2025-07-03
- [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
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.
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.
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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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 [[frΓ©dΓ©ric 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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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.
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
- Happy!
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?
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And I’m back!
- Says the person who keeps going away :)
- But I come back happily.
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Some days I dedicate very few cycles to the [[Agora]]. Instead I tend to focus on: work, family, friends and thoughts.
- That’s alright! Or more than alright actually.
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To the [[readers of the future]] I say:
- Thank you for being here!
- Please excuse any bumps in the ride :)
As I we pass mid-June I am:
- Thinking of the women in my life
- Enjoying the visit of my mum!
- Enjoying life in general.
I now intend to:
- Take out the remaining paper for recycling.
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Fix Agora bugs!
- Marginalia -> Google as the marginalia.nu iframe has issues
- Maybe a [[scroll to bottom]] button, keep it simple :)
2025-06-16
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I should read more about [[Permacomputing]].
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[[Bookmarked]]:
2025-06-15
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[[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.
2025-06-14
2025-06-13
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I’ve been naughty and haven’t upgraded to a new major version of Linux Mint for a while.
- I’m on 20.3. Support expired April 2025. Latest version is 22.
- Apparently you can’t go directly between the 2.
- You need to go 20.3 -> 21, 21 -> 21.3, 21.3 -> 22.
- Yeesh. I can imagine this being quite a faff.
- [[Upgrading Linux Mint 20.3 to 22]].
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I met [[P]] when I was in California, it was great!
- We shook hands on friendship and I’ll mean that forever.
- We might also not talk more any further and that is also OK. I am grateful for having met her.
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I wish you the best! That goes for [[P]] and for you, reader:
- May you be free!
- May you be happy!
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I met [[Teodora]] today through my great friend [[Pesho]], it was also great!
- We walked home (we live in the same town) taking [[Covid]] precautions because I was to an outdoor party where the host tested positive.
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It was [[AG]]‘s birthday and I loved it!
- It was great seeing her after the long trip.
- And meeting her friends and family again!
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Watched A.I. is a Religious Cult
- Reminded of [[timnit gebru]] and the TESCREAL argument
- These are largely absent in places like China, another major player in AI
- Techno-dystopian visions vs. pragmatic and regulatory ones [[?]]
- There was a comparison between the civilizing mission and the superintelligence race
2025-06-10
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What happens to Zettelkasten, digital gardens, etc, with the advent of generative AI and agentic AI?
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1jmqukl/my_thoughts_on_ai_in_zettelkasten_lets_not_turn/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1jhsdc0/zettelkasten_and_ai/
- A-Mem: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents
- Enhancing Knowledge Management: The Intersection of AI, Zettelkasten, and theβ¦
- AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system | Hacker News
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/18qkrad/zettelkasten_with_potentially_support_from_ai/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1ktxacc/has_ai_killed_the_zettelkasten/
- Reflecting that for almost everything in my life (work, hobbies, my family) I have to consider "How will it be affected by AI?". Whether I want to or not.
2025-06-09
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I started using the Scatter command in org’s agenda.
- Finding it oddly pleasing, more so than just bulk scheduling things to a few days from now.
- "Reschedule randomly into the coming N days. N is prompted for. With a prefix argument (C-u B S), scatter only across weekdays." https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Commands.html
2025-06-08
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Some interesting tidbits from a couple of interviews with [[Bob Doto]]:
- Each main note, for Doto, he has max 4 other main notes it links out to.
- He says you can have a zettelkasten of 300 main notes and you’ll have enough for writing and connections for 10/15 years.
- People get stressed out over whether they’re doing it right. But the most important thing about a system is simply that it works for you for whatever you want it to do.
- His rubric for creating zettels: do I want it to interact with other ideas, and am I possibly going to write about it.
2025-06-07
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Enjoying the slow pace of my hand-curated RSS subscriptions.
- Following [[Ton’s way of organising feeds]].
- Once I get to the end (of a very short list), I get to articles I’ve saved for later.
- I rarely get drawn in to any doom scrolling.
- [[Participate in social media on your own terms]].
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Reading [[A System for Writing]], and learning about [[orgrr]], has gotten me to try [[Folgezettel]].
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I’m currently experimenting with [[running org-roam and orgrr side-by-side]].
2025-06-06
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[[Capture ideas you disagree with]].
- Says Bob Doto in [[A System for Writing]].
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[[Listened]]: [[Is AI about to steal your job?]]
- [[Agentic AI]] and the Anthropic guy with his [[white collar bloodbath]] prediction.
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Worked on [[voidmacs]]
- Critical support for LaTeX
- Found the hilarious package syntactic-sugar.el
- Thinking about the recent travel restriction
2025-06-05
- The upcoming [[Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI]] from [[Nick Srnicek]] is going to be a banger I’m sure.
2025-06-03
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Started using org-transclusion at work for making a status page of all the various projects I’m working on.
- Very nifty so far.
- Couple of bugs encountered, one pretty wild, but not a total showstopper.
2025-06-02
2025-06-01
- Read: [[The Case for Digital Degrowth]]
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The #revolution started today!
- Like every day :)
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I think [[ActivityPub]] is actually rather important; the Agora should publish (before it does anything else) nodes
- (as users? or too confusing? hmm)
- We will do the revolution together, my [[friend]], if you want to.
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The 31st of any month is [[Las Jaras]]!
- (In the [[Flancia Pattern language]] and the associated calendar..)
Llevo en mi [[carcaj]]: [[las jaras]] Las Jaras, quΓ© jaras? Las de Avalokiteshvara!
2025-05-31
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[[Capitalism tends towards the commodification of everything]].
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Jammed: Pretty in Plums by Shida Shahabi
2025-05-30
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Read: [[Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism]]
- [[The desire for new things is essential to the continuation of the capitalist system]].
- [[Commodity fetishism disconnects us from where objects come from]].
- [[Repair reconnects us to the materiality of objects]].
- [[When we repair something, we think about its history and provenance]].
- [[Repair undercuts commodity fetishism]].
- [[Repair is anti-capitalist praxis]].
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Bookmarked:
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Fixing as Repair β Fixing Futures
- tags: [[Repair]].
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Fixing as Repair β Fixing Futures
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[[compost.party]] is fun.
- A website running on solar power on an old phone.
2025-05-29
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism
- h/t: [[Panda]].
- tags: [[Repair]]. [[Marxism]]. [[Commodity fetishism]].
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Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
- tags: [[AI]].
- Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth
- The Home Office’s new "ChatGPT-style" LLM tool is riddled with mistakes that could mean life or death for people seeking asylum - Foxglove
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Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
- tags: [[Capitalism]]. [[Democracy]].
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OpenAI explores platform to rival X, following $40B funding round
- tags: [[Platform capitalism]].
- See the point from Nick Srnicek about platforms all converging towards each otherβ¦
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International Civil Society’s Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger
- tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Reclaim the stacks]].
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Criminal Court: Microsoft’s email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty
- tags: [[Microsoft]]. [[Digital sovereignty]].
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Negatechnology | POST GROWTH TOOLKIT
- h/t [[Panda]].
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We did the math on AIβs energy footprint. Hereβs the story you havenβt heardβ¦.
- tags: [[AI]].
- Livin’ on repair: The workshops, garages and cafes of Berlin’s thriving DIY sβ¦
- Apple launches Self Service Repair for iPad, expands repair programs - Apple
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Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism