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• Web Development

Dave Shea visits the future of advanced CSS design and finds it pleasing:

Anyway. The point of all this is that I put together a very basic page to serve as my test site’s root index. My primary browser is Safari, so I took the opportunity to play with the new text-shadow CSS property. (Hit the thumbnail link if you’re not using Safari). Combining this with a bit of opacity (upcoming in CSS3, supported now) a bit of generated content, and some guaranteed, non-standard font choices, I’ve caught a glimpse of where CSS is going. I like it. A lot.

No images were harmed in the making of this page, it’s all pure CSS effects. Here’s to 2011, when we might even be able to use this stuff.

mezzoblue

2011§

2011 was supposed to be the year when everything changed. Protests erupted across the planet, largely as a response to the worsening economic situation that followed the 2007– 08 financial crash.

– [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]

All of the major movements that rose up in 2011 – [[Occupy]], the [[15-M Movement]] and the [[Arab Spring]].

Rather than attempting to take control of the state through elections or other means, and bring about reform and indeed transformation that way, these movements were seen to be carving out spaces of autonomy within territories governed by the state. The hope was that, eventually, these [[autonomous zone]]s would link up and federate, and through doing so lead to the state and other forces of domination withering away, not through centrally managed policies but through their increasing irrelevance to people’s lives.

– [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]

Iceland’s ‘[[pots and pans revolution]]’ – so named because of the noise protestors made by banging kitchen implements together when they surrounded the parliament in Reykjavík – is, like Occupy, 15M and the Arab Spring, rooted in the financial crash of 2008

– [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]

• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109412722209284957 pull

• [[2022-11-26 23:49:30+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1596652398172581888 pull

• [[2022-11-26 23:34:08+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109412722209284957:

  • He suicided on [[2013-01-11]].

• [[2022-11-26 23:49:30+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1596652398172581888 pull

CW: Death

He suicided on [[2013-01-11]].

2020-11§

[[2020-11-30]]§

[[2020-11-29]]§

[[2020-11-28]]§

[[2020-11-15]]§

[[2020-11-14]]§

[[2020-11-13]]§

[[2020-11-08]]§

[[2020-11-07]]§

[[2020-11-02]]§

April 11th, 2020§

• Escribir: En Flancia todo el mundo tiene cuatro sábados por semana.
• 20%. Se empieza por los viernes: hacemos algo constructivo.
• [[Egregore]]
• [[Complainer bot]]

2020-04-11§

Watching Aphex Twin’s Manchester set§

This is an epic set from Aphex Twin from Manchester last year. Great visuals too with the embarrassing crowd interaction. Thanks to Sophy for the tip!

Aphex Twin – Manchester 20/09/19 - YouTube

2020-05-11§

Facebook stock§

I said that Facebook has no [[stock]], but [[Ellie]] pointed out that Facebook does have some stock - its Pages pages builds up a collection of your photos, videos, and events over time.

Thanks Ellie! Ellie has a great page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/storiesinpaper/ (and a great website at Stories In Paper).

Spectacular§

A couple of nice resources on [[the Society of the Spectacle]]:

• An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’
• Partially Examined Life Episode 170: Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle”

I’ve found them both pretty handy for getting a grasp on the book and the [[spectacle]].

[[The online spectacle]]§

If [[Debord]] were alive today, he would almost certainly extend his analysis of [[the spectacle]] to the Internet and [[social media]]. Debord would no doubt have been horrified by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, which monetize our friendships, opinions, and emotions. Our internal thoughts and experiences are now commodifiable assets. Did you tweet today? Why haven’t you posted to Instagram? Did you “like” your friend’s photos on Facebook yet?

– An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’

June 11th, 2020§

• I continued learning [[Clojure]]
• I reconnected with [[EduneV]]
• [[Twitter to Roam]]
• Found [[fpallopides]], [[chophshiy]]

July 11th 2020§

2020-07-11§

[[Review: Hello World - How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine]]§

Watched: [[Massively multiplayer open computing]]§

August 11th, 2020§

• [[Quick Capture]]
  • https://twitter.com/CkLorentzen/status/1293257277009428481 pull?s=09

2020-08-11§

Reading: [[The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet]]§

I read about a third of this a while back, then got into reading non-fiction at night. But now I’m back on fiction at night again (seems to correlate with being back at work?)

I’ve gotten back in to this pretty quickly - I really like it. It’s quite different to a lot of sci-fi - it’s much more relationship based, less action heavy. It’s quite gentle and gently-paced, so far at least, but by no means twee, and quite reflective on some of the oddities and indeed darker aspects of human nature. You get to know the characters and their feelings but the plot keeps you ticking along at the same time.

(This is another book I came across via Ton’s bookshelf)

The Moon§

Last week, we went to see a showing of the moon.

⥅ [[photos/the-moon.jpg]]

September 11th, 2020§

• Michael W. Taft’s podcast with Leigh Brasington on [[jhanas]] is proving very interesting.
• [[nts]]: new york minimalism vol 1
• [[dyokomizo]] is interested in coordination problems and governance

2020-09-11§

Repost: [[Fraidycat]] by David Yates§

A nice review of [[Fraidycat]].

2020-10-11§

• Nice Buddhist temple in Germany: https://goo.gl/maps/TaZzK9vzxBkwjV64A
  • Recommended by [[ablueaeshna]]: https://twitter.com/ablueaeshna/status/1314991029725138949 pull
• Went for a walk, it was great even though it was cold.
• Trying to organize myself. What exactly do I want to do in this following week, and in which order?
• Things I know I want to do, regardless of specifics:
  • Set [[intents]]. An intent is a concrete action, often with a physical correlate, that I want to perform in the near future.
    • Example: write on a specific document. Example: flancia.org/go/agora.
  • Set [[invariants]].
    • Example: While the time is between noon and 7pm, I will not be on Twitter.
    • Do I need this extra concept or is it the same as [[intents]]?
• [[todo]] Agora
  • Move go/agora-v1 to go/agora.
  • Create go/agora-v0.5, make it all about Foam/Obsidian + github + conventions + scripts + go links.

2020-10-11§

Arcology: org-roam and IndieWeb§

oh my

The [[arcology]] is a web publishing system for org-roam written in the literate fashion in phoenix elixir and emacs lisp

– rrix/arcology

[[org-roam]] and advanced [[IndieWeb]] features in one place. Coded literately. I am in love

2020-11-11§

• Uploaded the [[Agora Server]] code to github yesterday after getting open source approval from my employer: flancia.org/go/agora-server.
• I’m pretty sure [[Autechre]]‘s "esc desc" references [[Duran Duran]]‘s "Save a Prayer":
  • https://youtube.com/watch?v=EZUurYpv8qY
  • https://youtube.com/watch?v=zMNZ5Gw3Zbg
• [[todo]]
  • get back to [[ethan-plante]] on Twitter.
  • check out [[museical]]‘s graph on [[knowledge os]]: https://twitter.com/museical/status/1326614632417652736 pull
• Today I got [[a pattern language]] in the mail: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1326516558303289346 pull
• [[deferred procrastination]]:
  • Consider making the goose in [[a pattern language]]‘s [[independent regions]] be my avatar.

10:15 dream from a couple of weeks ago

dreamgoing to Idaho gparents dying asked Catherine for things to do?? 

10:16 going to start more seriously using this for journaling

make an android app able to record these entries pretty easily no need to support complicated features of org mode must tag location some ability to tag other people we are with? perhaps by email.

2020-12-11§

• The day started well: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1337345908351098880 pull/photo/1
• [[review]] [[communities]]: https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1337253683994693632 pull
  • [[rebel wisdom]]
  • [[yak]]
  • [[interintellect]]
  • [[stoa]]
  • [[future thinkers]]
  • [[ness labs]]
• Reach out to:
  • [[t. t.]]
  • [[p. p.]]
• [[meet]] [[dan whaley]]
  • It was great!
• [[review]] [[daily]]
• [[review]] [[agora plan]]
• [[amadeo]].
• [[jonathan-the-utopian]].
• [[peace piece]]
• Received a [[gift]]: [[encyclopedia of world problems and human potential]] by [[samuel klein]].
• [[Socrates]].
• [[Avalokiteshvara]]
• [[Hunger]].
• The [[wiki]] is a great [[invention]].
• [[The people, united, will never be defeated]].
• [[world improvement]].
• A [[housing underlay]].
• [[revolution]].

2020-12-11§

Leeré textos de [[Gayatri Spivak]], [[Homi K. Bhabha]] y [[Judith Butler]] para la [[Lecture 12 Postcolonialism II and Performance]]

2021-01-11§

• [[armengolaltayo]]
  • [[closer to truth]]
  • [[information as fundamental]]
• [[st benedict rule for monasteries]]
• [[Denny Vrandečić]]
• [[elephant]]
• [[tim berners lee]] [[solid]] [[read]] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/technology/tim-berners-lee-privacy-internet.html
• [[agora bot]] with [[s5bug]]
• [[the fable of the dragon tyrant]]

• Kickstarter United | General Intellect Unit

• Lasch Back w/ Douglas Lain | The Antifada

watching documentary on trump’s mental illness [[Unfit The Psychology of Donald Trump]]

2021-02-11§

• [[vera]]
  • [[matrix.to]]
  • [[matrix bot]]
• [[federation]]
• [[philosophybites]]
  • [[susan stebbing]]
• [[howl]]
• [[the set of all possible things]]

2021-02-11§

• Learned how to solve a 5x5x5 Rubik’s Cube.
• Learned about different ways to render text with [[OpenGL]] and [[FreeType]].
  • To squish and stretch text like how it is done in [[Mario Kart Wii]], either [[FreeType]] can [[rasterize]] each transformed character, or possibly, each character can be pre-rendered to a [[Signed Distance Field]] and then shaders can transform characters from there.

• Working today on [[integration of the agora]] with external sources starting with [[twitter]] and [[fediverse]]

  I’m thinking of having anyone with a [[twitter]]/[[masto]] account "claim" their id on [[agora]] which is just going to be their id on the external site e.g. vera@twitter.com

  “We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.” ― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

  “Feminists are just women who don’t want to be treated like shit”

  [[agora as documentation]]

  Started development on [[moa party]] for [[agora server]] integration. I’m going to take data from [[mastodon]]/[[twitter]] and shovel it over to a git repo via a git web interface probably using gitlab at first since that’s our stoa org.

Just learning more about Google’s third party cookie replacement, FLoC, [[Federated Learning of Cohorts]]. The [[EFF]] says: Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea.

2021-03-11§

• [[read]]
  • [[javascript]] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript
  • [[svelte]]

2021-04-11§

• Shipped [[agora graph]], [[search providers]].
• [[push]] [[later]]
  • [[transitive go]]
  • write about [[run]], perhaps needed for [[js subodes]] or [[py subnodes]]
• My mum told me about a movie in which cancelled [[kevin spacey]] plays a cat.
• [[push]] [[game]]
  • [[flancia]] is a [[world building]] [[game]].
• [[flancia es]]
  • [[agora es]]

https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1381236451397021698 pull

2021-04-11§

• Going to pull in some [[literature notes]] about articles read recently. Sounds a bit grandiose t.b.h - basically just copying in some quotes I highlighted when reading them on my phone.
• Read: [[Privacy, censorship and social media- The Case for a Common Platform]]
• Read: [[Can municipal socialism be Labour’s defence against ongoing austerity?]]
• Listened:

[[A Cooperative Vision for Technological Innovation w/ Dan Hind]]

• Listened: [[SMOOTH CO-OPERATORS: the power of co-ops to transform society]]
• Listened: [[How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner]]

• [[free day]]
  • a friend is visiting so we’ll do a walk together
• [[agora talks]]
  • [[agora talk 2021-06-04]]

15:31 notes on some articles i set aside!

• we got our second [[vaccine]] yesterday! then had a beautiful walk in the woods nearby before side effects kicked in.
• [[flancian]]
• [[pkm tools]]
• [[flan rafael]]
  • [[dielectric stacks]]
• [[agora]]
  • [[ast]]
    • [[agora trees]]
      • [[agora tree example]]
  • pushed [[vera]] pr
  • [[agora bridge js]]
    • generated twitter bearer token
    • tested twitter dump with @an_agora
    • tested mastodon dump with @agora@botsin.space
  • [[agora bot]]
• [[vc]]
  • [[patterning]]
  • [[family]]
    • [[sarmiento]]
    • [[facundo quiroga]]
      • [[el moro]]

2021-07-11§

• I feel like I’m on the cusp of something, and I get annoyed when my focus is distracted. Then I realise the distractions are the reason I’m circling this limit in the first place.

Is it really worth crossing the event horizon only to realise that none of your light can return?

• [[Anarchism]]

• [[The importance of social media]]

• [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]

  • [[Wiki]] / [[Digital garden]] adjacent.

    Memory/​narrative. Given the importance of strategy and grand strategy in anarchist cybernetics, functionality in an alternative digital platform to support long-​term planning, for example through facilitating a narrative-​ or memory-​focused layer to communication and organising, would be essential. This would entail a shift away from the short-​term stream-​centred approach of mainstream social media, where users experience content as isolated posts with little relation to what has come before them or what will follow them.

• [[informational complexity]]
• [[commonmark]]

2021-08-11§

• [[git]]
  • [[git change remote]]
  • [[git rebase]]
  • [[merge vs rebase]]
  • [[git pull strategy]]
• [[twitter analytics]]
• [[cormen]]
• [[systemd]]
• [[fediverse party]]
• [[navigation]]
  • [[back link]]
  • [[forward link]]
• [[flow]]
  • fixed backup issue that was plaging thecla/filling up space
  • finally added agora-server and agora-bridge as systemd (user) services succesfully
  • [[agora howto]]
    • [[agora signup]]
    • [[agora setup]]
    • [[agora install]]
      • [[fork the agora]]
• [[eigeneigen]]
• [[two straight arrows]]
  • [[two bent arrows]]
• [[tiddlywiki]]
  • [[jeremy ruston]]
• [[obsidian]]
• [[david deutsch]]
• [[testamento]]

2021-09-11§

• [[udit]]
• [[neil]]
  • [[micro.blog]] is an aggregator for streams
  • the [[agora]] could be an aggregator for gardens?
  • that is, perhaps a bridge entity for [[indieweb]]
• [[do]]
  • review [[do]] :)
  • review [[2021-09-10]]
  • meet [[jonathan]]
  • meet [[gustavo]]
  • [[write]]
  • choose next agora improvement
  • choose next [[agora bot]] action — boost in other network?

2021-09-11§

• Rich recommended [[The Received Wisdom]] podcast.

• [[How does linking digital gardens facilitate a richer commons?]]

• [[Moloch]] is in [[Metropolis]].

• From "The Scribes and Scholars of Ancient Mesopotamia". In [[Sumer]], [[scribes]] (who formed the [[bureaucracy]]) were typically male children of the upper class. They were the children of [[kings]], [[priests]], [[merchants]], governors, ambassadors, and occasionally scribes. collapsed:: true
  • Clay envelopes were marked with the signs of witnesses to verify the transaction inscribed within.
  • Metal was reserved as a medium of record only for royalty.
  • Wax-on-wood boards were used frequently, and could be erased. The ‘tablet of life’ was sometimes shown as a wax-covered board where the [[god]] Nabu recorded the actions of kings and their sons. Some wax boards were attached with hinges, like a book. While papyrus was available, it was not widely used due to a lack of alphabet (as opposed to cuneiform signs.
  • Scribes were trained in a tablet house. A [[school]] for scribes. They were taught the proper way to use language, literature, mathematics (to include surveying), and music.
  • Sumerian stayed as the [[language]] of [[scribes]] long after the language of [[diplomacy]] had become Assyrian. The more solid or eternal a medium of living is, the less inclined it is to change.
  • The proper structuring of language was learned first. Once it was learned, other subjects were built on it.
• Two things stop [[flow]]: a [[habit]] of keeping some muscles in [[tension]] and [[resistance]] toward [[movement]] that your tension was not shaped by.
• [[Stress]] that is not habituated to results in muscular growth with lots of [[tension]] that is designed to protect us when we are stuck in a relatively confined position.
• [[Flow]] is not something that is built, it is something that comes from a pouring out.
• You can’t [[hunt]] flow. You simply get out of the way of it. [[Tension]] is a [[choice]].
• Your favored [[priors]] compete with your ability to [[perceive]].
• One step to helping [[flow]] is to notice when you stop it by noticing your [[fixations]].
• The more you let your [[fixations]] control all of you, the less [[agency]] you feel.
• Ongoing [[tension]] comes from a [[perception]] of a [[threat]] that has not been addressed. Accept that the threat was there and let it resolve.
• When you have undergone [[change]], others find it a [[threat]] because they cannot [[predict]] you by using your old patterns. This is especially true if you have become more [[capable]]. However, if they are your [[family]] they will stay, and staying, they may learn how to let go of their own [[fixations]].
• When you give up a [[mask]], it threatens to unmask others. Which is why they will try their best to get you to keep it on.
• If you don’t try to define others, and you don’t [[identify]] them with their [[fear]], it helps them overcome their fears.
• A [[mask]] you are especially attached to becomes [[heavy]] rusted [[armor]].
• When we have an [[attachment]] to a [[mask]], we become [[comfortable]] with it. We define ourselves by what we are proudly not, rather than what we are.
• You were born graceful, as a baby. Your [[breathing]] was perfect. You learned how to [[control]] your breathing, and your structure, in a way that stops [[flow]].
• If your [[breathing]] is off, you may attend to [[movement]] and structural [[alignment]]. If your movement is off, you may attend to structural alignment and breathing. If your structural alignment is off, you may attend to movement and breathing.
• [[Tension]] creates a lot of [[thought]].
• When you sense excess [[tension]], [[breathe]] in and release all tension that you do not need for whatever you’re doing. Use the bare minimum of tension.
• [[Flow]] only stops because we try to stop it or we’ve forgotten how let ourselves flow.
• [[Soviet]] psychology was aware that academic excellence meant simply someone who could study well.
• When you assume a [[stance]] or a skill, you typically mimic a static snapshot. Let whatever it is flow, rather than stand still.
• If you trust in a pattern like a move or a technique, you are not trusting yourself.
• You can’t actually analytically break down a [[technique]]. It’s just a snapshot. What works in one second does not work in the next.
• Having [[agency]] is scary, because it means you’re [[responsible]] for what will happen.
• [[Fear]] of [[change]] was a primary [[block]] for [[athletes]] in the [[Soviet]] [[Olympic]] program.
• In the [[Soviet]] view, strength of stimulus to change/strength of conservation against change=[[change]].
• [[Pain]] is a [[catalyst]] for [[change]]. Change will not happen if pain is not faced.
• [[Pleasure]] is conservative to change, because it results in wanting to prolong the pleasure. So it [[fixates]] you in stability.
• N. Boyko of Kiev University noted that rats that were occasionally given painful shocks of electricity grew faster than those who were not shocked, and had more assertive behaviors later in their lives.
• You have to know your [[limits]] to transcend them. collapsed:: true
  • Notice when your personal records are in any skill- patience, climbing, hunger, DotA, and then let yourself exceed them.

2021-10-11§

• Started reading [[A People’s Guide to Capitalism]].
  • Seems nice so far. It works through the ideas in [[Capital]] in the order of the original, but in a simple way. It’s starting off with a chapter on the birth of capital.

2021-11-11§

• [[marquesa de burupina]]
• [[epithet]]
• [[mending wall]]
• [[juntos venceremos a moloch]]

2021-11-11§

• Did a little bit of noding on [[Convivial tools]], my [[node club]] node for the week. I like the links to libre software and commoning. And the notion of benefiting both the individual and the community at the same time.

• [[Comparing liberatory technology and appropriate technology]]

  • Feels like some overlaps between Liberatory technology and appropriate technology. How do they compare?

• [[Comparing liberatory technology and convivial tools]]

  • ^Ditto

[[Archive of our own]]

[https://archiveofourown.org/ website]

2021-12-11§

• [[neil]]
• [[mailing list]]

2021-12-11§

• Chatting with [[Flancian]]

  • [[Flancian Neil 2021-12-11]]

• Hey nice, [[Branch]] magazine number 3 is out.

  • https://branch.climateaction.tech/

• What’s the difference between [[digital commons]] and [[knowledge commons]]?

• [[Flancia Collective and the spheres of commoning]]

• [[org-roam and org-publish "Unable to resolve link"]]

• "She loved thinking of commoners as the mycelium out of which like mushrooms the commons grow." a comment from Jacques on [[Silke Helfrich]] - In Remembrance of My Dear Friend Silke Helfrich, 1967-2021 | David Bollier

[[stellar]]

[[mindfulness]]

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1469755433040687112 pull

2022-01-11§

• [[predictable identities]]
• [[foam]] is being slow
• [[push]] [[2022-01]]
  • [[write]]
    • [[commons]]
    • [[knowledge commons]]
    • [[two pomodoros for the revolution]] == [[one hour for the revolution]]
    • email
      • to [[an vu]]
      • to [[remnote]]
  • [[code]]
    • nodes should inherit go links
      • [[go/omelas]] should not require an explicit go in [[omelas]] as it’s pulling from a node that has a go link
      • essentially [[pull]] should merge resources at action resolution time
    • improve user page in the Agora
      • add attribution (repo link)
      • sort subnodes, also link to the actual node?
  • [[do]]
    • fix bug in markdown rendering reported by [[neil]]
    • launch [[vera]]‘s new fedwiki importer
    • think about [[sso]] / [[oauth]]
      • [[doxometrist]] brought this up

• Back from one week in [[argentina]]!
• [[logseq]]

  • Keeps somehow misplacing/ignoring my settings, in particular surrounding the date format for my journal filenames. Mildly irksome, in particular given that it generates spurious warning messages while at it:

    • 

  • DONE find bug report in [[go/logseq/bugs]] or file a new bug

    • I think https://github.com/logseq/logseq/issues/3861 is this.
• [[agora discuss]]
  • [[tarot for thought]]
  • [[maya kate]] [[agora open questions]]
  • [[neil]] [[resonate]]
• [[awesome wiki projects]]
• [[decentralized identifier]]
• have a backlog of things I should do now that we’re back

  • DONE unpack collapsed:: false

  • DONE laundry collapsed:: false

  • DONE upload photos collapsed:: false

  • DONE take a nap collapsed:: false

  • DONE unigraph review collapsed:: false

  • LATER [[autopush]]

    • [[autopush.sh]]
      • add photos sync to my hacky implementation, this could be cron central
    • add arbitrary triggers for [[push]] behaviour, NOW/LATER being obvious candidates
    • make #push work without [[wikilinks]] and make sure that it works with multiple nodes in arbitrary positions when you do use wikilinks

  • DONE [[fix attribution]]

  • LATER [[fix ranking]]

  • DONE catch up with friends! collapsed:: false

  • DONE [[flancia]]

    • think about funding
      • which projects I need to fund this weekend
      • #push how to answer [[ultimape]]‘s great question fully
        • https://pinafore.social/statuses/107755233690287648

2022-02-11§

• Doing [[Node Club Tarot]] again. [[Jayu]] did it too! I like their use of ‘art’ ‘method’ and ‘intended goals’ meta data.

• Fuck Spotify, join [[Resonate]].

• [[Bill Seitz]] is doing some cool stuff with [[sister sites]] and dynamic [[twin pages]] -

  • https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1490447807567876096 pull
  • http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/2022-02-06-AddingSisterSites
  • If you combined it with simple inline transclusion, if wouldn’t be far off what I kind of want from a [[garden reader]].

• [[tripleC]] journal looks pretty great.

  • Bookmarked: [[Teaching the Commons through the Game of Musical Chairs]]

• [[Fixing my sites URLs]].

• #push [[avif]]
  • is looking pretty good: https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/
• #push [[sundar day]]
  • for the last 2y (since the pandemic started) we’ve been getting [[global reset days]] — which people widely call [[sunday]] days after the CEO.
  • will go on a short hike with my brother who is visiting
  • also plan on doing some coding :)
• [[agora]]

  • [[agora discuss]]

    • [[maya]] brought up [[concordances]] / [[key word in context]], interesting.
    • I love coming back to [[agora discuss]] and finding interesting things the community has discussed!

  • LATER #push [[go links in pushes]]

    • testing
    • #go https://flancia.org pull
    • LATER does the above go link work at the destination? I think it should, and if it doesn’t, it should be fixed :)
      • it doesn’t, it needs to be fixed :) on second thought it is not surprising as go links handling is quite hacky, doesn’t reuse the basic node assembly logic we have for node rendering

  • LATER [[autopush]] has been a long time in the making

    • after thinking it through I’m not sure there’s a big issue with continuing to parse the html we produce while rendering subnodes as a way to extract structure that can be used for pushing
    • the fact that this lets us have a single push implementation for all source formats that render similarly has a lot going for it?
    • all in all I will probably try to implement this soon (finally!)

  • LATER [[autopull plurals]] seems like low hanging fruit now that we have other autopulls enabled

  • LATER I keep thinking about [[sqlite]] as an experiment to make the Agora faster.

    • the filesystem is very fast (fast enough) for the core Agora functionality of gathering all resources matching a name, but is too slow to handle deeper relationships between resources (linking, pulls, pushes) as we scale up.
    • storing relationships in sqlite seems like a reasonable experiment to run.
    • we could keep the [[agora server is read only]] design principle by having [[agora bridge]] be the component that writes to sqlite, and having [[agora server]] just read.

  • fix [[agora mastodon bot]]

  • DONE fixed [[moa.party]] for [[aral]]

• [[tumper]] asked if there’s a way of using [[mastodon]] from [[matrix]] — good question
  • https://pinafore.social/statuses/107913044603938676
  • [[matrix mastodon bridge]] == [[mastodon matrix bridge]] -> [[matrix activitypub bridge]]
• #push [[yoga]]
  • [[asanas]]
• went hiking near [[brugg]] with my brother.
  • we saw the [[confluence]] of three rivers: [[aare]], [[limmat]], [[reuss]]
  • thought of [[luciana]] and [[lady burup]] and [[flancia]]
• [[flancia]]
  • #push [[la chaux de fonds]]
    • [[le corbusier]]
    • [[blaise cendrars]]
      • [[writer]]
    • [[louis chevrolet]]
    • [[solarpunk]]
• [[confession]] the more I [[tweet]], the more people unfollow me, the less I care — a priori, that is, before I know who they are, after which I sometimes I regret it; but not enough to stop sharing :)
  • I don’t keep track of counts in the [[fediverse]] as much, which is probably healthier — but I do have a tendency to find [[numbers]] interesting
• [[crpg addict]]

I rethemed the wiki again because I was too jealous finding Krystal. I can’t tell if there’s some odd JS making the scrolling janky or if my phone is just throwing a fit because it’s old and has hundreds of tabs open. This was all essentially unreasonable, but didn’t take nearly as long now I have more of a clue how.

2022-03-11§

• Participated in a roundtable on [[citizen science]] and [[digital action]] run by UCL Extreme Citizen Science lab, as part of [[Restart]].

• Put in for a place on the Data Leadership Cohort that [[Aspiration Tech]] is running, related to our work on [[open repair data]]. Got me thinking about [[data commons]].

• I’ve noticed that I like writing [[technical documentation]].

  • I’ve always had a predilection for [[maintenance]] rather than the creation of shiny new things. I feel like writing docs is in keeping with that affinity.

• #push [[work]]
  • "Work is work, that’s why they call it work even when it’s often labor."

Semana 2022-04-11§

Facultad§

VL Literatura ENS: Waterfront§

• Leer “[[Introduction. The Graphic Novel, a Special Type of Comics]]” to Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey: The Graphic Novel. An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• (Leer) Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
• Browsear:
  • Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler: Oil and Water, Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2011.
  • Joe Harris and Martín Morazzo: Great Pacific – Trashed! Portland: Image Comics, 2013.
  • Rachel Hope Allison: I’m Not a Plastic Bag, Los Angeles: Archaia, 2012.
  • Nick Hayes: The Rime of the Modern Mariner, New York: Viking, 2011.

Seminario Literatura ENS: Research Methodologies for Literary Studies§

• Escribir análisis de DFW "A radically condensed…"
• Escribir análisis de Joy Harjo: “An American Sunrise”
• Escribir análisis de Kate Chopin: "Story of an Hour"
• Leer Frost, Robert. “Mending Wall” (1914).
• Leer Wheatley, Phillis. “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773).

VL Literatura ENS: Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature (esta semana no hay clases)§

• Leer Craig Calhoun - ‘The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travellers’
• Leer Jacques Derrida - ‘On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness’
• Ver podcast
• Leer Jessica Berman - ‘Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community’
• Ver podcast

VL Literatura ENS: Victorian Gothic§

• Leer Sweeney Todd ch. 1.4.22
• Leer Varney the Vampire ch. 1
• Ver podcast
• Leer Jane Eyre ch.20

VL Literatura ES: Escrituras en movimiento§

• Releer Guadalupe Nettel La version de Cecilia/La versión de Claudio
• Leer Mentira romántica y verdad novelesca de René Girard

Seminario Literatura ES: BVM§

Seminario Benjamin (29/04)§

• Leer Walter Benjamin, "Una imagen de Proust"
• Preparar exposición

Taller de escritura académica en español§

• Escribir algo en el marco de lo que estamos haciendo
• Armar mapa conceptual y marco teórico de un trabajo
• Poner foco en los párrafos. Hacer ejercicio de intercalar frases largas y cortas. Y por qué hacemos una corta o larga.
• Mandar el lunes de la semana del 06.05

2022-04-11§

• Watched [[The People vs Climate Change]], documentary on the [[Climate Assembly UK]] that took place 2019 onwards.

• Listened: [[The insect crisis: where did all the bugs go?]]

• [[mathew lowry]]
  • rescheduled to next [[wednesday]]
• [[flancia collective]]
  • [[agora]]
  • [[separation]]
• [[moa]]
  • [[moa matrix]]
• [[social coop]]
  • [[terms]] -> [[social coop terms]]
• [[loopy]] == [[strangest loop]]
  • 
• [[cómo es el mar?]]
• [[protopian]]
  • [[wolf tivy]]
    • [[mystic computer club]]

• [[Notes]] taken for a specific [[purpose]] to serve a particular [[aim]] offer a different kind of [[knowledge]] than notes taken to store knowledge for the sake of stored knowledge.

2022-05-11§

• [[Transition Together Summit]]

• Next to last day at home before leaving for a 2w trip!
  • Need to trip prep
    • do laundry
    • start packing
    • set up new laptop
      • hostname change is pending
      • but at least now I have a working [[agora editor]], trusty [[wiki vim]]
      • moved [[vimrc]] to [[Plug]] from [[vundle]]
        • like the autoinstall
      • really liking [[chezmoi]]!
    • #yoga [[go/move/11]]
• [[flancia meet]]
  • 1h later than usual as I went to bed very late.
  • I should be more consistent probably though :)
• [[agora]]
  • [[agora bridge]]
    • [[opt in]] writes
    • bot tweets/toots polls? check out APIs
  • [[agora server]]
    • review PRs
• [[social coop]]
  • met [[akshay]] yesterday [[2022-06-10]]! it was great
    • we ate lunch with [[pesho]] who showed us around [[university of zurich]] and [[eth zurich]]
  • [[social coop tech group]]
    • use [[docker logs]] to poke around containers and try to find issues with previews
    • #push [[matrix]]
      • started a thread discussing whether we might like to run a matrix server for [[social coop]] https://www.loomio.org/d/tOBDu5ap/should-we-run-a-matrix-server-
• [[people]]
  • [[akshay]]
  • [[diegodlh]]
  • [[amadeo]]
  • [[l]]
  • [[berni]]
  • [[chris]]
  • [[iian]] ~ [[codex]]
    • [[harley ray gray]] ~ [[harleyraygray]]
      • respond to twitter thread

2022-06-11§

• [[Regenerative farming]]

• [[Open Infrastructure Map]] is absolutely fascinating. Check out all the power stations, turbines, electricity lines, gas, oil, water pipelines, etc are near you. Built on top of [[Open Street Map]] data (what an amazing project OSM is).

• Equally fascinating is [[OSM Landuse Landcover]]. Dead interesting to compare urban areas, agriculture and wilderness. No surprise that near me there is a ton of pasture grazing and crop farming, a bit of urban sprawl, and a depressingly small amount of woodland and forest.

• met [[tasshin]]
  • [[brahmaviharas]]
  • [[maitreya]]

• [[infranodus]]

• [[work]]
  • book time off
• [[family]]
  • see family

• [[‘Will [[Russia]] control [[Kherson]] on 10/31/22’]] :
  • Looked at Ukraine War Map (@war.mapper) over time to get a sense of the mass spreading of both sides.
  • It seems like the Russo-Ukrainian war has become mostly a [[war]] of [[attrition]], judging by the reports of 500-1000 casualties a day on the Ukrainian side through private channels and Western estimates, and around that or more on the Russia side from [[media]] sources. All this combined with minimal shifting of [[territory]] in the last few months.
  • @auditor_ya on [[Twitter]], a seeming Ukrainian [[OSINT]] digester, has [[maps]] that echo @war.mapper. collapsed:: true
    • A Russian [[attack]] from the Donetsk area toward Avdivka used close [[air]] [[support]].
  • Low [[cost]], improvised [[drone]] technology seems to be experiencing a higher rate of [[innovation]] on the Ukrainian side.
  • Russian media (RBC) reports civilians returning to Kherson.
  • Checked @ukra_satflash on Twitter for back of the napkin advance of explosions.
  • Will Russia use nukes or other unexpected [[weapons]]?
  • Will Ukraine get better at [[strategy]]? collapsed:: true
    • Russia seems to have learned from the opening months of the war and appears to be operating more like a modern military in full swing now.
    • Ukraine has Western economic support, and its institutions have taken over many hidden logistical aspects of the war away from people who were fired up to defend their homeland- does this mean that there is less fire to fight among the population, as well?
  • By the best estimates of positions in the last month, Ukraine has held the [[high]] [[ground]] for awhile, and Russia was able to push up the coastal plains until it hit the high ground. collapsed:: true
    • The area northeast from Kherson would be a good approach, if the Dnipro is somehow taken and used amphibiously, and the flanks to the east are taken care of. collapsed:: true
      • Is this something Ukraine has the capability for?
    • Ukrainian Naval Infantry numbered around 200 in 2014. They went through a crucible against militias in Donbass. collapsed:: true
      • Can’t be more than 12,000 Marines, given the unit descriptions. So, probably 4-10,000. collapsed:: true
        • Wikipedia says ‘6,000’.
    • Can Ukraine use the Dniprovska Gulf?
  • ‘How Initiators End Their Wars: The Duration of Warfare and the Terms of Peace’:
    • Suggests that those who start wars will do worse as the [[war]] goes on, information in the war is used to decide more than information before the war, that stronger initiators are slower to update their guesses about whether they will win, and that the war will last the longer that people are [[uncertain]] about who would win.
      • Knowledge about relative [[rate]] of loss during the [[war]] seems more [[predictive]] than [[knowledge]] of [[resources]] and [[army]] size before the war started. collapsed:: true
        • It is very difficult to get any [[information]] on Ukrainian military [[deaths]], due to Ukrainian obfuscation. Private channels on the Ukrainian side suggested it was 100-500/day in May.
    • The longer the [[war]], the worse the expected outcome is for whoever started it.
  • Given that [[Russia]] started the war with [[Ukraine]] (or was it Russian [[neoreactionaries]]?), will it be more likely for Russians to take ground in the next few months?
• Internal [[war]] that takes place far from a [[political]] [[center]] in areas with natural [[resources]] that people want internationally last longer than ones that are closer to a [[central]] [[government]]. collapsed:: true
  • Higher rebel [[military]] ability increases the chances that a civil war will be shorter.
    • How far must the army move to fight? How long can they fight for?
• How does [[time]] interact with whatever is studied?

2022-08-11§

• [[Revolution]], [[Revolutionary transition]], [[Climate Leninism]]

  • Read: [[Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition]]

• I’ll retroactively class the previous action as two [[pomodoro for the revolution]]

  • Read: [[Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition]]
  • Read: [[Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition]]

• [[agora doc]]
• [[ladee]]
• #push [[ted nelson]]
  • [[bouncepaw]] recommended him (not the first, not the last, but relevant to me!)
  • [[literary machines]]
  • [[xanadu]]

2022-09-11§

• Listening: [[What is to be done? Who is going to do it and where?]]

• Listening: [[GND vs Degrowth. Live Panel from Labour Conference 2021]]

• [[work]]
  • [[10 meetings]] day
    • several were actually constructive — not a bad day all in all
• [[an]]
  • [[pasolini]]
  • [[coen brothers]]
• [[ladee]]

• When does [[violence]], or a high [[energy]] overflow, happen? It rarely happens, relative to non-violence.
  • [[Social]] [[competition]] is more common than direct [[conflict]], and direct conflict is more common than [[violence]].
  • In 1-on-1 situations with an audience that does not encourage [[violence]] and repeated insults, etc, the possibility of a fight often terminates within 60 seconds. [[timing]] collapsed:: true
    • For large [[groups]] of people gathered as a body, there is often a window of a few hours before the possibility of [[violence]] dissipates.
    • For [[revolutionary]] movements, the critical window might be a few days.

• [[work]]
• dinner with [[friends]] :)
  • [[fondue]]
  • [[55]]
    • [[11]] [[5]]

2022-11-11§

• Read: [[First and Third World Ecosocialisms]]

• [[backnoded]]
• #push [[madrid 2022]]
  • [[prado]] with [[isabel]]
  • [[san ginés]] with [[berni]] and [[mpd]]
• earlier: [[2022-12-10]]

2022-12-11§

Removing the org-cite test for now, as it failed on the gitlab build…

• I’ve been away from [[noding]] a bit, away from [[writing]], as I focused my writing on [[Agora chapter]] for the [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]] book.
• I started [[Return to Monkey Island]] today and I’m liking it a lot.
  • I got used to the art style pretty quickly.
• [[Flancia]]
  • #push [[flancia book]]
    • I think I want to call the book [[Flancia Chronicles]].
      • The book is to be assembled from my writing in https://flancia.org pull and https://anagora.org pull.
      • In the meantime, there’s a [[Flancia doc]] :)
  • #push [[agora]]
    • #push [[agora development]]
      • ship [[agora graph]] in some version?
      • [[dynamic subnodes]], sometimes also known as [[executable subnodes]]
        • ship executable subnodes with allowlist?
        • start on [[client side subnodes]], meaning [[javascript]] in gardens :)
      • easy improvement: I want to adjust the node/subnode icons back to what they were one or two months ago; a stack for a node made sense, whereas the current red book for node is puzzling.
    • #push [[agora chapter]] next steps
      • read George’s email.
        • end of week as deadline for all, then we need to….
          • work on updated abstracts and…
          • start on the Markdown port.
  • [[work]]
    • worked a bit even though I had the day off, and I enjoyed getting some things done!
  • [[yoga with x]]
    • [[center]]
      • day 9 was [[corazón]]
      • day 10 (it "lags" one this month) is [[energy]]
  • [[fellowship of the link]]
    • [[2023]]
      • [[flancia 2023]]
      • [[bigger goals]]
    • [[argentina 1985]]
• [[kris]]
  • [[the story of the chinese farmer]]
  • [[plantasia]]
  • [[sydney]]
  • [[paris]]
  • [[berlin]]
• [[agora.yaml]]
• [[another social network is possible]]
  • on [[bernard stiegler]]
  • https://networkcultures.org/geert/2022/12/28/harry-halpin-geert-lovink-another-social-network-is-possible-on-bernard-stiegler-and-the-social-media-question/

• [[flancia meet]]
  • I talked to [[mohammed]] ~ [[aldhari]], it was great!
  • [[pomodoros]]
    • [[do]]
    • pomodoro zero with neil!
    • pomodoro one with neil!
    • pomodoro two with neil!
    • …
    • pomodoros with [[neil]] and [[sab]] ~ [[kale cream]]
  • [[rests]]
    • [[neil]] told me about [[systems thinking for kids]]
    • [[coffee]]
    • [[decent social]]
• [[decent social]] today!

• For competition, Manto [[BJJ]] has been focusing on the 3 H’s: handfighting, keeping their hips higher than the opponent’s, and keep their hips pointed toward the ground- better known in [[wrestling]] as a [[hip heist]]. [[unarmed]]
• Rob Gray of the Perception-Action school of sports learning analysis says, "[[Learning]] is not the process of [[repeating]] a solution, it is the process of repeating [[finding]] a [[solution]]."
• It’s easier to manipulate and [[control]] something with [[structure]].
• To aid in learning [[tracking]], an [[aging stand]] is recommended for whatever environment you might track in. In the same way scientists study how bodies decompose, it is useful to study how things are affected over [[time]] in a given [[land]]scape.
• Pairs of [[coyotes]] make helixes as they [[move]].
• Find a thousand ways to get to the [[outcome]]. [[end]]
• For more [[power]] generated from body [[movement]], increase [[length]] and [[size]] of [[kinetic]] chain.
• When you [[storyboard]] a scene for an [[ad]], consider what questions the scene would need to pose to give the audience the answer that what you have is what they need. [[propaganda]]
• The [[timing]] of when to talk about [[solutions]] is after enough questions have been to asked to find out what [[needs]] there are. Once the needs are out in the open, they can be addressed with solutions- so long as the solutions do actually fit the needs. [[sales]]
• The founder of [[Judo]], [[Jigaro Kano]], is often quoted on the importance of ‘maximum [[efficiency]]‘ (精力善用), but perhaps this might be better understood as ‘[[life]] [[force]] used well’. To take advantage of, or to practice [[good]] use of vigorous force.
• [[Roger Gracie]] on [[rote]] [[repetition]]: "The moment you know how how to apply [the mechanic], there’s no more point in [[drilling]]. Now you have to [[practice]] with [[resistance]]."
• What has [[scale]]-free scalability? How can we design collectives with scale-free scalability? Is this what the conquering Mongol army was? Did every early stage world [[religion]] have this?
• How would we plant the [[seed]] for a new [[world]] [[religion]] that has a [[modular]] structure? What [[building]] [[block]] can we give people to create their own religion?

2023-02-11§

• [[Synchronized pomodoros]]
  • With [[Flancian]] and Sab
  • [[Pomodoros]]
    • p0: Review presentation 1 for YXM830
    • p1: Review presentation 1 for YXM830
    • p2: Review presentation 1 for YXM830
    • p3: Review presentation 1 for YXM830

• [[2023-03-10]] [[2023-03-09]]
• #push [[flancia]]
  • #push [[taixu]]
    • [[maitreya school]]
    • [[disciples]]
      • [[Dongchu]]
      • [[Yin Shun]]
        • [[Cheng Yen]] -> [[Tzu Chi]]
  • #push [[flancia meet]]
    • I had a lovely time catching up with [[armengol]] ~ [[armengolaltayo]]!
    • #push [[spinach]]
      • [[academic urban legends]]
    • [[fellowship of the link]]
    • [[philosophy]]
    • [[modules]]
    • [[agora]]
    • [[router]]
    • [[pattern languages]]
  • [[social coop]] and [[agor.ai]]
    • install [[coop cloud]]
      • install abra
• [[Feynman diagram]] -> [[A Rosetta Stone]]
• [[work]]
  • some light scheduling and sharing, enjoyed it
  • #push [[SRE]]
    • [[xoogler table]]
    • [[xoogler sre]]
• #push [[Tres Maitreyas]]
  • Gone gone
  • Everybody gone to the other shore
  • gone kindly
  • if you have to go, [[go kindly]]
• #push [[premium chanachur]]
  • a [[gift]].
  • I like it a lot.
  • https://bajarhaat.com/product/relite-premium-chanachur-special-jhal-400-gm/
  • "special [[jhal]]"

• When [[working]] with the garage door up,
  • [[Decide]] [[where]] to put up your unfinished [[work]], [[what]] to put up, [[when]] to put it up, and how to give people who check it out something they will [[want]].

2023-03-11§

• Read: [[A long overdue moment? The UK greens pushing for the nuclear option]]

• Read: [[The computer built to last 50 years]]

• Read: [[Reinventing How We Use Computers]]

• [[2023-04-10]] came and went with a variety of feelings
  • [[10]] stands for:
    • [[right view]]
    • 2*5 == fork your focus
    • [[om tare tuttare ture soha]] (10 syllables)
• [[work]]
  • oncall, got paged before 8am, but it was nothing critical and I was able to fall back asleep eventually (I needed some more rest)
  • [[focus]] time is important, I’ll try to do 2h of focus before meetings today — I usually find it hard due to the [[dead time]] phenomenon, but I also think I want to try to become better at focusing even in such a situation (when there are imminent appointments)
  • [[summit]] prep
    • publish document for session
    • review sessions
    • verify status of canadian permit as I’m doing a layover there
    • book hotel in sunnyvale
    • -> [[2023-04-12]]
• [[aj]]
  • happy we met!

• Your [[product]] or [[service]] needs to [[fit]] with their [[workflow]], and with what they would need if they were [[experimenting]].
• Labeling [[emotions]] may help [[people]] come out with them. collapsed:: true
  • It seems like you’re [[feeling]] ‘X’? How ‘X’ are you? What led to that feeling? What needs to happen for that feeling to be better? What can I do to help you make this happen?
• Deep [[curiosity]] about an interlocutor will make any [[conversation]] [[interesting]]. collapsed:: true
  • Making things about [[others]] yields [[unknown]] [[opportunities]] because they are more likely to share what they [[know]] that you don’t.
  • Ask [[questions]] that trigger [[answers]] that use thinking, feeling, or doing statements.
  • If someone tends to [[block]] others, give them something specific to do. Make them feel important. collapsed:: true
    • Ask them for a [[solution]].
    • When people need to [[vent]], let them vent and then [[ask]] them to say more.
  • When people think something new is [[impossible]], [[ask]] them what’s impossible to do that would really help them out, then ask them about what would make that [[possible]].
  • How can you [[ask]] something that will help someone say "No"? collapsed:: true
    • What can you [[ask]] that will get both parties of a [[conflict]] to [[mirror]] each other?
      • Where do they need to be to be able to solve the [[problem]]?
        • Picture someone doing something [[frustrating]].
        • [[Ask]] the [[tulpa]] about what frustrates them most about you.
        • [[Ask]] about how much they are frustrated with you.
        • [[Ask]] the tulpa-copy about a time you did something extremely [[painful]] to them.
• If someone isn’t pulling their weight, point out the ways you think you probably [[frustrate]] them.

• [[work]]
  • [[working from home]], I enjoy the freedom to choose to do this whenever
• [[flancia]]
  • [[AG]]
  • [[Por Flancia! Qué Flancia? Tu Flancia!]]
• [[an analog guy in a digital world]]
• weighed 1000 magnets and got [[406]] grams
  • This led me to factor 406, it was fun!
    • 406 = 203 * 2 = 7 * 29

• In [[fighting]], it is often easier to [[move]] around a [[frame]] instead of trying to take the frame off.

2023-05-11§

• Listening: [[The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism]]
• My auto-publishing script to the Agora seems to be erroring out at the moment, going manual temporarily…

• Backnoded in July (!).
  • It was a beautiful weekend: [[2023-06-10]] [[2023-06-11]]

• How much would I [[pay]] for this [[thing]] if I didn’t [[own]] it?
• Will taking this away bring you further from where you [[want]] to go?

2023-06-11§

• [[Read]]: [[For an anti-colonial, anti-racist environmentalism]]

• [[Read]]: [[The Secret Water Footprint of AI Technology]]

• For now, I’ve moved my org-publish stuff (both the publishing to my website and to the Agora) on to my own server. But I’ve had to remove the caching, because that kept failing ([[Problems with org-publish cache]]). So I probably haven’t gained much. Except that the html publish pipeline was timing out on Gitlab, so at least my site will be regularly updating again now.

• [[Listened]]:

• meeting someone about a room 🤞
• testing [[wikilink]]
• woots
• testing localhost

Nothing happened here other than some pain

• I never got the point of folders like "Music" and "Videos", do people actually store their media in those folders? Sometimes I use "Documents" but that’s about it. Most of my stuff lives in "Downloads" or is in some installed programs data folder.
• Talking to flancian today about adding fediverse features to agora. "click to boost"

• [[Flancia]]!
• [[agora slides]]
• #push [[Flancia
• #push [[debate]]
  • Imagine a public global debate about the crimes of [[Moloch]], and the ways to move forward.
• #push [[liquid democracy]]
  • Imagine calling elections in every nation-state currently recognized by the UN where a group of people think they could be useful. These meaning in addition to those called by the state in question as per custom up-to-date: put succinctly, imagine the citizens of the internet calling for open, transparent, fair, liquid-democracy-advancing elections in Russia, United States, China — a priori without the authorization of the states in question, but with an intent to cooperate rationally with them.

• my shadow.tech box isn’t loading. I wonder if they’re having issues. I don’t see anything on status page 🤷‍♀️

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[work]]
  • [[fellowship of the link]]
    • [[public ai]]

• [[Flancia]]:
  • [[December Adventure]]
  • [[work]]
  • [[Selva Negra]]
• [[poems]]:
  • fork, fork, fork!
    • as we merge we’ll [[fork]]!
  • agua, agua, [[agua]]:
    • agua para los sedientos!
  • [[yoga with x]]:
    • was great and chaotic :)
  • [[december adventure]]
    • thinking about this December as an introduction to [[2024]]!
• [[Milei]] asumió
• [[Schwarzwald]] over the weekend with [[AG]] :)

• i forgot my journal app was still being hosted. yay cloudtech.
• got a new job at cascadia health as a peer support. essentially im an unlicensed therapist.

2024-02-11§

• Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

• Read: [[A Half-Built Garden]]

• [[work]]
• [[ai]]
  • TIL about [[unsloth]]
  • will try to focus this week on colab-style work, organizing a [[hackathon]]
• [[social.coop]]
  • [[moderation]]
  • [[registrations]]
• read about [[p5js]]: https://davidmatthew.ie/p5js-vs-html-canvas/
  • [[pixi]] looks alright
  • [[easel]] seems unmaintained/abandoned
  • I think ‘bare canvas’ might be a better idea for now?
• [[abelard.org]]

• My individual [[Silverbullet]] instance at edit.anagora.org was down for a bit — I ended up updating the container and setting up a crontjob that will do it for me.
  • I’m thinking next step should be to put together a [[coop cloud]] recipe?
  • I’d love to host this for many people in anagora.org or agor.ai.
    • In that case it would make sense to have e.g. flancian.agor.ai be my silverbullet instance, and offer user.agor.ai in general.
    • Same for anagora.org? Or should I start there, I wonder?
• [[abelard.org]] looks [[weird]]/[[interesting]].
  • I got to it via a #hn thread linking to its copy of [[Profession]] by [[Asimov]].
• I keep noding both from [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] and the journal entries end up in different files.
  • I’m not particularly bothered by it — this brings up the question of how to ideally show such things in the [[Agora of Flancia]] :)

2024-03-11§

• [[Listened]]: [[Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"]]

• [[Spam]].

  • Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
  • Incredibly irritating.
  • With comments like 1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0).
  • We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
  • Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
  • The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full.

• The AI [[hackathon]] I’ve been working on went well \o/

2024-04-11§

• Learning about [[biodiversity]] via the Kinna app.

  • Variety of species. At various levels.
  • Essential to the health of the planet.
  • Genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity.

• Listened to [[Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha]]

  • Fascinating discussion. Post Capitalism. Post here not meaning ‘after’ but ‘in relation to’. Pluralistic. Past and present examples: Zapatistas. Rojava. Indigenous worldviews. Relational ontologies and OntoShift.

• [[flancia meet]]:
  • [[bouncepaw]]
    • [[pipepunk]] and its evolution
    • [[zine]]

• [[2024-05-10]]
  • I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
  • Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]’

• [[flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] was great!

2024-05-11§

• [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • I finished Week 1.
  • (Mostly - not had chance to go through all the further materials yet.)

• [[flancia book]]:

Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.

These its chapters.

• [[Manifesto]]
• [[In Flancia there is an Agora]]
• [[In Flancia we will defeat Moloch]]

• [[Building Bridges]] then :)
  • Between [[platforms]], between [[formats]], between different resources in one [[garden]] or [[Agora]] :)
• [[donna haraway]] has interesting/surprising (to me) contents!
  • [[A Cyborg Manifesto]]
• I thought of the question of defining [[canonicity]].

• Sad morning but I think it was also cathartic.
• Then I cleaned the house, and I did practice :)
• Got back to [[Building Bridges]] after long, finally — it’s been on the backburner for a year or so, at least?
  • Will try to do a pass on it, with the occasion of also
  • Fixing formatting issues on [[Agora Chapter]] for legibility before sharing further
• I need to fix the issue that on some computers [[wiki vim]] writes journals on /journal/<date>.md and in some others I have it set it up to /<date>.md
• [[Flow state]]

• [[Divorce]]
• [[Free from suffering]]!
  • Both happy and sad. But it was beautiful to see [[L]], see her shining!
• [[2063]]

• I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
  • It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
  • Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/<n> be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
• [[Algún día]]
• Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
  • I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
  • I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
  • I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
  • I thought of the future.

2024-11-11§

2024-12-11§

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • against the dark forest
    • [[Dark forest]]. [[Cozyweb]].
  • Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds | E…
    • [[climate activism]].
  • New report: Exploring a transition to alternative social media platforms for …
    • [[Alternative social media]].

• I resigned from the [[Social.coop]] [[Community Working Group]] the day after starting the [[vote to suspend meta]] after much discussion and a quick draft done with/for the community. It felt like it was the right time to disengage after I received criticism yet again for ‘moving too fast’ despite looping in people earlier and doing what I thought was a fully reasonable pro-social action to advance discussion (start a proposal on Loomio). This after concerns were escalated by multiple community members, including to the CWG, about Social.coop feeling like less of a safe space due to our lack of visible response.
  • One of the criticisms I got amounted (paraphrasing for effect) to needing to have more pre-meetings and go slower. I am fine not having pre-meetings or anything of the sort and doing more and talking less in 2025 as far as I can (within reason), so it seemed like a good moment to finish my CWG engagement (after several years) and focus on the Tech Working Group and the Organizing Circle instead. The CWG is now well-staffed so I am not needed there anymore, which I am thankful for to the people who remain!
  • In general the negativity I had gotten used to getting from some members was a bit of an energy drain, and I realized I could use my time more constructively for the community in the other engagements I plan to keep.
• [[Bull]] is looking great! I’m now serving it (for myself only for the time being) at https://edit.anagora.org pull.

2025-01-11§

• Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
  • Got it on [[libro.fm]].
    • Intrigued to see how it pans out. Purports to be a data-backed, optimistic approach to tackling [[climate change]].

• Loved the [[15 minutes]] flow
• Played [[The Reluctant Groom]], plus [[Lady Burup]]‘s song :)
• Back here something like 22 hours later, on the other side of the night and day and half there over :)
  • Work including oncall was occasionally heavy but still good, felt productive. Worked late and advanced some threads enough, but not as late as yesterday!

• Good day at work!
  • Started cycling season by biking to work, which was great :)
  • Then good progress on some fronts, and a pleasant evening at home with Lady Burup and working a bit more.
  • Thinking about the future in a pleasant way.
• TIL about [[Mahasthamaprapta]], one of the two attendants of [[Amida Nyorai]]/[[Amitabha]] with [[Avalokiteshvara]]! Gemini told me about them, a.k.a. [[Dashizhi]] in feminine form.

2025-04-11§

• [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • Describes [[Bitcoin]]‘s initial promise and excitement around it, even from those on the left as a potentially [[liberatory technology]].
• But ultimate disappointment as it became another means of capital accumulation for the already powerful.

2025-05-11§

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Nature and other dangerous words: Marx, method and the proletarian standpoint in the web of life | Dialectical Anthropology
    • tags: [[Cheap Nature]]. [[Capitalocene]]. [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Jason W. Moore]].

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: why is zhere 29 open issues on gizhub
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: why is zhere 30 open issues on gizhub

• Watched A.I. is a Religious Cult
  • Reminded of [[timnit gebru]] and the TESCREAL argument
  • These are largely absent in places like China, another major player in AI
  • Techno-dystopian visions vs. pragmatic and regulatory ones [[?]]
    • HAL vs. MOSS
  • There was a comparison between the civilizing mission and the superintelligence race

2025-11-11§

• I’m enjoying my new approach to quick access to [[Emacs]] in my work environment.

  • Not quite as intuitive or fun as using [[Guake]], but having GUI Emacs feel like an improvement.
  • I like running the terminal version of Emacs but felt like missing out on a few too many niceties that way.
  • Interesting to observe that other people either take a ‘one frame to rule them all’ or multiple frames approach.
  • I’ve currently gone for one frame, using [[Spacemacs]] layouts to switch between different contexts. I’ll see how that pans out.
  • [[Updating my approach to window management and Emacs]]

• Hmm, interesting, whatever slowness I was experiencing regarding [[org-agenda]] rebuilding seems to have gone away with the switch back to using the GUI Emacs.

  • Or maybe it’s because I’m just running one instance again?
  • Either way, but for that to have gone away.

• Sometimes, because I had separate multiple frames, I’d end up editing the same file in two separate frames and get conflicts around changes to the file.

  • Particular when using org-capture to add to my Tasks.org file, then editing that in another frame.
  • Avoiding this issue is a handy perk of using one frame with layouts - all the buffers are present in all layouts (I assume?), just hidden from view.
  • Noting that probably this conflict would also be avoidable if running different frames from the same server instance of Emacs.

• Noding, #noding, [[noding]]…
  • I don’t know precisely how well the streak is going but I’m happy to be back noding at least a bit every day, most days :)

• Personal life is going beautifully, there was a small setback with a health issue affecting a loved one but things are looking up now!
• My trip to [[Napoli]] with friends was amazing.
• It was beautiful to be reunited with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]!
• I found [[I don’t want my tool to tell me how to think]] very interesting, thank you [[@scalingsynthesis]]!
  • It also inspired me to fix some longstanding Agora bugs with [[canonical wikilinks]] (what we render in [[Agora Server]]…