• 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.

• 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.

⥅ [[../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

• [[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

• Joined the [[Agora]]. [[Spacious nexus]] is now visible on @bunnynabbit.

• Upgraded [[SilverBullet]] to 2.8.0.
  • Checking out its new built-in Journal library.

• [[worked]]
• [[Social.coop]]:
  • Then met with [[Matt Noyes]] to discuss [[social.coop]]!
    • [[cooperative todo lists]]
    • [[memoirs of prison]] by [[Nelson Pereira dos Santos]]
    • [[safety maximizing]] vs [[freedom maximizing]]
      • [[safety maximizing]] -> [[intentional relationships]]
      • should we kick off some proposals? which ones?
    • three respects:
      • the relationships
      • the people who try to improve the system/work on it
      • the notion of consent and preference maximizing