
Now switching to [[paramita]], planning to continue on related topics but in the [[commons]].
Today we bought the tickets to and from [[Sri Lanka]], happy about it!
This is a book for people who want to destroy Big Tech. Itβs not a book for people who want to tame Big Tech. Thereβs no fixing Big Tech. Itβs not a book for people who want to get rid of technology itself. Technology isnβt the problem. Stop thinking about what technology does and start thinking about who technology does it to and who it does it for. This is a book about the thing Big Tech fears the most: technology operated by and for the people who use it.
Read: [['Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse']]: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech.
Listened: [[What Does Class Mean Now?]]
Read: [[On Technology and Degrowth]]
Re: [[Reclaim the stacks]]. Varoufakis talks about a "[[cloud rebellion]]". Doctorow talks about [[seizing the means of computation]].
Listened: [[Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It]]
Discussed divorce with [[L]], we've been separated for around 1.4 years. Things are going well and I wish us both happiness!
[[Imaginate un mundo sin latencia]] me dije, habiendo solucionado los problemas de conectividad bluetooth en [[nostromo]] :)
A veces extraΓ±o el [[espaΓ±ol]] como idioma.
Mientras escribo esto, estoy escuchando [[hola frank]] de [[sumo]] :)
Let us pray, dice Luca Prodan :)
Here I would like to take the opportunity to say that the [[HedgeDoc]] Stoa, although it could be much improved, is already useful.
I think I'm going to start using it more often. And maybe enable logins? It seems to have [[oauth]] integration...
Which reminds me I want to work on that for the [[Agora]] proper, and maybe also on [[Google docs]] integration...
Read: [[The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism]]. By Jason Hickel. Great. First I've seen him explicitly mention [[degrowth]] and [[ecosocialism]] together (quite likely he has before, given his outlook, just first time I've noticed it). The prefix of 'Democratic' is interesting though. Deliberate positioning with [[democratic socialism]] I presume, as opposed to say [[degrowth communism]].
I'd like to do this: org mode - Org-publish: Ignore errors when publishing and report them later
Now Im writing from [[Doom Emacs]] installed in termux on Android! Not got org-roam set up yet though, so cant create links properly. Bit of a downside of org-mode/org-roam to be honest, for digital gardens, that you cant just use straight wikilinks.
Listened: [[W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics]]
Listened: [[What happens to your waste? with Oliver Franklin-Wallis]]
What is [[ecosocialism]]? The combination of socialist politics and environmental politics. It advocates for policies and programmes that promote planetary stability, social equity and agency and democracy.
Listened: [[Working Class Voices: Season Two with Emma River Roberts]]
[[The Nature of Technology]]. Mentioned in the podcast with W. Brian Arthur on complexity economics. Its a book of his. The combination of elements thing sounds not dissimilar to what Gordon Brander talks about in recent posts. (Concept design, [[Fragments: vertebrate technology]])
Looking through the transcript of [[Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism]]. [[Marx's theory of metabolism]].
Reading about [[system dynamics]] and the differences between the qualitative and quantitative approaches to it.
I'm using the RSS feed of changes to my digital garden (via Agora) as a very simple gardening tool (that is, something for improving the notes in my garden).
Wheee I'm currently editing my journal from vim in termux on my phone. Synced here via syncthing. Not sure how much I'll need to be doing this but good to know that I can.
[[Flancia, or the revolution against Moloch]]
research [[Gosinga]]
De quiΓ©n son [[las jaras]]?
EstΓ‘n las de Maitreya, las de Tara, las de Avalokiteshvara!
i also use avidemux for simple video editing. 20:22 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:love your naming scheme! Samuel Klein says:this diagram also suggests scale-free design [which is compelling; not privileging zoomed-in or zoomed-out parts of the whole] Samuel Klein says:++ 20:36 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says:Flask is a lightweight web application framework for Python Peter Kaminski says: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/
20:41 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:is that like agreeing on a hashtag? 20:47 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:One thing I'd like to see more easily is the list of repositories in your agora, and which ones have a node for a given wikilink Samuel Klein says:I have to run! This was great to see, worth tuning to a 15-min pitch Samuel Klein says:β€οΈ β€οΈ β€οΈ 21:01 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:oho my next meeting was moved back I have 15 min π 21:02 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:yay! Jerry Michalski says:it's a hypertext catfish! 21:05 Aram Zucker-Scharff Aram Zucker-Scharff says:I found this very useful! I have to drop 21:07 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:see you! 21:07 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_switch
21:09 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:there's probably room a tool like "full auto-linker" that could look through your doc + its context, check your agora for entities that exist across the conjoined namespace, and autolinking concepts the first time they appear in your doc
Listened: [[Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism]]
Some good [[right to repair]] news lately. What with the Californian repair bill passing state legislature. And the EU ecodesign requirements on smartphones and tablets.
And also: [[STATEMENT: Google announces 10 years of tech support for Chromebooks]]
Not all good though: [[Google wonβt repair cracked Pixel Watch screens]]
Loved the [[Majihima]] discourses on [[Heartwood]] (I already knew this), [[Cowherd]], [[Gosinga]].
[[3149]] is an interesting number. It's not prime: it's [[47]] (we will defeat Moloch) * 67 (Bodhi, Bodhisattva).
I'll use the busyness of life of late to shift the reclaim roundups to the end of the month that's in their name, rather than the start. So - I've got until end of September for [[Reclaiming the stacks: September 2023 roundup]].
Maybe eventually I'll just stop making it a monthly thing. I like the format of [[Gordon Brander]]'s Substack, which doesn't seem to have a defined schedule. He just seems to build on previous ideas each time, not in any necessarily structured way, but it's always fascinating.
I think for me it makes sense to have some structure and defined rhythm while I'm finding my feet. But as it matures maybe I'll improvise a bit more.
[[Datasette]] might be a good thing for documenting the initiatives in [[reclaiming the stacks]]. I'd heard about it before but never really understood what it does until reading [[The Magic of Small Databases]]. What I quite like about [[Anytype]] though is not needing to explicitly build a DB.
Read: [[California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Right to Repair Legislation]]
Read: [[New EU Rules: Smartphones and Tablets will follow new ecodesign requirements by June 2025!]]
I take back what I said about [[Subconscious]] being completely absent of politics - there is a nod towards them by Gordon in [[Tools for thought: the first 300,000 years]]:
Read: [[Decentralized and rooted in care: envisioning the digital infrastructures of the future]].
[[The Magic of Small Databases]] is interesting to me from the perspective of sharing my catalogue of initiatives for [[Reclaim the stacks]].
[[Digital technologies are an important part of movement infrastructure]]
The qualitative system dynamics model used in [[A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture]] was built using a triangulation process from individual models. I'll read more about that, seems kind of what I'm trying to do in [[Reclaim the stacks]].
Read: [[The Magic of Small Databases]]
[[Subconscious Beta]].
And I haven't come across anything from Noosphere that suggests it has any politics of any kind. The beta announcement is signed off with "Letβs 10x humanityβs collective intelligence", which, absent of any political direction, is kind of problematic to me.
Swinging back to blogs and RSS feeds over Mastodon. The stream of info on microblogging sites is too much for me, and the signal-to-noise ratio is too weak.
Reading: [[The environmental impact of a PlayStation 4]]
A [[qualitative system dynamics model]] focuses on the structure of a system and the qualitative relation between system components.
[[Gordon Brander]] quotes [[Donella Meadows]] from [[Thinking in Systems]] a lot in his latest newsletter. ([[Fragments: vertebrate technology]] - on components, modularity, and [[hierarchy]]).
Undoubtedly a major figure in systems thinking, but [[Robert Biel]] relates that Meadows had somewhat dubious / liberal-minded political views on some things, to which she applied systems thinking.
As I sit here with my laptop (with [[vim]]) and no internet connection, I realize that I don't write here longform as much as I could. I guess the availability of the internet does make it easier for me to get distracted, which granted I see sometimes as a positive (it motivates a form of exploration), but might not be conducive to practicing the skill of writing coherently and consistently for more than a few bullet points in each journal.
The thought of writing in my blog again (meaning https://flancia.org/mine) has come up a few times recently. I'm unsure; I like the process of writing in my garden, and how everything I write in it automatically shows up in the Agora moments later (at least when I have an internet connection). So maybe what I want is to embrace this space as a blog, and just try to write longer form alongside with my mainly outline-style notes, like other Agora users already do so beautifully.
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For the technically inclined, we're using the comic panel ID instead of chapter number over at the mobile-friendly version of the webcomic on Webtoon↩
WARNING - BREACHING NET FUCKED BY 2050: MAY CONTAIN BLOODY SPOILERS, READ AT OWN RISK! Trying to hide some emotional baggage because of this.
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Per wiki, V's status is still unknown after lift's cables snap as more chaos ensured. The reason is "presumed (legally) dead, but no evidence of on-screen death". [^2]: Torture were also involved, especially some robotic head decapitation (we're not talking about [this], but instead of Aunt Nina killing Rocky for telling the truth about his and Freckle's activities, ).↩
I'm getting more comfortable using Foam alongside Obsidian, especially inside a Gitpod workspace.
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Note to self: Update this later this morning.
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Catch up the daily update on [[2023-08-16]], this file was used for redirects.
Repaired: [[Repairing a Cat Mate C500 automatic pet feeder]]
[[Global boiling]]
Listened: [[Trip 35: The Internet]]
org-timeblock and calfw-blocks look worth a look. I'm currently using org-timeline, one of these might be better (although it works well enough for me).
Working on [[adding an RSS feed of recent activity to my org-roam digital garden with org-publish]].
Read: [[The Brilliant Immanuel Wallerstein Was an Anticapitalist Until the End]]
Listened: [[Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems Practice Tools for Systemic Design"]]
Just adding (org-roam-db-auto-sync-enable)
to my startup file seems to have fixed both my problem with completion at point of org-roam, and having to run org-roam-db-sync regularly. So that's good!
Nothing happened here other than some pain
Previously on [[2023-08-08]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
OSS work at [[recaptime.dev]] or whatever
Personal side projects
Across the interwebs
At Tuesday's repair cafe: [[Repairing a Canon Pixma TS3150]]
Listened: [[Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation"]]
Listened: [[Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century"]]
git diff
in the multiverse"However, he seems to have a sadistic side that he cannot control. If Freckle is given a weapon, he becomes wild and manically laughs like his cousin Rocky. He seems to be very skilled with guns, most likely due to him wanting to become a police officer, though this behavior caused him to be rejected from the police academy." (from the wiki)
Listened: [[Microdose: Californian Capitalism]]
Writing: [[Reclaiming the stacks: August 2023 roundup]]
Read: [['A certain danger lurks there': how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI]]
Listened: [[Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel]]
Listened: [[Microdose: Californian Capitalism]]
Bookmarked: [[Class Warfare in the Information Age]]
Writing: Reclaim Roundup: August 2023
Read: [[How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allendeβs socialist Chile]]
Read: [[ChatGPT Will Command More Than 30,000 Nvidia GPUs: Report]]
Read: [[The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret]]
Read: [[Meta report shows the company causes far more emissions than it can cover with renewable energy]]
Read: [[ICT: A top horizontal priority in sustainable product policy]]
gh:gitpodify/workspace-images
, especially around pre-commit configsgit init
+ bashbox init
for gh:gitpodify/dazzle-build-script
based on the build scripts on gh:gitpod-io/workspace-images
Go to [[2023-08-04]] instead.
One of the particularities of writing about [[Flancia]] is that it seems to require a certain commitment, a belief in the feasibility of facts in possible futures.
Bloody hell why I forgot writing this.
obsidian-icon-folder
(repo) plugin on [[Obsidian]] to feel at home like in [[Notion]] and [[Coda]].Updating date on here
Got onto housing wait-list I was hoping for
I have therapy today
I'm trying to get a case manager at tpi
App idea
Todo
Took my computer out of storage. Now I have something to work on in the cafes and maybe I won't be so bored during the day.
Go back to [[daily notes]], also synced at this week's recap in the [[Personal Board (open that in Obsidian)]].
Pomodoros:
Listened: [[Class Politics in a Warming World with Keir Milburn]]
Going for a bit more of a slow life in some ways. Reading a weekly magazine on news roundup, rather than obsessing over the news each day. Switching (back) more to RSS feeds and long form articles than social media feeds.
[[How to Blow Up a Data Centre]]
Read: [[Extreme heat prompts first-ever Amazon delivery driver strike]]
I like [[Bill Seitz]]'s page on designing good page names: http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/DesigningGoodPageNames
Started writing [[Reclaim Roundup: August 2023]]
Noticed that since upgrade I have to run org-roam-db-sync
regularly now too, it isn't updating automatically.
I installed [[cool retro term]] today and it was immediately more fun than I thought it would be. There is something weirdly satisfactory about typing and seeing a blazing trail preceding your words.
I wonder how hard would it be to make it so that anagora.org renders text in this style -- optionally, of course :)
Read: [[It's not about your footprint, it's about your point of leverage]]
As mentioned in [[2023-07-08]], a few org-roam things broke after upgrading spacemacs.
Started having a play around with [[Anytype]].
I upgraded [[spacemacs]] to latest and updated all Melpa packages to latest. Now various things in my [[org-roam]] setup aren't working. Sigh.
Finished writing and sent [[Reclaim roundup July 2023]].
It was that time of the year, your birthday, when you finally got to Flancia and were able to stay for good, stay in it in a definite sense, being free from suffering.
Writing [[Newsletter July 2023]]
Does [[trade unionism]] represent a radical challenge to [[capitalism]], or is it reformist?
[[Listened]]: [[Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee]]
I wasn't planning on seeing [[Nils Frahm]] live, nor did I know he was playing in Athens until the very same day it happened; I heard the sound test coming from the [[Odeon of Herodes Atticus]] while I was climbing down the southern slope of the Acropolis and I decided to get a ticket just in time. I'm happy I did so, it was a memorable experience for sure to see him live under the moon and stars in this ~2000 year old amphitheatre.
[[Listened]]: [[The death of the Unabomber: will his dangerous influence live on?]]
Running out of steam reading [[The Entropy of Capitalism]]. It's pretty dense and academic, lacking much in the way of narrative or prose to get you through some of the thornier bits.
[3*n*(n+1)+1 for n in range(1000)]
[[Read]]: [[For an anti-colonial, anti-racist environmentalism]]
For now, I've moved my org-publish stuff (both the publishing to my website and to the Agora) on to my own server. But I've had to remove the caching, because that kept failing ([[Problems with org-publish cache]]). So I probably haven't gained much. Except that the html publish pipeline was timing out on Gitlab, so at least my site will be regularly updating again now.
[[Listened]]:
[[Read]]: [[How systems theory can help us reflect on the world]]
[[Read]]: [[When nature and society are seen through the lens of dialectics and systems thinking]]
[[Panarchy]]
[[Listened]]: [[After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia]]
[[Listened]]: [[The Mute Compulsion of Capitalism]]
AmanecΓ y llegamos a la tarde con alegrΓa con [[AG]], y despuΓ©s comimos y caminamos con [[Diego]] y [[Dominic]].
[[Read]]: [[The Entropy of Capitalism]]
[[Watched]]: [[Vesna Manojlovic - The Environmental Impact of Internet: Urgency, De-Growth, Rebellion]]
[[Bookmarked]]: [[Institute for Social Ecology online courses]]
Yesterday I submitted my final output for [[YXM830]]!
Reading [[Capital is Dead]] (again, didn't finish last time) and loving it. I really like [[McKenzie Wark]]'s writing style in this. I'm finding the argument about there now being an information-based [[Vectoralism]] - something even worse than capitalism - quite compelling, though I know many disagree.
Used the borrowed orbital sander to sand down garden table and chairs that are a bit weather beaten.
[[taixu]]
I will show you the shape of my [[heart]] if you want to.
Listened: [[Reclaiming Time with Oliver Burkeman (In Conversation)]]
I started reading the intro of [[Governing the Commons]] last night. It was actually very readable - for some reason I thought it would be really academic.
[[Jackson Rising Redux]] arrived, after lots of delays to the publication date.
Keir Starmer: 'I want Labour to be the party of home ownership'
[[Sun Thinking]] is nice
Could AI save the Amazon rainforest?
[[Ecosocialism 2023]] conference
Listened: [[Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer Socialism]]
[[Oddly Influenced]] podcast looks fun.
Writing up thoughts on [[Internet for the People]].
Really enjoyed the [[Ecological Radio Workshop]] put on by [[Full of Noises]] yesterday.
Read: [[Chile's president aims to nationalize world's largest lithium supply]]
Two recent learnings about the [[Greater London Council]] of the 1980s that I really liked:
Listened: [[To Talk of Organization β on Nunesβ Neither Vertical nor Horizotal]]
/usr/share/XaoS/tutorial/intro.xcf
to see the introduction to fractals it ships with.Listening: [[H. T. Odum's Environment, Power and Society]]
Bookmark: [[r/Scholar]] https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/
So. This stuff about [[technological determinism]] is very interesting in the Fuchs book. Makes me think about how all the types of tech that I'm interested in come firmly with leftist social relations attached to them. e.g. libre software. Community broadband. Data commons. Without the modifiers, they're just technologies. I think this is important.
I feel that perhaps ICT4S has been quite deterministic in general. Divorcing the technology from the social relations? Perhaps not. Definitely worth exploring.
Governable stacks. Another one. I wonder if you could subsume all of the modifiers into simply 'ecosocialist'. Intersting. Hmm yes, very interesting. They all kind of amount to the same thing.
Agency, social justice, climate justice. Actually they're all missing that last one. They in fact tend to refer more to that first one - agency.
So my research is about a merging of those strands perhaps, so in a sense you could potentially just use ecosocialist as the modifier. Maybe not in practice as it might not be as snappy. But in theory, yes.
Federated social media. Kind of about agency, at the nub of it. Platform socialism. Platform coops etc.
So I'm interested in those things where there is at least one of the 3 aspects (agency, planetary boundaries, social equity) and evaluating and filling in the other section. I'm looking at both socialist ICT and green/sustainable ICT and finding the gaps in both of them.
In theory the modifier of 'ecosocialist' is simply ramping up of the 'sustainable development' modifier, as SD purports to be about both social and environmental issues. But in reality it's more than that.
Reading: [[Internet for the People]].
Read: [[Envisioning real utopias from within the capitalist present]]
Listened: [[Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 1)]]
Read: [[Ecosocialism for Realists: Transitions, Trade-Offs, and Authoritarian Dangers]]
Listened: [[The Week in Green Software: Netflix, Refurbishment and Anti-Greenwashing Laws]]
Listened: [[Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism]]
Annoyed: Friday briefing: Britainβs rivers and oceans are filling with sewage β with nβ¦
Bookmark: [[Climate Solutions for Cumbrian Landscapes]]
Bookmark: [[Sacred Stacks: The Art of Cyborg Community]]
Annoyed: [[UK energy strategy]] is rubbish.
Annoyed: [[Jeremy Corbyn]] banned from Labour Party.
Bookmark: [[The Carbon Emissions of Big Tech]]
Read: How Big Techβs βtoxicβ business model is fuelling the climate crisis | Euronews
Listening: [[Green Socialist Notes: Decentralization 101]]
Read: [[IPCC's conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change]]
Wondering: [[What is the ITU doing on sustainability?]]
Listened: [[The local businesses giving your stuff a 'second life']]
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After an update to one of the IndieWeb wordpress plugins (probably Syndication Links) it looks like the name of the Bridgy Mastodon syndication target changed (from mastodon-bridgy to webmention-mastodon-bridgy). So I had to run mp-refresh-syndication-targets
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Finished: [[The Care Manifesto]]