• [[silverbullet]]:
  • should open the daily on startup?
  • [[go/daily]] achieves this for me for now ;) e.g. [[go/daily]] or just use the embed in anagora.org/daily.

• going over "old" (and new) notebooks, trying to make sense of the hugely distributed task list they imply :)
  • happy to see that a lot actually happened in the last 1-2 quarters!
  • I’m thinking this could be a nice ‘tradition’ to reinforce on the [[17ths]], being [[Maitreya day]] ;)
• [[do]]:
  • [[numbers]] pull all number-related actions, e.g. [[557]] (example comes from a notebook) pulls [[hex/557]], [[prime/557]] and any others we have in the future.
  • [[today]] should probably pull today’s date instead of redirecting? maybe!
  • next steps on [[activitypub]]
  • define [[equivalence classes]] in the Agora; right now they’re implicit and a bit of a mess?
  • [[oauth]] is mentioned so often in my todos that I wonder how it is I actually haven’t even started on it!
    • I think at some point I wanted to do these flows through [[agora bridge]] instead of [[agora server]]?
    • But that might have been a mistake/complicating stuff needlessly?
  • [[open letters]] show up profusely in the last 1.5 years, yet I have not properly published a single one since (except by default in the Agora, like pretty much everything I write that is not work related)
    • [[Building Bridges]]
    • [[Beyond Markdown and Git]]
    • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Agora]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Sangha]]
  • develop [[whisper]] as an action (?)
• "[[Flancia]] is a [[Pattern Language]], the [[Agora]] is a [[Pattern Repository]]" — from a notebook.

2024-05-17

• Read: [[Critique of techno-feudal reason]]

  • Well, sort of read it - actually half listened to it via Wallabag while taking the bubba out for an early walk.
  • Dense and erudite, as you expect from Morozov.
  • Didn’t follow half of it this first time around to be honest, but I take away the basic message that he’s critical of the general idea of [[techno-feudalism]].

• [[There is no capitalism without colonialism]].

• [[work]]
• [[ssc]]

• [[True Names]] == [[343]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]]
  • Which I guess can now be said to contain at least 343 patterns :)
  • [[7^3]] calculated mentally (it might be wrong for all I know!)

• [[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]].

• Another [[day]], another [[node]].
  • Or more than one :)
  • I definitely need to work on editing though! On doing more of the actual curation and maintenance of an actual [[digital garden]].
  • In the meantime, thanks for making do with all the rough edges ;)
• Resuming [[Agora development]]:
  • I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
    • -> done, or at least started :)
  • I did some [[verschlimmbessern]] on the index to the [[Agora]] on the flight to the US that I never quite pushed — and better that way :) it needs ‘cherrypicking’ to put it mildly. It suffered a lot in directness.
  • Also added support for [[silverbullet]] style [[attachments]].
• [[social.coop]]:
  • No [[twg]] meeting this week, will try to continue working on onboarding [[evan]] to the group.
  • I "installed" alpha.social.coop using [[coop cloud]] but it’s not up yet.
  • [[upkeep]]:
    • You could call it [[life]] ;)
    • [[nostromo]] was getting broken enough that I decided to update Ubuntu to the latest release to unbreak [[wayland]] and some sites in [[chromium]]. It had been long in the making, it’s a bit like house cleaning, it can be relaxing after work :)
    • I tried taking the occasion to also [[garbage collect]] tabs/try some new organizational principles in [[paramita]], [[guanyin]] and [[sariputta]].
• [[GPT 4o]] was released yesterday and I got access.
  • Impressive.
  • But it failed to analyze a video I attached on desktop meaningfully though.

• Noding from a new computer — [[Guanyin]] :)
  • Now back in [[Nostromo]] after work
• Thought of [[17]], and explored 17 musically as [[13 + 4]] (today it’s the 13th) and [[7 + 10]].
• [[digital capitalism]]
• [[yoga with x]]
• I found two notebooks that I had misplaced, or that had anyhow gotten out of my working context. It felt great, in particular one that I call [[25]].
• [[flaming lips]]:
  • [[summertime]]

• It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!

• Trying [[attachments]].
• [[AG]]
• [[Stapelberg]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[17]]
• [[scc]]

2024-05-13

• [[Listened]]: [[Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism]]

• Using both [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] these days, will make a case of checking out how anagora.org renders this and consider improvements
• [[AMITAFO]]

I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.

After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)

• Started the day with [[AG]] in the [[balcony]] :)
  • We managed to also do a mini bike tour before she went to the [[Mothers Day]] festivities :)
• Now thinking of:
  • [[patterns]]
    • as per usual you could say :)
  • [[patents]] (don’t worry, more in the abstract than anything :)
    • relevant to [[digital capitalism]] surely
  • [[visions]]
  • [[true names]]
• I got a small book by Meister [[Yaw Hwa Chin]] in the Chinese supermarket, I want to check them out.
  • it’s titled [[The wisdom, philosophy and education of Buddha and Chinese]]
  • He writes [[AMITOFO]] just before signing; it turns out it’s the Chinese spelling of [[Amitabha]] ~ [[Amitayus]].

2024-05-12

• After a long hiatus, low-key writing [[Reclaim the Stacks: reflections, May 2024]].

• Reading [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue]]

• [[flancia meet]]:
  • [[bouncepaw]]
    • [[pipepunk]] and its evolution
    • [[zine]]

• [[2024-05-10]]
  • I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
  • Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]’

• [[flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] was great!

2024-05-11

• [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • I finished Week 1.
  • (Mostly - not had chance to go through all the further materials yet.)

• Cycled to [[Greifensee]] with [[AG]], it was a beautiful day!
• In the evening we saw [[Episode V]]

• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[Fix the Agora]] :)
  • Make the open letter readable
  • test and iterate on fixes! :)
• [[gone]]

• Back in [[Silverbullet]] on my new work laptop, named after [[Guanyin]].
• Thought about [[Open Letters]] and [[Right Intention]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]]
• [[xkcd machine]]:
  • a [[game]]
  • https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
  • #go https://xkcd.com/2916/
  • uses [[rapier]]:
    • a [[physics engine]]
    • #go https://rapier.rs/
• Working to fix [[agor.ai]]
  • [[hypatia]] ran out of disk at some point and this can really break [[coop cloud]], it seems!

• Back here at [[11pm]]!
  • The work day was long (with a gap in the middle) and interesting :)
  • Now doing yoga and thinking.
• [[mexico city]]
• [[AG]]
• [[L]]
• [[Lady Burup]]

• This May I’m trying to get back into writing in [[node club]] — enjoying it so far!
  • This month the default topic is [[digital capitalism]] :)
• I [[meditated]] — I do not usually mention that I meditate 10 minutes in the morning but I do — and it makes a great difference to pretty much any day in my experience/according to my perceptions!
• I [[worked]]
• Then I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
  • [[AG]]
  • my friends in general!
  • [[light]]
  • [[entanglement]]
  • [[magnetism]]
  • [[open letters]]
  • [[open source]]
• I found out today that [[Hannu Rajaniemi]] is Finnish, not "south asian" (?) as I initially thought :)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi pull born 1978.
• I listened to [[flow state]].

Not necessarily in that order :)

I like [[silver bullet]] but I come back to [[wiki vim]] because it’s on the terminal and that’s where I sometimes want to write.

I like [[senegal town]].

Also: [[mexico city]], [[paris]] :)

• [[BLDGBLOG]]
• Now I’m back in [[silverbullet]]. I’m unsure if I want to unify the journal or not. Probably yes? But I’m curious about e.g. Journal/Month/2024-05 if that exists :)
• [[digital capitalism]]:
  • did a pass over [[Open Letter to Google]], maybe it’s more readable up to… a few paragraphs in? :)
  • I think it is starting to take shape.

• I wonder what a [[quick note]] is meant to be used for in [[silverbullet]] :)

• Back in [[silverbullet]], now using it as a ‘web app’ — meaning after pressing ‘install’ on chromium while visiting edit.anagora.org :) - For now edit.anagora.org only works for this [[flancian]], but I hope soon enough I will be able to offer it to the community.
  • Intend I intend to keep using [[wiki vim]] though, as I value having a terminal client for writing in the Agora - Experimented with a bluetooth keyboard on mobile as a way of having more fluid Agora editing on the go.
  • Tried [[silverbullet]] in firefox mobile and vim mode didn’t quite work :)
  • Also my hardware keyboard is set up to have esc go to the android home screen, which does not go well with vim mode ;)
    • Update: realized I can set the keyboard to [[windows mode]] and it will disable most of what I consider intrusive functionality :)
  • Still the prospect of having a fully featured Agora editor on mobile is thrilling!
• [[agora discuss]]: [[neil]] suggested [[web mentions]] as the ground level on which to build [[agora likes]].
  • I agree it’s an interesting approach; it seems complementary to [[activity pub]] support which I’ve already started working on, inspired by [[bouncepaw]]‘s work on [[betula]].
  • The basic abstraction might be: the Agora publishes, and produces, feeds of social activity in different formats. Their states influence UI elements like emoji reactions and a log of activity.
• A few hours later…
  • [[Winti Tap Jam]]:
    • I’m in [[Winterthur]] in a [[tap dance]] event, against my expectations enjoying it quite a bit! The [[jazz band]] is great, and I didn’t know people could dance like this while interacting with an improvising band. It’s really quite cool.
    • With [[AG]] and [[Nushya]]!
• Really enjoying [[noding from mobile]] quite a bit, it encourages [[live noding]].
• [[open letters]]

2024-05-04

• Read through some of the materials from week 1 of [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
  • What is [[digital capitalism]]?

• [[work]] was fine actually! I finished the weekly todo list I believe to good standard. People at work are great!
  • I keep thinking about the [[python team]] and others of course.
• [[social coop]]:
  • [[cwg]] meeting, it’s great working with both old and new members.
  • discussed onboarding, oncall and [[twg]].
• [[node club]]:
  • [[digital capitalism]]
  • [[cannabis]]
• [[Open Letter to Google]]:
  • read, and [[annotated]], [[the man who killed google search]]
• [[open letter to the Agora]];
  • [[Maitreya]] is the (default) greater warden of the [[Agora of Flancia]]
    • and what this means, in [[node club]] through this [[International Workers Month]] of [[May 2024]] :)
• thinking of [[AG]]

2024-05-03

• I finally managed to start (just as it’s finishing!) the [[Digital Capitalism online course]] from the [[Transnational Institute]].

  • "6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world"
  • The first week of which is titled ‘What is digital capitalism?’
  • I’m most looking forward to week 6 - titled ‘What’s the alternative? The digital world we want to live in’

• And the [[tripleC]] special issue on digital capitalism just came out.

  • [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]].

• Apropos of the above, for [[node club]] (AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]) I’m going to write about [[digital capitalism]].

• Trying [[Obsidian]] after a looong time — after remembering, and then trying on a lark, [[Roam Research]] again :)
  • I also tried [[logseq]] but it did a mega-commit automatically on my garden which almost broke it, not super happy about that (it tried to commit and push a 101MB file that is a database for [[silverbullet]] and probably, granted, should have been in .gitignore).

• Happy [[International Workers Day]]!
  • The last year flew by in some ways :) I remember attending the festivities/events in Zürich yesterday. Looking forward to doing the same today, at least a few hours.
• I got into [[biking]] again and I’m enjoying it tremendously :)
  • We may bike tomorrow with [[AG]].
• I also plan to catch up with [[Berni]]. I have been catching up with friends finally after a hiatus due to [[work]] + [[travel]] and I’m looking forward to the VC!
• [[doxometrist]] told me about [[netwik-obsidian]] as being in [[agora space]]
• [[j0lms]] had good news!
• [[l]] had good news! and we had an interesting conversation
• [[Brunello]], the father of a friend of mine, died last week at [[90]]. I knew him and he seemed like a good and sensitive person. I lighted a candle for him/his memory.
• [[Agora]]!
  • [[Agora development]]:
    • Fixed images, they were broken in prod due to a logger misconfiguration — thank you [[neil]] for reporting!
    • Made some progress towards fixing git.agor.ai — [[hypatia]] got into some weird state after running out of disk.
    • Reached out to [[protopian]] to try to unbreak his garden :)

• [[eminems]]

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

2024-04-28

• [[Ecology]]

  • [[Keystone species]]

• I should put more images in my garden.

  • I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.

• Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].

  • National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
  • Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
  • Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.

• Read [[Palestine speaks for everyone]]

• Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
• Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
• I thought about [[telling stories]].
• [[Google]]:
  • [[Letter from the Founders]]
  • [[2004 update]]
  • [[2019 update]]

2024-04-27

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• [[Digital weeding and watering]]

  • Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
  • This has been very useful already.
  • I’ve found:
    • pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
    • duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
    • pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
    • mistakenly created pages
  • And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.

• I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.

  • [[The Mechanic and the Luddite]]

• [[Repairing a Dell Latitude E7450]]

2024-04-26

2024-04-23

• Read: [[What a waste: our study shows almost half of electricals sent for recycling could be reused]]
  • [[The Restart Project]] set up in a Household Waste Recycling Centre (in Brent, London).
  • Assessed the reusability of products being brought in for recycling.
  • Shocking results: almost 50% could have an easy second life (either fully functional as is, or in need of only minor repair).
  • There needs to be less focus on recycling, and much more on reuse and repair.
  • Filtering and diverting initiatives should be mandatory.

2024-04-22

• [[Listened]] to [[There’s hope yet for UK waste and repair policy, with Green Alliance]]

2024-04-21

• Soccer96 - I was gonna fight fascism

• [[Listened]] to [[Seto Kaiba is My Role Model]]

2024-04-20

• Changes in the [[forces of production]] come into conflict with the [[relations of production]].

  • The infinite replicability of digital assets is in conflict with the wishes of corporations who profit from artificial scarcity.
  • From memory, I think Paul Mason discusses this in Post Capitalism.
  • Also the phrase [[What is possible in the information age is in direct conflict with what is permissible]] from [[the Telekommunist Manifesto]] comes to mind.

• [[Listened]] to [[The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield]]

• [[Listened]] to [[How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe]]

2024-04-19

• [[Replacing Google Fonts usage with locally-served font]]

  • [[What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?]]

• It could be time for a new season of [[Node Club]]…

  • AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]

• I should back up my Doom config on Termux.

  • Given I’ve spent enough time configuring it now that it would be a pain to have to redo it.
  • [[Backing up my Doom Emacs config on Termux]].

• Flying to the [[US]]!
  • Not staying super long, but I’m attending a wedding and visiting a few museums I’ve never visited before.
  • I slept badly tonight, and the day before, due to different reasons — the first night it was due to trip prep, the second it was due to a (surprise, as usual) allergy attack that kept me up/very uncomfortable until late. Happy to have made it to the flight only looking slightly like a cat (because of how my eyes swell, I get a bit of a feline look for hours-days after an attack).
  • Listening to [[Lex Fridman]] with [[Jimbo Wales]] on topics like the history of wikipedia. Very interesting as most Lex conversations I’ve heard as of late!
• [[Agora]]:
  • I’m back in the Agora, finally :) I took a more prolonged break from journaling as I moved with [[Lady Burup]] temporarily to [[AG]]‘s place (she is very kind!) and I adapted my routine to that space; also I’ve been busy at work and with other projects.
  • Thank you [[neil]] for keeping the journaling section of the Agora alive and interesting!
  • I reworked a bit the Agora’s [[README.md]], which is what is rendered at the Agora root URL — e.g. https://anagora.org pull. Hopefully it’s more cogent and informative without being overwhelming. But you tell me :)
  • [[Agora Development]]:
    • Fix local dev environment which is now sending https to itself even though it’s http only due to bug in agora.py:56 :).
• [[Flancia]]:
  • I thought back a bit about the history of Flancia while I was rewriting the above. It’s been running for a number of years at this stage!
  • Maybe I should write a belated update in https://flancia.org pull proper.
    • Include a reference to the [[flancia meet]] landing page.
    • Include a TLDR on what the Agora now is/how it developed through the years/where do we want to go next.
    • Maybe take the opportunity to have some extra fun and write something more clearly fictional again :)

2024-04-18

• I [[listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]].

  • It’s a good episode.
  • I like [[Kai Heron]], and I’ve found the debate between various strands of [[ecosocialist]] thought very interesting.
  • But I also lament the time spent disagreeing amongst ourselves on the left.
  • Is it ultimately useful? What if all this intellectual effort could be spent on bringing about a transition away from capitalism, and towards ecosocialism?
  • I don’t know - perhaps the debate is contributing to that transition, in part, in a roundabout. And I suppose that if we don’t know what we stand for, we can’t meaningfully work towards it.
  • But still. It has vibes of [[The People’s Front of Judea]] vs the Judean People’s Front.
  • Not got to the end yet, so perhaps this will be covered…

• Listened to [[Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)]]

2024-04-17

• [[Listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]]

• [[Listened]] to [[Is the Middle East on the brink?]]

2024-04-16

• [[Shells]].

  • Bash vs Fish vs Zsh vs Nushell? | Lobsters

• Listened to [[Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”]]

  • About Israel’s AI targeting system, "[[Lavender]]".

• Read: [[Emacs: Dead and Loving It]]

  • "What is dead cannot die"
  • [[Emacs]]

• Working on some improvements to the look and feel of my writing mode that I use when in org-roam.for Emacs.

  • [[Improving my Emacs writing mode]]

• [[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]]

• In [[Flancia Meet]] with [[bouncepaw]].
• Started the day in [[AG]]‘s place with her and [[Lady Burup]], it was beautiful :)

2024-04-14

• Listened to [[New Economics Podcast: Should we be going for growth?]]

  • Good discussion.
  • Growth. GDP . Degrowth. Green growth. Decoupling. Doughnut economics. Policies for alternatives to growth. Growthism. Growth is structurally baked in - how to change that?

• [[Listened]] to [[Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism]]

  • LLMs. AGI. Political economy of AI. Neo-Luddism. [[Left spirituality]]. Fun wide ranging discussion.

• [[Habitat loss]].

  • One of the most significant threats to [[biodiversity]].

• [[Film theory]] looks at films and the effect they have on society.

  • I find this really interesting so learning a little on it via Kinnu.

2024-04-13