October 2022 I took part in the Inktober for the third time. This time, I finished 2022-12-04, which is more than a month late.
I think I learned to use the color black and pencil sketches better.
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Esta nota técnica presenta el resultado de un estudio estadístico que capturó información sobre el nivel, composición y moneda de los salarios de los trabajadores en una muestra representativa de 354 establecimientos del sector comercio y servicios del área metropolitana de Caracas desde enero de 2021 hasta enero de 2022. Entre enero de 2021 y enero de 2022, las remuneraciones totales en bolívares reales, es decir, ajustando por inflación, aumentaron 21,6%; mientras que las remuneraciones en dólares corrientes se aumentaron en 84,8% durante el mismo período. La diferencia en las tasas de crecimiento reflejan la tendencia a la apreciación del tipo de cambio real. Medida en dólares corrientes, un trabajador típico del sector comercio ganó, en promedio, $96,1 en enero de 2022. Esta remuneración era de $52,0 en enero de 2021. En enero de 2022, en promedio, la remuneración en USD de empleados con cargo gerencial o supervisorio se ubicó en $221,0 mensuales; mientras que la de profesionales y técnicos fue de $141,4 mensuales. Finalmente, la remuneración promedio de obreros y operadores se ubicó en $87,2 mensuales. En enero 2022, el ingreso laboral promedio de los trabajadores del sector comercio y servicios es apróximadamente 27,0% del ingreso de un trabajador similar en Colombia, y representa solo el 26,3% de la canasta básica medida por el Observatorio Venezolano de Finanzas.
It’s being called “[[the year of the squeeze]]”: thanks to stagnating wages, rising costs of consumer goods, and increases in energy tariffs, plus changes in government measures, the cost of living is set to increase sharply in 2022.
Type : [[claim]]
Agreement level : [[Most likely]]
October 2022 I took part in the Inktober for the third time. This time, I finished 2022-12-04, which is more than a month late.
I think I learned to use the color black and pencil sketches better.
RT @iswc_conf: The PANEL: “IS THE DEEP LEARNING HYPE GOOD OR BAD FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB?” is getting ready! #iswc_conf #iswc2022 https://t.c…
En [[Air Europa]] pasan clips de [[Mr. Bean]] y la [[Pantera Rosa]], y la fracción de comida vegetariana en el menú es mínima (pero no importa). Dormí la primera hora de vuelo (me levanté más temprano que de costumbre), hasta que el niñe que viajaba en el asiento de adelante me tocó las piernas de forma inesperada.
Una parte de mí extraña ya a [[Lady Burup]], y al fin de semana juntos y con el Ágora que no será este; pero estoy contento por viajar y ella está en buenas manos (L. se queda con ella).
Al llegar al aeropuerto quizás espere a Berni ahí, pero quizás también (más probable?) me tome el metro y vaya a algún café en el centro de Madrid a hacer lo mismo.
Funcionan ya en el Ágora las divisiones de tipo regla? Me parece que no todavía.
De repente, tres días después, de nuevo en un vuelo de Air Europa, esta vez de regreso a casa. La misma película (corto?) de Mr. Bean, cerrando el viaje de forma simétrica.
Me parece que esto muestra que mi impulso de escritura no es lo suficientemente fuerte en situaciones en las que tengo una conexión a internet. Por supuesto que el viaje fue eventual (caminamos mucho con Berni y Martín, charlamos, y comimos muy bien), pero también pasamos tiempo de relajación en el departamento y elegí pasarlo en actividades online en vez de escribir en cierto detalle sobre las experiencias del viaje o sobre cualquier otra cosa. Pensándolo mejor, algunas de estas actividades son de naturaleza adictiva (en aplicaciones que explotan ciclos de dopamina, para ponerlo de forma simple aunque probablemente inexacta).
Mi jardín digital empezó, entre otras cosas, como una forma de hacer que escribir fuera más fácil y, quizás, adictivo. Pero en este caso fue menos atractivo que las alternativas.
Sigo leyendo [[Stand on Zanzibar]]. Es bueno; gran parte es deprimente ("bleak", diría en inglés) pero de forma admirable.
During the summer of 2022, I held a series of video streams.
Most of the streams were dedicated to me learning about uxn using the Compudanza's famous tutorial. During the streams, I found some errors in the text, which I reported in my notes. Afterwards, they were fixed. Well, at least the ones I re-checked. I just expect the others to had been fixed as well.
The product of the uxn series is my own little tic-tac-toe: xo.tal.
Чтобы на caemlyn, с которого я стримил, было надёжное подключение к интернету, одолжил переходник на эфирнет. Хорошая штука.
Originally, this article was spread into many hyphae (one central and one for each day), but during the Finish it Jam 2023 I merged them all into one (except for images, of course) and cleaned stuff up a little.
Провёл тестовый стрим, чтобы проверить переходник на эфирнет. В планы входило пофиксить баг. Где-то за 13 минут баг пофиксил. Было несложно. На этом я стрим заканчивать не хотел, далее убирался в саду.
Это был единственный стрим на русском и единственный стрим не в PeerTube, а в Телеграме, в этой серии стримов.
This is the first uxn stream in the series. Today I made a hello world program multiple times. It was fun.
How to pronounce uxn? I ended up saying [ˈjuzən], but I suppose there is an agreed pronunciation. I might try [ˈjuxən] and [ˈjuʃən] for fun though. Addendum: there is no agreed pronunciation.
Notes:
The actual video started 8 minutes in. In the next videœ I tried to shorten this delay.
Very little people joined during the stream. This trend continued.
OBS works well. PeerTube works well, although the 1 minute delay is present.
Today I did some graphics.
This is the best stream so far, because I had viewers. A big thank you to Vertigo and Snufkin for being active in the chat. Snufkin helped a lot with jumping across the labels. It was a good idea to announce the stream in the uxn IRC chat. After finishing the tutorial, I started implementing Tic-Tac-Toe, but spent too much time doing it. I will finish it in a follow-up stream.
Vertigo said:
AND, ORA, and EOR are mnemonics found on 6502 and 6800 processors. Uxn probably got them from there. ORA stands for "OR Accumulator."
I continued to develop tic-tac-toe. It turned out to be even harder, so I will be having another follow-up stream.
I have found some bug with stack overflow that happens if you press the buttons enough times. I didn't find what caused it.
Today I fixed some bugs, made the cursor and xo placement work.
I kinda leaped forwards and used some information from day 4. Whatever. Gotta finish this game.
I used division by zero to cause the stacks to be printed. Turns out, there is a canonical way:
00:46:28 <snufkin> This should make it stop as well %DEBUG { #01 #0e DEO }
00:46:37 <snufkin> #0e is System/debug
The third follow-up stream. I finished developing xo.tal and initiated uxnerie during this stream.
On that stream, I was writing the Invalid interwiki: interwiki not set up , and then started implementing the Table of Contents sidebar, but left early due to a health problem.
As you know, my toots expire, and on this stream I wanted to show that. Live, I was deboosting and deleting. Some of my toots ended up on удалённое из мастодонта, some boosts ended up being linked somewhere on that garden. Most didn't.
895 toots before. 809 toots after.
19 minutes in, I was rate-limited!! 51 minutes in, I was rate-limited again!! 69 minutes in, I was rate-limited again! After that, I got tired of it. I didn't expire enough toots to my taste.
A couple of people suggested that I use the built-in toot expiration capability. Turns out, it's not just a brutal reap of older posts, it has some kind of granularity, you can ask it to not delete favorited own posts! I think it's not enough.
I don't get why the vectors and the zero page use the same addresses. How does it work?
Got some good stuff in there. Editorial on [[Cost of living crisis]]. Article about [[New Towns]]. Article about socialist science-fiction - some good recommendations in there. Article on successful [[trade unionism]], specifically in refuse workers sector - some organising to drive worker conditions back up. Also something about [[Partygate]] being hopefully the end for Boris Johnson. I think this article is a few months old, doesn’t seem to have happened yet though.
As the politically bankable public joy over the success of the Covid vaccine programme began to wane, the latest scandal was a reminder of who had been steering the country through this generational crisis: a prime minister who fundamentally did not believe he had any responsibility to the rules he set, and a man whose entire political career has been built on impunity
North. There’s no cast-iron cohort of loyal MPs because there’s no such thing as a Johnsonite — only fair-weather fans
Like many industries, the answer lies in the advent and development of neoliberalism throughout the 1980s. The dogma pushed by Margaret Thatcher and her successors in government (including New Labour) was one of ‘value for money’, with private sector ‘entrepreneurship’ being the main guarantor of efficiency in public services
Those that worked through a pandemic and were lauded as key workers are now acutely aware of their importance to society and have no intention of letting the politicians and bureaucrats who decanted them into the hands of private companies off the hook
The Food Standards Agency says it poses a very low safety risk for people, but as a precaution farmers temporarily have to keep all free-range hens in barns. This is to protect their welfare and stop the spread by keeping farmed hens away from wild birds.
The Bank now thinks that the UK will enter a [[recession]] in October that will last until the end of 2023, the longest since the [[2008 financial crisis]]. It expects inflation to peak above 13% later this year, the highest rate since 1980, and to stay high for much of next year. And it says unemployment is likely to climb to 6.3% by 2025, from 3.7% today.
– Friday briefing: What the interest rate spike means for the country – and for…
In 2022, the UK is experiencing [[drought]]s and [[water shortage]]s.
There has been low rainfall. [[Water privatisation]] in the 1980s has led to a lack of investment in the infrastructure of the [[water supply system]] (e.g. reservoirs and pipes), meaning that we don’t collect enough and we leak away a huge amount.
“Whilst it is not unusual to have periods of low rainfall, we have seen an extended period of below average rainfall, particularly in the south-east of England where it was the third driest November to July on record (from 1836). Far from being relieved, the dry conditions intensified in July, with less than 10% of the usual July rainfall recorded across much of the south-east of England (Anglian, Thames and Southern regions each saw their driest July on record, from 1836). The situation has continued into August, with south-east England receiving no rainfall so far this month.”
– UK braced for drought conditions to last until October | UK weather | The Gua…
No substantial reservoir has been constructed in England since the Kielder Water dam was built in 1981. Thus, our capacity to store fresh water has remained static as demand for it has risen steadily with the growth of the population.
– [[The Observer view on the woeful state of England’s water industry]]
An early impact of climate change has meant that the period 2011-2020 was 9% wetter, in terms of rainfall, than the period 1961-1990. So there is no shortage of water we can collect. Unfortunately, it seems we just lack the urge to do so.
– [[The Observer view on the woeful state of England’s water industry]]
3 billion litres lost daily
For the whole of England and Wales, the daily loss – from leaks and other losses – from all of the two nations’ main water companies is 3bn litres of water, a fifth of their total supply.
– [[The Observer view on the woeful state of England’s water industry]]
[[Water privatisation]], essentially.
Even worse, analyses indicate that, while water bills in England have risen noticeably over the past three decades, spending on improved infrastructure by water companies has, at best, flatlined or declined, depending on how you break down the figures. Hence the intensity of our current drought, it is argued.
– [[The Observer view on the woeful state of England’s water industry]]
At the same time, huge dividends have been paid out to water company shareholders while their chief executives have been generously rewarded for their work.
– [[The Observer view on the woeful state of England’s water industry]]
These company chiefs have been the main beneficiaries of the privatisation of England’s water companies, which was imposed by the Conservative government in 1989.
– [[The Observer view on the woeful state of England’s water industry]]
First, it has forced us to pump ever more water from groundwater sources. This has stressed aquifers, lowered the water table in many areas and threatened chalk streams. This last hazard is particularly vexing because chalk streams are some of the planet’s rarest habitats – and the vast majority are in England.
– [[The Observer view on the woeful state of England’s water industry]]
Water companies are asking citizens to reduce their water usage to alleviate the water shortages.
Started skim reading (ironically?) [[How To Take Smart Notes]].
Joined the [[Bonfire]] playground but haven’t got time to do much on there at the mo. But I really love the mission they have around social media so following with great interest.
Reading a bit on [[Antonio Gramsci]] apropos [[site of struggle]].
[[Patrice Lumumba]]
Watching: [[Don’t Look Up]]
I like Iain M. Banks and I’m currently re-reading [[Look to Windward]] because in [[Red Plenty]] it was described it as an example of a 20th century [[Marxian idyll]]. It’s good and all but I’m reading the [[Culture]] now as kind of all premised on [[Prometheanism]] / [[fully automated luxury communism]]. I’m gonna reread [[A Wizard of Earthsea]] (last read as a young teen!) by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] next as in [[Half-Earth Socialism]] they describe that as [[Jennerite ecological scepticism]] and that is more my bag lately.
I feel happy discovering more and more as I get older that sci-fi books I took off my Mum’s bookshelf as a kid are in fact often allegorical for some kind of radical politics that I had no idea of at the time.
[[Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World]]
Listened: [[Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, "Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power"]]
Listened: [[Richard Seymour, "The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism"]]
[[Adding more storage space to YunoHost / NextCloud on Hetzner]]
Read: [[For a Red Zoopolis]]
I have oscillatory waves of activity on my garden.
Chat with Flancian
Listened: [[Matt Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"]]
Seem to have mostly consumed things about socialism and ecology.
Plus Borish Johnson resigned - now wondering who will be least worse for the environment (as well as everything else) from the leadership contenders.
[[Technics]]
Listened: [[Turning the Earth into Money w/ John Bellamy Foster]]
[[carbon footprint]] is bunk
Environmentalism is presently primarily the preserve of the [[professional-managerial class]]. It needs to be inherently valuable to the [[working class]].
Decarbonise electricity, then electrify everything.
[[Climate sadism]]
[[Free association of producers]] is a goal of socialism/communism.
[[Net zero policies would reduce the cost of living]]. That’s an incredibly important line of enquiry to pursue. Talk of [[degrowth]] isn’t appealing if you’re already on the breadline.
‘The cost of living’ is a wretched phrase.
Reading: [[Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development]]
[[Boris Johnson]] is going. This is good. ([[Boris Johnson is a liar]] etc).
[[Steve Baker]] is in the news. This is not good.
Listened: [[Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism"]]
Just a summary. Click the links to find out more on each one.
tl;dr: more eco-socialism. Watching things and trying to get more out of them by thinking about them critically. Some emacs faffing. Much more happened of course, but I don’t tend to write much about work or my private life here in my digital garden.
[[Open Referral]] has been adopted as a UK standard.
[[Open Green Map]]
Watched: [[Cloud Atlas]].
Oh yeah, a couple of days back we watched [[Wonder Woman]].
I did my first [[parkrun]] in about 2.5 years yesterday. I got a new personal worst, but still pleased to be doing it again…
We visited [[Walney Island]].
We’ve watched [[The Good Place]], WandaVision, [[Loki]], [[The Falcon and the Winter Soldier]], and [[Hawkeye]] over the last few months. Also watching [[Ms. Marvel]] as the episodes come out. All Marvel ones, apart from The Good Place. All pretty decent and worth a watch. Some of the Marvel ones even have a bit of social commentary in them.
Reading: [[Technology of the Oppressed]]
So cool that [[KeePassXC]] comes with a CLI! Makes sense but I hadn’t realised. That is very handy for me.
Listened: [[The Uber files: the unicorn]]
[[Growth]].
What the system has done, as a mechanism to continue with growth at all costs, is actually to burn the future. And the future is the least renewable resource. There is no way that we can reuse the time we had when we started this conversation. And by building up a system which is more debt-driven—where we keep consumption going, but by creating more and more debt—what we’re actually doing is burning or stealing the time of people in the future. Because their time will be devoted to repaying the debt
– The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization's Collapse | WIRED (h/t Doug Belshaw)
Reading: [[A Wizard of Earthsea]]
The [[Half-Earth Socialism]] authors really don’t like [[geoengineering]], particularly [[solar radiation management]].
Did the [[parkrun]] again. A bit faster than last week; stopped less times.
tl;dr: A bit of action around [[systems thinking]], primarily as it relates to the [[environment]] and [[climate crisis]].
Listening: [[Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning]]
The [[biosphere]] is just one part of the Earth’s [[climate system]].
I’ve not had so much time for the stream of late. Most stuff is going in the garden. Of course, changes to the garden are a stream of themselves. I just mean I haven’t been posting much to the social media streams, where others can more easily discover and interact with it.
Bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
Yesterday we watched:
[[ProtonMail Android app takes a long time to load messages]]
Started [[Nature matters: systems thinking and experts]]
What actually is a [[system]]?
[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]. [[System change]]
If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves… . There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
[[Energy storage]] and [[grid balancing]].
The [[Iceberg Model]]
The [[water cycle]] is a complex system.
Listened: [[Cuba’s Life Task]]
[[Conversations with Gamechangers]] is pretty awesome lineup.
Did the [[parkrun]].
Read: [[David Bollier, P2P Models interview on digital commons]]
Read: [[A Syrian democratic social economy in the making]]