2024-12-19

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • Starmer urged to change donation rules amid talk of Musk bankrolling Reform |…
    • [[Elon Musk]]. [[Reform UK]].
    • Oh hell.

2024-12-16

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • Supernote’s new E Ink tablet is upgradeable and repairable - The Verge

• 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]].

2024-12-14

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • New UK data centres could have a devastating impact on our environment, and o…
    • [[data centre]]
  • Library of Things Toolkit - Shareable
    • [[Library of things]].

• I’m writing this on my way to [[Japan]] ([[Fukuoka]]) from [[Honolulu]] :)
  • I just finished [[Story of your life]] and other stories by [[Ted Chiang]], I liked it a lot. I don’t know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
  • Some related concepts/topics:
    • [[Fermat’s Principle of Least Time]]
    • [[The Castle of the Pyrenees]] by [[Magritte]]
  • He likes [[Borges]] (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his [[Golem]] related story, but there’s such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective [[Borgesian]] (IIRC) once.
• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[agora bot migration]]:
    • The current [[agora bot]] for Mastodon is still ceasing to work on [[2024-12-15]] as per https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ but I have failed to do anything about it… until now :)
    • To start with, I’ve now requested a post archive to save the 14k posts it has produced since it started operating two years ago.
    • I’ll also look for an alternate instance, and try to set up a migration flow (for keeping followers).

2024-12-11

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • against the dark forest
    • [[Dark forest]]. [[Cozyweb]].
  • Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds | E…
    • [[climate activism]].
  • New report: Exploring a transition to alternative social media platforms for …
    • [[Alternative social media]].

2024-12-09

• [[Listened]]: [[Novara Live: Assad Falls: What Next For Syria?]]

• I’m flying to [[San Francisco]] to work from [[Sunnyvale]] for a few days. As I write this I’m on a SAS A330 sitting in 51A with the seat next to me empty, the plane being about 70% full.
• I started listening to [[Right Concentration]] by [[Leigh Brasington]] (sp?) on the way to Copenhagen where I made my short connection.
• Now I’ve finally started properly reading the [[Fediversalist Papers]] (I’ve been waiting for such an occasion) and found the report immediately engrossing.
  • …and finished :) I tried taking good enough notes to then share with the Social.coop working groups and organizing Circle.
• I’m still two hours away from San Francisco. Not much more battery left in my laptop, so maybe I’ll just keep reading something else.
• I finished reading [[Thich Nhat Hanh]]‘s commentary on the [[Heart Sutra]]. I enjoyed it a lot :) Thank you Thich as usual.
  • [[Mindfulness Bell]] is a journal that I’d like to check out.

2024-12-08

• [[Read]]: [[Wasteland]]
  • In the epilogue, a bit of reflection on how we actually reduce waste.
  • Looks at [[ethical consumption]], [[zero waste]] and the [[circular economy]] with a critical eye. Them having been coopted by corporations.
  • Ultimately, his conclusion seems to be: [[degrowth]]. Consume less, produce less.
    • That doesn’t really address the problems of industrial waste though.

2024-12-07

• Blurters gonna blurt.

  • [[microblurting]].
  • Going to try popping them in daily files in a subfolder.

• Read: [[Wasteland]].

  • [[Nuclear waste]]. [[Sellafield]].
  • The book is great, well written and researched.
  • But I’m finding the subject matter ultimately quite depressing.
  • Particularly as it’s getting into [[industrial waste]]. It’s huge in scale.
  • [[Nuclear power]] and the corresponding waste is such a prime example of human hubris and folly.
  • This shit is going to be around for tens of thousands of years, yet we don’t seem to have a clue what we’re doing with it.

• [[do the right thing]]

2024-12-06

• The bookmarks from yesterday look pretty messy.

  • Maybe better to indent them all under one heading.

• [[Read]] (well, skimmed): [[Beyond Waste: Essential Skills for a Greener Tomorrow]]

• Read: [[Wasteland]]

  • [[household waste]] vs [[industrial waste]]

2024-12-05

• [[Bookmark]]: Climate Vanguard

  • "Political Education for Collective Liberation"

• [[Bookmark]]: How I Use Org-Roam to Take Notes for CS - Michael

  • Site inspiration.
  • Very pleasing looking font / text rendering.
  • I see it’s making use of Hugo.

• [[Bookmark]]: The Eco-Socialist Party — Climate Vanguard

  • [[Ecosocialism]].

• Today I was writing a newsletter. In my ongoing push to do everything in [[Emacs]], I set up org-preview-html to get a nice HTML preview pane as I was writing it in [[org-mode]]. I then copied and pasted from that into Drip’s wysiwyg editor. Worked pretty well.

• [[Bookmark]]: Levelling up through circular economy jobs » Green Alliance

  • [[Green jobs]]

• [[Bookmark]]: Beyond Waste: Essential Skills for a Greener Tomorrow report

  • [[Green jobs]]

• [[Bookmark]]: Capitalism kills: The case for ecosocialism | Green Left

• [[Bookmark]]: Reclaiming digital sovereignty

• As one might have noticed, I’m logging bookmarks in the journal stream.

• [[Read]]: some [[Wasteland]].

  • [[mining]]. [[Tailings]].

2024-12-04

• [[Read]] some [[Wasteland]].
  • [[Agbogbloshie]]
  • [[Basel Convention]]

2024-12-03

• [[Wasteland]].
  • [[Toxic colonialism]].
  • Companies incinerating products to save money.
  • Little bit if a history of [[planned obsolescence]].
  • Types of obsolescence.
  • [[Batterygate]].
  • [[Right to repair]].

• At [[work]], and back to noding using [[wiki vim]] using my ‘terminal only’ workspace.
  • [[keyboards]]: A coworker recommended the [[keychron]] [[q14 alice]] with [[jupiter brown]] switches. It looks and sounds amazing.
• [[december adventure]]

2024-12-02

• Read Where to draw the line? - by Gordon Brander

  • About [[complex systems]], modularity, compositionality, and boundaries.
  • Not a fan of [[Substack]], but always enjoy [[Gordon Brander]]‘s writing on [[systems]] and adjacent topics.
  • A shame that Gordon canned [[Subconscious]].

• Note that [[Substack]] has it’s short form posts now.

  • A decent move, a combining of elements of the garden and the stream in one service.
  • Essentially another walled garden version of what [[IndieWeb]] does.

• I love using [[spacemacs]] and [[Emacs]].

  • However, one big negative - I’m always scared to update spacemacs to latest, as well as packages from Melpa.
  • Pretty much at least one important thing breaks every time that I do, and as I need this for my work, I can’t often spare that time.
  • So I tend to put it off and lag behind.
  • I imagine there’s things I can do that would mitigate the risk and friction - I should look into those.
    • One simple idea is just to have two version running side-by-side. I might be able to do that actually, I think there’s a flag you can pass Emacs to say where to look for your conf folder.

2024-12-01

• Continuing from yesterday, yeah it seems like the touch input doesn’t work great on the native Android Emacs build, either.
  • So, Termux’s text input view is probably the best option for now.
  • orgzly is brilliant for task management, but you don’t get the whole range of Emacs’ powers.

• I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
  • It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
  • I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
• I say [[We Will Defeat Moloch]].

2024-11-30

• [[Wasteland]]

  • [[Food waste]] and [[gleaning]].

• Writing prose in [[Emacs]] with [[Termux]] is a little weird.

  • It’s because you have to workaround the fact that terminal emulators don’t generally work well with touch keyboards.
  • Termux solves this cleverly with a text input view you can access by swiping left on the extra keys row.
  • It’s neat, but not optimal for longer-form writing.
  • Options:
    • Use orgzly for longer text input.
    • Try Emacs native Android build again.
    • Stick with it, it’s not that bad.

• Going all in on [[libre software]] and [[open hardware]] is a key part of [[digital ecosocialism]].

  • That said, use of proprietary alternatives may be necessary during transition.

• Provisioning the [[knowledge commons]] with info on what software is good, how to use it, how to switch to it, etc, also very important.

• [[Wasteland]]

  • [[Soil]], [[composting]], and a surprise mention of [[metabolic rift]].
  • It’s a well-written book - well paced, informative, humorous.
  • [[Biogas]].

• [[Waste]] and what you do with it is an important part of any [[system]].

  • This is part of why I’m finding [[Wasteland]] so interesting.
    • Here the system is society.
  • You can try and reuse it circulate it back into your system. Or you sink it somewhere in the environment.
    • It seems though, nothing is ever truly a sink - it always comes back one way or another…
  • Or you try and reduce how much of it there is in the first place.

2024-11-29

• Watched [[Why Spaced Repetition Doesn’t (Always) Work]]

  • Clickbaity title, but good points about [[spaced repetition]].

• [[Wasteland]]

  • [[Cholera]]. [[Sewers]].

• [[2024-11-27]] took place as well (linking it so I can then go node it :)
• Interesting conversation in [[Agora discuss]]!
  • [[Zicklag]] wrote about [[weird.one]], sounds very cool, it would be great to catch up synchronously with them and [[Erlend]].

2024-11-28

• Watched [[Agentic Product Development]]
  • Not sure I understand how the talk relates to the title.
  • But I like the concepts discussed a lot.
    • To me it felt like a description of [[IndieWeb]] without really mentioning IndieWeb.
      • Except in the talk subtitle? And one side mention of IndieAuth.

• I woke up with a headache for some reason, and it came back during the day, but otherwise I was fine.
• I worked and then attended the [[end of year dinner]] with my coworkers.
  • There was also a [[bowling]] afternoon event which I skipped as I felt I was too behind work and I wanted to use the opportunity to catch up.
  • Even as I decided to skip it I knew that, with the passage time, I would remember the bowling event but not the afternoon working. But I decided to do it anyway as I also knew my mental state would be affected by not making progress on some tasks, and I think in the end it was a reasonable choice.
  • I enjoyed dinner. I actually like my coworkers, I’m lucky in that (and many ways!).
• Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.
  • I played [[Amores Hallarás]] for the first time in A (what I remembered/whistled) and in B (as per the recording by [[Inti Illimani]]).

2024-11-27

• [[Wasteland]]

  • Now discussing [[reuse]]. Waste prevention.

• Learned of [[Weird]] and [[Leaf]] from Zicklag on Agora Discuss.

  • Very interesting!
  • Weird: "prosocial network based on the cornerstone of the internet:Personal websites."
    • This is music to my ears.

• [[Watched]] [[Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap]]

  • It’s a trap!
  • [[B Corps]] started off decent enough, but some problematic admissions recently (Nespresso?)

2024-11-25

• [[Wasteland]].

  • [[Landfill]].
  • [[Recycling]].
  • [[Energy from waste]].

• All of the above methods of [[waste disposal]] are problematic one way or another. Reduction of production and consumption rates really is the only solution. (i.e. degrowth).

• Still recovering from disease (flu? covid? unsure) with [[AG]] — but feeling better thankfully, both of us.
• Ended up testing [[backup restores]] for [[social.coop]] finally and it felt great! It was in the todo list for long.
• Not so much progress on [[work-work]] this weekend — which I know might sound a bit weird, why is it that I sometimes plan to work on the weekends? The truth is that some of the things I need to do I find it hard to do during the week for a variety of reasons, like meeting load. So I sometimes use the weekend to catch up. But when I don’t I have to at some point ‘let go of it’, else it weights on me implicitly.
• Spoke to my mum over [[Meet]] and it was great!

2024-11-24

• [[23]] is [[Lady Burup]]‘s day :)
  • A chill day at home, with snow outside. I’m taking care of [[AG]] a bit as she’s sick.
• Todo for the day:
  • rest :)
  • fix mastodon embeds in the Agora? they are still broken after most instances updated to 4.3
    • I didn’t quite fix this yet but I found two bugs doing this and made progress :)
    • First, social.coop embed.js had not been updated in years. We need a step to update static content when updating the instance! I mentioned it in the room.
    • Second, I filed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33049 against Mastodon. I don’t get how their "new style" embeds are supposed to work, embed.js seems a bit weird. Let’s see what they say.
  • work: on that work document at least for one pomodoro
  • work: book meetings for the upcoming week (see paper notebook)
  • social.coop: CWG oncall
    • Some spam reports.
    • No new registrations since yesterday.
  • social.coop: TWG next steps towards alpha.social.coop
    • Hmm, what does this mean?
    • I guess I should fill that form to get a VPS from iocoop now that we have joined! That sounds simple enough/fun.
  • write
  • read

2024-11-23

• [[Wasteland]].

  • When Blue Planet had its episode on plastic waste in the oceans, the anti-plastic public reaction gave the price of recycled plastic a huge boost.
    • Interesting to think how television programmes can still have such a system changing effect.
    • See also the documentary about the [[British Post Office scandal]].
  • Apparently a plastic bag was found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

• I hope to find the time to start participating in the [[IndieWeb Carnival]].

  • I like it as a concept for nudging people to write in their blogs.
    • It is an example of the [[Ritualize Togetherness]] pattern of commoning, too.
      • Which reminds me… would be good to keep [[Node Club]] going.

• back to the office finally, after a few days sick working from home! it was nice going back.

2024-11-22

• Downloaded [[Wasteland]] from [[libro.fm]].

  • But… now I can’t find my headphones.

• Found them!

• The opening to [[Wasteland]], where he outlines the scale of waste we produce worldwide, puts me in mind of the bit in [[Doughnut Economics]] where she discusses broadening our conception of the economy to be embedded within the biosphere.

  • How the economy has sources and sinks to the wider environment.
  • Wasteland tells just how much of a sink we treat the planet as, as we dump our waste into it.

2024-11-21

• Finished rereading (listening) [[Doughnut Economics]].
  • Still relevant and useful.
  • I should write up some takeaways. (Maybe use that rubric from the OU module?)

• I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
  • Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
• I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)

2024-11-20

• [[Substack]]
  • Don’t call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

• [[work]]
  • I woke up sick but I worked from home anyway.
  • [[Meet University]] was good!
• then I rested after work, ate something, spent time with [[Burup]] and caught up with friends
• then I thought about:
  • [[Ekumen]]:
    • Spoke to [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about next steps, caught up with email :)
    • Set up coordination device for first meeting
      • What’s the name of that nice modern [[doodle alternative]] again…?
      • We used it in the [[twg]]]…
      • [[crab fit]]!
    • Update git repo in some interesting way?
    • What about [[ekumen.agor.ai]]? :)
• [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!

2024-11-19

• [[causal loop diagram]]s.

• Looking at Lend Engine and MyTurn as software options for our [[library of things]].

2024-11-18

• [[wp cli]] is handy.

• In a [[causal loop diagram]], where do you put actions, things that happen? I guess it’s a flow. But, what causes the flow?

• [[17]] stands for: [[Right Concentration]], [[Maitreya]] :)
• We’re planning on going to the cinema with friends today to watch [[Anora]].

2024-11-17

• Reread Robin Sloan’s article on [[Stock and flow]].
  • As an analogy for garden and stream.
  • Not sure if it’s an analogy to [[stocks and flows]] specifically in systems thinking, or there’s a more generic economic concept.
  • Anyway - he makes a good point that it’s not good to be all stock, no flow.
  • He means it in the sense of, you should post to the stream a little bit, so people know what you’re up to.
  • I should consider that - I generally don’t post to social media streams, just to my journal here.
  • Which I like as it remains distraction free.
  • But it does reduce social interaction significantly.

• Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
  • I heard and read of [[Mathilde Sanders]]
• Excited about yesterday finding:
  • [[wikibonsai]]
  • [[structured conversational communication]]

2024-11-16

• [[Doughnut Economics]]
  • Some mentions of [[Libre software]], [[knowledge commons]], [[Cooperatives]] as parts of an economy that is distributive by design.

• Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
• I heard of [[Mathilde Sanders]]

• 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]] :)

2024-11-14

• On Tuesday I went to a workshop on learning the basics of electrical repairs.

  • Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
    • The round of intros took up a lot of the session though…
  • Had a bit of an overview on useful tools and basic electronic components, wired a plug, and then started repairing broken items we had brought with us.
  • It’s a two parter. Next time we’ll look at using a [[multimeter]], [[PAT testing]], and the [[right to repair]].

• [[Doughnut Economics]] has a good overview of what a [[system]] is and why [[systems thinking]] of useful.

2024-11-13

• The [[Our Changing Climate]] video channel is good.
  • Watched: [[Why We Need Socialism]]
  • Watched: [[What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?]]

• I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
  • It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
  • Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/ be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
• [[Algún día]]
• Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
  • I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
  • I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
  • I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
  • I thought of the future.

2024-11-11

• [[agora development]]:
  • fix mastodon 4.3 embeds?
  • and what comes next?
• [[writing]]:
  • I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
  • [[letters]]: some [[closed]], some [[open]]
• To test [[collimation]]:
  • As it’s cloudy, maybe I’ll observe the distant LEDs in a construction crane ~500m away tonight.

• [[social coop hosting]]
• [[conduit]]
• [[collimate]]

2024-11-09

• [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • The developer of the concept of [[GDP]], Simon Kuznets, didn’t think it was a good measure of national welfare.

• Microblurting with a mindmap.

  • [[my blurts]]
  • After trying a few different mindmap apps on Android, going with miMind for now.
  • Alas, hand-writing PlantUML mind map markup doesn’t cut it for current purposes.

• [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • The [[Holocene]] is an incredibly hospitable Earth and the favourable conditions would last for an unusually long time, were we humans not pushing the planet out of this period of stability.
  • We need to change the indicator for success from ever upwards and forwards growth to dynamically thriving in balance.

2024-11-08

• Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
  • [[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
• Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
  • I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
• Tomorrow I’ll see [[AG]] :)
• This evening after work I started working on the Agora and writing. [[Lady Burup]] is sitting to my back on her green cushion.
• Someone reached out over [[Telegram]].
• I thought about [[Ekumen]].
• I did [[Agora development]].
  • I iterated on more interface issues that had long nagged me/I had long wanted to work on.
  • Shipped iterations in the [[themes]].
  • Changed button location to have it make more sense given what it actually does.

• Look for [[people]] to recognize their bridging of different domains. Offer them [[action]]. [[Show]] how they fit with [[tomorrow]]. collapsed:: true
  • [[Systems]] [[Engineer]] with [[Philosophy]] interests. collapsed:: true
    • "Let’s build systems that reflect deeper philosophical truths"
  • Dropout [[Physics]] PhD/[[Meditation]] Teacher collapsed:: true
    • Help create spaces where both rigorous thinking and deep [[presence]] can flourish
  • [[BJJ]] Instructor with Interest in [[Group]] Dynamics collapsed:: true
    • Apply what works on the mat to building [[strong]] communities
  • [[Community]] [[Organizer]] with Tech Background collapsed:: true
    • Build communities that can grow without losing their soul
  • [[Designer]] Interested in [[Social]] Systems collapsed:: true
    • Design spaces that [[nurture]] genuine human [[connection]]
  • Independent [[Researcher]]/[[Writer]] collapsed:: true
    • Turn your [[insights]] into living [[experiments]]
• [[Documentation]] is the first step to [[automation]].
• Palantir playbook: collapsed:: true
  • Only [[sell]] to companies that expect imminent [[death]].
  • Get [[buy]]-in from [[top]] and [[bottom]].
  • Use top and bottom to [[squeeze]] [[data]] out.
• What [[opportunities]] might be around [[stratospheric]] craft?
• Every [[time]] I [[feel]] [[annoyed]]/[[tired]] = [[opportunity]] collapsed:: true
  • [[Annoyed]] = [[repeating]] something
  • [[Tired]] = [[manual]] work
  • [[Stressed]] = [[dependency]] on me
  • [[Relief]] = [[automation]] working
  • [[Excitement]] = system [[adoption]]
  • [[Peace]] = [[leverage]] [[growing]]
  • When something is truly [[leveraged]], I [[feel]]: collapsed:: true
    • [[Shoulders]] relaxed
    • [[Breathing]] deeper
    • [[Stomach]] unclenched
    • Mind [[clear]] and chomping at the bit
  • From [[pride]] in being [[needed]] → [[satisfaction]] in not being needed
  • From [[shame]] about not doing the [[work]] → [[excitement]] about the [[work]] happening without me collapsed:: true
    • 1. Sit in [[silence]] with project in [[mind]]
      2. [[Notice]] [[physical]] response to [[questions]]:
      • If I went away for a month, would this keep working?
      • Is this [[solution]] teaching people to fish?
      • Am I the [[bottleneck]]?
      • Pay [[attention]] to:
        • [[Throat]] tightening ([[fear]] of letting go)
        • Chest expansion (pride in being needed)
        • Stomach dropping (knowing it’s not [[growing]] itself)
        • Shoulder [[tension]] (holding too much [[responsibility]])
          • Track which [[feels]] correlate with:
          • True [[leverage]] ([[flows]] without me)
          • False [[leverage]] (seems automated but isn’t)
• I admit I’m carrying too much [[responsibility]]. I’ve got to find [[waves]] to [[offload]] parts of it onto. Systems to help [[grow]].
• [[Skip]] patterns: collapsed:: true
  • OLD [[VALIDATION]]: "Are people asking for this?"
  • NEW [[VALIDATION]]: "Are people already trying to [[skip]] this entire [[process]]?"
  • Watch the [[space]] between.
  • What are people trying not to perceive?
  • What do they [[filter]] out of their [[perception]]?
  • What [[decisions]] would they prefer [[front]] [[loaded]]?
  • Where are they pre[[loading]] them to?
• [[Neck]] [[tension]] = too much [[process]] [[knowledge]]?
• Instead of: "Let me [[help]] you with that" collapsed:: true
  • Try: "What would make this easier next [[time]]?"

2024-11-08

• [[digital ecosocialism]]

• [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • I like the seven ways to think like a 21st century economist:
    • Change the Goal
    • See the Big Picture
    • Nurture Human Nature
    • Get Savvy with Systems
    • Design to Distribute
    • Create to Regenerate
    • Be Agnostic about Growth

2024-11-07

• Not sure how to process the US election 2024 results.
  • It feels pretty devastating. The short term and long term repercussions seem catastrophic.
  • Right now, avoiding all the news and analysis - too much to get lost in and I don’t have the headspace for it at the moment.
  • Finding ways to offer practical solidarity to threatened and affected groups in the US seems like the most productive action in the short term.

• I shipped a fix to wiki.social.coop (the result of coworking with Dan through the week, it was great!)
• I shipped some layout/theme improvements to anagora.org, it felt great as well. I like UI stuff actually it seems, in the right dosage.
• I worked and I was a bit tired at times but it was good and interesting.
• The [[US Election]] news hit hard, myself and many friends.
• I spent time with [[Lady Burup]] in the evening :)

• [[birthdays]]
• [[music hackspace]]

2024-11-05

• Wow - I am blown away by how fantastically useful [[org mode clock tables]] are.

• Back to work :)
  • I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
  • Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
• Thought about social.coop after work
  • [[TWG]]:
    • meeting?
  • [[CWG]]:
    • Also the question of [[matrix]] for coordinating work, which is met with resistance by some working group members only. For me interop is the clear solution, let’s see.

2024-11-04

• Listening to [[Doughnut Economics]] now.

  • I’ve recently read it, but seemed like a good choice to revisit - big ideas but palatably presented.
  • Also I consider it reasonably [[ecosocialist]] in outlook. The combo of social foundation and planetary boundaries. Even though it presents itself somewhat apolitically.

• [[Data commons]] are [[digital ecosocialism]].

  • I work on a data commons - the [[Open Repair Alliance dataset]].

• I’m going to try to go back to keeping more of my todo list here digitally.
• Today was good; melancholy at times, but it ended up on high notes.
• Tomorrow I have the day off, but I might work anyway.

2024-11-03

• [[Some small experiments in ‘microblurting’]]

• Finished [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] (audiobook)

  • Fun and informative and very wide ranging on various science topics.
  • My immediate takeaway: the Universe is sublime, Earth is amazing, life is improbable and astonishing; human intelligence is incredible, yet we are astoundingly terrible stewards of life and the planet.
    • And we need to resolve that last issue immediately.
  • Listened via [[libro.fm]].

• [[japan 2024]]
• I came across [[Bluesky and enshittification]] by [[Cory Doctorow]]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

2024-11-02

• Everybody blurts, sometimes

  • [[my blurts]]

• More one handed mode configuration for Termux:

  • [[making it easier to open the session drawer in Termux in right-handed one-handed mode]]

• [[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
• [[Ekumen]]
• [[Feedback on the Agora]] by [[Eduardo]]:
  • No hay jerarquías y no hay orden
  • No hay jerarquías:
    • Nodo está en la misma jerarquía que wikipedia/wiktionary/results
    • (Sobre las divisiones entre ágora y no ágora)
    • Primero podría ir el ágora y después de adentro hacia afuera
  • Datos y metadatos están mezclados
  • Líneas y "1 + 1 = 3"
    • Espacio negativo
    • Alternancia entre colores y grises
  • Dos grupos:
    • info acá
    • e info en otros lados
  • Transclusión, etc.
  • Quizás un tabbed interface? Mostrar que e.g. wiktionary tiene contenido relevante pero no mostrarlo como elemento de primer nivel.

2024-11-01

• What is the relationship between ecology and earth systems science?

• I would like to learn more about [[systems ecology]].

• [[Las Jaras]] is here!
  • How sweet it is
• I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.

2024-10-31

• [[microblurting]] at [[my blurts]]

  • As per yesterday, trying them out in their own page, semi-hidden. Hidden in the sense of not visibility, not privacy.

• I solved my [[issue with evil-escape in Doom on Termux]].

2024-10-30

• I’m [[microblurting]].

• Blurt

  • [[Data science]] is a combination of data analytics, statistics, and machine learning.
  • [[Data analytics]] looks at past data and explores patterns and issues. It is descriptive.
  • Statistics can be descriptive but also predictive?
  • [[Machine learning]] is primarily predictive?

• Blurt

  • Data science is multidisciplinary, encompassing data analytics, statistics and machine learning, among other areas.

• I’m thinking that blurting is probably better semi private.

  • It might not be of great interest for others to read half formed, quite possibly incorrect statements about various things.
  • Social streams are more interesting when they have some personal, subjective opinion based element I feel, rather than attempted recall of facts.
  • Though, it would be nice to receive feedback on some things. So perhaps semi private is good.

• [[HeliBoard]] is going well.

  • Some nice features. Very customisable.
  • Being able to adjust the width of the one handed keyboard is very useful.
  • swipe typing works pretty well, though I have a sense not quite so good as gboard?

• [[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
• [[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].

2024-10-29

• [[Human physiology]] - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.

• [[Passive repetition]] can result in an [[illusion of knowing]].

  • Better to do [[active repetition]] when you can.
  • Writing in a digital garden or on social media is a form of active repetition.

• Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.

  • Just copying and pasting text from elsewhere would be largely passive repetition. Similar to just underlining or highlighting.
  • I think the journal aspect of a digital garden is good for active repetition.
  • A space to summarise ideas in your own words, and for "blurting".
  • So really, that’s more the stream than the garden?
  • I suppose you can do active recall in both. But I’d say the stream is your working area for it, and the garden where you store what sticks long term.

• One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.

  • [[Active recall and passive repetition in the digital stream and garden]]

• Trying [[HeliBoard]].

  • Mainly to avoid the annoying display of ‘Passwords’ that Gboard does when in [[Termux]].
  • Hey, turns out HeliBoard does it too. Must be a Termux issue.
  • Still, I like that this is fully open source and available via [[F-Droid]].

• [[Learning blurt]]

  • [[Amino acids]] are the building blocks of [[life]].
  • They are what constitute [[proteins]].
  • [[Biochemistry]]

• Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.

  • Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
  • However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
  • I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)

• [[Learning blurt]]

  • [[Bacteria]]
    • Humans are teeming with them.
    • Trillions in the gut alone.
    • We couldn’t exist without them. They could happily exist without us.
    • [[Microbiology]]

• I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: [[ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut]]

• I think I’ll explore "[[microblurting]]" as a thing.

  • Is microblurting a useful way to do active recall? Should one blurt in public spaces? We’ll find out.

2024-10-28

• I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
  • Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
  • I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.

2024-10-28

• [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]
  • So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
  • All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
  • There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.

• [[131]]

2024-10-27

• The first book I’ve got on [[libro.fm]] is [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] by Bill Bryson.
  • I’ve really been enjoying learning about broad, general subject matters outside of my usual areas on [[Kinnu]].
  • This appealed in that same vein. Simple overview of lots of topics.
  • I’ve read it a few times many years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it.

• [[…]]
• Well, I’m here finally :)
  • I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
  • Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
  • I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
    • Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
    • Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
    • Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
  • Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.

So today I want to work/play on:

• [[Agora development]]
  • Toggle for [[autopull]] in the burger menu I’ve been playing with in a branch
• [[Flancia]]
  • Zine writing
  • [[Open letter to our readers of the future]] / [[Maitreya]]
  • And leaders of course :)

I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.

-> [[do]]

• I enjoyed going through it a lot actually, several things got marked done! Wow.
• It makes sense because I do follow a kind of system within my chaos, but it’s cool to see it corroborated.
• Some things I actually did; some things are no longer relevant, e.g. Twitter bot stuff (as Musk killed that, for now at least).
• Which led me to [[maybe Musk will wake up]]

Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)

I will now [[flow]] with my friends [[bobby lyte]] and [[adriene]] :D

For more of this, check out https://anagora.org/yoga-with-x pull.

• Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
• Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
• [[Recursivity]].
• No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
• I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
  • Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))

2024-10-26

• Starting using [[libro.fm]]. For [[audiobooks]].
  • Seems great. Let’s you pick a bookshop (local or online) for some of the money to go to.
  • But, also very annoyed to discover that some audiobooks are ‘Audible Exclusives’. Meaning you can only get them on Audible.
  • What a scam. Imagine only being able to buy some books in certain bookshops.
  • libro has some resources on how to do something about it: https://blog.libro.fm/why-isnt-audiobook-available-libro-fm-what-to-do/

2024-10-25

• Back in the Agora!
  • I shipped some small usability improvements this week. I intend to do some more of these during the weekend.
  • I re-discovered [[…]] and it’s amazing, both broken and great.
  • [[Silverbullet]] cannot open it though, so the screenshot is in [[ellipsis]]

• Work has been fine.
  • It was a relatively productive week; I feel satisfied.
• I thought about [[Magnetism]], as usual. And its [[elasticity]].
  • I want to write something about [[magnets in space]], I think it could go well with that other old idea — [[monks in space]] :)
• I watched [[which came first]] (3 minutes) and it was great
• I used [[flatpak]] today.

2024-10-24

• Back in the Agora using [[Silverbullet]]!
  • It’s been working quite alright for me, although I still use [[wiki vim]] around half the time when editing I’d say.
  • I posted an update to https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010.

• I had a good day at work really.
  • I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
  • I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
  • I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
• Then I thought about the [[Revolution]].

• [[AG]]
• called my mum for [[mother’s day]] in Argentina
• [[flancia meet]]:
  • with [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[apache2]] is making a comeback
  • [[8bitdo]] keyboard and the alternate keyboard movement, [[funky keyboards]]
  • [[keyboard wiki]]
• I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
  • I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
  • Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
  • I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].

I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.

• I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
• I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)

So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.

Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.

• The laundry timer just went off.
• And now I’m back, after putting laundry to dry (tumble) and another load :)

What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].

2024-10-20

• I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.

• I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.

  • Now, while the bubba is napping on me, I’ll utilise that system to digitise the data from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe, October 2024]].

• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/113341048573756101 pull

• [[2024-10-21T19:11:38.126Z]] @[[flancia.org]]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xu4fhdxwmrptiwfvq5ymbkxx/post/3l727q4pzcv2v

• [[2024-10-20 17:59:12+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
  • Look, an #agora! [[2024-10-20]]

• Back!
  • Work week was alright.
  • Did some personal emotional processing during the week as well.
  • Now feeling good going into the weekend :)
• Had good meetings, also one great today with [[edumerco]].
• I reconnected with some old [[friends]] digitally and in analog space :)

2024-10-19

• Let’s dust this off…

• [[International Repair Day]] 2024 today.

  • Did a spell at [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] popup cafe in [[Barrow]].
  • Fixed a printer (well, more just showed that it was working OK and put a fresh ink cartridge in).

• For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.

• Today is [[Maitreya]]! The 17th :)
• Work was fine actually. I biked there and back, I’m enjoying the exercise before it gets too cold.
  • Was productive in the evening from home after reuniting with [[Lady Burup]] :)
• Then I ate and did [[Flancia]].

• [[23 september]] -> [[mylesj]]

• [[Minecraft]] with [[Ishmael]] and X, enjoying it a lot! Playing in some resting periods.
• Went to the [[Zürich Coffee Festival]] with [[Sebek]] and [[Nina]]!
• [[tabs]]
• [[next action]]:
  • [[guanyin]]
    • [[9]] risk (guanyin)
    • [[7]] agora demo
    • [[5]] consent/social media replay
  • [[paramita]]
    • [[9]] zine
    • [[7]] agora ux
    • [[5]] activitypub/atproto/x/ekumen
    • [[3]] write
    • [[1]] read
• -> [[eight pomodoros]]

• [[Divorce]]
• [[Free from suffering]]!
  • Both happy and sad. But it was beautiful to see [[L]], see her shining!
• [[2063]]

2024-10-08

• At [[work]], meaning in the office, after a few days out/WFH due to disease. It’s nice to see my coworkers/have in person conversations.
  • I had a productive day at home yesterday which hopefully will translate to a productive week in-office. Let’s see :)
• No meetings after work tonight! Which is nice.
  • I’m back to using [[the time-block planner]] and it’s still great. Commitment is important.

• Continuing from [[2024-10-04]] :)
• #push [[todo]]
  • Reviewed [[go/agora/bugs]] after long and responded to issues! I want to do this more often from now on.
  • Same for [[go/agora server/bugs]] (it has lots of interesting stuff!) and [[go/agora bridge/bugs]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
          • Objections -> [[objectio]]
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
            • Lex Fridman et al?
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share?
• [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
• I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • 0 gather all [[receipts]]
  • 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
  • will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
  • [[aeyokay]]

• Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
• Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
• [[agora development]]:
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
          • Objections -> [[objectio]]
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
            • Lex Fridman et al?
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share?
• [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
• I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • 0 gather all [[receipts]]
  • 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
  • will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
• [[ekumen]]
• [[analytical seclusion]]:
  • [[sabbatical]]
  • may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?

• I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
  • Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
• [[Magnets]]
• [[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
• Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • Objections
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share one tomorrow?
      • considering this shared (with two people to begin with) as of the week of [[2024-10-11]] :)

• read about the [[Karmapa]]
• I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
• #push [[do]]
  • I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
    • do laundry (2x)
    • donate (2x)
    • run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
      • add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
      • maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
    • write
      • zine (2-4x)
      • get java [[minecraft]]
        • server url
        • I visited [[Plitnyakovo]] for the first time today on [[2024-09-30]]. Thank you [[Ishmael]]!
      • one or more of:
        • open letter to musk
        • open letter to maitreya
        • open letter to lex and sam
    • code
      • get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
      • one or more of:
        • save button
        • activitypub support
        • agora bot posts updates from the agora?
        • users post updates from the agora?
    • systems
      • fix agor.ai
        • recycle
        • make free space
        • try again

• [[flancia]]
• [[sadhana]]
• [[dhyanas]]
  • I read about the two first [[immaterial states]], very interesting.
• [[zine]]

• I’m back :)
• [[social.coop]]:
  • Updated moderation announcement
  • Review pass issue reported by edsu
• [[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it

• [[work]] was OK.
  • tomorrow will be even better I think :)
  • it will start weirdly.
• I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
• While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
  • It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
  • It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
    • I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
      • Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
    • I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
• I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
• It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
• Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].

• I’m back!
  • In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
  • I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
  • See also: [[2024-09-24]]

• Back in [[Flancia]]!
  • Or did we ever leave?
  • [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
  • Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
  • Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
• Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
  • [[Mohammed]]
  • [[UNICEF]]
  • [[Mum]]
  • [[Friends]]
    • :)
  • [[AG]]
• Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
  • So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
• Then I [[flowed]].
  • [[Social Coop]]
  • [[Ekumen]]
  • [[KPT]] and paperwork review
• [[zine]]
• Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
• [[37]]
  • [[yoga]]
  • [[Zelazny]]

• [[I’m back]]!
  • I spent the week in [[Stockholm]] for work.
  • Flew back to [[Zürich]] on Friday and reunited with my [[Lady Burup]], it was lovely.
  • Now writing these lines on the train to [[Paris]], where I’ll reunite with [[AG]] before we move on to some other destination for five days of further enjoyment.
  • We will reunite once more with my [[Lady Burup]] on the [[20th]] if everything goes according to plan.
  • Back to work on the [[23rd]].
• Donated to:
  • [[Medico International Schweiz]]
• [[Fediverse]]:
  • [[On the internet, nobody knows you’re old]]

• Today I finished the one week course with [[Lama Jigme Rinpoche]]. He was kind and inspiring.
• It is nearly time, I think?
  • [[Open Letter to Elon Musk]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

• I’ve gotten [[paramita]] back up and running, it had broken in a variety of ways (broken nvim with a bus error, broken gammastep)
• [[Jigme Rinpoche]]

• [[master plan]] -> [[main plan]] :)
• Thank you [[Jigme Rinpoche]] and [[Dhagpo Switzerland]].
• [[Chenrezig practice]]
  • [[37 practices of Bodhisattvas]]
• [[Flancia]]
• [[Agora development]]
• [[Friends]]

• [[197]]
• [[jigme rinpoche]]:
  • [[chenrezig]]
  • [[bodhisattva]]
  • [[maitreya]]?

• [[OGM]]:
  • Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom:
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09

• Maybe things will turn out to be [[funny]] in retrospect
  • I have been told that [[Flancia]] seems to lack humour, even though it started as a well-meaning joke! I guess I lost/deprioritized that along the way…
• [[work]] has been tough since last Thursday and I realize that has made it so that I haven’t noded much here for a while.
• [[fellowship of the link]] :)
• [[2024-08-29]]: Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
• [[storm]]

• [[entropy]]
• [[divisibility rules]]
• [[sucederá]]
• [[maitreya]]!

• [[Google IPO]] twenty years ago today
• [[zine]]
• [[AG]]
• Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]]
• I banged my right elbow hard when moving near an open window, I hope it doesn’t swell :)
• Good day overall in any case!
  • I cycled to work and back and it was great.

2024-08-18

• Chill rainy Sunday at home :)
• Spent it with [[AG]].
• Then in the afternoon [[VK]] and her boyfriend [[Sascha]] came about, it was very nice!
• [[feedback 2024]]

2024-08-17

• [[Maitreya]]!
  • Maitreya on Saturday is extra special

• [[Burup]]
  • I played the piano, I’m enjoying recording midis while practicing even if it’s sometimes cacophonic — as it sometimes isn’t :) and saving the midi seems interesting and would let me extract fragments later
• [[Fediverse]]
  • Had a conversation with [[foolishowl]]
• Wrote [[practice.py]] on a lark :)

2024-08-16

• I got here the long way around :)
  • For sure I did! Cool — back here something like… 18 hours later, at 22.
  • Yesterday night I had a wild ride restoring my preferred [[Agora editor]] to working order, and then exorcising my digital garden from a file over 100MB which I accidentally committed and made Github refuse me all service with insufficient explanation :)
    • I had to do a [[git rebase]], which didn’t work, and (re-) learn about [[git filter-repo]] and such
• [[Silverbullet]]:
  • Now running [[Silverbullet dev]] having worked around the actual trigger for the most critical part of https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010, which ended up being not due to garden scale only but also due to a recent change I had made to my config :)
    • Keeping an eye on the other performance issues.
    • You wouldn’t believe how much I missed having a web-based [[Agora editor]].
    • It made me think I still have to keep honest and actually offer this as a service in the [[Agora of Flancia]] — I would love to provide hosted Silverbullet for whoever wants it.
  • Thought of:
    • [[Agora demo]]
    • [[AG]]

• "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]]

• I played the piano and played with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • The smell of [[Petrichor]] in the balcony.
• A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
• [[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
• [[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
  • it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
  • [[backup nostromo]]
  • then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
• thought about:
  • [[forking]]
  • [[merging]]
• [[bangers]]:
  • [[banger]]
• [[silverbullet bug]] which makes it harder for me to write in the Agora :(
  • but things will hopefully get better :)

• Found [[3493]] on the way to work today, it was great.
• Then in the night I thought of [[cryptobuddhism]].

• [[Building Bridges]] then :)
  • Between [[platforms]], between [[formats]], between different resources in one [[garden]] or [[Agora]] :)
• [[donna haraway]] has interesting/surprising (to me) contents!
  • [[A Cyborg Manifesto]]
• I thought of the question of defining [[canonicity]].

• Sad morning but I think it was also cathartic.
• Then I cleaned the house, and I did practice :)
• Got back to [[Building Bridges]] after long, finally — it’s been on the backburner for a year or so, at least?
  • Will try to do a pass on it, with the occasion of also
  • Fixing formatting issues on [[Agora Chapter]] for legibility before sharing further
• I need to fix the issue that on some computers [[wiki vim]] writes journals on /journal/.md and in some others I have it set it up to /.md
• [[Flow state]]

• I read what [[NG]] wrote
• Bought shoes, which was on my todo list :)
• Bought a book gift
• Received a book gift :)
• Found [[standardgalatic]]

• I biked from [[AG]]‘s place to [[Flancia central]] in the midnight sun and it was beautiful :)
• Then I saw [[VK]], it was great!
• Then I flowed.
• Updated [[bill flancian]]

• [[zine]]

• [[zine]]:
  • [[bella burup]]
  • [[lady burup]]

• I [[whistled]]:
  • and then used [[spectroid]]
  • and played the [[piano]] :)
  • a very fun combination

• [[don’t worry eat curry]]

2024-08-03

• Now on the [[third]], early in the morning you could say :)

• [[Flancia meet]] was quiet but I enjoyed it anyway, took the time to do stuff leisurely on the laptop.
• [[Hzian]]

• I found [[burning chrome]] and I thought it could be a good Agora demo node.
  • It links to [[burning chromium]], which I started (barely) long ago and I immediately felt like continuing/fixing up :)
• [[Work]] was alright — I did what [[bobby lyte]] does and tried to do the day’s worth of work in one hour, and it sort of worked believe it or not
• I posted about the [[magnetic projector]] I made to the [[Fediverse]] :)
• I had an amazing meeting with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about the [[Fediverse]], the [[Web]], and [[Sutty]] and the [[Agora]] and [[Confluencia]].
• I [[flowed]] :)

2024-08-01

• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
  • I moved my journals here also to the root of my garden, as I did with wiki vim a few days back, so you will see them at /YYYY-MM-DD.md from now on instead of at /journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
  • Happy to hear that [[vera]] is also using Silverbullet!
• I read criticism of the [[Gemini ad]]: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
  • You could say the ad does miss any note worth hitting; but I did like some aspects like the dad’s voice (is it the real one, though, I wonder?) and the fact that it’s not too long.
  • It has the usual by now out-of-touch aesthetic of Google ads, which you could call [[enterprise whimsy]].
  • And it’s just… a bit nonsensical, on top of the other criticisms. Why is the dad involved at all? He comes across as lazy. If this was an ad showing how the little girl can use Gemini to help her with her writing, it would feel a lot more natural/less problematic probably. It is true that kids are going to be using generative AI to learn how to write (presumably they are already doing this), and the ad could have shown some of that instead. Maybe this was considered but lawyers didn’t want to show too young people using the technology for some reason, and we got the lazy dad as a compromise?
  • Anyway. Google ads are pretty bad on average these days IMHO, so I’m not super surprised.
• Yesterday [[2024-07-31]] in the [[Fellowship of the link]] call [[Aram]] shared a nice article he wrote as part of the [[semilink]] activity we were experimenting with: [[the internet is a series of webs]].
• [[Flancia]]:
  • I wrote on the Agora today. This is a good day :)
  • I intend to also do some [[Agora development]].
    • I fixed an issue that [[vera]] reported with transclusion in Silverbullet — interesting.
    • I wrote a script to assist in Agora maintenance, health.sh

2023-08-01

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• I read this [[Gemini ad]] criticism: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
• [[movies]]

• I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
• Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Magnets]] as usual ;)
    • New today, but also recurrent in a way:
      • About [[Magnets in space]]
      • About [[Magnetic computing]]
    • About [[free energy]] and [[entropy]] :)
  • By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
  • [[Agora letters]]
    • Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].

Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).

For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.

2024-07-27

• In [[Ischia]]! Now for a few days. This is the first I’ve noded as days have been quite intense in [[bodyspace]] (in a nice way).

• I want to submit some poems for the [[zine]] that [[bouncepaw]] is editing by EOM, will try to work on those today from the beach. If not today, tomorrow.

• What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
• [[Search and Seizure]].
• Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
  • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
  • How am I going to do X?
  • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
  • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
  • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
  • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
  • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
  • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
  • Add conflict as the video goes on
  • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
    • South Park
  • Include a [[Why]]
  • Keep ending short but with a payoff
• Incident management game collapsed:: true
  • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
• A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Redefine the fight"
  • Aviate navigate communicate
• [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
• Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
• [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
• "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
• [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
  • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
  • Textile Onion
  • Winterfat
  • Chokecherry
  • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
  • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
  • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
• “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
• Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
• Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
  • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
  • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
• "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
• "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
• John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
• Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
• [[Copywriting swipefile]]
• A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
• "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
  • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a [[time]] carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."

• What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
• [[Search and Seizure]].
• Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
  • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
  • How am I going to do X?
  • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
  • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
  • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
  • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
  • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
  • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
  • Add conflict as the video goes on
  • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
    • South Park
  • Include a [[Why]]
  • Keep ending short but with a payoff
• Incident management game collapsed:: true
  • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
• A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Redefine the fight"
  • Aviate navigate communicate
• [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
• Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
• [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
• "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
• [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
  • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
  • Textile Onion
  • Winterfat
  • Chokecherry
  • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
  • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
  • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
• “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
• Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
• Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
  • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
  • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
• "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
• "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
• John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
• Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
• [[Copywriting swipefile]]
• A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
• "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
  • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."

• Just completed the [[shutdown]] ritual from [[Cal Newport]]‘s [[Time Block Planner]] and I think the system is totally working out for me so far (a few weeks in). Feeling happier at work and productive.
• Travel incoming! [[Ischia]].
• A friend gifted me [[This is How You Lose the Time War]].
• [[AG]] gifted me [[Dürrenmatt]]‘s [[The Physicists]]
• I thought of [[Revolutions]] after work.
  • During lunch today I read about [[anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th century]], thanks to [[voltairine de cleyre]], and I met interesting people.
  • If you read this, [[Moloch]], know this: we will defeat you for the good of humanity and our friends.

• Woke up with [[AG]], enjoyed the morning. Then I cleaned and did laundry and started packing for the trip :)
  • Also managed to lose one my earbuds while cleaning, but then I found it thanks to [[find my device]] which I didn’t know existed — it’s an option in [[bluetooth settings.]]- [[Flancia]]:
  • [[Flancia.org]]
  • Talking to [[Mohammed]] about getting formal verification about our charitable endeavours as the bank in Yemen is giving trouble/they seem to be suspicious of ill intent (which we don’t have).
  • Wrote https://flancia.org/homes pull today (I should have one it earlier, it was somewhere on my todo list — but here we are, I hope it helps).

• So it turns out that for years I have been sometimes journaling in /YYYY-MM-DD.md and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, depending on how I created the entry.
  • If I press e.g. ctrl-w ctrl-w in [[vim]], I go to the daily page as configured by [[wiki vim]] — which is the later.
  • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the past, I usually will have a journal already, and wiki vim will redirect there.
  • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the future, though, I will not have a journal yet, so the file will be created as a "common node", outside of journals.
  • I thought I had moved to a ‘flat space’ with everything including journals in the [[root of my garden]], but apparently that didn’t happen yet :)

• [[agora development]]:
  • Fix some quirks?
    • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
      • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
        • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
        • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
        • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
        • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
    • Take e.g. [[zine]]
      • It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
• I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.
• [[zine]]
• [[agora]]
  • I thought about 7:
    • [[7 presidents]]
    • [[7 ceos]]
    • [[7 revolutions]]
    • [[7 good leaders]]
    • [[Gloria]]
• [[AG]] told me about [[Arthur Koestler]]
• We swam in [[Letten]] :)
• Listening to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Christof Hoch]]. Interesting, they had a "sidebar" conversation I’d love to comment on among other things.
• I read a bit about the life of [[Muhammed]] and his wives, like [[Aisha]].
• I read about [[Thalassemia]]
• [[Bryce Huebner]]
• [[LM Studio]]
• [[skreutzer]]
• [[sensecraft]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • Fix some quirks?
    • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
      • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
        • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
        • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
        • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
        • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
    • Take e.g. [[zine]]
      • It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
• I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.

• [[19]] is [[Right Freedom]] in the [[pattern language]] I’ve been working on.
• [[Wayland]]:
  • [[gammastep]] is the new [[redshift]]:
  • [[gammastep -O 4000]] to cut to the chase and go a nice night reddish
  • [[gammastep -O 1000]] to go to the minimum supported temperature, which is essentially as red as it gets
  • Those are [[Kelvin]].
• [[Open Letters]]:
  • [[Open Letter to Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • [[Open Letter to Tara]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

• Day 17 is here!
  • [[17]] is [[Maitreya]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]]:)
  • [[7]] is [[Avalokiteshvara]].
  • So you could say today is a pretty great date.
• [[2024-07-16]]

• [[Work]] was interesting
• [[AG]] had good news
• [[Kris]]
• [[Lex]]
• [[Musk]]

• [[agora chapter]] is now one step closer to being properly readable in the Commons :)
  • I linked all wikilinks using [[apps script]]
  • I also have a version without [[ and ]] and… I have to say it might indeed be more readable than with :)
• Caught up with [[collective sense commons]] after a long while and it was great/interesting!
• [[topic maps]] by [[Jack Park]] is now linked.

• [[Silverbullet]]:
  • The new [[Silverbullet]] supports transclusion!
    • It works using the syntax I think [[Obsidian]] also uses:
    • 

      ⥅ [[tabs]]

      will transclude the content of note [[tabs]].
    • In the case of the [[Agora]] this could be treated as a [[pull]] — but that transcludes the whole node below the current one, and maybe in this case what is intended is to transclude one particular resource in-place.
    • Oh, what currently happens is that the Agora assumes this is an image being transcluded — that is the one kind of direct transclusion we have implemented so far. I guess I could hack that codepath and see how hard it is to actually transclude e.g. the subnode with full subnode view in an iframe? Unsure.
  • In other [[Silverbullet]] news, today I figured out how to make dailies go to the node YYYY-MM-DD instead of to Journals/Day/YYYY-MM-DD:
    • You open special page /Library/Journal/New%20Page/Daily%20Note (template) in your instance.
    • You change suggestedName.
    • I commented out forPrefix but I’m unsure if you need that.

• [[tabs]]

• [[2024-07-13]] was both emotional and productive.
• Writing this in an up-to-date Silverbullet that works again with my garden :)
  • Thanks [[zefhemel]] for [[silverbullet]] and for fixing https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/934 so promptly!

• Back in Silverbullet after reporting a bug :) https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/934
• I wanted to write to (…)

• threw [[261]]
  • leading to [[hex/10]] = [[271]]: es todo perfecto como es.
  • I realized [[hex/6]] = [[97]] is prime, the last I had yet to memorize below 100. That concludes a particular interesting sequence, I guess :)
  • [[primes]]:
    • The number of primes below 100 is perhaps interesting to know: 25. So a fourth of the 100 first numbers are prime! Huh.
    • Knowing up to 1000 would unlock getting a statistical feel of how quickly primes ‘thin out’.
    • Of course we can also count to 10: 4 primes below 10, so about two fifths.
    • I think they thin out logarithmically but I’m not sure which base, I could look it up but maybe I’ll think about it :)
    • It would be cool if it was the natural logarithm. It’s the kind of thing that could happen :)
• [[bluesky]]:
  • now has an [[agora bot]]!
  • it’s alpha but it works sometimes (tm)
  • #go at://anagora.bsky.social
    • is that a valid [[at protocol]] uri? I believe it sort of should be but I haven’t checked :)
• [[primes]]:
  • Here I am having counted the primes up to 1000: [[168]]. So down to 16.8% of numbers being prime.
    • The [[Prime number theorem]] is what I was inching towards
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function#Table_of_%CF%80(x),_x/log(x),_and_li(x) pull is a [[great table]]
    • The ratio of primes below number n which is exactly 1/#primes_below, can be estimated by 1/(x/log(x))
    • Wow, had I never heard of [[logarithmic integral function]] before?
    • So it turns out that li(x) estimates pi(x) better
• I’m going back to [[Flancia book]], and it made me think of what I would in my best dreams try to publish during [[2025]]:
  • A new [[essay]].
  • A [[book]] (with publish meant loosely/playfully maybe).
  • A [[paper]].
• [[paul bricman]]: [[straumli ai]]
  • is down?
• [[celeste]]
  • is pretty great

• [[flancia book]]:

Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.

These its chapters.

• [[Manifesto]]
• [[In Flancia there is an Agora]]
• [[In Flancia we will defeat Moloch]]

• [[kowloon walled city]]:
  • [[warehouse kawasaki]] (arcade reproduction)
• [[chungking express]]
• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[poems]]
  • [[eugnosia]]

• [[2024-07-09T23:38:48.463Z]] @[[flancia.org]]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xu4fhdxwmrptiwfvq5ymbkxx/post/3kwv662nzkx27

• [[Flancia]]!
  • I’ll be in Flancia as much as possible Monday and Tuesday; Wednesday I’m back to work.
  • (Decided to take a mini two day holiday with the occasion of my birthday and the anniversary of my dad’s death.)
• Thank you [[AG]] and [[Brigitta]] for the beautiful weekend!
• [[L]] told me about [[Brook Farm]] :)
• I thought of:
  • My [[father]].
  • [[Ananda]]
  • [[Water]]
  • [[Polyhedron]]
  • [[UNICEF]]

• [[work]]
• then [[dinner]] with an ex-coworker (who fell to one of the 2023 layoff rounds) and people from my team
• then… Flancia!

• [[work]] was alright :)
  • most of the meetings of the week are past, will now try to focus in decent blocks :)
• [[flancia]]
  • [[catharsis]]
  • [[music]]
  • [[fractals]] :)

I’ve started recording my screen more often, as a way of screencasting — even though very often I don’t get to actually publish it. I have a [[Youtube channel]] but I mostly upload Yoga sessions there, at least so far. Still, just recording sometimes makes me feel reassured — because theoretically that means I may get to actually publish it in the future, or because others will find these files and look for anything [[interesting]] in them, or because even if they are lost they will influence my behavior in some ways.

I sometimes feel that I think and write more coherently when I remember to think about you, dear [[reader]], dear [[viewer]], please [[like]] and [[share]] if willing :)

I wrote the above, which I’m calling [[2024-07-02]], and then I’m moving on to do whatever’s next in the list, or whatever arises.

I was thinking recently of

Here’s a [[joke]]:

An alien and a human go into a bar.

The alien asks: how many drinks are you having?

The human says: just one.

• One what?
• One drink.
• That’s in this reality, what about the imaginary part?
• What do you mean?
• In how many timelines are you right now?
• What… what do you mean? Just the one
• One reality, all real?
• Yes

With a flash of insight, many aliens realize at once that humans don’t know the complex plane.

…of Agora development, and of the fact that I still need to fix [[agor.ai]], and…

Here again on [[2024-07-19]], is this cheating time? :)

• [[Agora plan]]:
  • I #liked [[flow state]] [[power hour]] #22
    • The above is the kind of update that I would like to see automatically generated whenever an [[Agora bot]] detects opted in [[social activity]] ;)
• Thought about [[7 revolutions]], [[3 leaders]], and other patterns.
  • I thought about possible manifestations of [[heterarchy]].
  • The strength of [[triumvirates]] and of "leadership" [[groups]] in general, when well defined and resilient.
  • [[Heptad]]:
    • I searched [[equivalent of triumvirate with 7 members]] in the Agora and the [[AI]] assistance gave me the right answer :)
• [[6pm]] update: [[Flowing]] in [[paramita]] :)
  • experimented with the [[Bluesky API]]
  • now fixing [[agora server]] dependencies after upgrading to [[Ubuntu 24.04 LTS]] :)
    • that was hairy! but we persevered ;)
    • ended up disabling [[orgora]] for now in my up to date local development environment, reached out to [[V]] about it
• [[AI]]:
  • [[Mistral]]
  • [[ChatGPT]]
  • [[Gemini]]
  • [[Claude]]
• [[helvetas]]
• Revisited [[i annotate 2021 slides]]
• Set up two [[patreon]] sponsorships, donated to [[unicef]].
• Thought of [[Ananda]].
• [[auto pull social]]:
  • I’m thinking I usually want Mastodon embeds to be auto pulled in nodes, will probably try that default/to make it work again. Currently you have to press ‘Pull All’.
  • So I guess the simplest fix would be to locate the code that is supposed to click that button and check for its running condition.

• Maybe it’s time to check [[Silverbullet]]‘s settings for journal entries? :)

• [[work]] was fine :)
  • three days of summit, plus very interesting conversations with visitors from [[STO]] and the team!
  • tomorrow, no meetings except for an [[ER-CH]] one.

Daily Note 2024-06-26

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, :

• "That’s where the jets lag, feat. Jet Lag The Game S10" - My note on Facebook Messenger

• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

  • To mix things up while watching [[JoeHillsTSD]]‘s stream featuring [[ZombieCleo]], I pulled up DJ X from Spotify webapp for some music listening.
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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• [[work]]

Daily Note 2024-06-25

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 25, 2024:

• Created a new repo in @recaptime-dev for transparency log/communication threads, similar to delegate communication threads in Arbitrum governance forum
  • Here’s mine if you want a preview: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/transparency-log-threads/issues/1
• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
  • Nothing new for now.
• A bit of catching up on Jet Lag: The Game series while waiting for the Season 10 finale.

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• [[work]]
  • until late actually, but it was enjoyable :)
• [[sqlite code of ethics]]
• [[Bella Burup]], a [[song]]:

Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup!

Tara Burup Tara-burup!

Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:

Salve!

Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup.

Mi true Burup, true Burup.

Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:

Sea!

• [[work]] :)
  • This week is expected to be heavy duty due to a combination of:
    • [[oncall]]
    • visitors from [[Stockholm]] (with associated interesting discussion/training sessions)
    • a summit
  • But started out well enough with a quiet Monday… so far :)
• [[2024-06-21]]

Daily Note 2024-06-23

!!! warning "This is a bit incomplete" But working on it as soon as possible, hopefully before Thurday.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 23, 2024, alongside what’s happened in the past two weeks:

• Pardon the week-long silence on the daily journaling. Just needed a quick recharge as well for warming up Minecraft skills (currently in peaceful mode for a lot of resource gathering sessions).

• Did a cleanup chore with my sister (since we share the bedroom space, which sometimes chaotic when comes to schedules on the study table¹) on 06-22.

• Here’s what been cooked since last two weeks:

  • Officially brought the Bedrock edition on mobile (formerly known as Pocket Edition) for Android. Chaos at mining ensure, with my first death from falling gravel.[^2]
  • Who thought you want to go deeper into Minecraft lore, via the Legends spinoff? Like literally watching the full gameplay for 2-3+ hours[^3].
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• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

  • ….

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• I planned to do [[Agora]] work but in the end didn’t get to it; maybe I will be able to do a bit of it on Monday after work.
• We managed to do a mini bike-and-run with [[AG]] and it was great :)
• VC’d with my mum :)
• Also VC’d with [[Berni]] as we watched the second half of [[Switzerland-Germany]] together.
• And caught up with [[Kris]].

• [[Sebek]] and family came over and we had lunch at home :) It was great!
  • [[Lady Burup]] found it hard to deal with two children at the same time, but I think she might get used to it with time (and the children will also learn how to communicate with her) ;)
• Then [[Janosch]]‘s [[party]] with [[AG]] 🥳
• Then [[2024-06-23]]

• Attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly gathering in [[Paulus Akademie]] with [[AG]]. It was great!
• Then [[2024-06-22]].

• I [[worked]].
• Then I attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly general assembly with [[AG]]. It was quite interersting! Highly participative (votes for accepting the yearly budget, etc.) and with a focus on the foundation’s activities in [[Bhutan]].

• [[agora chapter]] got updated :)
• [[work]] was lonely but worth it
• [[social coop]]:
  • [[organizing circle]]
• then some housework and [[fellowship of the link]]
• [[GGUF]]

• at [[work]] — relatively tough Monday and Tuesday with lots of meetings, but getting through them :)
• [[new moon yoga]] was interesting the other day, even though (or maybe because) it didn’t come out on [[new moon]] at all :)
• [[Flancia]], in my heart, is deep and meaningful.
• [[bangers]]

• [[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.

• Now using [[silverbullet]] as embedded in the Agora proper :)
  • It’s at the bottom.
  • It only works for me for now — sorry!
  • 

    ⥅ [[2024-06-14T16:18:08,984568739+02:00.png]]

    I know it’s a bit self-centered to add the edit box to anagora.org when only I can use it for now, but I wanted to experiment with the editing experience before investing a lot in developing it for others :) I hope it doesn’t get in the way of the experience of others.

• Maybe it makes sense to make [[1]] my [[bootstrap]] screen, given that [[0]] is taken over by remote desktop usually.
  • In any case one of 0, 1 should probably be it at any given time?
  • This way in case I forget what my "main thread" is, I can visit it.
• [[Hans Widmer]], in his dedicatory, taught me the word… [[umwerfend]]?
• [[Flancia]]!
  • is again prominent in my heart
  • we ran with [[AG]] in Flancia
• [[Agora development]]
  • will try [[bold usernames]] as I want to emphasize the social aspect of the Agora, and the [[Agorans]] are those who make the Agora amazing!
• [[cats]]

Hello there, editor Andrei speaking on the line. This should be technically published exactly in the Philippine Indepedence Day, but since I am currently between a mini sabatical and EOSY rest for the next school year, I apologize if it took longer than expected. So I decided to publish it now from the backburner and finalize it later.

Hello world, and welcome back to the monthly dump/status update! Pardon the radio silence over the few months, I am just busy at school during those period, but since I am in the end-of-school-year break, we’re actually back for at least two issues of this, alongside the daily journaling on [my personal wiki] Buckle up, since there will be mentions about Gildedguy Story #8 and you don’t want to [get snuck-up on][md-spoilers-ep7], right?

By the way for the Agora community, I’ll be pointing my notes here while keeping the old ones up as an archive via the new [[@ajhalili2006-archive]] once the patch for sources YAML file are merged upstream soon.