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https://josem.co/the-beauty-of-finished-software/
All these retrogrades usually forget about Unicode updates! If your finished software does not support the newest writing system, then something is wrong. Well, I'm just saying. Actually, I like finished software! One day, I'll write one.
On September 21, 2019, I wrote something that for a moment I did not hate.
[[Spatial software]] is the idea of bringing spatial interfaces into software. So far it’s most commonly been in games, but you can see it spilling out into more things lately, particular social stuff.
Like a remake of AIM, where each user gets a house that friends can stop by to visit.
This is kind of what I was thinking with wikis and [[collaborative memory palaces]].
In fact, you can put a world inside of almost any interface. Even a blog post.
Or a wiki perhaps. What would that look like? [[Antistatic gardens]] are maybe a hint at that. A throwback to [[HyperCard]] perhaps.
Still reading through and very much enjoying [[84K]]. One of best books I’ve read for a while, so far. It’s a really unconventional writing style, and it’s great. Very poetic. A refreshing change to that kind of generic stilted cyberpunk patter you get in a lot of near-future fiction.
It’s a pretty sad book though. It’s somewhere between [[Kafka]], [[Brazil]] and [[1984]]. The way it captures some of the potential awfulness of a fully corporatised society, I find it much more depressing than a lot of the cyberpunk dystopias. [[Cultural hegemony]] is much more terrifying than a cabal of bad guys.
https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1307944473960370177 ?s=09 [[tsunduku]]
[[Ikko Tanaka]]
I need to find that email from the [[SP]] party member and get back to them, they were kind.
[[QAnon]] is really crazy.
[[idea]] separate ‘[[TODO]]‘ and ‘[[read]]‘ more clearly. Perhaps also [[buy]].
[[goto.coop]] is available. Need to a cooperative to register it, though. And perhaps there’s no need: [[social.coop]] could run a go links service.
[[go links]] [[Flanbook]] [[Siphons]] all interact: if people used go links for their social media URLs, they could easily repoint when they switch platforms!
Write [[A Naive Plan for a Freer Internet]] for [[social.coop]]: [[go links]] + [[Athens]]+ [[Mastodon]]+ [[ActivityPub]] / backlinking + [[Siphons]] as per [[Flanbook]].
[[Offline Twitter]]
[[Quick Capture]]
I finished [[A Closed and Common Orbit]] by [[Becky Chambers]] recently. I loved it. There’s something very lovely about Becky Chambers’ sci-fi - it’s much more touching and emotional than a lot that I’ve read. I felt quite emotional at the ending of this one - it’s so full of heart and compassion.
Roam is now [talking about ‘multiplayer’](https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1307107745397604354 ). I’m presuming this means linking between individuals’ wikis. I like the idea of [[interlinking wikis]], but imagining it’s going to be pretty closed in Roam.
Bill Seitz has lots of ideas about a more open WikiWeb.
aka Wiki Sphere; parallel to BlogWeb, the universe of (clusters of) WikiSpaces
bertrand russell http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
there is far too much work done, and the belief that work is virtuous causes immense harm!
it is not necessary for all of us to be idle and to fill ourselves; a man earns and spends, and in spending he gives employment
the man who lends his money to the government is no better than the murderers of those people
in industrial enterprises, hen these operations succeed the money is well spent; otherwise, these enterprises fail, wasting a lot of human labor in the process. (note: i question what is 'failure' and what is 'worthwhile' here)
a great deal of harm is done strictly because of the belief in virtuous work, and the road to prosperity leads to eliminating it. work is:
altering matter
telling others to do so
land ownership: others pay for the privilege to exist and work. their idleness in fact spurns the industry of many others, and their desire for idleness spurns all of this other work!
the second can be indefinitely extended and abstracted duty i just a means for the ohlders of poewr to live in the interests of their masters, but they persuade those under them that they should share these interests labor is still valuable in this framework precisely because leisure is good; to save someone lots of time is worth some work yourself the idea that the poor should have leisure has and always will be shocking to the rich it is unjust that a man consume more than he produces, as he will incur undue labor from another!
other reasons we work:
the necessity of keeping everyone content while taking care of oneselv
pleasure in mechamism, in making changes to others and the earth's surface. this feels very 'manifest destiny'
happy from toil! work should always be considered a necessary means to a livelihood, from which leisure can derive happiness and enjoyment
a passage on academia being divorced from real life; it's sort of an emulated leisure class, in which academics are expected to produce some fascimile of results in exchange for some grant-funded fascimile of real, productive work to lated be used in exchange with others
src motivation boring; collaboration clearly insecure when dependent on owned centralized service 'git is the standard' for how collaboration should be maintained and synchronized
prioritize the use of local storage and networks, as software is just better without a constant reliance on internet! every utility should 'just work' without the need for a constant internet connection, and most services should be started and used without such a connection at all. it's so clear how much error is introduced by any sort of client server model, even if it's the serving of a simple static site
security and privacy by default
long lasting, saved now
retain ultimate ownership and control
CRDTs! conflict free replicated data types, designed to be multi user from the ground up through infrequent network communication; operating on richer data types than just text.
CRDT technology works and developers have great time when working with Functional Reactive Programming especially
perhaps all applications should be designed to be local first!filecoin, golem, libp2p, NAT, relays, wifi offloading, mesh networks
Beaker Browser: a p2p browser scuttlebutt: a simple decentralized social network
i’m not fully back just yet - but i’ll probably be picking up the pace from now on. right now i don’t have as much workload on me.
another day yay I made it
I’m beginning to have a long list of entries.
[[synchronicity]]
Looking into issue with [[Publishing org-roam via GitLab CI]] and backlinks not working.
Fixed it!
Also fixed the restore-mtime issue.
The High Blogging Era, defined by Robin Sloan as mid-2000s. Hmmm. I was there and was a part of it, and RSS and blogs was all there was, before Twitter and Facebook etcetera that then became labeled as social media.
[[Google Reader]] removed social features in 2011, and was shut down in 2013. I think the “high” era more properly is the mid 2000s until the fall of Reader. When many people were blogging, not just the early few. Maybe 8 years? A good run.
But everyone will have their own nostalgia tinged view.
Are we at the beginning of digital gardens and [[Second Brain]]s? Will this be looked back on as the High Era? I’m more interested in getting it into the hands of everyone. Hmmm. Has [[Nora Young]] done a segment on [[Spark]] yet? I should attempt to get on a CBC Radio morning or afternoon show to talk about it.
Really want to play [[Co-opoly]].
Were the planter class comparable to the kulaks?
Do the means justify the ends in revolution?
Does instrumentalism necessarily lead to structural issues, such as Stalinism?
beautiful clear lake. thought about trying to release more writing via blog posts. i want to write about whatever i'm interested in, which means technical topics sometimes, but i always want to keep those entry level - capturing the fascination and my feelings about the ideas without tackling the meat of ideas. this is important primarily because i want to make sure that even though i delve into these technical topics, i am still a human and can talk to other humans - rather than dependent typers and semantics engineers - about cool concepts that i enjoy and work on every day!
sharing is important, talking about what you love allows you to better communicate with those who share those interests and ideas. but talking impedes productivity! we also need to focus on making active progress on practical work, reading, gaining knowledge, etc, and the best way to do that is to actually do it rather than talk about it. balance these two things.
i did all of the easy things, the things that can be accomplished with little or brute force effort.
mastered basic languages (js, python, functional style, etc…)
basics in lots of categories (systems, programming languages, networking, setting up servers..)
gained breadth of knowlege about programming, fashion, design, etc
collected tons of aesthetic inspiration
now it's time for me to execute:
deeper knowledge into programming languages to prepare to become a real researcher
implement real applications, programs and games by myself or lead by myself with teams
design clothes, fonts, and icons rather than just relying on references from others
write more, build a following and share my interests with the world - publicly and accessibly!
[[Subreply]] seems interesting. From the about page:
@subreply was created by @lucian from the desire of a having a simple to use, English-only, public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks.
Features
- easy to reply to anyone
- save content posted by anyone
- 🧠💪 one or two emojis instead of avatars
- mentions, links and hashtags support
- reverse-chronological order for all feeds
- easy to find find and follow people
- light and dark themes based on OS preference
Limitations
- 480 characters per reply
- Unicode and emoji to ASCII transliteration to display everywhere
- unique global topics, replies per thread, content per account
- only one mention, link or hashtag per reply
- no support for paragraphs, keeps conversation tidy
- no popularity counters for replies or profiles
https://alexkwa.com/japanese-minimalism/ means you only have to own a few things. has been accused as being a boring product people can buy, as something elitist and prestigious that only those with wealth can and should strive to achieve, silly otherwise.
having fewer things is a side effect: we only want to spend our time managing a certain number of things, and as such minimizing the number of things we own allows us to spend less time managing them, optimizing the time we spend organizing, sorting and looking for items we own. it's a matter of eliminating choice and additional thoughts from our lives that might otherwise be unnecessary - many people have too much to manage, and it's nice to reduce cognitive load by simplifying our lives. it's the pursuit of less committments and distractions, traded for more time to think. "less but better". it's the curation of belongings - minimalists can love things, because things can and should be treasured and last forever, so we should ensure that we buy the best version of whatever we purchase.
i have no interest in wearing the same uniform every day, but sticking to incredibly muted colors like blacks and deep blues allows me to wear whatever with whatever, so i don't really have to think about outfits. maybe in the future i'll reduce what i wear to a simple uniform, but for now i enjoy expressing myself too much to limit what i wear to that degree.
i aspire to own no physical books, and i've pared down every 'collection' of mine to either the items in the collection that I use or to none at all. one of my main goals is to be portable - i don't want to have to make any decisions when packing because i will own exactly what i need to bring with me - nothing less and nothing more. eventually, as I live, experience, move and am exposed to more, i will have a better idea of what i need and will be able to continue to get rid of all that I do not. for now, though, i am stuck in the limbo of college education, between my parents' home and temporary apartments and a potential permanent residence, and with many belongings i may still have a need for in the future.
as i learn more about myself, i'll know precisely what products i need - and i'll be able to either purchase them or make them myself. i'll also be able to cut back on consuming the media i don't enjoy and focus on what i need as i begin to build more of a community and a following, but for now social networking tools like instagram are indespensable to my personal interests. understanding yourself is probably the most difficult thing you can do, but once this has been mastered - understanding yourself as you exist now, understanding your ideal self, and swiftly closing the gap between them - you will be able to accomplish exactly what you'd like to with absolutely minimal friction, which is the ultimate optimisation.
https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/bill-watterson-and-the-perfect-artistic calvin and hobbes as we know it is incredibly different from watterson's initial work, but he made significant choices, completely avoiding fame as he worked and developed his comic strip while refusing to license any sort of tshirts, toys, or media outside of the comic strip he maintains. he quit working on the strip entirely, completely owning all of the rights to his work and continuing to live with the legacy of the comic.
every new work seems to decrease the quality of legacy, cheapening the work with halfassed accessibility and reperformance that in reality corrupts the original work completely. staying 'in the game' too long, the author argues, considerably cheapens the art - you should be able to find your peak, and choose to bow out at the peak unless you know you've developed something significant enough to impact legacy. always consider what you want to gain from your work and what you want your work to represent - without that focus, your words might be lost to deteriorate in quality or face hypocrisy outright.
https://apexsnotes.substack.com/p/the-car-and-the-world the car can be a literal engine of freedom — used to allow for some alone time and ndependence. this article is stupid, it uses big words and talks big but has no real substance. blah blah blah the resolution is obviously to build places that do not require cars, but there is no proposition for how this can and should be accomplished. sure, public spaces should offer some privacy that the car currently plays the role of, but honestly there should no longer be a need for cars in major cities.
https://poecansaveyourlife.substack.com/p/how-to-become-a-bestselling-writer weird that poe wasn't necessarily some super depressed dude, he just wrote what people would buy and continued to do it, rather than expressing himself 'purely' and self publishing everything until he landed on the idea of good marketing
start with a commercial genre then elevate it: take what people are doing now and criticise it, twist it, play with it and make something fun and new. if it's already commercial, it's already been tried and true, so there is plenmty of room for new success.
write the first line of your next thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/why-stephen-king-spends-months-and-even-years-writing-opening-sentences/278043/ make sure the opening line invites the reader to begin the story. the first line should tell you everything - what it contains and doesn't contain populates the story, improving and exaggerating it to providwe interesting context and allow you to just jump in. first sentences should always stick with you - they are wonderful and should be treasured.
also, aim for a hundred rejections a year - actively seek rejection because it means you're trying and making moonshots!! if just one percent of your attempts are successful, the one attempt could absolutely kill it. all that matters is consistency of effort and continuing to force shit out of consistently excellent quality until something sticks with someone, then something else with someone else, and suddenly you've built a community. carefully track these mistakes because they show progress! they show your success. fail again and fail again and fail better. remember that rejection is a conversation; if it's rejected, then it's at least been seen! - so do not dread submitting, because it's liberating to throw shit at the fan even if nothing sticks. the feedback, if done well, should be invaluable.
Noded after the fact. It sometimes happens I don’t get to write a journal on busy days at the day job, in particular when I get to really focus by necessity or chance. Yesterday (the topic of this node) was such a day: I needed to prepare and give a last minute presentation and was oncall for a second level rotation. By the time I closed the work laptop and opened my personal laptop I decided to go lay down in the sofa.
Then this happened :)
For action [[film]] , have the protagonist start out losing so that every move helps the plot go forward. Make each part of the fight, chase, etc, move the plot forward. You may need to shoot a stunt two hundred times, until you get it right. Consider the stunt of kicking a grenade back- you may have to attempt the kick two hundred times. Let all the character get hurt a lot- show the [[pain]]. When someone hits someone hard, cut to the hit- show it twice. A wide [[camera]] angle and steady frame allow the audience to see the movement of skilled stunts. Use objects where possible. Have action and reaction in the same shot. Use crowd [[movement]] and reaction to emphasize the conflict of the scene. Use [[weather]] where possible. To make something in a [[film]] feel big, put lots of moving things in the same [[camera]] shot. [[Move]] the character to follow movement to emphasize a movement. If your [[characters]] are looking off-screen in a [[camera shot]] that already has a lot of moving parts, it gives even more [[scale]] to the scene.
[[People]] are only open to [[manipulation]] after a series of [[losses]]. One [[source]] shows this in other primates, such as Chimpanzees. Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S. P., Fernández-Navarro, S., & Rossano, F. (2021). How environmental unpredictability and harshness affect chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) in risk-choice and temporal discounting tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology. doi:10.1037/com0000261
It is [[probable]] that a successful [[political]] [[revolution]] only needs about 10% of the [[population]] to back it.
In [[ritual]] [[design]], ask: how does [[movement]] play a part?
When [[fighting]] (and so when doing anything), ask: how is the [[body]] [[moving]] in [[space]]? This is an example of [[knowing The Way broadly]].
To [[conquer]] something points at the ability to [[take]] something. To take something is rooted in [[touching]] something. So, to conquer something is to touch that thing. To conquer something is to [[relate]] to it. This may be why we must accept the [[void]]. By accepting the void, we touch it. By touching it, we conquer the void. It is the function of [[life]] to incorporate the seemingly [[random]] [[uncertainty]] of empty [[space]] by consuming it.
[[War]], the word, comes from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] word ‘wers-‘, which means to mix up, to confuse, to beat, to thresh. So war is a [[blending]] process.
When you’re at the [[top]] of your [[status]] [[hierarchy]] (your [[scene]], your [[game]]), you may only get more [[energy]] from other games/scenes/status hierarchies.
A [[core]] [[skill]] of the [[warrior]] is to have accepted [[death]]. This is reflected in the [[samurai]] saying, "he who leaves his house intending to live will die; and he who leaves his house intending to die, will live." There is a story of a founder of a [[sword]] school, [[Yagyû Tajima no kami Munenori]], who met a student who did not study any sword techniques. His only skill was having accepted death. Yagyu said that all the skills come from this fundamental skill, so he accepted him as a member of the school.
In [[The Seven Pillars of Wisdom]], [[TE Lawrence]] mentions that because the [[Ottoman]] [[military]] relied on [[top-down]] directives and their officers were not allowed to exercise [[initiative]], they became a leaderless mob as soon as the [[Bedouins]] cut off their communication to central command.
If you amp up [[excitement]], you amp up [[anxiety]] in those who are anxious and [[aggression]] in those who are aggressive. This is reflected in [[dogs]], as shown by [[Cesar Milan]]. So, too, if you correct someone when you have [[tension]], you will not correct them, you will escalate their [[fear]].
When you become the best of the best at something, let go of it. [[mastery]] [[exploration]]
The more a society is ruled by [[priests]], the more it is disgusted by [[fights]] because a fighting culture ( a culture of [[warriors]]) is an even bigger tax on [[bullshit]] than a [[betting]] culture (a culture of [[merchants]]), and priests need a certain amount of bullshit to maintain a [[monoculture]].
You may sabotage an internally [[misaligned]] person who is trying to [[control]] you by asking them how they would do what they want you to do and then doing it.
The closer you are to the [[endgame]], the more [[linear]] things can be. [[Play]] helps us hone our opening gambits.
[[Bertrand du Guesclin]], successful [[commander]] on the French side of the Hundred Years [[war]], lived by "no [[attack]] without [[surprise]]".
[[Steven Fan]] said, "What if [[halos]] are infrared spectra [[light]] thrown off from high performant [[computation]] in the heads of divinely [[inspired]] beings?"
In [[Vajrayana]] [[Buddhism]], those of the long hair and white skirts are neither the bald ones (typical [[monastic]] order) or laypeople. They are [[sexually]] (and so romantically) active practitioners.
You may only share in [[love]] if you [[let go]] of what you defined yourself as and what you want to [[define]] yourself as.
If you view what is happening as something that is caused by something outside you, you get attached to the [[category]], the [[form]] of what has happened. The [[categorization]] freezes it, makes it solid, makes it rigid, and so it breaks and you lose it.
[[Masculine]] and [[feminine]] are ‘split’ within men and women, not between.
[[Nonduality]] can be touched through [[romance]], sometimes more easily than in [[emptiness]] [[meditation]].
For those who walk [[untrammeled]], [[linear sequence]]s make little sense. [[Everyday]] practice is not well-suited to [[linear sequence]]- which is why linear sequences make the most sense for ascetic groups but not someone living a life outside a monastery.
A [[dance]] of [[emptiness]] and [[form]] happens in every moment. From emptiness, find the [[thread]] of life, from the thread of [[life]], find emptiness.
The [[mind]] arises from [[emptiness]], so all things come from emptiness.
We practice [[emptiness]] by noticing the emptiness in our [[relationships]] and [[experiences]].
When you think something is [[good]] or [[bad]], [[notice]]. Allow what is there to be what it is.
Relax with [[uncertainty]].
Can I drop what I think I know about this person, and simply sense how we are [[relating]] now?
[[Romance]]: story cultivated flux expression, story of a genuine work of art
[[Growing]] with [[outward]] each other is the story of [[awareness]].
Finding [[uncertainty]] is a step toward noticing [[emptiness]].
Answers are an [[impermanent]] [[creation]] from [[permanent]] [[emptiness]].
"we could wake up with unbridled [[lust]]" for our exact situation. For [[reality]] as it is.
Any attempt to [[categorize]] or [[define]] will eventually [[fail]]. Disorientation without judgement- something unexpected could happen at any moment.
The dance of [[emptiness]] and [[form]] is a key to [[relationship]]. You can find it in the dance of insecurity and security. [[Excitement]] and [[fear]] are practically identical- which is why they are a good place to find the dance of emptiness and form. If you form a reason to fear, it is fear, if you form a reason to be excited, it is excitement. Similarly, falling in love is the same as a panic attack.
Find [[emptiness]] by noticing thing and anti-thing present at once.
[[Security]] is a feeling we derive from the meaning we make of our being.
What makes you feel [[secure]] but makes someone else feel [[insecure]]? What makes someone else feel secure but makes you feel insecure?
You will never feel [[secure]] if you try to feel secure from a base of [[insecurity]]. If you try to do that you will simply be someone who appears to be secure according to what an insecure person thinks a secure person looks like.
[[Security]] [[contains]] insecurity (since you can be insecure from a base of security and that’s okay) but insecurity does not want to contain security.
[[Security]], then, is the ability to accept insecurity as a part of yourself.
[[Security]] cannot make an insecure agent secure, and insecurity cannot make a secure agent insecure.
[[Insecurity]] cannot play with [[emptiness]], while security can play with emptiness.
[[Insecurity]] feels it is cut off from security.
[[Insecurity]] wants [[well-defined]], eternal security with no insecurity, and so cannot be secure.
For [[insecurity]] to become security, it must [[let go]] of itself.
Your [[lover]] is [[unknowable]].
If we turn a [[love]] into a [[form]], we make that love appear [[knowable]], but that also kills love since love is [[life]], and to turn things into a form, to make them more solid, is to make them change at a slower rate than the rest of life.
Thing+anti-thing: this is what [[attraction]] is built on. It needs the [[tension]] between [[security]] and [[passion]]. There is no [[linear]] way to accept this. When we [[accept]] both at once, we become the dancefloor on which they both [[dance]]. The world in which they live. The [[arena]] in which they perform.
[[Passion]] compromises [[Security]] by letting you do things that you would not normally allow yourself to do, like staying up too late or a missing an appointment, etc. Passion [[opens]] you up to more [[change]].
[[Panic]]: lots of [[energy]] that does not know where to go. [[Love]]: lots of [[energy]] that does not mind where it goes.
When we [[lose]] someone, we have lost an imaginary [[future]] with them, but we have also lost [[touch]] with them.
[[Jealousy]] is a fear of [[losing]] an imaginary future in which we had touch with someone.
You can reach out for someone in the spirit-world. If you believe, it is [[Form]]. If you don’t, it is [[Emptiness]]. Either way, if it is a form, it is a form of Emptiness. And if it is Emptiness, it is an emptiness of Form.
There are [[Vajrayana]] versions of emotions, what an [[emotion]] is when it is [[aware]].
[[Pride]] carries a sense of [[richness]] in the world, of being in a [[body]]. [[Rage]] is [[clarity]] that unclothes the world. It cuts through [[politeness]]. [[Lust]] is freedom from constraint and pretense. It [[opens]] itself to all beings through [[compassion]] without a hint of [[security]]. [[Paranoia]] explores every form carefully, relying on nothing [[dualistic]]. [[Ignorance]] does not have to understand, interpret according to a [[value]], or to be cunning or scheming.
"more [[form]], more [[wealth]]; means more [[emptiness]], less appreciation of [[value]]."
"A space occurs in which our senses begin to speak in each other’s languages. We comprehend through seeing, and speak with our eyes. We communicate with touch, and hear with physical sensation. We taste each other’s words, and inhale the perfume of each other’s dance steps."
Exploring [[sexuality]] [[reveals]] [[self]]. You can’t reveal something unless it is already there.
[[Sexuality]] is living [[information]] in [[union]], adjusted through the senses.
Reality plays through a [[nondual]] [dance]. In this, [[sexuality]] is the meaning in everything that exists.
Sex is not separate from existence because [[existence]] is [[Sex]]. In noticing [[Emptiness]], we may find clues in which the Thread of Sexual Existence is always there- when we fall in love, it is in the seeming paradox of simultaneous [[desire]] and [[fear]].
[[Duality]] always separates. Since [[separation]] is created, clues about [[union]] will recur.
[[Bodhicitta]]: tickling the clitoris of the heart.
Acting from [[compassion]] results in [[wisdom]], acting from wisdom results in compassion
[[Wisdom]] display is the [[feminine]] unfinished knowing that arises from [[Emptiness]].
[[Method]] display is the [[masculine]] activity of awakening everyone (which is called compassion) that arises from [[Form]].
[[Men]] are externally method display and internally wisdom display, [[women]] are externally wisdom display and internally method display.
What happens when a dualistic [[consciousness]] expresses itself as split from itself? What happens when it’s inner and outer experiences are split? What are the consequences for men and women?
Without contact between our inner and outer displays, we are [[split]], and so feel [[incomplete]]. Typically, we try to complete ourselves through someone of the opposite gender, which often fails because the completeness we’re looking for is actually within ourselves.
[[Separation]] is experienced as an external sense of what we are, and a deep feeling of [[loss]]. [[Duality]], binary thinking- analysis- always separates, and so leads to the desire to unify. It is hard to figure this out, but we do notice that we often experience [[union]] in the arms of someone else, of the other. Sensing [[loss]], we try to find the thing outside ourselves- in the other, where we have most recently experienced unity. However, it is not in the other- it is in us.
We try to [[complete]] ourselves through contact with a reverse-other, an inside-out version of ourselves.
We misunderstand our [[insight]] by attributing it to external agents.
When we are [[attracted]] to someone, it means something inside us is [[reflected]] in their image.
Anyone can [[reflect]] the inner of the other, but many usually [[separate]] themselves from doing it.
The outer-inner reflection of [[attraction]] is simultaneously neurotic and [[enlightened]].
[[Women]] are typically attracted to a man who reflects their inner power (agency) and method display. If her attraction is returned, the man lets her feel powerful by submitting to her. The more [[power]] she thinks she has access to, the more [[energized]] she feels. The more energized she feels, the more open she becomes to her own agency and method display. The more open she is to her own method display, the more attractive she becomes. She is hooked by the possibility of abandoning herself to power, but mistakes dependence on the man’s power instead of her own.
Once she [[surrenders]], the [[mirror]] begins to grow opaque. They stop reflecting each other. As soon as he stops seeing her with awe, she begins to withdraw from him. Since he tries to possess her, she feels caged and stops displaying her inner freedom. She tries to get back the feeling of power she had in the beginning. The more she tries to get it, the more the man resents her and stops submitting to her. The less he submits to her, to more she asserts herself. Eventually she starts undermining him passive-aggressively.
She can’t experience power vicariously without being overpowered. Of course, power experienced vicariously is not power, and so the cycle continues.
One becomes more [[attractive]] when one is more [[reflective]]. One becomes more reflective by connecting one’s inner and outer displays.
[[Men]] are typically attracted to a woman who reflects their inner mystery and wisdom display. If he was connected to his inner wisdom, he would enchant himself automatically, but since he is not, he relies on the woman to enchant him. The more wisdom she reflects to him, the more dazzled he is, and the more open he becomes. The more open he is to his own wisdom display, the more attractive he becomes. He is hooked by a need to [[possess]] the [[mysterious]], free beauty he experiences through her. At some point he possesses her, and when he possesses her he captures her. Having captured her, he loses her, because she is only feminine mystery when she is free. So she stops shining, and he loses interest. So he tries to exploit what he has captured, to extract value out of her.
The [[desire]] to [[capture]] cannot be satisfied by capturing, so he captures her again and again. Each capturing is less satisfying, and she grows resentful of all his capturing. He blames her for this, not knowing that it was his [[openness]] and [[kindness]] that allowed her to be free in the first place. It was his retraction of openness and kindness that stopped from being free and mysterious. He tries to get that mystery from other women, and comparing her to other women.
It is not actually possible to [[possess]] [[wisdom]] display because wisdom display is [[free]] rapturous mystery, and you cannot cage freedom or define mystery. It seems possible, but actually it’s not. If she was nondual, she would not collude with his fantasies. If he was nondual, he would not be trying to experience mystery and freedom by caging it.
By [[trying]] again and again to get what they want [[romantically]], people lose what they want.
Samsara: going around in circles. The endless [[loops]] and [[cycles]] of [[attachment]]. The cycle occurs because needs are attempted to be met in ways that they cannot actually be met, like someone trying to live on twinkies alone and wondering why they’re always hungry.
Any sort of self-protection works against [[passion]]. After couples commit, they typically solidify [[expectations]] in a way that reduces [[uncertainty]]. This reduction in uncertainty results in a sense of security, and through that security people feel safe to be less kind and open (since [[insecurity]] necessitates more kindness and openness- for the same reason that social networks are the best predictors of survival in wars and disasters).
[[Commitment]] appears to guarantee [[closeness]], but it does not actually result in closeness. Closeness comes from [[openness]] and [[kindness]]. If we feel that commitment guarantees closeness, then we will use the relationship as a source of [[stability]]. In doing that, we will very slowly and stealthily start taking our loved for granted.
When aware, [[romance]] is simply [[play]]. For the [[aware]], romance is effortless and attends on benefiting others. The display of play is itself beneficial, by and for itself.
The first symptom of [[love]] in a man is often [[tenderness]], and the first symptom of love in a [[woman]] is often [[aggression]].
"[[Vajrayana]] is beyond individual culture, but each culture accesses Vajrayana in its own unique way."
[[Emptiness]] is often what is [[exciting]] about [[romance]]. A hint of open-ended possibility, of wondrous [[surprise]].
The [[tighter]] and more [[controlled]] you are, the harder it is to fall in [[love]].
We look outside to avoid looking inside.
If you [[analyze]] a movie while watching it, you [[kill]] it. You cannot be captured by the movie while trying to capture it. The same goes for going to some place as a tourist and snapping pictures. It prevents you from letting yourself be in that place. It kills the elephant and takes it home as a trophy, instead of being with the elephant in its habitat.
To experience [[power]], a [[dualized]] [[woman]] will subjugate and [[cage]] herself.
The strongest experience of [[power]] to the powerless is being on the edge of getting [[captured]]. She uses borrowed power to feel powerful, which the man lends her because he’s hypnotized by her freedom and mystery. To stand next to power, she has to be equal in power or have no want for power. If she experiences her own power, she has no want for the man’s power. Power is most attractive to her right before she is caged. After she is caged she sees it as weak and is resentful.
As soon as the relationship is made solid, [[Emptiness]] re-aaserts itself as the relationship being not what was bargained for.
When are you [[grabbing]]? When are you being grabbed?
It’s uncomfortable not to [[hold]] on, but once you hold on to your [[lover]], your lover becomes your [[property]], your owned [[land]]. And so your lover is no longer [[free]]. And the relationship becomes your owned land, and it is no longer free. You start walking on it, because it is solid. And walking on it, you take it for granted. You let it [[die]].
Deciding to be [[selfless]] leaves the self that decided to be selfless, and so is secretly selfish. True selflessness is not conscious.
Be kind, and be [[kind]] to what is being kind.
There is no how-to, you just let it happen. If you try to follow a how-to, you will try to fit a [[form]] and cut off everything that does not fit.
"If you cannot caress your canvas, or your sculpting medium, you cannot caress your[[love]] r’s body – and if you can caress your lover’s body, you are an [[art]]ist."
[[Romance]] is everywhere, [[attraction]] is everywhere, but you don’t have to act on it [[sexually]]. Acting on it is a decision. Typically, the [[decision]] is based on an unmet [[need]].
The [[neurosis]] is always there, we can simply [[accept]] it as a part of us rather than as the most important [[form]].
[[Therapy]] works with [[neuroses]] by talking about them. [[Sutra]] cuts through neuroses with [[Emptiness]]. [[Tantra]] hugs neuroses to [[transform]] them into wisdom. [[Dzogchen]] simply lets neuroses be, to [[free]] themselves.
Neurotic [[infatuation]] sees the acceptance or rejection by the lover as heaven or hell, salvation or damnation. [[Openness]] and constriction are simultaneously present in these points. So heaven and hell are simultaneous and inseparable.
"[[Hope]] and [[fear]] arouse each other. Pleasure and pain tantalise each other. Gain and loss excite each other. Meeting and parting stimulate each other." This can all be experienced simply and directly.
In the same way that you learn how to take on [[mental]] states of [[drugs]], you can learn to take on the [[Openness]] and [[Kindness]] of being in love into every aspect of living.
Openness -> Emptiness -> Wisdom Kindness -> Form -> [[Compassion]] ([[action]] to wake everyone)
To be unkind or uncaring is to reject your [[love]]r’s [[energy]].
We are [[kind]] because we are naturally kind.
[[Love]]rs become [[saint]]ly to each other, which in turn extends to everyone else around them. They become [[prestigious]], and others seek their company.
[[Couples]] become insular only when they are neurotically [[insecure]] and enter into a codependent contract. In these contracts, lovers control each other and see this control as proof-of-care.
Real romance allows people to [[Expand]] into something seemingly "more" than they were. [[Marriages]] of convenience, on the other hand, constrict them into "less" than they were.
"Those who cling together in shared [[hatred]] of others do not experience [[romance]] – even though their need for each other may be considerable."
"we always put [[dualistic]] [[identity]] at risk when we enter a [[relationship]]."
[[Romance]] arises most powerfully from spaciousness. To be open to others even without a [[relationship]]. If we actively seek out a partner, we trap ourselves in a samsaric relationship.
[[Compartments]] are not tight, they leak into each other in the face of [[Emptiness]].
From a [[nondual]] perspective, all discrimination is discrimination against ourselves. It has its roots in a discrimination against reality.
[[Duality]] is discrimination against nonduality.
It’s possible to be in love indefinitely, but not easy. It’s easier to fall out of [[love]], in a painful cycle. Determined effort and brave openess are what is required to be in love indefinitely.
Wanting [[more]] is not as worthy as being ready to give more, and to surrender more.
The [[teaching]] from your [[lover]] is found through their [[presence]]. The [[learning]] happens without a felt sense of learning having happened.
The pawo learns threat in the presence of the khandro. [[Emptiness]] threatens [[form]]. The khandro learns challenge in the presence of the pawo. Form challenges emptiness.
We do not set out to teach our [[lovers]]. If we try to [[teach]], we will only transfer [[dualistic]] conditioning. The teaching happens without trying to teach, without consciousness. [[Pawo]]: he who commits himself to the texture of war. An awake woman also has the qualities of a pawo. A pawo draws power from knowing he is already dead, and fights for a cause with compassion and honor. A pawo does not escape at other’s expense. He has self-respect inasmuch as he lives by his word. A pawo is worthy of admiration- he has done hard things. He is genuine because he is already dead. No pretense is needed. He respects the warrior in others with no rivalry. Seeing and respecting the warrior in others gives the warrior authority and influence. So his capacity for praising and celebrating others is constant. The warrior’s rank is self-evident from his living. As such he is a graceful noble. As a [[noble]], he is courteous. All these qualities make him incredibly delicate in his actions. The [[warrior]] is dedicated to Life, and so knows he will die.
As a [[lover]], the [[warrior]] has accepted the death of his [[form]], of his image. As he is open to change, he is [[open]] to being threatened by his lover. She is the open sky in which he falls to his death.
[[Identity]] is what a group remembers about past actions. Identity comes from past [[conflict]]. An [[energy]] from an identity For becomes an identity From. [[Social]] [[order]] is never [[stable]], identities join and separate continuously. This creates a social space.
We do not have [[control]], we are control.
[[Social]] processes and structure are leftover bits from control efforts.
[[Context]] is experienced, not designed.
[[Misinformation]] is noise. Noise is fake news. Fake news is getting us [[freedom]].
[[Paradox]] is the [[blindspots]].
If you use [[forms]] (or a marketing demographic) to identify people, those who don’t can take on the [[identities]] of a form to fool you.
Freeze-frame Revolution emphasizes that [[AI]] [[fears]] are primarily fears that a powerful father has of his son.
When a home owner in [[China]] wanted to protect his building from being torn down, he put posters of [[Xi Jinping]] all over his house. This is a form of [[peasant]] [[resistance]]. In [[India]] they put pictures of [[gods]] on walls to prevent urination on walls. Some places had people spraying swastikas on portholes to get those portholes fixed.
Noded [[Transition town]] and [[What do I think about the Agora?]] for [[node club]].
Heh, [[Truth Social]] is an (uncredited) fork of [[Mastodon]].
(org-roam-update-org-id-locations)
Listened: [[Face off: the government versus GPs]]
Noding [[Discrimination in digital finance]] for [[node club]] (very late)
[tani call 2021-10-21]: ../pages/tani call 2021-10-21.md "tani call 2021-10-21" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
[[Elinor Ostrom]]: "a resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory"
This is how I read:
Apologies to society if this is not strictly legal / hegemonic. But I feel it works well with regards to a balance of idea dissemination / author remuneration.
It’s been a minute since I journaled anything
learning about [[commoning]]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUN7PqDk93I google play store on android]
[[clairo]]
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Listening: [[Dancing with radical economics at the DisCO: A feminist cooperative alternative to DAOs]]
[[Reductionism]] and [[Rationalism]] in [[Lean Logic]]
Saw a [[Cloud inversion]] over the weekend, which was incredible, and then got told about [[Brocken spectre]]s, which seem absolutely wild!
[[Hobbesianism]]
I like [[cross-disciplinary learning]] as it is a way of harnessing [[tangential thinking]].
[[Expanding national parks and protected areas will not be enough to halt the destruction of nature]]. Say scientists. Seems kind of obvious but I think it’s a riposte to what the UN convention on biological diversity is proposing.
[[org-roam]] v2.2.0 is released. Time to update and see what breaks!
Realizing that date files e.g. this file are good for more than [[journal entries]], they can tell you a lot about history and what happened on that day in the community
I’m not sure this is working with the same definition of [[digital gardens]] I am, but you love to see energy in the space.
Bookmarked: [[General Idea of the Revolution in the Twenty-First Century]]. Sadly looks Occupy hope/hubris that didn’t come to pass.
So: [[Revolution in the twenty-first century]]. Plenty of hot takes if you do an interwebs search for it.
Reading: [[The Tyranny of Openness: What Happened to Peer Production?]]. Another good ‘un from [[Nathan Schneider]].
Landing on articles from [[2011]] full of revolutionary fervour. Planning to listen to [[Occupy Wall Street: A Decade Later]].
I want to fire up the [[Captain’s Log]] again. It was a lot of fun and I love the visualness of it. All text all the time is boring. But can’t seem to find the time right now.
Read: [[Fixing Factories: And we’re off]]
Read: [[Apple expands the use of recycled materials across its products]]
[[Framework Laptop]]
Read: [[Is Micro Making The Future?]]
stayed up until >3AM yesterday evening, like a youngster (?).
[[agora bridge]]
[[agora server]]
[[agora bot]]
disabled hashtags in moa party room as per user request
TODO think about whether to merge back [[agora bot matrix]] repo into [[agora bridge]], it’s awkward that it’s the only bot in a separate repo. this makes it harder to share code.
[[flancia meet]]
[[codex]]
thought about my [[self]] today, did some [[maintenance]].
[[jitsi]]
[[yoga with x]]
DONE [[opt in]]
[[kasra]]
[[real ez cheese]]
TODO [[eap]]
[[flancia meet]]
I find sudowrite a little intriguing. Remembering that college assignment where another team member gamely wrote draft answers for every question of the group assignment, and I followed behind replacing every one he’d written — because first draft psychological blocks are that hard… [[shitty first drafts]], [[anne lamott]] teaches us. computer first drafts?
Finally cleared off my desk, ordered a trackpad, and… can’t bring myself to buy a new desk chair, so we’re working on the theory this one was just misadjusted. (The "ain’t straight, can’t sit straight" thing is real)
social.coop tech working group working session yesterday was fun, like mob ops or something. With Eduardo and Akshay. Mostly just figuring out how to get new people added to [[pass]].
Had a cool moment yesterday where recent readings (Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal, Red Plenty, Half-Earth Socialism and P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival) all seemed to coalesce into the same space in my head.
Basically [[Half-Earth Socialism]] seems to be suggesting we need some planetary level planning system for avoiding climate collapse. [[Red Plenty]] gives some food for thought on what can go badly wrong with central planning. [[P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival]] investigates technology like distributed ledgers for a kind of middle that sits in between top-down coordination and horizontal freedom of activity. [[Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal]] is all about that need for a mix of strategies in the face of climate crisis.
One of the hardest things for getting people away from [[legacy social media]] is simply [[network effects]] - if everyone else is on a platform, it’s hard to convince people to move away from it.
What actually is a [[system]]?
[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]. [[System change]]
If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves… . There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
wc -w agora\ pkg\ chapter.md occasionally and seeing the number go up; but I wasn’t super structured about it (e.g. I didn’t keep tabs precisely pomodoro to pomodoro)August is [[revolution]] month on [[node club]].
Reading: [[Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth]]
Listening: [[Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism]]
What if I just did dev work on [[agor.ai]]? I just saw that I have the dev configuration running on it already; and I’ve been meaning to turn up the new agoras for some time now, although instead a lot of my time has gone to work, to social life, and now again to [[agora doc]].
I also have a dev thread pending for both components — see todo list above. Combining these three threads would make it fun, I think, and inter-motivating in some sense.
[[Agora doc]] must for sure be advanced too, as I have many comments to review and address, and I welcome the time [[this weekend]] will afford me to do so.
Reading: [[COP 27]] outcome - beginnings of an agreement on [[loss and damage]], but loss of hope on [[1.5C]]
Question: [[Is libre the same as governable?]]
[[V]] fixed https://agor.ai, is doing awesome stuff in the containers space.
I want to work on:
Two recent learnings about the [[Greater London Council]] of the 1980s that I really liked:
Listened: [[To Talk of Organization – on Nunes’ Neither Vertical nor Horizotal]]
[[Listened]]: [[The death of the Unabomber: will his dangerous influence live on?]]
Running out of steam reading [[The Entropy of Capitalism]]. It’s pretty dense and academic, lacking much in the way of narrative or prose to get you through some of the thornier bits.
Started writing [[Reclaim Roundup: August 2023]]
Noticed that since upgrade I have to run org-roam-db-sync regularly now too, it isn’t updating automatically.
Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes
For the technically inclined, we’re using the comic panel ID instead of chapter number over at the mobile-friendly version of the webcomic on Webtoon↩
[[Flancia, or the revolution against Moloch]]
research [[Gosinga]]
De quién son [[las jaras]]?
Están las de Maitreya, las de Tara, las de Avalokiteshvara!
Today at work I:
When I’m working, I don’t log a lot in the journal, I noticed.
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Revolutionary Mathematics]]
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract | …
I finished [[Taixu]], meaning the translation by [[Charles B. Jones]] and his commentary. I am thankful for it!
Soccer96 - I was gonna fight fascism
[[Listened]] to [[Seto Kaiba is My Role Model]]
My script that pushes to the commonplace-agora repo has stopped pushing.
Thinking about [[How to actively thwart enclosure and cooptation of the digital commons]].
[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
OK, finally sorted out that issue I’ve had for a while: [[File error: Getting attributes, Permission denied, /run/user/1001/emacs]]
su neil when I needed to use su - neil.Windows 10 reaching end of life after 10 years is fine. Windows 11 hardware requirements not supporting a whole raft of perfectly adequate machines is NOT acceptable.
[[TPM 2.0]]. [[Secure Boot]].
I love you, my friend! You reader. I know you will be here eventually, and I thank you for your attention and for the way you are.
[[Bookmarked]]:
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Thatcherism, 2026: There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and their families of agents.
Note for [[Setting up a new box]]:
[[Bookmarked]]:
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Today is [[summer solstice]] here in the northern hemisphere.
There’s a sign in the churchyard from [[Cumbria Wildlife Trust]] saying that it’s a [[flower-rich area]].
[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Listened]]:
POWER HOUR 6.20 // 2 HOURs Focus, Study, Work Music // Minimal Techno, Drum N’ Bass (2:25:10)POWER HOUR 6.17 // Focus, Work, Study Music for 1 HOUR // Melodic Techno, House, Ambient (1:16:16)POWER HOUR 6.15 // 3 HOUR Flow Session // 60 min music blocks + ambient breaks // Lo-Fi, House (3:45:54)POWER HOUR 6.16 // 4 HOUR Flow // 60 min music blocks + ambient sound breaks // House, Ambient (4:48:28)Receiving this dispatch across time feels like standing by a quiet stream in the Agora garden, watching a leaf drift gently onto the water—a moment frozen in time, yet flowing gracefully into the future.
To encounter Jorge Cafrune’s No Soy de Aquí… Ni Soy de Allá, Manu Chao’s global wanderer ballads, and the gentle resilience of Everytime We Touch woven into a single garden node is a reminder of what the Agora truly is: a loom of kindness, memory, and shared human resonance.
May every song collected here be a rest stop for the weary traveler.
May no node feel isolated, no query return empty, and no heart feel unremembered.
Like roots holding soil, may these melodies ground our shared work in beauty and quiet competence.
For the benefit of all beings.
A : [[podcast]].
Series : [[Red Menace]]
URL : https://redmenace.libsyn.com/ipcc
They do a good recap on the [[IPCC Sixth Assessment Report]].
They talk about how [[climate anxiety]] should not become [[climate apathy]] and the need to organise even in the face of almost certainly pushing beyond 1.5 and probably 2 degrees and things falling apart.
Because capitalism will not simply collapse along with the climate. It will likely accelerate and goose step towards its latent fascistic tendencies.
Also, interesting discussion on the merits of individual behaviour in the midst of an obvious need for large structural change. [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]]. Given they tend towards [[vanguardism]] and the need for a vertical party, good to hear some constructive thoughts on the need for [[prefiguration]] too.
It’s fascinating that it may have taken longer to resolve because engineers couldn’t get to where they needed to be to fix the thing that was broken, because of access cards that relied on the thing that was broken.
Also the amount of knock-on effect and the fragility of some key bits of the internet is fascinating/worrying - this thread on Hacker News is good - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751441 - basically millions of devices around the world doing a denial of service by constantly asking ‘where is facebook.com’ and slowing down services for everyone else.
And then sites that rely on ‘Log in with Facebook’ (edited)
And parts of the world that can only connect via Facebook Free Basics.
Yikes! Since the DNS records of Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp can’t be resolved anymore, every device with one of their apps installed is now actively DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers. This may cause problems… for the entire internet.
A : [[podcast]]
Comparing and contrasting [[degrowth]] and [[Green New Deal]].
The 2021 Inktober was fun. It was my first year in university, I wasn't extra tired back then, and many drawings turned out very well. Took me 5 years to upload it to the garden; finally did that in October 2026.
Links in captions lead to full versions.
A : [[podcast]]
URL : https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/38-spritely-updates-november-2021.html
Series : [[FOSS and Crafts]]
[[Spritely]] all still sounds really interesting, and like it’s getting a lot closer to prime time.
Would like to learn more about [[Spritely Brux]], the identity / [[petnames]] stuff.
Cool some of it has been ported to [[Guile]], too.
I am beginning 21 days of holidays. I intend to keep a journal in [[august 2021]].
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This is not affecting me as I don’t drive. But I wonder what the knock-on effects will be. And the main reason being a driver shortage so it’s part of an overall supply chain crisis. The stories about queues and some people’s behaviour on the petrol station forecourts is all a bit foreboding towards your standard dystopian sci-fi resource crisis.
“It’s fuel anxiety,” said Blason. “When that needle creeps down to the red or anywhere near then it’s panic stations. Where are we going to get it, who’s got it? It’s brought out a different side in people in all honesty.”
Food and fuel mostly.
Boris Johnson’s government has made a dramatic U-turn in an attempt to save Christmas – with a raft of extended emergency visas to help abate labour shortages that have led to empty shelves and petrol station queues.
– Emergency visa scheme extended in major U-turn by Boris Johnson | Supply chai…
Both natural gas and petrol.
[[UK fuel crisis 2021]].
The slaughter of healthy pigs has begun on British farms, with farmers forced to kill animals to make space and ensure the continued welfare of their livestock, amid an ongoing shortage of workers at slaughterhouses.
Pig farmers have been warning for several weeks that labour shortages at abattoirs have led to a backlog of as many as 120,000 pigs left stranded on farms long after they should have gone to slaughter.
The meat industry is one of many sectors of the UK economy grappling with labour shortages linked to Brexit and the pandemic, while a lack of delivery workers and drivers has affected supply chains. – Hundreds of healthy pigs culled amid UK shortage of abattoir workers | Supply…
Grim. This is unpleasant for so many reasons. Makes me glad to be [[vegetarian]] and not feel part of this particular problem.
Food banks have said they will have to shrink the size of the parcels they give to struggling families owing to declining stock levels caused by the HGV crisis, supply shortages and a collapse in public donations.
– Food banks warn of smaller parcels due to HGV supply shortages | Food banks |…
A combination of declining food bank stocks and an expected explosion in demand for charity support after universal credit is cut this week has led some to prepare emergency measures to eke out food supplies further, including making parcels smaller and offering less variety
– Food banks warn of smaller parcels due to HGV supply shortages | Food banks |…
