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• Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile

My "old" P800 gave up the ghost: the keypad stopped working. I got pretty frustrated with it in any case — the UI felt kludgy and the stylus wasn’t that great for working with it. The scroll wheel was nice, but not enough to make up for all the other deficiencies. I briefly used a temporary, do-nothing phone with no computer synchronization, no Bluetooth, nothin’. The experience was not pleasant, just lots of flipping open the laptop just to get someone’s number.

After seeing what Bryan Rieger is doing with Flash on phones, and the fact that only Nokia has licensed it so far, I decided to get a Nokia phone.

I got my new Nokia 6630 just yesterday, and am still figuring it out. This Loud Thinking blog post has lots of good info on why it’s the Best. Phone. Ever… as well as linking to a lot of useful applications.

I’m also going to link to this page of Fido GPRS settings, since I had to re-enter them.

(Yes, I do have to wait until Tiger before it will sync with my laptop, but it’s *really* easy to add contacts as people call)

2020-04-30§

Reply: On Wikis, Blogs and Note Taking – Interdependent Thoughts§

Really great to read your thoughts on this, Ton! 15 years is a lot of experience. I also came across a post from Lilia Efimova related to the [[wiki/blog combo]] from a BlogWalk salon from 2004(!) - My dream wiki/weblog tool.

I feel both hemmed in by how my blog in its setup puts flow above stock, and how a wiki assumes stock more than flow.

I think you are right and that perhaps we are restricted by thinking about this in terms of wikis and blogs, because there is a lot of preconceptions associated with each of those. Perhaps thinking at the level of values/requirements, about something which can help us produce both stock and flow, can help us think about the process first, and then later comes the thinking about what tool or combo of tools can support us with that.

I often struggle with the assumed path of small elements to slightly more reworked content to articles.

I really like the ideas of patterns, constellations, Gestalts. Constellations is naturally quite close to the idea of [[connecting the dots]]! For my wikiblog to help me learn and grow my ideas, it definitely needs to help me see these constellations. I do sometimes wonder about the merits of making every concept as small as possible. Perhaps in the right context, yes, but I don’t feel that doing it dogmatically will always be helpful.

visualisations may point to novel constellations for me, emerging from the collection and jumble of stuff in the wiki. That I think is powerful.

I am hoping to explore a bit more how some of the mapping and bi-directional links in org-roam might help me with this.

Perhaps the ultimate requirement is for something that helps us see the constellations of our thoughts? I think for me this will be part stream (for sharing/receiving ideas from others), part note-taking tool, part garden, part visualisation.

Plus plenty of staring out of the window, away from tools!

2020-06-30§

Reading [[Hello World]]§

Reading Hello World at the moment. Subtitled "being human in the age of algorithms".

It’s good so far. Clear and making its point well, drawing on plenty of examples of the problems with some present uses of decision-making [[algorithms]]. It’s being framed as ‘dilemmas’, so, the idea that there’s good as well as bad in what’s going on.

I wonder what the overall thesis will be though. Will there be some call to action as to what needs to be done? Or will it just be left that there is good and bad, and we need to be aware of that. Hoping for the former, something with some teeth.

July 30th, 2020§

• Found https://www.blakeboles.com/2020/07/book-story/ — about [[how to self-publish a book]].

2020-07-30§

Distance is a function of the intensity of the relation§

Re: [[assemblage thinking]] and [[actor-network theory]]:

Both have a topological view of space, in which distance is a function of the intensity of a relation.

^ this makes me think of [[Ton]]‘s idea of [[social distance]].

Some constellations§

I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading and not much writing the past week or so. I think that’s OK. It’s things I know I’m interested in, just don’t know that much about yet. I think the notes will coalesce into something eventually, with a bit of tending. The note-taking I’ve been doing is a bit too much copy-paste, not enough writing in my own words, so I could probably do with revisiting them a bit.

I’ve noticed some [[constellations]] of interest forming around [[agency]], [[self-determination]], [[networked agency]], [[assemblage thinking]], [[actor-network theory]], the [[actor model]]. Which tie into my past interests in [[agent-based systems]], and technological and political distributed systems.

Also a strand on meditation, [[appropriate technology]], [[Buddhist economics]], and [[Schumacher]], triggered by the Rev Left Radio episode on Meditation, Materialism, and Marxism. Panda previously recommended Buddhist economics to me.

August 30th, 2020§

• Continued writing [[Flanbook]].

2020-08-30§

Report on the British Digital Cooperative§

Liking the report on the idea of a ‘[[British Digital Cooperative]]‘.

The BDC would be tasked with developing a surveillance-free platform architecture to enable citizens to interact with one another, provide support for publicly funded journalism, and develop resources for social and political communication.

– The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution

2020 09 30§

• Had a lucid dream! Was having tea, went to sit down at the table and it was positioned weirdly. I realized I was dreaming and decided to meditate.
• [[dwhly]] reached out over Twitter DM. Seems very nice. We agreed to have a 1:1 next Friday at 6pm after I finish with work.

2020-10-30§

• Select some pictures from our Patagonia trip in Jan 2020: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1322112765264355331 pull
• Try

2020-11-30§

• [[daily]]
• review [[2020-11-29]]
• Day off at work!
  • …not true in the end because of Reasons.
  • at least a no meetings day though.
• [[james baker]] told me about [[letter.wiki]]
• [[write]] user cases in the meeting agenda doc for [[social knowledge graphs discussion]].
• [[answer]] [[O.]]
• [[answer]] [[samuel-klein]]
• [[review]] [[social-knowledge-graphs-discussion]]
• [[review]] comments in [[agora protocol]]
• [[do]] pay internet/phone bills
• [[answer]] [[armengolaltayol]]
• re-review [[logseq]]
• [[read]] [[foam]] code to get an idea of what a vscode extension actually looks like :)
  • https://github.com/foambubble/foam/blob/b22fd50394bd825c336cba8a7ea3efe1e11ae10b/packages/foam-vscode/src/features/open-dated-note.ts could be a place to start (mainly because I’m interested in adding more such simple commands).
• work on [[agora plan]]
• read [[the next AI winter wil lbe due to energy costs]]
• liked [[how to gpt-2]] by [[mmmalign]].
• looked into [[printer]]s
• noded [[bill evans]].
• [[doikayt]] told me about [[the year of living biblically]].

09:57 memory

i find my memories are most strongly associated with smells; when an idea occurs to me, it's due to a difference in environment, and is ither impacted by the smell of the room or introduces a smell of its own. the memory of these smells — just out of reach — seems to invade my consciousness when i'm thinking of childhood, of food or of friends.

consequently, i find myself detesting strong, artificial smells - perfume, cologne, the intrusive spray jutting out of teen clothing stores, the sickly sweet fanned barbecue and sugar from many american diners, and often even deoderant. the smells themselves don't necessarily bother me; it's the notion that they're constructed artificially, that they're misplacing key memories by drowning out more interesting voices with something that just does not belong in this context.

2020-11-30§

• Enjoying the TV show at the moment, and feeling tempted to reread the [[His Dark Materials]] books again. I read it many years ago now, I guess when I was a teenager - I think there’s a lot of subtlety there (and less subtlety perhaps!) about religion and science.

• Also I’ve had another recommendation for the Murderbot series (the first one being from Ton’s list), so I think I’ll read those at some point too.

2020-12-30§

• [[web annotations]]
• [[wiki]]
• [[agora]]
• [[other agoras]]
• [[goals]]
• [[type0]] mentioned [[ecogwiki]] in [[hn]]
• [[altilunium]] mentioned [[note]] in [[hn]].
• [[timetotryagain]] told me about [[the great reset]].
• [[jesse li]]
• [[pasta frola]]
• [[thessaloniki]], [[meteora]], [[athens]], [[crete]].
• [[πόλις]], [[αγρός]], [[rus]], [[urbs]]
• [[make-up-links-that-dont-exist-yet]]
• [[pkm]]
• [[clojure]]
• [[2020-12-29]]

2020-12-30§

• Could [[DisCOs]] and/or [[Worker self-directed nonprofit]]s be good models for maintaining free software projects?

  • I guess it kind of assumes you have some money to sustain them in the first place.
  • The pro-bono part of coops could be directed in to FLOSS.

• rename command is really helpful for working with images copied from my phone to my NextCloud folder. e.g. rename 's/IMG_//' *.jpg.

• Revolution is downstream of economics. Capitalism had established itself by the time of the revolutions in Europe, the revolutions were just a means of catching up

• Drawing divisions between what marxism is and isn't is a result of the systemization of marxism in the Stalin period, and doesn't do justice to either marxism or things that are outside marxism

• Good art is art that speaks to the universal

• The fall of c the soviet union marked a back sliding of global feminism

• Can alienation be abolished? Derrick says capitalist alienation is only negative

• Positivism in its objectivity and rationality leaves no space for subjectivity or teleology

• Marx criticized the German idealists for being anti-semetic, but felt that their antisemitism spoke to a real criticism of the world

• The German idealists claimed that the state was producing civil society in a dialectic

• People make the distinction between good national capitalism and bad international capitalism, but they are two sides of the same whole

• Anti-imperialism is not inherently anti-capitalist

• Capitalism imposes a set of constrains on all behavior in society, and even society in general. It's better to be a capitalist but they are still constrained

2020-12-30§

• What makes someone unqualified to make decisions about themselves?
• Is dependence on others a continuous property?

2020-12-30§

this is the day i started my agora :) but besides that:

• made plans to return my pair of HyperX Cloud Alpha headphones.

  • sound-wise, it was fine. however, they clamp on your head, and that just doesn’t work for me.
  • was a exchange from my local GameStop (that was not my decision)
    • the old pair was the Razer Kraken X’s, which suffered the same problem
      • part of [[christmas-2020]]

• made plans to buy a mechanical keyboard finally

  • the mechanical keyboard i am planning to buy: an Epomaker SK87.
    • white color because it’s more aesthetically pleasing for me
    • Gateron Optical Browns as the switch
      • the keyboard is hotswappable, so if i don’t like it i’ll just buy some different switches probably
    • this will be bought using the money from the return of the Cloud Alphas.

created project to render my notes in a webpage similar to [[anagora]] the working name is called [[graph]] yeah I know, so original met [[flancian]] who works on above project, seems pretty cool fucking up my sleep schedule by staying up all night hacking

Need to find a way to get daily journal/git integration on [[android]] device

Ooooh derp I was turning ON notifications for [[android]].

Dmitri tommorow around 5 Look for jobs for 30 minutes

Vericace combination of our names on [[shae]]‘s chat

My day thus far: got out of bed and there like 5 extra people in my house. Get up to piss and both bathrooms are full. I find something to piss in and it fills up. I pinch my dick to find something else and now my dick is leaking out blood

• Yuki

• ok

cool

• yay

2021-01-30§

• [[vera]] [[recommended]] [[the hyperbolic geometry of dmt experiences]]
• [[underlay]]
  • [[push]] [[metasj]]
    • [[taxonomies]], [[ontologies]], [[heterarchies]]
      • ask about possible hierarchies/heterarchies organizing the concepts in this space. Is [[underlay]] a child of [[interlace]]?
    • [[root nodes]]
• [[push]] [[slavoj žižek]]
  • [[slavoj zizek]]
    • [[zizek]]
  • [[peterson-žižek debate]]
• Finally found [[project gemini]] again.
• [[push]] [[music]]
  • [[vaporwave]]
    • [[argentina has some vaporwave powerhouses]]
• [[polycultic]]
• [[taxonomy of ideas]]
  • [[heterarchical ontology]]
• [[agnes cameron]] told me about [[innovation information initiative]]
• [[gerhard-zorn]] told me about [[theory of forms]]
• [[conversations with myself]]
• [[reddy2go]] told me about [[antar]]
• [[kyosaku-jon]] shared instructions for [[zazen]]
• [[dan squier]]
• [[harvey-michael]]
  • [[push]] [[ontology]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355528613400104961 pull
    • [[taxonomy]] + [[logic]] = [[ontology]]
• [[omniglot]]
• [[wikilink]]
• [[mathewlowry]] [[garden]] https://myhub.ai/@mathewlowry/?quality=all&timeframe=anytime&types=like&types=do&types=think
• [[executive bathroom]]
• [[albricias]]
• [[bearer-of-good-news]] == [[prophet]]
• [[flancés]] == [[flancian]] [[es]]
  • [[pobreza]] == [[poverty]] [[es]]
  • [[hambre]] == [[hunger]] [[es]]
  • [[privilegio]] == [[privilege]] [[es]]
  • [[en flancia hay un agora]] == [[manifesto]] [[es]]
  • [[nunca me faltes]]
• [[cat heroin]]
• [[intents]]
• [[free]]
• [[useful definitions]]
• [[strength in diversity]]
• [[thor]]
• [[journal]]
• [[push]] [[urls]] [[wikilinks]] [[internet history]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355578472098369549 pull
• [[rdf]]
• [[if you want to share]]
• [[unskillful]]
  • [[dabbler]]
• [[boris mann]] == [[bmann]]
  • [[eternal september]]
• [[devine lu linvega]]
• [[yaml]] [[agora yaml]]
• [[push]] [[the expanse]] [[the wire]]
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355600802921009161 pull
• [[s5bug]] [[querki]]
• [[anar.chi.st]]
  • [[vera]]
  • [[flancian]]
• [[walter benjamin]]
  • [[el narrador]] = [[the narrator]] [[es]]
• [[push]] [[better ranking]] [[mastodon]] [[fediverse]]
  • the [[fediverse]] seems to need [[better ranking]]: https://pinafore.social/statuses/105646654378355279
  • [[pleroma]] might be more amenable to [[graphing]]: https://pleroma.gidikroon.eu/objects/06d4744f-34f6-475c-b2a9-1c7e74effb6a
• [[push]] [[feature request]]
  • [[graph]] [[fediverse]] by [[account affinity]] https://friend.camp/@darius/105646658476722928
    • tell [[darius]]
  • [[fix]] push: right now multiple-push is broken, push only really pushes to the first node in the list whereas pull pulls from all of them
• [[agora plan]]
  • [[nodes]] are now color coded:
    • [[dark violet]] for the [[primary node]], that is, any subnodes that match the wikilink you’re at most precisely.
    • [[dark grey]] for [[pulled]] and [[pushed]] nodes and subnodes.
• [[scala]]
• [[graphs]]
• [[argentina]]
  • [[cumbia]]
  • [[diegodlh]]

[[done]]§

• [[onboarded]] [[lord enki]]

[[doing]]§

[[do]]§

• [[pull]] [[weekend]]
• [[plan]] [[agora plan]]
  • [[check todo]]
• [[do]]
  • [[send]] [[ana]] [[ebook]]
  • [[check nodes pushing here]]
• [[review]] [[wikipedia api]]
• [[fix]]
  • [[jump]] -> [[search]] / CLI
  • [[pulling]] nodes with [[pushes]] (e.g. [[weekend]] here)
• [[yoga]]
  • [[downward dog]]

Many are more familiar with the Chrome DevTools console than they are with a Unix command-line prompt. More familiar with WebSockets than BSD sockets, MDN than man pages. Bash and Zsh scripts calling into native code will never go away. But JavaScript and TypeScript scripts calling into WebAssembly code will be increasingly common. Many developers, we think, prefer web-first abstraction layers.

— Announcing the Deno Company

The people behind the [[Deno]] programming language announce a commercial company with venture investment.

Not pursuing [[Open core]], full [[MIT License]] for the language.

People noticed the [[NodeJS]] bashing going on.

Also Deno Deploy:

Deno Deploy is a distributed system that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge, worldwide. The service deeply integrates the V8 JavaScript runtime with a high performance asynchronous web server to provide optimal performance without unnecessary intermediate abstractions.

2021-03-30§

• [[crowdsourcing]]
• nice [[article]] on [[norbert wiener]], [[bertrand russell]] and [[wittgenstein]] in [[cantor’s paradise]]: https://cantorsparadise.substack.com/p/on-norbert-wieners-relationship-with

2021-03-30§

[[Problem: Package phpcbf is unavailable]]§

[[Setting up Apache sites on a new port]]§

2021-04-30§

• [[favorite]]
• [[logseq]]
  • [[markdown]] mode is not quite there yet, but getting closer
  • [[donated]], will do so monthly for six months.
    • [[2021-11-01]]
      • [[review]]
• [[the island]]
• [[flancia collective]]
• [[browser extensions]]
  • [[promnesia]]
    • [[promnesia howto]]
      • [[pip]]
• [[nft]]
  • [[transmogrify]]
• [[goals]]
• [[christopher alexander]]
  • [[2021-04-28]]
• [[contracts]]
• [[working in public]]
• [[metasj]]
  • [[ahs]]
  • [[hillel the elder]]
• [[init]]
• [[linus torvalds]]
• [[esr]]
• [[rms]]

• [[coffee]] [[frucht bombe]]
• [[yoga]] [[yoga 15]]
• [[push]] [[2021-05-29]]
  • [[vgn fun]]
  • [[white rabbit bakery]]
    • [[bianca legorreta]]
  • [[tieren recht]]
    • [[tier im recht]]
      • [[moena zeller]]
• [[ocell]]
  • [[cuello de burup]]
• [[flatpak]]
• [[kneaver]]
• [[push]] [[baroque]]
  • a [[track]] by [[michael galasso]]
  • [[go]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LUezzbYLyU
    • [[utopia americana]] (?)
    • [[chungking express]]
      • [[mondegreen]] [[chunking express]]
• [[push]] [[social media]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1399028416670732289 pull
• [[category theory]]
  • [[lorand]] gave [[category theory basics]]
  • recommended videos: the [[catsters]]
• important things often begin by [[breaking glass]].
• [[regex]]
• [[later]]
• [[do]]
  • [[break glass]]
  • [[obsidian]]
    • [[obsidian attachments]]
      • [[obsidian embeds]]
  • write to [[dan whaley]]

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2021-05-30§

• Bookmark: [[Governing the Information Commons]]

  • "norms around ownership are so taken for granted that even projects expressly devoted to empowering users by wrestling ownership and control from big companies still encode these norms."
  • https://www.glizzan.com/2020/03/04/governing-the-information-commons.html

• [[RSS-Bridge]] is not working out that well so far for bridging Facebook and Twitter to be honest. I keep getting the same old posts reappearing in my feed reader.

• It’s been a nostalgic pleasure to have stumbled on old thoughts of mine from 15 years ago. Even though I was hosting it independently, the timelineliness of it all made me nonchalant - about my own thoughts! I got lucky that the Internet Archive has saved some of what I appear to have thought were ephemera to me at the time. With digital gardening I feel I’ll be more respectful of my notions going forwards.

• [[Repair and jobs]]

  To say nothing of the impact on jobs: landfilling a kiloton of ewaste creates <1 job; recycling that waste creates 15 jobs, while repairing it creates 200 good, local jobs that can’t be offshored (you don’t send a phone overseas for repair).

  https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r

• [[Working from near home]]

• [[Receiving webmentions via nginx]]

• [[Modephone]] - "the phone that pays you" - sounds hellish.

• [[Nexta-Live]]

  • "At its peak Nexta had 2 million subscribers"

• [[Mass surveillance]] in [[India]]

  Under the laws, encryption – which keeps communications on the app private and inaccessible to outside parties – would have to be removed from [[WhatsApp]] in India and messages would have to be put into a “traceable” database. The government would then be able to identify and take action against the sender if any content was ruled “unlawful – WhatsApp sues Indian government over ‘mass surveillance’ internet laws | Indi…

• The legal challenge is the latest escalation of a battle between big tech companies which have a huge and growing user base in India, and the Indian government, led by prime minister Narendra Modi, which has brought in increasingly heavy-handed measures to regulate the online sphere, which is seen as a space for dissent.

• [[Influencer]]

  French and German YouTubers, bloggers and influencers have been offered money by a supposedly UK-based PR agency with apparent Russian connections to falsely tell their followers the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is responsible for hundreds of deaths. – Influencers say Russia-linked PR agency asked them to disparage Pfizer vaccin…

• I am reminded by Wayback Machine that for a brief period in time my blog strapline was: "annulled by idle gusts of electronic massacre since 2006". Quite prescient, past me.

  • That being from a quote of [[Alexander Cockburn]]:

    There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre

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• [[Property]]

• [[Sociocracy]]. "A patterns-based approach to organisational change."

• [[2021-06-29]]
• [[twitter embeds without tracking]]
• [[hedgedoc wikilinks]]
• [[sutty]]
• [[pull]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora pull
• [[carl sagan]]
  • was a fan of [[cannabis]] it seems: https://www.openculture.com/2013/05/carl_sagan_extols_the_virtues_of_cannabis_1969.html
• [[richard feynman]]
  • [[Feynman Lectures on Computation]]
• [[javascript libraries]]
  • [[jquery]]
  • [[d3]]
  • [[p5.js]]
  • [[underscore.js]]
• [[breck yunits]]
• [[neil]] has joined [[flancia collective]]
  • [[doubleloop]]

2021-06-30§

• [[Parable of the Sower]]

• [[How I publish my wiki with org-publish]]

• [[hedgedoc]]

• [[push]] [[bikes]]
  • I like bikes
  • I am told [[canyon bikes]] are good

2021-07-30§

(sidenote this was written on 2021-07-31 lol)

hey it’s me again~

i’ve decided i’m not going to treat this as a requirement, i’ll just write when i feel like it. after all i think it got boring just writing "i played games" after a while.

i got my first part of the covid vaccination, pfizer to be specific. it was definitely quicker than i expected. all that’s happened is my arm feels sore, so i’m happy with that. can’t wait for the second shot to knock me down :D /s

after that i got raising cane’s (chicken), enjoyable as always. went home and ate, then played minecraft with my friend for the rest of the day. it was a pretty decent day overall.

i am a little worried about my vaccination schedule though. unfortunately for me i signed up for an [[osu]] tournament a week or so ago and qualifiers are going to start very soon. so i don’t know if i’ll be able to make it through the tournament before my 2nd shot in 3 weeks or so.

anyways, that’s all for today.

• [[shadow.tech]]

• [[shadow.tech]]

2021-08-30§

• these books look very interesting:
  • [[quantum computing since democritus]]
    • by [[scott aaronson]]
  • [[the theoretical minimum]]
    • by [[leonard susskind]] and [[george hrabovsky]]
  • [[the road to reality]]
    • by [[roger penrose]]
  • [[one, two, three… infinity]]
    • by [[george gamow]]
• [[sleeping beauty problem]]

2021-08-30§

• "the history of man, in one sense, is the sum total of his successive rebellions" – [[Albert Camus]]

  • via [[Time for Action]]

• [[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]

  • "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.”
  • via [[Time for Action]]

• Athens Research pivots towards "[[Collective Knowledge Management]]" Season 2 of Athens — A Collective Vision

2021-09-30§

• Woke up early today, as Luciana had an early class. I enjoy the peace and quiet in the early (for me anyway) morning — at least once in a while.
• I’d love to have a way to pull in the [[agora]] context from within [[foam]]. I wonder how hard it would be to start an [[agora]] extension that pulls a web view with the right Agora page for each note. Probably not very hard, but it feels a bit under-stimulating how the same work would need to be done for every client — or at least also for [[obsidian]] and [[logseq]].

(eight hours pass)

• Just got out of work — it was a sleepy day, not super productive but getting at least some things done.
• [[guaranteed income]]
• [[an agora]]
• [[roxanne gay]]
• [[michael d. tubbs]]
• [[brian eno]] [[roger eno]]

Me gusta la estática [[I like static]].

• [[machine learning]]

• When someone misses an [[attack]] that has [[power]], it puts them off [[balance]]. How may you let someone miss?
• [[Muay]] [[kru]] Kem says you only need to go about 70% effort on strikes. 100% is enough power to generate a lot of [[tension]], and that tension will disrupt your [[balance]]. He suggests [[meditation]] after every training session to learn to improve your ability to [[predict]] your opponent. [[Sylvie Von Douglas-Ittu]] says you rush when you can’t predict what is happening, which creates tension.
• [[Balance]] is a [[transport]] network for [[speed]] and [[power]].
• Use the [[strikes]] that you’ve landed as your [[feint]].
• Throwing [[strikes]] immediately left then right forces [[balance]]. You cannot do this if you’re off balance.
• Keeping [[balance]] after you are attacked changes the [[narrative]] of how people perceive that [[attack]].
• To [[command]] is to bring inside. To be an [[empire]] is to bring [[inside]] and put in a [[line]].
• It should be possible to build [[robust]] models of [[culture]] from [[plant]] [[growth]] [[models]].
• Being [[demanding]] makes sense if you think the [[group]] is [[dying]]. If you believe in the group, you will attempt to [[give]] as much to the group as possible.
• The [[inverse]] [[problem]] of [[motor]] [[control]].
• To be in [[pain]] is to [[pay]], to be [[punish]]ed with a [[fine]] or a [[penalty]].
• When you [[create]] an [[object]] by [[naming]] it, drop it.
• To [[soothe]] is to [[prove]], to [[certify]] and [[witness]] that someone is.
• [[Pain]] is an avenging [[punishment]], the price of living.

2021-10-30§

• met [[bernardo]], [[armengol]]
• [[tax return]]
  • procrastinated on this for very long, now I’m at the end of my extension, so it needs to happen this weekend. will shoot for completing it today.
  • [[done]]! happy about that.
• [[tiddlywiki]]
  • [[node server]]
    • is file based, one file per tiddler
    • defaults to [[tid]] files, a wiki format
    • can be made to use markdown
• [[agora]]
  • [[agora bot]]
    • [[twitter]]]
      • duplicates
        • I had started coding get_my_replies() but not put it in action!
        • Had to move to API v2 to get conversation_id to work though; v1 sucks
        • fixed logging and at least one dry-run bug
      • added [[followers]] support
• https://social.coop/web/statuses/107191095456146097

• Instead of your opponent, [[focus]] on where you are and what you can touch at all times.
• Noel Grayson, Cherokee bowyer, ended up being a bowyer because he just kept on ‘[[play]]ing with ‘em’. When he teaches flintknapping, he says, "don’t overcomplicate it, if you want to learn how to do it, learn how to play".
• To be [[kind]], beat your enemy quickly.

**

Semana 2021-10-30§

Facultad§

Seminario Literatura ENS§

• Leer The Name of the Rose
• Terminar The Task of the Translator de Walter Benjamin
• Leer Naming the Rose: Readers and Codes in Umberto Eco’s Novel
• Leer The Role of the Reader

Seminario Lingüística ES§

VL Literatura ES§

• Leer Los encartelados

Seminario Literatura ES§

• Leer ORTIZ GAMBETTA Eugenia, “El escritor extraterritorial: una tendencia en la literatura mundial”.
• Leer Discurso de Caracas de Roberto Bolaño

Seminario Literatura y Política§

• Leer [[What is Literature]]? de Sartre

2021-10-30§

• I want a [[community]], not an [[audience]].

  • Audience is stuff like reach, personality/celebrity, spectacle, anxiety, alienation, competition.
  • Community is more like voice, discussion, comradery.

• My social media usage is something like this.

  • Follow people wherever they are (including the big silos).
    • This is with a [[social reader]].
  • Write locally, in my [[personal wiki]], first.
    • This is with [[org-roam]].
  • Publish on my own site, my ‘[[digital garden]]‘. I for sure own the data this way.
    • This is via [[Micropub]] (stream), and [[org-publish]] (garden).
  • Syndicate things elsewhere, wherever the community best fits for my post. But don’t feed the big tech beasts.
    • This is via [[Webmentions]], [[brid.gy]].
  • Interact with people wherever they are, but still via my own site if possible.
    • Some combo of [[social reader]], [[Micropub]], [[brid.gy]].
  • At present, a combo of [[org-mode]], [[IndieWeb]], [[Fediverse]], [[Agora]] make this possible for me.

• I do like the phrase ‘digital garden’ but I still don’t feel comfortable enough to not put it in quotes.

• [[Kaweah Colony]]

  • A group of utopian socialists that named the world’s biggest tree after [[Karl Marx]] in the 19th century. The community was disbanded when Sequoia national park was created and the tree was renamed for American civil war general William Tecumseh Sherman.

• [[Mutualism]]

• [[Caliban and the witch]]

• Bookmarked: Network intersubjectives - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious

• [[Especifismo]]. [[Platformism]].

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1454521434617880587 pull

[[emotional dependence]]

[[exposure therapy]]

[[mindfulness]]

took a stab at [[@evan]]s version of [[wikilinks everywhere]]

[[toby kiers]]

[[lateral thinking]]

2021-12-30§

• [[zk]]
• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]
• [[yoga]]
• [[agora]]
• [[push]] [[saer]]
  • [[juan josé saer]]
    • [[hija]]
  • born [[1937]]
• [[push]] [[barón biza]]
  • [[jorge barón biza]]
  • born [[1942]] <<<<<<< HEAD =======
• [[commons]]
  • [[knowledge commons]]
    • [[digital commons]]
  • [[markets]]
• [[push]] [[singularity]]
  • got reminded of the [[singularity church]] in [[deus ex]]
  • turns out there is a [[church of the singularity]]
    • also:
      • [[church of the simulation]]
      • [[church of earth]]

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• Leí [[Juan Goytisolo, la lengua común]] de [[Carlos Fuentes]]
• Leí [[Los que luchan y al fin comprenden]] de [[Isaac Rosa]]

2021-12-30§

• I’ve started playing with [[Epistemic disclosure]] on notes in my digital garden, as well as thinking of different types of notes, e.g. definitions, feelings, claims. See e.g. [[gift economy]] (definition), [[I like gift economies]] (feeling) and [[gift economies build community]] (claim).

  • I’m liking it so far - it’s basically following ideas around [[titling evergreen notes]], and the distinction between notes and [[notion]]s, that I already knew about for a while, but actively putting it in to practice a bit more.
  • It’s working in the sense of making me reflect more on what I think. As soon as I present something as a feeling or a claim, I feel more compelled to elaborate and try and justify it. Part of moving from [[Collector to Creator]].
  • That said, I don’t want it to add friction to just writing stuff, so I’ll just do it when I feel like it for now. No pressure.

• Listened: [[Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy]]

• [[The Hi-Tech Gift Economy]]. Looks good. By [[Richard Barbrook]].

• In These Times - Give It Away - article related to [[gift economies]] by [[David Graeber]]

• [[Free software is a gift economy]]

• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107543806788526967 pull

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1477037547628990464 pull

• [[logseq]]
  • [[tienson qin]] said they’d consider changing the journal file name format to [[iso 8601]], happy about that :)
  • I’m missing alt-d a lot; [[g t]] is OK but you need to be out of edit mode for it to work. alt-d feels superior.
    • https://logseq.github.io/#/page/Custom%20keyboard%20shortcuts may be all that’s needed, will take a look after starting with laundry :)
  • keeps forgetting my formatting rules from time to time, unsure why. I just had to correct the date format again /shruggie
  • installed plugins:
    • [[logseq-plugin-vim-shortcuts]]
      • IMHO needed — I have [[vim keys]] deeply ingrained
    • [[logseq bullet threading]]
      • simple, looks nice, I like the effect — see below (If these attachments work in the Agora, need to check)
      • 
• [[yoga]]
  • [[yoga butt kicking]] warranted an update after [[move day 27]], [[strength]]
  • [[tlc]] yesterday was pleasant
  • today: [[trust]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro_nYcdGVgM&list=PLui6Eyny-Uzyp5P3Vcuv5qCHQOC8W6grN&index=30
  • [[fwfg]]
• took a walk, about 45’ long. first one of the weekend! it was great — we needed some time outside to detach from work/study (L.) and travel prep
• [[agora]]

  • LATER [[agora ext]] needs some convergence, there’s three repos around including I believe a rewrite by [[@evan]] who didn’t ship yet?

    • perhaps [[vera]] knows how to fix this though :)

  • [[agora bot]]

    • DONE [[agora matrix bot]] needs some bug fixes

      • -> [[agora bot bugs]]

  • [[agora server]]

    • NOW add attribution link in subnode view

  • [[empoderadas]]

  • #push [[extraterritorialidad]]

    • [[saer]]

    • DONE pomodoro

    • DONE pomodoro

  • [[agora discuss]] is just mindblowingly good

2022-01-30§

• Saw [[knowledge commons]] referred to as "the mutualization of productive knowledge" (here), I like the sound of that as a specific way to pin it down as to what it is.
  • Though I don’t fully know what [[mutualization]] means, so that needs a dig.
  • [[Free, Fair and Alive]] has some stuff on it of course!

2022-01-30§

When Fungus Grew to the Size of Trees - YouTube

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BibGuru

• According to [[Robert CH Chia]] and [[Robin Holt]], the [[Western]] tradition of [[war]] and [[debate]] go hand-in-hand. They point out that [[Francois Jullien]] shows that styles of open debate and [[open]] confrontation mimic a war of [[attrition]]. That is, the side with a [[surplus]] [[wins]]. Even though [[judgement]]s are made based on whether something is [[good]] or [[bad]], they are argued for based on what is [[more]] or [[less]]. A [[direct]] [[fight]] between positions with a long list of [[arguments]] decided by which [[compartmentalized]] [[events]] can be said to lead to an [[absolute]] [[good]] outcome is not the only way to make a strategic [[decision]]. Rather than trying to eliminate our [[competition]], we might let ourselves change with our competition. Since we often assign causes to effects, and pick individual events and people to [[reward]] [[fast]], there is something to [[resist]], something to [[block]]. There is something easy to resist, as in [[peasant resistance]]. An [[indirect]] approach can be [[silent]], invisible, and very [[slow]], so that it is difficult to resist. [[Loud]] [[direct]] [[action]] interrupts [[flow]], and so while it shows [[initiative]], it is an [[external]] initiative that often has to be [[force]]d. By intervening at a particular [[time]] and not all times, [[attention]] is attracted. That attention can result in an [[alarm]], for whatever [[local]] interests find the intervention [[disruptive]]. The intervention is [[rough]], [[harsh]], and [[cutting]] enough to let everyone register it as event- that is, like an [[anomaly]]. This gives us [[drama]], which we tend to want to [[justify]] our [[existence]], but it is not the most efficient way to [[win]]. Indirect, invisible [[change]], to contrast, is effective because it is constant and in the background, camouflaged by [[baseline]] [[movement]]s of everyday life.
  • The [[indirect]] approach happens through [[metis]], which can be [[listen]]ed to, but not [[command]]ed. [[Metis]] requires complete [[submission]] to whatever we are encircled by, so much so that there is no [[separation]] between what [[know]]s and what is known. With Metis, what is there is simply there, and changes. Metis is specific to one’s lineage, so the [[cunning]] of your [[lineage]] only works for your context. Metis is always on the [[move]], it [[flow]]s to take the shape of wherever it is. So in the [[shadow]] is it that lives in [[paradox]] and [[reversal]]. [[Metis]] is always on the [[edge]] of [[collapse]]. It is not indifference or [[nihilism]]: it merely influences from an unseen [[flank]], acting in the [[now]] rather than in a [[future]], so it is blind to [[reason]]. Using [[economy of force]], it will use anything that is there, including anything that would normally hurt an [[ego]] or require giving up an [[object]] of [[attachment]], such as a [[marker]] of [[success]].
    • [[Awareness]] that is constantly listening, ready to [[integrate]] [[contradiction]]. This kind of integration is part of where [[reversal]] comes from.
      • The [[indirect]] approach is characterized best when it achieves a strategic [[aim]] through simply [[being]], instead of any particular [[intervention]].
      • An alternative to dramatic [[intervention]] is [[suspension of judgement]], a [[balance]] of [[curiosity]], [[metis]], and [[common sense]] that allows a [[flow]] with [[life]], as opposed to trying to interrupt that flow with events. This kind of suspension does does not [[define]] or [[categorize]] anything in the world, except to join things, as a [[wave]] receding back into the [[ocean]].
        • The [[art]] of the [[general]] is to nourish [[life]] by being a part of the [[flow]] of life, not from cutting one [[self]] off from life to to build a [[top-down]] [[map]] of [[knowledge]]. This kind of [[strategy]] is to [[join]] with [[movement]], rather than to [[cut]] things apart or [[control]] them by stopping them. This strategy rests in [[emptiness]]. It feeds [[life]] without trying to make it fit an [[expectation]]. Good [[strategy]] is [[invisible]]. This contradicts the incentives in any [[commerce]]-influenced environment, where the emphasis is on being distinct, as in a seller hawking wares at a [[market]].
        • People tend toward dramatic [[intervention]] because they are looking for praise- for [[glory]]. If they gain glory, they may use it to build a structure to [[control]] life with, an [[institution]], a pillar to resist [[life]], much like a tower in coastal waters attempts to resist the [[sea]].

2022-03-30§

• Read: ‘It’s all a bit cynical’: the politicians behind the Tory attack on net zero
  • [[Net Zero Scrutiny Group]].

• [[neil]] told me about [[patterns of decentralized organizations]]
  • https://doubleloop.net/2018/11/04/4253/
  • [[the hum]]
    • [[richard bartlett]]
    • [[natalia lombardo]]
    • https://www.thehum.org
• [[gandoof]] == [[deskduncan]] told me about [[fusion candles]]
  • https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/6036af70d08fd
  • [[orion’s arm]]
• lovely [[flancia meet]] today
  • thank you [[j0lms]] [[vera]] [[protopian]] and all
  • some topics:
    • [[agora2]]
    • [[gun eco]]
    • [[pkm book]]
      • [[agora abstracts]]
    • [[justin murphy]]
      • [[urbit]]
      • [[personal knowledge management is bullshit]]
    • [[murray bookchin]]
      • influenced [[abdullah öcalan]] == [[apo]]
• #push I thought it might be time to try to define [[good]] and [[bad]]
  • [[true]] [[false]]
  • [[violent]] [[peaceful]]
  • [[horrible]] [[beautiful]]
• [[agora]]

  • DONE write [[pkm book]] chapter abstracts

    • [[agora abstract]]
      • [[commons]]
      • [[phenomenology]] of [[reading]] and [[writing]]
      • [[yoga]]

  • LATER write [[building bridges]]

    • [[murray bookchin]]

  • [[agora server]]

    • [[3 node agora]]
    • [[hashtag support]]
      • [[agora bot]]
    • [[sign in]]
    • [[podman]]
      • [[shamanic agora]]
• #push [[building bridges]]
  • isomorphisms between lattices
• [[feriado]]
  • [[26 de mayo]]
• [[being]]
• [[big timer]]
  • -> [[termdown]]
• responded to [[maya]] <<<<<<< HEAD
• [[5mg]]
  • #push [[walter benjamin festival]]

    • "people flock to [[marseille]] to consume [[hashish]] or some other form of [[cannabis]] in commemoration of the time [[walter benjamin]] did it."§

• reached out to [[jayu]]
• [[we could be monks in space]]

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• [[Gliders]] were used in [[World War II]]. They have not been used much since then, with [[helicopters]] and [[parachutes]] taking their place, but they still offer a more precise method of troop transportation for one to two [[fire]] [[teams]].

2022-04-30§

• Signed the petition to [[Stop water pollution in the Lake District]]

• Filling in a bridge with concrete for £124,000 rather than repointing it for £5,000. Highways England may have to reverse concreting of Victorian bridge arch | He…

• My Nitter and Miniflux combo on YunoHost still going well for [[reading tweets without being on Twitter]]. I use it to keep up with what’s going on with organisations local to me, who are still on legacy social media platforms. Could still do with something that works well for RSSifying Facebook.

• Been frequenting Mastodon more again recently what with the new wave of interesting people joining. Quickly remembering how [[microblog-style social media]] has a habit of sucking me in and distracting me. Even when the platform isn’t designed to do so. It’s just something about the medium I think. Of course it’s fabulous for connecting and discovering. Just need to keep up the willpower so it’s not distracting.

• Today I met a [[flâneuse]]!

• Any [[explanation]] that allows the [[observer]] to pay more [[attention]] will serve better than an explanation that results in the observer paying less attention.
• [[Stealth]] is mostly about [[time]]. Effective stealth in conflict often has to do with moving [[slower]] than expected or [[moving]] [[faster]] than expected, rather than [[concealing]] [[direction]].
• Give [[groups]] a way to [[win]] [[together]] every day. Every time a group wins together, it improves its ability to win the next [[conflict]].

Useful guide to the oauth nonsense to use the Mastodon API. Not sure if there’s much I’d want to do with it? Hmm.

Xe did a nice guide to ssh keys and yubikeys. I should bother to set that up…

2022-05-30§

• Read: [[How to Make a Pencil]] in [[Logic]]. Follows nicely from [[Half-Earth Socialism]].

• #push [[do]]
  • [[work]]
  • [[flancia]]
    • [[agora]]
    • [[fellowship of the link]]
    • [[revolution]]

Woke up with a sore throat, didn’t feel great through the day but made it through the work day. I think I’m feeling better now, nothing serious it seems :)

• idea to make a [[memex]] for the agora.
  • browser extension where node name is url of page and each annotation is a blockquote with comment for that node
• [[federated web annotations]]
• make agora-ui show plain text on initial load
• [[crowdcast 2022-06-30]]
• moving tomorrow. I’ve been pretty stressed this week

• [[june]]
  • [[gebana]]
  • [[please like me]]

2022-07-30§

• Did the [[parkrun]].

• Read: [[David Bollier, P2P Models interview on digital commons]]

• Read: [[A Syrian democratic social economy in the making]]

  • [[Cooperatives in Rojava]]. [[Aborîya Jin]].

• [[e]]
  • [[lunch]]
  • [[family history]]
  • [[meditation]]
• [[ladee]]
  • [[2022-09-10]]
• [[agora]]
  • [[round about midnight]] :)
  • #push [[agora pkg chapter]]
    • It’s time to leave behind (for now) [[@flancian/agora pkg chapter]], meaning the Markdown file I’ve been editing, and move to [[Google Docs]] which is the format/medium I need to deliver on September 1st.
    • Because of this it makes sense to also work on [[agora docs import]] :) Looking forward.
      • -> This could be a great study case for the ‘resource import’ (instead of the current [[repository linking]]) user journey
• [[work]]
  • [[mp]]
  • [[grad]]
• #push [[mi historia familiar]]
  • [[papá]]
    • [[quotal]]
    • [[8 de julio de 1995]]
    • [[this is how my dad died]]
  • [[abuela]]
    • [[trapax]]
  • [[mamá]]
• [[ladee]]

2022-08-30§

• [[Our feelings are not just biological, but also social and cultural and therefore historical]]

• Noding my highlights from [[The Ministry for the Future]]. There’s a lot. For my reference, currently done up to page 357.

• My [[YunoHost]] server seems to have run out of space, and now I can’t remotely ssh in. Sigh. Will have to fix.

  • Wow, even the KVM from withing Hetzner control isn’t loading. Hmm.
  • Had to do a hard power cycle.
  • Some stupidly large log files. huginn.log and invidious.log, gigabytes large.
  • Freed up some space. But presume it will fill up again. I think I’ll just uninstall huginn for now, as I don’t use it.

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• Doing some time travelling with Silverbullet-enabled Agora web editing ;)
  • Silverbullet interprets the wikilink quite literally so it doesn’t work great for dates currently.

• [[30]]
  • Thinking about the transition from October to November and the transition from Julian to Gregorian calendar affecting dates related to the [[Russian Revolution]] of October/November 1917.
  • This also caused by my recently having started to read [[China Mieville]]‘s book on the revolution :)
• [[agora]]
  • #push [[agora chapter]] deadline today, let’s see how far I get! today I hope to start early and finish late.
    • General [[patterns]] identified by the editors
      • #G1 too many links / links which aren’t explicitly wikilinks
        • Strategy: cut links by 50%, add back [[wikilink markers]] for all remaining links (makes me "pay for them" in a way)
      • #G2 should address the reader of the book more than the user of an Agora
      • #G3 lacking information on similar initiatives/prior work
      • #G4 should be less of a manifesto and more a concrete description of the system that integrates PKGs
      • #G5 lacks cohesion, add transitional paragraphs
      • #G6 repetition
      • #G7 Agora discussed as having agency (might be OK, but might also be confusing)
      • #G8 use of bullet points which should be written as long form text
• #push [[flancia]]
  • [[flancian]]
    • [[yoga with x]]
  • [[fractal altruism]]
  • [[liquid democracy]]
• working on [[agora chapter]] tonight
  • did four pomodoros already, got a bit sidetracked but not too much I believe. trying to improve cohesion.
  • still need to get rid of many bullet points sections, but the good thing about working on narrative first (beginning to some point) is that some of those bullet point lists might not be necessary.
  • Moving anything that feels like it doesn’t belong in this first published document (if it gets published) to [[agora chapter 2]] — a sort of scratch space :)

• backnoded [[2022-11-29]] a bit.
• #autopush
• [[30]] ~ 2,3,5
  • add 7 and 11 and you get [[2310]]
• [[yoga at midnight]] was great :)
  • it was [[go/move/29]]
  • "[[Trust]] that friend. That friend is very [[trustworthy]]."
• #push [[pkg book]]
  • [[george anadiotis]]
  • main thing is to get the text polished
  • [[graphs]] could be nice to have but it’s not essential
    • time aspect — how nodes were started by one user, then others added to it, etc.
    • colored hairball could be OK
  • [[social knowledge graph]] or [[knowledge commons]]?
    • knowledge commons is very much to the point
    • both are accurate
  • network effect
    • from personal to social knowledge graph omg/58738 - [[interpersonal knowledge graph]]

• "Don’t run from things, learn how to [[defend]] them."

• worked half a day.
  • "no había tanto, trucha" <- funny comment (but maybe not great, considering the degree of privilege it communicates) because only two Google restaurants were open.
• spent the day with friends who are visiting for New Years!
• then more friends arrived, and we all had dinner.
• I’ve been thinking about [[2023]], and about preparing a [[revolutionary calendar]] in the Commons (as an exercise). It won’t be ready for Dec 31st — but that’s fine. It’ll emerge organically and maybe it’s sufficient if it’s ready by Jan 31st, or even by June 31st, or even by Dec 31st of 2023 if it need be :)

Messing with [[obsidian]] again. I was trying to play with [[logseq]] but it wasn’t liking my hacked together fuse filesystem.

I think I’m going to start using this as a free form blog tool.

I’m trying to connect to remote host without storing anything locally because my solid state drive is so small. My plan is to fuse mount a [[gitfs]] folder so it will auto commit when it syncs the files via sshfs; fuse on fuse on fuse

Thinking about setting my desk back up again. I took a break from programing for awhile and now I’m getting back into it. Writing code on the couch without a desk setup is getting to me.

I’ve also been playing with [[webtop]] which is a browser based linux distro that runs in the desktop

I went back to putting the files on my local computer. It was a cool idea but the downsides are greater than the gains. everything is a tradeoff

• [[Alex Hillman]] calls audience-building ‘earning [[trust]] at [[scale]]‘.
  • "Who can I reach who has [[money]] to spend?"

• Back from travel!
  • Back in [[Flancia]] :)
• I missed [[Lady Burup]] and [[AJ]].
• Day off, [[jetlagged]] but happy.
• Wrote some [[poetry]], had fun with #magnets and #color.
• #Flancia
  • [[social coop]]
  • [[blue sky]] ~ [[bluesky]]
  • #push [[avalokiteshvara]]
    • [[names]]
      • [[lokesvara]]
      • [[lokanat]]
      • [[chenrezig]]
      • [[guanyin]]
      • [[kannon]] ~ [[kanzeon]]
      • [[quan am]]
      • [[gwaneum]]
    • [[collected poetry]] ~ [[collective poetry]]
  • #write
    • [[letters]]
    • to [[friends]]

• [[Own]] the means to [[talk]] to the [[people]] who support you.
• Who do the [[people]] you’re making this [[product]] or [[service]] for want to impress?

2023-04-30§

• [[Some files keep reappearing in Syncthing]]

• [[word counts in org-mode]]

• [[Reclaiming the stacks: reading]]

• [[open source hardware watches]]

• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[mantras]]
    • [[om mani padme hum]]
    • [[gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha]]
    • [[om tare tuttare ture soha]]
      • I often chant [[tare tutare ture]] ~ [[tare tuttare ture]] and variations
      • I like counting syllables
    • [[las jaras, qué jaras]]?
    • [[love]]

• [[social.coop]]
  • [[cwg]] meeting

2023-06-30§

• Writing [[Newsletter: July 2023]].

• Started over again on my gopass-based vault, with some fixes on git config
• Earlier the day

• Guru’s birthday today
• Sundays are weird because I have to leave the shelter at 7:30am which means I have more time to kill in the mornings
• The city is so dead in the mornings, especially on the weekends. I can stand in the middle of the street downtown and no cars
• my bank has denied access to me via online banking but it’s a credit union and they’re closed on the weekends so I have to wait until tomorrow to see what the issue is.
  • hopefully it’s not anything too bad
• I got accepted into the shelter above the resource center I visit. They want me to check in with them tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.
• Been thinking about writing a book to pass the time. I think I can create an outline about what I want to write about and then just fill in the chapters until I reach a couple hundred pages. Thinking about maybe using AI to help me.

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[30]] in the Flancia Pattern Language means [[flow]].
    • 6 means flow also some days and 30 is 6 * 5 so it makes sense.
      • 5 means [[focus]], so you can think of it as focusing on flow or flowing focusing, which to some extent may be seen as redundant (but doesn’t need to be).
• [[work]] was fine :) I’m settling into a rhythm of working until late with a break in the middle, and I enjoy it.
• I attended to what I could of the [[fellowship of the link]], then a weird Jitsi bug that persisted across devices and internet connections locked me out! I couldn’t see or hear anyone.
  • I’ll read notes and try to watch the recording though :)
• Wrote, thought, meditated.
• [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[jitsi instances]]

• I thought I added stuff recently but maybe not. Thats the downside of using your own software, you’re never sure if you broke it or not
• I go upstairs tomorrow. I’ll have a roomate. Not my first choice but we’ll see how it goes

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[AG]] :)
  • [[Japan]]
    • [[tickets]] :)
    • [[best japanese movies]]
  • #push [[Taixu]] ~ died 19[[47]], [[57]] years old
    • [[Pure Land]]
      • [[Maitreya]]
        • [[Inner Court]]
      • [[Amitabha]] which I have occasionally written [[Amithaba]] :)
        • Their Pure Land is [[Sukhavati]] or [[Land of Bliss]]
        • Apparently was called [[Dharmakara]] as a [[Bodhisattva]]
          • Although [[Avalokiteshvara]] and [[Vajrapani]] are their disciples
  • [[Agora]]
    • [[agora development]]
      • [[zippies]]
      • [[autopush]]
      • [[executable subnodes]] needs cleanup (feature flag)
  • [[movie]]
    • [[Los Reyes del Mundo]] en [[Filmingo]]

2023-10-30§

• Read: Meet the Climate Activists Who Moved Cross-Country to Build a New Civilisatio…

  • [[Cooperation Hull]] and [[Cooperation UK]]

• Listened: [[Today in Focus: How a contested history feeds the Israel-Palestine conflict]]

• [[work]]
• met [[june]] after work, it was great! we had a drink and a bite
• then came home to [[lady burup]]
• [[remix]]
  • [[geometría del universo]] + [[lady burup]]
    • [[colleen]]
    • [[bu ru ru ru rup]]
• played with [[chatgpt]], loved them!

2023-11-30§

• Listened: [[A blast in Manhattan]]

  • First episode of [[The Santiago Boys]].
  • Really well made.
  • This first episode covers a lot of the geopolitics and general shittery of the CIA and corporations in South America.

• Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • Finished it.
  • Really good book.
  • Chapter on growth is interesting. She proposes being agnostic about [[growth]], so long as you’re staying within the Doughnut. Which is fair enough, but I think the [[degrowth]] perspective would argue that it’s simply not possible to stay in the Doughnut without degrowth.

• Saturday oncall at home doing laundry and some shopping two minutes away carrying my laptop in Coop — cozy :)
  • I renamed my second work laptop to [[Sariputta]] and I already like it more.
  • Also finished some paperwork and responded some personal messages.
• [[social coop]]
  • some discussion about [[Fedipact]] and whether we should be listed as signatories
  • there were a few polls but the one that voted (majority) block was blocked, so the actual needed fraction of votes wasn’t accomplished

• [[open letters]]:
  • [[carta abierta a milei]]
  • [[open letter to google]]
  • [[open letter to musk]]
  • [[open letter to the agora]]
• thank you [[Buddha]]!
  • [[glory be to the light of consciousness]]
  • [[four noble truths]]
  • [[eightfold path]]
    • [[right view]]
  • [[bodhicitta]]
  • [[bodhisattva]]
  • [[four seals]]
• [[Flancia]]!
  • Free day from [[work]] — back tomorrow :) I did two little things only that took 30 minutes async.
    • took a quick walk and made a quick dash to the supermarket
    • [[bettwanzen]] project continues :)
    • more [[laundry]] while listening to the [[audiobooks]]
    • cleaned the kitchen surfaces including cabinets — long in the making!
  • [[agora development]]
    • fixed [[turtle]] :)
      • In two ways. Two degrees of brokenness came up while browsing and I decided to just fix it :)
      • It felt great!
  • Got to [[four seals]] again when I picked up [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]], and also to [[Madyamaka]] for the first time.
    • This happened because the way of the [[Bodhisattva]] is at [[AG]]‘s place. Also looking forward to continuing that.
    • I want to read more about [[Nagarjuna]].
• I listened to [[David Whyte]] and an interesting snippet on [[Future Discounting]] in [[Waking Up]]. Thanks [[Sam Harris]] as usual!
• [[music]] and sound
  • [[usb midi]]
  • [[rosegarden]]
  • [[mynoise]] led me to [[ozora]] festival and [[radiozora]]
  • [[free soundfonts]]
• [[yoga with x]]

2024-03-30§

• [[Adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]] not as straight forward as it could be.
  • Using it as an opportunity to get familiar with ERT. [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]].
  • Should be simpler to write against small tests rather than having to go through the whole publish pipeline.

• [[eminems]]

• I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
• Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Magnets]] as usual ;)
    • New today, but also recurrent in a way:
      • About [[Magnets in space]]
      • About [[Magnetic computing]]
    • About [[free energy]] and [[entropy]] :)
  • By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
  • [[Agora letters]]
    • Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].

Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).

For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.

• read about the [[Karmapa]]
• I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
• #push [[do]]
  • I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
    • do laundry (2x)
    • donate (2x)
    • run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
      • add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
      • maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
    • write
      • zine (2-4x)
      • get java [[minecraft]]
        • server url
        • I visited [[Plitnyakovo]] for the first time today on [[2024-09-30]]. Thank you [[Ishmael]]!
      • one or more of:
        • open letter to musk
        • open letter to maitreya
        • open letter to lex and sam
    • code
      • get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
      • one or more of:
        • save button
        • activitypub support
        • agora bot posts updates from the agora?
        • users post updates from the agora?
    • systems
      • fix agor.ai
        • recycle
        • make free space
        • try again

2024-10-30§

• I’m [[microblurting]].

• Blurt

  • [[Data science]] is a combination of data analytics, statistics, and machine learning.
  • [[Data analytics]] looks at past data and explores patterns and issues. It is descriptive.
  • Statistics can be descriptive but also predictive?
  • [[Machine learning]] is primarily predictive?

• Blurt

  • Data science is multidisciplinary, encompassing data analytics, statistics and machine learning, among other areas.

• I’m thinking that blurting is probably better semi private.

  • It might not be of great interest for others to read half formed, quite possibly incorrect statements about various things.
  • Social streams are more interesting when they have some personal, subjective opinion based element I feel, rather than attempted recall of facts.
  • Though, it would be nice to receive feedback on some things. So perhaps semi private is good.

• [[HeliBoard]] is going well.

  • Some nice features. Very customisable.
  • Being able to adjust the width of the one handed keyboard is very useful.
  • swipe typing works pretty well, though I have a sense not quite so good as gboard?

• I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
  • It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
  • I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
• I say [[We Will Defeat Moloch]].

2024-11-30§

• [[Wasteland]]

  • [[Food waste]] and [[gleaning]].

• Writing prose in [[Emacs]] with [[Termux]] is a little weird.

  • It’s because you have to workaround the fact that terminal emulators don’t generally work well with touch keyboards.
  • Termux solves this cleverly with a text input view you can access by swiping left on the extra keys row.
  • It’s neat, but not optimal for longer-form writing.
  • Options:
    • Use orgzly for longer text input.
    • Try Emacs native Android build again.
    • Stick with it, it’s not that bad.

• Going all in on [[libre software]] and [[open hardware]] is a key part of [[digital ecosocialism]].

  • That said, use of proprietary alternatives may be necessary during transition.

• Provisioning the [[knowledge commons]] with info on what software is good, how to use it, how to switch to it, etc, also very important.

• [[Wasteland]]

  • [[Soil]], [[composting]], and a surprise mention of [[metabolic rift]].
  • It’s a well-written book - well paced, informative, humorous.
  • [[Biogas]].

• [[Waste]] and what you do with it is an important part of any [[system]].

  • This is part of why I’m finding [[Wasteland]] so interesting.
    • Here the system is society.
  • You can try and reuse it circulate it back into your system. Or you sink it somewhere in the environment.
    • It seems though, nothing is ever truly a sink - it always comes back one way or another…
  • Or you try and reduce how much of it there is in the first place.

2024-12-30§

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • Charity Digital - Topics - Digital inclusion&#x3a; A year in review

• I talked to my mum and it was great.
  • We are making travel plans :)
• I played [[Minecraft]] with [[Timur]], I appreciated it!
• Then I reviewed and cleaned up notes, iterated on projects, spent time with Burup. It felt healing.

2025-03-30§

• [[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.

  • "So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour – be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts – shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] – that give rise to their emergent behaviour"

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero
    • tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Net zero]].
  • In defense of digital commoning
    • tags: [[Digital commons]].
  • #2 – Symphonies of Imagination
    • In particular, the solarpunk-flavoured essay on Repair.
    • [[Solarpunk]]. [[Repair]].
  • Use Emacs in GUI mode on Android (using Termux and Termux X11)
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].
  • Emacs + Termux on Android: Code, Org-mode and Agenda, Dired, Magit and more…
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].

• [[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:

  • "Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"

• Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].

• Worked today, essentially half day as I had to get a small surgical intervention — a mole that was growing fast on my face for some reason. Had to send it for biopsy but the doctor said it looked benign.
• Then I met my friend [[June]].
• And then came back home to my [[Lady Burup]]!

2025-04-30§

• As predicted, I couldn’t make the first teach-in of the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] series.
  • The topic was "What will the new world order look like?"

2025-05-30§

• Read: [[Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism]]

  • [[The desire for new things is essential to the continuation of the capitalist system]].
  • [[Commodity fetishism disconnects us from where objects come from]].
  • [[Repair reconnects us to the materiality of objects]].
  • [[When we repair something, we think about its history and provenance]].
  • [[Repair undercuts commodity fetishism]].
  • [[Repair is anti-capitalist praxis]].

• Bookmarked:

  • Fixing as Repair – Fixing Futures
    • tags: [[Repair]].

• [[compost.party]] is fun.

  • A website running on solar power on an old phone.

2025-06-30§

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
  • To become an indebted person under advanced capitalism is to lose the ability to act collectively with others for democratic goals.
  • Student debt changed the logic of education from something communistic to something mercenary and transactional.