2026-06-01

2026-05-31

• On Friday went to a local screening of the [[People’s Emergency Briefing]].

  • First thoughts: It’s good for what it is but I have a couple of caveats.
  • Felt very UK focused. That’s probably the intention, but at least a mention of the climate effects on countries beyond Europe and why not the focus in this film would have been good.
  • Not a single mention of capitalism as the problem. Just generally talk of too much CO2 without much mention of the ideology that has driven that.
  • It felt quite technocratic. Technological and market solutions rather than radical political change.

• It’s the last day of the month already! How did that happen.

• Need to write [[Emacs Carnival]] post.

  • [[Emacs Carnival: May I recommend…]]

2026-05-30

• [[Listened]]:
  • Science Weekly: Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment?
    • In a nutshell: Humans investing inordinate amounts of resources to try to create artificial humans while ignoring the plight of actual humans and the environment.
    • Apparently [[robotics]] has now been rebranded to [[embodied AI]].
  • Today in Focus: Andy Burnham’s (third) bid for the Labour leadership
    • [[Andy Burnham]].
    • Basically presents as soft left but will say whatever needed to get elected.

• 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]]
    • But essentially for Palestinians only.

• [[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]]?