2025-06-29

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
  • [[Debt: The First 5,000 Years]] by [[David Graeber]].
  • [[Everyday communism]]. Sociality.
  • Very little in everyday life operates like a market.
  • Even the internals of corporations don’t operate like markets.

• [[17]]
• [[53]]
• [[67]]
• [[2063]]
• [[7]]
• [[Höllgrotten]] today with my mum, it was lovely!
• I also cleaned the house, did some light project work, and enjoyed into the evening.

2025-06-28

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]]

2025-06-25

• Trying to figure out why a pair of Bluetooth headphones was suddenly, randomly, no longer pairing correctly to a laptop running under [[Windows 11]], and I am genuinely surprised how bad the experience is.
  • Useless error messages. Multiple interfaces to the same operation, unclear why to use one over the other. Different visuals for different config dialogs. Arcane dialogs and squirrelled away options.
  • This for a device that was clearly built to work on Windows.
  • The trope that [[Linux]] has a bad user experience vs Windows does not seem accurate.

• Reading [[essays-on-suffering-focused-ethics]]
  • Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I’ve actually found them to be the opposite
    • Classical utilitarianism is a lot less intuitive!
  • Seems like there are parallels with [[buddhism]]
    • [[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as nihilistic
      • What of the attainment of [[nirodha]]?
      • How helpful is it to talk about [[repugnant conclusions]] in the first place?
        • [[slippery slope]]
• Also reading [[frédéric bastiat]]
  • Likely the inventor of the now ubiquitous popular economics journalism
  • [[broken window fallacy]] [[opportunity costs]]

2025-06-24

• Managed another run. Doing the couch to 5k.

• The weekend was chill and great!
  • Mostly spent time with my mum who is visiting and Lady Burup.
  • We went to the river on Sunday as it was very warm (with my mum, not Lady Burup). It was very beautiful.
• I am talking to someone very interesting and that makes my whole life a bit better as well.

2025-06-23

• Watched: [[The AI Crisis We’re Ignoring]]
  • Seems pretty well-researched. I like this guy’s videos in general - he’s an ecosocialist.

2025-06-22

• First jog with the buggy. Not an unqualified success, but good to have done it.

  • It’s really hard to steer in jogging mode. Like playing as Bowser after getting used to Toad.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • People vs. Big Tech
    • tags: [[Big Tech]].

• Happy!