2026-06-14

• Could be a useful exercise to apply the [[Three Horizons]] model to [[reclaiming the stacks]].

2026-06-13

• I’d like to start a blog carnival themed around leftist digital politics.

  • I think [[blog carnival]]s are great. A fantastic way to [[ritualise togetherness]] in a community, and an excellent nudge to blog regularly.
  • I’ve been doing the [[Emacs Carnival]] for a good few months now.
  • I’ve not yet found time for the [[Indieweb Carnival]], but I’d like to.
  • We used to do [[node club]] on Agora too, which is pretty similar to a blog carnival.
  • A carnival on lefty tech politics would be a good motivator to write, and a fun way to find the writings of others too.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Pluralistic: The world has moved on
    • Via [[Flancian]].

• I had a thought that alongside the ‘indie’ web ([[IndieWeb]]), what I also like is the idea of a ‘slow’ web.

  • It captures what I’ve said before about not really doing that well on microblogging.
    • I like the people and the content on the microbloggy side of the Fediverse, for example, but the pace and volume of it doesn’t work well for me.
  • Of course, there’s plenty of prior art and thought around a [[slow web]].
    • There’s a summary and links on the Indieweb wiki.

• Blog carnivals are part of the slow web, for me at least.

2026-06-12

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Social media is pivotal in enabling far-right agitators to mobilise internationally]].
    • via [[How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’]]
  • [[Language shapes what we think and what we can think]].
    • via [[Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[How to Blow Up a Pipeline]]
    • Says [[Extinction Rebellion]]‘s analysis of non-violence is misleadingly selective of history of past movements.
    • [[Women’s suffrage]], [[Civil Rights Movement]], anti-apartheid, [[Poll tax]]. All had wings using violence that arguably contributed to the movement.
    • Talks about [[Radical flank effect]].
    • Malm not a fan of [[Gandhi]] overall.
    • Discusses [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[MK]]. Non-violence until it was ineffective. Then violence.
    • He says the question is not whether sabotage alone can bring about the change required (it can’t). But can the wider movement bring change without the radical fringe?

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: On the ground in the Belfast riots
    • Thugs targeting anyone who is an immigrant.
    • I felt sad and angered by the persecution of entirely innocent people.

• Finally realized the point of standard.site. I’m now publishing standard.site documents. These link back the Quartz generated website.
  • Its purpose is a little bit like RSS for a comparison.
  • I tried existing tools, but they didn’t work well for the rather unique [[Quartz]] setup I have. I built my own tooling for it.
    • Sequoia seemed promising but it had issues.
      • draft field override was ignored.
      • title is required, otherwise it’ll default to “undefined.”.
      • Frontmatter is required. If missing, it would emit errors.
  • It took me a long while to understand this. While site.standard.document records can store an editable copy of its documents. This isn’t required and its content field does not have a concrete standard. It’s intended for editor/viewing platforms like Leaflet.
    • This means that I’m not using standard.site as a means of synchronization. I already have too many forms of synchronization for the spacious nexus.
      • Though, I am just putting raw markdown for the textContent field. It could be possible to restore some data and file hierarchy with the path field. It’s not something I would rely on, but they’re here just in case the Git repositories explode, somehow.
• Quartz generates cover images. I should use those.
• I’m getting the idea that I should try out Quartz 5.
  • Supposedly, it’s more extensible. Should refer back to [[Journal/2026-05-26]].

2026-06-11

• [[Fascism]].

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Violence is an integral part of fascism]].

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: The jailing of Germany’s most wanted woman
    • [[Red Army Faction]].
    • In the opinion of one of the interviewees, RAF were never particularly successful in their aims - the bigger protest movement was what brought change.

2026-06-10

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Fascism is built incrementally through legislation]]

• Writing something to convert my [[Discord]] messages into markdown files. Incrementally publishing these into /Discord/.
  • Currently reads the database file maintained by Discord History Tracker. Would want it to maintain its journals in real-time someday.
  • Would want to eventually publish its repository. Maybe once after it has distinct enough features from the rest of the chat exporters.
  • Learning a bit more of [[SQL]]/SQLite in the process.

• [[Christoph]] told me about [[1mm resolution]] in location data using [[RTK]]. He’s preparing a talk on it. Very cool!