2020-03-29§

org-protocol§

Adding in [[org-protocol]] to my set up looks like a good step. Along with org-protocol-capture-html, it allows me quickly capture snippets from the web. At the moment, it’s going into a [[clippings]] file in my wiki. It might be better to have things go straight in to a clippings section in my daily file - we’ll see.

If I link a particular concept in a page in my wiki, with org-roam’s backlinks, I see a list of all the things linking to that page. This should be quite useful if I’m doing some wiki gardening or writing.

Hamsterkauf :read:§

Phase 1 of food buying in the UK is passing. In this article it’s referred to as the hamsterkauf phase, the German word for a hamster stuffing its cheeks. Physical superstores have coped better with this than online stores. We might soon be entering Phase 2, where supermarket staff absence levels might increase.

:: [[Coronavirus]]

June 29th, 2020§

• Found something for [[Polarization]]

2020-06-29§

[[Facebook only cares about money]]§

[[Facebook]] will make some changes around its policy on hateful content, but only from the threat of lost ad revenue. Not from actually caring about the victims of it.

“Let’s be honest,” said Moghal, "these tech platforms have generated income and interest from this divisive content; they won’t change their practices until they begin to see a significant cut to their revenue."

Sucks that only big companies pulling out can have an effect on FB. But props to Stop Hate for Profit for putting pressure on companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/29/how-hate-speech-campaigners-found-facebooks-weak-spot (thanks [[Ellie]] for the link!)

July 29th, 2020§

• [[Quick Capture]]
  • Machine Dreams - Dreaming Machines - Joscha Bach

http://bach.ai/machine-dreams/

2020-07-29§

Assemblage thinking, actor-network theory§

Searching for whether actor-network theory has anything to do with post-structuralism, I stumbled on to ‘[[assemblage thinking]]‘ and its relationship to [[actor-network theory]]. They both seem to have some tie in to [[networked agency]], too.

[[Relationship between assemblage thinking and actor-network theory]].

Stumbling on [[object-oriented democracy]], also from [[Bruno Latour]] of ANT, was cool as well - would like to find out more about that.

August 29th, 2020§

• [[TODO]]
  • [[Flancia]] by default, really.
  • Some days I see Flancia so clearly. Some days it fades away. [[tweet]]
• Thought about [[Flanbook]]
• [[generativist]] brought up [[decision theory]]
• I should bring up [[Cronopios]] more often.
• Writing [[In Flancia there are no walled gardens]]
• [[Flancia]]
• [[Quick Capture]]
  • [[L.]] sent me this: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcWmOUB5VJ/?igshid=6l0cauql0jyf

2020-08-29§

Squashs and gourds§

One of the side effects of getting a veg box from the local food co-op is I know now more about squash varieties than I ever really expected I would.

Also that there is a Wikipedia on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gourds_and_squashes pull

2020 09 29§

• Get back to [[tsargnus]] — [[Gebron IV]].
• Think about [[A pattern language]].
• Get back to [[dyokomizo]].
• Get back to [[unknownquant]] about the game.
• figure out if there is a way to mark tasks as completed in [[Obsidian]] in addition to adding an X by hand. Post in the forum?
• figure out if there is a way to use a vim like mode in [[Obsidian]]. [[Foam]] has this.
• Talked to [[ding levery]] on [[zulip]]

2020-10-29§

• The day started great!
• My afternoon was looking bleak meetings wise but now it’s looking better.
• I really should fix up anagora.org a bit:
  • Move the new-style agora to /v1/?
  • Make the wiki render well again
  • close registrations and clean up some spam? Perhaps.

2020-10-29§

Doctorow and Amazon§

The dedication to Amazon in Doctorow’s Little Brother didn’t age well:

"Amazon’s in the process of reinventing what it means to be a bookstore in the twenty-first century and I can’t think of a better group of people to be facing down that thorny set of problems."

Mobilizon§

Cool that [[Mobilizon]] (federated Facebook groups/events alternative) is released now. Hope it does well!

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

2020-11-29§

• Reviewed [[daily]]
• Reviewed [[do]], added some more [[action]]s.
• Reorganized/cleaned up my [[todo]].
• [[write]] to [[O]].
• [[do]] laundry
• [[do]] take out garbage
• [[do]] take a walk
• [[send]] update to [[james baker]]
• [[do]] accept [[arghzero]]‘s [[PR]]
  • check CLA in internal system
  • merge: https://github.com/flancian/agora-server/pull/1/files
• [[read]] the meeting agenda doc for [[social knowledge graphs discussion]].
  • Node everyone that currently doesn’t have a node
    • [[samuel klein]]
    • [[joel gustafson]]
    • [[denny vrandecic]]
    • [[ruben verborgh]]
    • [[todd carpenter]]
    • [[nettie lagace]]
    • [[rob sanderson]]
    • [[jennifer rygh]]
    • [[fabien gandon]]
    • [[andrei ciortea]]
• (here I procrastinated, albeit in a hopefully in a constructive way, due to [[FUD]])
• [[write]] in the meeting agenda doc for [[social knowledge graphs discussion]].
• [[do]] pay internet/phone bills
• [[answer]] [[armengolaltayol]]
• re-review [[logseq]]
• work on [[agora plan]]
• noded [[federated wiki]]
• noded [[sister sites]]
• found [[pubpub]] through [[sarah of the past]]
• [[ben chase]] told me about [[weekend wednesday]]: https://twitter.com/bbchase/status/1333115033757343750 pull
• [[write]] explicitly about [[roam like]]s as [[distributed knowledge graph]] builders.
• [[airto moreira]] was sampled in that 90s song, [[samba de janeiro]].

15:14 luck

read an interesting reddit thread about how much we tend to disregard luck in western culture.

the belief that we have the ability to transform our circumstances means, conseqently, that we take responsibility for many of our faults, trying to attribute them to concrete actions and failures of our own or of those around us rather than putting them to 'luck' or 'circumstance'.

one of the most important things one can do is to determine what is in their control and what is outside it. this is the first step towards seizing opportunities that are in one's control rather than those that are down to chance, taking advantage of the circumstances we currently possess is vital to being able to succeed.

all the same, of course it's dangerous to say that life's luck; we can take charge of our own decisions to a degree. the balance is stricken when we dismiss things we cannot control and seize control of those we properly can.

i suppose this is not a new idea but i needed a reminder of this

2020-11-29§

• After adding the [[logo]], the header section doesn’t look so hot on the garden on my mobile - the logo doesn’t adapt so adds too much width. It looks fine in the browser dev tools in Firefox on on small screens, but not in the Chrome dev tools.

  • Fix: it needed wrapping in an anchor tag.

• Seems like my backlinks in [[Flock]] don’t publish when I run make republish, but they do if I do org-publish-current-file. Why?

  • Ah it was because I’d left the [[org-roam]] DB setting org-roam-db-location pointing at the wrong place in publish.el.

• Why do I have to keep restart [[syncthing]] on my mobile in order to sync files to my laptop?

2020-11-29§

• Talked with [[jesyspa]] about "inverting" complex maps for a tool that will render transformations to the complex plane.
• Continued work on my implementation of a HashMap and HashSet for cats-collections.
• Looked into [[Horizon EDA]] for development of asynchronous circuits.
• Looked into the usage of [[Chisel]] to make managing and testing custom components easier.
• Worked with [[Tenri]] on developing the complex map tool as a website, using Outwatch and MathLive. It exists at https://gitlab.com/srnb/complexmap.

2020-12-29§

• Actually yesterday: talked [[digital gardens]] with [[tombielecki]]: https://twitter.com/tombielecki/status/1343620239276318724 pull
• Thought about the concept of [[post-racial]].
• [[s5bug]]
  • [[caramelldansen]]
  • [[ocarina of time]]
• [[cheese]] [[tomme vaudoise]]
• [[cli]]
• talked to [[s. y.]]
• [[solarpunk]]
• [[roko]]
  • [[sota]]
• [[moloch]]
  • [[sometimes i feel as if I am struck by lightning]]
• [[Flancia]] es: [[trabajadores y nerds del mundo, uníos]]
  • [[tweet]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1343979229097168896 pull
• [[nerds of the world, unite]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1343979649769103361 pull
• [[agora editor]]
• [[potential]]
• [[transclusion]]
• [[agora client]]
• [[agora]]
• [[michaeldgrahams]] is interested in the Agora.
• I need to implement:
  • [[jump]]
  • [[push]]
  • [[plan]]
  • [[journal]]
  • [[twitter bot]]
• [[comonad]]
• [[agora]]
• I posted the [[agora]] to [[hn]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1344003756908818444 pull
• [[meshachthomas]]
• [[aborto legal]] [[senate]] [[debate]] in [[argentina]]
• [[anisina]] reached out
• [[olofl]] recommended [[on tyranny]] by [[tymothy snyder]]

2021-01-29§

• Review [[iap21]] projects and notes.
  • Also [[corpse2corpse]] as an interesting past example.
• [[habitat 67]]
• [[push]] [[interlay]]
  • The [[agora]] is an experiment in the following spaces:
    • [[protopoi]]
    • [[pkm]] + [[dkg]]
    • [[push]] [[intent driven automation]]
      • [[intent]] [[driven]] [[automation]]
  • [[taking notes]] is [[homeomorphic]] with [[implementing]] [[intents]] if you are a [[coder]]
  • [[agora slides]]
• [[iap21]]
  • Had a great time
  • [[root nodes]]
• [[metasj]] [[jonathan the utopian]] [[codex]]
  • Perhaps we should all [[screenshare]] by [[default]] while researching in group.
• [[intents]]
• [[no yoga robots]]
• [[dinner]] [[vegetable roast]] with [[salmon]]
• [[push]] [[manifesto]] I [[endorse]] the following [[manifestos]]
  • [[lord enki]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355252781909749766 pull
  • [[fpallopides]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355253538771898368 pull
• [[push]] [[weekend]]
  • [[agora plan]]
    • [[bmann]] [[yaml]]
    • [[onboard]] [[lord enki]]
  • [[write]]
    • [[agora bolo]]
  • follow up with [[metasj]] as per [[iap21]] notes

23:05 thoughts today!

https://bluecheckhomes.com/: what is this dystopia? work on web ui projects! build fake portfolios, imitate the apple 2, etc… there is lots of potential

2021-03-29§

• [[mort garson]]‘s family didn’t like [[plantasia]]: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/09/mother-earths-plantasia-cult-album-plants-youtube-algorithm-mort-garson
• [[prosperity public license]]
• [[dylan steck]]
• [[wikilinks everywhere]]
  • [[learn js]]
    • [[etherpad-wikilinks]]
    • [[pinafore-wikilinks]]
    • [[js subnodes]]
      • perhaps use [[d3]] for graphs in the agora?
• [[brownian motion]]
• [[eikas]]
• [[deno]]
• [[game of life]]

2021-03-29§

[[Magit performance on minified JS and CSS]]§

[[ox-agora]]§

[2021-03-29 Mon 23:22]§

Been watching [[The Hunger Games]] films.

2021-04-29§

• [[awaken]]
• [[bridges]]
  • [[burning bridges]]
• [[favorite]]
• [[free]]
• [[foam]]
• [[eisejuaz]]
• [[knots]]
  • [[chirality]]
• [[cinco años]]
• [[rainbow folding]]
• [[tabfs]] [[bug]]
• [[do]]
  • [[logseq]]
  • [[moa]] [[agora]] integration
  • prefix match for auto pull

2021-04-29§

• Good post on [[Cloudron vs Yunohost]] from socialism.tools:Cloudron vs. YunoHost - the self-host app showdown.

• [[The Decentralized Web of Hate]]

• [[obsidian plugin]]
• [[pre commit]]
• [[push]] [[do]]
  • [[write]] [[an open letter for an open society]]
  • [[write]] [[perro grande perro chico]]
  • [[fund]] [[flancia collective]]

14:34 daily update

going to start doing these - actually doing these - again.

yesterday

• took photos all day - great experience!

• socialized and explored downtown portland

• learned how to use pollen for multi output resume formatting

• self-actualized - purchased everything i want i dont care!!! shorts and that killer patagonia jacket

today

• put together my "onebag" and cut the chaff, figuring out what i want to get rid of! also figure out what's left to need.

• take pictures of and list more of my old clothing for sale

• use pollen to target xelatex pdf and html with the same source, following the fourth pollen tutorial work on basic formatting for it!

• find a workout - use weights, go for a run in the evening, etc!!

• conquer my email and other floating messages

2021-05-29§

• [[YunoHost]] has a really interesting governance structure, involving special interest groups, a council, and consensus for decision making.
  • https://yunohost.org/en/yunohost_project_organization
• Did a bit of gardening on [[Interlinking wikis]].
• Having a ‘[[nowtions]]‘ / ‘top of mind’ page in my digital garden is working well. I add new notions to it as they crop up, and visit it regularly which works as lowkey spaced repetition.
• "we cannot depend upon structures to do the work of culture" – [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
• Jammed: Moderat - Seamonkey
• [[Maggie Appleton]] has dropped an update to her awesome [[A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden]] page, and it now has a section The Six Patterns of Gardening. The patterns she lists chime excellently with how I view [[digital garden]]s. Her page is the best intro to them, IMO.
  • https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
• [[Culture and structure]]
• [[IndieForums]] looks nice. Seems like it might be a good catalyst for some [[Blogchains and hyperconversations]].
  • https://indieforums.net
• [[When did you join the IndieWeb?]]

• [[iem]]

• [[events]]

• [[tools for thought interchange]]

• [[future of note taking]]

• [[agora protocol]]

• [[agora social bridge]]

  • [[agora social media integration]]
  • [[agora twitter media integration]]
  • [[agora mastodon integration]]

• [[the future of note taking]] [[video]] == [[go/font-video]]

• [[agora twitter integration]]

• [[cybersin]]

• [[psi]]

• [[dual]]

• [[search engines]]

  • [[qwant]]
  • [[searx]]

• [[push]] [[do]]

  • [[agora twitter integration]]
    • where’s [[vera]]‘s repo?
  • [[trailhub]]
  • [[go]] as button
  • [[pull]] for tweets

  https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1409910872571625477 pull

  https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1409911480280039429 pull

  https://social.coop/@flancian/105548611374025585

  https://social.coop/web/statuses/106495375813799013

  https://freethinkers.lgbt/notice/A8m8lWaqrG36eRLoXo pull

• Escuché Vulture Prince de [[Arooj Aftab]], qué lindo!
• [[UNSAM edita]]

• [[remote]]
• [[github copilotot]]
• 21 JavaScript Autocomplete Libraries | Dunebook
• [[vera]]

• [[portland zu 2021-07-29]]

[portland zu 2021-07-29]: ../pages/portland zu 2021-07-29.md "portland zu 2021-07-29" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"

• [[portland zu 2021-07-29]]

2021-08-29§

• trying [[code server]]
  • seems to work at least for basic editing, foam installs even
  • shortcuts are hit and miss though
• [[all watched over by machines of loving grace]]
• [[moleskine]]
• [[collect]]
• really liking [[our mathematical universe]]
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe pull
  • [[inflation]]
  • [[parallel universes]]
• [[burup forever]]
• been reading about [[christianism]], visiting [[italy]] made it topical
  • [[john the baptist]]
    • apparently [[john the baptist]] was considered a prophet before [[jesus]], which explains why the earlier baptized the latter (I didn’t know)
    • some of John’s followers "defected" to Jesus, apparently at John’s insistence
• [[lee perry]] died today
• [[full throttle]]
  • [[scumm]]
  • [[ben]] [[maureen]]
• [[yoga]]
  • [[default yoga]]
• [[done]]
  • [[pull arbitrary urls]]

2021-08-29§

• [[Prosperity Without Growth]]

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1432064995978797066 pull

2021-09-29§

• cleaned up [[contract]] a bit
  • need to establish a process for review
• set up a new workspace for working on [[flancia]] explicitly
  • I feel like I’ve been procrastinating on [[flancia]] without knowing it
  • long form on this follows after this section
  • [[meta]] [[agora protocol]]
    • this is a format I want to explore more: [[agora protocol]] up top, then long form treatment on some of the same topics. perhaps a sequence of (agora protocol, long form) tuples more generally.

In a sense, procrastination is just an inefficiency in my scheduling that can be improved upon. I’ve been experimenting with techniques to unblock resources I need to continue with threads more often; and to schedule a bit more rationally and in a [[true to self]] fashion.

• [[fediverse]]
  • [[twitter]] [[mastodon]]

By the way, I realize I’ve been writing on Twitter far too much. Mastodon as well; both are addictive, and I like them anyway, because for me them and the Agora converge. The conversation yesterday with [[robert haisfield]] comes to mind.

But I miss writing without the silly obstacles and impairments of social media. Writing and reading on social media is great like having phones is great; but, like mobile keyboards are lacking, social media’s media UI and format has limitations.

I spoke to [[gargron]] over Mastodon: https://social.coop/web/statuses/107016519686720065.

• [[procrastination]]

So, back to procrastination: what just happened was a bit of it. I procrastinate a lot using social media. But that’s fine, as I was saying, because I think I can bridge social media and the Agora, and I believe the Agora has the specific quality that it can become one with anything that it [[bridges]] with.

• To be [[violent]] is to be rushing full, to be full of [[force]], an overflowing, grabbing chase.
• Without [[balance]], you won’t [[move]].

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2021-10-29§

• met [[generativist]]

• Each [[joint]] is a mini [[central]] processing [[center]], which means you can constrict [[energy]] to it and isolate it in the same way you would isolate a central processing center.

2021-10-29§

• [[The role of software for a universal Right to Repair]]

[[ubi projects]]

[[patterns everywhere]]

[https://smallpdf.com/ edit pdf]

• When you’re smaller, you can’t [[pin]] someone down reliably, but you can herd their [[movement]].

2021-11-29§

• Listened: [[Spritely Updates! (November 2021)]]

• [[Petnames]]

• [[code-review]] - code review library for [[emacs]].

2021-12-29§

• [[gustavo todo]]
• [[test]]
  • test of new twitter embed code which skips hrefs
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1476126755807191047 pull: test of embeds presumably working :)
• [[labour]]
• [[work]]
  • [[write]]
    • [[commons]]
      • [[knowledge commons]]
        • [[agora]]
          • [[node club]]
            • [[commons]]
  • [[code]] fix embeds for [[free, fair and alive]] (improve slugify)
  • [[later]]
    • [[silly]]
      • [[the ministry of silly walks]]

2021-12-29§

• Heard about [[Dynabook]] from Thompson on FedWiki chat

• A couple of new notions following a chat with [[Flancian]]:

  • [[Commoning is a good way to solve coordination problems]]
  • [[Metcalfe’s law does not apply to commoning]]

• [[Bayesian analysis]]

  derives degrees of certainty which are interpreted as a measure of subjective psychological belief.

  – Certainty - Wikipedia

• Listing some of [[My garden circles]] - digital gardens of people in different areas that I like to read when thinking on a particular topic.

  • [[Garden circle]]

• [[Critical race theory]]

• [[I like gift economies]] because [[gift economies build community]]

2022-01-29§

• [[agora]]
  • [[agora server]]
    • [[caching]] experiments
• [[flancia meets]]
  • [[flancia meet]]
    • #push [[anchors]]
      • I’d been thining about anchors due to [[obsidian block anchors]] and the topic came up again today; [[bouncepaw]] is thinking about many of the same things. We decided to try to work on [[anchors]] together; try to agree on shared conventions.
      • [[anchors]] for me generalize to the problem of transmitting [[context]], [[scope]]. I’ve been exploring these problems with [[push]] and [[pull]].
  • caught up with [[metasj]] in the evening too, about the [[commons]] and [[shared pools]].
• [[agora discuss]]
  • #push [[hubs]]
    • [[mozilla hubs]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[identity]]
  • [[lady burup]]
• #push [[taking a break]]
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1487452619710812167 pull
  • https://pinafore.social/statuses/107706639651632416 == https://social.coop/@flancian/107706638618523252
• [[pomodoros]]
  • [[cleanup]]
  • [[chat]]
  • [[chat]]
  • [[yoga]]
  • [[matrix bot]]
    • took a break, see above :)
    • with ten minutes left, let’s see…
    • (now writing this in [[logseq]])
    • #push [[maubot]]
      • [[setup]] https://docs.mau.fi/maubot/usage/setup/index.html pull
      • [[alembic]]
      • liking the experience so far
      • installed plugins: collapsed:: false
        • https://github.com/maubot/rss
        • https://github.com/maubot/ping
        • #push [[agora bot matrix]]
          • is now up and running in [[agora discuss]] and [[agora development]]
          • based it on https://github.com/TomCasavant/RedditMaubot which is a bit of a joke bot, but as an example it was good enough ;) and MIT licensed
          • in its own git repo for now, might just move all code to [[agora bridge]] so it coexists with social media bots though?
• we bought a lot of chocolate today to bring as gift to family and friends :)

2022-01-29§

• Reading [[Platform socialism]]. First chapter was a good intro, the next two are pretty heavy, focusing on the problems with Facebook and Airbnb. I get that it’s necessary for a thesis, if you’re going to propose something new then you need to examine what’s currently wrong. That’s fine but no longer new to me, and sometimes a bit draining just hearing about the problems. But the author stated early on that they will go on to discuss their proposals for how to change things. I’m eager to get to these parts.

• [[I dislike big tech]]. Surprise!

  • This will be my first "I dislike" page. Let’s see how it pans out. I don’t particularly want to spend lots of time documenting things that I don’t like, I’d generally prefer a more positive approach. I guess it’s more of a starting point for exploring claims as to what’s wrong with big tech.

• Not without its rough edges, all this like/dislike stuff, but still finding it fruitful and definitely maintain that the best thing about personal wikis are the personal opinions. Will plough on and see where it ends up.

• Addendum to the above: the best thing about reading other people’s personal wikis are the opinions. For sure. But in your own personal wiki, not having opinions on things is fine I think. Because you might just be learning about something.

• [[Boris Johnson is a liar]].

• [[Spotify is going to ruin podcasting]].

• [[write]]

  • NOW [[yoga with x]] as a [[short story]]

    • a project plan that worked?

• A [[computer]] is a sort of [[clock]] that can add, check, and subtract numbers based on the [[time]]. A computer is many [[slaves]], constantly waiting for a [[signal]] to [[move]]. Lots and lots of detailed work is hidden, and so looks like [[magic]]. [[Programming]] [[language]] is something used to collect and organize different standardized ways to complete and balance numbers. Each of these standardized ways solves a particular mathematical obstacle that is put in front of someone. A lot of understanding computers is about understanding how [[fast]] it will take a computer to go through some standardized way of completing and balancing numbers.
• A [[problem]] is a [[block]] that is put in front of someone. Like any block, you could [[use]] what is there, you could go through it, you could [[destroy]] it, you could [[move]] it, but the simplest method is often to move around it.

• I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and I think: have I done [[enough]]?

• What ways do we have to [[communicate]] [[information]] that is necessary for the completion of our [[mission]] when we do not have [[radio]] or [[internet]] contact?
• There is something you are here for, that only you can do. Your [[mission]] is to transmit this to everyone around you, so that you are [[expendable]].
• Oftentimes, an [[advantage]] is simply knowing a [[space]] better than your [[enemy]].

I’ve been working on an R&D agora using JavaScript and gun.db

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1520109879050096642 pull

• (check pushes for incoming tasks)
  • Yesterday I "took off" / went out; today I plan to stay put and do things around the house and catch up with some things I wanted to do this weekend.
• [[rodrigo baraglia]] told me about [[jacob taubes]] and his [[occidental eschatology]]
• [[phil jones]] told me about [[the anti christ now rules us all]] by [[paul kingsnorth]]: https://unherd.com/2022/05/the-anti-christ-now-rules-us-all/
  • [[moloch]] https://twitter.com/interstar/status/1530569673149931520 pull
• TIL about [[overleaf]], an online [[LaTeX]] editor and renderer: https://www.overleaf.com
• [[vundle]]
• [[schelling and revelation]]
• [[j0lms]]
  • [[agora walkthrough]]
• [[containers]]
  • TIL about [[tini]], an mvp [[init]] that ships with [[docker]]
  • [[social coop]] containers run it
  • [[podman]] seems to prefer something they call [[conmon]] instead: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/1670
• [[pomodoros]]
  • retrieve context / set up workspaces as below :)
  • empezar a leer tesis de [[joelle]]
    • [[workspace 8]]
  • empezar a leer tesis de [[berni]]
    • [[workspace 8]]
  • social coop tech group troubleshooting
    • [[workspace 2]]
  • [[agora development]]
    • [[workspace 5]]
  • [[audio cleanup]]
  • fix [[stoa]] propagation delays

• [[restart pipewire]]
• [[schedule social coop]]
• [[right speech]]
• [[benedictine rule]]

2022-06-29§

• reading [[down and out in the magic kingdom]] again by [[cory doctorow]], I think it’s interesting [[bitcoin]] came out like 6 years after it was published
  • [[whuffie]]
• It always surprises me when
• [[Ryan Schwartz]] is helping me find [[mental health in tech]] groups

• [[matrix]]
  • I saw the first spam ever in three different Matrix rooms today.
  • Hopefully a sign that Matrix is becoming [[mainstream]]? :)
• Unless it’s raining too hard, I’ll take part of [[critical mass]] for the first time ever today.

2022-07-29§

• Listened: [[Cuba’s Life Task]]

• [[Conversations with Gamechangers]] is pretty awesome lineup.

• [[2022-08-28]] was productive but it ended with some deflation as I realized just how much there is still to do on [[agora pkg chapter]] and [[go/agora doc]] :)
  • sync is not solved, did the sync to [[agora doc]] by hand just now — it keeps links but footnotes aren’t really in the doc, there’s some formatting issues.
  • there is just a lot to be edited/written yet.
  • there’s duplication.
  • I need to be able to read end-to-end and not think "this section is completely crap/redundant" more than, say, once — this evening ideally :)
• [[29]]
  • [[drishti]]
  • think of [[focus]], stay on target :)
• [[work]]
  • might take half a day?

• [[Bones]] are a source of [[calcium]] [[phosphate]], and so boiling and crushing bones and putting them into the [[land]] can be used to revitalize [[soil]]. Treating the bonemeal with sulphuric acid makes the calcium phosphate even more available to growing plants. [[Potassium]] can be had from a [[potash]] made of [[wood]] [[ash]], though it can also be found in minerals within [[rocks]].
• Excess [[food]] [[production]] and [[preservation]] is needed to give large [[groups]] of people [[time]] to [[think]].
• [[Enzymes]] are only active at particular [[temperature]], [[pH]], and [[salinity]] ranges.
  • A simple method to preserve [[food]] is to [[dry]] it.
    • When [[grain]] is harvested, it needs to be dried before it is stored.
      • High [[sugar]] content changes [[water]] activity by drawing water out of microbial [[cells]]. collapsed:: true
        • [[Sugar]] can be extracted from sugar beets by moving [[water]] through the [[beet]], taking that water, and drying it to expose the crystals from the beet.
      • High [[salt]] content changes [[water]] activity by drawing water out of cells and inhibiting microbial [[growth]]. collapsed:: true
        • 180g [[salt]]/liter [[water]] will act as a [[brine]] for [[meat]].
      • [[Acid]] is used to preserve food through things like [[vinegar]].
      • Kimchi, sauerkraut, and miso all use [[salt]] to draw out [[water]], and then salt-resistant [[bacteria]] to [[grow]] and produce [[acid]].

2022-08-29§

• [[French Revolution]]

  • Listening: [[Revolutionary Left Radio: The French Revolution]]
  • Claim: [[The French Revolution has historical significance to revolutionary socialism today]]

• [[Wet-bulb temperature]]

• [[2022 Pakistan floods]]

• [[commons]]
  • [[knowledge commons]]
    • [[ontology]]
• [[agora]]
  • [[agora server]]
    • fix graphs — I changed something and the json endpoint seems to be 404ing :)
    • give [[presentation]]
  • [[agora bridge]]
    • fix [[timeline]] fetching
    • iterate on [[opt in writes]] formatting

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1520530004681138183 pull

• [[personal]]
  • Nice days coworking with [[l]].
  • Finally bought [[heavy dumbells]], I’ve only had up to 5kg for years and I think I could use some more weight.
  • I’ll unpack them after finishing the first pass over [[agora chapter]] today.
• [[flancia]]
  • [[flancia meet]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[agora chapter]]
      • I must do [[eight pomodoros]] on it [[today]] and [[tonight]].
• [[helveta]] -> [[helvetas]]
• [[social coop]]
  • lots of discussion about having moved the instance to [[invite only]] (from the current [[closed]], where users have to navigate to a separate form and do upfront work before they can submit their application.
  • [[neil]]
  • [[dazinism]]
  • [[mastodon]]
    • [[hometown]]
  • [[darius kazemi]]
  • [[3wc]]
• [[git]]
• [[yoga]]
  • [[yoga with x]]
    • [[go/move/29]] == [[trust]] is a nice one :)

If you remember something about this whole project maybe make it that [[in flancia there is an agora]].

2022-10-29§

• To read: [[Information Technology and Socialist Construction]]
• Bookmarked: [[EcoSocialism and the Technoprogressive Perspective]]
  • Looks to have a nice overview of [[ecosocialism]] contrasted with [[ecomodernism]].
• Working on: [[The role of technology in eco-socialism]]

• [[yoga at midnight]]
  • it was [[go/move/28]] — "a bit of [[tlc]] goes a long way" — and it is true.
• #push [[mynoise]]
  • [[nocturnal garden]]
• [[agora]]
  • pushed a slight iteration on the UI :)
    • I think it’s looking a bit clearer?
  • [[all nodes]]
• [[work]]
  • a bit antsy
• [[an]]
  • met her after several weeks, it was great seeing her — we had dinner, and walked under the rain.

• #push [[29]]
  • [[drishti]]
• Really enjoying [[Approaching the Buddhist Path]] as an [[audiobook]].

• Today is [[29]], which means [[Drishti]] — and points to my "focus days" of the month. The next one is [[31]], [[Las Jaras]]. Which makes me think:
• [[celeste summit]] yesterday [[2023-01-28]] was great, thank you [[@melanocarpa]]!
• #push [[agora chapter]]
  • [[Davic C. Krakeuer]] -> [[Donald Norman]]
• [[social coop]]
  • [[registrations]]
  • [[moderation]]
• [[flancia]]
  • #push [[5]]
    • [[commons]] (an Agora)
  • #push [[7]]
    • [[avalokiteshvara]]
  • #push [[17]]
    • [[maitreya]]
• #push [[Breck Yunits]]
  • [[scroll]]
  • [[tree notation]]
• [[Gloria]]
• [[yoga with x]]
  • [[center]]

Tengo dos [[jaras]]:

Flancia y el Ágora.

2023-01-29§

• My [[Searx]] instance keeps on coming back with "Engines cannot retrieve results: duckduckgo (blocked), startpage (unexpected crash)" for a while now. Need to figure out how to fix that…

• A Wednesday.
• 29 is for [[Drishti]], meaning a pointer or a point of focus.

• A sufficiently [[painful]] [[business]] [[problem]] cannot be ignored until it is addressed. Things get worse for every bit of delay. collapsed:: true
  • It feels like a waste of [[time]], but is absolutely necessary.
  • Needed but feels like a waste.
  • There is no [[escape]] from the problem. No way to get out of it.
  • A [[painful]] [[problem]] happens every day, week, or month. collapsed:: true
    • It will be the highest thing on the priority list.
  • A [[painful]] [[problem]] has hacked-together systems in place to solve it.
  • Are people [[hiring]] employees because of this painful problem?
  • The solution must save [[time]] or [[money]].
    • It’s even better if it makes them more [[money]].
• When [[teaching]] a [[course]], pay [[attention]] to [[energy]]. collapsed:: true
  • What prompts give [[energy]]? What prompts take away energy?
  • Small [[group]] [[talk]] is full of [[energy]] when [[people]] are trying to understand a [[wicked]] [[problem]]. collapsed:: true
    • What is right for you?
    • A question that involves the person directly with the wicked problem will grant more energy. What is your ‘why’ in regards to this problem? [[value]] collapsed:: true
      • To involve someone directly, have the question address a time of theirs. When X happened to you, how did you deal with Y?
    • [[Groups]] are good for generation, pairs are better for considering the [[execution]] of a [[solution]].
  • [[Rob Fitzpatrick]] says, "clear [[question]], ambiguous [[answer]]".
  • [[Question]] and [[Answer]] sessions involve one person besides the teacher in the spotlight at a time. There is a [[line]], and waiting in line lowers [[energy]]. collapsed:: true
    • Q&A can be used as a buffer session. Something optional that can be eliminated if [[time]] is lacking.
    • Consider narrowing questions to the [[learning]] takeaways.
    • Of what we learned today, what do you think you will have trouble doing?
• When introducing people to [[fighting]], a prompt might be "what do you like doing better? [[Attack]] or [[defense]]?"
• How can we give people opportunities to learn [[decision]]-making?

• Writing this on the way back home, meaning the flight [[SFO]]-[[ZRH]].
• My noding has been spotty the last few days / over the last two weeks due to travel but it will probably pick back up (is that the right expression?) now that I’m back home.
• [[US trip 2023]]

2023-04-29§

• I invested some money into the new [[solar park]] that [[Ripple Energy]] is starting - [[Derril Water Solar Park]]. It’ll be an [[energy coop]]. Excited about it. We can’t afford rooftop solar so really nice to be part of a [[shared solar]] project. I put a bit of money into [[Bristol Energy Cooperative]] before but I don’t actually live there so don’t get the benefit of the energy produced, unlike this Ripple one. Hope they do another wind farm project soon, would like to get in on that.

2023-05-29§

• [[Listened]]: [[Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel]]
  • Had not heard of Robert Biel before, but I am enjoying this interview. A systems thinking approach to capitalism (and alternatives).

Bloody hell why I forgot writing this.

• [[Flancia]]!
  • Woke up at [[AG]]‘s place
  • Came home to [[Lady Burup]] and [[Flancia Meet]]
  • Made progress with [[agora recipe]] (thank you [[3wc]] for support as usual!)

• [[Robert Pirsig]] suggests that [[frustration]] is a [[sign]] that the current [[frame]] is not [[working]].
• [[Seth Godin]] frames [[art]] as a [[gift]] that [[changes]] the [[receiver]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it."
• [[Values]] have to come from a [[live]] interaction with the [[people]] in the [[group]]. collapsed:: true
  • A [[motto]] follows from a [[value]] in the same way. It becomes a refrain for the [[group]].
  • A [[hunting]] club will be needed to seed the [[religion]].
• [[argument]] -> okay, what can we pay [[attention]] to? collapsed:: true
  • [[Argument]] is the [[process]] of making a [[result]] [[clear]]- of establishing [[causation]].
• When is the other [[animal]] going [[toward]] [[water]]? How does it differ from when they are going [[away]] from water?
• [[Resistance]] and high [[tension]] are signs of [[high]] [[potential]] [[energy]].
• For any given [[game]], what’s the smallest possible [[pond]] to [[win]] in?
• A [[debt]] implies an ongoing [[relationship]]. To be [[free]] of a debt is to be free of a relationship. Free to make other relationships.
• For an [[idea]] to [[spread]], the best way for [[people]] to [[talk]] about you is when they are talking about themselves.
• [[Position]] in [[Marketing]]: collapsed:: true
  • The more [[meanings]] a [[name]] has, the weaker it is in taking [[root]] in someone’s [[mind]].
  • What [[word]] has everyone started using that no [[company]] has [[conquered]] yet?
• What you [[touch]] the most, you [[own]].
• A decent [[therapist]] edits [[memories]] to produce [[change]] in the [[present]].
• Do for the [[future]] what you’re [[grateful]] the [[past]] did for you. (Or what you [[wish]] the past had done for you.)
• "A [[notebook]] in which you write every step of the dis[[assembly]] [[process]] with reassembly in mind."
• [[Look]] for ways to check for a [[problem]] in the [[situation]] that exacerbates it.
• To [[repair]] something well, understand how it [[works]] ([[physiology]]) and how it’s [[made]] ([[anatomy]]). collapsed:: true
  • [[Mastery]] (as opposed to simple [[ownership]]) comes from knowing how something [[works]] and how it is [[made]].
• [[Breaks]] are to check the [[vitals]] of the [[system]].
• [[Selling]] like you’re [[buying]]: do I want this person as a [[customer]]?

• saturday was busy at resource center. 
• ground score was closed today, I’ll check tomorrow if they’re open, they might be closed weekends
• the full moon is on august 1st
• guru’s birthday is tomorrow.

• [[work]]
  • was fine :
• [[Flancia]]!
• [[next23]]
• [[yoga]]

• [[29]] is [[drishti]] in the #Flancia [[Pattern Language]].
• My hobby, sometimes: think about whether numbers are prime while laying down or sitting.
  • Take [[209]] — it is not prime.
    • I find this one quite beautiful, this is how I got there:
      • It is not multiple of two or five trivially.
      • It is not a multiple of three as its digits don’t add up to a multiple.
      • It is not a multiple of 7 because 210 is (as 21 is 3 * 7) and it’s too near.
      • Consider the hypothesis that it is multiple of 11.
        • 220 is a multiple of 11 because 22 is.
        • 220 - 11 is 209.
        • So 209 is a multiple of 11. What is the other factor?
      • Consider the hypothesis that it is a multiple of 19.
        • 19 * 10 is 190.
        • 190 + 19 is 209 precisely, so it is a multiple.
      • Therefore 209 is 11 * 19.
  • [[1547]] is not prime; it is 7 * 13 * 17.
    • I got to this one by whistling a 1547 tone, seeing it in [[spectroid]], then checking https://anagora.org/prime/1547 pull :)

2023-10-29§

• For all the (supposed) micro-rationalities of [[capitalism]], it produces some huge macro-irrationalities ([[overshoot of planetary boundaries]], [[social inequity]]).

• Finished listening to [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O’Shea and Alyson Escalante]].

• Listened: [[Red Menace: Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future]]

  • Great discussion of [[Climate Leviathan]] by the [[Red Menace]] crew. Very engaging overview of the book. Definitely need to get around to reading it.
  • I was listening while doing jobs around the house so didn’t get chance to note that much. But was nodding along to lots of salient points along the way.
  • Alyson and Breht both thought it a very worthwhile book and liked much of its analysis. They veer more to Climate Mao than Climate X, but still found value in X.
  • I do think there’s a strong argument that you’d need a planetary sovereign of some kind to tackle the urgent and global polycrisis.

• Why bother with org-roam and Termux on my phone? Why not just stick with orgzly for fleeting notes and then process them at the laptop?

  • A few reasons. First off, I just enjoy tinkering, and it’s fun playing with Doom Emacs in Termux 🙂
  • Second - in my daily life outside of work I don’t get that much opportunity to just sit at my desk so often fleeting notes just like you in orgzly without getting processed.
  • So far, though we’ll see how it pans out, I’m finding much more opportunity to grab a moment here and there and process stuff incrementally through termux.

• [[Planetary sovereign]].

  • From [[Climate Leviathan]], the idea of a global ‘state’ of some kind, to coordinate response to climate crisis (and polycrisis in general).

• [[Polycrisis]].

  • "a tangled knot of crises spanning global systems."
  • https://theconversation.com/polycrisis-may-be-a-buzzword-but-it-could-help-us-tackle-the-worlds-woes-195280

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[fellowship of the link]] was beautiful as usual
  • [[back pain]] made me think of some short poems:
    • I will lean into my [[pain]]
      • we will be like [[arrows]]
    • quién es la chica que estudia?
      • quién es la chica que escribe?
• [[work]]
  • [[holacracy]]

• Strange day, it started down but then went up :)
  • Paid bills, donated to [[unicef]].
• [[Work]]
  • CL review
  • Some approvals
  • Oncall handoff
• Agora project
  • Check if patera is still down and fix it
• [[social.coop]]
  • [[twg]] dates discussion
  • registration / moderation
  • PR review

2024-01-29§

2024-02-29§

• I am [[using Python in org]] for a few little things.

2024-03-29§

• Late night [[listened]] to [[What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)]]

  • [[Social data]].
  • Has [[predictive value]].
  • Three ways to extract [[surplus value]] with it:
    • 1. Just sell it on, e.g. data broker
    • 2. Use it to exploit people based on knowledge from the data
    • 3. Use it to exert power (e.g. Uber’s [[Greyball]] program)

• Also listened to [[The Supermarket into Prison Pipeline]]

• Pretty much always find [[This Machine Kills]] interesting, whatever the topic.

• Thinking about how I would go about [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].

• Listening to [[Brad Mehldau]].
• Worked with [[jet lag]] — it was alright :)
• [[Pattern Language]]:
  • [[3]] [[7]] [[10]] [[11]] [[12]] [[17]] [[21]] [[23]] [[51]]
• [[Open Letters]]
  • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • I’ll just quit stalling and write two letters I guess, or continue writing them, as I started years ago by now :)

• [[git rebase]]
• [[design from trust]]

2024-05-29§

• [[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
  • Some of the discussion around counties reclaiming agency over their trade overlaps with the material on the [[digital trade]] agenda in the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].

• [[Agora plan]]:
  • I #liked [[flow state]] [[power hour]] #22
    • The above is the kind of update that I would like to see automatically generated whenever an [[Agora bot]] detects opted in [[social activity]] ;)
• Thought about [[7 revolutions]], [[3 leaders]], and other patterns.
  • I thought about possible manifestations of [[heterarchy]].
  • The strength of [[triumvirates]] and of "leadership" [[groups]] in general, when well defined and resilient.
  • [[Heptad]]:
    • I searched [[equivalent of triumvirate with 7 members]] in the Agora and the [[AI]] assistance gave me the right answer :)
• [[6pm]] update: [[Flowing]] in [[paramita]] :)
  • experimented with the [[Bluesky API]]
  • now fixing [[agora server]] dependencies after upgrading to [[Ubuntu 24.04 LTS]] :)
    • that was hairy! but we persevered ;)
    • ended up disabling [[orgora]] for now in my up to date local development environment, reached out to [[V]] about it
• [[AI]]:
  • [[Mistral]]
  • [[ChatGPT]]
  • [[Gemini]]
  • [[Claude]]
• [[helvetas]]
• Revisited [[i annotate 2021 slides]]
• Set up two [[patreon]] sponsorships, donated to [[unicef]].
• Thought of [[Ananda]].
• [[auto pull social]]:
  • I’m thinking I usually want Mastodon embeds to be auto pulled in nodes, will probably try that default/to make it work again. Currently you have to press ‘Pull All’.
  • So I guess the simplest fix would be to locate the code that is supposed to click that button and check for its running condition.

• Maybe it’s time to check [[Silverbullet]]‘s settings for journal entries? :)

• [[OGM]]:
  • Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom:
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09

• [[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
• [[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].

2024-10-29§

• [[Human physiology]] - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.

• [[Passive repetition]] can result in an [[illusion of knowing]].

  • Better to do [[active repetition]] when you can.
  • Writing in a digital garden or on social media is a form of active repetition.

• Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.

  • Just copying and pasting text from elsewhere would be largely passive repetition. Similar to just underlining or highlighting.
  • I think the journal aspect of a digital garden is good for active repetition.
  • A space to summarise ideas in your own words, and for "blurting".
  • So really, that’s more the stream than the garden?
  • I suppose you can do active recall in both. But I’d say the stream is your working area for it, and the garden where you store what sticks long term.

• One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.

  • [[Active recall and passive repetition in the digital stream and garden]]

• Trying [[HeliBoard]].

  • Mainly to avoid the annoying display of ‘Passwords’ that Gboard does when in [[Termux]].
  • Hey, turns out HeliBoard does it too. Must be a Termux issue.
  • Still, I like that this is fully open source and available via [[F-Droid]].

• [[Learning blurt]]

  • [[Amino acids]] are the building blocks of [[life]].
  • They are what constitute [[proteins]].
  • [[Biochemistry]]

• Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.

  • Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
  • However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
  • I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)

• [[Learning blurt]]

  • [[Bacteria]]
    • Humans are teeming with them.
    • Trillions in the gut alone.
    • We couldn’t exist without them. They could happily exist without us.
    • [[Microbiology]]

• I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: [[ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut]]

• I think I’ll explore "[[microblurting]]" as a thing.

  • Is microblurting a useful way to do active recall? Should one blurt in public spaces? We’ll find out.

2024-11-29§

• Watched [[Why Spaced Repetition Doesn’t (Always) Work]]

  • Clickbaity title, but good points about [[spaced repetition]].

• [[Wasteland]]

  • [[Cholera]]. [[Sewers]].

• Checking out [[bull]] by [[stapelberg]]!

• As usual, [[Poem]]:
  • May you be free
  • May you be kind
  • May you be happy
  • If you have to burn, burn kindly!
• [[Heather Marsh]]
• [[Maitreya]]
• [[Abstract Fairy]]
• [[Raspberry Pi 5]]
  • Downloading [[Raspberry Pi OS]] (based on Debian so it sounds fine to me…) as I write this :)

2025-03-29§

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • [[Apple]] started making the most money when they had the platform through which they sold apps made by others and took a percentage of all sales.
  • A form of [[Rent]].
  • [[Google]], [[Amazon]], others as well.
  • I guess this is where it’s quite similar to [[platform capitalism]].
    • I guess Varoufakis is saying it’s something qualitatively different, Srnicek is saying it’s a new evolution of capitalism.
    • Either way, seem to be in agreement that it’s big, new, and bad.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Bolivia]]. [[Ecuador]]. [[buen vivir]].
  • Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists | Astronomy | The Guardian
    • tags: [[Astronomy]]. [[Dark energy]].
  • Don’t fork the ecosystem - by Gordon Brander
    • tags: [[software ecosystems]].
  • Is a New Economic System Necessary to Address Climate Change? - Stuart - 2025 - WIREs Climate Change - Wiley Online Library
    • tags: [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Climate change]]. [[system change]].

• [[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.

  • I noted that down when listening to [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]], which says something like that - need to go back and find the exact quote.

• I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.

• l4/l5 [[dorsomedial]] [[discus hernia]]:
  • is what I have, or had 7-8 years ago, although I’ve since recovered from symptoms and no longer live with pain.

2025-04-29§

• I signed up for the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] webinar series by [[Transnational Institute]].
  • It looks good.
  • Doubtful how many I’ll be able to watch live. But hopefully can catch them on catch up.
  • The [[Digital Capitalism online course]] by TNI was great. I like them.

2025-05-29§

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism
    • h/t: [[Panda]].
    • tags: [[Repair]]. [[Marxism]]. [[Commodity fetishism]].
  • Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
    • tags: [[AI]].
  • Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth
  • The Home Office’s new "ChatGPT-style" LLM tool is riddled with mistakes that could mean life or death for people seeking asylum - Foxglove
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[LLM]]s.
  • Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
    • tags: [[Capitalism]]. [[Democracy]].
  • OpenAI explores platform to rival X, following $40B funding round
    • tags: [[Platform capitalism]].
    • See the point from Nick Srnicek about platforms all converging towards each other…
  • International Civil Society’s Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger
    • tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Reclaim the stacks]].
  • Criminal Court: Microsoft’s email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty
    • tags: [[Microsoft]]. [[Digital sovereignty]].
  • Negatechnology | POST GROWTH TOOLKIT
    • h/t [[Panda]].
  • We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard….
    • tags: [[AI]].
  • Livin’ on repair: The workshops, garages and cafes of Berlin’s thriving DIY s…
    • tags: [[Repair]]. [[Berlin]].
  • Apple launches Self Service Repair for iPad, expands repair programs - Apple
    • tags: [[Apple]]. [[Repair]].

2025-06-29§

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
  • [[Debt: The First 5,000 Years]] by [[David Graeber]].
  • [[Everyday communism]]. Sociality.
  • Very little in everyday life operates like a market.
  • Even the internals of corporations don’t operate like markets.

• Been doing a lot of AI-assisted coding at work and after work and it’s been great!
  • Even current-day AI adds a lot of value for coders. Like: a lot.

• [[journals]] fix warrants celebratory noding
• Listening to [[the story of civilization]] by [[will durant]] via huge playlist
  • Learning history in that way feels very interesting
    • A compromise between encyclopedic knowledge and a more narrative style
  • It’s also strange given the ways that I currently consume history are sort of wiki-based
  • Very huge undertaking to get through all of that
  • [[go]] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLax23j-7EInW5aUHMjTqQ3uzs5rE0WP64
• Still learning some [[tidalcycles]]
  • Trying to implement some event highlighting on [[emacs]]
    • Inspired by the [[neovim]] highlighting package
  • [[toplap]] manifesto in the docs has a great line¹

2025-10-29§

• [[Emacs blog carnival: Maintenance]]

• [[albricias]]

• [[free instruments]]
• I worked from home; spent time with [[Lady Burup]]; played [[Minecraft]] with [[bouncepaw]]; then did grocery shopping for New Years and went to [[KM]]‘s place.

2026-03-29§

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Is capitalism dead?]]:
    • About [[the end of capitalism]].
    • Unfortunately, it’s all about the end of capitalism in the bad sense - of it being replaced with something worse.
    • Surveys [[McKenzie Wark]] and [[Capital is Dead]], Varoufakis and [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]], Mason and [[Post-capitalism]].
    • Also [[Wolfgang Streeck]] and [[Richard Westra]] and [[Karen Hao]] who I had not come across before.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The rise of end times fascism
    • "The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them"
    • [[Is capitalism dead?]]

• Wrote:

  • Going to start writing latest [[Emacs Carnival]] post today.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions]]

• Seen a couple mentions of [[Readeck]] lately.

  • Someone recommending it over [[Wallabag]].

• My Surface tablet was getting full. It only has 256GB of internal storage!
  • I had a Dev Drive. It’s gone now. It was taking about 6 or 7 GB of disk space from all the [[JavaScript]] repositories and packages. I used [[pnpm]] but I think it didn’t really worked with that drive? I wasn’t too sure what a Dev Drive actually did.
    • Since I removed the Dev Drive and moved my repositories back, I can use [[Windows]]‘ native compacting features.
  • Installed CompactGUI to automate native OS compacting.
  • Ran git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 on some large repositories.
  • I’m now left with 47 GB free.
  • Probably should use OneDrive more often.
• My [[Git]] + [[SilverBullet]] setup wasn’t the most optimal. I figured out why.
  Recall the default .gitattributes from GitHub Desktop. * text=auto is a good default, but it can be made better for SilverBullet.
  So, I now have * eof=lf in the .gitattributes file. This is because SilverBullet+ syncs files with LF line endings.
  • I am yet to observe “No content changes” messages from GitHub Desktop Plus.
• I’m going to try not publishing new journal entries to the spacious nexus‘ site for now.
  • Maybe this can encourage me to use more of the [[agora protocol]]. Tends to feel alienating when published.
  • Something [[SEO]] related. Need a control. I figured it doesn’t matter much now. Won’t default to unpublishing.
• I woke up again. I figured out why. It’s [[Friday]]. Uh oh.
  • I’m missing out. Not too sure of it.

2026-05-29§

• [[Bookmarked]]: National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

  • "The [[National Emergency Briefing]] was commissioned to present the latest evidence, and build an irresistible call for the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing, the essential first step towards the WW2-scale response now required."

• [[Listened]]:

  • Today in Focus: ‘Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest

• Obligatory [[earthquake]] node
  • My region was far removed from the epicenter, still the biggest seismic activity I’ve felt
    • Everyone I know personally is doing okay
  • Google’s Earthquake Early Warning system probably saved hundreds of lives
  • Reputable places to donate
    • Caracas Chronicles (many links)
    • Yummy
  • [[go]] https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/americas/venezuela-rodriguez-friends-foes-latam-intl

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1520438847716347904 pull

Inspired by an afternoon installing a VM running Windows XP, than then was a trip to the past. No access to the internet because of the lack of the latest security cyphers for HTTPS in a world that has mostly moved on by now (thankfully).

A short story about someone that downloads Chrome 218 by mistake, and gets access to the internet of the year 2043.

• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110559118000670725 pull
• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110559135137371167 pull
• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110559150648220777 pull
• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110559160484395612 pull
• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110560345249710941 pull
• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110560361984999450 pull
• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110566020889557129 pull
• [[ctc@mastodon.me.uk]] https://mastodon.me.uk/@ctc/110570372934390086 pull

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