2024-04-19

• [[Replacing Google Fonts usage with locally-served font]]
  • [[What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?]]

• 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!
• [[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 pull. Hopefully it’s more cogent and informative without being overwhelming. But you tell me :)
  • [[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 :).
• [[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!
  • Maybe I should write a belated update in https://flancia.org pull 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

• 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…

2024-04-17

• [[Listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]]

• [[Listened]] to [[Is the Middle East on the brink?]]

2024-04-16

• [[Shells]].

  • Bash vs Fish vs Zsh vs Nushell? | Lobsters

• Listened to [[Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”]]

  • About Israel’s AI targeting system, "[[Lavender]]".

• Read: [[Emacs: Dead and Loving It]]

  • "What is dead cannot die"
  • [[Emacs]]

• Working on some improvements to the look and feel of my writing mode that I use when in org-roam.for Emacs.

  • [[Improving my Emacs writing mode]]

2024-04-15

• 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]]

2024-04-14

• 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?

• [[Listened]] to [[Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism]]

  • LLMs. AGI. Political economy of AI. Neo-Luddism. [[Left spirituality]]. Fun wide ranging discussion.

• [[Habitat loss]].

  • One of the most significant threats to [[biodiversity]].

• [[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.