• The #revolution started today!
  • Like every day :)
  • I think [[ActivityPub]] is actually rather important; the Agora should publish (before it does anything else) nodes
    • (as users? or too confusing? hmm)
  • We will do the revolution together, my [[friend]], if you want to.
• The 31st of any month is [[Las Jaras]]!
  • (In the [[Flancia Pattern language]] and the associated calendar..)

2025-05-31

• [[Capitalism creates and shapes desires]].

• [[Capitalism tends towards the commodification of everything]].

• Jammed: Pretty in Plums by Shida Shahabi

2025-05-30

• Read: [[Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism]]

  • [[The desire for new things is essential to the continuation of the capitalist system]].
  • [[Commodity fetishism disconnects us from where objects come from]].
  • [[Repair reconnects us to the materiality of objects]].
  • [[When we repair something, we think about its history and provenance]].
  • [[Repair undercuts commodity fetishism]].
  • [[Repair is anti-capitalist praxis]].

• Bookmarked:

  • Fixing as Repair – Fixing Futures
    • tags: [[Repair]].

• [[compost.party]] is fun.

  • A website running on solar power on an old phone.

2025-05-29

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism
    • h/t: [[Panda]].
    • tags: [[Repair]]. [[Marxism]]. [[Commodity fetishism]].
  • Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
    • tags: [[AI]].
  • Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth
  • The Home Office’s new "ChatGPT-style" LLM tool is riddled with mistakes that could mean life or death for people seeking asylum - Foxglove
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[LLM]]s.
  • Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
    • tags: [[Capitalism]]. [[Democracy]].
  • OpenAI explores platform to rival X, following $40B funding round
    • tags: [[Platform capitalism]].
    • See the point from Nick Srnicek about platforms all converging towards each other…
  • International Civil Society’s Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger
    • tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Reclaim the stacks]].
  • Criminal Court: Microsoft’s email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty
    • tags: [[Microsoft]]. [[Digital sovereignty]].
  • Negatechnology | POST GROWTH TOOLKIT
    • h/t [[Panda]].
  • We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard….
    • tags: [[AI]].
  • Livin’ on repair: The workshops, garages and cafes of Berlin’s thriving DIY s…
    • tags: [[Repair]]. [[Berlin]].
  • Apple launches Self Service Repair for iPad, expands repair programs - Apple
    • tags: [[Apple]]. [[Repair]].

2025-05-28

• In the latest episode of ‘Neil tries to update something related to Emacs’ (see [[2025-05-27]]):

  • I thought that I might be able to process org-roam.db on my laptop, as that is faster, and then sync it to my phone.
  • Two problems: firstly, it doesn’t work. Not sure why but it must be checking something else other than version to check whether it needs processing. Secondly: the DB contains links to file locations, which are different between devices. So, ultimately a no go anyway.
  • Ho hum. I’ll need to think of a way of doing a full update of org-roam.db on my phone somehow without it taking an eternity / bombing out.
  • At least I have an updated Emacs on my laptop!

• Later: I fixed it by moving the files out of the org-roam dir for the project, then moving them back in and processing then in batches of 1000 at a time.

  • Still took ages, but didn’t crash and I just let each batch run while getting on with something else.
  • I also learned that the slowness is probably down to me having the files on the shared storage rather than on termux’s home. See e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2174

• Going to start moving some repos from Github and Gitlab to [[Codeberg]].

• [[Four in five Britons want the government to do more to support repair]].

• Found out about [[flow launcher]] after seeing it on a [[komorebi]] tutorial
  • Makes tilling window managing on windows actually feasable [[?]]
• Read about the [[monist league]]
  • [[article]] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364958294_Monism_and_the_Religion_of_Science_How_a_German_New_Religious_Movement_Birthed_American_Academic_Philosophy
• Watched a [[robert brandom]] lecture about [[idealism]] and [[pragmatism]] from 2015
  • [[youtube]] https://youtu.be/xe-QlUglr0g&t=1783 ¹

2025-05-27

• Liking [[elfeed]] so far.

  • A bit more setup to do though. [[Setting up elfeed]].

• Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/

• As part of the above saga of updates, I will now endeavour to update org-roam to 2.3.0 on spacemacs on my laptop.

  • That will involve updating packages.

• Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/

  • That means I should probably also update spacemacs itself.
  • One or both of those will probably break something.
  • Yeah, already failing when trying to update packages. Sigh. Try to update spacemacs first then.
  • Now: error message that I need at least emacs 28.2. I’m on 28.1. Sigh.
  • Tried it from flatpak. That still doesn’t work.
  • I’m going to try building from source. That worked once before…
  • OK, it wasn’t that bad to be honest. The compilation, at least. Took about 10/15 minutes?
  • Now installing 305 packages… annoyingly you can’t just leave it unattended, as occassionally it asks to compile something.
  • Miraculously, that seems to have worked!

• I should find out if there’s a way of pinning packages to particular versions in both Doom and spacemacs, so that:

  • (a) I can make sure they don’t randomly update and break at a time when I don’t have time to do anything about it.
  • (b) I can make sure they’re always on the same version between mobile and laptop.

2025-05-26

• I am [[setting up elfeed]].

  • With it I can manage my feeds in an org file, view them in Emacs, and sync the status between devices with syncthing.
  • Now that some interesting people have moved from X to BlueSky, I can use the BlueSky RSS feeds to follow them.
  • elfeed-org makes it easy to add feeds and organise them. I’m trying Ton’s way of organising feeds to begin.

• All good. But, I had to upgrade Doom. Which upgraded org-roam. Which meant the org-roam DB needed upgrading. Which takes an eternity on my phone. So it’s effectively broken for me until I can solve that. Great.

2025-05-25

• Trying out [[using filetags for marking nodes in org-roam as Zettelkasten main notes]].

  • My org-roam garden is a bit of everything, not only what you’d call Zettelkasten notes.
  • Perhaps not good practice - I don’t know. But it is what it is.
  • It’s useful at times to search only for main notes. filetags will let me do that.

• Interesting to see some [[org-roam]]-likes keeping the idea alive (and making it faster): https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/rg-roam-minimal-org-roam-with-zero-config-no-sql-depends-only-on-ripgrep/3803/2

  • org-node, orgrr, and org-mem all look useful.
  • Yet, what’s this, I also see the first new release of org-roam in 3 years, too: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/releases/tag/v2.3.0
  • Interesting! Not sure when I’ll have time to do anything about any of this. Hopefully I’ll be able to update to 2.3.0 with minimal disruption.

• Switched to [[obsidian]] for noding purposes
• Reminded of journaling by way of watching a [[vlog]] of all things
  • Writing is very deliberate, it requires practice
  • I always circle around to wanting to cultivate this
  • What [[basho]] would think of digital gardens, maybe
    • https://www.carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/172

2025-05-24

• Very excited to learn of the [[Digital Degrowth]] book by Michael Kwet (author of [[Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the power of Big Tech]]).

• Also excited to learn that [[Kai Heron]] and [[Keir Milburn]] and [[Bertie Russell]] have co-authored a book: [[Radical Abundance]]: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.

• [[Listened]]: [[ACFM Trip 48: Political Commitment]]

2025-05-23

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Review of The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
    • tags: [[Paris Commune]]. [[Communes]].
  • Review of Josh Simons’ Book "Algorithms for the People – Democracy in the Age of AI"
    • tags: [[digital ecosocialism]]. [[AI]]. [[Algorithms]].
  • Beyond the New Municipalism: Towards Post‐Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe
    • tags: [[new municipalism]]. [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Territorial sovereignty]].
  • Techno-feudalism or Platform Capitalism? Conceptualising the Digital Society
    • tags: [[platform capitalism]]. [[technofeudalism]].

• Read: [[Another Now]]

  • Hmm, take back my original comment a bit (see [[2025-05-18]]).
  • It’s taken a turn into pretty dry dialogue as a vehicle for exposition of the ideas. Earlier on it felt a bit more… dynamic.
  • Still, the ideas are interesting nonetheless.

• Read: [[Techno-feudalism or Platform Capitalism? Conceptualising the Digital Society]]

  • Good look at various claims that current Big Tech platforms have ‘killed’ capitalism and turned it into something worse ([[technofeudalism]], [[vectoralism]], etc).
  • [[Jeremy Gilbert]]‘s opinion is no, it’s still capitalism, rather a new ‘[[regime of accumulation]]‘ - i.e. [[platform capitalism]].
  • Fine. But it all strikes me as a bit internal nitpicking. Does it actually help us do anything about it?
  • I think the argument would be, yes, you kind of need to understand precisely what it is in order to counter it.
  • Maybe.

• [[Fordism]]. [[Post-Fordism]].

• Today was a good day!
  • Lots happened at work, some of which I dreaded to some small degree without noticing it, most of which went fine and some of which I enjoyed.
  • And then the evening back home with [[Lady Burup]] was beautiful.
• Did [[paperwork]] for the divorce and such, which felt freeing.
• In the morning I met [[Eduardo Alberto]] who will do a deep cleaning of my home soon; it’s the first time since I move (I self-clean, and I’m a pretty good "Pareto" cleaner, but don’t do deep very well).
• I thought of:
  • [[magnets]] and [[angular momentum]]
  • [[Open Letter to Lex Fridman]]
    • motivated by his (to me overdue) conversation with [[Max Tegmark]], who I realized today is very aware about [[Moloch]]!
  • [[Open letters]] in general:
    • I’ve decided, or realized (or both), that one of the reasons I tend to under perform when writing letters is… because I don’t dedicate enough time to it, as in actually planning for it and making time.
    • I decided to set a "soft deadline" of [[August 15th]] for writing to Lex, given that it’s his birthday! We’re both from 1983.
    • That made me look Max Tegmark’s birthday as well and it was recently, on [[May 5th]]. He’s from 1967 so I’ll associate him with 67 (currently meaning also: light and Amitabha).

2025-05-21

• I like magnets — some [[ideas]]:
  • [[magnetic computing]]
  • [[magnetic 3d printing]]
  • [[magnetic assists]]
    • In general magnetism seems like an amazing way to transfer momentum?
  • [[magnetic gears]]
    • As in the little devices I’ve built
• Today (actually yesterday) I saw a great video on the [[principle of least action]] and it blew my mind a bit. It also introduced me to diffraction grating effects — which I had heard about but hadn’t grokked/seen demonstrated.
  • The fact that angular momentum is quantized… wow. Also it introduced me to [[diffraction gratings]], which I had heard of only in passing.
  • And angular momentum has the same unit as action: Joule-second.
  • This all made me think also of…
    • Could you use diffraction gratings at astronomic scales to see into the past? E.g. by making visible light from a star that has taken a longer (slower) path to get to us.
    • The effect that makes lights ‘stretch out’ in one direction in some mediums, like water (think of night lights reflected on a lake) or… the effect that is apparent in my chrome kitchen countertop that is quite something and I sometimes call the [[rainbow folding]]). I’m unsure if these are really related but something about the discussion about the paths that light can take made me think of it.
  • All in all I really enjoy thinking about [[physics]] as of late.
  • -> [[Action principles]] and [[Lagrangian]] are both interesting over at Wikipedia.

• Noding from work after a while! I spend a lot of time here writing but for obvious reasons I don’t tend to write in the Agora while at it. Still, I would like to take up the habit again of writing more journals so I thought I’d give it a shot.
• I met [[Stapelberg]] for lunch as we often do on Mondays and it was great.
  • I heard of an upcoming [[nix hackathon]] from him.
• Now I have a bunch of meetings upcoming; more than planned (as it tends to happen). I’ll try to make the most of it, and still protect enough time blocks that I can do what I intended to get done during the workday (without going too late into the night).

• [[moloch]]

2025-05-18

• [[Read]]: [[Another Now]]
  • Fiction by [[Yanis Varoufakis]]. Really enjoying it so far. The plot is obviously a bit forced, a vehicle just to share his political ideas. But it’s a fun way to explore those ideas.
  • The 80s and [[Thatcherism]]. [[Miners’ strike]]. [[Wapping dispute]].
  • [[Anarcho-syndicalism]].

• I started this Saturday earlier than usual by waking up at 9am and going to a 10am event in my neighborhood about urban planning :) It was pretty interesting!
• Then did some shopping, meditated and now (as of around midday) I’m starting the day in earnest; drinking [[gyokuro]] and planning the day.
• I hope to [[flow]] all day!

2025-05-17

• Finished [[Platform Capitalism]] (audiobook).

  • I’ll need to give it another listen, as not all of it went in - listening while distracted.
  • But seemed good. A lot more academic than [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]. The latter was more engaging, but (maybe?) less rigorous. I appreciate this book’s succinctness.
  • Some things that stuck out from this listen:
    • It has a good historical overview of where platforms came from and how they came to dominate.
    • It has a useful typology of platforms.
    • Platforms primarily gain their advantages from data.
    • Trying to force platform capitalists to respect privacy is impossible - it’s part of their DNA.
    • Over time platforms try to control the whole stack.
    • Over time, platforms slowly converge to offering the same services.
  • There’s a tiny bit at the end on possible ways to counter platform dominance. Very small, but worth noting.

• [[Public platforms]].

2025-05-14

• [[platform capitalism]].
  • It’s all about the [[data]].

2025-05-11

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Nature and other dangerous words: Marx, method and the proletarian standpoint in the web of life | Dialectical Anthropology
    • tags: [[Cheap Nature]]. [[Capitalocene]]. [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Jason W. Moore]].

2025-05-10

• Learned about [[chezmoi]] from [[Flancian]]‘s note about it yesterday.

  • Looks good and something that would be handy to me in principle.
  • I’m currently keeping my dotfiles just in a git repo.
  • However, it also looks like a new thing to learn and set up. So it’ll have to wait for now. But good to know about.
  • It looks like people are using it with Termux successfully, so that’s useful.
    • e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/24304

• Learned of the existence of the native [[Linux Terminal app for Android]].

  • h/t: https://github.com/orgzly-revived/orgzly-android-revived/discussions/562
  • However, it don’t believe it will ever be available for my Pixel 5a.
  • So I’ll be sticking with [[Termux]].

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started? | World news | The Guardian
    • tags: [[World War III]]

• I just resolved all [[chezmoi]] conflicts in [[paramita]] and it felt a bit like glory honestly. I also cleaned up the repository in a variety of ways. It took about 20 minutes and it felt very freeing.
  • I then launched [[nvim]] and it worked after being broken in this machine still; all my modules got auto-installed immediately and it felt like living in the future, which of course I do in many ways being very privileged (and remembering [[William Gibson]]…).
  • And of course I spoke just a little too soon, somehow Markdown mode in [[wikivim]] is not quite perfect for some reason :)

2025-05-09

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • What will the new world order look like? Fractures Session 1
    • and https://nextcloud.tni.org/s/XkYotZHmzGXfd2m
    • [[geopolitics]]. [[Imperialism]]. [[China]]. [[United States]].
  • WEBINAR: Engineering the Cloud Commons: Tackling Monopoly Control of Critical Digital Infrastructure — Open Markets Institute
    • tags: [[Cloud computing]]. [[Cloud commons]].
  • Challenging corporate power | Ethical Consumer
    • tags: [[Corporate power]].
  • Where is our clothing made? | Ethical Consumer
    • tags: [[Clothing]]. [[supply chains]].

• En [[Sevilla]]!
  • Para la [[Feria de Sevilla]] con [[BA]].
  • Mientras escribo esto, estoy leyendo [[Zelazny]] en una cafetería cerca del departamento donde me estoy quedando.
  • Naturalmente empecé a escribir en Español de nuevo después de usarlo más algunos días acá y antes en [[Granada]].

2025-05-06

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets | The Verge
    • tags: [[repair]]

• We’ve been watching [[Andor]].

  • It’s very good.

2025-05-04

• [[Tweaking Doom Emacs to use SPC SPC]].

  • Much nicer than SPC-: on a phone.
  • [[My Doom Emacs config]].

• We shouldn’t focus so heavily on recycling.

  • ‘We’ meaning society, and here specifically the UK. But probably other countries too.
  • [[The UK should not focus so heavily on recycling]].

• We should put more focus higher up the waste hierarchy.

  • [[The UK should put more focus higher up the waste hierarchy]].

2025-05-03

• A potted history of [[My usage of GNU/Linux over the years]].

• [[2025-05-01]]: [[International Workers Day]] was nice, although I didn’t sleep very well and I had to pack/do things in the house to prepare for travel so I left the festivities relatively early in the afternoon after attending with friends.
• As I write this I’m in the [[Zürich airport]] waiting to board my flight to Málaga for a week in southern Spain.

• Worked today, essentially half day as I had to get a small surgical intervention — a mole that was growing fast on my face for some reason. Had to send it for biopsy but the doctor said it looked benign.
• Then I met my friend [[June]].
• And then came back home to my [[Lady Burup]]!

2025-04-30

• As predicted, I couldn’t make the first teach-in of the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] series.
  • The topic was "What will the new world order look like?"

• l4/l5 [[dorsomedial]] [[discus hernia]]:
  • is what I have, or had 7-8 years ago, although I’ve since recovered from symptoms and no longer live with pain.

2025-04-29

• I signed up for the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] webinar series by [[Transnational Institute]].
  • It looks good.
  • Doubtful how many I’ll be able to watch live. But hopefully can catch them on catch up.
  • The [[Digital Capitalism online course]] by TNI was great. I like them.

2025-04-27

• [[Capitalism demands constant technological change]].

• [[Capitalism must take more from labour and nature than it gives back]].

2025-04-26

• [[Relentless growth is the ultimate logic of capitalism]].

• [[A good Zettelkasten is both horizontal and vertical]].

• [[Free]]!
• [[25]] means [[Consciousness]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]], or ‘focus on your focus’/’be aware of your awareness’ (five squared).
• [[Work]] was fine, I did a tricky expense report (tricky because of a bug) and advanced further business travel plans. Also was oncall.
• [[Plitnyakovo]]

2025-04-25

• [[How to have device-specific values in .dir-locals.el]]

• I was part of the [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[SGMK]] [[Easter Hack]] this long weekend and it was great! Met interesting people, and was able to focus well on tasks I had long deferred, partly because of being surrounded by people also focused on their projects.
• Also spent Easter Sunday with friends and their family, it was very nice!
• Still noding actions in [[2025]].

2025-04-21

• OK, finally sorted out that issue I’ve had for a while: [[File error: Getting attributes, Permission denied, /run/user/1001/emacs]]

  • It was because when I was logging in as the second user, I wasn’t using a full login shell.
  • i.e. su neil when I needed to use su - neil.

• Windows 10 reaching end of life after 10 years is fine. Windows 11 hardware requirements not supporting a whole raft of perfectly adequate machines is NOT acceptable.

• [[TPM 2.0]]. [[Secure Boot]].

• Noding from [[bull]] again after some updates :)
  • As I’m writing this I’m in [[Bitwäscherei]] enjoying the beautiful afternoon sun while I’m around people who are hacking. It’s lovely!

• Fixed [[wikivim]] on neovim :)
  • Yep, even bulleted lists :)
    • I can even use tab and shift-tab to indent/dedent!
  • It took a few tries but now vim feels like a nice Agora noding environment again, in particular in the computer where I now have my development environment up — [[tara]].
• Back again after sleep :)
  • I have a nice focus day in front of me; I’ll try to get through a varied task list that I will keep partly here and partly on the back of an envelope that I intend to burn at the end of the day.
• Spoke to my mum!
  • She found some books that belonged to my grandfather, [[Bargalló]].
• Liked [[፨]].

<<<<<<< HEAD

• [[Chasing Moloch]] =======
• My [[noding]] has become erratic :) In particular my journaling is less consistent than before.
  • Introspecting, this seems to be because of a combination of causes (as usual):
    • I have been spending time in working around computer bugs (like [[karuna]] crashing, my work keyboard being temporarily bricked by a firmware update, etc.) and working.
    • I lost or temporarily misplaced my [[default environment]], meaning the computer+workspace that I prefer for noding in the absence of temporary factors like being at some other computer.
    • I have been keeping mental context elsewhere, like [[snippets]] at work and physical papers around the house and the office.
    • I now will try to regain consistency.

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2025-04-15

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • On tech sovereignty – how to nail jelly to a tree – Structural Integrity
    • tags: [[technological sovereignty]]

• Mi [[mamá]] me contó de la vez en que mi papá le pegó, ella hizo la denuncia en la comisaría antes de escaparse a la casa de los padres y los hijos de puta de la comisería llamaron a mi papá y le avisaron para que la fuera a buscar.
  • Mi [[tío]] desapareció tres días después de que mi papá (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevó a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reunión de montoneros.
    • -> [[7 de enero de 1977]].

• Good day at work!
  • Started cycling season by biking to work, which was great :)
  • Then good progress on some fronts, and a pleasant evening at home with Lady Burup and working a bit more.
  • Thinking about the future in a pleasant way.
• TIL about [[Mahasthamaprapta]], one of the two attendants of [[Amida Nyorai]]/[[Amitabha]] with [[Avalokiteshvara]]! Gemini told me about them, a.k.a. [[Dashizhi]] in feminine form.

2025-04-11

• [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • Describes [[Bitcoin]]‘s initial promise and excitement around it, even from those on the left as a potentially [[liberatory technology]].
• But ultimate disappointment as it became another means of capital accumulation for the already powerful.

2025-04-10

• [[Listened]]: [[platform capitalism]]
  • Started it on [[libro.fm]].
  • Seems like a good thematic follow on from [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]] (PC came first of course).

2025-04-09

• [[Listened]]: [[Will Trump’s tariffs tip the world into recession?]]
  • Answer seems to be: possibly, yes.

• I must call the [[veterinary]] (for a checkup)
• Life goes on! I try to enjoy it.
• It was great catching up with friends more as of late, online and offline.
• Work is tough/intense but OK; I’ve been feeling productive and I’m looking forward to working more on some projects.
• -> [[next action]]

2025-04-08

• [[Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings]].

  • Some hope, courtesy of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • Varoufakis has thought out a detailed approach for an alternative future.
  • Only touched on briefly here, but he has a whole other (fiction) book, Another Now, which explores it further.

2025-04-07

2025-04-06

• [[Read]]: [[A System for Writing]]

  • While (mostly?) tangential to the point of the book, Doto’s referencing of things like [[anarchist theory]] and [[rhizome]]s, and [[Doughnut Economics]] in examples, is further endearing me to it.

• [[Capitalism must end]]. [[Capitalism will end]]!

  • TBC: When? How?

2025-04-05

• [[Read]]: [[A System for Writing]]

  • Very useful.
  • It’s clarifying lots of things I’ve been doing a bit unguided.
  • I’m taking lots of reference notes from it.

• I find that statements that start with ‘[[I]]‘ such as ‘[[I am]]‘ or ‘[[I like]]‘ are good ways of starting on a path of making main notes. As you’ll start to make a train of notes to back up why you are or why you like something.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism: What Is It and Why Do We Need It? - New Green Horizons
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]].

2025-04-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Framework | Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
    • tags: [[Framework Laptop]]. [[RISC-V]].
  • The Public Power Observatory | Social Text | Duke University Press
    • tags: [[Climate change]]. [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Mutual aid]]. [[Disaster communism]]. [[Community energy]].
  • (PDF) Deep Ecology, Ecosocialism and Original Institutional Economics in an Interdisciplinary Perspective: How Can They Collaborate for Building More Effective Sustainable Policies?
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[deep ecology]].
  • An overview of Europe’s repair sector | European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform
    • tags: [[Repair]].

• [[There is no such thing as society]]

  • Yes, [[There is such a thing as society]].

2025-04-03

• The [[Drake equation]] is fun to think about.

  • Even if it’s contested as to whether the figures it produces have any real meaning.

• Enjoying a work collaboration we have going on at the moment.

  • Giving me an opportunity to dip my toe back into some technical nitty gritty.
  • It has been fun.

• [[We will defeat Moloch]]!
• [[work]]
• [[focus]]

• [[España 2025]]
• I attended an AI conference today in the morning, it was great! I met interesting people.
• I worked on AI, Partitioning, Rollouts.
• Then I did [[Flancia]]!
  • [[Agora Plan]]
  • [[bugs]]

2025-04-01

• Philip has put a great page together on your options at [[Windows 10 end-of-life]].

  • https://wiki.restarters.net/Windows_10_End_of_Life pull

• I occasionally have the deep misfortune of ending up on [[Amazon]]. Talk about [[enshittification]]. Endless random brand names, 50 random variations of the same crappy product. ‘Sponsored’ products. This is not a site that cares about its users.

• [[Las Jaras]]!
  • It was a great day all in all, I had enough bandwidth to do what I needed to do and start the week well; did also some planning for the upcoming months.
• Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]].
• Worked until 19 or until 21 depending on how you count, I count the latter.
• Threw [[476]] in the [[co2]] meter; it’s 17 * 28.
• [[Midi]]

2025-03-31

• [[Pathways that I’ve done on Kinnu]]

• I talked to my mum and it was great.
  • We are making travel plans :)
• I played [[Minecraft]] with [[Timur]], I appreciated it!
• Then I reviewed and cleaned up notes, iterated on projects, spent time with Burup. It felt healing.

2025-03-30

• [[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"

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero
    • tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Net zero]].
  • In defense of digital commoning
    • tags: [[Digital commons]].
  • #2 – Symphonies of Imagination
    • In particular, the solarpunk-flavoured essay on Repair.
    • [[Solarpunk]]. [[Repair]].
  • Use Emacs in GUI mode on Android (using Termux and Termux X11)
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].
  • Emacs + Termux on Android: Code, Org-mode and Agenda, Dired, Magit and more…
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].

• [[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"

• Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].

• 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]]
• [[Raspberry Pi 5]]
  • Downloading [[Raspberry Pi OS]] (based on Debian so it sounds fine to me…) as I write this :)

2025-03-29

• [[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.
  • 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.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Bolivia]]. [[Ecuador]]. [[buen vivir]].
  • Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists | Astronomy | The Guardian
    • tags: [[Astronomy]]. [[Dark energy]].
  • Don’t fork the ecosystem - by Gordon Brander
    • tags: [[software ecosystems]].
  • 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]].

• [[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.

• 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

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
    • tags: [[Google]]. [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • How much electricity do AI generators consume? | The Verge
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • Report | AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat — Open Markets Institute
    • tags: [[AI]]
  • Chip Production’s Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate and Environmental Impact
    • tags: [[Chip production]].
  • What is the Future of Work in the Generative AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[The future of work]].

2025-03-27

• Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.

• [[Bookmarked]]

  • A Political Ecology of the Repair Manual
    • tags: [[Repair]]. [[repair manuals]].
  • Geographies of Digital Wasting
    • tags: [[Waste]]. [[supply chains]].
  • Thinking about 12 aspects of personal information/knowledge management
    • tags: [[personal knowledge management]].

• [[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere

  • Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
  • Troposphere, …?

• 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.
  • 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!
  • Also /var/lib/snapd/ is gigs big.
    • Cleared /var/lib/snapd/cache/.
  • Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next time…

• [[How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century]]

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • [[Feudalism]]. [[Rent]].

• Traveling to the US today!
  • As I write this I’m typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]].
  • 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:
  • [[light]]
    • led me to read [[photon]] in Wikipedia, very nice article!
  • [[momentum]]
  • [[entropy]]
  • Quiz: what do momentum and entropy have in common?
• [[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]].
• 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 :)
• 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.
• 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]].

• [[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

• [[Astronomy]].

• [[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]].

• [[todo]]:
  • I started packing for the [[us]]:
    • [[alfajores]]
    • [[passport]]
    • everything else :)
  • 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?
    • 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

• My script that pushes to the commonplace-agora repo has stopped pushing.

  • Turns out it’s because the SSH key has expired.
  • Since when did my SSH keys have expiry dates?
    • I guess it’s a gitlab setting.
  • I sshed to my server, created a new key, copied it to gitlab, all from my phone. God bless you [[Termux]] and [[fish]].

• Thinking about [[How to actively thwart enclosure and cooptation of the digital commons]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • Cloud serfs, cloud proles, cloud fiefs, cloudalists.

• I met [[smurp]] today!
  • It was great!
  • I got a [[cal]] after seeing it at his smurp.com/cal and previously.
• [[zine]] -> [[us]]

2025-03-20

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • [[Enclosure of the digital commons]].
  • [[Cloud capital]].
  • [[Modern Times]] and its similarity to working in an Amazon warehouse today.

• [[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

• [[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!
  • Played [[Minecraft]] with my nieces (who are in Argentina) :)
  • Played [[Minecraft]] with [[Timur]] :)
  • Was going to see [[VK]] and her boyfriend but we shifted the appointment to tomorrow.

2025-03-16

• 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

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • ‘All the birds returned’: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
    • tags: [[China]]. [[Conservation]].
  • China’s Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition - Chen - Antipode - Wiley Online Library
    • tags: [[China]]. [[ecological civilization]]. [[Climate Leviathan]].

• [[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

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism w/ Yanis Varoufakis]]

• [[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
• 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]]