2026-04-03

• [[Read]]:
  • [[Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes]]
    • On crafting [[main note]]s in [[zettelkasten]].
    • The description of different types of information is very interesting.
    • As a way of avoiding calling every main note a ‘claim’ - which is kind of what I’ve been doing, insofar as I’ve been doing zettelkasten.

2026-04-02

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
    • "The “[[Germany Stack]]” is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination with European partners and to be implemented entirely as [[Free Software]], since only the four freedoms enable [[digital sovereignty]]."
  • Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
    • "we’ll zoom in on the [[main note]] itself: a brief look at its components, followed by thoughts on how to craft the primary unit of information it contains, and how to reinforce it with additional information"

• I am doing a bit of a rejig to my site.

  • I’m deprecating the WordPress side of things and moving those bits to Emacs/org.
  • WordPress has served me very well for the ‘stream’ side of my online presence in the past, but I don’t have the time or need to use WordPress right now.
  • So I’ve set https://doubleloop.net to currently redirect straight to https://commonplace.doubleloop.net.
  • Commonplace I’ve always referred to as my digital garden, but it also contains elements of the stream, and long-form articles, within it.
  • I’ll make those a bit more easily discoverable.

2026-03-30

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The state of Right to Repair in 2026 (and a recap of our work last year)]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Beyond Capitalism]]

2026-03-29

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Is capitalism dead?]]:
    • About [[the end of capitalism]].
    • Unfortunately, it’s all about the end of capitalism in the bad sense - of it being replaced with something worse.
    • Surveys [[McKenzie Wark]] and [[Capital is Dead]], Varoufakis and [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]], Mason and [[Post-capitalism]].
    • Also [[Wolfgang Streeck]] and [[Richard Westra]] and [[Karen Hao]] who I had not come across before.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The rise of end times fascism
    • "The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them"
    • [[Is capitalism dead?]]

• Wrote:

  • Going to start writing latest [[Emacs Carnival]] post today.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions]]

• Seen a couple mentions of [[Readeck]] lately.

  • Someone recommending it over [[Wallabag]].

2026-03-28

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Think You’re Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
    • "a tool to help organizations figure out where they stand when it comes to [[digital sovereignty]]."
    • It’s Foss newsletter
  • Is capitalism dead?
    • "it is now easier to imagine [[the end of capitalism]] than the end of the world"
  • Digital Colonialism, Ecological Crisis and the Limits of Techno-Primitivism
    • "examines the intertwined dynamics of [[ecological crisis]], [[digitalisation]], and [[techno-primitivism]] through a genealogical and syncretic lens."
    • [[tripleC]] mailing list

2026-03-27

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
    • "how infighting has ripped [[the left]] apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide"
    • The Guardian newsletter
  • What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
    • "Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort"
  • modal.cx
    • "Modal is a new independent collective Building [[emancipatory software]] for an uncertain world"
• I wonder whether I should use for example Betula for my bookmarks.
  • Maybe, maybe not. I’ll think about what the benefits might be.
  • But I’m fine with them living messily in my garden for now.

• [[Straight as an arrow]] -> [[Straight like an arrow]]

2026-03-25

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • A World First: Community Wealth Building legislation in Scotland
    • "The [[Community wealth building]] agenda in Scotland might be growing, but incoming legislation will solidify gains and ensure that activity is not done in isolation"
    • web search
  • The Library of Things Toolkit (2.0)
    • "This expanded guide will help you plan, start, and grow a [[Library of Things]] in your community."
    • [[Shareable]] newsletter

• [[Systemic change is a combination of reformist, alternative-building and revolutionary logics]].

• I met [[Aaron]], [[Jonas]].
• I met [[Marlon]] for the first time.
• I met [[Tim]] on the rooftop!

2026-03-21

• [[Listened]]: [[Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance]]
  • The book sounds like a great contribution - very hands on ideas and practice for transition from people who fully understand the bigger picture.
  • Plenty of [[commoning]] talk and I’m happy that all the to see the [[commons-public partnerships]] stuff from [[Free, Fair and Alive]] and [[DisCO]]s here in another light.

2026-03-20

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Popular Protagonism in Venezuela’s Transition to Socialism: A Conversation with Michael Liebowitz
    • "[[socialism]] involves people transforming themselves"
    • search for [[popular protagonism]]

2026-03-19

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[ACFM Microdose: The Green Party]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance]]

• [[Work]] is… tough but interesting/exciting/interesting?
  • This applies to the node as well, in particular its [[Agora context]].
  • Which reminds me I wanted to rename [[Full search]] -> [[Agora search]] in the UI :)
    • And led me to do some work on demo mode plus onboardig experience with Gemini :)

• We went to the [[Velobörse]] with [[KM]] and we got a nice bike for a good price! It was great.
  • It was quite cold and rainy and we felt so-so physically at several times in the day but it’s been a beautiful weekend so far!
  • We reunited with [[Lady Burup]] around 2PM.
• I did some work for G, sending out a document for review, and it felt great.

2026-03-14

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

2026-03-13

• [[Bookmarked]]:

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

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

• Get back to Neil more on the order of pushes!
• Meet [[VK]] and [[SZ]] after work :)

2026-03-11

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

2026-03-10

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

2026-03-09

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

• Great Saturday!
• We had a great morning and went to the gym with [[KM]] and then I took a nap with [[Lady Burup]] and met [[VK]], then…
• I met [[Claudia]] and [[Andreas]] at [[KM]]‘s home for dinner and then we went to their flat and to [[ZW]], it was great.
• I also found a note of interest in [[ZW]], and when I turned it around I found:
  • [[Urs + Miranda]]
  • [[Gaudi Labs]]
• [[Agora demo]] :)

2026-03-08

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

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

• [[Bookmarked]]:

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

2026-03-07

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

2026-03-06

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

• "[[I’m just a curious guy]]…"

2026-03-04

• [[Listened]]:

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

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Beyond Capitalism
    • "If there is ever to be a left break beyond the current political impasse—the liberal-capitalist establishment locked in a wrestler’s embrace with the ultra-capitalist right—it will ultimately require the elaboration of an economic system [[beyond capitalism]] itself."
    • [[This Machine Kills]]

2026-03-03

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

2026-03-01

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

• Of any assertion, it can be asked: is it
  • [[True to self]]?
    • Which self?

2026-02-28

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

2026-02-27

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

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

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

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

• Trying out Vulpea.

The things you don't write are left unwritten
The things you don't say, unsaid
The things you don't show, unseen

For how long, maybe?
Until when?

• We had such a beautiful day with [[KM]]! And [[Lady Burup]].
• We went to the gym together for the first time in the morning, and then did a great walk through Zürich hopping from coffee place to coffee place and enjoying the [[sunshine]].
• Yesterday: [[2026-02-23]]

Algún día, algún día
Algún día haremos la revolución
Pero si no ahora, cuándo?

The things you don't say are left unsaid
The things you don't write unwritten
Until one day, maybe?

Las cosas que vimos:
Sucederán, sucederán…

Lo que dijimos:
Sucederá, sucederá…

Las jaras!
Las jaras, qué jaras?

Las de Avalokiteshvara
Las de Maitreya
Y Tara...

Tare tuttare ture
Tuttare tuttare ture
Soha

2026-02-23

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

2026-02-22

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

2026-02-14

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

• [[stony caramel]]

• Noding this in my new laptop [[avalokiteshvara]] while visiting [[ZWZ]] :)
  • Last visit before going on a trip, likely starting on Tuesday night.
• Earlier this weekend I spent time with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and it was wonderful, even though I woke up with a headache (hopefully the last in this cluster) on Saturday morning.

• 7 ~ [[Avalokiteshvara]] in the [[Flancia]] pattern language :)
• Had a great day with [[KM]]! Despite sleeping little and waking up with a strong headache again — unsure at this point if it’s viral or what is called a [[cluster headache]].
• [[Züriberg]]
• [[Intuit]]
• [[Fondue]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Oh fuck]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Work]] was interesting despite being still half sick.
• [[Social.coop]] was great, we finally shipped [[1k characters limit]] after long! \o/
• [[Collected Poetry]] after long!

• Back noding!
  • I’m writing this in [[Bitwäscherei]]. The [[Agora]] is being demoed live for the first time! And I’ve met lots of cool people as usual :)
  • I spent Friday and Saturday with [[KM]] and it was great despite our health not being tip top at times :)
  • I feel more than lucky; right now, [[blessed]].
• Work has been fine actually; I was oncall this week and was sick two days but I pushed through and felt quite at ease despite sleeping too little.
• [[Las Jaras]] was special as expected!
  • I threw [[7]] * [[2^9]] over five dice, notable.
  • [[2063]] made an appearance
  • I ran [[collect]] after planning to for long and it felt cathartic! The [[chaos stack]] which was a bunch of literal back of the envelopes going back to 2024 was reviewed/distilled into a notebook and thus can be put away (or, as indicated in some of the envelopes as intention, [[burnt]].)
• Came after [[2026-01-31]]
• Saw [[Koch]]! And [[Aaron]] and many others.
• [[return]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQIxUfYw98
  • maybe during the week with [[KM]]? :)

• [[Las Jaras]]!
  • We were not completely healthy, [[KM]] and me currently, but I enjoyed living these days together!
  • I was home until midnight with [[KM]] (who went home in the afternoon) and [[Lady Burup]] and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and I loved it.
  • I ran some [[collect]] I had planned for long (more about this tomorrow…).
  • I updated the [[moodboard]].
  • And coded and enjoyed!

2026-01-31

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

  • Last day to submit!

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

• Back to noding!
• Fixed a security vulnerability (to spam) in the Agora.

2026-01-17

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

• I met [[Omega Attraktor]] again today in [[ZW]]! Nice to see them, looking forward to listening to their music.
• Work after the break started fine actually, even though today I didn’t sleep that well for some reason I still had enough energy to go through the first meeting-packed day.

• Noding, #noding, [[noding]]…
  • I don’t know precisely how well the streak is going but I’m happy to be back noding at least a bit every day, most days :)

• Personal life is going beautifully, there was a small setback with a health issue affecting a loved one but things are looking up now!
• My trip to [[Napoli]] with friends was amazing.
• It was beautiful to be reunited with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]!
• I found [[I don’t want my tool to tell me how to think]] very interesting, thank you [[@scalingsynthesis]]!
  • It also inspired me to fix some longstanding Agora bugs with [[canonical wikilinks]] (what we render in [[Agora Server]]…

• Will try to keep up the streak :)
• Saw [[KM]] after the trip and it was lovely! Unfortunately she’s been sick but now feeling better.
• I did [[Return]] day 1 as starting practice for the year and it was great.

• Back home!
• And back journaling, I will try to start a one week streak today :)
• [[Napoli]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[Experimentos]]

2026-01-03

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

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

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

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

• Happy new year to all!
• Started the year with friends and loved ones at home; then saw fireworks together from [[Kaferberg]]; then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and greeted cool and interesting people.

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

2025-12-31

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