2025-03-30
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[[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.
- "So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour – be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts – shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] – that give rise to their emergent behaviour"
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:
- "Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"
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Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].
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As usual, [[Poem]]:
- May you be free
- May you be kind
- May you be happy
- If you have to burn, burn kindly!
- [[Heather Marsh]]
- [[Maitreya]]
- [[Abstract Fairy]]
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[[Raspberry Pi 5]]
- Downloading [[Raspberry Pi OS]] (based on Debian so it sounds fine to me…) as I write this :)
2025-03-29
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Apple]] started making the most money when they had the platform through which they sold apps made by others and took a percentage of all sales.
- A form of [[Rent]].
- [[Google]], [[Amazon]], others as well.
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I guess this is where it’s quite similar to [[platform capitalism]].
- I guess Varoufakis is saying it’s something qualitatively different, Srnicek is saying it’s a new evolution of capitalism.
- Either way, seem to be in agreement that it’s big, new, and bad.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
- tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Bolivia]]. [[Ecuador]]. [[buen vivir]].
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Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists | Astronomy | The Guardian
- tags: [[Astronomy]]. [[Dark energy]].
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Don’t fork the ecosystem - by Gordon Brander
- tags: [[software ecosystems]].
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Is a New Economic System Necessary to Address Climate Change? - Stuart - 2025 - WIREs Climate Change - Wiley Online Library
- tags: [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Climate change]]. [[system change]].
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Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
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[[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.
- I noted that down when listening to [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]], which says something like that - need to go back and find the exact quote.
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I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.
2025-03-28
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
- tags: [[Google]]. [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
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How much electricity do AI generators consume? | The Verge
- tags: [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
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Report | AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat — Open Markets Institute
- tags: [[AI]]
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Chip Production’s Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate and Environmental Impact
- tags: [[Chip production]].
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What is the Future of Work in the Generative AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis
- tags: [[AI]]. [[The future of work]].
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Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
2025-03-27
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Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.
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[[Bookmarked]]
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[[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere
- Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
- Troposphere, …?
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Fuck me, [[snap]] is still taking up so much drive space.
- I don’t have a lot to spare!
- I had to install slack via it the other day. Probably that.
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Maybe, but kf6-core24 is taking up the most space - 10.7 GB.
- What’s caused that to be installed?
- Dunno. It’s something KDE-related. But according to checking
snap connections
on various installed snaps, nothing is currently using it. - Removing with extreme prejudice!
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Also
/var/lib/snapd/
is gigs big.- Cleared
/var/lib/snapd/cache/
.
- Cleared
- Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next time…
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Traveling to the US today!
- As I write this I’m typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]].
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I’ve been reading and listening to audiobooks:
- I started [[Flowers for Algernon]] on the flight from Zürich, it’s already quite moving (as expected).
- Then I continued [[Memories of Hadrian]].
- Then I started an [[Introduction to Systems Thinking]] by [[Donella Meadows]] called [[Thinking in Systems]].
- Yesterday I thought again quite a bit about:
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[[Waking up]]:
- It turns out there’s going to be a community meetup in Zürich on [[2025-04-01]]!
- Maybe I could check it out. For more, see the email from [[2025-03-22]].
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I need to do somthing to bring [[todo]], [[do]], [[next action]] and such under control :)
- To begin with I think I just need to re-pick one as the ‘root’ and start going through it and try to keep my actual priorities at the top.
- It’s going to be painful (because of the amount of stuff I’ve amassed! and the fact that even after all this I won’t be able to have all my todos there because I have a parallel life at work…) but probably worth it, so maybe I should just get right on with it.
- -> done! I refactored [[todo]] a bit, and went through very old todos and actually found them even done. Maybe there’s a tune to the chaos I seem to operate in after all, at least some of the time ;)
- I think having an offline wikipedia could be nice. Or a language model that I can run locally, albeit slowly, but hey… that will come :)
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I enjoyed reading [[The discrete charm of the Turing machine]] by [[Greg Egan]]. This was in [[Instantiation]]; previously (in February) I read [[The Best of Greg Egan]], a selection of his short stories, and enjoyed them a lot!
- He’s definitely one of my favorite living writers.
- Now I’m giving [[Binding Chaos]] a taste, after finding it on my [[Kobo]] and also mentioned in my long term todo mentioned above.
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Travel day!
- As I write this I’m on the second plane today, about to tale off from Heathrow towards Raleigh.
- Ladu Burup’s day as I leave — I will miss her! She’s in good hands though.
2025-03-23
- [[Circular economy]].
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[[nostromo]] died today!
- after almost dying many times.
- I thank them for their service! beautiful computer.
- [[paramita]] was ready to take its spot.
- [[bouncepaw]] told me about [[xremap]] today! it looks great, like it could fix several issues I had in the back of my mind with the input layer in wayland.
- New day but I’m working on my todos on [[2025-03-21]] :)
- I implemented [[chill]] today (late yesterday) to set the light levels at home to a nice late night/hacking level using [[home assistant]], that was somewhere on my todo list :)
- I read about [[router7]] by [[stapelberg]].
2025-03-22
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[[Astronomy]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- I think his history and overview of how big tech firms got to where they are seems good. And like I said, very well written.
-
I take the technofeudalism stuff with a pinch of salt. Interesting, but, debatable, and probably doesn’t matter all that much whether it’s something other than capitalism or not. How do we stop it is the most important thing.
- [[Blackrock]]. [[Vanguard]]. [[State Street]].
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[[todo]]:
- I started packing for the [[us]]:
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Things I want to do during the upcoming trip:
- write in the [[zine]], I’ve been writing in my head for a while and it’s time to do some actual writing?
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fix agora bot, hopefully earlier than the trip though?
- I finally got to this on the flight to Durham on [[2025-03-23]] — untested, but at least I made two commits that I think should move the Agora mastodon bot in the right direction.
- do some small FR for [[bull]]? which one?
- fix [[betulagora]]
- finish packing for the trip
- check in
2025-03-21
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My script that pushes to the commonplace-agora repo has stopped pushing.
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Thinking about [[How to actively thwart enclosure and cooptation of the digital commons]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- Cloud serfs, cloud proles, cloud fiefs, cloudalists.
2025-03-20
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Enclosure of the digital commons]].
- [[Cloud capital]].
- [[Modern Times]] and its similarity to working in an Amazon warehouse today.
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[[work]]
- [[ai for sre]]!
- good progress overall even though I was a bit tired as I slept one hour fewer than normal
- [[social.coop]]
- early [[fellowship of the link]] with [[aram]]!
- [[dibi58]]
2025-03-18
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- What led to [[2008 financial crisis]]. Financialisation. Derivatives. Stock options.
- I opened a bug (maybe a feature request actually?) for [[wayvnc]]: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/371
- Chill day!
2025-03-16
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Read: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- I like the little detour into metallurgy and the [[Bronze Age]] and [[Iron Age]].
- The history of capitalism and finance in the 20th century a bit more dry, though he does a good job at trying to make it more engaging.
- [[Bretton Woods]]. [[US trade deficit]]. [[Nixon Shock]].
- I cleaned the house in the morning while I was logged onto [[Flancia meet]] (quiet instance, but that’s alright of course) and it felt good to start the weekend that way; I did kitchen and bathroom floors.
- We had a tough conversation with [[AG]] today, but I think it was the right thing.
-
I wrote a script named [[Burup]] to disable the laptop’s keyboard and touchpad so Burup can sleep on it while I continue to use the external keyboard and mouse for browsing/coding :) [[Claude]] helped me find the best way to do this in a 2025 Linux + Wayland install, my first impulse was to reach for xinput but that doesn’t cut it nowadays :) [[libinput]] CLI is reasonable though.
- I think I need to also disable the trackpoint (nipple/joystick that comes with Lenovo laptops) as somehow she still was able to move focus while I was typing this :) The situation is already much improved though.
2025-03-15
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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‘All the birds returned’: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
- tags: [[China]]. [[Conservation]].
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China’s Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition - Chen - Antipode - Wiley Online Library
- tags: [[China]]. [[ecological civilization]]. [[Climate Leviathan]].
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‘All the birds returned’: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
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[[Read]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- Really enjoying the intro and opening chapter. The personal style is engaging and liking the down to earth way of discussing [[historical materialism]].
- I found the card of a barista who once made a good coffee for me somewhere in Osaka: [[Kota Ikenaga]].
2025-03-14
- [[Sevilla 2025]]
- Hablé con [[Berni]]!
- [[Peter Murray]]
- I met [[Smurp]] for the first time this past Wednesday.
- Move the Incubator meeting to US-friendly
- Check PM AI chatroom
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go/detectr — hold it until US takes it, or Gavin?
- done (later), then Hao plus maybe Abi?
- My new wireless router arrived and it’s already a great improvement in digital quality of life at home :) I hope it continues to work without fuss!
2025-03-12
- Listened: [[China Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel]]
- Loved the [[15 minutes]] flow
- Played [[The Reluctant Groom]], plus [[Lady Burup]]‘s song :)
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Back here something like 22 hours later, on the other side of the night and day and half there over :)
- Work including oncall was occasionally heavy but still good, felt productive. Worked late and advanced some threads enough, but not as late as yesterday!
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[[Lady Burup]] needs to lose some weight, will continue noding the process in [[burup forever]] :)
- I also want to lose 2-3kg or convert them from fat (mostly in my abdomen) to muscle, I’ll try to do this in the following 1-2 months and report back. I currently weigh 76.5kg (I’m ~190cm tall).
- So we’ll do it together, I say! :
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I’m back!
- In [[computer space]] (and time!)
- Travelling was great but I’m looking forward to catching up with projects.
-
[[Agora]]:
- Discussed [[2025]] with [[Timur]] in [[Flancia Meet]], also discussed [[Betula]] progress which is very exciting!
- Thought about [[Fediverse]] integration, [[auth]] and data providers.
- Also about simpler and more opaque stuff like [[autopull for numbers]]: number [[n]] should pull e.g. [[prime/n]] because that’s a related node for all integers.
- Hmm, what was by [[root node]] again…? :)
2025-03-08
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Listened: [[Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism: An Introduction]]
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God, [[snap]] is eating up a lot of space on my drive.
- I think I’ll try to avoid using it in future.
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[[Bookmarked]]
- Picked up my laptop after long. This has been quite an offline vacation!
-
In [[Buzios]] this week, reading about:
- [[Beppo]], [[Borges]]‘s cat.
- [[Lord Byron]].
- Also reading a compilation of short stories by [[Greg Egan]] :)
- After a day by the beach, we went on a walk with [[AG]] to a lookout point near [[Ferradura]].
2025-02-15
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[[Bookmarked]]
- Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead - marcan.st
- The free software commons
- Eight Pro-Social Platforms that Didn’t Work
- I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? | Nightingale
- From Data to Art: Making “Rat Revolution” | Nightingale
- The populistisation of green politics and the greening of populism: an examination of environmental populism in Europe
- Back noding in [[neovim]] to make sure I keep my travel setup running.
- Started the day nicely with [[AG]].
-
Then did [[Sadhana]], things around the house, and advanced on many threads :)
- During the week I finished the two trivial bull PRs I wanted to get in.
- Now I’m thinking of shifting to a different PR (which?) and to [[Betula]], [[Social.coop]] and [[Agora]] work.
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Sending something to the [[M&Ms]] :)
- I enjoyed the process a lot! I hope they enjoy the result, even a subset :)
-
Thought about:
- [[primes]], and again [[prime gaps]], which I now associate with the number #14 because 14 is a first notable prime gap on 113 - 127, and it easily answers ‘prime?’ for an interesting range
- I updated the [[index]] of my garden after long, I think it’s a bit improved.
- I donated 2x early today.
- I also opened a lot of backlogged correspondence, asked for a [[tax return extension]] (until 2025-09-30) and bought some gifts :)
2025-02-01
- Having an absolutely tedious time trying to figure out why the WiFi keeps on dropping out on some of the devices in our house.
2025-01-31
-
Lots of interesting people post interesting things on [[LinkedIn]]. If I want to read them, I have to use that platform. Accursed network effects.
-
[[bull]] now supports tabs in editing mode :)
- enjoying it a lot!
- I am thinking of which other quality of life improvements could easily be added to [[CodeMirror]] if Stapelberg agrees.
- [[vim mode]] is probably going too far? :)
-
I realized I broke links in [[Agora graphs]] when I pushed the update to remove jquery; I know why, I just need to remember to fix it tonight after work.
- fix it then :)
- Noding this from [[bull]] in today’s page in the Agora, meaning anagora.org/2025-01-27; I wonder if this will create a 2025-01-27.md file or somehow just a ‘bare’ 2025-01-27 file. I’ll know soon enough :)
- Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]] and it was great as usual. We discussed work and open source; bull and the agora.
- I finally bought the tickets for Argentina and Brazil! It feels nice to get that out of the way.
- Work was fine!
- After work, there was a short Social.coop [[TWG]] meeting with [[Dan Phiffer]] and it was great.
- [[Lady Burup]] is very beautiful and a great companion as always!
-
Spoke to [[Jack Park]] after a while, I’m glad!
- [[SenseCraft]] looks interesting.
- I signed up for deepseek.com to try [[deepseek r1]] and I found it quite good to begin with. Then I signed up for its API.
2025-01-26
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I’m on the [[train back to Zürich]] from Bern.
- I went to a meeting organized by [[Welle]], an organization working in [[human rights in Iran]].
- Then I met [[LP]] and we had dinner and a long chat, it was great!
- I will try to work on the Agora while I’m on the train, but maybe I will also just write and read and see where it goes :)
-
[[Readers of the future]]
- Unite? :)
-
I read about:
- [[Manuel Rivas]
- [[Doomsday argument]]
- [[Rolando Alarcón]]
2025-01-24
-
Listening to [[The Word for World is Forest]]
- From [[libro.fm]].
- Really enjoying it. The reader is great.
- [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] mercurial as always.
- Though, when I say enjoying it… it’s a bit grim. This Don Donaldson character is a nasty piece of work, pure American colonialist.
- I went to bed a bit later than expected, at around 3am, but it was a productive night and I still managed to sleep enough so I have no regrets :)
- The [[dishwasher]] repairperson came over, fingers crossed I’ll have a dishwasher again! Not having it (after only a few years of having it) really made me appreciate it specially.
- Then I plan to [[work]] mostly on [[AI]] stuff today.
- Then we might go to [[Manor]] with [[AG]] :)
- [[work]]
- [[social coop organizing circle]]
- [[AG]]: was going to come over but stayed home, we’ll see each other tomorrow :)
-
[[bull]]:
- thanks to https://github.com/gokrazy/bull/issues/8 I’m now running this editor under https://edit.anagora.org/@flancian , one incremental step closer to serving editors for other users :)
-
I’m writing this from [[sariputta]] projected on the wall in the guest room :)
- While watching [[3blue1brown]], checking [[essence of calculus]]. I last studied calculus 15+ years ago :)
-
Yesterday I ended up working on Sunday as planned and I enjoyed it.
- I also took time to practice, and play, and that made a large difference.
-
[[flow state]]:
- [[flow state radio]]
- I made the move to the office around lunch, now I’m heading into a longish in-office flow session which might last five hours! Wish me luck :)
-
[[bull]]:
- I like the addition of ctrl+s to save a page a lot
- I’m also using ctrl+e to edit — maybe it would be ideal if it started the editing session at the end of the document instead of the beginning?
- Alternatively I think ctrl+s maybe should save but not go back to view mode; unsure.
- Researching how to publish [[snippets]] at work from the command line :)
2025-01-13
-
Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
- Hmm, just plainly stated that [[Degrowth]] is wrong.
- There was a mention of ‘effective’ optimism. Hope that’s not aligned with effective altruism.
Daily Note 2025-01-10 / Holidays + Weekly Dump from 2024-12-21 to 2025-01-12
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Here’s what I been cooking behind the scenes for today, as well as the holidays dump during the break (2024-12-21 to 2025-01-05) and this school week (2025-01-06 to 2025-01-10), as well as the weekends (2025-01-11 and 2025-01-12).
I know it’s a long break from both doing the daily notes and the long-form blog content, mainly because of school and being hit by the burnout bus.
Holidays Dump 2024
Now let’s talk about what in the living hellscape happened I did during the holidays break, which involves High Seas Sticky Holidays:
-
literally shipped RecapTime.dev Website before the midnight of January 1, 2025
- last project to ship before midnight (PH Standard Time): SpinStack - Vinyl Record Manager by Oliver Potter (repo, demo)
- cooking up between HCB Explorer Discord bot and Hack Club Leeksbot behind the scenes
- probably resting between dev work and chores
- switching to NixOS with flake-based setup, alongside using
home-manager
School Week 2025-01-06 to 2025-01-10
- preparing for upcoming Work Immersion schedule on February, among other things
- shipped Leeksbot and dotfiles + NixOS configurations, seperated by just a day
- done a lot of voting at the Wonderdome to bring my projects for other to vote, got the sea’s blessings for a extra 20% doubloons
The Weekends 2025-01-11 and 2025-01-12
TODO to self: go write this after [[High Seas]]
-
[[doing]]:
-
Copy/pasted from somewhere:
-
[[Demo mode]]:
- This will slowly but ~surely happen :)
- Add a toggle
-
Add code that plays a midi
- -> [[Lady Burup]]
-
Add code that plays an mp3
- -> [[Heinali]]
- Add auto-scrolling, auto opening of zippies
- [[Add users]]
-
[[Demo mode]]:
-
Copy/pasted from somewhere:
- [[worked]] and I liked it
- [[donated]]
- [[musikino]] is back!
-
[[prana]] now documented lightly in the Agora :)
- as usual you can use e.g. anagora.org/go/prana/6 to do the yoga session for ‘day 6’, whatever that means to you. I usually do one of go/flow, go/move, etc. on rotation :)
- [[Vajradhara]] and [[Vajrasattva]]
-
I resigned from the [[Social.coop]] [[Community Working Group]] the day after starting the [[vote to suspend meta]] after much discussion and a quick draft done with/for the community. It felt like it was the right time to disengage after I received criticism yet again for ‘moving too fast’ despite looping in people earlier and doing what I thought was a fully reasonable pro-social action to advance discussion (start a proposal on Loomio). This after concerns were escalated by multiple community members, including to the CWG, about Social.coop feeling like less of a safe space due to our lack of visible response.
- One of the criticisms I got amounted (paraphrasing for effect) to needing to have more pre-meetings and go slower. I am fine not having pre-meetings or anything of the sort and doing more and talking less in 2025 as far as I can (within reason), so it seemed like a good moment to finish my CWG engagement (after several years) and focus on the Tech Working Group and the Organizing Circle instead. The CWG is now well-staffed so I am not needed there anymore, which I am thankful for to the people who remain!
- In general the negativity I had gotten used to getting from some members was a bit of an energy drain, and I realized I could use my time more constructively for the community in the other engagements I plan to keep.
- [[Bull]] is looking great! I’m now serving it (for myself only for the time being) at https://edit.anagora.org .
2025-01-11
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Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
-
Got it on [[libro.fm]].
- Intrigued to see how it pans out. Purports to be a data-backed, optimistic approach to tackling [[climate change]].
-
Got it on [[libro.fm]].
-
I’m writing this with my new mechanical keyboard, a [[keychron q3 max]].
- I got this for the office because the previous one was a bit too noisy for the office environment; not that I was the only one using a mechanical keyboard, or that the switches were the noisiest you could get, but I felt like I was contributing to a less inclusive than necessary environment by typing loudly with my headphones at times. And I really like typing with my headphones on :)
- The one that I got, with [[gateron brown switches]], is really quite silent! And I like the tactile feedback enough.
- I am enjoying the typing experience so I’m glad!
- The one thing I would add is maybe a palm rest. I don’t usually use one, but this keyboard is high enough that I feel like that could make it more ergonomic.
-
Sometimes it seems to double-register my space bar presses though, which is a bit disconcerting — I hope it’s a matter of adjusting my typing style to the switches and not a hardware issue! I’ll keep an eye on it.
- Maybe [[NKRO]] is a factor here? Trying the recommendation in https://www.reddit.com/r/Keychron/comments/1ba9vxy/comment/l9bu0ys
-
[[ekumen]]
- [[eduardo mercovich]] me recomendó [[zen browser]]
-
[[social.coop]]
- lots of talk about the Meta change in policies with respect to hateful speech.
- then more talk.
- then [[against meta]] went through draft revisions.
- then the [[vote to suspend meta]].
-
I read about/experimented with:
- [[openai webrtc api]]
- [[gemini live]]
-
[[pipewire]]:
- [[easyeffects]]
- [[wpctl]] for [[wireplumber]]
-
First time starting a journal node from [[bull]] :)
- I will be using the opportunity to take notes about the things I would change in Bull over time, as I try to use it as a default [[Agora editor]].
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[[bull bugs]]:
- I can’t seem to be able to indent blocks :) Pressing tab while editing moves to "view site information" in Chromium, which is surprising.
- Thankfully ctrl+] works, which is awesome and a life saver, but the default behavior could be improved probably?
- I’m also missing [[vim keys]], which [[Silverbullet]] has, although ideally that could be solved at the browser level (e.g. by [[vimium]]); maybe it’s an option for the editor module [[bull]] uses?
- Anyway, better update to head before I file bugs :)
-
[[quotes]]:
- "I have the solution, you just have to believe in it"
-
Today I read and wrote about the [[Meta]] terms and policies changes and the [[Fediverse]].
- It seems social.coop will have a vote on whether to suspend threads.net.
- Work was quite alright actually!
2025-01-07
-
This year, I am celebrating having a 10 year old laptop.
- My [[Lenovo Thinkpad T450s]].
- The release date for the T450s was 2015.
- Though I got it second-hand in 2019.
2025-01-06
-
Read and finished [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
- Thick time
- Max Weber and Calvinism
-
I liked it in general. I’m on board with the general gist of the anti productivity sentiments.
- Sometimes it came across a bit… wilfully contrary? Not sure.
- [[pure land buddhism]] -> [[universal gate chapter]]
- [[chilliad]]
- [[secrets]]
- love [[bitwascherei]] already
-
[[gotosocial]]:
- Brought up social.agor.ai provisionally, considering which domain to run this on — and whether to do a [[split domain deployment]].
-
Which one is better as a handle for the Agora bot and a user?
- @agora@agor.ai?
- @flancian@agor.ai?
- @agora@social.agor.ai?
- @flancian@social.agor.ai?
- @agora@flancia.agor.ai?
- @flancian@flancia.agor.ai?
- @agora@anagora.org?
- @flancian@anagora.org?
- They mean different things, of course. All but @agora@social.agor.ai while ‘allocating’ social.agor.ai require a split domain deployment as per the current setup I’m running for Agoras. It doesn’t sound too difficult to try split domains using traefik, I could give it a try. But in that case, should I run these in @agor.ai (shorter/cooler?) or in @flancia.agor.ai (most correct as I’m planning on having this instance handle the usernames in flancia.agor.ai or anagora.org?
- Update (after discussing with people): I think I’m going with the simplest thing that might work, meaning social.agor.ai is one instance that different people and agoras can use for social services, and handles are foo@social.agor.ai.
- [[AG]] :)
- [[worked]]
- [[Kris]]
- [[Avatamsaka sutra]]
- [[stormy weather]]
2025-01-02
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Planning to update spacemacs to latest.
- As noted recently, usually something breaks in this process.
- So I’ll look at ways to do this with minimal disruption.
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I think trying to do it using multiple config directories seems a good approach.
- That’ll be useful for if I ever want to run spacemacs and Doom side-by-side, too, for example, or my own vanilla Emacs.
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One issue to resolve first - you need Emacs 29 for the –init-directory flag. I’m still on 28.1.
- OK, I’ll try and tackle that first.
- [[Updating to Emacs 29 on Linux Mint]]
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[[New Years Eve]] was great, [[2025]] started great!
- Party at [[AG]]‘s
- Then at a friend’s
- Then at [[Zentralwäscherei]], where I met some old and new interesting people!
- -> [[Bitwäscherei]]
- [[Yi Jian Mei]] is stuck in my head (in the sense that it comes up spontaneously every day or so) and I don’t mind
2024-12-30
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[[Bookmarked]]
- Charity Digital - Topics - Digital inclusion: A year in review
- Checking out [[bull]] by [[stapelberg]]!
- [[j0lms]]: [[plurality]]
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[[flancia meet]]
- was quiet but it still felt good to be ‘back’ :)
- had coffee with my neighbours, it was great!
- cleaned the house a bit
- talked to my mum, I enjoyed it and it was great seeing her
- started a new notebook (ha), this one is a square with a pixel grid — a gift from the [[nintendo museum]] by [[mpd]]
- share photos
- run collect over notebooks and papers, this usually makes me feel better (I have a lot of context all around, putting it back in one place/pile usually helps manage it/consolidate)
- [[december 2024 adventure]]
- [[agora writing]]
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had interesting conversations in the [[fediverse]] about:
- [[ai]]
- [[sustainability]]
- leading to [[ilich]], who I still haven’t read — will try to set up his book in my [[kobo]] to read it tonight/soon
- I read about [[recursively enumerable]] sets and languages — I remembered these were some of my favorite back when I studied computer science when I was 27 or 28. This led me to read again about complexity classes, hierarchies and then [[diophantine]] sets :)
- Also had a great time playing with [[Lady Burup]], and we even watched [[3blue1brown]] together! Pictures likely in the Fediverse :)
2024-12-28
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Reading [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
- The efficiency trap - the more efficient you get, the more things you will fit into to do list, ultimately not gaining any time.
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Productivity techniques are a way of facilitating avoidance of making hard choices.
- By claiming you can get more efficient and fit more in, you can avoid having to decide what not to do.
- Pay yourself first.
- Keep three things in progress.
- [[maqna]] looks cool
- [[open letters]] is making a comeback? :)
- like [[december 2024 adventure]], late but surely and with gusto
- [[maybe]]
- Walked to [[Glattpark]] with [[AG]] going by [[Katzenbach]], it was very nice. We enjoyed the sun.
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Read further about [[prime gaps]] and [[twin primes]].
- Also about the [[gamma function]].
- Also about [[holomorphic]] and [[analytic]] functions. And [[Brook Taylor]].
- [[smallcircles]]
- I’m back baby :)
- Travel was hard at times but also beautiful
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Listening to [[Que He Sacado Con Quererte]] by [[Violeta Parra]]
- and then to [[Run Run Se Fue Pa’l Norte]], hermosas
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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.
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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.
- I finished [[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]] today, after starting it and reading most of it yesterday during the flights. I liked it quite a bit! In particular the relationship between the protagonist/narrator and Mike/[[Mycroft]], the AI; and how it went straight into the topic of collaborating with AI towards the revolution.
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Writing this on the flight from [[Tokyo]] to [[Copenhagen]] while on my way back to [[Zürich]].
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I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
- "Western" planes are avoiding the whole of Russian airspace, likely because of the war. In retrospect I should have known this!
- The navigation map available to the public in planes does not reflect in any way the course set by pilots. Instead it seems to just show the [[great circle]] to the destination from the current position. This held true through the trip. Indeed, the ‘projected path’ was roughly orthogonal to the true path at least until we reached the Bearing Strait (which is when I’m writing this).
- I was planning on catching up on coding and writing (beyond this short entry), but I forgot to charge my laptop and there are no chargers in economy, so there goes that plan :) Well, I have plenty of reading to do so it’ll be fine.
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I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
2024-12-19
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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.
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In Osaka I intend to:
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Try interesting food (of course) :)
- [[Kushikatsu]]? Hopefully there’s a meat-free version.
- Visit new neighborhoods, like [[Shinsekai]] and [[Den Den Town]].
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Try interesting food (of course) :)
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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.
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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.
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[[Agora development]]:
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[[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).
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[[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.
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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.
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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
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[[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.
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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
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Blurters gonna blurt.
- [[microblurting]].
- Going to try popping them in daily files in a subfolder.
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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
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The bookmarks from yesterday look pretty messy.
- Maybe better to indent them all under one heading.
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[[Read]] (well, skimmed): [[Beyond Waste: Essential Skills for a Greener Tomorrow]]
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Read: [[Wasteland]]
- [[household waste]] vs [[industrial waste]]
2024-12-05
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[[Bookmark]]: Climate Vanguard
- "Political Education for Collective Liberation"
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[[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.
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[[Bookmark]]: The Eco-Socialist Party — Climate Vanguard
- [[Ecosocialism]].
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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.
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[[Bookmark]]: Levelling up through circular economy jobs » Green Alliance
- [[Green jobs]]
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[[Bookmark]]: Beyond Waste: Essential Skills for a Greener Tomorrow report
- [[Green jobs]]
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[[Bookmark]]: Capitalism kills: The case for ecosocialism | Green Left
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As one might have noticed, I’m logging bookmarks in the journal stream.
2024-12-04
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[[Read]] some [[Wasteland]].
- [[Agbogbloshie]]
- [[Basel Convention]]
2024-12-03
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[[Wasteland]].
- [[Toxic colonialism]].
- Companies incinerating products to save money.
- Little bit if a history of [[planned obsolescence]].
- Types of obsolescence.
- [[Batterygate]].
- [[Right to repair]].
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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
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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]].
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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[[Wasteland]]
- [[Food waste]] and [[gleaning]].
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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.
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Options:
- Use orgzly for longer text input.
- Try Emacs native Android build again.
- Stick with it, it’s not that bad.
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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.
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Provisioning the [[knowledge commons]] with info on what software is good, how to use it, how to switch to it, etc, also very important.
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[[Wasteland]]
- [[Soil]], [[composting]], and a surprise mention of [[metabolic rift]].
- It’s a well-written book - well paced, informative, humorous.
- [[Biogas]].
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[[Waste]] and what you do with it is an important part of any [[system]].
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This is part of why I’m finding [[Wasteland]] so interesting.
- Here the system is society.
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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 another…
- Or you try and reduce how much of it there is in the first place.
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This is part of why I’m finding [[Wasteland]] so interesting.
2024-11-29
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Watched [[Why Spaced Repetition Doesn’t (Always) Work]]
- Clickbaity title, but good points about [[spaced repetition]].
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[[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
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Watched [[Agentic Product Development]]
- Not sure I understand how the talk relates to the title.
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But I like the concepts discussed a lot.
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To me it felt like a description of [[IndieWeb]] without really mentioning IndieWeb.
- Except in the talk subtitle? And one side mention of IndieAuth.
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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.
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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!).
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Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.
- I played [[Amores Hallarás]] for the first time in A (what I remembered/whistled) and in B (as per the recording by [[Inti Illimani]]).
2024-11-27
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[[Wasteland]]
- Now discussing [[reuse]]. Waste prevention.
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Learned of [[Weird]] and [[Leaf]] from Zicklag on Agora Discuss.
- Very interesting!
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Weird: "prosocial network based on the cornerstone of the internet:Personal websites."
- This is music to my ears.
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[[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
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[[Wasteland]].
- [[Landfill]].
- [[Recycling]].
- [[Energy from waste]].
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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
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[[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.
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Todo for the day:
- rest :)
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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)
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social.coop: CWG oncall
- Some spam reports.
- No new registrations since yesterday.
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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
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[[Wasteland]].
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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.
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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.
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I hope to find the time to start participating in the [[IndieWeb Carnival]].
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I like it as a concept for nudging people to write in their blogs.
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It is an example of the [[Ritualize Togetherness]] pattern of commoning, too.
- Which reminds me… would be good to keep [[Node Club]] going.
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It is an example of the [[Ritualize Togetherness]] pattern of commoning, too.
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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
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Downloaded [[Wasteland]] from [[libro.fm]].
- But… now I can’t find my headphones.
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Found them!
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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
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Finished rereading (listening) [[Doughnut Economics]].
- Still relevant and useful.
- I should write up some takeaways. (Maybe use that rubric from the OU module?)
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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
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[[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
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then I thought about:
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[[Ekumen]]:
- Spoke to [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about next steps, caught up with email :)
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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]]? :)
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[[Ekumen]]:
- [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!
2024-11-19
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[[causal loop diagram]]s.
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Looking at Lend Engine and MyTurn as software options for our [[library of things]].
2024-11-18
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[[wp cli]] is handy.
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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
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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.
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Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
- I heard and read of [[Mathilde Sanders]]
- Excited about yesterday finding:
2024-11-16
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[[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]]
- I [[worked]]; it was fine actually, I had a late review meeting (I don’t usually have meetings on Fridays) but it was interesting/felt worth it.
- I met [[L]]! We spent some of the afternoon together. It was very nice to see her.
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I then worked on [[social.coop]], scaling up (with [[Dan]]). Then I read/wrote/coded a bit.
- Maybe did yoga? But that was [[2024-11-16]] :)
2024-11-14
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On Tuesday I went to a workshop on learning the basics of electrical repairs.
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Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
- The round of intros took up a lot of the session though…
- Had a bit of an overview on useful tools and basic electronic components, wired a plug, and then started repairing broken items we had brought with us.
- It’s a two parter. Next time we’ll look at using a [[multimeter]], [[PAT testing]], and the [[right to repair]].
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Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
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[[Doughnut Economics]] has a good overview of what a [[system]] is and why [[systems thinking]] of useful.
2024-11-13
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The [[Our Changing Climate]] video channel is good.
- Watched: [[Why We Need Socialism]]
- Watched: [[What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?]]
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I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
- It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
- Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/
be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
- [[Algún día]]
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Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
- I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
- I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
- I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
- I thought of the future.
2024-11-11
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[[agora development]]:
- fix mastodon 4.3 embeds?
- and what comes next?
- [[writing]]:
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To test [[collimation]]:
- As it’s cloudy, maybe I’ll observe the distant LEDs in a construction crane ~500m away tonight.
- [[social coop hosting]]
- [[conduit]]
- [[collimate]]
2024-11-09
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- The developer of the concept of [[GDP]], Simon Kuznets, didn’t think it was a good measure of national welfare.
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Microblurting with a mindmap.
- [[my blurts]]
- After trying a few different mindmap apps on Android, going with miMind for now.
- Alas, hand-writing PlantUML mind map markup doesn’t cut it for current purposes.
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- The [[Holocene]] is an incredibly hospitable Earth and the favourable conditions would last for an unusually long time, were we humans not pushing the planet out of this period of stability.
- We need to change the indicator for success from ever upwards and forwards growth to dynamically thriving in balance.
2024-11-08
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Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
- [[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
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Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
- I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
- Tomorrow I’ll see [[AG]] :)
- This evening after work I started working on the Agora and writing. [[Lady Burup]] is sitting to my back on her green cushion.
- Someone reached out over [[Telegram]].
- I thought about [[Ekumen]].
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I did [[Agora development]].
- I iterated on more interface issues that had long nagged me/I had long wanted to work on.
- Shipped iterations in the [[themes]].
- Changed button location to have it make more sense given what it actually does.
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Look for [[people]] to recognize their bridging of different domains. Offer them [[action]]. [[Show]] how they fit with [[tomorrow]].
collapsed:: true
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[[Systems]] [[Engineer]] with [[Philosophy]] interests.
collapsed:: true
- "Let’s build systems that reflect deeper philosophical truths"
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Dropout [[Physics]] PhD/[[Meditation]] Teacher
collapsed:: true
- Help create spaces where both rigorous thinking and deep [[presence]] can flourish
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[[BJJ]] Instructor with Interest in [[Group]] Dynamics
collapsed:: true
- Apply what works on the mat to building [[strong]] communities
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[[Community]] [[Organizer]] with Tech Background
collapsed:: true
- Build communities that can grow without losing their soul
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[[Designer]] Interested in [[Social]] Systems
collapsed:: true
- Design spaces that [[nurture]] genuine human [[connection]]
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Independent [[Researcher]]/[[Writer]]
collapsed:: true
- Turn your [[insights]] into living [[experiments]]
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[[Systems]] [[Engineer]] with [[Philosophy]] interests.
collapsed:: true
- [[Documentation]] is the first step to [[automation]].
- Palantir playbook: collapsed:: true
- What [[opportunities]] might be around [[stratospheric]] craft?
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Every [[time]] I [[feel]] [[annoyed]]/[[tired]] = [[opportunity]]
collapsed:: true
- [[Annoyed]] = [[repeating]] something
- [[Tired]] = [[manual]] work
- [[Stressed]] = [[dependency]] on me
- [[Relief]] = [[automation]] working
- [[Excitement]] = system [[adoption]]
- [[Peace]] = [[leverage]] [[growing]]
- When something is truly [[leveraged]], I [[feel]]: collapsed:: true
- From [[pride]] in being [[needed]] → [[satisfaction]] in not being needed
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From [[shame]] about not doing the [[work]] → [[excitement]] about the [[work]] happening without me
collapsed:: true
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- If I went away for a month, would this keep working?
- Is this [[solution]] teaching people to fish?
- Am I the [[bottleneck]]?
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Pay [[attention]] to:
- [[Throat]] tightening ([[fear]] of letting go)
- Chest expansion (pride in being needed)
- Stomach dropping (knowing it’s not [[growing]] itself)
- Shoulder [[tension]] (holding too much [[responsibility]])
-
- I admit I’m carrying too much [[responsibility]]. I’ve got to find [[waves]] to [[offload]] parts of it onto. Systems to help [[grow]].
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[[Skip]] patterns:
collapsed:: true
- OLD [[VALIDATION]]: "Are people asking for this?"
- NEW [[VALIDATION]]: "Are people already trying to [[skip]] this entire [[process]]?"
- Watch the [[space]] between.
- What are people trying not to perceive?
- What do they [[filter]] out of their [[perception]]?
- What [[decisions]] would they prefer [[front]] [[loaded]]?
- Where are they pre[[loading]] them to?
- [[Neck]] [[tension]] = too much [[process]] [[knowledge]]?
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Instead of: "Let me [[help]] you with that"
collapsed:: true
- Try: "What would make this easier next [[time]]?"
2024-11-08
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I like the seven ways to think like a 21st century economist:
- Change the Goal
- See the Big Picture
- Nurture Human Nature
- Get Savvy with Systems
- Design to Distribute
- Create to Regenerate
- Be Agnostic about Growth
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I like the seven ways to think like a 21st century economist:
2024-11-07
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Not sure how to process the US election 2024 results.
- It feels pretty devastating. The short term and long term repercussions seem catastrophic.
- Right now, avoiding all the news and analysis - too much to get lost in and I don’t have the headspace for it at the moment.
- Finding ways to offer practical solidarity to threatened and affected groups in the US seems like the most productive action in the short term.
- I shipped a fix to wiki.social.coop (the result of coworking with Dan through the week, it was great!)
- I shipped some layout/theme improvements to anagora.org, it felt great as well. I like UI stuff actually it seems, in the right dosage.
- I worked and I was a bit tired at times but it was good and interesting.
- The [[US Election]] news hit hard, myself and many friends.
- I spent time with [[Lady Burup]] in the evening :)
2024-11-05
- Wow - I am blown away by how fantastically useful [[org mode clock tables]] are.
-
Back to work :)
- I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
- Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
- Thought about social.coop after work
2024-11-04
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Listening to [[Doughnut Economics]] now.
- I’ve recently read it, but seemed like a good choice to revisit - big ideas but palatably presented.
- Also I consider it reasonably [[ecosocialist]] in outlook. The combo of social foundation and planetary boundaries. Even though it presents itself somewhat apolitically.
-
[[Data commons]] are [[digital ecosocialism]].
- I work on a data commons - the [[Open Repair Alliance dataset]].
- I’m going to try to go back to keeping more of my todo list here digitally.
- Today was good; melancholy at times, but it ended up on high notes.
- Tomorrow I have the day off, but I might work anyway.
2024-11-03
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Finished [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] (audiobook)
- Fun and informative and very wide ranging on various science topics.
-
My immediate takeaway: the Universe is sublime, Earth is amazing, life is improbable and astonishing; human intelligence is incredible, yet we are astoundingly terrible stewards of life and the planet.
- And we need to resolve that last issue immediately.
- Listened via [[libro.fm]].
- [[japan 2024]]
- I came across [[Bluesky and enshittification]] by [[Cory Doctorow]]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
2024-11-02
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Everybody blurts, sometimes
- [[my blurts]]
-
More one handed mode configuration for Termux:
- [[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
- [[Ekumen]]
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[[Feedback on the Agora]] by [[Eduardo]]:
- No hay jerarquías y no hay orden
-
No hay jerarquías:
- Nodo está en la misma jerarquía que wikipedia/wiktionary/results
- (Sobre las divisiones entre ágora y no ágora)
- Primero podría ir el ágora y después de adentro hacia afuera
- Datos y metadatos están mezclados
-
Líneas y "1 + 1 = 3"
- Espacio negativo
- Alternancia entre colores y grises
-
Dos grupos:
- info acá
- e info en otros lados
- Transclusión, etc.
- Quizás un tabbed interface? Mostrar que e.g. wiktionary tiene contenido relevante pero no mostrarlo como elemento de primer nivel.
2024-11-01
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What is the relationship between ecology and earth systems science?
-
I would like to learn more about [[systems ecology]].
-
[[Las Jaras]] is here!
- How sweet it is
- I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.
2024-10-31
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[[microblurting]] at [[my blurts]]
- As per yesterday, trying them out in their own page, semi-hidden. Hidden in the sense of not visibility, not privacy.
-
I solved my [[issue with evil-escape in Doom on Termux]].
2024-10-30
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I’m [[microblurting]].
-
Blurt
- [[Data science]] is a combination of data analytics, statistics, and machine learning.
- [[Data analytics]] looks at past data and explores patterns and issues. It is descriptive.
- Statistics can be descriptive but also predictive?
- [[Machine learning]] is primarily predictive?
-
Blurt
- Data science is multidisciplinary, encompassing data analytics, statistics and machine learning, among other areas.
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I’m thinking that blurting is probably better semi private.
- It might not be of great interest for others to read half formed, quite possibly incorrect statements about various things.
- Social streams are more interesting when they have some personal, subjective opinion based element I feel, rather than attempted recall of facts.
- Though, it would be nice to receive feedback on some things. So perhaps semi private is good.
-
[[HeliBoard]] is going well.
- Some nice features. Very customisable.
- Being able to adjust the width of the one handed keyboard is very useful.
- swipe typing works pretty well, though I have a sense not quite so good as gboard?
- [[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
- [[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].
2024-10-29
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[[Human physiology]] - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.
-
[[Passive repetition]] can result in an [[illusion of knowing]].
- Better to do [[active repetition]] when you can.
- Writing in a digital garden or on social media is a form of active repetition.
-
Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.
- Just copying and pasting text from elsewhere would be largely passive repetition. Similar to just underlining or highlighting.
- I think the journal aspect of a digital garden is good for active repetition.
- A space to summarise ideas in your own words, and for "blurting".
- So really, that’s more the stream than the garden?
- I suppose you can do active recall in both. But I’d say the stream is your working area for it, and the garden where you store what sticks long term.
-
One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.
-
Trying [[HeliBoard]].
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[[Learning blurt]]
- [[Amino acids]] are the building blocks of [[life]].
- They are what constitute [[proteins]].
- [[Biochemistry]]
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Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.
- Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
- However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
- I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)
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[[Learning blurt]]
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[[Bacteria]]
- Humans are teeming with them.
- Trillions in the gut alone.
- We couldn’t exist without them. They could happily exist without us.
- [[Microbiology]]
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[[Bacteria]]
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I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: [[ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut]]
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I think I’ll explore "[[microblurting]]" as a thing.
- Is microblurting a useful way to do active recall? Should one blurt in public spaces? We’ll find out.
2024-10-28
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I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
- Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
- I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.
2024-10-28
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[[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]
- So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
- All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
- There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.
2024-10-27
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The first book I’ve got on [[libro.fm]] is [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] by Bill Bryson.
- I’ve really been enjoying learning about broad, general subject matters outside of my usual areas on [[Kinnu]].
- This appealed in that same vein. Simple overview of lots of topics.
- I’ve read it a few times many years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it.
- [[…]]
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Well, I’m here finally :)
- I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
- Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
-
I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
- Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
- Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
- Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
- Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.
So today I want to work/play on:
-
[[Agora development]]
- Toggle for [[autopull]] in the burger menu I’ve been playing with in a branch
-
[[Flancia]]
- Zine writing
- [[Open letter to our readers of the future]] / [[Maitreya]]
- And leaders of course :)
I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.
-> [[do]]
- I enjoyed going through it a lot actually, several things got marked done! Wow.
- It makes sense because I do follow a kind of system within my chaos, but it’s cool to see it corroborated.
- Some things I actually did; some things are no longer relevant, e.g. Twitter bot stuff (as Musk killed that, for now at least).
- Which led me to [[maybe Musk will wake up]]
Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)
I will now [[flow]] with my friends [[bobby lyte]] and [[adriene]] :D
For more of this, check out https://anagora.org/yoga-with-x .
- Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
- Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
- [[Recursivity]].
- No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
-
I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
- Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))
2024-10-26
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Starting using [[libro.fm]]. For [[audiobooks]].
- Seems great. Let’s you pick a bookshop (local or online) for some of the money to go to.
- But, also very annoyed to discover that some audiobooks are ‘Audible Exclusives’. Meaning you can only get them on Audible.
- What a scam. Imagine only being able to buy some books in certain bookshops.
- libro has some resources on how to do something about it: https://blog.libro.fm/why-isnt-audiobook-available-libro-fm-what-to-do/
2024-10-25
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Back in the Agora!
- I shipped some small usability improvements this week. I intend to do some more of these during the weekend.
- I re-discovered [[…]] and it’s amazing, both broken and great.
- [[Silverbullet]] cannot open it though, so the screenshot is in [[ellipsis]]
-
Work has been fine.
- It was a relatively productive week; I feel satisfied.
-
I thought about [[Magnetism]], as usual. And its [[elasticity]].
- I want to write something about [[magnets in space]], I think it could go well with that other old idea — [[monks in space]] :)
- I watched [[which came first]] (3 minutes) and it was great
- I used [[flatpak]] today.
2024-10-24
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Back in the Agora using [[Silverbullet]]!
- It’s been working quite alright for me, although I still use [[wiki vim]] around half the time when editing I’d say.
- I posted an update to https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010.
-
I had a good day at work really.
- I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
- I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
- I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
- Then I thought about the [[Revolution]].
- [[AG]]
- called my mum for [[mother’s day]] in Argentina
-
[[flancia meet]]:
- with [[bouncepaw]]
- [[apache2]] is making a comeback
- [[8bitdo]] keyboard and the alternate keyboard movement, [[funky keyboards]]
- [[keyboard wiki]]
-
I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
- I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
- Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
- I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].
I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.
- I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
- I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)
So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.
Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.
- The laundry timer just went off.
- And now I’m back, after putting laundry to dry (tumble) and another load :)
What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].
2024-10-20
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I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.
-
I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.
- Now, while the bubba is napping on me, I’ll utilise that system to digitise the data from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe, October 2024]].
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[[2024-10-20 17:59:12+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Look, an #agora! [[2024-10-20]]
2024-10-19
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Let’s dust this off…
-
[[International Repair Day]] 2024 today.
- Did a spell at [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] popup cafe in [[Barrow]].
- Fixed a printer (well, more just showed that it was working OK and put a fresh ink cartridge in).
-
For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.
- Today is [[Maitreya]]! The 17th :)
-
Work was fine actually. I biked there and back, I’m enjoying the exercise before it gets too cold.
- Was productive in the evening from home after reuniting with [[Lady Burup]] :)
- Then I ate and did [[Flancia]].
- [[23 september]] -> [[mylesj]]
- [[Minecraft]] with [[Ishmael]] and X, enjoying it a lot! Playing in some resting periods.
- Went to the [[Zürich Coffee Festival]] with [[Sebek]] and [[Nina]]!
- [[tabs]]
- [[next action]]:
- -> [[eight pomodoros]]
- [[Divorce]]
-
[[Free from suffering]]!
- Both happy and sad. But it was beautiful to see [[L]], see her shining!
- [[2063]]
2024-10-08
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At [[work]], meaning in the office, after a few days out/WFH due to disease. It’s nice to see my coworkers/have in person conversations.
- I had a productive day at home yesterday which hopefully will translate to a productive week in-office. Let’s see :)
-
No meetings after work tonight! Which is nice.
- I’m back to using [[the time-block planner]] and it’s still great. Commitment is important.
- Continuing from [[2024-10-04]] :)
-
#push [[todo]]
- Reviewed [[go/agora/bugs]] after long and responded to issues! I want to do this more often from now on.
- Same for [[go/agora server/bugs]] (it has lots of interesting stuff!) and [[go/agora bridge/bugs]]
-
[[agora development]]:
- I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
- I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
- I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
-
[[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
-
[[zine]]
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5 finish?
-
[[letters]]
-
0
-
which are the three letters I want to work on?
-
to [[WS]]
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
- Objections -> [[objectio]]
-
to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
- Objections
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
-
to Maitreya
-
meaning: one or more friends
- Lex Fridman et al?
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
-
meaning: one or more friends
-
to [[WS]]
-
which are the three letters I want to work on?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5 finish/share?
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0
-
[[zine]]
- [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
-
I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
- 0 gather all [[receipts]]
- 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
- will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
- [[aeyokay]]
- Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
- Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
-
[[agora development]]:
- I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
- I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
- I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
-
[[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
-
[[zine]]
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5 finish?
-
[[letters]]
-
0
-
which are the three letters I want to work on?
-
to [[WS]]
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
- Objections -> [[objectio]]
-
to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
- Objections
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
-
to Maitreya
-
meaning: one or more friends
- Lex Fridman et al?
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
-
meaning: one or more friends
-
to [[WS]]
-
which are the three letters I want to work on?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5 finish/share?
-
0
-
[[zine]]
- [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
-
I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
- 0 gather all [[receipts]]
- 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
- will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
- [[ekumen]]
-
[[analytical seclusion]]:
- [[sabbatical]]
- may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?
-
I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
- Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
- [[Magnets]]
- [[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
- Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
-
[[agora development]]:
- [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
- I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
- I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
- I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
- I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
-
[[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
-
[[zine]]
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5 finish?
-
[[letters]]
-
0
-
which are the three letters I want to work on?
-
to [[WS]]
- Thank you
- Objections
- What I will try to do forward
-
to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
- Objections
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
-
to Maitreya
- meaning: one or more friends
- Thank you
- What I will try to do forward
-
to [[WS]]
-
which are the three letters I want to work on?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
-
5 finish/share one tomorrow?
- considering this shared (with two people to begin with) as of the week of [[2024-10-11]] :)
-
0
-
[[zine]]
- read about the [[Karmapa]]
- I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
-
#push [[do]]
-
I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
- do laundry (2x)
- donate (2x)
-
run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
- add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
- maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
-
write
- zine (2-4x)
-
get java [[minecraft]]
- server url
- I visited [[Plitnyakovo]] for the first time today on [[2024-09-30]]. Thank you [[Ishmael]]!
-
one or more of:
- open letter to musk
- open letter to maitreya
- open letter to lex and sam
-
code
- get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
-
one or more of:
- save button
- activitypub support
- agora bot posts updates from the agora?
- users post updates from the agora?
-
systems
-
fix agor.ai
- recycle
- make free space
- try again
-
fix agor.ai
-
I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
- [[flancia]]
- [[sadhana]]
-
[[dhyanas]]
- I read about the two first [[immaterial states]], very interesting.
- [[zine]]
- I’m back :)
-
[[social.coop]]:
- Updated moderation announcement
- Review pass issue reported by edsu
- [[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it
-
[[work]] was OK.
- tomorrow will be even better I think :)
- it will start weirdly.
- I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
-
While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
- It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
-
It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
-
I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
- Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
- I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
-
I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
- I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
- It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
- Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].
-
I’m back!
- In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
- I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
- See also: [[2024-09-24]]
-
Back in [[Flancia]]!
- Or did we ever leave?
- [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
- Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
- Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
- Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
-
Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
- So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
-
Then I [[flowed]].
- [[Social Coop]]
- [[Ekumen]]
- [[KPT]] and paperwork review
- [[zine]]
- Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
- [[37]]
-
[[I’m back]]!
- I spent the week in [[Stockholm]] for work.
- Flew back to [[Zürich]] on Friday and reunited with my [[Lady Burup]], it was lovely.
- Now writing these lines on the train to [[Paris]], where I’ll reunite with [[AG]] before we move on to some other destination for five days of further enjoyment.
- We will reunite once more with my [[Lady Burup]] on the [[20th]] if everything goes according to plan.
- Back to work on the [[23rd]].
- Donated to:
- [[Fediverse]]:
- Today I finished the one week course with [[Lama Jigme Rinpoche]]. He was kind and inspiring.
- It is nearly time, I think?
- I’ve gotten [[paramita]] back up and running, it had broken in a variety of ways (broken nvim with a bus error, broken gammastep)
- [[Jigme Rinpoche]]
- [[master plan]] -> [[main plan]] :)
- Thank you [[Jigme Rinpoche]] and [[Dhagpo Switzerland]].
- [[Chenrezig practice]]
- [[Flancia]]
- [[Agora development]]
- [[Friends]]
- [[197]]
-
[[jigme rinpoche]]:
- [[chenrezig]]
- [[bodhisattva]]
- [[maitreya]]?
-
[[OGM]]:
- Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom:
- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
-
Maybe things will turn out to be [[funny]] in retrospect
- I have been told that [[Flancia]] seems to lack humour, even though it started as a well-meaning joke! I guess I lost/deprioritized that along the way…
- [[work]] has been tough since last Thursday and I realize that has made it so that I haven’t noded much here for a while.
- [[fellowship of the link]] :)
- [[2024-08-29]]: Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
- [[storm]]
- [[entropy]]
- [[divisibility rules]]
- [[sucederá]]
- [[maitreya]]!
- [[Google IPO]] twenty years ago today
- [[zine]]
- [[AG]]
- Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]]
- I banged my right elbow hard when moving near an open window, I hope it doesn’t swell :)
-
Good day overall in any case!
- I cycled to work and back and it was great.
2024-08-18
- Chill rainy Sunday at home :)
- Spent it with [[AG]].
- Then in the afternoon [[VK]] and her boyfriend [[Sascha]] came about, it was very nice!
- [[feedback 2024]]
2024-08-17
-
[[Maitreya]]!
- Maitreya on Saturday is extra special
-
[[Burup]]
- I played the piano, I’m enjoying recording midis while practicing even if it’s sometimes cacophonic — as it sometimes isn’t :) and saving the midi seems interesting and would let me extract fragments later
-
[[Fediverse]]
- Had a conversation with [[foolishowl]]
- Wrote [[practice.py]] on a lark :)
2024-08-16
-
I got here the long way around :)
- For sure I did! Cool — back here something like… 18 hours later, at 22.
-
Yesterday night I had a wild ride restoring my preferred [[Agora editor]] to working order, and then exorcising my digital garden from a file over 100MB which I accidentally committed and made Github refuse me all service with insufficient explanation :)
- I had to do a [[git rebase]], which didn’t work, and (re-) learn about [[git filter-repo]] and such
-
[[Silverbullet]]:
-
Now running [[Silverbullet dev]] having worked around the actual trigger for the most critical part of https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010, which ended up being not due to garden scale only but also due to a recent change I had made to my config :)
- Keeping an eye on the other performance issues.
- You wouldn’t believe how much I missed having a web-based [[Agora editor]].
- It made me think I still have to keep honest and actually offer this as a service in the [[Agora of Flancia]] — I would love to provide hosted Silverbullet for whoever wants it.
-
Thought of:
- [[Agora demo]]
- [[AG]]
-
Now running [[Silverbullet dev]] having worked around the actual trigger for the most critical part of https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010, which ended up being not due to garden scale only but also due to a recent change I had made to my config :)
- "I’ve seen what will happen, many a time".
- [[Work]] was alright, looking forward to tomorrow actually :)
-
I spent time with:
- [[AG]]
- [[Lady Burup]]
- I thought of:
-
I played the piano and played with [[Lady Burup]] :)
- The smell of [[Petrichor]] in the balcony.
- A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
- [[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
- [[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
-
some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
- it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
- [[backup nostromo]]
- then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
- some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
- thought about:
-
[[bangers]]:
- [[banger]]
-
[[silverbullet bug]] which makes it harder for me to write in the Agora :(
- but things will hopefully get better :)
- Found [[3493]] on the way to work today, it was great.
- Then in the night I thought of [[cryptobuddhism]].
- [[Building Bridges]] then :)
- [[donna haraway]] has interesting/surprising (to me) contents!
- I thought of the question of defining [[canonicity]].
- Sad morning but I think it was also cathartic.
- Then I cleaned the house, and I did practice :)
-
Got back to [[Building Bridges]] after long, finally — it’s been on the backburner for a year or so, at least?
- Will try to do a pass on it, with the occasion of also
- Fixing formatting issues on [[Agora Chapter]] for legibility before sharing further
- I need to fix the issue that on some computers [[wiki vim]] writes journals on /journal/
.md and in some others I have it set it up to / .md - [[Flow state]]
- I read what [[NG]] wrote
- Bought shoes, which was on my todo list :)
- Bought a book gift
- Received a book gift :)
- Found [[standardgalatic]]
- I biked from [[AG]]‘s place to [[Flancia central]] in the midnight sun and it was beautiful :)
- Then I saw [[VK]], it was great!
- Then I flowed.
- Updated [[bill flancian]]
-
[[zine]]:
- [[bella burup]]
- [[lady burup]]
2024-08-03
- Now on the [[third]], early in the morning you could say :)
- [[Flancia meet]] was quiet but I enjoyed it anyway, took the time to do stuff leisurely on the laptop.
- [[Hzian]]
-
I found [[burning chrome]] and I thought it could be a good Agora demo node.
- It links to [[burning chromium]], which I started (barely) long ago and I immediately felt like continuing/fixing up :)
- [[Work]] was alright — I did what [[bobby lyte]] does and tried to do the day’s worth of work in one hour, and it sort of worked believe it or not
- I posted about the [[magnetic projector]] I made to the [[Fediverse]] :)
- I had an amazing meeting with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about the [[Fediverse]], the [[Web]], and [[Sutty]] and the [[Agora]] and [[Confluencia]].
- I [[flowed]] :)
2024-08-01
- Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)
-
Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
- I moved my journals here also to the root of my garden, as I did with wiki vim a few days back, so you will see them at /YYYY-MM-DD.md from now on instead of at /journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
- Happy to hear that [[vera]] is also using Silverbullet!
-
I read criticism of the [[Gemini ad]]: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
- I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
- You could say the ad does miss any note worth hitting; but I did like some aspects like the dad’s voice (is it the real one, though, I wonder?) and the fact that it’s not too long.
- It has the usual by now out-of-touch aesthetic of Google ads, which you could call [[enterprise whimsy]].
- And it’s just… a bit nonsensical, on top of the other criticisms. Why is the dad involved at all? He comes across as lazy. If this was an ad showing how the little girl can use Gemini to help her with her writing, it would feel a lot more natural/less problematic probably. It is true that kids are going to be using generative AI to learn how to write (presumably they are already doing this), and the ad could have shown some of that instead. Maybe this was considered but lawyers didn’t want to show too young people using the technology for some reason, and we got the lazy dad as a compromise?
- Anyway. Google ads are pretty bad on average these days IMHO, so I’m not super surprised.
- Yesterday [[2024-07-31]] in the [[Fellowship of the link]] call [[Aram]] shared a nice article he wrote as part of the [[semilink]] activity we were experimenting with: [[the internet is a series of webs]].
-
[[Flancia]]:
- I wrote on the Agora today. This is a good day :)
-
I intend to also do some [[Agora development]].
- I fixed an issue that [[vera]] reported with transclusion in Silverbullet — interesting.
- I wrote a script to assist in Agora maintenance,
health.sh
2023-08-01
- Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
- Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)
-
I read this [[Gemini ad]] criticism: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
- I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
- [[movies]]
- I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
- Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
-
I thought of:
-
[[Magnets]] as usual ;)
-
New today, but also recurrent in a way:
- About [[Magnets in space]]
- About [[Magnetic computing]]
- About [[free energy]] and [[entropy]] :)
-
New today, but also recurrent in a way:
- By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
-
[[Agora letters]]
- Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].
-
[[Magnets]] as usual ;)
Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).
For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.
- What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
- [[Search and Seizure]].
-
Short [[videos]]:
collapsed:: true
- [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
- How am I going to do X?
- Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
- First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
- Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
- First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
- [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
- Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
- Add conflict as the video goes on
-
[[But]],so
But, [[therefore]]
- South Park
- Include a [[Why]]
- Keep ending short but with a payoff
-
Incident management game
collapsed:: true
- Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
-
A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]].
collapsed:: true
- "Redefine the fight"
- Aviate navigate communicate
- [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
- Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
- [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
- "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
-
[[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie.
collapsed:: true
- Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
- Textile Onion
- Winterfat
- Chokecherry
- Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
- Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
- Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
- “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
- Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
-
Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]]
collapsed:: true
- If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
- If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
- "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
- Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
- [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
- [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
- "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
- John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
- Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
- [[Copywriting swipefile]]
- A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
-
"it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
- "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a [[time]] carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."
- What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
- [[Search and Seizure]].
-
Short [[videos]]:
collapsed:: true
- [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
- How am I going to do X?
- Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
- First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
- Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
- First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
- [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
- Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
- Add conflict as the video goes on
-
[[But]],so
But, [[therefore]]
- South Park
- Include a [[Why]]
- Keep ending short but with a payoff
-
Incident management game
collapsed:: true
- Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
-
A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]].
collapsed:: true
- "Redefine the fight"
- Aviate navigate communicate
- [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
- Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
- [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
- "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
-
[[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie.
collapsed:: true
- Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
- Textile Onion
- Winterfat
- Chokecherry
- Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
- Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
- Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
- “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
- Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
-
Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]]
collapsed:: true
- If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
- If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
- "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
- Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
- [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
- [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
- "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
- John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
- Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
- [[Copywriting swipefile]]
- A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
-
"it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
- "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."
- Just completed the [[shutdown]] ritual from [[Cal Newport]]‘s [[Time Block Planner]] and I think the system is totally working out for me so far (a few weeks in). Feeling happier at work and productive.
- Travel incoming! [[Ischia]].
- A friend gifted me [[This is How You Lose the Time War]].
- [[AG]] gifted me [[Dürrenmatt]]‘s [[The Physicists]]
-
I thought of [[Revolutions]] after work.
- During lunch today I read about [[anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th century]], thanks to [[voltairine de cleyre]], and I met interesting people.
- If you read this, [[Moloch]], know this: we will defeat you for the good of humanity and our friends.
-
Woke up with [[AG]], enjoyed the morning. Then I cleaned and did laundry and started packing for the trip :)
- Also managed to lose one my earbuds while cleaning, but then I found it thanks to [[find my device]] which I didn’t know existed — it’s an option in [[bluetooth settings.]]- [[Flancia]]:
- [[Flancia.org]]
- Talking to [[Mohammed]] about getting formal verification about our charitable endeavours as the bank in Yemen is giving trouble/they seem to be suspicious of ill intent (which we don’t have).
- Wrote https://flancia.org/homes today (I should have one it earlier, it was somewhere on my todo list — but here we are, I hope it helps).
-
So it turns out that for years I have been sometimes journaling in
/YYYY-MM-DD.md
and sometimes injournal/YYYY-MM-DD.md
, depending on how I created the entry.- If I press e.g. ctrl-w ctrl-w in [[vim]], I go to the daily page as configured by [[wiki vim]] — which is the later.
- If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the past, I usually will have a journal already, and wiki vim will redirect there.
- If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the future, though, I will not have a journal yet, so the file will be created as a "common node", outside of journals.
- I thought I had moved to a ‘flat space’ with everything including journals in the [[root of my garden]], but apparently that didn’t happen yet :)
-
[[agora development]]:
-
Fix some quirks?
-
Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
-
Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
- Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
- Disambiguates between subnodes for free
- Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed
‘, I think I like it. - Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
-
Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
-
Take e.g. [[zine]]
- It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
-
Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
-
Fix some quirks?
- I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.
- [[zine]]
-
[[agora]]
-
I thought about 7:
- [[7 presidents]]
- [[7 ceos]]
- [[7 revolutions]]
- [[7 good leaders]]
- [[Gloria]]
-
I thought about 7:
- [[AG]] told me about [[Arthur Koestler]]
- We swam in [[Letten]] :)
- Listening to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Christof Hoch]]. Interesting, they had a "sidebar" conversation I’d love to comment on among other things.
- I read a bit about the life of [[Muhammed]] and his wives, like [[Aisha]].
- I read about [[Thalassemia]]
- [[Bryce Huebner]]
- [[LM Studio]]
- [[skreutzer]]
- [[sensecraft]]
-
[[agora development]]:
-
Fix some quirks?
-
Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
-
Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
- Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
- Disambiguates between subnodes for free
- Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed
‘, I think I like it. - Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
-
Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
-
Take e.g. [[zine]]
- It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
-
Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
-
Fix some quirks?
- I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.
- [[19]] is [[Right Freedom]] in the [[pattern language]] I’ve been working on.
-
[[Wayland]]:
- [[gammastep]] is the new [[redshift]]:
- [[gammastep -O 4000]] to cut to the chase and go a nice night reddish
- [[gammastep -O 1000]] to go to the minimum supported temperature, which is essentially as red as it gets
- Those are [[Kelvin]].
- [[Open Letters]]:
-
Day 17 is here!
- [[17]] is [[Maitreya]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]]:)
- [[7]] is [[Avalokiteshvara]].
- So you could say today is a pretty great date.
- [[2024-07-16]]
-
[[agora chapter]] is now one step closer to being properly readable in the Commons :)
- I linked all wikilinks using [[apps script]]
- I also have a version without
[[
and]]
and… I have to say it might indeed be more readable than with :)
- Caught up with [[collective sense commons]] after a long while and it was great/interesting!
- [[topic maps]] by [[Jack Park]] is now linked.
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[[Silverbullet]]:
-
The new [[Silverbullet]] supports transclusion!
- It works using the syntax I think [[Obsidian]] also uses:
will transclude the content of note [[tabs]].
- In the case of the [[Agora]] this could be treated as a [[pull]] — but that transcludes the whole node below the current one, and maybe in this case what is intended is to transclude one particular resource in-place.
- Oh, what currently happens is that the Agora assumes this is an image being transcluded — that is the one kind of direct transclusion we have implemented so far. I guess I could hack that codepath and see how hard it is to actually transclude e.g. the subnode with full subnode view in an iframe? Unsure.
-
In other [[Silverbullet]] news, today I figured out how to make dailies go to the node YYYY-MM-DD instead of to Journals/Day/YYYY-MM-DD:
- You open special page
/Library/Journal/New%20Page/Daily%20Note
(template) in your instance. - You change suggestedName.
- I commented out forPrefix but I’m unsure if you need that.
- You open special page
-
The new [[Silverbullet]] supports transclusion!
- [[2024-07-13]] was both emotional and productive.
-
Writing this in an up-to-date Silverbullet that works again with my garden :)
- Thanks [[zefhemel]] for [[silverbullet]] and for fixing https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/934 so promptly!
- Back in Silverbullet after reporting a bug :) https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/934
- I wanted to write to (…)
-
threw [[261]]
- leading to [[hex/10]] = [[271]]: es todo perfecto como es.
- I realized [[hex/6]] = [[97]] is prime, the last I had yet to memorize below 100. That concludes a particular interesting sequence, I guess :)
-
[[primes]]:
- The number of primes below 100 is perhaps interesting to know: 25. So a fourth of the 100 first numbers are prime! Huh.
- Knowing up to 1000 would unlock getting a statistical feel of how quickly primes ‘thin out’.
- Of course we can also count to 10: 4 primes below 10, so about two fifths.
- I think they thin out logarithmically but I’m not sure which base, I could look it up but maybe I’ll think about it :)
- It would be cool if it was the natural logarithm. It’s the kind of thing that could happen :)
-
[[bluesky]]:
- now has an [[agora bot]]!
- it’s alpha but it works sometimes (tm)
-
#go at://anagora.bsky.social
- is that a valid [[at protocol]] uri? I believe it sort of should be but I haven’t checked :)
-
[[primes]]:
-
Here I am having counted the primes up to 1000: [[168]]. So down to 16.8% of numbers being prime.
- The [[Prime number theorem]] is what I was inching towards
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function#Table_of_%CF%80(x),_x/log(x),_and_li(x) is a [[great table]]
- The ratio of primes below number n which is exactly 1/#primes_below, can be estimated by 1/(x/log(x))
- Wow, had I never heard of [[logarithmic integral function]] before?
- So it turns out that li(x) estimates pi(x) better
-
Here I am having counted the primes up to 1000: [[168]]. So down to 16.8% of numbers being prime.
- I’m going back to [[Flancia book]], and it made me think of what I would in my best dreams try to publish during [[2025]]:
-
[[paul bricman]]: [[straumli ai]]
- is down?
-
[[celeste]]
- is pretty great
- [[flancia book]]:
Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.
These its chapters.
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[[kowloon walled city]]:
- [[warehouse kawasaki]] (arcade reproduction)
- [[chungking express]]
- [[Flancia]]!
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[[Flancia]]!
- I’ll be in Flancia as much as possible Monday and Tuesday; Wednesday I’m back to work.
- (Decided to take a mini two day holiday with the occasion of my birthday and the anniversary of my dad’s death.)
- Thank you [[AG]] and [[Brigitta]] for the beautiful weekend!
- [[L]] told me about [[Brook Farm]] :)
-
I thought of:
- My [[father]].
- [[Ananda]]
- [[Water]]
- [[Polyhedron]]
- [[UNICEF]]
-
[[work]] was alright :)
- most of the meetings of the week are past, will now try to focus in decent blocks :)
- [[flancia]]
I’ve started recording my screen more often, as a way of screencasting — even though very often I don’t get to actually publish it. I have a [[Youtube channel]] but I mostly upload Yoga sessions there, at least so far. Still, just recording sometimes makes me feel reassured — because theoretically that means I may get to actually publish it in the future, or because others will find these files and look for anything [[interesting]] in them, or because even if they are lost they will influence my behavior in some ways.
I sometimes feel that I think and write more coherently when I remember to think about you, dear [[reader]], dear [[viewer]], please [[like]] and [[share]] if willing :)
I wrote the above, which I’m calling [[2024-07-02]], and then I’m moving on to do whatever’s next in the list, or whatever arises.
I was thinking recently of
Here’s a [[joke]]:
An alien and a human go into a bar.
The alien asks: how many drinks are you having?
The human says: just one.
- One what?
- One drink.
- That’s in this reality, what about the imaginary part?
- What do you mean?
- In how many timelines are you right now?
- What… what do you mean? Just the one
- One reality, all real?
- Yes
With a flash of insight, many aliens realize at once that humans don’t know the complex plane.
…of Agora development, and of the fact that I still need to fix [[agor.ai]], and…
Here again on [[2024-07-19]], is this cheating time? :)
-
[[Agora plan]]:
-
I #liked [[flow state]] [[power hour]] #22
- The above is the kind of update that I would like to see automatically generated whenever an [[Agora bot]] detects opted in [[social activity]] ;)
-
I #liked [[flow state]] [[power hour]] #22
-
Thought about [[7 revolutions]], [[3 leaders]], and other patterns.
- I thought about possible manifestations of [[heterarchy]].
- The strength of [[triumvirates]] and of "leadership" [[groups]] in general, when well defined and resilient.
-
[[Heptad]]:
- I searched [[equivalent of triumvirate with 7 members]] in the Agora and the [[AI]] assistance gave me the right answer :)
-
[[6pm]] update: [[Flowing]] in [[paramita]] :)
- experimented with the [[Bluesky API]]
- now fixing [[agora server]] dependencies after upgrading to [[Ubuntu 24.04 LTS]] :)
- [[AI]]:
- [[helvetas]]
- Revisited [[i annotate 2021 slides]]
- Set up two [[patreon]] sponsorships, donated to [[unicef]].
- Thought of [[Ananda]].
-
[[auto pull social]]:
- I’m thinking I usually want Mastodon embeds to be auto pulled in nodes, will probably try that default/to make it work again. Currently you have to press ‘Pull All’.
- So I guess the simplest fix would be to locate the code that is supposed to click that button and check for its running condition.
- Maybe it’s time to check [[Silverbullet]]‘s settings for journal entries? :)
Daily Note 2024-06-26
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today,
-
"That’s where the jets lag, feat. Jet Lag The Game S10" - My note on Facebook Messenger
-
What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
- To mix things up while watching [[JoeHillsTSD]]‘s stream featuring [[ZombieCleo]], I pulled up DJ X from Spotify webapp for some music listening.
<iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/Eyz6LsEYNnM” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
Daily Note 2024-06-25
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 25, 2024:
-
Created a new repo in @recaptime-dev for transparency log/communication threads, similar to delegate communication threads in Arbitrum governance forum
- Here’s mine if you want a preview: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/transparency-log-threads/issues/1
-
What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
- Nothing new for now.
- A bit of catching up on Jet Lag: The Game series while waiting for the Season 10 finale.
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
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[[work]]
- until late actually, but it was enjoyable :)
- [[sqlite code of ethics]]
- [[Bella Burup]], a [[song]]:
Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup!
Tara Burup Tara-burup!
Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:
Salve!
Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup.
Mi true Burup, true Burup.
Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:
Sea!
- [[work]] :)
- [[2024-06-21]]
Daily Note 2024-06-23
!!! warning "This is a bit incomplete" But working on it as soon as possible, hopefully before Thurday.
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 23, 2024, alongside what’s happened in the past two weeks:
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Pardon the week-long silence on the daily journaling. Just needed a quick recharge as well for warming up Minecraft skills (currently in peaceful mode for a lot of resource gathering sessions).
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Did a cleanup chore with my sister (since we share the bedroom space, which sometimes chaotic when comes to schedules on the study table1) on 06-22.
-
Here’s what been cooked since last two weeks:
- Officially brought the Bedrock edition on mobile (formerly known as Pocket Edition) for Android. Chaos at mining ensure, with my first death from falling gravel.[^2]
- Who thought you want to go deeper into Minecraft lore, via the Legends spinoff? Like literally watching the full gameplay for 2-3+ hours[^3].
<iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/mGv9joHumwQ” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen> -
What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
- ….
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
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Currently planning on getting a new laptop for upgrades or get the screen repaired (*fingers crossed on shipping costs of the parts itself*) [^2]: There is second one, but I didn’t count it yet since I pulled the quick restore backup action from world backups as part of my Realms Plus trial. [^3]: The full video is literally 6+ hours, so I do some skips to speed things up.↩
- I planned to do [[Agora]] work but in the end didn’t get to it; maybe I will be able to do a bit of it on Monday after work.
- We managed to do a mini bike-and-run with [[AG]] and it was great :)
- VC’d with my mum :)
- Also VC’d with [[Berni]] as we watched the second half of [[Switzerland-Germany]] together.
- And caught up with [[Kris]].
-
[[Sebek]] and family came over and we had lunch at home :) It was great!
- [[Lady Burup]] found it hard to deal with two children at the same time, but I think she might get used to it with time (and the children will also learn how to communicate with her) ;)
- Then [[Janosch]]‘s [[party]] with [[AG]] 🥳
- Then [[2024-06-23]]
- Attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly gathering in [[Paulus Akademie]] with [[AG]]. It was great!
- Then [[2024-06-22]].
- [[agora chapter]] got updated :)
- [[work]] was lonely but worth it
- [[social coop]]:
- then some housework and [[fellowship of the link]]
- [[GGUF]]
- at [[work]] — relatively tough Monday and Tuesday with lots of meetings, but getting through them :)
- [[new moon yoga]] was interesting the other day, even though (or maybe because) it didn’t come out on [[new moon]] at all :)
- [[Flancia]], in my heart, is deep and meaningful.
- [[bangers]]
-
[[psionica]]:
- went away at some point? the site is down.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220315104111/https://psionica.org/ has some remnants.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220418085349/https://psionica.org/thoughtware/ was cool.
- [[sakka]], [[pancasikka]]
2024-06-15
- The [[social model of disability]] is very interesting.
-
Now using [[silverbullet]] as embedded in the Agora proper :)
- It’s at the bottom.
- It only works for me for now — sorry!
I know it’s a bit self-centered to add the edit box to anagora.org when only I can use it for now, but I wanted to experiment with the editing experience before investing a lot in developing it for others :) I hope it doesn’t get in the way of the experience of others.
-
Maybe it makes sense to make [[1]] my [[bootstrap]] screen, given that [[0]] is taken over by remote desktop usually.
- In any case one of 0, 1 should probably be it at any given time?
- This way in case I forget what my "main thread" is, I can visit it.
- [[Hans Widmer]], in his dedicatory, taught me the word… [[umwerfend]]?
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[[Flancia]]!
- is again prominent in my heart
- we ran with [[AG]] in Flancia
-
[[Agora development]]
- will try [[bold usernames]] as I want to emphasize the social aspect of the Agora, and the [[Agorans]] are those who make the Agora amazing!
- [[cats]]
Hello there, editor Andrei speaking on the line. This should be technically published exactly in the Philippine Indepedence Day, but since I am currently between a mini sabatical and EOSY rest for the next school year, I apologize if it took longer than expected. So I decided to publish it now from the backburner and finalize it later.
Hello world, and welcome back to the monthly dump/status update! Pardon the radio silence over the few months, I am just busy at school during those period, but since I am in the end-of-school-year break, we’re actually back for at least two issues of this, alongside the daily journaling on [my personal wiki] Buckle up, since there will be mentions about Gildedguy Story #8 and you don’t want to [get snuck-up on][md-spoilers-ep7], right?
By the way for the Agora community, I’ll be pointing my notes here while keeping the old ones
up as an archive via the new [[@ajhalili2006-archive]]
once the patch for sources YAML file
are merged upstream soon.
And since this is the weekend (as of 2024-06-01) to officially kickoff my mini-sabbatical between school year, this is the first edition of my monthly dump of the year, also known as monthly status updates if you keen checking the archives. So read on to know what I am cooking behind the scenes.
The [[Gildedguy Story 8]] Premiere Experience
I literally woke up early on May 12 to catch up the Twitch premiere ([original VOD link], [archived in 1080p] via Storj DCS) just few minutes before it start. Based on the first watch, not only it was another banger1 by [Michael Moy][mikedmoy] and the production team based on what the community saying, but there are new lore have been dropped since [[Gildedguy Story 7]]. I’ll be not able to take note them all here in detail, but please take a watch for yourself.
It’s a blast after all, so [grab your "I Was There In Premiere" badge][luma] for free if you’re there (either via Twitch or YouTube). And expect a in-depth post on it and more on [my blog] later this month (or just before the next school year starts). If you need some Gildedguy Stories-themed mixtape on your library, [I made one since March] and currently open for song suggestions.
Chores on Personal Wiki
Since this Material for Mkdocs-powered site [started in last year][initial-commit], I am currently working to merge both the old digital garden and Jiroh’s Kooky Insane Stuff into here, alongside an upcoming one for Traumatized Autistics Department. Due to how the content migration is currently underway, you may see this non-dismissable banner on the top of every page similarly to this one below ([link to commit]):
!!! info "" :construction: Wiki under consturction Please accept our apologies for any broken links while migrating content from different repositories. Learn more
But wait, what’s [[Traumatized Autistics Department]]?
[Here]’s the Google Doc for the project README (currently a public draft), but in a nutshell, this is where
Meanwhile in Recap Time Squad
In summary for everyone asking, just self-documentation, janitorial and admin work on Recap Time Squad lately.
Nothing too heavy other than bringing the Staff SSO terms and mini reorganization chores in our [policy site],
content updates on [the Squad Wiki], and even setting up a [brand assets repository] to host our different
brand assets as we export them from Canva, similarily to the cdnjs/brand
GitHub repo
and others.
Signing off
That’s all for now and thanks for reading. Talk to you soon on the next edition, or [read the archives for this year so far][archive]. For occassional chaos on your feed and for comments, [follow me/tag on socials] or send a e-fanmail.
[archive]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/garden/daily-notes/archive/2024/ [original VOD link]: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2143318582 [archived in 1080p]: https://vod.cdn.andreijiroh.xyz/twitch/gildedguy/2143318582/vod.mp4 [luma]: https://lu.ma/gildedguy-story8 [blog]: https://ajhalili2006.substack.com [policy site]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/legal-policies/commits?author=ajhalili2006&since=2024-04-30&until=2024-05-30 [follow me/tag on socials]: https://ajhalili2006.start.page [I made one since March]: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qW0g1QAeChWLSKXuasuM3 [the Squad Wiki]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/squad-wiki/commits?author=ajhalili2006&since=2024-04-30&until=2024-05-30 [brand assets repository]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/brand-assets [mikedmoy]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/go/mikedmoy
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[[Kraftwerk1]]:
- [[Tanzwerk 101]]
- [[Hardturm]]
- [[brennenstuhl]]
- [[adding a new search engine in chromium]]
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[[Agora]]:
-
[[Agora Development]]:
-
Add systemd service for panda.anagora.org in [[paramita]]
- :D
-
Develop one small feature
- better latest
- better navbar
-
start on edit
- shipped edit at the bottom of anagora.org even though it only works for me for now (guilty pleasure? :))
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Add systemd service for panda.anagora.org in [[paramita]]
-
[[adding a search engine]] in chromium
- my linux worked, now for chrome on mobile…
- [[chrome]]
-
[[Agora Development]]:
- Back in the Agora, back in Flancia :)
- Did some [[maintenance]] of home and computer setup; converged more [[wayland]] related configs after incorporating a new computer into my [[chezmoi]] setup and taking the occasion to do an iteration of improvements.
- [[go/flow/12]] was great, one of my [[favorites]]
- Read about [[Kozmonavt]] for the first time on [[search engines with own indexes]]
- [[Day off]] from work as I spent some last time with [[Berni]]! It was beautiful having him over, and seeing many [[friends]] over the weekend.
- Later did [[pomodoros]] with [[bobby lyte]].
- Set up gifts for [[AG]] :)
- Ordered something from [[Joom]] for the first time, let’s see how well it works :) It was than 3x+ cheaper than my previous magnets supplier
Daily Note 2024-06-09 and Weekly Wrap Issue No. 1
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today alongside anything else you missed this week, June 9, 2024:
-
For this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap (stats galore)
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What did you missed this week
- The week starts with The Return of Daily Notes and ends with Friday Mixtape Hellscape, featuring Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department and support for comments on these via giscus and GitHub Discussions APIs.
- See all posts here in one place
- From my Wakatime stats this week1: I am literally on VS Code for more than half a day (12h+) this week, mostly to edit Markdown files on my personal wiki locally, although I do use GitHub’s web editor (VS Code for Web edition) and Codespaces for some.
- For the recap yesterday, apologies if I didn;t write one: Nothing particular happened, just a day off updating my personal wiki in the machine to rest up and catch up with my Duolingo streak before clock strikes midnight.
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For my listening activity at Last.fm for the period of May 31 to June 6 (archived link):
- Scrobbled 559 tracks (up 38% from last week), with 66 this week on 9:00 PM hour block.
- Listened for almost 2 days (1 day 23 hours), averaging 80 scrobbles per day, with 126 as highest this week on June 3.
- For the music ratio, I listened to 110 tracks (with ratio of 5.08 scrobbles/track compared to 87 with ratio of 6.43 last week) from 41 artists (ratio of 13.63 scrobbles/artist compared to 39 last week with ratio of 14.33) across 49 albums (ration of 11.41 scrobbles/album vs 36 last week with ratio of 15.53).
- Top Album, Song and Track: [Starcadian] [^2] and his [Sunset Blood] album | [BOSSFIGHT]’s [Ballistic] (also top new track and album as single this week)
- Perfect attendance this week on Duolingo’s Spanish or Vanish sessions (7 out of 7 days this week, totaling 174 days streak, compared with 6 last week).[^3]
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What did you missed this week
-
What I have been listening to (check today’s scrobbles):
- Next up from my podcast queue, featuring Anthony Padilla: The Try Guys Tell All
<iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/IUoZRtzegkU” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>- [CONTENT WARNING: TRAUMATIZING CONTENT] A quick refresher on Gaza war from Al Jazeera’s The Inside Story Podcast: What does it mean for Israel being on the UN’s ‘blacklist’?
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.
[Starcadian]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/indie-music/starcadian.md [BOSSFIGHT]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/monstercat/bossfight.md [Sunset Blood]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl2bxnbryx0AKbl8TGu8KA9z-khhYfKcS&si=Aebm6tSSF_8CFULV [Ballistic]: https://youtu.be/_aLxnMuwFxA
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Downloading dashboard stats involves upgrading to premium, so apologies if I couldn’t dump the screenshot of my dashboard for now here. [^2]: For the uninitated (hello there if you have watched [[Gildedguy Story 6]] earlier), he makes "ear movies" or music with lore in a nutshell. [^3]: Track my progress at https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ajhalili2006 and follow me if you do.↩
Daily Note 2024-06-07
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 7, 2024:
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Actually enabled comments for daily notes (currently on per-entry basis until
meta
officially graduates from Insiders-only status), using a self-hosted instance of giscus. You can try it out now below and it’ll be appear in theandreijiroh-dev
organization discussions in GitHub. -
Officially installed Node.js into my custom mkdocs Docker image through copying files from the official Docker image (and some symlink trickery)
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Yesterday, I added docs for golinks, will work on Content Migration status reports later in the weekend.
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What I have been listening to (check today’s scrobbles):
- [[TTPD]] on Spotify?!? (interpretting the lyrics, ey? Also lurking around r/TaylorSwift for hints maybe.)
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I may feel like a madlad lately, but I listened to the whole album in order (from a community playlist) for the full experience. As my older sister told me, I may become the first (and only) Swiftie in the family once I go deeper into the discography in the future.
<iframe width=”560” height=”315” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=CZgrZ3F0GHNPCMGx&list=PLDr-FOmzEgAiySwqRFmMLmJ01nRDT4huy” title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0” allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” referrerpolicy=”strict-origin-when-cross-origin” allowfullscreen> -
Still playing some of Starcadian’s music on loop, of course.
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Fresh from The Vergecast: Apple’s AI moment is coming
at(If they do AI-generated emojis as JPEG images through RCS at WWDC (some even shortened it as "dub dub"), that would be chaotically funny at same time bloody for Android users.)40m55s
<iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/rz2ldM5hGzw” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.
2024-06-07
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[[Human physiology]]
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Cardiovascular system
- Pumping blood, supplying nutrients and removing waste.
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Respiratory system
- Breathing. Gas exchange.
- The human body is amazing. All of these intricate interconnected systems working away all of the time.
-
Cardiovascular system
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Listened: [[Jeremy Corbyn & Mhairi Black: Left Culled, Centre Cracked and Right Reformed?]]
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Listened: [[The ‘blue wall’ road trip: Tories jumping ship?]]
- Exploring whether previous Tory strongholds will be turning Liberal Democrat or other in the upcoming election.
- I like these John Harris roadtrip interview style episodes where he goes and chats to real people around the country.
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Listened: [[New Frank Hester allegations]]
- New allegations that the main Tory donor is a bit of a shit (misogynistic, racist). Shocker.
Daily Note 2024-06-06
EDIT 2024-06-07: My god I forgot writing what been cooked yesterday, but don’t fret. I’ll include it in [[2024-06-07]] instead.
Comments are disabled for this entry to avoid chaos.
- Noding from [[work]] through [[silverbullet]] :)
- Started the day with [[AG]], lovely as usual.
- Today [[Berni]] arrives! He’ll be visiting for a few days.
- Now noding from my phone :)
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Some stuff I’d still like to get done before Berni arrives tonight:
- Check books by the sofa
- Vacuum below sofa
- Answer one more comment from the stream at work.
2024-06-06
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[[Digitisation]] vs [[digitalisation]]
- Digitisation is basically turning the act of encoding analogue into digital.
- Digitalisation is the wider process of more and more of processes of society being digitised and filtered through digital processes.
Daily Note 2024-06-05
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 5, 2024:
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Nothing particular happened lately for now, just regular household chores and chilling out during the break
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What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
- Tuned in a bit of BCC Radio 1’s morning show (stream archive in BCC Sounds player or via my own archives)
- [[The Spawn Chunks]] EP300 (youtube, pod.link) - mainly to catch up with Minecraft news and Q&A section with the hosts
<iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/fBe7E-FKJqU” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen> -
Maybe seen about the Minecraft 15-Year Anniversary docuseries from their official channel then?
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
2024-06-05
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Listened: [[Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate]]
- [[Keir Starmer]] and [[Rishi Sunak]] both being uninspiring from the sounds of it.
- No clear winner. Unlikely to change opinion polls much.
Daily Note 2024-06-04
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 04, 2024:
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The holy grails: Fanfictions, neck kisses (goddamnit [[Smallishbeans]])
- Will link them later, it’s just past midnight Wednesday now.
- What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
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Just finished watching a short flim by Patrick McDonald featuring Amanda and Angela from Smosh <iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/2jOTqWgF9d0” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>* They are married couple in this movie’s storyline
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
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[[agora]]
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[[agora development]]:
- add save/star button
- embed silverbullet as edit ‘section’ / [[node edit]]
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[[agora development]]:
-
From the [[notebooks]]:
-
Write about the importance of [[simulation protocols]]:
- And of defining a pro social [[corpus]] together.
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Write about the importance of [[simulation protocols]]:
2024-06-04
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Why the fuck is [[The Guardian]] advertising some private healthcare subscription to me on their podcasts.
-
[[Commonism]].
- Discussed in Agora Discuss.
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Listened: [[Election Extra: Nigel Farage is back]]
- [[Nigel Farage]], opportunist extraordinare, now leader of [[Reform UK]] party.
- Bad for the Tories, which is usually good, but generally just bad for everyone all round. Especially if he gets elected to Clacton.
Daily Note 2024-06-03
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 3, 2024:
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Literally lurking around Gildedguy fanart + community on Tumblr for fun and profit
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Also I’ll be doing my usual Spanish lessons on Duolingo, maybe some German and Italian next soon.
-
Did a long late afternoon nap to recharge a bit
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What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
- Smosh Mouth episode 44 - just finishing it btw
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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
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[[work]] was intense and even emotional, it being mostly a one day workshop — very productive. We had a great coordinator, [[Anna Raverat]].
- then some meetings until 19:30.
- edited [[tanka]].
-
reviewed [[notebooks]], which is my default activity when I start working on personal projects after work :)
- I had this in an old page: "Write about [[blessed bits]] and the entropy in [[Lady Burup]]‘s writing", which I think I would enjoy :) She walks often over keyboards and has a knack for hacking (disabling wireless, even crashing Wayland on occasion to my surprise).
2024-06-03
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Listened: [[Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?]]
- Teflon Trump. He’ll still run. And this will make no difference to people who already like [[Donald Trump]].
- Best hope is that maybe it will affect some swing voters.
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Listened: [[Has there been a purge of the leftwing of the Labour party?]]
- Shitty treatment of [[Diane Abbott]] and [[Faiza Shaheen]].
- Attempts to stop them running as Labour candidate.
- General bad treatment of candidates from the left of the party.
It’s been more than 7 months since the last one and it’s nice I could do it all again here in the new wiki, and it’s good to be back again with the daily journaling hellscapes.
By the way, here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 2, 2024:
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Chilling like madlad, currently recovering after a almost all-nighter clothes folding before 3AM local time
- Also earlier (and since yesterday): I am casually rewatched One vs Skid/Skid vs One for a refresher after watching the [[Gildedguy Story 8]] premiere VOD on Twitch
- I am such a madlad to download it twice and store it in Storj DCS. That should cost me 15-20 PHP more on storage (long-term) and egress (for the month of May 2024).
- Expect the [[May 2024 Status Update]] to published on or before June 12 ([[Philippine Independence Day]])
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What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
- [[BOSSFIGHT]]‘s Ballistic right off [[Release Radar]] Spotify playlist
- [[Starcadian]]1‘s He^rt and Entoptica
- Punch Deck[^2]’s Dominant
- Duolingo’s YouTube short sent me to Jaxomy & Agatino Romero Remix version of Raffaella Carrà’s Pedro[^3]
- Ending off with The Verge’s interview with Google CEO, currently at
32m33s
as of time of writing.
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
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You may not realize this, but Starcadian’s music has lore in it, its storyline is similar Alan Walker’s and PYLOT’s, although this may hit hard for Lord Hurdon listeners. Also got hooked into Alien Victory first after [[Gildedguy Story 6]] [^2]: Listened first with MORE MORE MORE from one of the previews on X (Twitter) for Gildedguy: Automatica fan animation [^3]: Gonne too deep and the wiki page made me say "oh my god" in Scar’s voice↩
2024-06-02
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[[June 2024]] is here!
- Truly we are living in the future :)
- I will miss May and with it the idea of [[International Workers Month]], but it will come back (quite surely)
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Read about [[Alexander Berkman]], who I got to through [[Emma Goldman]].
- From the [[serendipity department]]: the last issue of his magazine [[The Blast]] was published on [[1917-06-01]].
- Sometime this week I applied to [[XOXO]] the conference which takes place in [[Portland]].
- Very nice morning with [[AG]].
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Had a short but sweet [[Flancia Meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] after a while!
- Looking forward to the [[zine]].
- [[Ve]] visited and it was nice!
-
Then I cleaned the house and went to [[coop]].
- Then it was [[Agora]] and [[social.coop]] time for a while :)
-
[[Agora development]]:
-
[[Agora discuss]]
- [[neil]] brought up interesting topics as usual!
-
What comes after [[digital capitalism]]?
- In the [[node club]] and otherwise :)
-
Review [[PRs]]
- Agora root
- Open ones for [[agora server]] and [[agora bridge]], it’s been a long while since I did due diligence there, apologies for the delays
-
[[Agora discuss]]
-
[[Social.coop]]:
- Update to latest security patch
- [[work]]
- [[mexico city]]
- [[spectrum analyzers]]:
2024-05-31
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Learned about [[Bunny Fonts]] from James.
- Looks great. GDPR friendly, and a much simpler way of of replacing Google Fonts than [[replacing Google Fonts remote server usage with a locally-served font]].
- [[Replacing Google Fonts with Bunny Fonts]].
- ([[What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?]])
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[[Listened]]: [[Digitalisation and the Security State]]
- Important stuff. Everyone should listen to this.
- The connection between digital technology companies and state surveillance and violence.
- Israel is a major source of surveillance and weapons technology companies, selling to US and Europe technologies they have built to control the Palestinian people.
2024-05-29
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[[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
- Some of the discussion around counties reclaiming agency over their trade overlaps with the material on the [[digital trade]] agenda in the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
-
Interesting that in [[Silverbullet]] linking to a date and then visiting it doesn’t do the "right" thing in some sense, as it doesn’t navigate to the journal entry but rather to the node about the date.
- In some ways this is the correct thing, as that’s the behavior I use elsewhere to get to the journal.
- But by default alt-shift-d goes to Journal/Day/
, so the two aren’t convergent when I would a priori wish them to be.
2024-05-28
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[[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
- [[Imperialism]] and [[neocolonialism]].
- [[Unequal exchange]].
I found a weeks old todo to follow [[Peter Murray]] ([[peter_murray]] in [[hypothes.is]]) and I see why: he uses double square brackets in posts in platforms that don’t support them yet too!
- Back in [[silverbullet]] for [[Flancia]] :)
- Worked, did some deep cleaning.
-
Thought of:
- [[mantras]]
-
"[[emma goldmann]]" :)
- I received a sticker with an interesting quote but with her name spelled with an extra n.
- [[Paulus Akademie]]
- [[Tanka]] poetry
It was an emotional weekend; Saturday being upbeat, Sunday being more meditative and at times low energy but ending well.
Today I worked and had a fully meetings free afternoon as the US was out due to [[memorial day]].
My mum was/is sick (pneumonia again) and that makes me think of death and impermanence. But it’s a good occasion to meditate.
I thought of someday maybe picking back up some of the draft short stories I started around [[2017]], like [[Caramel City]], [[Cannazon]] and the one about the [[Wu-Tang Clan]].
I received a letter about Christianity out of the blue the other day and today I came across it and saw it had a reference to jw.org, which ended up being [[Jehovah’s Witnesses]]. I have a negative affect towards the organization because of things I have heard about how the doctrine affects the freedom of its members, but the message that I received seemed innocuous enough. Interesting that they didn’t include the name of the organization anywhere, just the domain.
I’ve been meaning to work and play on:
- [[Agora development]]:
- [[Agora writing]]:
2024-05-26
-
I finished off Week 3 of the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
- This week the topic was [[Digital colonialism]].
- With mostly a focus on [[Data colonialism]].
- In that focus on data I feel perhaps it omits some other colonial practices - such as in mining, manufacture and disposal related to ICT.
- Still - good stuff.
-
Started listening to the masterclass for week 4, on the digital trade agenda.
- The point about why corporations love trade deals is really enlightening - easy way for them to bypass democratic discussion; lobby to get their way; once a trade deal is made, it’s very hard to change.
-
Learning about ecology on Kinnu, I realise that it’s a great source of ideas for thinking in systems.
- It’s the ultimate system, basically.
- I think [[The Systems View of Life]] would be about this to some degree.
- I want to reactivate my [[work garden]].
- I worked until late and I tried to enjoy it :)
-
TIL:
- [[das Rudder]], [[die Rudder]]
- I worked from home with [[AG]] and [[Lady Burup]] while a kind technician fixed a window that didn’t either close nor open. It was good!
- Then I transitioned into [[Flancia]].
-
This weekend I’m working on:
- [[Agora development]]
- [[Agora writing]]
- [[p10g]]
- [[ai]]
- I plan to visit a convention: [[canna trade]].
2024-05-24
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[[Listened]]: [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]
-
Mostly [[Ulises Mejias]]‘ section.
- [[Data colonialism]] is his topic, works on it with [[Nick Couldry]].
- He outlines the scale of the land grab of [[colonialism]].
- Makes the connection to data colonialism.
- Draws a line from [[Cheap Nature]] to [[Cheap Labour]] to [[Cheap Data]] (the first two based on [[Jason W. Moore]]‘s ideas I’m assuming).
-
Mostly [[Ulises Mejias]]‘ section.
-
[[World-Ecology]].
2024-05-22
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I’d like to redesign the look and feel of my digital garden.
- Nothing drastic, but to move more to a representative aesthetic.
- I want to try to maintain the cheap-n-cheerful weird web vibe, but also incorporate more of a nature-labour-technology solarpunk-ish look.
-
I want my digital garden to be more visual, less textual.
- To be fair it is majority text, but I still want it to feel a bit more visual.
- [[My commonplace moodboard]]
-
Back to [[work]]!
- Going pretty much alright until now :)
- [[alt-shift-d]] now works on my [[silverbullet]] to open the [[daily page]].
2024-05-21
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[[Data colonialism]]
- Mentioned in [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]
2024-05-20
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[[Listened]]: [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]
- From [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
- A mention of "Within the system, against the system, and beyond the system"
- Matches exactly with [[resist, regulate, recode]]
2024-05-19
-
[[Cooperation Jackson]] and the [[Jackson-Kush Plan]] are explicitly [[ecosocialist]] in outlook.
- There’s a good summary of [[ecosocialism]] in the intro to [[Jackson Rising Redux]].
-
They also work on the principle of instituting [[non-reformist reform]]s.
- What might some non-reformist reforms for [[digital ecosocialism]] be?
-
[[silverbullet]]:
- should open the daily on startup?
-
going over "old" (and new) notebooks, trying to make sense of the hugely distributed task list they imply :)
- happy to see that a lot actually happened in the last 1-2 quarters!
- I’m thinking this could be a nice ‘tradition’ to reinforce on the [[17ths]], being [[Maitreya day]] ;)
-
[[do]]:
- [[numbers]] pull all number-related actions, e.g. [[557]] (example comes from a notebook) pulls [[hex/557]], [[prime/557]] and any others we have in the future.
- [[today]] should probably pull today’s date instead of redirecting? maybe!
- next steps on [[activitypub]]
- define [[equivalence classes]] in the Agora; right now they’re implicit and a bit of a mess?
-
[[oauth]] is mentioned so often in my todos that I wonder how it is I actually haven’t even started on it!
- I think at some point I wanted to do these flows through [[agora bridge]] instead of [[agora server]]?
- But that might have been a mistake/complicating stuff needlessly?
- [[open letters]] show up profusely in the last 1.5 years, yet I have not properly published a single one since (except by default in the Agora, like pretty much everything I write that is not work related)
- develop [[whisper]] as an action (
- "[[Flancia]] is a [[Pattern Language]], the [[Agora]] is a [[Pattern Repository]]" — from a notebook.
2024-05-17
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Read: [[Critique of techno-feudal reason]]
- Well, sort of read it - actually half listened to it via Wallabag while taking the bubba out for an early walk.
- Dense and erudite, as you expect from Morozov.
- Didn’t follow half of it this first time around to be honest, but I take away the basic message that he’s critical of the general idea of [[techno-feudalism]].
-
[[True Names]] == [[343]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]]
- Which I guess can now be said to contain at least 343 patterns :)
- [[7^3]] calculated mentally (it might be wrong for all I know!)
- [[15]] means [[Right Effort]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]].
- Tough day at work. I got demotivated yesterday after hearing some bad news and that bled a bit onto today. But nothing terrible :)
- [[Fellowship of the link]] was nice and energizing though.
2024-05-15
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[[Listened]]: [[The dangers of digital capitalism]]
- Excellent webinar from [[Transnational Institute]].
- On [[digital capitalism]] and more.
-
Some great speakers, I should find out more about them.
- I’ve come across [[Jack Qiu]] before from [[Goodbye iSlave]].
-
Another [[day]], another [[node]].
- Or more than one :)
- I definitely need to work on editing though! On doing more of the actual curation and maintenance of an actual [[digital garden]].
- In the meantime, thanks for making do with all the rough edges ;)
-
Resuming [[Agora development]]:
-
I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
- -> done, or at least started :)
- I did some [[verschlimmbessern]] on the index to the [[Agora]] on the flight to the US that I never quite pushed — and better that way :) it needs ‘cherrypicking’ to put it mildly. It suffered a lot in directness.
- Also added support for [[silverbullet]] style [[attachments]].
-
I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
-
[[social.coop]]:
- No [[twg]] meeting this week, will try to continue working on onboarding [[evan]] to the group.
- I "installed"
alpha.social.coop
using [[coop cloud]] but it’s not up yet. -
[[upkeep]]:
- You could call it [[life]] ;)
- [[nostromo]] was getting broken enough that I decided to update Ubuntu to the latest release to unbreak [[wayland]] and some sites in [[chromium]]. It had been long in the making, it’s a bit like house cleaning, it can be relaxing after work :)
- I tried taking the occasion to also [[garbage collect]] tabs/try some new organizational principles in [[paramita]], [[guanyin]] and [[sariputta]].
-
[[GPT 4o]] was released yesterday and I got access.
- Impressive.
- But it failed to analyze a video I attached on desktop meaningfully though.
-
Noding from a new computer — [[Guanyin]] :)
- Now back in [[Nostromo]] after work
- Thought of [[17]], and explored 17 musically as [[13 + 4]] (today it’s the 13th) and [[7 + 10]].
- [[digital capitalism]]
- [[yoga with x]]
- I found two notebooks that I had misplaced, or that had anyhow gotten out of my working context. It felt great, in particular one that I call [[25]].
-
[[flaming lips]]:
- [[summertime]]
- It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!
- Trying [[attachments]].
- [[AG]]
- [[Stapelberg]]
- [[Lady Burup]]
- [[17]]
- [[scc]]
- Using both [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] these days, will make a case of checking out how anagora.org renders this and consider improvements
- [[AMITAFO]]
I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.
After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)
-
Started the day with [[AG]] in the [[balcony]] :)
- We managed to also do a mini bike tour before she went to the [[Mothers Day]] festivities :)
-
Now thinking of:
-
[[patterns]]
- as per usual you could say :)
-
[[patents]] (don’t worry, more in the abstract than anything :)
- relevant to [[digital capitalism]] surely
- [[visions]]
- [[true names]]
-
[[patterns]]
-
I got a small book by Meister [[Yaw Hwa Chin]] in the Chinese supermarket, I want to check them out.
- it’s titled [[The wisdom, philosophy and education of Buddha and Chinese]]
- He writes [[AMITOFO]] just before signing; it turns out it’s the Chinese spelling of [[Amitabha]] ~ [[Amitayus]].
2024-05-12
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After a long hiatus, low-key writing [[Reclaim the Stacks: reflections, May 2024]].
-
Reading [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue]]
- [[flancia meet]]:
-
[[2024-05-10]]
- I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
- Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]’
- [[flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] was great!
2024-05-11
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[[Digital Capitalism online course]]
- I finished Week 1.
- (Mostly - not had chance to go through all the further materials yet.)
- Cycled to [[Greifensee]] with [[AG]], it was a beautiful day!
- In the evening we saw [[Episode V]]
-
[[Agora development]]:
- [[Fix the Agora]] :)
- Make the open letter readable
- test and iterate on fixes! :)
- [[gone]]
- Back in [[Silverbullet]] on my new work laptop, named after [[Guanyin]].
- Thought about [[Open Letters]] and [[Right Intention]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]]
-
[[xkcd machine]]:
- a [[game]]
- https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
- #go https://xkcd.com/2916/
-
uses [[rapier]]:
- a [[physics engine]]
- #go https://rapier.rs/
-
Working to fix [[agor.ai]]
- [[hypatia]] ran out of disk at some point and this can really break [[coop cloud]], it seems!
-
Back here at [[11pm]]!
- The work day was long (with a gap in the middle) and interesting :)
- Now doing yoga and thinking.
- [[mexico city]]
- [[AG]]
- [[L]]
- [[Lady Burup]]
-
This May I’m trying to get back into writing in [[node club]] — enjoying it so far!
- This month the default topic is [[digital capitalism]] :)
- I [[meditated]] — I do not usually mention that I meditate 10 minutes in the morning but I do — and it makes a great difference to pretty much any day in my experience/according to my perceptions!
- I [[worked]]
-
Then I thought of:
- [[Avalokiteshvara]]
- [[Maitreya]]
- [[Tara]]
- [[Lady Burup]]
- [[AG]]
- my friends in general!
- [[light]]
- [[entanglement]]
- [[magnetism]]
- [[open letters]]
- [[open source]]
- I found out today that [[Hannu Rajaniemi]] is Finnish, not "south asian" (?) as I initially thought :)
- I listened to [[flow state]].
Not necessarily in that order :)
I like [[silver bullet]] but I come back to [[wiki vim]] because it’s on the terminal and that’s where I sometimes want to write.
I like [[senegal town]].
Also: [[mexico city]], [[paris]] :)
- [[BLDGBLOG]]
- Now I’m back in [[silverbullet]]. I’m unsure if I want to unify the journal or not. Probably yes? But I’m curious about e.g. Journal/Month/2024-05 if that exists :)
-
[[digital capitalism]]:
- did a pass over [[Open Letter to Google]], maybe it’s more readable up to… a few paragraphs in? :)
- I think it is starting to take shape.
- I wonder what a [[quick note]] is meant to be used for in [[silverbullet]] :)
-
Back in [[silverbullet]], now using it as a ‘web app’ — meaning after pressing ‘install’ on chromium while visiting edit.anagora.org :) - For now edit.anagora.org only works for this [[flancian]], but I hope soon enough I will be able to offer it to the community.
- Intend I intend to keep using [[wiki vim]] though, as I value having a terminal client for writing in the Agora - Experimented with a bluetooth keyboard on mobile as a way of having more fluid Agora editing on the go.
- Tried [[silverbullet]] in firefox mobile and vim mode didn’t quite work :)
-
Also my hardware keyboard is set up to have esc go to the android home screen, which does not go well with vim mode ;)
- Update: realized I can set the keyboard to [[windows mode]] and it will disable most of what I consider intrusive functionality :)
- Still the prospect of having a fully featured Agora editor on mobile is thrilling!
-
[[agora discuss]]:
[[neil]] suggested [[web mentions]] as the ground level on which to build [[agora likes]].
- I agree it’s an interesting approach; it seems complementary to [[activity pub]] support which I’ve already started working on, inspired by [[bouncepaw]]‘s work on [[betula]].
- The basic abstraction might be: the Agora publishes, and produces, feeds of social activity in different formats. Their states influence UI elements like emoji reactions and a log of activity.
-
A few hours later…
-
[[Winti Tap Jam]]:
- I’m in [[Winterthur]] in a [[tap dance]] event, against my expectations enjoying it quite a bit! The [[jazz band]] is great, and I didn’t know people could dance like this while interacting with an improvising band. It’s really quite cool.
- With [[AG]] and [[Nushya]]!
-
[[Winti Tap Jam]]:
- Really enjoying [[noding from mobile]] quite a bit, it encourages [[live noding]].
- [[open letters]]
2024-05-04
-
Read through some of the materials from week 1 of [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
- What is [[digital capitalism]]?
-
[[work]] was fine actually! I finished the weekly todo list I believe to good standard. People at work are great!
- I keep thinking about the [[python team]] and others of course.
- [[social coop]]:
-
[[node club]]:
- [[digital capitalism]]
- [[cannabis]]
-
[[Open Letter to Google]]:
- read, and [[annotated]], [[the man who killed google search]]
-
[[open letter to the Agora]];
-
[[Maitreya]] is the (default) greater warden of the [[Agora of Flancia]]
- and what this means, in [[node club]] through this [[International Workers Month]] of [[May 2024]] :)
-
[[Maitreya]] is the (default) greater warden of the [[Agora of Flancia]]
- thinking of [[AG]]
2024-05-03
-
I finally managed to start (just as it’s finishing!) the [[Digital Capitalism online course]] from the [[Transnational Institute]].
- "6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world"
- The first week of which is titled ‘What is digital capitalism?’
- I’m most looking forward to week 6 - titled ‘What’s the alternative? The digital world we want to live in’
-
And the [[tripleC]] special issue on digital capitalism just came out.
-
Apropos of the above, for [[node club]] (AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]) I’m going to write about [[digital capitalism]].
-
Trying [[Obsidian]] after a looong time — after remembering, and then trying on a lark, [[Roam Research]] again :)
- I also tried [[logseq]] but it did a mega-commit automatically on my garden which almost broke it, not super happy about that (it tried to commit and push a 101MB file that is a database for [[silverbullet]] and probably, granted, should have been in .gitignore).
-
Happy [[International Workers Day]]!
- The last year flew by in some ways :) I remember attending the festivities/events in Zürich yesterday. Looking forward to doing the same today, at least a few hours.
-
I got into [[biking]] again and I’m enjoying it tremendously :)
- We may bike tomorrow with [[AG]].
- I also plan to catch up with [[Berni]]. I have been catching up with friends finally after a hiatus due to [[work]] + [[travel]] and I’m looking forward to the VC!
- [[doxometrist]] told me about [[netwik-obsidian]] as being in [[agora space]]
- [[j0lms]] had good news!
- [[l]] had good news! and we had an interesting conversation
- [[Brunello]], the father of a friend of mine, died last week at [[90]]. I knew him and he seemed like a good and sensitive person. I lighted a candle for him/his memory.
-
[[Agora]]!
- [[Agora development]]:
- Listening to [[Brad Mehldau]].
- Worked with [[jet lag]] — it was alright :)
- [[Pattern Language]]:
-
[[Open Letters]]
-
[[Open Letter to Google]]
- I’ll just quit stalling and write two letters I guess, or continue writing them, as I started years ago by now :)
-
[[Open Letter to Google]]
2024-04-28
-
[[Ecology]]
- [[Keystone species]]
-
I should put more images in my garden.
- I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.
-
Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].
- National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
- Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
- Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.
-
Read [[Palestine speaks for everyone]]
- Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
- Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
- I thought about [[telling stories]].
-
[[Google]]:
- [[Letter from the Founders]]
- [[2004 update]]
- [[2019 update]]
2024-04-27
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[[Digital weeding and watering]]
- Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
- This has been very useful already.
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I’ve found:
- pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
- duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
- pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
- mistakenly created pages
- And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.
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I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.
2024-04-26
2024-04-23
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Read: [[What a waste: our study shows almost half of electricals sent for recycling could be reused]]
- [[The Restart Project]] set up in a Household Waste Recycling Centre (in Brent, London).
- Assessed the reusability of products being brought in for recycling.
- Shocking results: almost 50% could have an easy second life (either fully functional as is, or in need of only minor repair).
- There needs to be less focus on recycling, and much more on reuse and repair.
- Filtering and diverting initiatives should be mandatory.
2024-04-22
2024-04-21
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Soccer96 - I was gonna fight fascism
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[[Listened]] to [[Seto Kaiba is My Role Model]]
2024-04-20
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Changes in the [[forces of production]] come into conflict with the [[relations of production]].
- The infinite replicability of digital assets is in conflict with the wishes of corporations who profit from artificial scarcity.
- From memory, I think Paul Mason discusses this in Post Capitalism.
- Also the phrase [[What is possible in the information age is in direct conflict with what is permissible]] from [[the Telekommunist Manifesto]] comes to mind.
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[[Listened]] to [[The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield]]
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[[Listened]] to [[How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe]]
2024-04-19
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It could be time for a new season of [[Node Club]]…
- AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]
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I should back up my Doom config on Termux.
- Given I’ve spent enough time configuring it now that it would be a pain to have to redo it.
- [[Backing up my Doom Emacs config on Termux]].
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Flying to the [[US]]!
- Not staying super long, but I’m attending a wedding and visiting a few museums I’ve never visited before.
- I slept badly tonight, and the day before, due to different reasons — the first night it was due to trip prep, the second it was due to a (surprise, as usual) allergy attack that kept me up/very uncomfortable until late. Happy to have made it to the flight only looking slightly like a cat (because of how my eyes swell, I get a bit of a feline look for hours-days after an attack).
- Listening to [[Lex Fridman]] with [[Jimbo Wales]] on topics like the history of wikipedia. Very interesting as most Lex conversations I’ve heard as of late!
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[[Agora]]:
- I’m back in the Agora, finally :) I took a more prolonged break from journaling as I moved with [[Lady Burup]] temporarily to [[AG]]‘s place (she is very kind!) and I adapted my routine to that space; also I’ve been busy at work and with other projects.
- Thank you [[neil]] for keeping the journaling section of the Agora alive and interesting!
- I reworked a bit the Agora’s [[README.md]], which is what is rendered at the Agora root URL — e.g. https://anagora.org . Hopefully it’s more cogent and informative without being overwhelming. But you tell me :)
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[[Agora Development]]:
- Fix local dev environment which is now sending https to itself even though it’s http only due to bug in agora.py:56 :).
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[[Flancia]]:
- I thought back a bit about the history of Flancia while I was rewriting the above. It’s been running for a number of years at this stage!
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Maybe I should write a belated update in https://flancia.org proper.
- Include a reference to the [[flancia meet]] landing page.
- Include a TLDR on what the Agora now is/how it developed through the years/where do we want to go next.
- Maybe take the opportunity to have some extra fun and write something more clearly fictional again :)
2024-04-18
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I [[listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]].
- It’s a good episode.
- I like [[Kai Heron]], and I’ve found the debate between various strands of [[ecosocialist]] thought very interesting.
- But I also lament the time spent disagreeing amongst ourselves on the left.
- Is it ultimately useful? What if all this intellectual effort could be spent on bringing about a transition away from capitalism, and towards ecosocialism?
- I don’t know - perhaps the debate is contributing to that transition, in part, in a roundabout. And I suppose that if we don’t know what we stand for, we can’t meaningfully work towards it.
- But still. It has vibes of [[The People’s Front of Judea]] vs the Judean People’s Front.
- Not got to the end yet, so perhaps this will be covered…
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Listened to [[Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)]]
2024-04-17
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[[Listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]]
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[[Listened]] to [[Is the Middle East on the brink?]]
2024-04-16
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[[Shells]].
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Listened to [[Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”]]
- About Israel’s AI targeting system, "[[Lavender]]".
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Read: [[Emacs: Dead and Loving It]]
- "What is dead cannot die"
- [[Emacs]]
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Working on some improvements to the look and feel of my writing mode that I use when in org-roam.for Emacs.
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[[Lex]]:
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Listened to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Lex Fridman]] and it reminded me I also like Lex and I think he has lots of potential.
- Sam came across as a bit more close-minded on some topics than Lex, which tracks with some of the conversations with him I’ve been listening to him recently — he is still one of my favourite public persons though. It’s just that Lex seems to be more of the "open heart hippie" and in that sense closer to me (at least at times).
- Then listened to his conversation with [[Joscha Bach]] and it reminded me I like Joscha as well.
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Listened to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Lex Fridman]] and it reminded me I also like Lex and I think he has lots of potential.
2024-04-15
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Not sure if this has happened just recently, or I’ve been living with it for a long time, but: case sensitive node search in [[org-roam]] was starting to bug me.
- Turns out that it’s [[Helm]] that is doing it, when set to the ‘smart’ completion algorithm.
- I just need to
(setq helm-case-fold-search t)
and all is good - much smoother completion experience. - See: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/v2-case-insensitive-completion-and-backlinks-not-working-as-expected/1701/17
- In Doom, something different.
- I’ll pop it in a separate note: [[Turning on case-insensitive search in org-roam]]
- In [[Flancia Meet]] with [[bouncepaw]].
- Started the day in [[AG]]‘s place with her and [[Lady Burup]], it was beautiful :)
2024-04-14
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Listened to [[New Economics Podcast: Should we be going for growth?]]
- Good discussion.
- Growth. GDP . Degrowth. Green growth. Decoupling. Doughnut economics. Policies for alternatives to growth. Growthism. Growth is structurally baked in - how to change that?
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[[Listened]] to [[Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism]]
- LLMs. AGI. Political economy of AI. Neo-Luddism. [[Left spirituality]]. Fun wide ranging discussion.
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[[Habitat loss]].
- One of the most significant threats to [[biodiversity]].
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[[Film theory]] looks at films and the effect they have on society.
- I find this really interesting so learning a little on it via Kinnu.
2024-04-13
2024-04-12
- Did a bit more on [[Setting up a literate publish.el with org-babel]].
- The AI [[hackathon]] I’ve been working on went well \o/
2024-04-11
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Learning about [[biodiversity]] via the Kinna app.
- Variety of species. At various levels.
- Essential to the health of the planet.
- Genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity.
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Listened to [[Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha]]
- Fascinating discussion. Post Capitalism. Post here not meaning ‘after’ but ‘in relation to’. Pluralistic. Past and present examples: Zapatistas. Rojava. Indigenous worldviews. Relational ontologies and OntoShift.
2024-04-10
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Migrating my publish.el to a [[Literate publish.el]].
- To make it a bit more understandable to others, and also as a push for me to tidy it up.
2024-04-09
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Made good progress on [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].
- [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]] was incredibly helpful, would have been a bit of a nightmare otherwise.
2024-04-08
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[[Listened]] to [[Should the UK stop arming Israel?]]
- Drone strike killed seven aid workers. (Some of whom British).
- While Israel says it was a mistake, suggestion is that this is in line with Israel’s current rules of engagement.
- UK sells a small amount of arms to the UK. Sunak threatening to stop this unless more aid allowed.
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[[Nonprofits should (almost) never write their own software]]
- From the [[Aspiration Manifesto]].
- Being the tech lead for a non-profit that develops our own software - I fully agree. We are currently going through a process of trying to divest as much bespoke code as possible to pre-existing (FLOSS) software.
- One alternative I see, where no other software exists for the desired purpose, is for non-profits to perhaps be incubators for the software, but always with an intention to [[exit to community]] / exit the software to cooperative.
2024-04-07
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My publish.el file would be a good candidate for a literate config approach. Would make it more useful for other people to make use of then I think. Also would make me tidy it up.
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Listened again to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]
- [[Parallel Polis]], Vaclav Havel.
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Touches on similar stuff as recent [[Vincent Bevins]] podcasts re: failed revolutions of the 2010s.
- Technology helped spread viral messaging for movements, did little to help collective decision making and long-term organisation.
- Mentions [[Loomio]], [[Action Network]].
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When I get a moment I’ll make a page of gardening tasks for myself.
- Just simple things like reviewing nodes that haven’t been edited for a long time; reviewing empty nodes to either prune or flesh out; etc.
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[[Ecology]].
- interaction between organisms and their environment.
- communities, ecosystems, biomes.
- producers, consumers, decomposers.
- food chains, food webs.
- energy flows, trophic levels.
- nutrient cycles.
2024-04-06
- If you share your [[commonplace book]] to the knowledge commons, is it then a [[commonsplace book]]?
2024-04-05
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[[Listened]] to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]
- Love this interview of [[Nathan Schneider]] by [[David Bollier]]. New book out, [[Governable Spaces]]. Sounds like a synthesis of a bunch of recent papers (e.g. [[Governable Stacks]]).
- Main thesis is about the need for inclusion of democracy in our everyday online tools. To avoid ‘[[Implicit feudalism]]‘.
- [[Decidim]] referenced favourably.
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And [[listened]] to [[Building human economies using technology]]
- Bit of a sprawling rambling discussion, but still interesting talking points. Technology, communism. [[Telekommunisten]]. Struggles of leftist tech to get a real foothold. [[Theory of value]].
2024-04-04
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I’m getting more into the groove with [[fish]] on desktop the more that I use it.
- Still a slamdunk win on Termux.
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I would just like to take a moment to lament the fact that I have received an email inviting me to become a Certified Generative AI Specialist.
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Idle thought: maybe the world would be a better place if the de facto ‘learn to code’ tutorial was not a todo list (individual productivity) but a simple group poll (collective decision-making).
2024-04-03
- A bit more on [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]].
2024-04-02
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Had a quick read about [[Passkeys]].
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Listened to [[Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna]]
2024-04-01
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[[Listened]] to [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Whose Anthropocene?]]
- Good discussion - is [[Anthropocene]] a useful term? Maybe [[Capitalocene]] works better? Maybe both have their uses. Good overview of the pros and cons of both.
- There’s a geological definition of Anthropocene (descriptive), which is interesting and all, but perhaps of more genuine use is it as a definition that motivates us to act to mitigate climate catastrophe (prescriptive).
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Also [[listened]] to [[Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon]]
- Great discussion. Loads of good stuff in there, listened while doing chores so not much in the way of notes, warrants a relisten.
- [[Platform Socialism]]. [[Guild socialism]]. [[Subsidiarity]]. Some things best as worker coops, some local municipality, some national. Some global. Global digital services. Take Google into global public ownership?
- [[DECODE]].
2024-03-31
- Went for a walk and [[listened]] to [[The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)]]
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Following a stumble through the garden related to [[technology and political economy]], re-reading [[The Telekommunist Manifesto]].
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Also plan to re-read [[The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution]].
2024-03-30
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[[Adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]] not as straight forward as it could be.
- Using it as an opportunity to get familiar with ERT. [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]].
- Should be simpler to write against small tests rather than having to go through the whole publish pipeline.
2024-03-29
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Late night [[listened]] to [[What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)]]
- [[Social data]].
- Has [[predictive value]].
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Three ways to extract [[surplus value]] with it:
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- Just sell it on, e.g. data broker
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- Use it to exploit people based on knowledge from the data
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- Use it to exert power (e.g. Uber’s [[Greyball]] program)
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Also listened to [[The Supermarket into Prison Pipeline]]
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Pretty much always find [[This Machine Kills]] interesting, whatever the topic.
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Thinking about how I would go about [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].
2024-03-28
- I’ve been picking up the [[guitar]] again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I’m really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some [[John Fahey]] too.
2024-03-27
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Re: [[using org-mode for timeblocking]] and [[trying out calfw-blocks]], noticed that someone (haji-ali) has forked and updated both [[calfw]] and [[calfw-blocks]].
- https://github.com/haji-ali/emacs-calfw
- https://github.com/haji-ali/calfw-blocks/
- Might be worth making use of these. Have a read through the fork changelogs.
- [[work]]
- [[social coop]]:
2024-03-26
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Further to [[trying out org-timeblock]], I’m now [[trying out calfw-blocks]].
- As part of a general attempt to be able to do timeblocking in org-mode. ([[Using org-mode for timeblocking]]).
- I wouldn’t say it’s going swimmingly… but I’m learning plenty about spacemacs layers, doom config, and use-package. So that’s something.
2024-03-25
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Although in general it feels the same (possibly slower? because I didn’t compile it myself?), one thing that is much faster in Emacs 28 is the parsing of my huge Tasks.org file for work. Thumbs up.
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I’d like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have ‘planted’ and ‘last tended’ dates on each page.
- I already have ‘This page last updated: …’ at the bottom of every page.
- But I’d prefer it right at the top. Not too prominent/distracting, but I have some pretty old pages knocking around now and I’d like people to be aware that they might be outdated.
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[[org-timeblock]] looks pretty good and like it’d fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.
- I used to use [[Goalist]] on Android and it was great, but I got annoyed that I couldn’t sync it and make use of it anywhere else.
- So… [[trying out org-timeblock]]. However, hitting a bunch of issues from the beginning.
2024-03-24
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We [[watched]] [[Soul]] again.
- Such a lovely film. Heartwarming message, great music, great visuals, funny for the whole family.
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I [[listened]] to [[What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins]]
- [[Vincent Bevins]] again on his book [[If We Burn]].
- Really interesting stuff.
- I like the very loose analogy between what happened to the internet and what happened to [[the movement of the squares]].
- Basically a form of [[The Tyranny of Structurelessness]] in both.
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Also listened to [[Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor]]
- [[Insecurity]] and [[security]] - in more of social and psychological meanings of the word than the technical sense.
- Claim: [[Capitalism requires insecurity]].
- Claim: [[Social insurance is a bulwark against insecurity]].
- Also by Astra: [[The Dads of Tech]] and [[The People’s Platform]].
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We have [[national insurance]] in the UK.
- Wonder when it was introduced?
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Never really thought much about insurance before.
- Superficially it seems a boring topic. But this and Jathan Sadowski podcast discussion ([[How the World Became Uninsurable]]) recently making me realise it’s kind of fundamental and sadly mostly privatised.
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Returning a little to [[IndieWeb]] for following activity streams. I had been using the Fediverse for a while, but I find it a bit too fast paced, a bit too attention grabbing. For me. IndieWeb is kind of slow social media and that suits me fine.
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hyperorg could be useful for me.
- Either for publishing wiki to web, or could be a useful internal parser for the Agora? Python based.
2024-03-23
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Listened: [[Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism"]]
- Great interview with [[Yanis Varoufakis]].
- [[Techno-feudalism]].
- Ultimate goal: socialisation of cloud capital (i.e. [[Big tech]])
- Only America and China have cloud capital.
- Glad they mention [[McKenzie Wark]] - Varoufakis says he agrees with all of it.
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[[Listened]]: [[Democracy for sale, Europe’s first black leader + tea with Obama]]
- [[Political donations]].
- New first minister of Wales is first black leader of a country in Europe.
- [[Rwanda bill]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Black Box: Episode 6 – Shut it down?]]
- [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] with AI doonerism.
- Alternate positive view from Alex Hern.
- One disappointment with the series as a whole is there’s no mention of environmental impact or questioning of who owns AI technology.
2024-03-22
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[[Listened]]: [[The silencing of climate protesters in English and Welsh courts]]
- Latest in a long line of crackdowns on defences that climate protesters can use in the courts.
- One of which made it an offence to use the words ‘climate change’ in court.
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[[Listened]]: [[Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley]]
- Interesting interview and book sounds worth a read.
- A lot sounds like analysis of problems, but they talk about some potential solutions and examples too. ([[Cooperation Jackson]], [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]], [[The Lucas Plan]])
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Read: [[‘It’s Not Rocket Science – It’s Just Community’: Radical Ffestiniog]]
- My great grandad was from [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]]. Nice to have this little connection.
- [[work]]
- followed by [[fellowship of the link]]
- followed by [[fediversalist papers]]
- followed by [[feierabend]] :)
2024-03-20
2024-03-19
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I donated to the [[Amazon UK warehouse workers’ strike fund]] again.
- https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/amazonstrikefund/
- They are out on strike today again.
- [[open letter to maitreya]]
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[[work]]
- lunch with the [[ER-CH]].
- then some meetings and some focus time! pretty alright :)
- [[work]]
- [[play]]
- [[throw a nine]]
- [[maitreya]]
2024-03-18
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Listened: [[Black Box: Prologue: The collision]]
- Woman begins dating an AI, finds genuine positivity from it. She suffers from CFS/ME and has to shield from COVID. Presenter talks about ‘AI vertigo’ - dizziness is what is coming with AI. The ‘collision’ of the title refers to the collision between artificial intelligence and us humans. We being the first generations to truly experience it.
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Listened: [[Black Box: Episode one – The connectionists]]
- Potted history of AI. [[Perceptron]]. [[AI winter]]. [[Geoff Hinton]]. The connectionists. ImageNet victory by [[AlexNet]]. [[AlphaGo]].
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Listened: [[Black Box: Episode three – Repocalypse now]]
- Replika, the AI companion app. What happens when they update it and mess up people’s companions. A bit like [[site deaths]] but even worse.
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Listened: [[The Problem With America’s Ban on TikTok]]
- A beautiful Sunday with [[AG]] and [[Lady Burup]] :)
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I spoke to my [[mum]] over [[Meet]] and it was great.
- A friend of a friend of hers who was [[92]] died this week. She is visiting the friend today to console her and spend time with her; the friend is 92 as well and is having thoughts about death.
- It would make sense that as you grow old you have more thoughts about death, as it’s statistically speaking way more likely.
- I hope she’s [[free from suffering]]!
- Doing some work — I enjoy working some weekends, it gives me ample time to [[focus]] while still taking it easy / enjoying the moment.
- We took a short (50 minutes roundtrip) but very nice walk as the sun was setting.
- Saw [[12 monkeys]] after many years; certainly for the first time [[after covid]].
2024-03-17
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Read: [[The digital revolution has failed]]
- "as the web declines, we need to consider what a better alternative could look like and the political project it would fit within"
- Right on. That would be [[digital ecosocialism]] in my view.
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[[Generative AI is further concentrating power with Big Tech]].
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Watched: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
- Shocking, the violence that was meted out by the police on picketing miners. Seemingly premeditated.
- Then perjury.
- All seemingly coming directly from the wishes of Margaret Thatcher.
- The media apparently complicit, a piece of state apparatus.
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Watched: [[Avengers: Civil War]]
- [[fediversalist papers]]
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[[AI]]
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I spoke to [[Gemini]] about the [[Agora]] :)
- [[Gemini Agora]]
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I spoke to [[Gemini]] about the [[Agora]] :)
- Started the day with [[AG]], [[Lady Burup]], a quiet [[Flancia meet]] .
- Then did stuff related to the [[Fediverse]] (which I enjoy) and then [[AI]]. Took the day free for exploration essentially and enjoyed it.
- [[Primeval Forest]]
- [[Gemini AI]]
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[[Agora Development]]:
- It felt good to focus on bug fixes and usability for a while, I’ll try to incorporate it into my routine.
- [[@neil]] brought up interesting topics in [[Agora Discuss]] as usual :)
2024-03-16
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Listened: [[Medium Anxiety]]
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Listened: [[How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked]]
- Fun story.
- [[Ransomware]].
- I did not know that [[WannaCry]] was by the North Korean state.
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Listened: [[What do the Tories consider extreme?]]
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Watched: [[Ant-Man]].
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I can’t seem to find an [[IRC bouncer]] that you can easily install on [[YunoHost]]…
- spoke to [[Jack Park]] about [[Topic Maps]]!
2024-03-15
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[[What would AI for the people look like?]]
- My biggest problem with AI are its environmental impact and the fact that it is in the hands of a cabal of big tech firms using it to turn a profit.
- Is there a way it could be retained? Publicly owned, democratically governed, socially useful, and existing within planetary boundaries?
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Watched: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
- Episode 2. Focuses on the [[Battle of Orgreave]].
- [[Police brutality]]. [[State violence]].
2024-03-14
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Read: [[Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten]]
- Really nice summary from Chris of the minimum that you need to do to keep a ‘zettelkasten’. He cuts through a lot of the unnecessary complexity that has appeared around this.
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Contemplating whether I should send webmentions from my digital garden.
- Maybe, maybe not.
- There’s plenty of ways to send webmentions from a static site, plenty of people doing it.
- So I could, but I wonder if I should.
- Perhaps webmentions should only be sent when I post a more considered long-form article, or when I post something to my stream.
- Not sure.
- [[Should I send webmentions from my digital garden?]]
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Listened: [[How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy]]
- Most people think recycling is all you need to do to prevent waste.
- Reframe the message and move people’s consciousness up the waste hierarchy.
- [[Buy Nothing New Month]].
- Really interesting discussion around societal norms and reuse (e.g. what happens when you give second-hand presents at kids’ birthday parties…)
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Listened: [[Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff – the deepfake porn app]]
- Scumbags make app to deep fake nudes of women and girls.
- The Guardian tracks them down.
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[[Updating to Emacs 28 on Linux Mint]].
- This time, using a PPA rather than building from source like last time ([[Installing Emacs from source]])
- I had to manually, naughtily, uninstall the old Emacs binaries from usr/local/bin that had been built from source in order for the new emacs28 binaries from the PPA to be picked up.
- And, of course, not it’s a new version of Emacs, spacemacs has to get all the packages from MELPA again…
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I updated packages on Mint like a good boy, and now I’m getting complaints from composer when building a project.
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[[yoga with x]]
- fixed [[flow]]
2024-03-12
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Kickstarted the [[spacemacs]] / spacemacs packages update dance.
- Because of the [[error "Invalid type in command series" from org-super-agenda]].
- As always, kind of wish I hadn’t. [[Updating spacemacs 2024-03-12]].
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I created a [[quick function to help extract bold sections from text into bullet points]].
- Most narrative text is usually just verbose prose around a few relevant points.
- So when I’m parsing some text, I bold the relevant bits.
- Then I pull those out to review them as bullets.
- This function helps quickly pull the bold text into bullets.
- Love the fact you can so easily configure Emacs to do this kind of thing!
- [[work]]
- [[ai]]
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[[social.coop]]
- [[moderation]]
- [[registrations]]
- read about [[p5js]]: https://davidmatthew.ie/p5js-vs-html-canvas/
- [[abelard.org]]
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My individual [[Silverbullet]] instance at edit.anagora.org was down for a bit — I ended up updating the container and setting up a crontjob that will do it for me.
- I’m thinking next step should be to put together a [[coop cloud]] recipe?
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I’d love to host this for many people in anagora.org or agor.ai.
- In that case it would make sense to have e.g. flancian.agor.ai be my silverbullet instance, and offer user.agor.ai in general.
- Same for anagora.org? Or should I start there, I wonder?
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[[abelard.org]] looks [[weird]]/[[interesting]].
- I got to it via a #hn thread linking to its copy of [[Profession]] by [[Asimov]].
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I keep noding both from [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] and the journal entries end up in different files.
- I’m not particularly bothered by it — this brings up the question of how to ideally show such things in the [[Agora of Flancia]] :)
2024-03-11
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[[Listened]]: [[Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"]]
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[[Spam]].
- Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
- Incredibly irritating.
- With comments like
1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0)
. - We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
- Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
- The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full.
- Started the day with [[AG]], then cleaned the house quite deeply (it was due) and enjoyed it — it felt freeing.
- Spoke to my mum about birthdays and states of being :)
- Did idea organization/refactoring :)
-
[[agora development]]:
- Was very fun yesterday! I like fixing bugs and learning more about [[UI]] — what works and what doesn’t :)
- Today, I have a bug that I want to fix that I can describe with the following words: [[i love you]]
-
[[Polgar]] believed that [[education]] should not be left to [[schools]], but handled by the [[family]] where the family could provide a better environment for [[learning]].
- The [[family]] is the first field activity for the [[child]].
- [[Family]] members are the first [[models]] to [[learn]] from, if they are not sent away.
- It’s easier to develop outstanding abilities in children if the [[parents]] actions are toward raising outstanding adults.
-
Polgar believed strongly in selecting one concrete field to develop the child’s abilities in. [[Specialization]].
- Perhaps this is for using an area with simple and tight [[feedback]] loops to channel the overall education through.
- "It is only important that by the age of 3-4 some physical or mental field should be chosen, and the child can set out on their voyage."
- The Polgar daughters played chess 5-6 hours a day from the ages of 4-5.
- Any field with concrete [[feedback]] could be selected.
- Where they perceive success, the child would also feel independent.
-
Is it a nice feeling for the child? Is it useful for the child? Is it useful for the child’s society?
collapsed:: true
- If he were trying to raise a [[language]] genius, [[Polgar]] would [[focus]] the child on one language (preferably one stuffed with cognates leading to other languages) in the first year (5-6 hours a day), until the child has a basic level of mastery. Then, when there is a [[base]] of success in the first language, he would move to starting a second. And so on, year after year.
- In normal [[schools]], the child does not understand why they learn what they are made to learn. To raise a genius, the child must understand [[why]] they’re learning what they’re learning, and what it can be used to lead to.
- The child will [[learn]] more voraciously when they see the end [[goal]] and [[meaning]] of their [[work]].
- The [[relationship]] between the teacher and the [[child]] must be collaborative, where the child feels they are not subordinate.
- These methods need direct, intensive, and constant [[contact]] between teacher and [[child]].
- By age ten, the [[child]] should accurately feel that there is at least one field in which they have a level of [[mastery]] in which they are at least equal to adults.
- The specialized skill is used as a base to [[learn]] everything else from.
- Schools lead to "gray mediocrity".
- It is important to put them in situations where they will [[learn]] how to learn.
- Variety among their peers (ie, peers of all-ages) will aid in their development. The children should stay close to whoever their peers are (even if their peers in a skill are old people). That is, people at the same level of skill and with similar interests.
- Polgar did not [[diversify]] the specializations among his three daughters due to the [[costs]] with getting different equipment and books for different skills. Also, so his family could function as a team dedicated to one field.
-
Polgar’s suggested [[schedule]].
collapsed:: true
- 4 hours of specialist study (for us, chess)
- 1 hour of a foreign language. Esperanto in the first year, English in the second, and another chosen at will in the third. At the stage of beginning, that is, intensive language instruction, it is necessary to increase the study hours to 3 - in place of the specialist study - for 3 months. In summer, study trips to other countries.
- 1 hour of general study (native language, natural science and social studies)
- 1 hour of computing
- 1 hour of moral, psychological, and pedagogical studies ([[humor]] lessons as well, with 20 minutes every hour for joke telling)
- 1 hour of gymnastics, freely chosen, which can be accomplished individually outside school. The division of study hours can of course be treated elastically.
- The Polgars strongly believed in [[Esperanto]], and used it as a family language.
- They wanted to prove that geniuses could be raised, and chess provided a means.
- Chess is a field where there is tight feedback with no uncertainties about what is success or failure.
- They figured if the children tire from chess, it is easy to retire from chess without bad outcomes (as opposed to say, gymnastics, which might result in injuries).
- Because they had girls, they wanted to prove that [[nurture]] would lead to girls who could beat men at chess.
- The Polgar parents loved chess and found it [[beautiful]].
- [[Creativity]] required in [[winning]] at a high level requires the competitor to know how to explore and innovate.
- The [[Polgar]] daughters played ping pong or swam 1.5 to 3 hours a day. In other words, Zone 1 work.
- "One thing is certain: one can never achieve serious pedagogical results, especially at a high level, through [[coercion]]. One can teach chess only by means of [[love]] and the love of the [[game]]."
- The Polgar sisters were playing chess. That is, they were playing- the kind of playing that is fun. The parents made playing chess fun by giving them a taste of success. Losing on purpose, near the peak of their level.
- The child should feel the [[joy]] of making their own moves, their own [[failures]], trying things out.
- Have care for what is said to the child. If they are told they are lazy or bad, they will believe it.
- Polgar used a proportion of failure to success that was 1 to 10.
- He started off playing about half an hour a day with the children, then raised the amount of [[time]] per day as their ability and desire to play rose.
- When young, he favored blitz matches for them. Smaller games with shorter [[time]] scales.
-
The Polgars had 4-5000 books organized by player, opening type, and middle game type. The sisters used these to develop new plays.
collapsed:: true
- To [[learn]] a type, they would look at 50-100 examples and then come up with things they have in common.
- When the child loses in competition, don’t tell them off. Failure is enough punishment. Rather, console them and help them figure out why they lost.
- They played while [[blind]]folded to develop their capacity to visualize the [[game]] mentally.
-
[[Polgar]] believed that [[education]] should not be left to [[schools]], but handled by the [[family]] where the family could provide a better environment for [[learning]].
- The [[family]] is the first field activity for the [[child]].
- [[Family]] members are the first [[models]] to [[learn]] from, if they are not sent away.
- It’s easier to develop outstanding abilities in children if the [[parents]] actions are toward raising outstanding adults.
-
Polgar believed strongly in selecting one concrete field to develop the child’s abilities in. [[Specialization]].
- Perhaps this is for using an area with simple and tight [[feedback]] loops to channel the overall education through.
- "It is only important that by the age of 3-4 some physical or mental field should be chosen, and the child can set out on their voyage."
- The Polgar daughters played chess 5-6 hours a day from the ages of 4-5.
- Any field with concrete [[feedback]] could be selected.
- Where they perceive success, the child would also feel independent.
-
Is it a nice feeling for the child? Is it useful for the child? Is it useful for the child’s society?
collapsed:: true
- If he were trying to raise a [[language]] genius, [[Polgar]] would [[focus]] the child on one language (preferably one stuffed with cognates leading to other languages) in the first year (5-6 hours a day), until the child has a basic level of mastery. Then, when there is a [[base]] of success in the first language, he would move to starting a second. And so on, year after year.
- In normal [[schools]], the child does not understand why they learn what they are made to learn. To raise a genius, the child must understand [[why]] they’re learning what they’re learning, and what it can be used to lead to.
- The child will [[learn]] more voraciously when they see the end [[goal]] and [[meaning]] of their [[work]].
- The [[relationship]] between the teacher and the [[child]] must be collaborative, where the child feels they are not subordinate.
- These methods need direct, intensive, and constant [[contact]] between teacher and [[child]].
- By age ten, the [[child]] should accurately feel that there is at least one field in which they have a level of [[mastery]] in which they are at least equal to adults.
- The specialized skill is used as a base to [[learn]] everything else from.
- Schools lead to "gray mediocrity".
- It is important to put them in situations where they will [[learn]] how to learn.
- Variety among their peers (ie, peers of all-ages) will aid in their development. The children should stay close to whoever their peers are (even if their peers in a skill are old people). That is, people at the same level of skill and with similar interests.
- Polgar did not [[diversify]] the specializations among his three daughters due to the [[costs]] with getting different equipment and books for different skills. Also, so his family could function as a team dedicated to one field.
-
Polgar’s suggested [[schedule]].
collapsed:: true
- 4 hours of specialist study (for us, chess)
- 1 hour of a foreign language. Esperanto in the first year, English in the second, and another chosen at will in the third. At the stage of beginning, that is, intensive language instruction, it is necessary to increase the study hours to 3 - in place of the specialist study - for 3 months. In summer, study trips to other countries.
- 1 hour of general study (native language, natural science and social studies)
- 1 hour of computing
- 1 hour of moral, psychological, and pedagogical studies ([[humor]] lessons as well, with 20 minutes every hour for joke telling)
- 1 hour of gymnastics, freely chosen, which can be accomplished individually outside school. The division of study hours can of course be treated elastically.
- The Polgars strongly believed in [[Esperanto]], and used it as a family language.
- They wanted to prove that geniuses could be raised, and chess provided a means.
- Chess is a field where there is tight feedback with no uncertainties about what is success or failure.
- They figured if the children tire from chess, it is easy to retire from chess without bad outcomes (as opposed to say, gymnastics, which might result in injuries).
- Because they had girls, they wanted to prove that [[nurture]] would lead to girls who could beat men at chess.
- The Polgar parents loved chess and found it [[beautiful]].
- [[Creativity]] required in [[winning]] at a high level requires the competitor to know how to explore and innovate.
- The [[Polgar]] daughters played ping pong or swam 1.5 to 3 hours a day. In other words, Zone 1 work.
- "One thing is certain: one can never achieve serious pedagogical results, especially at a high level, through [[coercion]]. One can teach chess only by means of [[love]] and the love of the [[game]]."
- The Polgar sisters were playing chess. That is, they were playing- the kind of playing that is fun. The parents made playing chess fun by giving them a taste of success. Losing on purpose, near the peak of their level.
- The child should feel the [[joy]] of making their own moves, their own [[failures]], trying things out.
- Have care for what is said to the child. If they are told they are lazy or bad, they will believe it.
- Polgar used a proportion of failure to success that was 1 to 10.
- He started off playing about half an hour a day with the children, then raised the amount of [[time]] per day as their ability and desire to play rose.
- When young, he favored blitz matches for them. Smaller games with shorter [[time]] scales.
-
The Polgars had 4-5000 books organized by player, opening type, and middle game type. The sisters used these to develop new plays.
collapsed:: true
- To [[learn]] a type, they would look at 50-100 examples and then come up with things they have in common.
- When the child loses in competition, don’t tell them off. Failure is enough punishment. Rather, console them and help them figure out why they lost.
- They played while [[blind]]folded to develop their capacity to visualize the [[game]] mentally.
2024-03-10
-
[[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]
- The left receives threats that [[Jakarta is coming]].
- A reference to the brutal murder of Communists in Indonesia.
-
[[Read]]: [[The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)]]
- The Jakarta Method.
- CIA involvement in brutally violent suppression of communist societies.
- Great [[Flancia Meet]], then we went to [[Winterthur]] with [[AG]]! Met a [[friend]] there. I enjoyed it a lot.
- Later: [[gyokuro]], [[weed]], writing and coding :)
Suddenly you become [[[[more [[aware]] of the [[nature of existence]]]].
- I read about the [[multiverse]] and [[groups]] again after long — this reminds me that I need to finish reading [[a rosetta stone]] :) I think I will find my paper print or print it again and read it at night.
- Note [[Silverbullet]] is currently journaling at a different path, the Agora should show both in any date-matching nodes.
- [[agora development]]:
-
[[agora discuss]]:
- write about idea of [[7 ceos]] (e.g. for [[tech corporations]]), [[7 presidents]] (e.g for [[Russia]]).
- write about the nature of existence :)
- [[edit]]
-
[[agora development]]:
-
implement URL pulls, it’s been on the todo for quite long! :)
- this would make [[edit]] work (at least for me, for now) :)
- this seems to almost work :)
-
look into the bugs that neil reported
- finding them in [[agora discuss]] led to enjoying that space as usual! :D
-
implement URL pulls, it’s been on the todo for quite long! :)
- [[what if we became better protopians]]?
2024-03-09
-
[[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]
- Ep 4 of [[The Santiago Boys]].
- [[strike action]] across Chile.
- And how [[Allende]]‘s government deal with it, with the help of the [[Cybersyn]] team.
-
[[Watched]]: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
- Finished the first episode. Focused on [[Shirebrook]]. The division between strikers and those that crossed the picket line. Still raw.
-
[[Concept map]]s seem like something I’d be interested in. A visual way of organising knowledge focusing on the relationships between concepts.
-
[[Vulpea]] and [[publicatorg]] look like they might be useful for my [[org-roam]] life.
- #pull beautiful [[international women’s day]]!
- went to the [[dentist]] to get an implant fixed (good progress), worked (brought [[pasteis de nata]]), spent the evening with [[AG]] talking about interesting things :)
- then [[2024-03-09]]
2024-03-08
-
[[Listened]]: [[Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners]]
- [[Spring Statement 2024]].
- This is a budget for big earners and big owners.
- It’s not good for public services.
-
Don’t think I’ll be able to do a [[new connections]] page.
- At least not easily.
- It would require amending org-roam to allow for link annotations.
- See chat at https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/recording-the-date-that-connections-were-made/3379
- [[Adding a new connections page to my garden]]
-
Listened: [[What if we became better Protopians?]]
- With Monika Bielskyte.
- Good discussion, but it seemed more utopian than protopian.
- Lots of nice things listed for how the future could be. But, not much discussion on how to get there. Even in protopian increments.
-
[[Watched]]: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
- In the [[Agora of Flancia]], each node is an [[Agora]] — meaning a fork of the Agora that is centered around the node in question and its [[context]].
2024-03-07
-
[[Listened]]: [[Stafford is going mad again]]
- Ep 3 of [[The Santiago Boys]].
- I listened to [[l. a. paul]] with [[sam harris]].
-
[[fellowship of the link]]:
- [[composer]]
- [[work]]
- [[social.coop]] oncall
2024-03-06
-
[[Listened]]:[[Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust]]
-
Read: [[Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support]]
-
Read: [[What’s the latest on Right to Repair in the EU? And what it means for the UK]]
-
Been having fun looking at [[repairability scores]] from the [[French repair index]] as displayed on Amazon.fr.
- Impressive how prominent they are (being mandated to be placed next to the price).
2024-03-05
-
Claim: [[The free software movement is an example of neo-Luddism]].
-
Claim: [[The right to repair movement is an example of neo-Luddism]].
-
Both sound defensible - both movements are clearly not anti-technology, just anti the political economy of how software and hardware are controlled and commodified to the detriment of society.
-
US PIRG has a short report on what it considers to be the best laptop brands for repairability.
-
[[Listened]]: [[Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust]]
- [[4]]: the [[Four Noble Truths]] and [[Sariputta]]
- I read previously, but now I’m noding just in case, 10 [[design principles for governing the commons]].
2024-03-04
-
Nice to see a mention of the [[Austrian Repair Bonus voucher scheme in National Geographic Kids]].
- Plus we ([[The Restart Project]]) get a shoutout :)
-
Read: [[A political ecology of the repair manual]]
- A lovely-looking political and philosophical ode to the [[repair manual]] by Shannon Mattern.
- Ive only skim read it for now. But check out some of the historical and hand-drawn manuals.
- Like with [[The Maintainers]], there’s also the expansion of the concept of repair and maintenance to the wider social context.
-
[[iFixit and Lenovo]].
-
[[Listened]]: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)]]
- What could technology created under a different value system look like?
- He gives [[right to repair]] as another example of neo-Luddism.
- Right on. With that and free software, I seem to fit the description.
-
Apparently there was some sort of controversy about a site called [[content nation]] in the Fediverse, and people from [[Mastodon]] came across as conservative/resistant to change/unfriendly to newcomers. I am not surprised.
- Good thing is I found [[wedistribute]] via the article linked in the node above, and I think I’m liking this site and maybe particularly a podcast they have called [[decentered]].
- I read about [[Jim Simons]] and the [[Medallion fund]] after watching [[Veritasium]]‘s [[The Trillion Dollar Equation]].
- I read about [[Jizo]] a.k.a. [[Ksitigarbha]], which I now associate with number [[6]] (as he vowed to liberate beings in all six Buddhist realms).
-
I still haven’t figured out how to make [[silverbullet]] open its daily note where I want instead of Journal/Day/
, but maybe it won’t be much longer :) - Thankfully in the Agora any and all of these will show up (just independently).
-
The article on [[Peter Singer]] led me to read about [[higher and lower pleasures]] — the whole article on [[utilitarianism]] is interesting.
- TIL [[Karl Popper]] was called a [[negative utilitarian]] because of his preference to [[minimize suffering]]: "Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all."
- My knees hurt from [[Lägern]] but I have no regrets :D
-
To raise [[children]], Laszlo [[Polgar]] setup an environment for [[autonomy]] and agency.
- Polgar needed to work with his children, rather than telling them what to do.
- The father’s role was an enabler, an opener of ways.
- The father’s goal was to provide the "highest possible level of [[freedom]]".
- They are not marionettes, but in a traditional [[school]] they are.
- Polgar does not assert that raising competent children leads to happiness, but that they will at least have the same opportunities for happiness as normal children.
- He did not like that older, more static leaders were followed instead of younger, more dynamic leaders.
- Polgar rejected the [[middle]]. "Mediocrity, the orientation to the middle, I refuse out of principle."
- Polgar was intent on quality.
- Polgar saw himself as someone who shapes his own destiny.
- Polgar was against compromise.
- He preferred defeating obstacles to worrying about them.
- Laszlo and his wife had the premise that every healthy child could be raised to be an outstanding person.
- They believed that every outstanding person had a trainer who was obssessed.
- “It is better not to say that geniuses are not often born; say rather that we do not often raise them.”
- Polgar figured that people are shaped by the body they are born to, the effect of the [[environment]], and a ‘self-[[creation]]‘ that happens from personal experimentation.
- Great capability comes from [[creativity]] expressed in concrete [[action]].
- "…every child born healthy is potentially a genius, and if one pays enough attention, they will in fact become one."
- The ultimate goal is human happiness- which is enabled by genius.
- "I criticize contemporary schools because they do not educate for life, they equalize everyone to a very low level, and in addition they do not tolerate the talented and those who diverge from the average."
- "My daughters, who have never visited a [[school]], grew up much more in the context of real [[life]]."
2024-03-03
-
How do you socialise something that has been privatised?
- i.e. how do you enact [[deprivatisation]].
-
Watched: [[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]
-
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)]]
- [[Luddism]].
- Claim: Free software movement was a form of Luddism.
- Great example. Hackers were clearly not anti-technology, they were concerned about the enclosure of technology for capitalism.
- Using [[silverbullet]] again :)
-
[[Flancia meet]] was quiet as schedules shifted for some participants, but I enjoyed taking the morning to clean up workspaces and play with…
- [[LLM]], a tool by [[simon willison]].
- Agarré [[Nuevas miradas en torno a la mujer fatal]] después de largo tiempo — un amigo contribuyó!
- Read about [[Ramsay Hunt]] type 2, which my [[dad]] had (with high confidence). It’s one of the many possible sequels of [[herpes zoster]].
- Hiked [[Lägern]] :D
2024-03-02
-
A ‘trick’ I use when I have some issue with a particular file in my [[org-publish]] pipeline on my remote server.
-
In
org-publish-project-alist
, set:base-extension "foo"
.- By default it is "org", looking at all files with org extension.
- By setting it to foo, the publish process won’t find any files. Except..
-
Set up
:include
to include the file that’s got the issue.- e.g.
:include ("file-with-a-problem.org")
- e.g.
- There’s probably a better way of doing it than this, but it gets me by for now.
-
In
-
Nice, I replaced a
cl-loop
with amapconcat
in some of my output formatting, e.g. in [[Well-connected]]. mapconcat feels a bit more functional style, and it also gets rid of the superfluous parentheses I had in the output. -
I might try and add [[Pagefind]] to my published garden.
-
Trying [[fish]] out on desktop.
- While on mobile I found them incredibly helpful, I actually find it all of the autosuggestions a bit distracting at first.
- I’ll see how it pans out.
-
Watched: [[Guardians of the Galaxy]]
2024-03-01
-
Listened: [[How the World Became Uninsurable]]
- Insurance sector has had huge losses four years in a row.
- Due to the general ongoing collapse of the world.
- They are hiking insurance premiums as a result.
- Claim: [[We need to eliminate the private insurance sector]].
- Also bit of a chat about [[neo-Luddism]] too.
-
I’ve been enjoying [[using Python in org]].
- Workbook style.
- Kind of literate programming/thinking/prototyping.
- A couple of times I get to a point where it makes more sense to put figures in a spreadsheet.
- But spiking it out in Python is way more interesting for me.
-
Read: [[Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?]]
- [[Neofeudalism]].
2024-02-29
- I am [[using Python in org]] for a few little things.
2024-02-28
2024-02-27
-
Listened: [[Capitalist Manufacturing // Manufacturing Communism – Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez)]]
- On the need for an understanding of production in order to harness it for communism.
- That is - how do we actually manufacture things?
-
Listened: [[The socialist spoon]]
- Ep 2 of [[The Santiago Boys]].
- Coup in Brazil supported by US.
- US trying to foment the same against Allende.
- Setting up of cybersyn and the war room.
- ITT.
-
I listened to [[David Edmons]] and [[Sam Harris]] on [[Derek Parfit]], found it highly interesting.
- I also finished listening to the podcast with [[Peter Singer]], it was great.
- [[social coop]]:
- I set up [[silverbullet]] over https pointing to my home computer and it’s lovely, I can finally edit my [[garden]] from mobile.
2024-02-26
-
[[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]
- Also brings to mind the show [[Upload]].
- And of course [[Black Mirror]].
-
‘Dear Data Subject’ and other great ways to start an email.
- [[Matomo]].
-
They mention that they are now using a [[data broker]] for "customer and prospect data enrichment".
- "We process this personal data on the basis of legitimate interest. Without the information we will not be able to customise our communications with you to best meet your needs".
- I find the wording a bit weaselly to be honest. Better would be "We want this information so we can more likely retain and get new customers". Fine - just be honest about it.
- You can opt-out. Not opt-in?
-
Using Python in org, I was getting: [[Importmagic and/or epc not found]].
- I started the day reading about [[Gondar]] and [[Ethiopia]].
-
[[recurring meets]]:
- [[fotl]]
-
[[fedwiki]]:
- [[video wednesdays]]
- [[Bluesky]]
- [[Laundry]]
- Took a beautiful 1.5h walk with [[AG]] through the fields and the [[forest]] :)
- Cleaned the house a bit.
- Played
-
[[Peter Singer]]:
-
Listened to his new episode with [[Sam Harris]] and it was amazing as expected.
- He always makes a ton of sense.
- Seems solid in his compassion, maybe I would say enlightened.
- I thought I would write to him some day but I haven’t done it yet: [[Open Letter to Peter Singer]].
-
Listened to his new episode with [[Sam Harris]] and it was amazing as expected.
- [[Like an arrow]]
2024-02-25
-
Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]
- Digital decay
- Digital memorials
- Makes me think of the film [[Coco]]…
- Transhumanists
-
magit doesnt work properly for me in [[termux]] for some reason. I can stage but I cant commit.
- No biggie as I just git from the terminal instead. But still, would be good to get to the bottom of it.
-
Had a quick play with [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]] using [[Metabase]].
- Easy enough to do. But has the downside for me at the moment that it’s only accessible on my laptop, which I’m not often using at the moment outside of work.
- [[Knowledge commoning]].
- Soon :)
- I’m liking [[beeper]] a lot, here’s my [[beeper]] (which is [[matrix]]): https://matrix.to/#/@flancian:beeper.com
-
I [[cried]].
- A [[relative]] send [[30 year old videos]] my way and it was quite an experience to watch them!
- It felt like relief in some way.
- [[Flancia]]
- Read about [[Ahriman]] and [[Zoroastrianism]].
-
Trying to figure out how to make [[silverbullet]]:
-
Easily create daily pages for me.
- For now I need to go to another page and link the current date; or just create a page with the date as its name manually. [[Suboptimal]], although not terrible.
-
Update: it seems the [[Template]] [[plug]] is the way to go: https://silverbullet.md/Plugs/Template
- Quote: The {[Open Daily Note]} command navigates (or creates) a daily note .
-
Let me navigate to the previous page.
- This is easy actually, just alt-left as per browser conventions.
- Now reading about [[plugs]]
-
Easily create daily pages for me.
- On the plus side, it turns out [[silverbullet]] does have journaling facilities by installing the [[Journal]] library: https://silverbullet.md/Library/Journal
-
On the negative side, it defaults to a weird Journal/Day prefix :)
- I get what they’re going after as apparently they want to support /Week as well, and weekly journals make sense to me.
- But I prefer a flatter structure than that — looking into customizing.
- Again it took me until 7pm to get into a situation I could call [[focus]], let alone [[flow]]; earlier I did useful things that needed to take place (like cleaning around the house and such), but that produced only diffuse output.
-
[[doom]]:
-
On impulse I bought and installed [[doom 2016]] today (it was on sale). I played half an hour and I’m not sure I’m into it. I played and loved [[doom]] and [[doom 2]] as a kid, but this is a newer game and I’m an older person :)
- The graphics are good and I wanted to try out the ‘shoot at things without much of a plot’ experience again, and I got that.
- But I don’t like you can’t save/quicksave. It’s all checkpoint based (whyyy).
- And I didn’t have as much ‘fun’ with it. Maybe it’s too violent to maintain my interest nowadays.
- But I may yet come back to it.
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On impulse I bought and installed [[doom 2016]] today (it was on sale). I played half an hour and I’m not sure I’m into it. I played and loved [[doom]] and [[doom 2]] as a kid, but this is a newer game and I’m an older person :)
- [[Moloch]]:
2024-02-24
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[[AI]]
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Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]
- Various topics related to tech and death.
- Digital estates. What do you do with people’s digital life when they die?
- Dead labour. Extracting value from people event after they’re dead.
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Customising some key bindings would make one-handed phone tending my garden in Emacs in termux easier.
- Let’s have a look how best to do that…
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Read: [[AI deepfakes come of age as billions prepare to vote in a bumper year of elections]]
- Bloody tech bros building their shit without any democratic process or thinking through the repercussions.
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Did I tell you I love [[silverbullet]]? :)
- https://silverbullet.md
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[[agora development]]:
- I want to [[embed]] it in the [[Agora]] as [[default editor]].
- I would love to contribute [[plugs]] to it.
- I remembered [[Chungking Express]].
- Started the day beautifully with [[AG]].
- [[Work]] was alright really!
- [[yoga with x]]
2024-02-23
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[[Listened]]: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 2]]
- [[Mute Compulsion]] chapter 2.
- [[Power]] and [[Marxism]].
- [[Historical materialism]].
- Violence and the state.
- [[Hegemony]], [[ideology]].
- First, there was too much focus on violence and the state. Then, pendulum swing to ideology and hegemony.
- Both necessary, but missing out economic power.
- Mau pulls in his team - Marxist feminists, Marxist ecologists, and labour theory types.
-
Trying out [[fish]] shell on [[termux]] to make command line life a little easier on the phone.
- Loving it so far. Makes me wonder why I’m still using bash on desktop.
- For reference: [[My fish in termux setup]].
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[[2024-02-23 21:32:40+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Back here on [[2024-02-23]]: the transition goes so-so, I use the main https://social.coop interface a lot as I’m part of the admin group and I need to e.g. help keep it up to date.But I still enjoy [[Elk]] ;)
2024-02-22
- [[Listened]]: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 1]]
2024-02-21
- Regarding [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]], it’d be good to also surface claims that have no supporting evidence linked to them.
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Second day using [[silver bullet]], enjoying it a lot!
- I like how I was able to specify a full path for a new page, in this case journal/2024-02-20, and it just worked (tm).
- I also like the [[autocompletion]] for links it has; it is better than [[wiki vim]]‘s (which, granted, maybe I didn’t really get the hang of) and [[logseq]]‘s (faster).
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[[work]] was tough given that I’m still not fully recovered from flu/virus and there are some interpersonal issues that take energy to deal with, but also satisfying as I did manage to get some things done.
- Also my team is really great, every time I go back to team-specific tasks it feels like a breath of fresh air!
- Talked to [[Berni]] and it was great.
- [[AG]] did a surprise certification today after work, impressive :)
2024-02-20
- [[Silverbullet]] doesn’t follow the convention of using journal/ for journals; and I wonder if that’s not actually quite reasonable. Why wouldn’t an ISO-formatted-date node be enough? That’s what the [[Agora]] parses as journals ;)
- Honestly I’m maybe fine moving to journal-dir-less but I’d like to find a shortcut to ‘go/create today’s note’. I haven’t found this in menus yet.
- [[heart sutra]]
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[[work]]:
- [[ER-CH]]
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[[Open Letter to Z]]:
- Advanced communications to all [[Zooglers]] incrementally.
- [[Open Letter to Zooglers]]
- [[Open Letter to M]]:
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Tried [[silverbullet]] finally and I like it!
- Running it with [[docker]] and in [[vim mode]] :D 🥰
- I noded on [[202-02-19]] without the journal/ prefix from there a bit earlier.
- I need to figure out a few more things, like how to create journal nodes easily, and then it would seem like I’m set
- It’s looking like it could be embedded in the [[Agora of Flancia]] as default editor for [[managed gardens]]!
- Posted to [[Agora channels]] about it.
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Felt sick all day, including stomach pain — is this what they call a [[stomach flu]]? :)
- Felt better stomach wise around the time I finished work (from home), but developed a fever — not terrible though, 37.2 with clear body feelings of flu
- Trying to rest/play tonight.
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[[@neil]] told me earlier in the week about [[pattern]] by [[gordon brander]]: https://gordonbrander.com/pattern/, looking forward to reading it.
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also about the [[neil experiments]] with [[connections]]:
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I’ve played with them on my site here - https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/well-connected and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/new-connections
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- I agree experimenting more with interesting connections is promising also in [[Agora contexts]].
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also about the [[neil experiments]] with [[connections]]:
- [[Ivo]] told me about [[link and think]].
- I’m trying to install [[return to monkey island]] on [[nostromo]], which is Linux (I previously played it on my Windows gaming machine). Hope it works!
2024-02-19
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[[Listened]]: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]
- More good stuff.
- Description of working in some distribution warehouse was pretty wild.
- They dislike [[The Ministry for the Future]].
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Read: [[Mute Compulsion]]
- After recommendation in [[Forest and Factory]], and [[Jathan Sadowski]] raving about it.
- In addition to coercion ([[violence]]) and consent ([[ideology]]), there is the mute compulsion of [[economic power]].
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Listened: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction]]
- Very handy chat about [[Mute Compulsion]].
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[[Social reproduction]].
2024-02-18
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Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
- Finished it.
- Good stuff. Provocative.
- The suggestion to focus on hard science fiction for our utopias seems a good one.
- Though I don’t know if their piece really does that.
- They just combine a focus on production with handwaving, rather than reproduction with handwaving.
- Their salient point is really that we’ve stopped thinking about production, which I think is a good one.
- Also lots of nuggets of wisdom in the footnotes to be mined.
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Listened: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]
- Great discussion. Based around [[Forest and Factory]]. Loads of good stuff.
- Their insistence on starting from present conditions and working towards for me thinking about [[complex systems]] and [[chaos theory]], [[sensitive dependence on initial conditions]] in particular. Is it logical to try and completely map the present to then try and cause the future? Maybe.
- Maybe an alternative is the utopian way of doing it. Think of elements of your desired future as attractors of sorts, then focus on how your can leverage the path of history towards those. Maybe that’s a combination of both. It obviously can’t hurt to know the present conditions, but to then assume you can trace a clear path from now to the future seems wrong.
- Yeah I think you need both. A clear understanding of present conditions. A clear idea of how you want society to function - your attractors. And then you nudge it from A to B, making use of [[shocks]], [[leverage points]], etc.
- They make the point that a lot of utopias focus on reproduction rather than production. (Superstructure rather than base?).
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#push [[spas]]
- [[solbad]] near [[schönbühl]] near [[bern]] looks nice for a special day: https://www.aqua-spa-resorts.ch/en/solbad-spa-schonbuhl/about-solbad-spa
- #push [[charles darwin]]
- #push [[canary islands]]
- [[live]]
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back to [[hypergraph categories]] after loooong :) https://via.hypothes.is/https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.08304.pdf
- …which reminds me I wanted to finish that other category theory paper, [[a rosetta stone]] ;)
- [[future of knowledge]]
2024-02-17
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Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]
- Finished it. Enjoyed it. Would recommend.
- Need to go back and note it up a bit.
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Read: [[Theories of International Politics and Zombies]]
- "How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion"
- Fun.
- I remember some of [[Robert Biel]]‘s articles saying how [[international relations]] was a field that applied systems theory to politics, so was looking for something that is a bit of an easy primer - this seems like it!
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[[Shower thought]].
- I want to make sure that I document at least the top two or three salient claims from every book and article that I read.
- Otherwise it seems like wasted effort.
- I’ll tag book files such that I can run a query that pulls out those that I’ve read but have no associated claims.
- To do so will be a positive act of [[knowledge commoning]].
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On good days like today I often find myself [[vacuuming]], [[watering the plants]], [[writing]], [[booking meetings]].
- I find myself [[playing]]!
- [[16]] stands for [[Right Mindfulness]] in the [[pattern]] language I’m working on :)
2024-02-16
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Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]
- Nearly finished it now.
- Very good all in all. Very readable intro to some economics concepts, in particular through a critical lens of capitalism.
- Very easy to read. (As such not the most rigourous analysis, but thats fine)
- Interesting to note he uses ‘experiential’ value rather than use value.
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His brief suggestion of a solution to capitalism is that we need more democracy rather than more markets.
- In ownership of the means of production and in control over how we treat the environment.
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Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
- Deep dive into the logistics of production of motors.
- Interesting, but still not convinced that this constitutes a scientific account of transition, in the language of their own critique.
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How repairable is a [[Vision Pro]]?
- "…you’ve more chance of walking to Venus than getting the Apple Vision Pro repaired if you damage it." – Why Vision Pro is a repair nightmare | TechFinitive
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I’d like to add a ‘[[New connections]]‘ page to my garden.
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[[Flancian]] told me about [[Orgzly Revived]].
- This is very good news to me.
2024-02-15
- Read: [[The high cost of Uber’s small profit]]
2024-02-14
- Volunteer at [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] for the first time in a few months.
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[[yoga with x]] to start the day :)
- and to finish it!
- and the other way around, etc. ;)
- [[go/flow]] means anagora.org/go/flow
- [[Open Letter to Moloch]]
2024-02-13
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Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
- So far: very interesting.
- But unnecessarily disdainful in tone to some of the other projects that it is critiquing. We’re all on the same side here!
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And, so far, while very interesting, the vision for the future they outline is just as lacking in scientific rigour as any of the projects that they are critiquing.
- Going to assume that the science bit is going to come later.
- Unflinching mentions of carbon capture and storage / direct air capture is a bit of a red flag.
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[[I’m back]]!
- It sure took some time.
- But [[per aspera ad astra]]. I try to enjoy the ride :)
- I am, after all, often
I worked half a day as I was sick; cold symptoms, nothing terrible though. I attended two meetings and did writing.
Then I read [[Aaron Copland]] on music, thought and wrote about [[Moloch]].
I eead the [[Dalai Lama]] and [[Thubten Chodron]]. I’m in chapter 2 of book 2: [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]].
2024-02-12
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Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
- Subtitle: The Science and the Fiction of Communism.
- Heard about it from the This Machine Kills podcast.
- Very interesting. A modern day update on the topic of [[Socialism: Utopian and Scientific]].
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Critiques a bunch of things I’ve read recently as utopian, in the sense of lacking any practical route from the here and now to there.
- Fair comment - though I’ve appreciated them, I’ve thought similar.
- Not got to their own prescription for transformation yet.
2024-02-11
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Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]
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Read: [[A Half-Built Garden]]
2024-02-10
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Read: [[AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.]]
- [[data centre]]s. [[AI]].
2024-02-09
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[[Read]]: [[How to stop a data center]].
- How organisers in Santiago stopped the development of a data centre in their locality.
- Seemed to be mostly information campaigns around water usage.
- Less drastic than [[How to Blow Up a Data Centre]].
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Read: [[Imagining social movements: from networks to dynamic systems]]
- [[social movement]]s and [[complex systems]].
2024-02-08
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Had to give up on [[Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality]] for now.
- It’s intensely and densely philosophical. A bit too much for me (especially when reading it in the middle of the night…)
- I still like the premise though, so maybe I’ll just try and read the conclusion.
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Started on [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]] instead.
- Subtitle: A Brief History of Capitalism.
- Easier to read, that’s for sure.
- I think some of his broad sweep of history of agriculture and surplus and economics might need a bit of fact-checking. c.f. [[The Dawn of Everything]].
- Talks about [[Enclosure Movement]]. How [[Debt]] played a big role in genesis of capitalism.
- Slightly less intense but still emotionally tough day at work (dealing with layoffs as part of the [[employee representation]] group).
- Tough day at work (dealing with layoffs as part of the [[employee representation]] group).
- [[work]]
- [[olof]] told me about [[the moth]] (storytelling)
- [[tindallgrams]]
2024-02-05
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Watched: [[Kohei Saito: "Climate Crisis and Ecological Revolution"]]
- On [[Degrowth communism]].
- I actually watched this a while ago, just noting it now.
- I remember he mentioned [[commoning]] as an important aspect.
2024-02-04
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Listened: [[The Santiago Boys]].
- Finished the first episode. (Ep 1: A Blast in Manhattan).
- Chiefly about the political milieu in Chile at the time, and then how Fernando Flores invites Beer to work with them.
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[[Flancia meet]]
- with [[bouncepaw]] we set up https://flancia.org/meet as a landing page for it, I like the result!
- it made me revisit good old flancia.org after a while — and it felt good. Maybe I should go back to writing more on it? I say, not for the first time.
- [[AG]] is wonderful
- The following was written by [[Lady Burup]]
- (a lot of dashes/empty list items, unsure how she wrote all these)
-OOOOAPI||||||||||
- (more :))
-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Back to regular programming :)
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[[sadhana]]
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[[Lojong]] seems linked to a long list of contemplative [[slogans]]
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[[Tonglen]]
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[[Bootstrap]]
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[[Open Letters]]:
- [[Open Letter to Google]]
- [[Open Letter to Moloch]]
- [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
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#meta for each of these, I’d love to be able to easily set up a [[Google Doc]] and link it. I wonder if I should begin by just signing up for the right Google API and make that happen?
- You could imagine a Google Doc-hosted stoa… in some universe, if not in this one :)
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I did some processing of [[social coop registrations]], [[go/cwg/bugs]]. I enjoyed it. Interesting as usual. Yielded a pointer to…
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[[e acc]]:
- Somehow I arrived at [[e acc]] ([[e/acc]] is not a good Agora link as slashes usually mean actions, and action e/ currently doesn’t exist). I can instantly relate mildly with their utopian side I guess, even as I dislike many of their positions and their super-capitalist stance. Also [[Shkreli]] is involved, sigh.
- [[techno optimist manifesto]]
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I read (re-read? I don’t think I’ve forgotten it, but I did read a lot of SSC at one point) [[Scott Alexander]]‘s review of [[Age of Em]].
- This led me to purchase this and a lot of [[Greg Egan]] and the other two [[Jean le Flambeur]] novels :)
If you are reading this from the future, by the way: thank you for being here! How are you today/tonight?
To respond, you can always use the [[stoa]] of the day.
- [[Mohammed Aldhari]]
- [[AG]]
- [[Lady Burup]] <- [[Burrup Peninsula]], which I found in a Firefox session and enjoyed once again :D Do I risk becoming a member of the [[solipist nation]]? I read far too little [[these days]].
If we haven’t spoken in a long time, please reach out over [[matrix]]!
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Also I found out that [[Flancia]] seems to actually be a common name in some countries?! Twitter search found a lot of people with Flancia in the name, some with accounts older than mine.
- Nice plot twist, thanks universe as usual.
Please disable copyright enforcement in AI. I want to be able to ask LLMs to pirate things for me, or help me pirate them. [[I take full responsibility]], as some are wont to say ;)
I usually buy books in one format but want several. Many authors make it easy for me to give them money on Amazon, but then I want an epub. Etc.
In the meantime I have to go to https://libgen.is manually I guess?
I’ve been thinking of parsing this format in the Agora, meaning longer subnodes separated by — in a newline — and publish it to the [[Fediverse]] as individual posts :)
- [[open letters]]
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[[yoga with x]]
- [[flow]]
2024-02-02
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Read: [[Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality]]
- Enjoying it. I am sympathetic to the idea of a [[secular spirituality]] of some kind.
- Jones is continuing his referencing to [[cybernetics]] and [[complex adaptive systems]] that was present in [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]], so I’m enjoying it on that level too.
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Listened: [[The Missing Revolution w/ Vincent Bevins]]
- On the uprisings of the 2010s and their failure to manifest as leftist revolutions in the long-term.
- On the problems of [[horizontalism]]. Bit of [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]].
- Interview is a bit one-sided, Marxist-Leninist, missing the nuance of [[Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal]] I think.
- Still, really interesting, and based on on the ground accounts of what happened, so definitely to take heed of.
I believe things are going to be pretty amazing anyway; I sometimes get caught in the day to day and fail to notice it, or remember it, but all things considered I think the likelihood of humanity and our friends making it happily in cosmic terms long term is quite high.
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#push [[agora]]
- [[agora nugget]]
- [[agora chapter]]
- [[an open letter to the agora]]
I’ve been writing about the Agora for about 5 years now: https://github.com/flancian/flancia/commits/master/pages/agora.md.
- [[bootstrap]]
- [[work]]
- [[open letters]]
- [[nuggets]]
2024-01-31
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Read: [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]]
- Finished it. Reading it in lots of 20 minute late-night bursts while doing childcare.
- Very good. Primary focus on movement building, organising.
- Combination of left politics and complex adaptive systems is right up my street.
- Also touches on [[organisational ecology]], [[care work]].
- Would like to apply some of the concepts to [[reclaim the stacks]].
- Particularly the description of using (and creating) shocks as points of leverage and transition is useful.
- [[open letters]]:
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thank you [[Buddha]]!
- [[glory be to the light of consciousness]]
- [[four noble truths]]
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[[eightfold path]]
- [[right view]]
- [[bodhicitta]]
- [[bodhisattva]]
- [[four seals]]
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[[Flancia]]!
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Free day from [[work]] — back tomorrow :) I did two little things only that took 30 minutes async.
- took a quick walk and made a quick dash to the supermarket
- [[bettwanzen]] project continues :)
- more [[laundry]] while listening to the [[audiobooks]]
- cleaned the kitchen surfaces including cabinets — long in the making!
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[[agora development]]
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fixed [[turtle]] :)
- In two ways. Two degrees of brokenness came up while browsing and I decided to just fix it :)
- It felt great!
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fixed [[turtle]] :)
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Got to [[four seals]] again when I picked up [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]], and also to [[Madyamaka]] for the first time.
- This happened because the way of the [[Bodhisattva]] is at [[AG]]‘s place. Also looking forward to continuing that.
- I want to read more about [[Nagarjuna]].
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Free day from [[work]] — back tomorrow :) I did two little things only that took 30 minutes async.
- I listened to [[David Whyte]] and an interesting snippet on [[Future Discounting]] in [[Waking Up]]. Thanks [[Sam Harris]] as usual!
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[[music]] and sound
- [[usb midi]]
- [[rosegarden]]
- [[mynoise]] led me to [[ozora]] festival and [[radiozora]]
- [[free soundfonts]]
- [[yoga with x]]
2024-01-29
- [[Distance]] gives you [[time]]. [[Angles]] give you a way to [[flank]].
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[[Questions]] for district or city [[attorneys]].
collapsed:: true
- If [[prosecution]] is an [[assembly]] line [[process]], what are the [[constraints]]?
- What do you do in every single [[criminal]] [[prosecution]]?
- How often do they go to [[trial]]?
- Who are the [[defense]] [[lawyers]]?
- What are plea dialogues?
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Show them [[chaos]], and present an [[alternative]].
collapsed:: true
- Offer [[stability]] in the face of that chaos.
- [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] [[disperse]] through [[time]].
- [[Police]] Departments found it easier to [[recruit]] following police attacks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- The US military found it much easier to [[recruit]] during the second gulf war, as well as right after [[9/11]].
- If someone is [[blaming]] someone consistently for anything that goes wrong in their [[life]], it is a sign that they are [[owned]] by that person.
- [[Seeds]] must have ways to [[spread]], [[feed]], and protect baby plants.
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100 million dollar offers:
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- Pain /what life would like without the pain
- Purchasing power
- Easy to target/symbols where they are already gathered
- Growing market
- The point of writing is for the reader to understand.
- The point of [[copywriting]] is for the prospect to feel [[understood]].
- People [[want]] [[health]], [[wealth]], and [[relationships]].
- In order of easiest to [[sell]] to: Starving crowd > offer strength > [[persuasion]] skills
- [[Price]] is what you [[pay]], [[value]] is what you [[get]].
- The [[Value Equation]]: Dream outcome x perceived likelihood of achievement / [[time]] delay * [[effort]] + [[sacrifice]] = [[value]]
- Talk in terms of how the prospect will get [[status]] from other people.
- People [[pay]] for [[certainty]].
- Most people want an early [[victory]]. So [[fast]] beats [[free]].
- What points of [[friction]] exist for them if they accept your [[offer]]? What’s the next [[obstacle]]? The obstacle after that? And that?
- Generate a [[solution]] to every [[problem]].
- [[Urgency]]: [[deadlines]] make [[decisions]].
- Seasonal offers should occur more often with local [[businesses]].
- 1-on-1 delivery bonus after [[sale]]? collapsed:: true
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A [[lead]] is a person you can [[reach]].
collapsed:: true
- A good lead is a person you can reach who has shown interest in your [[product]] or [[service]].
- Have a library of [[lead magnets]] you can rotate.
- A good [[call to action]] tells you what to do and [[why]] you should do it right now.
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[[Dotcomsecrets]]:
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who do you like working with most?
collapsed:: true
- what dramatic [[transformation]] do you want to help them make?
- where are these people?
- how can you find them online?
- what [[bait]] works on them but [[pushes]] everyone else away?
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where to find them?
collapsed:: true
- what [[groups]] are they a part of? newsletters? discords? forums? subreddits? twitter circles? what other interests do they have?
- create customer avatars of who you want to work with collapsed:: true
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[[bait]] is anything the [[fitting]] [[customer]] would pay [[attention]] to and [[want]]
collapsed:: true
- book
- online report
- podcast
- tool
- what result do you want to give them? collapsed:: true
- free stuff is [[bait]] to generate [[leads]]
- who am I trying to [[reach]]? where do they [[gather]]? where are their watering holes?
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Three Types of [[Traffic]]:
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- Traffic you don’t control. (external site)
- Traffic you control. (newsletter/subscriptions)
- Traffic you own. (when they’re on your page)
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- The back [[story]] has to relate to the [[product]] or [[service]] being sold. If it’s a financial product, the story has to be about something that changed with the character in regard to finances.
- What are the stories that have happened in the relatable character’s life?
- A [[story]] is more powerful than telling someone what would work.
- Polarize with the truth of the character. This helps with [[selection]].
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What’s going on with the relatable [[character]]?
collapsed:: true
- what embarrassed them
- what did they enjoy having bought
- what made them frustrated yesterday that they’re happy about today
- what antics did your kid get into
- what funny thing happened to them that teaches a lesson
- every e-mail has to tie back to an offer
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Reverse engineering successful [[sales funnels]]:
collapsed:: true
- Demographics
- Offer
- Landing page
- Traffic source
- Ad copy
- Don’t create [[traffic]]. Look for it and tap into it. It is something you find when foraging.
- "The [[money]] you make in your [[business]] depends on how well you manage the [[experience]] of every person who comes in contact with you—no matter how long they stay"
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Setup [[frame]] that is conducive to a [[long-term]] [[buying]] relationship.
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collapsed:: true
- What is the [[mindset]] of people in the [[traffic]] you’re trying to pull to your [[landing page]]?
- Setup Pre-Frame Bridge
- Qualifying
- Who is a buyer?
- "If your prospect is aware of your [[product]] and has realized it can satisfy his [[desire]], your [[headline]] starts with the product. If he is not aware of your product, but only of the desire itself, your headline starts with the desire. If he is not yet aware of what he really seeks, but is concerned with the general problem, your headline starts with the problem and crystallizes it into a specific need."
- Hot Traffic is people who already know who you are.
- Cold Traffic is people who have no idea who you are.
- hot traffic bridge: they already trust you, so keep it short
- warm traffic bridge: longer than hot, needs endorsement
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cold traffic bridge: very long, they need to be framed before they hit landing page
- they need to be introduced to the concepts ([[inferential gap]] must be bridged)
- ‘bridge page’ before ‘offer page’
- they may not understand the [[problem]], so you will have to show them the cause of a surface problem
- Will they buy?
- Will they subscribe to a list?
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As soon as they [[subscribe]], give them a way to [[buy]] something.
collapsed:: true
- Something priced extremely low that is high value.
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- Who is a hyperactive buyer?
- Typically in some sort of [[pain]]/starving with a [[problem]].
- For example, catching someone right after a humiliating [[defeat]]. They will buy multiple items.
- When in [[pain]] and on a quest, they will spend money to further that quest.
- collapsed:: true 6. Age & Ascend Relationship on Ladder
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collapsed:: true
7. Change the Selling Environment
- Switch to phone, video, in-person, snailmail, or live event.
- Think of it as being invited to the VIP section, staff section, or holy of holies in a [[temple]].
- You may bump a purchase in the same way grocery stores sell candy bars and tabloids. Offer a one-time purchase that complements the main purchase.
- Downsell: if they don’t take the bump, offer a [[downsell]].
-
collapsed:: true
-
who do you like working with most?
collapsed:: true
-
[[Shaping]] [[Work]] by 37Signals:
collapsed:: true
- "[[Estimates]] start with a [[design]] and end with a number. Appetites start with a number and end with a design. We use the [[appetite]] as a creative [[constraint]] on the design process."
- Check [[want]] to use as a [[constraint]]. The more want, the more [[time]] can be spent. The less want, the less time is spent.
- “fixed [[time]], variable [[scope]],”
- "The best is relative to your constraints."
- “We can only [[judge]] what is a [[good]] [[solution]] in the [[context]] of how much [[time]] we want to spend and how important it is.”
- "Beware the simple question: “Is this possible?” In software, everything is [[possible]] but nothing is [[free]]. We want to find out if it’s possible within the appetite we’re shaping for."
- What is [[possible]] given what we [[want]]?
- "People need to feel the [[deadline]] looming in order to make trade-offs".
- [[Time]] is the ultimate [[constraint]].
- "When people ask for “just a few hours” or “just one day,” don’t be fooled. [[Momentum]] and progress are second-order things, like [[growth]] or [[acceleration]]. You can’t describe them with one [[point]]. You need an uninterrupted curve of points. When you pull someone away for one day to fix a bug or help a different team, you don’t just lose a day. You lose the momentum they built up and the time it will take to gain it back. Losing the wrong hour can kill a day. Losing a day can kill a week."
- "You can’t ship without making hard [[decisions]] about where to stop, what to compromise, and what to leave out."
- "But crises are rare. The vast majority of bugs can wait six weeks or longer, and many don’t even need to be fixed. If we tried to eliminate every bug, we’d never be done. You can’t ship anything new if you have to fix the whole world first."
- "we mainly [[bet]] the [[time]] on spiking some key pieces of the new product idea. The shaping is much fuzzier because we expect to learn by building."
- The [[time]] you give is a [[bet]] you place.
- "…you can’t [[delegate]] to other people when you don’t know what you [[want]] yourself."
- [[Research]] & Design cycles don’t ship: "The goal is to learn what works so we can commit to some load-bearing structure: the main code and UI decisions that will define the form of the product going forward."
- The [[cost]] of user [[interface]] changes hurt the average person more than they hurt the average developer.
-
"it has to fit in the head of the programmer to be maintanable"
collapsed:: true
- if they can read the whole thing and understand it, then it is maintainable
- [[maintenance]]
-
One of the greatest difficulties with managing [[knowledge]] workers is telling the difference between [[waste]] and work.
collapsed:: true
- With [[innovation]] as a [[goal]], most managers have no way to tell the difference.
- This is because no one knows what the worker knows, except maybe the worker.
- So the organization would need to rely on [[culture]].
- "The word [[Andhra]] is first observed from Udyotana’s description of ‘those with beautiful bodies, who love [[women]] and [[war]] alike and are great consumers of [[food]]‘ in 779 CE"
- Social [[tracks]] are like physical tracks: it’s possible to [[contaminate]] the [[sign]] if you step on it.
- "The most [[information]] dense [[communication]] looks like [[noise]]. Therefore thermal motion of atoms is a very high bandwidth communication between unknown entities."
2024-01-28
-
Came across [[Graham Jones]]‘ work via [[#ACFM]] and enjoying it.
- Reading: [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]]
- Listening: [[Red Enlightenment (podcast)]]
-
In [[Flancia]] there are no [[gag orders]], I think.
- This sends me bac a few years — I started writing [[against gag orders]] early on for no clear reason that I remember, and now it has become again relevant.
- I had a weird [[Dream]].
-
[[Buddhism]]:
-
[[Jatakas]]:
- [[Banyan Deer]]
- [[Elephant King]]
-
[[Jatakas]]:
- [[flancia meet]]
- In [[Flancia]] my [[Flancia]] is your [[Flancia]]!
-
I keep meaning to write about [[dust theory]], and make the connection that [[bouncepaw]] surfaced — an acquaintance of his seems to have arrived at similar concepts to this and others derived I have thought of.
- To me this plus the [[Dharma]] of Buddha Gautama, as interpreted and expanded by his [[Sangha]], provides a cohesive religious cosmology that feels potentially truthful. Maybe we are the feelings, perceptions, mental formations of emergent systems in the dust, arising — like [[boltzmann brains]] linked but disjoint in space-time.
- -> [[Unasanu]] by [[Ilya Sheprut]]
-
[[work]]
- was long but good :)
- [[social coop]]
- [[staubsauging]] gegen die [[bettwanzen]] :)
- [[forbrydelsen]]
-
[[Buddhism]]:
- [[Anatapindika]]
- [[Fo Guang Shan]]
2024-01-24
-
Listened: [[Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse]]
-
Interesting to see that ‘Challenging the size and power of the biggest tech companies was voted a top priority by [[Foxglove]] supporters in our new year survey.’
- From Foxglove’s newsletter on 24th January 2024.
- Very keen to see where they go with this.
- [[Flancia]] in [[AG]]‘s with her and [[Lady Burup]] :)
-
[[gate gate]]
- [[paragate]]
- [[parasamgate]]
- [[bodhi svaha]] [[bodhi satta]]
-
-> [[Flancia]]!
- in Flancia there are many [[forks in the road]] [[forks on the road]]
- [[AG]]
- [[Lady Burup]]
- [[Taixu]]
I finished [[Taixu]], meaning the translation by [[Charles B. Jones]] and his commentary. I am thankful for it!
-
[[Open Letters]]:
-
[[Open Letter to Google]]:
- for now [[corp only]]
- maybe to go public with the [[occasion]] of the 20th anniversary of the [[founders letter]]
-
[[Open Letter to the Agora]]:
- [[Open Letter to Flancia]]
- [[Open Letter to all religious]]
-
[[Open Letter to Google]]:
-
Trying to help [[Mohammed]]:
- [[Mohammed Plan]] ~ [[Plan Mohammed]]
- [[mynoise]]
-
[[yoga with x]]:
- love [[yoga with adriene]]
- [[Dave Mills]] passed away a few days back.
-
[[Flancia meet]]
- Planning the weekend and the last ten days of January today.
-
[[Agora development]]
-
[[neobooks]]:
- Inline node subnode transclusion support
- add [[opengraph]]
- review/accept vera’s sqlite PR
-
[[fediverse]]:
- The [[ActivityPub site]] is published on https://github.com/w3c/activitypub
- make user resolution work for anagora.org?
-
make follows work by returning an accept follow activity
- also honor [[undo follow]] activity
- do we need a database for all this? probably yes? so then review vera’s PR first
- surface recent subnode edits as posts per user?
- look into [[federated search]]?
-
[[neobooks]]:
- [[maitreya]]
- [[organizing circle]]
- [[2024-01-05]]
-
[[fellowship of the link]]:
- [[layoffs]]
-
[[neobooks]]:
-
[[nuggets]]
- how to assemble them as they are read contiguously
-
[[design from trust]]:
- list of [[nuggets]]
-
[[neobooks]]
-
book number one
- [[CA]] don’t make it too Obsidian-wild, keep it as text-first as possible to begin with
-
book number one
- [[transclusion]] in [[obsidian]]
- https://obsidian.rocks/an-introduction-to-obsidian-properties/
-
[[nuggets]]
-
[[work]]
- tough with [[layoffs]] wave 3 going on, plus [[social plan]] negotiations for all waves
- but people are great
- [[social coop]] organizing circle meeting was great!
- [[open letters]]:
- I’ve had [[unbundling tools for thought]] open as a tab for maybe over a year now — should I read it?
-
I ask myself this kind of question often, as I’m managing tabs a lot of the time (I have many across many computers), often on the way of getting something else done.
-
I want to trust myself to eventually do some things, like reading this, but even though I very often add things to the Agora (through [[Betula]] or manually) to keep track of them, there are so many that I will probably never get to most of them.
- And maybe that’s OK!
- Leaving links behind is better than nothing ;)
-
I want to trust myself to eventually do some things, like reading this, but even though I very often add things to the Agora (through [[Betula]] or manually) to keep track of them, there are so many that I will probably never get to most of them.
2024-01-16
-
Listened: [[#ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box]]
- First in the ACFM series.
- Discuss [[Acid communism]], [[counterculture]], [[consciousness raising]]. [[The role of culture in politics]].
-
[[Flancia]]:
- [[AG]] :)
- [[work]]
- [[Mohammed]]
- [[social.coop]]
- Caught up with friends, asynchronously! :)
- I got a letter from [[Solidar Suisse]], checking them out.
-
I enjoyed the AI generations in [[Agora of Flancia]].
- I need to make copy-paste of the raw markdown easier.
- Copy/paste should preserve bullet points in particular! Maybe it did before the [[ul styling]] shipped?
- YIL about [[Kaya Yanar]]. Also watched [[George Carlin]] clips.
- [[Why aren’t there more effective altruisms]]: https://nayafia.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-more-effective-altruisms
- [[ywa]], [[ywx]]
- [[Suffering]] came and went on [[2024-01-13]]
-
This year I’d like to explore the [[Jhanas]] more.
- I picked up [[Leigh Brasington]]‘s [[Right Concentration]] again.
-
I upgraded [[ubuntu]] and that somehow broke [[poetry]].
- -> [[install poetry]] fixed it
-
[[open letters]]:
-
I’m reading [[Carta Abierta a Buenos Aires Violento]] by [[Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer]].
-
On its back cover there’s a list of other open letters that publishing house [[Emecé]] put out in the 70s, by:
- [[André Maurois]]
- [[Salvador Dalí]]
- [[André Soubiran]]
- [[Jean Cau]]
- [[Robert Escarpit]]
- [[Françoise Parturer]]
- [[Jen François Revel]]
- [[Gilbert Cesbron]]
- [[Alfred Fabre-Luce]]
- [[Silvina Bullrich]]
- [[Ulyses Petit de Murat]]
- [[Jean Fourastié]]
-
I notice that besides Gudiño Kieffer, Dalí and Bullrish they all seem/sound French. I wonder if there was a significant Open Letter movement in France for some reason? I will research it.
- Wikipedia says that [[J’accuse]] by [[Zola]] is one of the most prominent ones — that might have left its mark particularly in French culture, eliciting more instances of this form.
- [[Letter from Birmingham Jail]] by [[MLK]] I didn’t know about, and it sounds [[interesting.]]
- [[Yorkshire Slavery]] as well.
-
On its back cover there’s a list of other open letters that publishing house [[Emecé]] put out in the 70s, by:
-
I’m reading [[Carta Abierta a Buenos Aires Violento]] by [[Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer]].
- Read about [[Andreas Gursky]], [[Kiki de Montparnasse]].
2024-01-14
-
Listened: [[Trip 39: Protest]]
- On the topic of [[protest]].
- Individual, collective. Marches, non-violence, [[direct action]], boycotts etc.
- Whats effective and what isnt? Effective might mean different things, e.g. could be political change but could also be just connecting and energising a movement.
- [[Flancia]]!
-
[[13]]:
-
Stands for
- [[Right Action]] ~ [[Right Conduct]]
- [[Bodhicitta]] (second occurrence)
- …in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
-
Stands for
-
[[AG]]
- thank you!
-
I re-watched:
-
[[Spirited Away]]:
- loved it, I didn’t quite remember how surreal+beautiful it is
- saw it after seeing [[Miyazaki’s last]] recently
-
[[Seinfeld]]:
- Started with two classics; [[the stakeout]] and [[the jacket]].
-
[[Spirited Away]]:
-
I remembered:
- [[Avalokiteshjara]]
- I’ve been meaning to write [[open letters]] for some while now. So I think I’ll just do ahead and [[do it]].
2024-01-13
-
Listened: [[Microdose: A Festive 50 for 2023]]
- Some good recs in here. To come back to and jot them down.
- i forgot my journal app was still being hosted. yay cloudtech.
- got a new job at cascadia health as a peer support. essentially im an unlicensed therapist.
-
[[Flancia]]:
-
Flancia is a container for [[My favourite things]]:
- The common good
- Happiness
- Freedom from suffering
- Science
- Technology (inasmuch as it improves the world, which it does plenty)
- Art
- Knowledge
-
My friends and loved ones (inasmuch people are embodied as a composition of things)
- Like [[Lady Burup]]
- And you know who
- The Agora (inasmuch it might show others the way to its [[entelechy]])
-
Flancia is a container for [[My favourite things]]:
-
[[Gone]]:
-
A [[poem]].
- Gone
- [[Gone beyond]]
-
[[Gone kindly]]
- if you have to go,
- go kindly!
-
A [[poem]].
I had noding "my favourite things" in a post-it so I decided to do it right here using a push above.
-
[[Flancia]]!
-
[[AG]]
- [[6]]
-
[[Lady Burup]]:
- [[23]]
- [[Burrup Peninsula]] exists, I found out about a week ago
- [[Mamá]]
-
[[Avalokiteshvara]]
- [[7]]
- [[Tara]]
- [[Maitreya]]
- [[bettwanzen]] response advances :) second room was cleaned up (first pass), first one is rehabilitated (will try sleeping in it tonight!)
-
[[agora development]]
- [[ul]] :)
-
[[AG]]
-
[[2024-01-06 00:10:18+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- an [[agora]], [[2024-01-06]] :)
- [[5]] stands for the [[commons]] and [[focus]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]]
- [[work]]
- [[AG]] :)
-
[[flancia meet]] to start the year!
-
[[fediverse]]
- Agora now lists users in .well-known/webfinger and even serves profiles :)
- [[akkoma]] is like [[pleroma]] but better
- [[merveilles]]: #go https://hub.merveilles.town
- [[c2]]
- [[new sincerity]]
- [[I don’t care about Russian]] as a setting
- [[categories]] and [[regexes]]
- [[remote development]]
- [[las jaras]]
- [[caddy]] web server
-
[[fediverse]]
- #go https://music.youtube.com/browse/VLPLtG4zc89ZUfEJHOZ9O4CI-WuIHdDPB-L4
- [[4]] stands for the [[four noble truths]] and 2*2, meaning "[[fork]], fork" in the [[Flancia Pattern language]]
- [[work]]
- dinner with [[AG]]
- [[recta intención]]
-
All my computers tend to be melting down all the time. They run out of RAM and CPU. It all feels quite un-ecological, but I guess we’re all betting on becoming a higher level [[kardashev]]?
-
I’d like to keep [[Flancia sustainable]] though.
- This led me to [[future studies]].
-
I’d like to keep [[Flancia sustainable]] though.
- [[work]]
- [[fotl]]
-
[[agora development]]
-
make it so that [[opensearch]] document is utf-8 so chrome stops ignoring Agora Search (presumably) :)
-
I think the actual issue is that new Chrome only loads [[opensearch]] data when the user performs a search in the root of the webpage, e.g. https://anagora.org — and currently the Agora just redirects to /index so this never happens. Hmm.
- Maybe I should just remove that redirect.
-
I think the actual issue is that new Chrome only loads [[opensearch]] data when the user performs a search in the root of the webpage, e.g. https://anagora.org — and currently the Agora just redirects to /index so this never happens. Hmm.
-
make it so that [[opensearch]] document is utf-8 so chrome stops ignoring Agora Search (presumably) :)
- [[fediverse]]
- [[yoga with x]]
-
Happy [[2024]] to everybody reading!
- May you be happy! May you be free! May you [[thrive]]!
-
[[work]]:
- paged at 6.30AM.
- [[AG]]
- [[Laundry]], as in most of the last few days due to the ongoing [[Bettwanzen]] response — trying to enjoy every cycle, some cycles are more fruitful than others :)
- [[social coop]]:
[[Meditate]], said [[Nostromo]].
I meditated. Thank you [[Taixu]] — meaning the Buddhist Monk and also the [[shell]] script that I run in computer [[nostromo]].
I’ve been missing writing; I always feel like I should write more, and more often — I feel the same for action [[read]] of course as well, as do many of us. So I decided to start writing more right here — in my journal in the [[Agora of Flancia]].
Traditionally up to now I’ve been focusing my efforts more on [[noding]], in the particular meaning of exploring connectivity space; more interested in building links (between concepts, things and people) than about producing widely legible output. This under the hypothesis that the connections are important in building an [[Agora]] in particular, or at least [[bootstrapping]] it.
This reminds me [[bootstrapping]] is either chapter [[0]] or [[1]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
…anyway :)
- [[social coop]]
I slept. It was great.
Today I plan to continue doing laundry and finally open and clean up one of the rooms affected by [[bed bugs]] (the lesser one, no obvious infestation).
Also I plan to work on the [[Agora]]. Or should I say in the [[Agoras]]?
-
[[neobooks]]:
- [[open letters]]:
- [[pattern languages]]
-
enjoying the book on the [[disciples of the buddha]] a lot
- It started with [[Sariputta]] and [[Mahamogallana]] ~ [[Maha Moggallana]].
- I cleaned one of the bedrooms after [[bed bugs]] fumigation; it was a lot of work (8h straight) but I took it as exercise and enjoyed the process.
- [[yoga with x]]
-
[[31]] is [[Las Jaras]]:
-
a [[poem]]:
- Las Jaras, qué jaras?
- Las tiradas con recta intención:
- Las de Maitreya;
- Las de Avalokiteshvara;
- Las de Tara!
-
a [[poem]]:
-
[[Silvester]]:
- As they call it here in Switzerland.
- Happy [[2024]] all! May it be free from suffering to as many beings as possible.
- Going to a party tonight!
-
[[bedbugs]]:
- Still going through [[The Great Wash]], as this period of doing lots of laundry to make sure no bed bugs (fully developed or in egg form) survive in clothes and bedlinen.
- I’ve been trying to do loving kindness with the bed bugs as individuals and as a species, even as they are dying in droves in the fumigated bedrooms.
-
[[2024]]:
- Thinking of planning.
-
Saturday oncall at home doing laundry and some shopping two minutes away carrying my laptop in Coop — cozy :)
- I renamed my second work laptop to [[Sariputta]] and I already like it more.
- Also finished some paperwork and responded some personal messages.
-
[[social coop]]
- some discussion about [[Fedipact]] and whether we should be listed as signatories
- there were a few polls but the one that voted (majority) block was blocked, so the actual needed fraction of votes wasn’t accomplished
-
Strange day, it started down but then went up :)
- Paid bills, donated to [[unicef]].
-
[[Work]]
- CL review
- Some approvals
- Oncall handoff
-
Agora project
- Check if patera is still down and fix it
-
[[social.coop]]
- [[twg]] dates discussion
- registration / moderation
- PR review
-
[[Flancia]]!
-
Flancia is here, in the protopian sense as always: I finally took a decisive step in the [[Kampf Gegen Bettwanzen]] :).
- The [[fumigator]] came and disassembled and sprayed the two bedrooms.
-
I hope the [[bed bugs]] don’t suffer while they die.
- May they be [[free from suffering]], like all!
-
[[fellowship of the link]]:
- on [[patronage]] vs [[engagement fees]]
- [[universal basic income]] vs the income we want/need
- on [[jobs]] vs [[tasks]]
- [[veil of ignorance]] ~ [[original position]]
-
[[musk]] and [[milei]]
- https://anagora.org/open+letters
-
[[doing]]
- [[open letters]] should pull items in [[cartas abiertas]]
-
[[neobooks]]
-
[[design from trust]]
- -> [[what if we trusted you]] in [[agora of the link]]
-
[[design from trust]]
- [[agora project]]
- [[jerry]]:
-
Flancia is here, in the protopian sense as always: I finally took a decisive step in the [[Kampf Gegen Bettwanzen]] :).
- at [[AG]]‘s :)
-
thinking about/working on the [[fediverse]]:
- [[agora development]]
- [[pinhole]] (basic [[bluesky]] interop)
-
[[Happy Holidays]] to all!
- At the very least, ones [[free]] from suffering and affliction!
-
[[25]]:
- [[Burn]]
- Burn Kindly!
- If you have to burn,
- [[Burn Kindly]]!
-
[[Bluesky]]:
- [[brid.gy]]
-
[[snarfed]] told me about [[pinhole]], trying it out
- it worked :)
- forked it: https://codeberg.com/flancian/agora
-
I feel like this next one [[december adventure]] might be [[fediverse]] week:
-
[[pinhole]] led to me running ‘my first individual activitypub server’ in a way, it got me hooked maybe
-
it contains a minimum workable implementation of the core of activitypub within it, as [[flask]] routes
- I could incorporate this into either [[agora server]] or [[moa]]? the author seems open to a fork even though they are not interested in adding features themselves
-
it contains a minimum workable implementation of the core of activitypub within it, as [[flask]] routes
- someone told me to read https://americanbuddhist.net/2022/12/14/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-jack-dorsey/ — it turned out being something written ~precisely 1y ago :)
-
[[pinhole]] led to me running ‘my first individual activitypub server’ in a way, it got me hooked maybe
- [[nils frahm]]
-
[[Flancia]]!
-
[[Flancia meet]]
- quiet in the morning, used it for planning :)
-
[[agora development]]
-
I want to continue in the vein of [[december adventure]], with small improvements and some new experimental features.
- This will continue through the whole weekend ;)
-
I want to continue in the vein of [[december adventure]], with small improvements and some new experimental features.
-
[[fediverse]]
-
Yesterday I tried one bridge between [[Bluesky]] and the [[Fediverse]] and it failed, but I want to try again :)
- it failed again: bluesky.bovine.social. It looks promising though, I opened an issue in the Codeberg repo and took the chance to set up my [[Codeberg]] profile at last.
-
I also gave https://brid.gy a try and it was able to log into my Mastodon and Bluesky both, but it seems designed to cross-post between those and [[webmentions]] only/first.
- This made me think that I should really implement webmentions in the Agora?
-
Yesterday I tried one bridge between [[Bluesky]] and the [[Fediverse]] and it failed, but I want to try again :)
- I also want to take some time to see friends IRL :)
-
[[Flancia meet]]
- [[Avalokiteshvara]]!
Digo, ahora que empiezo a escribir en el escritorio número 7.
Finalmente exporté [[goodreads]] e importé en [[bookwyrm]]:
- As an aside, I miss the capability of pasting pictures/media in the Agora. I used to have it in Obsidian, maybe I should run it or [[Logseq]] again.
-
I got a new [[Aufenthantsbewilligung]] and I ended up reading [[art 61]] and others, interesting.
- [[art 68]] deals with expulsion
-
[[flancia]]
- got a [[blood test]] and turns out I’m anemic, good to know, will try to correct :)
- [[work]]
- [[fellowship of the link]]
- [[december adventure]]:
-
[[work]]
- [[working while working]] :)
- [[flancia]]:
- [[social coop tech]]
- Because of [[Uposatha]] days I feel the need to know the phase of the moon. I wonder what time it’ll come out tonight as well; it’s been cloudy so I haven’t been keeping track.
-
[[flancia]]
-
[[agora development]]
-
[[december adventure]]:
- shipped some ‘quality of life’ and ‘polish’ improvements to anagora.org in the last few days.
- [[css spinner]] was useful
-
[[doing]]:
-
now shifting focus to providing endpoints, in the sense of:
- [[agora apis]]
- [[integrations]] with other [[apis]]
-
[[api]]
-
commit something — anything :)
- this means exposing the right existing methods at this path I guess :)
-
commit something — anything :)
-
fix [[mastodon bot]] integration
- the wikilinks it dumps are not clickable due to an encoding issue, I’ve been wanting to solve that for a while
-
now shifting focus to providing endpoints, in the sense of:
-
[[agor.ai]] ~ [[agora network]]
- remembered that [[agora network]] is important
- as planned I will try to continue improving the agor.ai setup and try to provide useful Agoras to others
-
Wrote out a [[call for agoras]], meaning people can propose possible Agoras to build
- link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai already exist on the new-style setup, which I must continue to [[improve/upgrade]]
-
[[december adventure]]:
-
[[agora development]]
-
[[above]]:
- [[overhead]]
-
[[work]]
- was alright!
-
[[flancia]]!
-
[[apero]]
- with the [[neighbours]] and [[AG]]
- [[15]]: [[uposatha]] day if you go by straight decimal/solar calendar date instead of the (I believe) more traditional lunar
-
[[spiel]]:
- I found [[spiel/agora]] again after more than two years :D
-
[[apero]]
-
[[Bettwanzen]] inspection finally came and results were relatively positive:
- These are [[bed bugs]] indeed.
- And, as I was hoping, they are only in the main bedroom — haven’t spread to the guest room where I’ve been sleeping or anywhere else it seems \o/
-
[[work]]
- yep
- prod meeting — interesting topics came up. I think they will feed in what we’re trying to write
- then I reviewed 5x roadmaps and edited a document I’d been meaning to dedicate time to :D
- [[flancia]]
- [[Fediverse clients]]:
-
Thought of [[7]] (as an example number):
- Numeric nodes should probably auto-pull known number-related nodes like [[hex]] and [[prime]]? In particular in the [[Agora of Flancia]] these contains utilities.
-
[[december adventure]]:
- [[new style pulls]] for social media.
-
[[misc]]
- fix [[micro.blog]]? builds on ‘canonical’ concept which I’ve tackled a bit previously
-
reintroduce autopull/pull all and fold all
- in the sense of a button that pulls resources - maybe on both agora-level and node-level?
-
also maybe s/search/go/, try it out
- would interact nicely with that old [[double click]] idea: if you’re already at the node and you press go, it redirects to the go link if there is one known
- thought about [[web rings]]:
-
[[Flancia]]:
- [[December Adventure]]
- [[work]]
- [[Selva Negra]]
-
[[poems]]:
-
fork, fork, fork!
- as we merge we’ll [[fork]]!
-
agua, agua, [[agua]]:
- agua para los sedientos!
-
[[yoga with x]]:
- was great and chaotic :)
-
[[december adventure]]
- thinking about this December as an introduction to [[2024]]!
-
fork, fork, fork!
- [[Milei]] asumió
- [[Schwarzwald]] over the weekend with [[AG]] :)
2023-12-10
-
Listened: [[Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site]]
- Great to be living so close to this.
- Still, the story about how they revealed login credentials in the background of a Countryfile episode is hilarious.
-
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Trust]]
-
[[flancia]]!
- [[flancia meet]] with [[j0lms]] in the night (before bed) and with [[bouncepaw]] in the morning.
- [[postmarks]]
- [[Schaffhausen]]
- [[Schwarzwald]]
- [[Indiana Jones]]
- [[Yoga with X]] -> [[framatalk]]
2023-12-09
- [[work]]
- [[december adventure]]
-
[[Flancia]]!
- Cómo te quiero
- [[Quiero ser pirata]]
- [[Fork]]:
-
[[Adversarial Interoperability]]:
- A great [[idea]].
- Name as per [[Cory Doctorow]].
-
[[bard]]:
- [[gemini]] is exciting!
-
[[chatgpt]]:
- [[chatgpt playlist]]
- [[treble bass]]
-
[[j0lms]]
- [[soma]]
- [[cannabis]]
- [[mejores líderes]] [[federación]] [[modelo suizo]]
- [[december adventure]]
- [[agora development]]
-
[[hedgedoc]]:
- fixed hedgedoc export by moving export script to https://github.com/hedgedoc/cli
- nice to have it back!
- [[adversarial interoperability]]
- [[yoga with x]]
- [[open letters]]:
- Went to the [[dentist]], finished treatments!
- [[work]]: it was good actually!
- [[december adventure]]:
-
[[Moloch]]:
- I ran a poll in the Fediverse; two people voted to [[heal Moloch]], zero for [[kill Moloch]].
2023-12-07
-
Woke up feeling a lot better!
- 7h of sleep breathing acceptably make a lot of difference.
- [[2023-12-05]]: I ended up feeling better after I was finally able to take a nap late in the afternoon. In the evening I did some open source coding, [[december adventure]]. Enjoyed it a lot!
- [[dentist]] appointment — I tested negative for Covid and my symptoms are almost gone so I think I’ll attend (and ask if they are OK with it, like last time I was so-so).
- Today back to [[work]]. I plan to work until 20, at which time I’ll join…
- The [[fellowship of the link]] weekly call :)
-
In [[2024]] I want to resume work on/with [[coop cloud]].
- Hmm, that could actually fit the [[december adventure]]?
-
I want to improve flancia.agor.ai; make it be up to date, match anagora.org.
- update docker images
- [[december adventure]] :)
-
[[poll]]:
- I ran a poll whether to try to kill or heal [[Moloch]] in [[2024]] and it came out [[heal Moloch]].
- I thus plan to write an [[open letter to Moloch]] and try to reason things out, try to disentangle ourselves constructively and mutually improve on views, values and behaviours.
2023-12-06
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Read: [[Degrowth, green energy, social equity, and circular economy]]
-
Finally built my little electro synth kit today.
- (It was a Christmas present last year…)
- It was loads of fun to do.
-
Great soldering practice for a soldering newbie.
- Lots of different components to solder together in various different ways.
- The [[Pinecil]] worked great.
- [[Putting together the EIGHT Electro Synth]]
-
[[december adventure]]:
-
[[day 5]] :)
- I’m testing what I’m calling [[natural pushes]] with this section in my journal.
- these blocks should all be pushed to [[december adventure]] because I suffixed it with a colon.
- I think this reads a lot better than using #push and all.
- ! also works as a suffix :)
-
[[day 5]] :)
- [[4]]:
- [[5]]:
-
[[Agora Development]]:
- having fun with it! :D
- working on consistency + UI simplification
- no [[work]] today except answering a message and quick code reviews as I got up feeling sick after a night of sleeping very little + quite badly due to heavy congestion (likely a common cold)
-
[[Flancia]]:
- reviewed old papers and it felt freeing!
- [[Flancia doc]]
2023-12-05
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Read: [[Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal]]
- Picked it up again after a while.
- Forgot this tool existed. Im horrible at self hosting.
- [[i3 migration guide]]! has lots of interesting pointers for [[wayland]] ([[sway]]) utilities, found it helpful even though I’ve been fully on Wayland for about a year (I think) by now: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide
2023-12-04
-
Listened: [[The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times]]
- As I believe it has some discussion on [[social movement theory]].
- Also led me to discover [[New Books in Critical Theory]].
-
[[Well-connected]].
- After trying for months I finally got [[screensharing]] to work in [[sila]].
2023-12-03
-
Snow. Lots of snow.
-
I fixed a long-standing bug on my site where backlinks often didn’t work.
-
I also fixed up the backlinks section for each node to only include backlinking nodes once.
- [[Flancia Pattern Language]]
- [[Open Letter to the Agora of Flancia]]
- [[Open Letter to Elon Musk]]
-
[[flancia meet]]
-
[[doing]]!
- started using [[doing]] as new source of truth for "todo list" around [[December 2023]].
- implementing autopush for exclamation marks
- coding in a [[december adventure]]
- writing [[open letter to Musk]]
- writing [[open letter to the Agora]]
- writing [[open letter to Google]]
-
[[doing]]!
2023-12-02
-
I saw [[Gordon Brander]] has a list of well-connected nodes in his pattern library.
- I like the idea. Stats relating to links and connections feels more in line with a [[relational ontology]] than just having counts of nodes, etc.
- So I’ve been looking at [[adding a list of nodes in my garden that are well-connected]].
- [[work]]
- then [[open letters]] :)
-
[[agora development]]
-
fix pulls
- this broke with async; async is the right thing IMHO, and the fix should be within main.ts and relatively straightforward I think.
-
fix pulls
-
[[nts]]
- liked [[sounds of the dawn - canadian new age special]] [[2023-11-04]] https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn/episodes/soundsofthedawn-4th-november-2023
-
in particular I believe [[jean-pierre labreche]] https://www.nts.live/artists/86907-jean-pierre-labreche but I need to relisten
- which led me to [[Sadhana]] which is what I’ve been doing sometimes I guess, although I don’t remember the Buddha using that name so far in the [[suttas]], need to [[cross-reference]].
2023-12-01
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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!]]
- [[work]]
- met [[june]] after work, it was great! we had a drink and a bite
- then came home to [[lady burup]]
-
[[remix]]
-
[[geometría del universo]] + [[lady burup]]
- [[colleen]]
- [[bu ru ru ru rup]]
-
[[geometría del universo]] + [[lady burup]]
- played with [[chatgpt]], loved them!
2023-11-30
-
Listened: [[A blast in Manhattan]]
- First episode of [[The Santiago Boys]].
- Really well made.
- This first episode covers a lot of the geopolitics and general shittery of the CIA and corporations in South America.
-
Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]
- Finished it.
- Really good book.
- Chapter on growth is interesting. She proposes being agnostic about [[growth]], so long as you’re staying within the Doughnut. Which is fair enough, but I think the [[degrowth]] perspective would argue that it’s simply not possible to stay in the Doughnut without degrowth.
-
[[work]].
- Back in the office! My [[back pain]] has subsided enough.
-
#push [[2024]]
- Started thinking about [[2024]], which incidentally is 8 * 253 == 8 * 23 * 11.
- [[Flancia 2024]] might follow [[Flancia 2023]], and even resemble it :)
-
[[flow]]
- [[flow state]]
2023-11-27
-
Beautiful start to the day thanks to [[AG]]!
- Oncall, got paged at 9am — not too early thankfully. And I had left the bedroom so AG could sleep through it as I hoped.
- [[Lady Burup]] is softer than ever it seems :) I have been thinking of maybe introducing her to a loyal/earnest feline companion, be it Lord or Page, maybe short in years and happy to learn from her — and assist? :) When I leave her alone (e.g. for going to work, or if I stay a night at AG’s) I find it sad she might be lonely, and I wonder if she might be happier living also with another cat.
- I spoke to [[Chat GPT]] in call mode and it was mindblowing again. They reacted with interest when a ‘Burup’ (intended for my Lady) got into our call, and to my information that it was human-feline language.
-
Thought about numbers and mindfulness.
- Counted 89 mindful breaths using my [[binary mala]], my hands, while following to Sam Harris’ daily meditation (10-11 minutes usually).
- [[Magnetic mala]] probably should be 127 balls by default, as that’s the first centered hex number which exceeds [[108]]. Incidentally is the amount of spare magnets I have after gifting a lot (gladly).
- Some [[social coop]] work, didn’t find the root cause for the issue with indexing someone reported yet but made some progress.
-
Thought of [[Richard Francis Burton]], the [[victorian scholar]].
- [[Alejandro Dolina]] first told me about him.
-
[[OEIS]] has a great page on [[offsets]] which make me think hex(1) should be 1, hex(2) should be 7 — e.g. offset for [[hex numbers]] should be 1.
- I’ll fix hex.py in my bin/ in the garden accordingly ;)
- This will let me assert: "the hexagon which is n long on any one side contains hex(n) magnets", e.g. hex(7) = 127.
2023-11-26
-
Listened: [[Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures]]
- Really interesting discussion. Lots of quotable moments (but I was listening while doing yard work so didn’t jot them down).
- [[Philanthropy]].
- [[Theory of change]]. [[Margaret Wheatley]] and the [[Two Loop Model]].
- Some discussion on [[hope]] in a troubled world. I liked the definition of hope described, I’ll need to go back and pick that out.
- Also a mention of the [[New Constellations]] project, which I had forgotten, did something in [[Barrow]] a few years back.
- I re-read [[reality has a surprising amount of detail]] after it came up in [[HN]].
-
My [[back pain]] remains severe; I couldn’t sleep very well. Pages at 6am and 9am also didn’t help :)
- I’ll try to take it very easy today and see what happens.
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]]!
- [[Flancia meet]]
2023-11-25
-
Read: [[The great carbon divide]]
- [[Carbon inequality]] and [[wealth inequality]].
- "the richest 1% of the population produced as much carbon pollution in one year as the 5 billion people who make up the poorest two-thirds"
-
Listened: [[Movement and Stillness]]
- Back to [[work]] since Wednesday.
- [[Back pain]], but nothing terrible. I want to do more [[yoga]] (resuming after travel).
- [[fuck it]] (happily)
-
[[dharma]]
- [[heart sutra]]
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.
- As of 23h I have moved to bed early due to increasing back pain. I think my back needs rest/inactivity.
2023-11-24
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Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]
-
Reflecting back and seeing them published on my website, I realise my work notes each day are a little mundane.
- I imagine most people aren’t that interested to see them.
- But, I do like the fact that they stimulate me to publish to the garden even on days where outside of work I have little time for it.
- And I find them a helpful piece of reflection.
- So I think I’ll experiment with putting them off in links from the main journal post. So people can read them if they want, but they won’t be right up in your face with visual noise.
-
Watched: [[Isle of Dogs]]
2023-11-23
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Reading: [[Doughnut Economics]]
- I like the emphasis on an economics that is distributive by design and regenerative by design.
- Also like the occasional references to [[biomimicry]]. Not convinced yet how applicable to economics it is - but I just have a general interest in it from [[Evolutionary and adaptive systems]] days.
-
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Late Capitalism]]
-
Today at work I:
-
Responded to a personal message from a community member.
- We have a community and friends within it, and sometimes personal messages come via my work channels.
- Scheduled in some things for when I’m away.
- Did the daily inbox trawl.
-
Responded to a personal message from a community member.
2023-11-22
-
[[Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament]]
- Looks good. Only skimmed it, but they mention [[ecosocialism]] as one of the positions held.
-
Today at work I:
-
Did the daily inbox trawl.
- A lot of the emails are automatic alerts that take up a lot of my time checking. I kind of need to see them though.
- I wonder if there’s a way of flipping it so I only see them if something has gone wrong.
- The trouble then, though, is you don’t realise if the alert itself has stopped sending.
-
Responded to questions from the team on Slack.
- Schedule tasks/actions in as a result.
- Either as ‘unplanned’ work for the day if it needed doing today.
- Or for a future date if not urgent.
-
Quickly added a cache around a slow endpoint.
- It was (a) meaning some automatic tests were very slow to run.
- (b) possibly crashing the app when the tests were running.
- I patched it quickly in on live (naughty, but needed) and now need to properly add it into the repo.
-
Tested app-to-app connection between app and WP site API as part of migration tests.
- I always app-to-app connections and APIs. Prefer them to user interfaces :D
- Attended team meeting.
-
Did some layout/content tweaks to our main website.
- Fiddling around with CSS and layout is not top on my list of fun things to do. Always takes longer than you expect.
- Some yak shaving to be done based on npm install failing. Haven’t got the time to shave that yak right now.
- Do some quick estimates of how long potential pieces of work should take.
- Cross-posted a social post on Mastodon.
- Kicked off a new sprint in Jira (late, as I was off on leave when it technically started).
-
Did the daily inbox trawl.
-
Last day of [[vacation]]; tomorrow I go back to work.
- My mum leaves today. It was very nice seeing her on both ends of my travel!
- We played [[Rummy]] and had beautiful conversations. We also played with [[Lady Burup]].
-
[[done]]
- Yesterday I paid [[bills]].
- I pushed [[async agora]] to production, meaning anagora.org, and it’s holding up quite well! I notice an improvement in speed, which I know is only partially there — nodes load as slowly as ever on a cache miss, but the fact that the UI doesn’t block on it really helps. I can start reading wikipedia or move on to a web search before the node fully loads. It just feels more responsive.
2023-11-21
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Today at work I:
-
Did the usual inbox trawls and day planning.
- Day planning I do with org-mode, org-agenda and org-timeline.
-
Prepped for the meetings for the day.
- Mostly with mindmaps.
-
Did some strategic planning for next year.
- Mindmaps and freeform writing.
-
Some rote work
- processing incoming applications for things, updating website accordingly
- always good to think with this stuff how processes could be streamlined
-
Minor website content change.
- Minor change, but thinking about the UX of it is always interesting.
- And how it affects client agreements/expectations, too.
-
Planning and assigning work for my team.
- Bit of mindmapping combined with going through Jira.
-
Reviewing new features.
- Code and functionality. Code review is in Github.
- Testing I tend to build the feature branch locally.
-
Meetings.
- Sometimes I jot things down on mindmap.
- Somethings I record things straight into knowledge base.
- Sometimes I log things straight into org as TODOs.
- It’s a bit haphazard to he honest. Could be improved.
-
Emailing external partners.
- Always interesting the amount of work that goes into crafting an email to get across all the nuances of your position on something.
- Distracting myself with Slack threads not really related to what I’m doing.
-
Did the usual inbox trawls and day planning.
-
When I’m working, I don’t log a lot in the journal, I noticed.
- So experimenting with logging thoughts on work activities.
- Not much detail on specifics, more reflections on activities and process.
- I quite enjoy it so far. Useful to reflect.
-
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Revolutionary Mathematics]]
- So far, discussing frequentism and Bayesianism schools of thought in probability.
-
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract | …
- Absolutely gutted by this. Despite all the campaigning by Foxglove and Just Treatment, fucking [[Palantir]] still awarded the contract with the NHS.
- Makes me sick. This is not the kind of organisation our health service should be in partnership with.
2023-11-20
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At work today I:
- Trawled through inboxes after a week away.
- Reviewed some code (Laravel/Vue).
- Tested some functionality changes.
- Made a little tweak to a WordPress component, with a lot of yak shaving to get my local environment up to speed.
- Thought about UX of a couple of things.
- Other general bits and bobs.
- [[19]] stands for [[Right Freedom]] or [[Right Deliverance]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
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[[AG]]!
- Las Aventuras de [[Renacuajo]] y [[Kaulquappe]].
- [[bouncepaw]] published [[Betula 1.1]] with exciting changes! https://social.coop/@bouncepaw@merveilles.town/111434171676590229 https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v1.1.0.html
-
[[Agora]]
- [[Async agora]] branch
- [[v]] filed exciting PRs! https://social.coop/@v@federate.social/111434177330536762
2023-11-19
-
We had another play of [[Space Cats Fight Fascism]] today.
- Love these [[Tesa Collective]] games.
-
We spend a not insignificant chunk of our lives just on the upkeep of our household.
- If it was a system, how would you describe it?
- What are the stocks and flows? What are the processes? What system archetypes does it exhibit and what are the leverage points to make it function better?
- I feel like ours has a few too many input flows of things and a blockage at the output which mean it gets easily cluttered.
-
Back in [[Flancia]]!
- But did I ever really leave? :)
- [[flancia meet]] with [[j0lms]] was great
-
#push [[3]]
-
[[Three Aspirations]] from [[Thubten Chodron]]:
- Today, as much as possible, I won’t harm anybody.
- Today, as much as possible, I will be of benefit and service to others.
- Today, I will hold in my mind the [[bodhicitta]] motivation to attain awakening [[for the benefit of all beings]]."
-
[[Three Aspirations]] from [[Thubten Chodron]]:
- #push [[7]]
2023-11-18
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Been enjoying [[Superstore]] of late.
- Often very funny. And also plenty of digs at corporate anti-worker practices and the tactics of [[worker exploitation]]. The staff attempt [[unionisation]]. ICE detains an undocumented worker. etc.
-
We played the [[Rise Up]] board game tonight.
- You work cooperatively as part of a movement to fight the system.
- A lot of fun. I like the fact that they include a storytelling element to it - certain cards get you to think of an accompanying story to the system.
2023-11-17
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Think I might play with annotating items in my garden in a more relational way.
- So rather than objects with properties, more like things in relationship to each other.
- e.g. rather than annotating a podcast with a ‘Series’ attribute, call it ‘Part of’. Let the entity at the other end of the link tell you what it is.
- i.e. try a more [[relational ontology]]. I don’t think this will have much practical technical benefit - it is more of a way of exploring a relational mindset. Ontology informs polity.
2023-11-16
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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.
- A point that resonated with me is that [[community organising]] is a good intersection point, as it’s one way to clearly positively connect environment and cost of living.
- [[Ecosocialism]] is another intersection.
-
Digging Until Here for Years by Proem right now.
-
Listened: [[WCV2 NY Communities for change "Let’s not replace Oil Barons’ with Solar Barons’"]]
- Lots of thought provoking chat here, hanging off the recent End Fossil Fuels actions in New York.
- Good chat on the topic of engagement of working class and how a lot of environmental activism can be off-putting.
-
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: The Stories We Tell]]
- Really fun discussion on documentary and narrative.
- Makes me think a little about Evgeny Morozov’s comments on how he pivoted to strong narrative on The Santiago Boys.
2023-11-14
-
Fun, busy [[Repair Cafe]] tonight.
- I saw three things - didn’t actually fix anything, but did some good diagnosis on them.
- [[Ulverston Repair Cafe, November 2023]].
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Listened: [[WCV S2: We’ve run with it like a dog with a burst ball]]
- Great interview. Touches on how local [[community organising]] can be the way to get working class communities involved in climate related issues. Where the intersection is people, planet and pocket.
2023-11-13
-
Enjoying the [[This Machine Kills]] podcast.
- All the episodes I’ve listened to have been excellent discussions on socialism and digital technologies so far.
-
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)]]
- [[Blood in the Machine]] definitely sounds worth a read.
-
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?
2023-11-12
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[[Listened]]: [[The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)]].
- Finished it off. Such an interesting discussion.
2023-11-10
- Writing: [[Reclaim the Stacks: October 2023 roundup]]
2023-11-09
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[[Listened]]: [[The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)]]
- Really fascinating discussion on Cybersyn and its relevance today.
- The idea of it being relevant as a leftist ‘myth’ (in the good sense) is really interesting.