• [[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]].