• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107988600738523691 pull

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1505504289829138432 pull

May 15th, 2020§

• Trying hypothes.is. pretty good so far.
• https://www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse/ — what. this is amazing.
• Trying to start learning Clojure.

June 15th, 2020§

• [[meditationstuff]]
• Perhaps I should import my TODOs from [[Google Keep]] into Roam?

2020-06-15 Fibonacci numbers§

[[The End of Policing]]§

There’s a pretty dark history to the origins of policing – intertwined with [[colonialism]], [[slavery]], and industrial [[capitalism]]. That legacy still exists in the police today, as well as new issues , like the militarisation of the police force. (Does the local police really need grenade launchers?)

The origins and functions of the police are intimately tied to the management of inequalities of race and class.

— [[The End of Policing]], Alex Vitale

⥅ [[2020-06-15_20-26-25_9781784782924-eee743ba813f726f0ef78c27fdea782c.jpg]]

[[Immanence and transcendence]]§

I half listened to the [[Philosophize This]] podcast on [[Deleuze & Guattari]]‘s thoughts on immanence while doing other things.

One thing I latched on to was transcendence inevitably introducing hierarchy into thought, and immanence being more horizontal and equalising. So I liked that.

Searching for an image to go along with immanence and transcendence, I found this blog post about immanence and transendence in Buddhism.

⥅ [[Immanence_and_transendence/2020-06-15_20-39-53_300px-A_thaliana_metabolic_network.png]]

I have no idea why they chose that image for the post, but I love it. It seems very related to the kind of images you see about [[rhizomes]].

Also, you find excellent images like this:

⥅ [[2020-06-15_21-17-48_tabula1.gif]]

Also from a Buddhist blog post!

The end of 84K§

I finished [[84K]] a few days back.

Loved it. It was both a page-turner and fantastically written. A very unique style.

Also grim, sad, and sitting in that disconcerting place of being far-fetched but also not so far from the current truth.

I think I would probably read it again - I feel like I’d discover a second layer of enjoyment a second time through. Which is a sign of a book that’ll be a long-time favourite for me.

Some things that will stick in my head - the patty-line. Ragers. Sponsored towns.

[[Fibonacci numbers]]§

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⥅ [[2020-06-15_22-08-50_dd4dc1f29bb9cc83bfed0cc015c7557f—spirals-in-nature-fibonacci-spiral.jpg]]

These came up in discussion with E and A today, after we saw a pine cone. I’ve long liked the Fibonacci sequence because of how they pop up in nature.

Fibonacci sequences appear in biological settings, such as branching in trees, arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruitlets of a pineapple, the flowering of artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone, and the family tree of honeybees.

– Fibonacci number - Wikipedia

July 15th 2020§

August 15th, 2020§

• TIL about the [[aventine keyhole]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1294585895421718528 pull
• Will meet [[Jonathan the Utopian]] today!
• [[goblinodds]] is interested in bolos: https://twitter.com/goblinodds/status/1294371322546413569 pull
• [[Quick Capture]]

  • https://twitter.com/PanettaMath/status/1294352106569314304 pull?s=09

  • https://twitter.com/thewiseturtle/status/1294398392307679233 pull?s=09

  • https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1294396223303102468 pull?s=09

  • https://twitter.com/MushiKachi/status/1294570764981735425 pull?s=09

2020-08-15§

Reply: Two Effects From Notetaking – Interdependent Thoughts§

Both those effects, new things rising because of writing about existing ones, and spending time thinking to be able to create, are most welcome ones.

Great to hear! It’s nice to hear about your note notion-taking system leading to a long-form post. I haven’t written a very long post from my notes yet - I think I’ll have a reflect as to why that is.

Reply: On Cities and Contrast as Potential Energy – Interdependent Thoughts§

I experience this potential energy when I moved

Notes -> notions -> articles§

[[Ton]] wrote recently about how his note-taking system is helping him formulate new ideas and create articles. It gave me pause to reflect on my own note-taking system, and I realised it hasn’t as of yet led to me writing any articles.

First reflection: I’m not actually too bothered by that, right now. It is not really currently a firm goal of mine to write articles. I don’t have a thesis that I have a burning desire to push, and I don’t have a target of writing for the sake of it, either. So that is most likely the biggest reason. (That said, why am I taking notes if I don’t plan to do anything with them…?) An action point: reflect if regular article writing is a goal.

There’s some practical things I could do, if I did want to write more long-form.

I’m currently falling in to the [[collector’s fallacy]] a little bit, I think. Perhaps just thinking about my wiki as a [[commonplace book]], as I sort of do, points me in that direction.

A tiny adjustment I have started to make, is the naming of my notes. (Prefer note titles with complete phrases to sharpen claims; How to Write a Note That You Will Actually Understand). I’ve noticed that this does make me think more about notions, as Ton called them, not just copied notes.

I could also try to aim for a more formal [[knowledge cycle]] (research, read, take note, write). I kind of do this anyway, but it’s a little ad-hoc.

Lastly, I’d like to revisit "[[blogchains]]". I think I’m motivated to write something more considered and longer when in response to reading something from a friend. It would be fun to start some open chains.

September 15th, 2020§

• [[Twitter feature requests]]
• [[Quick Capture]]
  • https://twitter.com/aifdn/status/1305661110335533062 pull?s=09

2020-09-15§

Sunset in [[Lancaster]]§

⥅ [[photos/sunset-in-lancaster.jpg]]

2020-10-15§

• VC with [[Jeff Tang]]. It was great!
  • Told me about [[Nate Liason]]
  • See todos in his note proper above (this is where block references would come in handy).
• [[S.]] came over and we had concurrent mate (different gourds) with social distancing.
  • Gifted me [[The 99% Invisible City]]
• Got [[Words of My Perfect Teacher]] and [[Four Quartets]] in the mail.
• [[LJ]] unbanned me and pointed me to their actually pretty great and reasonable bot policy: https://www.livejournal.com/bots/
• Great thread with luminaries from "knowledge graph Twitter" (!): https://twitter.com/metasj/status/1316730679330254848 pull, including [[dan-whaley]].
• TIL: [[Vickrey auction]]
• Still fighting with Foam rendering to anagora.org, but perhaps tomorrow is the day where I decide to hack together a Markdown links fixer and get out of the woods?
  • Tried out [[scottjoe]]‘s solution for indexing multiple repos.
    • [[scottjoe]] in [[foam]] [[discord]]: @Flancian interesting. As long as they’re accessible to you and your credentials in your local environment, it’d clone them all into the bottles directory with whatever they come with. I’ve made mine in a way that they’re all sort of…content plugins/sources for my overall workspace. As long as Foam doesn’t conflict in some way with the workspace mgmt found in each of those tools (assuming you’re wanting to keep them as working [obsidian|athens|roam] workspaces s well)
• [[dyokomizo]] pointed out [[Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions]]

November 15th, 2020§

• #public
  • spent some time learning more about [[nix]] today. horrible ux but incredible tech
    • some of the highlights of today’s deep dive
      • you can use [[shopify/comma]] to run pretty much any program ever as easily as , <some-prog> without installing <some-prog>!
      • [[nixery]] is amazing: generates docker images on the fly that have pretty much any piece of software you can think of pre-installed
  • spent some time investigating [[athens]]
    • it’s coming along nicely! block refs and page links all seem to work as expected.
    • no way to import an existing roam graph for now though, so not gonna spend more time on it until that’s ready

2020-11-15§

• Start the day by taking a look at:
  • [[daily]]
  • [[agora plan]]
• TIL [[tsegue-maryam-guebrou]] is still alive! At 96: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1327758892500201473 pull
• Had many interesting conversations with [[L.]] and [[jonathan-the-utopian]].
• Need to look into [[ipfs]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1328101892338167808 pull
• [[idea]]: [[covid-19 game]].

15:43 backyard

substack link A couple of years ago I went to a talk by a neurobiologist named Andrew Huberman that was, I think, broadly about mindfulness. But he said something as kind of a casual aside that’s stuck with me ever since: Humans, like predatory mammals, have eyes on the fronts of their heads in order to be able to focus on a single point (prey while hunting). That focus raises stress hormones like cortisol in the brain, and that’s why predators need to spend so much time recharging. It’s why if you go on a safari and drive past a pride of lions they’re probably all asleep, and it’s why my cat is currently taking her second nap of the day after spending an hour staring at the hall closet.

Huberman [said that] you can imagine how much those stress hormones get ratcheted up when we’re spending so much time focusing on tiny devices in our hands. We’re literally hunting for information. And we still have a lot of “wild” in our brains. I think that when we talk about “wilderness” and how it’s being lost in our modern era, we have to look inward as well as outward.

16:33 article sunday!

death to bullshit

article bullshit: a spectrum of superfluous, cluttered, unnecessary and deceptive content. you know what it looks like when you see it - it clogs up the web. everywhere when information is cheap, attention becomes expensive! we're all trying to maximize singla to noise, so people will eventually gravitate towards generally useful products. create genuinely well thought out products that add signal, not noise, and genuinely benefit people rather than abusing them

Nomograms

modern nomograms two-dimensional graphic calculating devices; allow very fast computation and provide immediate visual feedback to help navigate the spatial meaning of the numbers they're working with. The most available of these are services like desmos, allowing users to easily isualize and graph relationships

Is it morally wrong to write inefficient code?

article idea: because running code uses energy, writing inefficient code is morally wrong

Ethical Webguidelines suggest that this is the case; by minimizing any impact, systems use fewer resources, meaning that we do not cause pain to others through contributing to reused, impactful inefficiencies in code

the line between running code and polluting the environment is relatively straightforward, unless you live and your code is always run in places primarily dependent on renewable power — in which case your impact is substantially diminished

The essay primarily disputes the last point: that it is a complete moral wrongdoing, and a direct contribution to the suffering of others, to support this practice. This asks what a contribution to suffering is, and where this suffering is best placed; perhaps the best place for suffering is a small cut (one of, say, 1000) to the users of the software rather than a gunshot wound to the developer

2020-11-15§

• We started playing [[Myst]] (realMyst edition) last night and really enjoyed it.

• Read a little bit about [[Karrot]] and how they make their software.

• Reading [[Informatics of the Oppressed]]. Looking at historic experiments in informatics from [[Cuban socialism]] and [[liberation theology]] for redistribution of informational wealth. Think I came across it via [[Panda]].

• Had a quick look at kinopio.club for weeknote diagrams. I don’t think it was working properly? The how to thing seemed to be missing a bunch of cards.

• Spiderwiki: "Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head." https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb-20170523/

2020 12 15§

• Today is [[threadapalooza]].

2020-12-15§

• Tuesday that feels like Thursday (could be good or bad).
• Perhaps read [[facebook is a doomsday machine]] after work.

2020-12-15§

• Totally bizarre that this over-the-air update has popped up for my phone. Nothing for years and then all of a sudden this, what’s it all about? Kind find out much about it from searching online.

• [[Setting up Calibre-Web and koreader (via YunoHost and NextCloud)]].

• Nice description of [[Holochain]], in relation to Shiro.

2021-01-15§

• [[anisina]] told me about [[ibuku]] / [[ibukubali]]
• [[push]] [[done]]
  • look more closely into [[pleroma]].
  • look into buying and expensing a chair — I can do it until [[2021-01-31]].
  • look into what I discussed with [[l.]] yesterday.
• [[gigafelon]]
• [[push]] [[per angusta ad augusta]]
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1350159293476196352 pull
  • [[h/t]] [[mmalign]]
• [[push]] [[metasj]]
  • [[slopi]]

2021-01-15§

Leeré Sarmiento escritor, de [[Ricardo Piglia]]

[[bolobolo]]

[[Armseligkeit]]

Among the many initiatives that are being created at the moment, I want to mention sole-freiburg.de (life and solidarity). Their basic axiom sounds so simple, that it almost hurts: “We help each other, we contribute things or services according to everybody’s possibilities for the benefit of others. We do not keep book on what is given or received.” Imagine how horrible this must sound in the ears of market fetishists.

• website looks down

  [[little lenin]]

• my roomate often says "I’m not going to be anyones little lenin" I’m waiting on response on what he means by this

  Funny video on [[trumper]] using [[queer feminist theory]]

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzVc7s-_e8&feature=share

  Just realized [[flancian]] auto embeds tweets into [[agora]] via [[twitter]] urls

  checked out [[ibuku]]

• kinda looks like a bunch of white cis people pseudo-colonizing bali I’ll have to check it out more

2021-02-15§

• [[push]] [[agora plan]]
  • installed [[etherpad]] as a default open [[stoa]]
• [[boris mann]]
  • [[stephen downes]] is an early [[blogger]] that has an [[agora like]] tool
• [[push]] [[karlicoss]]
  • [[cannon]]
• [[jonathan-the-utopian]]
  • [[mellies]]
  • [[reading alexander]]
  • [[siafu]]
• [[push]] [[wikilinks everywhere]]
  • [[dbieber]] (in the [[athens discord]]) recommended wikilinks don’t render by default, instead being marked up for client rendering when the client supports it.
• [[how to read a book]] mentioned by [[danieljthomason]]
• [[hohenzollern castle]]
• [[my goal in life]]
• [[forth]]
• [[push]] [[merveilles]]
  • [[met]] [[syntacticsugarglider]]

[[doing]]§

[[do]]§

• [[open-search]] for the [[agora]]
• move to permanent database for [[etherpad]] [[stoa]]
• [[link default stoa]]

The presentation I gave to the [[IPFS]] Local Offline Collab group is on Hackernews.

2021-03-15§

• [[el baile moderno]]

2021-04-15§

• [[calendso]]
• [[read]]
• [[orejas de terciopelo]]
• [[chris moyé]]
  • [[push]] [[do]]
    • [[cent]]
    • [[magic]]
• [[notsof]]
• [[will-walker]] recommended [[how to start a new country]]
• talked to
  • [[vera]]
  • [[robert haisfield]]
  • [[chrxn]]
  • [[rodrigo baraglia]]
  • [[codex]]
• [[meet]]

2021-04-15§

• [[CTZN]] is a thing! I wonder how this is different from the chat app stuff that was in [[Beaker Browser]].
• Listened: [[After Storming Heaven]].
  • About what Communards did after the [[Paris Commune]].

[[nicotene]] [[ppv]]

• [[ikiru]]
• [[poll]]
• [[robert haisfield]]
• [[tools for thought]]
• [[gustavo]]
  • [[elinor ostrom]]
    • [[traficantes de sueños]] -> [[understanding knowledge as a commons]]
    • [[governing the commons]]
    • [[protocolo de nagoya]]
• [[codex]]
  • [[ervin nyiregyhazi]]
• [[lorand]]
  • [[jonathan the utopian]]
• [[obsidian plugins]]
• [[murat]]
  • [[spiel]]
• [[do]]
  • [[yoga]]
    • [[yoga over the internet]]
  • review messages
    • [[ding levery]] messages in [[zulip]]
    • [[vera]] in [[matrix]]
  • reset [[fission]] password
  • continue with plan in [[do]] proper
• [[syncthing]]

Libros para el próximo semestre que aún no conseguí:

• [[Castellano Moya]], Horacio, [[La metamorfosis del sabueso]]. Ensayos personales y otros textos, Santiago, Universidad Diego Portales, 2011. 9563141474
• [[Valencia, Leonardo]], [[El síndrome de Falcón]]. Literatura inasible y nacionalismos, Quito: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, 2019. ISBN: 978-9978-77-448-9
• Volpi, Jorge, [[El insomnio de Bolívar]], cuatro consideraciones intempestivas sobre América latina en el siglo XXI. Barcelona: Mondadori, 2009. 8483068621

Leer:

• [[The Sexual Psychology of Decadence]] de [[Melanie Hawthorn]]

2021-05-15§

• Pretty excited to be reading in [[Free, Fair and Alive]] about the links they make between [[complexity science]] and the [[Commons]].

  • I studied [[Evolutionary and adaptive systems]] way back when, and its nice when various themes of my life link together.

• [[Preston]] is hiring a Social Value and Partnerships Officer. "The Social Value and Partnerships Officer will be responsible for extending and embedding social value activity and developing an Anchor Network." Looks like you basically work on [[Community wealth building]] all day, looks pretty good!

• I’ve got [[RSS-Bridge]] set up to pick up RSS feeds from Facebook pages now. I subscribe to them in [[Aperture]] and can read them in my a [[social reader]] e.g. [[Indigenous]] . That, combined with some Twitter feeds coming from Twitter Atom, is letting me keep up with what’s going on locally pretty well so far.

  • Hey, it works for Facebook groups, too. Nice!

• As I’ve mentioned before ([[Getting a phone]]), whenever I get a new (second hand) phone, I try to cross-reference repairability with [[LineageOS]] support. [[sustaphones]] is very handy in that it does just that (for battery replacement, at least).

• Read: [[The Privatisation of Manchester]]

Since the dawn of the neoliberal period in the 1980s, however, public land has been subject to privatisation on a massive scale. In his recent book The New Enclosure, Brett Christophers found that a staggering 10% of Britain’s total landmass has been privatised during this period, equivalent to land worth £400 billion.

• [[neovim]]
  • [[treesitter]] for syntax highlighting
  • [[lsp]] support for completion/refactoring capabilities
  • [[arghzero]] posted about this on twitter
• [[cia]]
  • [[cia atrocities]]
    • saw it linked in [[hn]]. was surprised to see no mention of [[argentina]], although other latin american countries make an appearance as expected. unsure of how reliable the source is.
    • "The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. (2) Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust."
• [[functions]]
  • [[interesting functions]]
    • [[dirichlet function]]
    • [[thomae’s function]]
    • [[cantor function]]
    • [[weierstrass function]]
      • one of the first [[fractal]] curves studied

17:10 media today

demon slayer movie

cute, kind of motivational, honestly not super well done. mostly inconsequential to the plot, i think, besides a couple of characters dying

the tragedy of xx

beautiful book - perhaps the best expression of emotion i've found in a novel. tragic and beautiful, at times echoes th documented dialogues of the greeks, worth revisiting again and again i think. motivates free will, admiring the small things, and nurturing emotions.

househusband anime

really fun watch and well done animation - framed almost like a comic. super short and easy to digest. fun to play with gender roles in that way.

2021-06-15§

• I think I have broken my h-card.

• Revisited https://evalapply.space to remove the link to Freenode. Happy memories, and ‘tis a nice site running on [[Haunt]] - we’re keeping it up for now.

• [[Understory]] has a really very tasty looking website.

  • "Grow your mind". "Own your data". "Link your ideas".
  • An experimental digital garden-y social platform thing, built on [[Solid]]. But from the blurb, without needing to faff about coding.

• [[ryo fukui]]
• [[asabiyyah]]

2021-07-15§

• testing journal. this looks different on mobile browser than desktop browser
• discussing [[yaka]] in the [[bolo]], just another day in [[flancia]]
• I like that there is a journal view in [[logseq]] similar to the [[agora]]
• just unpinned [[obsidian]] from my taskbar
• I’ve been trying to use [[fediverse]] as my primary social outlet, even in cases where I would use a [[realtime chat]] platform
• [[zettelkasten method]]
• [[anarcho-syndicalism]]
• https://1lib.us
• [[josee, the tiger, and the fish]]
• [[portland zebras 2021-07-15]]
• [[knowledge arrangement reading group]]
• introduced [[portland zebras]] to the [[agora]] and [[logseq]]
• https://github.com/logseq/git-auto
• https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
• https://calendly.com/flanciavera/15min
• https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2021/07/14/on-the-evilness-of-feature-branching-a-tale-of-two-teams.html

[zettelkasten method]: ../pages/zettelkasten method.md "zettelkasten method" [portland zebras 2021-07-15]: ../pages/portland zebras 2021-07-15.md "portland zebras 2021-07-15" [knowledge arrangement reading group]: ../pages/knowledge arrangement reading group.md "knowledge arrangement reading group" agora: ../../agora.md "agora" logseq: ../pages/logseq.md "logseq" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"

• testing journal. this looks different on mobile browser than desktop browser
• discussing [[yaka]] in the [[bolo]], just another day in [[flancia]]
• I like that there is a journal view in [[logseq]] similar to the [[agora]]
• just unpinned [[obsidian]] from my taskbar
• I’ve been trying to use [[fediverse]] as my primary social outlet, even in cases where I would use a [[realtime chat]] platform
• [[zettelkasten method]]
• [[anarcho-syndicalism]]
• https://1lib.us
• [[josee, the tiger, and the fish]]
• [[portland zebras 2021-07-15]]
• [[knowledge arrangement reading group]]
• introduced [[portland zebras]] to the [[agora]] and [[logseq]]
• https://github.com/logseq/git-auto
• https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
• https://calendly.com/flanciavera/15min
• https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2021/07/14/on-the-evilness-of-feature-branching-a-tale-of-two-teams.html

2021-08-15§

• [[push]] [[done]]
  • paid bills
  • laundry
• [[dai]]
  • [[radio caso]]
• [[coop pixar]]
• [[david deutsch]]
  • [[the fabric of reality]]
• [[max tegmark]]
  • [[our mathematical universe]]
• [[will walker]]
  • [[retroactive public goods funding]]
• [[henry darger]]
• [[sunday]]
• [[read]]
  • [[i am not a straussian]]
• [[delaunay]]
  • [[robert delaunay]]
  • [[boris delaunay]]
    • [[delaunay triangulation]]

2021-08-15§

• Read: [[The Hammer - Bill Gates wants your money]]

  • [[Bill Gates]] and his climate fund - it’s not a benevolent gift, it’s an investment with an expected return.
  • There is a [[Bezos Earth Fund]]!?

• Picking out some choice quotes from [[The Left Hand of Darkness]].

• Read: Working Around Post Kinds Plugin Lock-In – Interdependent Thoughts

  • I need to do something like this, too.

• Perhaps obvious but a nice little lightbulb flash for me, was that [[systems thinking]] appears to generally be a recent incarnation / labelling of (a particular part of?) [[cybernetics]]. Makes reading on cybernetics feel less like learning a dead language, and makes systems thinking feel a bit more weighty.

• Whenever I get that stab of feeling like there’s too many ideas to explore, too many books to read, too little time to do it in, I remind myself not to turn to productivity systems, efficiency improvements and the like, but to [[knowledge sharing]] and [[communities of practice]], and remind myself that you don’t need to know it all, knowing things is not just an individual pursuit but a collective endeavour.

• [[Biology of love]]

• Listened: [[]].

  • Politics is failing our home, the [[biosphere]], massively. The biosphere and climate change needs to be at the centre of [[governance]]. [[Systems thinking]] is a means to do this.
  • Enjoyed this. Sounds like a good book.

• I wonder if I should be using [[Org Cite]] in some way.

2021-10-15§

• met [[reddy2go]]!
• [[mega]]
• met [[pesho]] and [[ragnar]] [[this week]]
• [[iframes]]
• [[s5bug]]
  • [[newick format]]
    • [[newick]]
• [[per aspera ad astra]]
• [[my favourite things]]
• [[flancia]]
  • with a little help from my [[friends]]!
  • the [[agora]]
    • contains many [[stoas]]
      • [[stoa]]

• Mathematicians are people that do a lot of [[thinking]].
• When you use a category, what other categories do you have to ignore to use that category?
• We come up with general [[rules]] to avoid case-by-case judgments.
• You need [[rigid]] [[rules]] for [[shapes]] when you’re building something with material that may not fit together if they are not put together in a particular way. This we call [[geometry]].
  • Such a rule is: two [[shapes]] are the same shape if you can [[change]] one into the other by squeezing or stretching instead of gluing or ripping.
  • In [[topology]], we don’t care about size. It’s just if the shapes can be stretched into each other. Because of this, a triangle, a square, and a circle are all kinda the same shape. collapsed:: true
    • S-one is the [[shape]] of a rubber band or a necklace. So it can be stretched to be a [[circle]] or a [[square]] or rhombus, etc.
    • A [[line]] is a [[shape]] in [[topology]]. You can bend a line into an almost-circle, but the ends won’t join, so it stays a line.
    • A figure-eight is also a [[shape]] in [[topology]]. You can stretch it however but the place where the line crosses on itself cannot be changed, in the same way that the ends of the line cannot cross.
  • There are [[infinite]] [[shapes]], given these rules. Since you can just add crossing-points and end-points to denote a new shape and you can keep adding those indefinitely, there are infinite shapes.
  • If you want to show there is an [[infinite]] amount of something, show how there’s a way to keep on making more of that thing. This is called the [[infinite family]] [[argument]].
  • How are proofs accepted as proofs?
  • Since there are so many [[shapes]], people who research [[topology]] focus on [[manifolds]]. A [[manifold]] is a smooth, simple, and uniform shape such as a [[circle]], [[line]], [[plane]], or [[sphere]].
  • A [[shape]] is a [[manifold]] when it has no end, crossing, edge, or branching points. It also has to be the same everywhere.
  • People want to know what all the kinds of manifolds are.
  • You can have [[manifolds]] that are like sheets, or like dough. If the world does not suddenly stop somewhere, and if it doesn’t cross over itself, it may be a manifold.
  • [[Manifolds]] that you can make out of string are one-dimensional manifolds. Since manifolds can’t have end points, there are only two kinds of one-dimensional manifold: an infinite string (R-one) or a circle (or S-one). So basically this is any closed loop or shape that goes on forever.
  • In the second [[dimension]], [[shapes]] look like 3d shapes but they’re made of 2d material- sheets. Two dimensional shapes are [[sheet]] like all over- there are no edges and no cliffs (or places where they just stop).
  • Through [[stretching]] and [[squeezing]], you can turn a [[sphere]] into almost any other continuous 3d shape, such as a [[cube]].
  • In math, a [[sphere]] is hollow, while a [[ball]] is filled. collapsed:: true
    • A [[sphere]] can be stretched or squeezed into a cube, cylinder, cone, etc, etc.
  • A [[sphere]] in [[topology]] is called S-two. Recall that the [[circle]] is S-one. So we may find the equivalent of R-one (a [[line]])in two dimensional space, too.
  • The earth might be flat in terms of [[topology]]- a [[manifold]] has no end or cross point, so all points might look the same if you look at it from the point of view of one point. So you can’t see the curves- which means that if you live on a sheet, it would look like a flat plane.
  • "More [[dimensions]] means more [[freedom]] of [[movement]]."
• [[Process]] is what drives to the front.
• We come up with [[categories]] to [[limit]] our possibilities when the possibilities are too much to cut out a path from.
• What are the fewest [[categories]] you need to move?

**

Semana 2021-10-15§

Facultad§

Seminario Literatura ENS§

• Hacer tarea en grupo
• Leer El nombre de la rosa (inglés)

Seminario Lingüística ES§

• Leer [[Zeichen, Text und Sinn- Theorie und Praxis der multimodalen Textanalyse]] de Stöckl

VL Literatura ES§

• Terminar de leer Campos de Níjar

Seminario Literatura ES§

• Leer texto de Carlos Arcos Cabrera
• Leer [[El síndrome de Falcón]]
• Leer [[Bolaño]]
• Leer [[Huasipungo]]
• Posible temas para paper:
  • Leer "El gaucho isufrible" y ver cómo se posiciona Bolaño con la tradición e identidad argentinas
    • parece que es un texto muy analizado
  • Leer Antonio di Benedetto y ver su propio posicionamiento respecto de la tradición, latinoamérica, etc.
    • o en relación con Bolaño mismo

• [[Response to flancian 1]]
• [[On web browsers]]
• [[Censorship]]

2021-12-15§

• had a reasonably productive day working on the [[agora]] yesterday, as I didn’t work on the day job (had the day off, [[time off in lieu]])
  • felt great.
  • I did cause one outage, but it was only 5 minutes long, so it wasn’t too bad :)
  • still need to
    • fix bug: fedwiki gardens are imported one level too deep in the garden structure due to the changes for having agora-root-qualified targets (akin to mountpoints onto the top level agora repo)
• worked today, had an OK day including a good 2022 roadmap review for my team.
• will meet [[geordie keitt]] == [[workitect]]

2021-12-15§

• Watching [[The Expanse]] series 1.

2022-01-15§

• [[flancia meet]]
• [[take it easy]]
• [[push]] [[nfts]]
  • [[eip 721]] [[erc 721]]
  • [[altruist contracts]]
• [[push]] [[arguments against open source]]
  • [[wolfram]] https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-dozen-reasons/
• [[github]]
  • [[counter anti disintermediation]]
    • [[anti disintermediation]]
• [[rusp]]
  • [[center for applied rationality]]
    • [[julia galef]]
• [[gustavo]] [[elena]]
  • [[push]] [[wordle]]
    • [[mondegreen]] [[worldle]]
    • [[wordle es]]
  • [[vacuums]]
  • [[bookcases]]
  • [[playlists]]
  • [[bridges]]
    • [[flancia]] is [[building bridges]].
    • [[yoga with x]]
      • [[x with y]]
    • [[our memories together online]]
    • [[family trees]]
      • [[charlemagne]]
      • [[la abuela paquita]]
      • [[el abuelo eduardo]]
      • [[el tío eduardo]]
• [[test node]]
  • [[lymph nodes]]
• [[meditation technique]]
  • [[counting system]]

2022-01-15§

• I’ll do the [[LeftValues]] quiz when I get a chance.

• [[Cuba is world-leading in agroecology]] so sayeth the podcast I listened to.

  • FFA listed [[agroecology]] as a [[convivial tool]]. Keen to find a bit more out about it.

• [[State socialism is good for the environment]], so sayeth [[Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro]].

2022-01-15§

• [[jitsi]] [[jitsi meet]] & [[jigasi]]
• [[git]]
  • [[gitea]] service
• vscode extension
  • [[agora-vscode]]
  • Your First Extension | Visual Studio Code Extension API
  • colors for existing/non-existing
  • push
• matrix bot
• this is a link alias for [[NFTs]]
• test #tag highlight
• flancian
• Principles | Foam
• testing [[GitDoc]]
• this should commit now
• I found Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source—A Dozen Reasons—Wolfram Blog in [[flancian’s]] garden
• [[isomorphic git]] ftw
• [[tailscale]]

• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107627851284431477 pull

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1482417107409244164 pull

• #push [[weekday]]
  • Lots of work, low energy — perhaps with a bug (I have the sniffles).
  • But then I found myself in Flancia on a [[weeknight]].
    • #push [[radijo musikii]]
    • [[musikino]]
• #push [[flow state]]
  • I keep referring to the host as [[bobby flow]], as I have issues remembering his actual name. I hope he doesn’t mind. he’s actually [[bobby lyte]].
  • [[s03e08]] on the topic of [[attachment]] resonated with me, [[buddhist]] vibes. also quotes [[alan watts]].

The [[Jung]] book that mom has been recommended by the Benedictines is [[Memories, Dreams, Reflections]]. Looking forward to that retreat — they sound cool as all get-out.

• [[agora protocol]]

2022-03-15§

• I spent some time yesterday [[setting up a simple email forwarder]]. Long story short, I ended up doing it with YunoHost and it was super simple and very awesome.

• Listened: [[Organizing Toolbox: Getting Started]]

• What dya know, there’s a link between [[Cooperation Jackson and DisCOs]].

• [[2022-03-15 10:16:17]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • It’s sneaky, only happens once per browser session it seems. On refresh it works. Will try to reproduce with a fresh session/save a trace and report, thanks for the pointer! [[later]] [[2022-03-15]]

2022-04-15§

• a small tour through a few [[pkm tools]] follows, please disregard if it’s not your kind of thing :) (I guess this applies implicitly to all my notes, of course.)
  • [[logseq]] just crashed again so I thought I’d give [[foam]] a try again, see how it’s holding up.
    • Right away I really like:
      • The multi pane layout, which I find more flexible than Logseq’s single pane with tabs which you only get through an extension.
      • The fact that it’s very responsive on <enter>, while Logseq often lags.
      • The built-in terminal and more full featured [[vim emulation mode]].
    • Right away I dislike:
      • The fact that auto completing wikilinks takes waaay to long still, essentially making linking very cumbersome (I already didn’t link [[logseq]] above twice because of how long autocomplete takes to run.)
    • I might keep using it, disabling autocomplete, and see what happens?
      • Plot twist, apparently you can’t disable autocomplete? Argh.
        • I tried disabling quickSuggest everybody I could find it in settings (dialogs, files) and it still does it and annoyingly hangs for several seconds every time I try to link anything.
    • Asked in the [[foam discord]] (argh) whether there’s any way to disable autocomplete or prioritize https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/906
      • I just need an open source PKM that offers a responsive text editing experience and can handle >5k files :(
        • OK, perhaps I should give [[wiki vim]]] a proper try.
  • #push [[wiki vim]]
    • Is where I’m writing this now :)
    • Right away I really like:
      • How fast this feels! As expected. It’s lightning fast while writing (it’s just [[vim]]), it’s lightning fast while following links (with ctrl+enter).
      • ,w,j is the way to visit my daily journal — as I have , as my leader key. It looks worse than it feels to use it — acceptable.
    • It doesn’t have link autocomplete, at least not just by writing [[ — but honestly this is relatively minor, and it seems it has pretty good searching capabilities, they just don’t trigger by default.
  • back to [[logseq]], which is a bit laggy but not overly so and has potential. I now also notice that it does auto save/git commit very well, it’s nice not having to think about it and having it just work (tm).
  • I just took a look while I was around in [[discord]] and, two years in, people are still asking about an export feature in [[athens]] and as far as I can tell it’s still not being worked on: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/discussions/874 :(
  • BUT now the independently developed [[athens export]] exists, so that’s nice :)
• [[pkm book]] https://twitter.com/PkgBook/status/1508347439409172480 pull
• [[agora]]
  • [[agora development]]
    • interesting discussion about [[agora copyright]]
      • would like to edit this into a proper explanation in this node
    • exported logs
  • [[agora discuss]]
    • exported logs
• reported https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/21812 to [[element]]
• [[gyuri lajos]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[agora server]]
      • [[uncache]] as an action, what it means to [[cache]] a [[node]]: it is as if you stored it in a [[bag of holding]]
      • try re-enabling fuzzy matching; I gave up on it early. now could be hooked up in [[related nodes]]
      • [[polls]] support (create polls for users who prompt, keep track of them while cross posting)
  • [[sorrows]]
    • [[writing]]
  • [[shantideva]]
    • [[bodhisattvas]]
      • [[poll]]
• [[big timer]]
  • [[koos looijesteijn]]
    • has sold it
• [[ivo]] == [[kvistgaard]]
  • [[gordon brander]]
  • introduced me to [[alexander rink]] == [[rcvd_io]] https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1515028554647547910 pull
• [[federation]]
• [[mondegreens]]

2022-04-15§

• [[How local councils are acting on climate]]

  • This seems like a nice selection of case studies of [[climate action]] at the municipal level from [[councils]].
  • Part of the overall [[Climate Action Plan for Councils]].

• Listened: [[HERE COMES THE SUN: storing clean energy]]

• I wonder if [[logseq]] will do the right thing and store this in [[2022-05-15.md]] instead of [[2022_05_15.md]] :)

• [[real ez cheese]] created [[the one chat]]

  • 
  • [[zero precedent]] http://zeroprecedent.com/

• next [[week]] I will have several after work meetings, looking forward :)

  • will talk to [[mathew lowry]] on Wednesday
  • it seems I will talk to [[metasj]] and [[jerry michalski]] on Wed or Thu.
  • will meet with a subset of [[social coop tech group]] on Friday to discuss updating the [[social coop password store]]
  • will talk to [[kasra]] next weekend on Saturday.

• [[today]]

  • [[four pomodoros]]

  • LATER meet neighbors for coffee

  • LATER meet brother for lending bike/drinking [[mate]]

  • DONE social coop support task

    • [[social coop tech group]]

  • DONE laundry

• [[agora]]

  • [[agora ext]] -> [[wikilinks everwhere]]
    • the [[chrome]] version works fine for me, glad about it
    • we still need to clear up the multiple repo situation, it would be great for someone to lead that part of the project if someone is interested
  • [[3 agora]]

• [[africa design travel]]

• [[dazinism]]

• [[astadala yogamala]]

• What do they best like to do? Where can they do it? Which[[group]] can they do it in? If that [[space]] does not stand out, can we [[create]] it?

2022-05-15§

• We went to [[Leighton Moss]] for a bit of birding.

• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/108302899959444208 pull

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1525620312553009154 pull

• Third day in the US.
  • [[us trip 2022]]
  • Slept OK it seemed but for some reason I’m struggling to make it to the afternoon without nodding off.
• [[quantum mailer]]
• [[do]]
  • reply to
    • [[j0lms]]
    • [[ladee]]
    • [[jz]]

2022-06-15§

• Read: [[The Dialectics of Space]]

  • [[Ultra-rich nerd tycoons]].
  • [[Space]]

• [[Naked]]

• [[Revolutionary Letters]]

Talking to [[lennon]] about [[ADX]] [[CRDX]] [[automerge]] and [[dweb]]

• [[c]] recommended
  • [[silent wedding]] ~ [[nunta muta]]
    • synopsis mentions [[proletkult]]
• working half a day today
• caminata con [[martin]] y [[berni]]
  • met an interesting person whose name is pronounced (in spanish) [[lique]]
  • we went to [[werdinsel]], I swam, it was great

2022-07-15§

• Listened: [[Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism]]

• [[donut economy]]§

• [[zen in the art of archery]]
  • [[zoe]]
• [[olof]]
  • [[how to resist amazon and why]]
  • [[cory doctorow]]

• [[Social Security Number]] collapsed:: true
  • The first three digits is the Area Code.
    • Before 1972, the area code was assigned by which county office the SSN was applied at. After 1972, the area code was assigned by the [[zip code]] of the mailing address for the application.
      • For Social Security Number Area Codes, the [[northeast]] has the lowest numbers, and the [[West]] coast has the highest numbers.
  • The second two digits is the Group Code.
  • The last four digits is the Serial Number.
• What is made [[open]] by a [[movement]]? What is [[closed]]?
• Business
  • Start making what you make and selling it as quickly as possible. [[Move]]. Once you have something, you can see and [[listen]] to how people move with that thing, and improve it based on what you find.
  • [[Attention]] is something [[big]] companies can’t provide. collapsed:: true
    • Giving all your attention to the first customers will help set you apart and gather information that you can use to setup feedback loops that will lead to an exceptional product that’s always improving.
  • By giving attention, you can get one customer at a time.
  • What will we [[make]], and what needs to be done to get that thing used? collapsed:: true
    • Approach people one at a time, like it’s a [[Quest]], and give them an [[experience]] they will never forget.
      • What can be done [[now]] that will get the customer most of what they [[want]]?
  • [[Make]], [[listen]], [[learn]], make, listen, learn, make, listen, learn.
  • Finding 10 people who are lit on fire with a [[problem]] is better than 1000 people who are slightly annoyed. The more [[energy]] is around those early customers, the more will go into what is made.
  • If one person has a [[problem]] that not many others have and they try to get you to solve their problem for them but it takes time away from what you want to [[give]], then that is a person to let go. collapsed:: true
    • Will solving this problem lead you to [[focusing]] on a smaller [[group]]?
      • Will solving this problem lead to less [[energy]] to give everyone else?
  • Talk to people, [[make]] what they [[want]], [[change]] what is made to fit how they’re using what is made.
  • [[Product]]/[[market]] [[fit]] is when people are [[buying]] what is made as quickly as it is made, or even more quickly.
    • If the [[market]] is [[strong]], it pulls what is made out like a [[riptide]].
      • Is what is made what the market wants? If not, make it again, closer to what the market wants.
      • With a strong market, what is made just has to work, it doesn’t have to be great.
      • A [[market]] is a [[group]] of people looking for what they all want from each other.
      • Hold [[problems]] tightly, and [[solutions]] loosely. collapsed:: true
        • The first few thousand solutions are probably wrong, and will need to be changed until it works.
        • The [[problem]] should be like the problem of someone who can’t [[breathe]]. They will do anything it takes to breathe again.
      • p * m / c for figuring out what’s important. [[mission]] collapsed:: true
        • p=how many people will this change affect?
        • m=how much closer will this get one of your people to finishing their mission?
        • c=how much energy and time will this cost?
      • Spending any [[time]] on worrying about [[competition]] takes away precious time from making strategic moves.

2022-08-15§

• [[UK water shortages 2022]]

  • [[Water privatisation]]
  • Listened: [[TyskySour: The Tories Have Broken Britain]]

• [[Cost of living crisis]]

  • Listened: [[Cleverly Pathetic on Cost of Living, Martin Lewis Sounds the Alarm Again]]

• [[Wood Wide Web]]

• [[worked]] 2h or so, it was fine.
  • at least two pomodoros
• [[mycorrhiza]]
• Maybe [[cannabis]] could be called a [[heart opener]].
  • I hurt my back again and I’m on vacation so I vaped and it helped a lot, it also made me feel more empathetic.
• [[2d barcodes]]
  • I’d love to have them in the Agora, maybe have the user choose a type and have them be overlaid everywhere to be useful when sharing screenshots
• [[agora]]
  • [[agora plan]]
  • [[pkg book]]
    • continue reading [[lowry]]‘s
      • more
  • [[revolution]]
    • nice discussion with [[maya]]
• I’ve been reading about the [[wolfram physics]] project.
  • finish https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/

If I die slowly, please take my body out to a beautiful forest and bury it among the [[hyphae]], in the [[mycorrhiza]].

2022-09-15§

• #push [[2022-10-21]]
  • maybe today code?
    • [[go/move/now]]?
    • [[graph/testing]] should serve just the [[context]] div
    • autopull wp after some time unless cancelled; autopull stoa in empty nodes; also promote?
• time with [[friends]]!
  • it is great.
  • it was indeed great :)

• [[work]]
• #push [[pelican]] is a [[static site generator]] in [[python]]
  • I use [[nikola]] for flancia.org, this might be better?

2022-11-15§

• Listening: [[Ecosocialism and the ecological crisis]]

• [[2022-12-14]]
  • [[yoga with x]]
    • [[go/move/14]] (done as on the 14th, but after midnight)
• [[work]]
  • [[mp]]
  • [[p10g]]
• [[flancia]]
  • #push [[agora]]
    • coding
      • add latest updated for subnodes in subheader
      • next action for shipping [[virtual subnodes]] with basic [[acl]]?
        • I’d like to use it to implement [[calendar]] — just call cal 2023 :)
      • next action for shipping some [[graph]] improvement?
    • writing
      • [[revolutionary calendar]]
  • [[agora chapter]]
    • talked to the editors about open comments/suggestions, will now batch resolve a lot of them :)
    • finish resolving unlinked suggestions to improve readability end to end
    • add references / move towards ‘no open TODOs’
  • other [[pomodoros]]
    • [[laundry]] (washing machine broke, used the neighbor’s who were kind to lend theirs)
    • prepped and had dinner (WFH today)
    • [[yoga with x]]
      • [[go/move/15]]

• I had a great time yesterday :)
• Today I’m a bit tired but happy, focusing on doing housework, resting and enjoying the moment.
  • I’ll try to do some reading and writing today.
  • And practice piano.
  • Already did laundry :)
• [[birthdays]]
• #push [[17]]
  • [[gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha]]
    • We will [[cross that river]], [[build that bridge]], [[cross that threshold]], for the benefit of sentient beings.
    • In Flancia we’ll grow and live kindly.
• #push [[flancia]]
  • A [[Flancian]] is someone who believes we’ll [[defeat Moloch]] one way or another.
  • It is through the [[kind]], [[rational]], [[distributed]] use of the [[Commons]] we’ll manage to leave [[Moloch]] in the dust if we have to.
  • The [[Agora]] is a [[knowledge commons]] we’re trying to build with the intention to help [[disentangle Moloch]] from humanity.
  • -> [[tres consignas]] que son cuatro, son muchas.
• [[write]]
  • [[7]], [[17]], [[23]], [[49]], [[51]] :)
  • to [[friends]]
  • to my brother (happened on [[2023-01-22]] finally :))
    • to get a next appointment with my therapist, I took a break over November/December.
  • #push [[2023-02-04]]
    • I sent an email for the above but I have to follow up on that thread
  • agora chapter addendum
  • #push [[2023-02-09]]
    • nines (likely tomorrow)

• After thinking about what some common [[goals]] for any [[food]] service [[business]] would be, I’ve decided on the following [[Restaurant]] [[Review]] [[Heuristic]]: collapsed:: true
  • 1 star: will not return 2 star: may return 3 star: would like to return eventually 4 star: would love to be a regular 5 star: compelled to bring others here

• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[abra]] recipe?
  • [[social coop]]
    • [[mediawiki migration]]

• [[Niche]] [[market]] [[problem]] [[detection]]:
  • Who is [[asking]] for help with a problem? Which experts are asking for help with a problem? Who is helping them?
  • Who is asking for [[solutions]] to a problem they think they will face in the [[future]]? collapsed:: true
    • What are the common [[recommendations]] they get?
      • Who is recommending?
      • How do people react to them when they are openly selling something?
      • Is there follow-up on recommendations?
      • How do [[people]] [[pay]] for a recommended [[solution]]?
        • How much do they pay?
  • What is their [[workflow]]?
  • What [[hacks]] are they using to patch the [[problem]]? collapsed:: true
    • Is there a Google Doc doing something that would be better served by dedicated [[software]]?
  • What are they [[hiring]] for?
  • [[Ask]] them about what is getting in their way.
  • Look out for [[complaints]] about [[boredom]] or tedium, because they indicate a [[problem]] with [[friction]] that impacts [[time]].
  • Resource [[costs]]- how could resources be freed? collapsed:: true
    • [[Expense]], [[money]] complaints. Are the wrong people working on wrong things?
  • [[Mask]]-related complaints: wanting to be someone. [[Status]] or [[autonomy]]. Ways to show they are [[trust]]worthy, ways to show off their [[skills]], and ways to [[show]] they [[belong]] to a [[group]].
  • [[The Eisenhower Matrix]] can be used to determine [[urgency]], similar to a [[triage]] [[priority]]. collapsed:: true
    • [[Awareness]] of the [[Problem]]: collapsed:: true
      • Problem unaware
      • problem aware
      • [[Solution]] aware
      • [[Product]] [[aware]]
      • Most aware
  • Where do people go out of their way to [[avoid]] things that they wouldn’t call a [[problem]]?
  • Adherents [[avoid]], starters [[solve]]. collapsed:: true
    • What is in your way?
    • What is a [[pain]] to do?
    • What is annoying?
  • What [[block]]s you from doing your job properly?
  • What is pointless to do?
  • What parts of your [[skill]] do you want to improve?
  • What are you putting off [[starting]]?
  • How do you [[show]] that you are an [[expert]]?
  • How can you [[help]] others [[win]]? collapsed:: true
    • Do you [[celebrate]] wins?
  • What do others [[see]] of what you do?
  • What is in the way of your next [[win]]?
  • What do you have to do to [[climb]] the next step of the [[hierarchy]]?
  • What would make you feel [[safe]]?
  • What [[challenge]] did you [[overcome]] in [[life]]?
  • What would you prefer to not do at [[work]]?
  • What is the most [[boring]] [[problem]]?

• signed up for [[bluesky]], loved it immediately!
  • joined the dev room
  • would like to investigate how to bridge it with the rest of the [[fediverse]], etc.
• [[Flancia]]
  • packed for the [[us trip]]
  • sent and got some [[gifts]] :)
  • [[Buddhism]]
    • [[Dharmarad]] ~ [[Dharmachakra]]
  • [[Middle Fifty]]
• #push [[do]]
  • #push [[Taxes]]
    • Got another huge [[tax bill]], unexpected after so many years in Switzerland; something has gone clearly wrong, either now or previously when I filled my tax returns. I need to investigate, the sum is substantial.
    • will track in [[unexpected taxes]]

• [[2023-05-15]]
  • [[15]] stands for [[Right Effort]].
• [[AG]]
• [[work]]
  • day goes here
• [[social coop]]
  • [[twg]] ~ [[tech working group]] meeting at [[18 UTC]]
• [[Taixu]]
  • [[toward a modern chinese buddhism]]
  • [[on the establishment of the pure land in the human realm]] (!)

• To encourage [[change]], look for what suggests that they don’t like how things are. collapsed:: true
  • Look for anything good they have to say about what [[change]] might do.
  • Look for anything that suggests that they could [[change]] if they wanted to.
  • Look for anything that sounds like a [[commitment]] to [[change]].
  • What makes it difficult for them to consider [[change]]? collapsed:: true
    • What would it take to go where they want to go? collapsed:: true
      • What worries them about how things are?
      • What makes them think they need to do something about it?
      • What happens from what they are doing now?
      • Is there anything about what they are doing now that is a reason other people might [[worry]] about them?
      • How has this stopped them from being where they want to be?
      • What will happen if they don’t [[change]] what they’re doing?
  • How would [[change]] help them? collapsed:: true
    • What would they like to be different?
    • What would be good about the [[change]]?
    • Where would they like to be in the future?
    • If the [[change]] happened now, what would [[fit]] them better?
    • What’s a reason to [[change]]?
    • What would they get from a [[change]]?
  • How would they see [[change]] as [[possible]]? collapsed:: true
    • What would make it so they could [[change]]?
    • What gives them [[energy]] to [[change]]?
    • When else did they make a [[change]] like this? How did they do it?
    • What do they have that no one else has that would help them [[change]]?
    • Who could help them [[change]]?
  • When would they tell you that they want to [[change]]? collapsed:: true
    • What are they thinking about the thing that might [[change]]?
    • Are they feeling stuck?
    • What might they do?
    • How much do they [[want]] a [[change]]?
    • What would they try?
    • Of the things they might try, what would [[fit]] them best?
    • What do they [[want]] to happen?
    • What do they [[want]] to do?
  • Look for what they think might happen if they [[change]] vs. what they think might happen if they don’t change. collapsed:: true
    • What do they like about how things are now?
    • What do they dislike about how things are now?
    • How can these be illustrated visually?
  • What is a day in their [[life]] like?
  • What do you [[worry]] most about the thing that might [[change]]? collapsed:: true
    • What’s the worst that might happen?
    • How might that happen? What else might happen as a result of that?
  • What’s the best thing that might happen?
  • How would things [[change]], if you changed?
  • Ask them about a different [[time]] in their [[life]]. Both what was, and what might be. collapsed:: true
    • What happens if things don’t [[change]]?
  • How is what they’re doing consistent with what they want? How does it work against what they [[want]]?

• [[Flancia]]!
  • I’ll work on and in the [[Agora]] today :)
  • [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]] book is out, I would like to write about it
  • #push [[Porrentruy]]
    • [[Auberge de Mouton]] is in [[Porrentruy]] which I initially misremembered as [[Ponterruy]] :)
      • [[St Imier]] is 45 minutes away by car :)
        • Relevant for [[Anarchism]].
      • The river [[Doubs]] is also near :D
  • [[flancia meet]]
    • try search in [[betula]]
    • save tabs to [[betula]]
      • [[celeste summit]]
        • [[karlicoss]]
        • [[midsommar month]]
        • [[tresk]] is the sound fire makes
    • try betula in mobile
    • get link.agor.ai up on the new setup
      • done on [[2023-07-29]] :)
  • work for G a few pomodoros (two?)
  • link.agor.ai
    • container debugging
      • change endpoint
      • or adopt abra.sh?
  • [[go/ccr]]

2023-08-15§

Catch up the daily update on [[2023-08-16]], this file was used for redirects.

2023-08-15§

• Listened: [[Trip 34: The Outdoors]]
  • I really enjoy #ACFM podcasts. They take fairly everyday things and look at them through a leftist lens, and throw a bit of music in too.
  • I like hiking, so listening to the political history of [[right to roam]] is fun.
  • The [[National Clarion Cycling Club]] sound great: to "combine the pleasures of cycling with the propaganda of Socialism"

• [[lcd soundsystem]]

2023-09-15§

• I take back what I said about [[Subconscious]] being completely absent of politics - there is a nod towards them by Gordon in [[Tools for thought: the first 300,000 years]]:

  • "We have planetary challenges ahead: climate change, global pandemics, mass extinctions, increasing geopolitical tension… We need to learn how to think together, with our planet, as a whole planet."
  • Still a bit weak ("let’s think together" is not much of a position), but at least there’s a recognition of environmental and social problems ("with our planet", "as a whole planet").

• Read: [[Decentralized and rooted in care: envisioning the digital infrastructures of the future]].

  • Coming out of discussions at the recent RightsCon in Costa Rica. Could be a source of another [[qualitative system dynamics model]] for [[Reclaim the stacks]]. Has a good list of initiatives, many from Latin America.

• [[The Magic of Small Databases]] is interesting to me from the perspective of sharing my catalogue of initiatives for [[Reclaim the stacks]].

• [[Digital technologies are an important part of movement infrastructure]]

  • A claim on the [[Numun Fund]] homepage.

• The qualitative system dynamics model used in [[A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture]] was built using a triangulation process from individual models. I’ll read more about that, seems kind of what I’m trying to do in [[Reclaim the stacks]].

• [[Flancia]]!
  • Thank you [[AG]].
  • Thank you to all my [[friends]]!

2023-11-15§

• Listened: [[WCV2: Duncan Exley "Working class campaigners want to change things"]]

• Listened: [[WCV2 NY Communities for change "Let’s not replace Oil Barons’ with Solar Barons’"]]

• [[work]]
  • was alright!
• [[flancia]]!
  • [[apero]]
    • with the [[neighbours]] and [[AG]]
  • [[15]]: [[uposatha]] day if you go by straight decimal/solar calendar date instead of the (I believe) more traditional lunar
  • [[spiel]]:
    • I found [[spiel/agora]] again after more than two years :D
      • it’s great, I like it even more than last time
      • I think even before it gets [[fediverse]] support (for login) it may already be one of the best chat platforms I’ve seen
      • [[matrix]] could/should look like this

• [[Flancia]]:
  • [[AG]] :)
  • [[work]]
  • [[Mohammed]]
  • [[social.coop]]
  • Caught up with friends, asynchronously! :)
• I got a letter from [[Solidar Suisse]], checking them out.
• I enjoyed the AI generations in [[Agora of Flancia]].
  • I need to make copy-paste of the raw markdown easier.
  • Copy/paste should preserve bullet points in particular! Maybe it did before the [[ul styling]] shipped?
• YIL about [[Kaya Yanar]]. Also watched [[George Carlin]] clips.
• [[Why aren’t there more effective altruisms]]: https://nayafia.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-more-effective-altruisms
• [[ywa]], [[ywx]]

• [[eduardo carlas sala]]
• [[josé rené ivanec]]

2024-02-15§

• Read: [[The high cost of Uber’s small profit]]

• spoke to [[Jack Park]] about [[Topic Maps]]!

2024-03-15§

• [[What would AI for the people look like?]]

  • My biggest problem with AI are its environmental impact and the fact that it is in the hands of a cabal of big tech firms using it to turn a profit.
  • Is there a way it could be retained? Publicly owned, democratically governed, socially useful, and existing within planetary boundaries?

• Watched: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]

  • Episode 2. Focuses on the [[Battle of Orgreave]].
  • [[Police brutality]]. [[State violence]].

• Read: [[A Modern Anarchism (Part 1): Anarchist Analysis]]

• [[Lex]]:
  • Listened to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Lex Fridman]] and it reminded me I also like Lex and I think he has lots of potential.
    • Sam came across as a bit more close-minded on some topics than Lex, which tracks with some of the conversations with him I’ve been listening to him recently — he is still one of my favourite public persons though. It’s just that Lex seems to be more of the "open heart hippie" and in that sense closer to me (at least at times).
  • Then listened to his conversation with [[Joscha Bach]] and it reminded me I like Joscha as well.

2024-04-15§

• Not sure if this has happened just recently, or I’ve been living with it for a long time, but: case sensitive node search in [[org-roam]] was starting to bug me.
  • Turns out that it’s [[Helm]] that is doing it, when set to the ‘smart’ completion algorithm.
  • I just need to (setq helm-case-fold-search t) and all is good - much smoother completion experience.
  • See: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/v2-case-insensitive-completion-and-backlinks-not-working-as-expected/1701/17
  • In Doom, something different.
  • I’ll pop it in a separate note: [[Turning on case-insensitive search in org-roam]]

• [[15]] means [[Right Effort]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]].
• Tough day at work. I got demotivated yesterday after hearing some bad news and that bled a bit onto today. But nothing terrible :)
• [[Fellowship of the link]] was nice and energizing though.

2024-05-15§

• [[Listened]]: [[The dangers of digital capitalism]]
  • Excellent webinar from [[Transnational Institute]].
  • On [[digital capitalism]] and more.
  • Some great speakers, I should find out more about them.
    • I’ve come across [[Jack Qiu]] before from [[Goodbye iSlave]].

• [[psionica]]:
  • went away at some point? the site is down.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220315104111/https://psionica.org/ has some remnants.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220418085349/https://psionica.org/thoughtware/ was cool.
• [[sakka]], [[pancasikka]]

2024-06-15§

• The [[social model of disability]] is very interesting.

• "I’ve seen what will happen, many a time".
• [[Work]] was alright, looking forward to tomorrow actually :)
• I spent time with:
  • [[AG]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Candles]]
  • [[Magnets]] (as usual) :)
  • [[WS vision]] ;)
  • [[Flow]]

• [[23 september]] -> [[mylesj]]

• I [[worked]]; it was fine actually, I had a late review meeting (I don’t usually have meetings on Fridays) but it was interesting/felt worth it.
• I met [[L]]! We spent some of the afternoon together. It was very nice to see her.
• I then worked on [[social.coop]], scaling up (with [[Dan]]). Then I read/wrote/coded a bit.
  • Maybe did yoga? But that was [[2024-11-16]] :)

• I’m writing this on the [[Shinkansen]] from [[Hiroshima]] to [[Osaka]].
  • The [[Hiroshima Museum]], by which I mean the [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum]], was very interesting and very shocking — even though I thought I knew what to expect, the effect on me was strong. I could notice it also on other people who were there.
  • In Osaka I intend to:
    • Try interesting food (of course) :)
      • [[Kushikatsu]]? Hopefully there’s a meat-free version.
    • Visit new neighborhoods, like [[Shinsekai]] and [[Den Den Town]].

2025-02-15§

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead - marcan.st
  • The free software commons
  • Eight Pro-Social Platforms that Didn’t Work
  • I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? | Nightingale
  • From Data to Art: Making “Rat Revolution” | Nightingale
  • The populistisation of green politics and the greening of populism: an examination of environmental populism in Europe

• I cleaned the house in the morning while I was logged onto [[Flancia meet]] (quiet instance, but that’s alright of course) and it felt good to start the weekend that way; I did kitchen and bathroom floors.
• We had a tough conversation with [[AG]] today, but I think it was the right thing.
• I wrote a script named [[Burup]] to disable the laptop’s keyboard and touchpad so Burup can sleep on it while I continue to use the external keyboard and mouse for browsing/coding :) [[Claude]] helped me find the best way to do this in a 2025 Linux + Wayland install, my first impulse was to reach for xinput but that doesn’t cut it nowadays :) [[libinput]] CLI is reasonable though.
  • I think I need to also disable the trackpoint (nipple/joystick that comes with Lenovo laptops) as somehow she still was able to move focus while I was typing this :) The situation is already much improved though.

2025-03-15§

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • ‘All the birds returned’: How China led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian
    • tags: [[China]]. [[Conservation]].
  • China’s Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition - Chen - Antipode - Wiley Online Library
    • tags: [[China]]. [[ecological civilization]]. [[Climate Leviathan]].

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

  • Really enjoying the intro and opening chapter. The personal style is engaging and liking the down to earth way of discussing [[historical materialism]].

2025-04-15§

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • On tech sovereignty – how to nail jelly to a tree – Structural Integrity
    • tags: [[technological sovereignty]]

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: how can skips be used as a signal of some sort? drawception uses skips to remove "dustcatchers" which can distrupt a game because its:

1. confusing
2. difficult to interpret
3. probably nonsensical voxel telephone suffers from #1 and #3, wizh some prompts being quite difficult to interpret for a builder.

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Zhere are some prompts in which I have no clue how to interpret and describe. But I feel zhat I might be biased, since I do prematurely view unfinished games for moderation purposes.’
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: I feel like one zhing before implementing somezhing like zhe drawception dustcatcher system is to at least provide a counter to how many skips a description received
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: for moderators
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: zhat way, some insight can be made if a turn should be purged because it seems confusing for a number of players and zhe moderator
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Perhaps zhese dustcatchers can be reused as a challenge of sorts.
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: So, it might be useful to mark purged turns as dustcatchers, just so when zhe time comes, zhese can be reinserted for special events.

2025-06-15§

• [[Listened]]: [[ACFM 51: Heroes]]
  • Great as always.
  • Heroes. [[Heroism]].
  • The problems with [[Hero’s Journey]]. [[Jordan Petersen]].
  • Masculine and feminine heroism.
  • [[Che Guevara]] vs [[Subcomandante Marcos]] as heroes.
  • Cowards and traitors.

• MixaMega: idk how to explain it but this game feels like nabbit made it https://store.steampowered.com/app/3108510/FlyKnight/
• MixaMega: the sound effects
• MixaMega: how smooth visuals
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: bu ggy video game
• MixaMega: very
• MixaMega: unreal engine my beloved

• I just thought of [[suffering]] and what would amount to [[rational suffering]].
  • Think of the suffering of the beings that die to feed others: some of that suffering is justified inasmuch it enables other conscious beings to subsist and negotiate ethical [[tradeoffs]] of their own.
  • When it is kept to a minimum, of course, we seem to arrive at the ethical optimum.
  • Think of worms getting grown and harvested for feed, but also of the beautiful bird hunted by the cat and the fish who die in the nets of [[fisherpeople]].
  • See also: [[trolley science]].
• I also worked and planned the week and did [[Agora]].
• Two days of Agora journaling in a row? Is such a thing even possible? :)

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Revel in my creativity! I just released celaria-formats@1.0.0!

• MixaMega: how are you doing these
• MixaMega: also which engine does gassy gaogao use
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: https://gassy-gaogao.bunnynabbit.com/wiki/Tutorial_for_automated_screenshot_stitching_of_video_game_levels
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: It uses its own engine. It did say it uses some open source libraries for interfacing wizh DirectX.
• MixaMega: oh interesting
• MixaMega: offgao seems to be a pretty good programmer
• MixaMega: they made quite a bit of software and hardware even
• MixaMega: https://offgao.net/
• MixaMega: gassy gaogao is nowhere to be seen tho
• MixaMega: is this maybe a different offgao or was it removed
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: It’s still zhere on zhe HTTP site. Most broesers tend to redirect to HTTPS
• MixaMega: could it be possible to decompile the levels
• MixaMega: are they stored in the res folder?
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Zhey’re stored in zhe executable, I zhink
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: All files in zhe res folder are just renamed PNG and Ogg vorbis files
• MixaMega: ah
• MixaMega: im trying to setup ggg on winlator
• MixaMega: which button does it use for enter/select
• MixaMega: it says start/end
• MixaMega: but neither home or end work
• MixaMega: i tried enter too
• MixaMega: space seems to be it
• MixaMega: how do i release the gas
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Bottom row/shift buttons. I like pressing X
• MixaMega: shit button
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: if you’re wondering what we do for zhese levels. we give up
• null: Awesome… Cool tpyo fix

2026-05-15§

• Doing a fresh Linux install.

  • Permanently low on space on my 256Gb drive for some reason, getting a bit sick of it.
    • I blame Snap, Flatpak, node_modules, and keeping a Windows 10 partition around for support purposes.
  • Also on an old version of Mint, solely needed a distro upgrade anyway.
  • But I’m in fact giving Zorin a go. Mainly to get a sense of whether it’s something worth recommending in the Repair Cafe.
  • I will likely install Debian later for myself.
  • So - let’s see how quick to install and get back to a state where I can do work again. Time to dig out the [[Setting up a new box]] notes…

• [[Notes on Zorin 18.1]].

• Some notes for amendments to my new box notes…

  • I need to add fish install to new box instructions.
  • Use git ssh rather than https for git clone of private repos.
  • spacemacs install is by far most time consuming step.
    • bit annoying that you can’t leave it unattended - asks to install sqlite and vterm
      • maybe you can?
  • why is my org repo so big?
  • my dotfiles are now on codeberg
  • it’s now nerd icons for icon fonts

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Decolonizing Degrowth: Ecosocialist Alternatives to Green Colonialism and Unequal Exchange
    • "ecosocialist degrowth – combining the reduction of destructive production with democratic planning, reparations, and care-centered economies – offers the only viable alternative to capitalist “green” modernity"

2026-06-15§

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Quantifying extremism: A data-driven analysis of UK riot-related far-right Telegram networks
    • "demonstrates how far-right extremists leveraged a range of mainstream and smaller ‘alt-tech’ social media platforms in the wake of the Southport attack to grow their following, promote hate and organise"

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The New Front of the Epistemological War: Digital Radicalization Dynamics and Humor Strategies of the Far-Right
    • "explores how digital media environments have transformed far-right ideologies by integrating memetic communication, algorithmic amplification, and decentralized networks"

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Emerging cross-border dynamics in Ireland’s anti-migrant mobilisation
    • "In 2025, this mobilisation is characterised by street protests, intimidation, targeted violence and coordinated amplification online"

• [[Wafrn]] seems interesting. I’ve heard of it before. But found out that it does accept migrations from existing [[ATProto]] accounts. https://wafrn.net/faq/AccountMigration.html#atproto-waf
  • I was under the assumption that Wafrn used its own PDS software. It does not. This does potentially make it trivial to integrate with an existing self-hosted PDS? Will need to ask questions before hosting a wafrn.

2026-07-15§

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[We cannot keep growing the global economy without overshooting planetary boundaries]]
    • Via [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]]. Most recently. Though of course encountered this idea before in many places.

• …and I coded with [[Gemini]] very nicely tonight.
• [[zine]]!