• My Surface tablet was getting full. It only has 256GB of internal storage!
  • I had a Dev Drive. It’s gone now. It was taking about 6 or 7 GB of disk space from all the [[JavaScript]] repositories and packages. I used [[pnpm]] but I think it didn’t really worked with that drive? I wasn’t too sure what a Dev Drive actually did.
    • Since I removed the Dev Drive and moved my repositories back, I can use [[Windows]]‘ native compacting features.
  • Installed CompactGUI to automate native OS compacting.
  • Ran git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 on some large repositories.
  • I’m now left with 47 GB free.
  • Probably should use OneDrive more often.
• My [[Git]] + [[SilverBullet]] setup wasn’t the most optimal. I figured out why.
  Recall the default .gitattributes from GitHub Desktop. * text=auto is a good default, but it can be made better for SilverBullet.
  So, I now have * eof=lf in the .gitattributes file. This is because SilverBullet+ syncs files with LF line endings.
  • I am yet to observe “No content changes” messages from GitHub Desktop Plus.
• I’m going to try not publishing new journal entries to spacious nexus‘ site for now.
  • Maybe this can encourage me to use more of the [[agora protocol]]. Tends to feel alienating when published.
  • Something [[SEO]] related. Need a control.
• I woke up again. I figured out why. It’s [[Friday]]. Uh oh.
  • I’m missing out. Not too sure of it.

2026-05-27

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: The death penalty returns to Israel

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Ignoring AI means ceding power over it to others]]

• Created a [[content warning]] component for [[Quartz]] 4.
• Noticed that Quartz 5 is being released.
  • Probably won’t upgrade to it. Mainly:
    • Current setup works fine.
    • Slugs are generated differently.
  • Port some of my additions to Quartz 5.

2026-05-26

• [[Listened]]:

  • Science Weekly: Ebola: how does it spread and can the outbreak be contained?

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • 99% invisble: Episode 666 Enshittification

• TODO for today, some of it work related :)
  • Prep presentation base for tomorrow
  • Write to [[BAA]]?

2026-05-25

• Wrote:

  • [[We need a digital shock doctrine for the left]].
  • I’m struggling a bit to finish this off.
  • I think it’s because I seem to be trying to write it with the tone of an academic article of sorts, whereas right now it’s really blog post territory.
  • I have rough thoughts and questions, areas to read more.
  • If I try and present it as thorough research I’ll never finish it. I think I’ll change the tone.

• Jammed:

  • Hania Rani - On Giacometti: A Live Performance at Atelier in Stampa
    • Listening to this in the shade of a tree in the sunshine at the cemetery while R sleeps in the buggy. Peaceful.
    • Very emotive piano performance.

• A view in [[Ulverston cemetery]]

⥅ [[../photos/ulverston-cemetery.jpg]]

• Perhaps a good way to distinguish myself from an AI is to speak more of my embodied experiences as a human in the world.

  • I tend to keep those private, but worth considering.

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Today in Focus: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest]]
    • Not very interesting really. Two of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world fighting over more power and wealth.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Free and open-source software as (non-) liberatory technology
  • Automating science
  • The Ghost of the Author: Mechanisation, Metricisation and Narrative Contraction in the Age of AI

2026-05-23

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Knowledge, data and information are critical production resources]].
  • [[Knowledge, data and information are exploited to reinforce capitalist control]].
  • [[Control over information flows is a vital factor in modern class conflict]].

• [[Libre software and liberatory software]].

2026-05-21

• Note for [[Setting up a new box]]:
  • use git-restore-mtime on cloned org-roam repos, to get ordering by date in the completion buffer