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On [[2025-07-09]]
- Internet restored!
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Downtime made me go through a couple of books and half a dozen podcasts
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Of note is The work of David Lynch
- Belated listen given his passing in January
- Makes me want to rewatch both old [[dune]] and [[twin peaks]]
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Also this1 passage from [[jay rubin]] in [[making sense of japanese]]
- Regarding the active vs. passive voice in the Hiroshima monument inscription
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Strange book when it comes to translation/language learning
- The focus is on how to approach things that are difficult/impossible to translate
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Of note is The work of David Lynch
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Yasuraka ni nemutte kudasai. Ayamachi wa kurikaeshimasenu kara. / โRest in peace, for X will not repeat the mistake.โ This has been rendered, โRest in peace, for the mistake will not be repeated,โ which is far less problematical than the original. โWho will not repeat the mistake?โ people wanted to know when the monument was unveiled. โAnd who made the mistake in the first placeโthe Americans when they dropped the bomb, or the Japanese when they started the war?โ The transitive Japanese verb in the active voice calls for a subjectโa responsible actor. The passivized translation makes far less stringent demands. With its unnamed subject, the Japanese sentence seems discreetly to avoid placing the blame on anyone, but it is far more thought-provoking than the English translation would suggest, for the inescapable conclusion to the unavoidable search for a subject is โwe.โ↩
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On [[2025-07-05]]
2025-07-05
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I was getting this error:
- Before-save hook error: (wrong-type-argument org-roam-node nil)
- Narrowed it down to when orgrr adds a #+zettel property to the file, it does it before all other properties, and org-roam doesn’t seem to like that.
- I like the look of Jeff Brown’s [[skg]] (Share Knowledge Graphs) project.
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On [[2025-07-04]]
2025-07-04
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- [[Strike Debt]] campaign. [[Rolling Jubilee]].
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Private AI companies profiting off the back of public infrastructure and the commons with no return is not surprising.
- Exploiting commonly owned resources for personal gain is what capitalists have done throughout history.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
- Atmospheric Colonisation and Ecological Imperialism in the World System
- Mark Carney caves to Trump and the tech industry
- Tell the EU: Keep AI within Planetary Boundaries - Green Web Foundation
- Protect Yourself From Metaโs Latest Attack on Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- In Search of a Democratic Eco-Socialist Politics | SpringerLink
- Why should the US decide who can have certain tech?
- Alien | Typeset In The Future
- A Sense of Rebellion
- Excellent! Denmark Set to Replace Microsoft Office with Open Source Alternative
- Wow! German State Ditches Microsoft for Open-Source Software
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On [[2025-07-03]]
2025-07-03
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger referenced favourably.
- Debt is one of the key drivers of individualisation.
- Anti-debt movements, cancellation of student debt, credit card debt.
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On [[2025-06-30]]
2025-06-30
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- To become an indebted person under advanced capitalism is to lose the ability to act collectively with others for democratic goals.
- Student debt changed the logic of education from something communistic to something mercenary and transactional.
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On [[2025-06-29]]
2025-06-29
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[[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
- [[Debt: The First 5,000 Years]] by [[David Graeber]].
- [[Everyday communism]]. Sociality.
- Very little in everyday life operates like a market.
- Even the internals of corporations don’t operate like markets.
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On [[2025-06-25]]
2025-06-25
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Trying to figure out why a pair of Bluetooth headphones was suddenly, randomly, no longer pairing correctly to a laptop running under [[Windows 11]], and I am genuinely surprised how bad the experience is.
- Useless error messages. Multiple interfaces to the same operation, unclear why to use one over the other. Different visuals for different config dialogs. Arcane dialogs and squirrelled away options.
- This for a device that was clearly built to work on Windows.
- The trope that [[Linux]] has a bad user experience vs Windows does not seem accurate.
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On [[2025-06-24]]
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Reading [[essays-on-suffering-focused-ethics]]
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Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I’ve actually found them to be the opposite
- Classical utilitarianism is a lot less intuitive!
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Seems like there are parallels with [[buddhism]]
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[[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as nihilistic
- What of the attainment of [[nirodha]]?
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How helpful is it to talk about [[repugnant conclusions]] in the first place?
- [[slippery slope]]
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[[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as nihilistic
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Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I’ve actually found them to be the opposite
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Also reading [[frรฉdรฉric bastiat]]
- Likely the inventor of the now ubiquitous popular economics journalism
- [[broken window fallacy]] [[opportunity costs]]
2025-06-24
- Managed another run. Doing the couch to 5k.
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On [[2025-06-23]]
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The weekend was chill and great!
- Mostly spent time with my mum who is visiting and Lady Burup.
- We went to the river on Sunday as it was very warm (with my mum, not Lady Burup). It was very beautiful.
- I am talking to someone very interesting and that makes my whole life a bit better as well.
2025-06-23
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Watched: [[The AI Crisis We’re Ignoring]]
- Seems pretty well-researched. I like this guy’s videos in general - he’s an ecosocialist.
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On [[2025-06-22]]
2025-06-22
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First jog with the buggy. Not an unqualified success, but good to have done it.
- It’s really hard to steer in jogging mode. Like playing as Bowser after getting used to Toad.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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People vs. Big Tech
- tags: [[Big Tech]].
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People vs. Big Tech
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On [[2025-06-21]]
- Happy!
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On [[2025-06-20]]
2025-06-20
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I’m enjoying using [[orgrr]] for adding [[Folgezettel]] ids to (main) notes.
- For exactly the reasons outlined by [[Bob Doto]] in [[A System for Writing]] (i.e. [[Folgezettel makes you consider your new notes more carefully]]).
- I wish I could use some of orgrr’s other features, but I think they are mostly predicated on the existence of file links rather than id links.
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[[org-node]] looks neat and an improvement over org-roam in many ways.
- I haven’t tried it though, as the feature list described ‘separate note piles’ as a won’t fix.
- Assuming ‘separate note piles’ means different knowledge bases for different purposes, which I guess it does, then I rely on separate note piles quite heavily.
- But then - things like this: https://github.com/meedstrom/org-node/issues/92 and this https://github.com/meedstrom/org-mem/blob/cf3ae8a90d11381910530a7d7ef00883d6b20850/org-mem.el#L85 make it look possible?