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https://bigthink.com/health/most-damaging-exercise-myth/
It is widely believed that it is normal to become less physically active as you get older. But this is a pernicious myth about exercise.
Working out is beneficial when you're old. Well, I'm young, and I'm already crumbling. I should work out, I really should, but I don't like doing it…
https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe
An ActivityPub/Fediverse server. Contribute to jointakahe/takahe development by creating an account on GitHub.
Year of the Earth Pig
[[ETC Summit]], [[Presentation - A new open source deal for Web3]]
Day trip to Nanaimo hosted at [[Input Cowork]], on the [[Fission]] blog: Coworking in Nanaimo + Input Cowork Nanaimo Tech Meetup
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NixOS has been a great experience so far. I've had some issues regarding permissions with the read-only file system, but otherwise things have gone smoothly.
i'm finally getting the hang of this
Just an interesting linkage that I’ve noticed in a couple of places recently. I’ve seen [[Chris]] mention a few times the mnemonic systems used by indigenous peoples. And there was a chapter in [[Future Histories]] on lessons to be learned from [[indigenous communities on ownership and governance]].
Seen via [[Jacky]] - the anti-capitalist software license.
Seems very similar to the [[Peer Production License]].
Both examples of [[copyfarleft]].
I’d love to see someone put something like [[Deleuze and Guatarri]] or [[Debord]] through GPT-3โฆ
In other words: Why can’t we get it done by the end of today (GMT)?""
[[Quick Capture]]
[[Quick Capture]]
i wonder how much parental divorce would have changed me extremely privileged to realize that i have had a good upbringing without substantial trauma, but i wonder if a divorce and the subsequent process of navigating my relationship with my parents and others would have been beneficial for me in terms of personal and interpersonal development.
navigating coplex familial relationships feels like a headache, but it may have made me more sociable.
i suppose i am just looking for justification for my current state :: why am i not currently having an easy time reaching out to others? how do i begin to navigate a new environment?
maybe these things will come with time
i used to be afraid of permanent modification now i welcome it :: it feels like i am recording myself at a moment in time to be ashamed of the past is to welcome the future it is good to acknowledge myself now && continue to move on!
https://freddieyam.com/gen2/p/the-day-my-kundalini-woke-up.html the kundalini is the way to enligntenment
focus your attention on the place you expect to find them
prana :: associated with defecation
apana :: associated with breathing
senstations in rectum and chest, respectively the sleeping Kundalini is said to coil around the coccyx, or vestigial tailbone
attempt to visualize light stretch physically to induce feeling of hollowness perceive energy moving downward throuhg lungs, contracting chest muscles abdomen: contract muscles to induce accumulating energy perceive feeling of lower spine moving towards the head anus downward moving energy due to apana two attentions: induction of particular percentpions and looking with imprecise expectations
sphincter muscles quivered light in head becomes increasingly bright and dense voltage building between head and anus kundalini explosion from deliberate isometric contractions of anus, buttocks, perineum and thighs shaking legs violently, sometimes pressing thighs together. tiring
link between sensations in head and anus cold sensation in abdomen below navel
after three days of meditation and several hours on the third day mind becomes quieter with head splitting between anus and head brilliant and deafening noise, work dark and huge jet of energy through the body completely filled head and body, originating at collar bone light and noise vanish instantly
clearly elevated spiritual state others seem divine, aware of essential goodness and infinite importance condition lasted three days; conviction that world is benevolent and good humored you become a saint and smile at everyone! you can permanently remain in state and stay a saint
absolutely happy and fearless : )
https://realization.org/p/freddie-yam/after-my-kundalini-woke-up.html we realize that everything is god.
i basically got lost in sodermalm seeing christmas music in the park, people fly fishing, park in the city it was like bliss everyone so happy feels like heaven hard to say that people are depressed here, people seem to be very content and to worry less i also got lost and that was very stresffful but i love the nature vibe
the namesake article can be found on andrej karpathy's blog
maximizing variance
extreme period of personal growth and self discovery
high density of exceptionally bright people who will become your best friends
expertise, only opportunity to become a recognized expert in the world at something !
there are lots of downsides! this is a very specific kind of experience that deserves a disclaimer. will end up working very hard and have to be OK with the suffering. need mental fortitude to handle the pressure, push through adn become successful
will have to put up with friends making actual money and living while you toil at PhD: (i'm actually totally okay with this, honestly.)
struggle that months of work are put into paper with a few citations while friends are working on exciting startups and pushing product will continue to question your life decisions must be certain that you can thrive in environment pursuing science. unsure: lean negative by default but mbe open to transformation phd has strong intrinsic value, not necc a means to an end !!!!!!!
should be a top school top schools will attract other top people
have potential advisors — more than one! — that you would like to work with. student advisor relationship is incrediblt important. must prioritize each persons goal, understand advisors incentive structures and department projects you must help them gain more recognition through you! this is actually not just pro interaction
many axes to be aware of: fluffy vs professional, details of work vs hands off, some on specific models and others on specific tasks, some will meet you frequently and some wont, some answer emails right away and others never, some strongly support and others are cool with whatever
should first collect references; talking to students in casual environment etc want truthful answers to super specific questions must impress advisor and appeal to them for them to pick you! consider the entire lab
an exercise in the outer loop. fun adn frustrating experience, operating at a meta outer loop what problems are worth solving? what problems are ripe for solving?
we must develop a sense of 'taste' when it comes to problems; what problems are worth solving? what are worth thinking about? is it time to solve those problems yet? make sure you develop that taste as you come in the problems should be well conceived, tractable and relevant. make sure to start refining these.
make sure you know your advisors interests and strengths interests and strengths intimately
:: a 10x more impactful problem feels 10x harder, but this is a fallacy! it is often at most 2x - 3x more difficult to achieve, and can be easier but it forces you outside of the box, confronting the real limitations, thinking from first principles, changing strategy and innovating improve by 10% you are likely to, improve by 100% you will have to do things differently
there are lots of important problems that do not make great 'projects' "If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll every do important work. Great scientists have thought through, in a careful way, a number of important problems in their field, and they keep an eye on wondering how to attack them."
Ex. The three outstanding problems in physics were never worked at at Bell, but they are not actually important problems because there is no attack! The reasonable attack is the most important part of pursuing a problem.
be the person who did x. make a mark. you develop incredible skills !! according to Gladwell, a PhD makes you a bona fide expert imagine being an expert — will these tools advantage you or excite you? hell the fuck yeah
not very productive, but will not be highly cited or used
ex. his thesis: took a long time to navigate the metaproblem and actually find the problem space and problem to be excited about working on.chat about interesting problems and see where interesting things are going. find something fertile, something promising, something with a lot of interesting possibilities find something practical at the moment - is it time for the technology? is it not there yet?
the advisor is not invallible
a phd is more than just a sequence of papers you are a member of a community and your motivation is to further the interests of this community look beyond the academic game and think about what you can improve beyond all of these papers! e.g. blog improve academic search tools! improve teaching! improve the work.
make sure to review lots of papers to learn have large exposure to lots of bad papers to learn what not to do — more important than just 'following a formula' to a good paper rely on the 'gestalt' of the papers; how does it look? how is the density? how is the framework? use the same language as others so that professors will pick them up and favorably judge identify the core contribution of the work and focus entirely on what forwards that develop a vocabulary to use. do this by writing frequently
go! go! go to the confreences! make sure to visit and it is so worth it to pay for them it is so important to become part of the community and share ideas, and many of the problems you are working on are so in line with the priorities of others in the field that you might as well play an active part in discussing methods, ideas etc
'there are three stages to a phd; in first, you haven't read most of the papers. in second, you recognize all of the papers. in third, you've had a beer with the first authors of all of the papers!'
there are no shortcuts or cheats. you can't game the system or put up false appearances ultimately you are trying to do good research and if you game any of the proxy metrics you won't be successful in the long run
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I’ve set up [[syncthing]] on my [[YunoHost]] box. I already had it on my desktop and my mobile. The whole point of Syncthing is kind of that it’s [[P2P]], without a central server, but I thought this might be handy as an extra node for those two to sync between. I do occassionally get sync conflicts when I’ve edited stuff on both while they weren’t in communication with each other. It’s not a central server, just a more available node, I guess.
[[Syncthing]] or sync via [[NextCloud]]? I think I prefer via syncthing where it’s possible, because it’s P2P. You don’t rely on some central server to always be available. That said, it can be really handy sometimes. It made Calibre-web setup pretty easy for example, and photo syncing too.
I’ve set up a [[basic automatic photo sync from my phone to NextCloud]]. Chuffed to get that working. I struggled in the past with syncthing for that some reason I’ve forgotten now, and it made me have to stick with Google Photos.
Dual poweris situational and can contend with decaying capitalism, not necessarily a practice (red library)
Lenin feared a workerist identitybecause if a worker could identify with their working conditions only they didn't necessarily need to be anti capitalist. Therefore he stressed proletarian identity
WWII was the end of the /ancien regime, with the aristocracy being integrated into the bourgeois class
Lawsare written to constrain others, not the ruling class
Political kitsch is a means of talking about politics in a very neoliberal way: everyone is their own entrepreneur and the purchasing of these products is seen as an expression of identity
Nazicinemawas fascinated by death, much like Nazism itself. Deaths in Nazi cinema were happy and self-sacrificing (see also: Nazi cinema
Nazicinemacreated a false fantasy, traditional life (see also: Nazi cinema
Age regression was common in Nazi films innocence and child-like behavior
Nazi moviesoutright copied Hollywood in terms of popular genre film
As the Nazi final solution rolled out, Nazi cinemabecame more openly antisemitic
Capitalism has thus far managed to eliminate the hungry mob, therefore making revolution difficult
Revolution is more likely in autocratic countries (pop the left)
Most socialist revolutions weren't even majority proletarian, they always made compromises and worked with other groups
that you have already found and read all of the content you're interested in learning or doing. This means that you shouldn't expose yourself to new ideas or information.
Focus on learning and doing what you've thought about in the past!
Tomorrow I want to:
Fix keyboard
start FOSS android launcher (it shouldn't be too hard to clone the one I'm using now)
send some emails and get to an inbox of 0
make sure i can have my things picked up from the storage people
think about my backup system and network; it doesn't feel very seamless…
Open this up tomorrow and get to work!
fixed keyboard
starting foss android launcher now
will check emails
will send email to storage people
will chart out network i slept most of the after noon but it will be better… may need to wear warmer clothes
"Neither sex nor gender", but a unique experience of people
Being trans involves existential issues as well as identity issues. The goal should be making life liveable
Sex is tied to the death drive
The unconscious believes itself immortal
[[ulauncher]]
editing notes when day changes is interesting because [[obsidian]] automatically goes to note for that day with the [[daily note]] button
I’ve been trying out new desktop environments. [[xfce]] is kinda slow not sure if it’s just aging or if it’s because it needs to load [[kde]] for the [[kwin]] window manager.
fast but hideous UI
I think it messed with my network settings because it uses [[connman]]
I’m trying out [[lxqt]] which is fast but kinda ugly. I wish designers were more into lightweight [[desktop environment]]s
experimenting with different types of [[note refactoring]]
TIL [[flancian]] is in [[CET]] which is the same timezone as Paris and Rome
[[svelte]]
One of the things I like about tending my [[digital garden]] is that there is no pressure on display or content, if I was feeling like writing a blog article I have to form complete sentences and such, but note taking, by design, is very free form.
[[Especifismo]]
relaxed a bit : )
did some room cleaning
participated much more actively on social media
got a basic wiki generator working - works on all the files at once!
try to have a wiki generating to a url
plan interview meeting
keep up the active social interaction! participate in things!!
catch up with some old friends
[Community-curated knowledge networks @sariazout](https://twitter.com/sariazout/status/1326253159447097344 )
We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networksย
(a thread on why)
An automated job board for portfolios. Mostly targeted at investors, but could be used by any group of aligned companies.
Free version can host jobs from up to 5 companies. Crawls different ATS systems as well as custom careers pages to keep listings up to date.
implement a SAT solver to learn how it works try to incorporate elements of that paper which is super cool check out https://github.com/max-heller/sat for a brief student implementation! https://github.com/theseus-os/Theseus this looks very interesting as well - shifting responsibility to the programming language from the OS! figure out what this is! https://github.com/BillHallahan/G2
Imagine if your social media platform gave you, the individual, all the insights about you that the big tech platforms have about you but sell to others. Imagine if your platform built you a lovely [[digital garden]] to return to, out of whatever you posted to your stream.
Platforms optimize for chatter as โengagement,โ not decision, resolution, or consensus. Community control is not in the spec.
โ [[Vanguard Stacks: Self-Governing against Digital Colonialism]]
The [[Agora]] describes itself as an experimental social network with an intent to coordinate users in the solving of problems.
giving [[literal]] another try because [[memex]] costs money to sync to mobile
I need to read through the [[ctzn]] whitepaper again, lots of goodies in there
Woke up with a headache, lots of stress, a lot of it good though [[good stress]]
I got accepted into a house I interviewed for. I’ll probably be moving in the next couple of weeks
I talked to [[flancian]] a lot about possibly using [[ctzn]] as a [[data store]] and identity layer. I need to research the [[whitepaper]] some more to learn the nuances
where i list my opinions and rank my confidence in those opinions. maybe use the sorter ecosystem thing to rank how highly i believe in the opinions
how other people use the internet is probably my favorite hobby. it's fascinating to me how others choose to navigate the same spaces in such different ways - eventually accumulating experience to some peak, dropping off the internet entirely, becoming inactive, or flatlining and posting consistently forever. some become more abstract - focusing more and more on art projects and metatheories of the internet rather than concrete ideas and discussions - while others become much more serious and real, playing internet drama nad political games to try to accumulate social clout. some people share as little of their life as possible while others are incredibly social and active, exposing every detail of their lives. this deserves more research - how does internet addiction craft and shape the people who choose to actively contribute to it? how does it transform the attitudes of those who don't use the internet frequently - as by virtue of existing now everyone plays a part? it's unclear
is the most incredible thing. put lots of energy out there and you will recieve all of it in return because the people you are reaching out to are people, not public figures or intimidating prescences or brick walls of content - they are people, people who will respond to you, people who can reciprocate their admiration of your work, people who share your passions.
it's really hitting me that i need to finish some work i'm proud of - without it i will not be able to really impress others or gain respect from others, which will lead to me learning more, which will lead to me doing other very cool things.
Call series about [[distributed press]] and related topics
Attendees
[[flancian]]
[[vera]]
[[Paul Frazee]]
[[benhylau]]
[[guo]]
[[sutty]]
[[fauno]]
[[ipfs gateways]]
[[Paul Frazee]]
[[guo]]
[[flancian]]
subsidies gateway not for profit
[[beaker]]
social network on beaker
got discouraged with social networks
people wanna be able to share around links
didn’t have push messaging system
take advantage of social graph
ux killer
really close to running gateway, running a service
let’s just use services
take your data and move to other "place"
all these technologies converge into this
[[indieweb]]
[[microformats]]
if we can determine ownership we can help with [[governance]] issue
if it’s my data, there is no [[governance]] issue
[[commons mesh]]
how do you end up in a situation where [[governance]] is required
what are defaults
sign up for first time, what’s being suggested
[[fatal ambiguity]]
[[Modern Unix]]. Really handy list of improved shell utilities. tldr is a great one - short and simple example-based man pages.
https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-2/
[[Solarpunk]], Big Tech resistance, AI policy, greenwashing, sustainable web craft, the [[commons]].
purr-driven development
[[Solar Protocol]]
[[Data Garden]]
By storing data natureโs way, in the DNA of plants, this work discusses the potential for truly green, carbon absorbing data storage, owned by the public rather than monopolistic corporations.
Back-journaled from 2021-08-20 as we got back late to the hotel, took a walk after a relatively late dinner in our first night in Genoa.
Took the 10:33 train to Milan, it was a pleasant ride that we’ve done several times before — but of course not since the pandemic started.
It feels weird to be travelling again; we almost didn’t follow through with the travel plans. It seemed… just a bit weird to be back to travelling while so many people are still heavily affectd by both the virus an its consequences. We’re glad we did, though. It’s good to see the world beyond our bubble, if we can do it reasonably, and 1w essentially across the border seems reasonable to us right now.
Ocell was another reason we had objections to travelling, but she is being taking care of by our neighbours, who are very sweet and even sent pictures of her today. We are very lucky!
After only 1h in Milan we took a second train to Genoa, where we’ll spend a few days and tour the surroundings.
I need to do [[perf]] before next week, I think I’ll grab a few hours tomorrow night and try to get it out of the way.
Listened: [[Liss C. Werner, "Cybernetics: State of the Art"]]
Listened: [[Eden Medina, "Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile"]]
[[Dynamics]]
Jamming: VHS Head - Dead to Morrow
One thing I wonder is how do [[agent-based modelling]] deals with models of things that are not geographically situated together? What I’ve seen so far (at least in [[NetLogo]]) feels very much like how do things that are physically situated together interact. What about if you’re not physically together? Perhaps that’s where network modelling comes in. Or perhaps you just represent things in a way that the physical geographical is collapsed / doesn’t matter.
[[node club]]
[zebras 2021-08-19]: ../pages/zebras 2021-08-19.md "zebras 2021-08-19" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
Read: [[Exiting the Vampire Castle]]
I set up Agora locally and have contributed a couple of small CSS changes (for blockquotes, and headings typography) and [[Flancian]] has pulled them in and deployed them. Feels good to contribute!
[[Jeremy Lent]] mentioned this idea of an [[ecological civilization]] in the podcast I was listening to ([[Jeremy Lent: Wisdom Traditions, Science & the Search for Meaning]]).
Started reading: [[The Patterning Instinct]]
tags :: COVID-19
racial capitalism:: the mutually constitutive entanglements of racialized and colonial exploitation within the process of capital accumulation
The author argues that the accumulation of capitalwould not be possible with out racialized and colonial exploitation
"The black worker is the founding stone of a new economic system in the 19th century and for the modern world." (paraphrased) —- Du Bois
Many low-income food production jobs are done by people of color
Caribbean countries have outperformed the Untied States in terms of handling the virus
Caribbean nations are peripheral and made dependent on capitalist nations
The United States has made no effort to manage the virus in prisons, which are majority black
[[Millionaires call on governments worldwide to ‘tax us now’]]
[[Households across the UK will see rising prices and stalling wages in 2022]].
This article seems to confirm the assertion that [[Keir Starmer is a bit dull]]. โStop talking about the problem โ fix the bloody thing!โ Keir Starmer on Boriโฆ
[[Gordon Brander]] [[geist]]s are a kind of [[info daemons]].
[[Oblique Strategies]] sounds cool. I like these random prompts for thinking about stuff. [[Tarot for thought]].
[[Idea webs]]. Nice simple phrase for digital garden / personal wiki adjacent stuff. https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/1482445254771064844 ?s=20
I got given [[Red Rosa]] for my birthday.
The purpose of recording and organising information is so that it can be used again.
The value of recorded information is directly proportional to the ease with which it can be re-used.
[[agora]] [[2022-02-20]]
[[agora bot]]
LATER fix: [[agora bot mastodon]] keeps going offline
DONE make [[agora bot matrix]] link messages
LATER implement go/<date>/move, redirecting to the right video, probably using [[virtual subnodes]]
DONE clean the house
LATER review [[agora frs]], [[agora rfcs]]
LATER implement ‘add pull’, perhaps by adding a line to the stoa? hmm.
LATER write about 1..17 as they relate to my counting [[meditation practice]]
LATER look into [[anchors]] in repo
DONE integrate [[melanocarpa]]
LATER implement /random/n as returning a list of nodes?
DONE [[flancia meet]]
[[neil]]
#push [[flancia collective]]
I am sort of its dictator by default, and that’s something that I would love to discuss with the community
by this I mean I [[own]] anagora.org, protopoi.org and flancia.org
very interesting discussion about this in [[agora discuss]]
let it be known that I abdicate by default if a subset of my [[friends]] want me to
by default I abdicate to [[flancia collective]]
by default I abdicate if prompted to abdicate by [[@neil]] [[vera]] or [[peter singer]]
#push [[gradient generator]]
Since the [[RSS-Bridge]] thing was never much of a success, I’ve installed [[Nitter]] on my [[YunoHost]] to get RSS feeds of people I want to follow on [[Twitter]].
pluriverse.world is interesting, the written piece is interesting. But I’m not really sure what the thing is actually doing, and I have to have a wallet or use a Google form to contribute. And verify myself with a Twitter account.
I will watch this: [[Hacking for the Commons]]
[[Prosocial World]] - "Modern Evolutionary Science can contribute to prosocial objectives in all their forms"
Read: [[Inside the Real Repair Shop 7]]
The [[Climate Action Plan Explorer]] is really, really excellent. For finding out what UK councils are doing with regards to the [[climate crisis]].
Read: [[Cumbria councils to be replaced by two authorities]]
Writing this on the flight to Seattle. My connection in [[Charlotte]] was tight but I made it just fine in the end.
(I wonder who you are, you reading this. If you are interested consider leaving an annotation using the Hypothesis side bar or reaching out :)
Thank you for reading!)
Playing with very noddy [[programmable notes]] in anagora.
Anyway, today I was reminded to review my node on Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition, so off we go to do that!
Reworked [[eco-socialism]] a bit.
Adding [[cloudspotting]] to my nature journalling activities.
Today it was a good day; I worked, went to therapy and found it meaningful, and back home I did yoga and played with Lady Burup. I also talked with friends.
[[working in public]]
[[2022-11-19]] :)
abra app run --user root foo.bar.com app bash then cat /run/secrets/your_sneaky_secretYesterday had a great time at another gig put on by [[Full of Noises]]. [[Lee Patterson]]. He did a live performance and a bit of an artist talk. Loved the live performance, amazing sounds from [[contact microphones]] and some kind of [[photosensitive microphones]]. No effects or digitalisation, just amplification, and it made the most incredible sounds. Springs sounded amazing through the contact mics. He also played some [[field recordings]] of audio from inside ponds from homebrew [[hydrophones]] which were also really incredible. Crazy throbs and pulses and sirens from little water bugs.
Been experimenting with being [[offline by default]] a little bit.
Yesterday I submitted my final output for [[YXM830]]!
Reading [[Capital is Dead]] (again, didn’t finish last time) and loving it. I really like [[McKenzie Wark]]‘s writing style in this. I’m finding the argument about there now being an information-based [[Vectoralism]] - something even worse than capitalism - quite compelling, though I know many disagree.
Used the borrowed orbital sander to sand down garden table and chairs that are a bit weather beaten.
Read: [[It’s not about your footprint, it’s about your point of leverage]]
As mentioned in [[2023-07-08]], a few org-roam things broke after upgrading spacemacs.
WARNING - BREACHING NET FUCKED BY 2050: MAY CONTAIN BLOODY SPOILERS, READ AT OWN RISK! Trying to hide some emotional baggage because of this.
Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes
Per wiki, V’s status is still unknown after lift’s cables snap as more chaos ensured. The reason is "presumed (legally) dead, but no evidence of on-screen death". [^2]: Torture were also involved, especially some robotic head decapitation (we’re not talking about [this], but instead of Aunt Nina killing Rocky for telling the truth about his and Freckle’s activities, ).↩
I’m getting more comfortable using Foam alongside Obsidian, especially inside a Gitpod workspace.
We had another play of [[Space Cats Fight Fascism]] today.
We spend a not insignificant chunk of our lives just on the upkeep of our household.
I’ve played with them on my site here - https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/well-connected and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/new-connections
[[Listened]]: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]
Read: [[Mute Compulsion]]
Listened: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction]]
[[Social reproduction]].
I donated to the [[Amazon UK warehouse workers’ strike fund]] again.
It could be time for a new season of [[Node Club]]โฆ
I should back up my Doom config on Termux.
[[Cooperation Jackson]] and the [[Jackson-Kush Plan]] are explicitly [[ecosocialist]] in outlook.
They also work on the principle of instituting [[non-reformist reform]]s.
Let’s dust this offโฆ
[[International Repair Day]] 2024 today.
For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.
[[causal loop diagram]]s.
Looking at Lend Engine and MyTurn as software options for our [[library of things]].
[[Zettled]]:
[[Zettled]]:
It strikes me that if one were to work on a [[collaborative zettelkasten]], then [[hub notes]] would be quite key.
[[Bookmarked]]:
[[Zettled]]:
[[2026 Makerfield by-election]]: phew.
~/Hosts/caggia-classic-2019)Coronavirus (COVID-19) HEALTH WARNING
Have you developed a fever or cough?
Know the signs
Fever Cough Sore throat Shortness of breath
For further information and language resources, go to www.health.gov.au
In a medical emergency call Triple Zero (000) DRSABCD Danger .Response .Send for help .Airway .Breathing .CPR .Defibrillation You could save a life with first aid training - www.stjohn.org.au - 1300.360.455
THIS INFORMATION IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR FIRST AID TRAINING. FORMAL INSTRUCTION IN RESUSCITATION IS ESSENTIAL. The DRSABCD action plan complies with the Australian Resuscitation Councilโs ANZCOR guideline 8: cardiopulmonary resuscitation, January 2016. St John Ambulance Australia is not liable for any damages or incidents that may occur in the use of this information by other parties or individuals. This is not for commercial distribution. ยฉ St John Ambulance Australia 2020.
First aid fact sheet
Coronavirus (COVID-19) HEALTH WARNING
Have you developed a fever or cough?
Stop the spread
Isolate yourself Call your doctor List travel history Cover your cough Wash your hands often
For further information and language resources, go to www.health.gov.au
In a medical emergency call Triple Zero (000) DRSABCD Danger .Response .Send for help .Airway .Breathing .CPR .Defibrillation You could save a life with first aid training - www.stjohn.org.au - 1300.360.455
THIS INFORMATION IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR FIRST AID TRAINING. FORMAL INSTRUCTION IN RESUSCITATION IS ESSENTIAL. The DRSABCD action plan complies with the Australian Resuscitation Councilโs ANZCOR guideline 8: cardiopulmonary resuscitation, January 2016. St John Ambulance Australia is not liable for any damages or incidents that may occur in the use of this information by other parties or individuals. This is not for commercial distribution. ยฉ St John Ambulance Australia 2020.
This episode of Rev Left Radio sums up most of my views around the [[2019]] election pretty well: on Corbyn, the media, Brexit, limits of our electoral system, where to focus for these next five years.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/uk-election
The alternative is to build a greater resilience among working-class people to the siren song of the billionaires. This can only be achieved by renewing the working-class infrastructure of the country. This means a trade union movement that can provide power at work and a Labour Party that can fight the daily battles to improve peopleโs lives, but it also means cultural institutions that give people a sense of ownership over the places that they live and the ability to express class as something collective. It is only by overcoming the atomisation and alienation of our communities that we can prevent people being picked off by the right-wing press
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Canvassing attempts to talk to everyone in an area and to know who they are, a quite different approach to standing in a busy spot and talking to whoever comes by. It is an example of structural rather than self-selecting organising, which Jane McAlevey argues has much more potential for building big majorities and real power โ growing your army rather than just mobilising those who are already convinced.
Since itโs not just Scott Alexander doing it.
Since itโs not just[ Scott Alexander](https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/08/what-intellectual-progress- did-i-make-in-the-2010s/) doing it.
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Sometimes, it feels like my life hasnโt changed much in years, but looking back over the previous decade through a lens of considering how Iโve changed really highlights the progress Iโve made. My changes in intellectual positions during this period have mostly been motivated by direct experience & changes in circumstance (which has made certain ideas more accessible to me while the flaws in others have become more obvious), rather than mere argumentation, but thatโs mostly because this decade happened to be when I first engaged in most of the things that constitute โthe harsh realities of adult lifeโ.
In 2010, I had been in college already for three years (though, because I was still working through the ramifications of a magnificently flubbed first semester, I would remain in college for another four). I continued the kind of heavy book learning that one can do when one has no major responsibilities (reading thick books on unfamiliar subjects for the hell of it, and finishing them in a few days because thereโs nothing better to do for hours at a time) for only another year, at which point I got my first job. In short order, I also got into my first serious adult relationship, lost my virginity, started disposing of all my new disposable income, and got the opportunity to work with one of my long-time idols. Then, in 2013, I lost my job & got it back six months later. In 2014, I rented a house with a friend & my girlfriend moved in, & later the mental state of my girlfriend deteriorated and I went deep into debt and deep into burn-out. I inherited a house, slowly dragged myself back out of debt, got another girlfriend in 2016 (for only six weeks), & a few years later got into debt again. In 2018 I self-published a book & in early 2019 I published a video game on Steam. Right now, my life seems to be evening off: my life hasnโt really had any major new components since 2017, & things seem to be getting better for me in an incremental way (although they are, and always have been, a long way from ideal or even palatable).
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Working in my chosen industry disabused me of a lot of romantic notions about quality control that I had gotten from my education: actually-existing computer systems are, across the board, mostly piles of shit, and nobody is willing to budget much time to fixing them so long as they work well enough โ in other words, well enough to avoid foreseeable catastrophes, though no effort is really made to guard against unforeseeable ones or to look very hard for potential catastrophe material.
Over time, I also got disabused of some notions about capitalist efficiency: while clearly legible waste will be optimized away (though only when doing so serves some internal PR goal), the least bit of plausible deniability will allow enormous waste of resources to go completely unquestioned โ for years we spent more money licensing pieces of unreliable proprietary software to perform the equivalent of split-on-whitespace slowly than we did on the salaries of most employees, & for eight years of my employment I was never put on a project that wasnโt canceled before its initial deployment (in other words, from the perspective of the companyโs bottom line, they essentially paid me a salary for eight years to do nothing).
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Recognizing that capitalist efficiency was overblown in practice did not move me to the left as much as the direct experience of debt and indirect experience with the insurance, welfare, medical, and disability systems did. I was well aware that I was making multiple times what other people do, while working less hard than they were โ and even despite this, a little bit of sloppy accounting (a few too many takeout meals in a month, having to replace a phone or an appliance) can still put me into a level of debt thatโs hard to escape from. Iโve responded to that by living hyper-frugally, but hyper- frugality only saves me from big, unforced errors โ it cannot save me from expenses like a broken car or a broken furnace or an ambulance ride to the emergency room. Meanwhile, Iโve seen systems intended to insulate vulnerable people from the harshness of the market repeatedly fail (paperwork errors causing disability payments to be a tiny fraction of minimum wage, for instance, or sudden medical insurance policy changes that hike up the price of necessary medication by a factor of 3), and Iโve had to try to take up the slack myself when these systems fail. I became unable to convince myself that all or most people who are impoverished have themselves to blame.
All these experiences made me very suspicious of neoliberal solutions. Markets have big, predictable biases. Government regulation & government incentive programs intended to manipulate those biases tend to create new biases that are on average no better for human beings than the previous version (though they are often not substantially worse โ they just redirect endless cash from one set of robber barons to a different set of robber barons).
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Being thrust into interaction with (and dependence upon) markets will, for the unlucky and open-minded, produce a state of transcendent existential nihilism akin to the sublime: I am living in the belly of a beast that is vast beyond my full comprehension, who cares little what I do but whose body presents a set of problems I must navigate to survive; the skills that allow me moment- to-moment survival (and indeed, any skills at all) will not protect me from the beastโs sudden mood swings or random whims, which will reliably maim me and which I have survived by luck alone.
This nihilism ended up being a good thing for me, psychologically.
When I could depend upon my parents for my continued survival, my biggest vulnerability was my ego. Throughout my childhood, and further into my adulthood than I would like to admit, I would boast, peacock, and belittle those around me whenever I felt unimportant. The reality of the economic pressures facing adults (and the need to carefully maintain the fragile emotional state of somebody on the verge of a much bigger & more violent breakdown than I would be capable of) made it crystal clear: nobody is important, and if I want to protect the things I care about, I will need to shamelessly prostrate myself sometimes to appease forces I find disgusting. For me, this realization is what characterizes โmaturityโ, and I have become less accepting of political projects centered around โtough loveโ and more interested in projects aimed at making sure fewer people need to develop this traumatic form of โmaturityโ.
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Working with my idol made me recognize in myself the dangers of parasocial relationships. Everybody you can see is struggling against the same forces you struggle against, making mistakes, full of blind spots in different places than yours. Visionaries in one area arenโt saints. My experience was good, & it was only dispiriting because I recognized that my idol was human and a product of his environment. I tried to help him achieve his dream (which to a first approximation was also my dream), and failed because that dream couldnโt pay my bills and the job that did wouldnโt leave me with the energy to bring dreams to completion.
My bad relationship proved to me that itโs better to be alone than to be in a bad relationship, and it demonstrated that being totally selfless is not sustainable in the presence of serious need. My good relationship showed me a less dramatic, more casual kind of easy love โ a love that you feel at home in, and that you fall into like a pillow-filled hammock โ and then showed me that even when a situation is good in the short term, itโs sometimes reasonable to cut it off early when itโs doomed to eventually fail. It took me a while to really understand and internalize that, as much as it hurt after six weeks of wonderful bonding, it was going to hurt a lot more after six months โ and since I was not prepared for the responsibilities Iโd be taking on by taking the relationship to its next stage, staying together indefinitely was never really an option. Both reinforced a sort of anti-romantic mindset I began to develop this decade toward romantic relationships: that all relationships have a material basis that must be sustainable, and a healthy relationship is one that (while it occasionally requires maintenance) is largely self-sustaining โ a buffer from the part of the world that demands you always do more than yesterday for less return.
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All of these experiences translated into an interest in politics and in group psychology. We live in a society that is profoundly dysfunctional. Building a less dysfunctional society is vital, if we want to see a world worth living in. Always having had an anti-authoritarian streak, Iโve identified as an anarchist for a long time, but it has been only during this decade that Iโve gotten serious about trying to understand what makes a social group healthy versus sick. Iโve spent a lot of time during the past five years trying to identify failure modes of society and write about them, just as Iโve spent a lot of time trying to identify the failure modes specific to those social assemblages built out of mixtures of computers and human beings. My attempts to synthesize this with an already-existing interest in magick have led to an interest specifically in myth and in the construction of new myths.
By John Ohno on February 2, 2020.
[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/my-intellectual- progress-2010-2019-ef7dec61cbf4)
Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.
[[stellar]]
#go https://stellar.org/blog/announcing-protocol-19?locale=en
The Protocol 19 changes were designed to facilitate the creation of payment channels, which are Layer 2 protocols that support high-throughput use cases. Payment channels allow two parties who frequently transact with one another to move the bulk of their activity off chain, while still recording opening balances and final settlement on chain.
This is the Questioner, who lives in the Questioning wall.
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