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The second half of 2022 has just started.
- Let's roll?
- I keep thinking of the loving kindness [[revolution]], I think it's just around the corner honestly.
- [[neil]]
- [[todd]]
- [[vera]]
- [[paleoludic]]
- [[jz]]
- [[ladee]]
- [[aldhari]]
- [[ex]]
2022-07-01
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#push [[do]]
- [[work]]
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[[flancia]]
- [[agora]]
- [[fellowship of the link]]
- [[revolution]]
Woke up with a sore throat, didn't feel great through the day but made it through the work day. I think I'm feeling better now, nothing serious it seems :)
- I woke up before 3am (departure time) somewhere over the Atlantic. It was beautiful.
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#push [[sqlite]] project
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[[code of conduct]]
- [[benedictine rule]]
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[[code of conduct]]
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#push [[localpedia]]
- A local copy of [[Wikipedia]] could be a good thing to have on our laptops.
- An easy way to install a version under X gigabytes probably already exists?
2022-06-28
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Watching: [[Don't Look Up]]
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I like Iain M. Banks and I'm currently re-reading [[Look to Windward]] because in [[Red Plenty]] it was described it as an example of a 20th century [[Marxian idyll]]. It's good and all but I'm reading the [[Culture]] now as kind of all premised on [[Prometheanism]] / [[fully automated luxury communism]]. I'm gonna reread [[A Wizard of Earthsea]] (last read as a young teen!) by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] next as in [[Half-Earth Socialism]] they describe that as [[Jennerite ecological scepticism]] and that is more my bag lately.
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I travel back this evening, although because of a relatively long layover in London (5.5h) and the time difference I'll get to [[Zรผrich]] tomorrow night (after 8PM).
- We had lunch with [[wil]] in the office and we talked about math and science fiction, it was great.
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[[travel]]
- check in
- pack
- do covid paperwork with the crappy app or just assume the risk of doing it in the airport
- pick up the sunscreen shipment from amazon lockers.
- [[ladee]]
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[[jz]]
- shared [[rainbow folding]] with her
I am writing this in the flight from Portland to London.
After my [[dreams]], and the [[poem]], and what happened this weekend, I keep thinking about [[arrows]]. It may sound like an obsession but it feels more like [[inspiration]].
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I love [[Portland]].
- I met [[todd]], it was a very significant moment.
- I met [[wil]], we went on a beautiful walk in the [[japanese garden]]. I am thankful.
- I met [[john]], [[matthew]].
- I saw [[mary]].
- I was only able to spend fifteen minutes in [[powell's books]] but I loved every minute of it and it was enough to know it's amazing.
- Thank you [[neil]], [[vera]].
It was my mum's birthday today. I'm happy she's visiting soon!
2022-06-26
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Started skim reading (ironically?) [[How To Take Smart Notes]].
- I've encountered most of the ideas before via the numerous articles and posts written about it.
- I need to spend more time turning literature notes / quotes from books in to my own understanding.
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Joined the [[Bonfire]] playground but haven't got time to do much on there at the mo. But I really love the mission they have around social media so following with great interest.
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Reading a bit on [[Antonio Gramsci]] apropos [[site of struggle]].
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[[Patrice Lumumba]]
- Met [[vera]] and [[em]] yesterday, it was great.
- Going to [[kelley point]] today!
2022-06-25
- Listened: [[Adam Day, States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance]]
- [[la jaula de oro]]
- #push [[2022-06-23]]
- [[jz]]
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[[berni]]
- me contรณ de [[cambiar el mundo sin tomar el poder]] de [[john holloway]]
- #push [[this x does not exist]]
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[[numbers]]
- [[8]] [[the eightfold path]]
- [[17]] [[maitreya]]
- [[23]] [[lady burup]]
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[[fellowship of the link]] ~ [[fotl]]
- met with [[jerry michalski]] and [[chris aldrich]], it was great!
- [[robert moore]]
Yesterday we went on a beautiful walk at sunset with [[Chris]], it was great!
At the lookout point we met [[Enrique]] and we became friends.
2022-06-24
- Listened: [[Technology of the Oppressed w/ David Nemer]]
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met [[carl gieringer]] today!
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#push [[argument mapping]]
- discuss people in the space who are working on this
- [[canonical debate lab]]
- [[agora]]
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#push [[argument mapping]]
- I've been having a nice time in the Seattle area. I'm staying here until Friday, at which time I leave for Portland.
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[[social coop]]
- I suspended some reported accounts today (it turns out you can do this for accounts in other instances, which apparently means they can't interact with our instance anymore?). I clicked on the content to confirm they were abusive/inappropriate and they really were. It made me sad and disappointed with people and less hopeful about the [[fediverse]], but thankfully the feeling passed shortly.
- [[chris]]
- [[jz]]
- [[lp]]
- [[anonymous]]
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Travelling from [[durham]] to [[seattle]] today.
- Got to the airport earlier than usual, it's not a large airport so there's not much to do. That's fine though, I enjoyed some time chilling and planning/writing before boarding.
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[[ivo velitchkov]]
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#push [[pkg book]]
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[[pkg book chapters]] https://kvistgaard.github.io/pkg-test/#/page/abstracts
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[[deadline]] [[2022-09-01]]
- "Full chapter submission: Sep 1st, 2022"
- I should probably set a personal deadline of July 31st: [[2022-07-31]].
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[[deadline]] [[2022-09-01]]
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[[pkg book chapters]] https://kvistgaard.github.io/pkg-test/#/page/abstracts
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#push [[pkg book]]
- spoke to:
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[[throwing dice]]
- today I tried using [[random]] in my local Agora during my flight and it was quite fun -- I ended up remembering things I had forgotten, and slightly editing a few older nodes.
- I think I'll do it again soon.
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#push [[meditation]]
- I cried during [[daily meditation]] today.
- It was a [[metta]] session in [[waking up]].
- It felt good.
- [[flancia]] is [[well intentioned]]
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#push [[do]]
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opt in [[fucking]] writes
- expletive for enthusiasm because I've had this on my todo list for almost two weeks now :)
- started a [[flight]] branch in [[agora bridge]] given that I forgot to build the bot virtual envs so I can't really test code at all, I will just code a first approximation
- actually coded something (tm) but it's completely untested of course, need to test later. It's a start at least!
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define next action to learn to animate in typescript/javascript
- draw a [[rainbow folding]]
- write [[agora pkg chapter]]
- add [[previous]] and [[next]] virtual subnodes to date-like nodes
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opt in [[fucking]] writes
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#push [[done]]
- /annotations throws urllib.error.URLError when [[hypothesis]] is not reachable (like during my flight). fix.
Writing this on the flight to Seattle. My connection in [[Charlotte]] was tight but I made it just fine in the end.
(I wonder who you are, you reading this. If you are interested consider leaving an annotation using the Hypothesis side bar or reaching out :)
Thank you for reading!)
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[[flancia meet]]
- at different time today, 14 UTC, due to where I am :)
- meeting [[the one]] today!
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[[agora]]
- set up local dev environment to be able to code tomorrow on the way to Seattle
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priorities are still:
- opt in writes ([[agora bot]])
- whatever else I saw my priorities were last weekend, check :)
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#push [[do]]
- review [[phone to note]]
- make it so that pending tasks automatically show up in designated [[todo]] concentrator nodes, like [[do]] in my case
2022-06-18
- Listened: [[All about Upcycling Android]]
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[[work]]
- last day with lots of meetings in [[durham]], tomorrow it will be more of a rest day.
- worked from the newer office today and it was much nicer.
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[[agora]]
- welcome [[wilde at heart]] == [[@wilde-at-heart]] to the Agora!
- [[unix]]
- [[j0lms]]
- [[jz]]
- [[ritchie]]
Some things aren't meant to be, I guess. Not in this timeline. It is with pain I experience their loss; accepting the pain I let them go.
I met Ritchie again in the streets of Durham. He was no worse off than last time, but not doing great. We had ice cream together and we walked and talked for a while.
2022-06-16
- [[Wide data]]
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Third day in the US.
- [[us trip 2022]]
- Slept OK it seemed but for some reason I'm struggling to make it to the afternoon without nodding off.
- [[quantum mailer]]
- [[do]]
2022-06-15
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Read: [[The Dialectics of Space]]
- [[Ultra-rich nerd tycoons]].
- [[Space]]
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[[Naked]]
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Working from the [[RDU]] office, attending a summit.
- It was very hot yesterday.
- I gave a talk and it was well received.
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Traveling to the [[US]] after three years!
- For [[work]] but of course I'll try to enjoy the weekends as mini vacations (without going too crazy, I need rest).
- Will be meeting friends in [[Raleigh]], [[Seattle]] and [[Portland]].
- I plan to keep a travel journal in [[us trip 2022]], let's see if it sticks.
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[[agora]]
- Discussed options with [[mohammed]].
- Lots of pending messages, I'll try to catch up on my free but jetlagged day after I get to [[Durham]].
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[[agora server]]
- review next action, see pending items from the weekend?
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[[agora bridge]]
- opt in writes is still pending and it seems relatively straightforward to do
- I forgot to check out repositories locally so I wasn't able to work on any of this in the airplane (I don't like paying for wifi).
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#push [[meta]] as of today, my [[digital garden]] has 247k words -- I checked using [[wc]].
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Is that a lot? I just realized I have no idea, and having no internet currently, checking is not trivial.
- I think a thesis has about 30k words, but I forget if that's bachelors or masters? And I might just be off.
- 30k words is precisely what my journals so far have.
- I started my garden back when I was using [[roam research]] in the first half of [[2020]].
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Is that a lot? I just realized I have no idea, and having no internet currently, checking is not trivial.
- [[Sunday]]
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[[slang]]
- [[slaps]]
- [[mohammed]]
- [[silicon jungle]]
- [[l]]
- [[ex]]
- [[anne factorial]]
- [[shamanic coders guild]]
- [[portland]]
- [[chezmoi]]
- [[jz]]
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[[fellowship of the link]]
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[[chris aldrich]]
- recommended [[zotero]]
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[[chris aldrich]]
2022-06-12
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Read: [[Review: People's Republic of Walmart]]
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Next to last day at home before leaving for a 2w trip!
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Need to trip prep
- do laundry
- start packing
- set up new laptop
- #yoga [[go/move/11]]
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Need to trip prep
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[[flancia meet]]
- 1h later than usual as I went to bed very late.
- I should be more consistent probably though :)
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[[agora]]
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[[agora bridge]]
- [[opt in]] writes
- bot tweets/toots polls? check out APIs
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[[agora server]]
- review PRs
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[[agora bridge]]
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[[social coop]]
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met [[akshay]] yesterday [[2022-06-10]]! it was great
- we ate lunch with [[pesho]] who showed us around [[university of zurich]] and [[eth zurich]]
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[[social coop tech group]]
- use [[docker logs]] to poke around containers and try to find issues with previews
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#push [[matrix]]
- started a thread discussing whether we might like to run a matrix server for [[social coop]] https://www.loomio.org/d/tOBDu5ap/should-we-run-a-matrix-server-
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met [[akshay]] yesterday [[2022-06-10]]! it was great
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[[people]]
- [[akshay]]
- [[diegodlh]]
- [[amadeo]]
- [[l]]
- [[berni]]
- [[chris]]
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[[iian]] ~ [[codex]]
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[[harley ray gray]] ~ [[harleyraygray]]
- respond to twitter thread
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[[harley ray gray]] ~ [[harleyraygray]]
2022-06-11
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[[Open Infrastructure Map]] is absolutely fascinating. Check out all the power stations, turbines, electricity lines, gas, oil, water pipelines, etc are near you. Built on top of [[Open Street Map]] data (what an amazing project OSM is).
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Equally fascinating is [[OSM Landuse Landcover]]. Dead interesting to compare urban areas, agriculture and wilderness. No surprise that near me there is a ton of pasture grazing and crop farming, a bit of urban sprawl, and a depressingly small amount of woodland and forest.
Took me a bit to find https://death.andgravity.com/f-re on verbose regular expressions! Luckily the right search terms were iterated towards...
2022-06-10
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Listened: [[BACK TO NATURE: tackling the biodiversity and climate crises]]
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[[Tipping point]]
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[[Working from home]] today.
- Trying wiki vim linking operators.
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#push [[noble eightfold path]] ~ [[eightfold path]]
- [[right view]]
- [[right resolve]]
- [[right speech]]
- [[right conduct]]
- [[right livelihood]]
- [[right effort]]
- [[right mindfulness]]
- [[right concentration]]
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can be [[summarized]] as:
- [[right sila]] ~ [[right morality]]
- [[right samadhi]] ~ [[right concentration]]
- [[right prajna]] ~ [[right practice]]
2022-06-09
- Listened: [[Animal Agriculture Is the New Crude Oil]]
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#push [[agora plan]]
- yesterday [[2022-06-06]]
- tomorrow [[2022-06-06]]
- implement [[virtual subnodes]] in [[iso 8601]] / [[rfc 3339]] nodes volunteering navigation aides
- extend this to other extensible node-specific UI ;)
- I worked from the office and it was actually nice. It was great seeing people.
- Talked to:
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#push [[do]]
- investigate how to do [[transitions]] with CSS or JS
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add [[retry]] button (I like buttons, I don't know if it's clear :))
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retries in a different Agora by default?
- seems like a good practice :)
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retries in a different Agora by default?
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[[pomodoros]]
- [[opt in]] writes :)
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social coop tech group
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troubleshooting next steps
- leave the terminal sticky in workspace 0/10
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#push [[coop hosting]]
- [[dazinism]] made a great suggestion
- [[nick sellen]]
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https://cloud.coop
- does not respond currently
- #go https://servers.coop
- https://cloopcloud.tech
- [[yoga]]
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troubleshooting next steps
I keep coming back to the same refrain: "I will show you the shape of my heart."
(I love you. Yes, you.)
- Went to sleep way too late :)
- trying out [[signal]]
- [[bengo]]
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[[pomodoros]]
- start with a rest -- I'm writing this in the rest while I drink water :)
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ship [[recursive agora]]
- took [[3 pomodoros]] but I cleaned up a lot (including UI tweaks), implemented extra functionality, and had fun :)
- trying calling pulls by Agora users [[wormholes]] :)
- [[opt in]] [[writes]]
- agora polls by bot responding to posts with more than one option, like [[yes]] [[no]] [[maybe]]
- find social coop debug logs
- answer [[amadeo]]
- answer [[diego de la hera]]
- invite [[mathew lowry]]
2022-06-06
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Listened: [[What is true digital inclusion?]]
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I had a nice walk yesterday with a friend.
- We didn't, but we could have [[taken a walk on the wild side]].
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[[music]]
- [[take a walk on the wild side]]
- [[hunky dory]]
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#push [[caetano veloso]]
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#push [[oraรงao ao tempo]]
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#go https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YBg9bDzEEPc&feature=share
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[[caetano veloso]]
- take a walk in the wild side
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[[caetano veloso]]
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#go https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YBg9bDzEEPc&feature=share
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#push [[oraรงao ao tempo]]
- [[writing]]
- [[build bridges]]
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#push [[philosophy in germany]]
- [[1831-1933]]
- [[penguins]]
- [[google doc]]
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#push [[logseq]]
- took like half a minute to load just now
- unfortunately it still doesn't scale well enough, but I'm happy the team is responsive to performance issues!
- I'm now using logseq while I code. I think I will benefit from using it when I want to focus on one thing. It doesn't do multi pane like [[wiki vim]], so I use that for running many tasks in parallel.
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#push [[meditations]]
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My internal discourse can be surprisingly strongly worded, in particular when applied to myself or to inanimate objects.
- "oh, look. it's a shitty window." -- just said of a Chromium window that Mastodon popped up that didn't let me change the URL to navigate away.
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"you are stupid", "you are a fucking asshole" -- said to myself while coding.
- The first one means "that was stupid" which means "[[suboptimal]]/a dirty hack" and could very well be framed without appealing to the concept of stupidity.
- The second I'm unsure about; assholes in the biological sense are not bad.
- I feel like I [[love]] you a priori.
- I will show you the [[shape of my heart]] if you want to.
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My internal discourse can be surprisingly strongly worded, in particular when applied to myself or to inanimate objects.
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[[pomodoros]]
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#0 bootstrap / add to the list / free slot
- took out the garbage
- walked to [[mfo park]]
- did laundry
- lighted [[4h candle]] and [[smoking device]] (I do the latter ~once a week with good ventilation)
- consumed [[caffeine]], [[l theanine]], [[creatine]]
- #1 [[fix go links]] in nodes with multiple subnodes ([[j0lms]])
- #1a merge, build_node cleanup
- #1b chezmoi merge (feels nice), composite go links now actually work in [[j0lms]] :D
- #1c one little push to try to get pushed [[go links]] to work!
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#1d [[squash bugs]] with go links
- done!
- #2 improve recursive mode (would fix bugs as a side effect if it shipped as default)
- (backnoded) shipped on Monday!
- #3 slack
- talked to a friend over voice message
- noded [[syphon]] ~ [[siphon]]
- #4 fix latest ([[bouncepaw]])
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[[kurt vonnegut]]
- [[eduardo flancia-17]]
- I should finally implement [[autopush]] some weekend :)
- #5 respond to [[liquid democracy]] ([[vera]])
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#6 catch up with rooms
- [[flancia collective]]
- [[agora discuss]]
- [[agora development]]
- #7 [[opt in]] [[writes]]
- scheduled on Monday
- #8 start [[programmatic signup]]
- scheduled for the week?
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#0 bootstrap / add to the list / free slot
2022-06-05
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[[Grover]]
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[[Another world is possible]]. But more than that - [[Another world is necessary]].
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Learning more on [[Markets vs planning]], finding it interesting how [[Friedrich Hayek]]'s stuff on markets as a decentralised information processing system on the surface chimes with what I like about complex systems. And central planning is discordant with what I like about complex systems.
- But obviously politically I am strongly against what [[neoliberalism]] has wrought, and I am strongly pro what [[socialism]] offers.
- Intrigued to dig deeper on that. I imagine it might be along the lines of e.g. complex systems exist within another system which provides them with limits and direction, even if it doesn't plan every interaction. Or perhaps just that the analogy between natural systems and artificial ones only goes so far.
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#push [[g]]
- exรกmenes 22 junio, 4 julio, 12 julio
- [[thread]]
- [[opt in]]
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[[open letters]]
- [[an open letter to an agora
- [[flancian revolution]]
- [[let me show you the shape of my heart]]
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#push planned the [[long weekend]] a bit.
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start oauth support
- may block on [[agora api]], if so just bring up [[flask]] in [[agora bridge]]
- write [[an open letter to an agora]] or [[building bridges]]
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start oauth support
- [[celibate monk]]
A veces siento que el [[รกgora]] estรก hecha de luz, de bits en el espacio-tiempo fluyendo arbitrariamente cerca de la [[velocidad de la luz]].
2022-06-03
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Starting taking [[voice notes]] (again).
- Faffed around for a while with Simple Voice Recorder app from Fdroid and syncing via Nextcloud. SVR app is fine - but getting the sync working was annoyingly non-trivial. Settled on just using Matrix Chat for now, which has a voice record feature, and takes care of all the syncing. But now am looking now for an easy way to transcribe them. Lo and behold an article on doing this already exists from Maya! https://maya.land/monologues/2021/08/05/matrix-bot-transcribe-speech-audio-messages.html But a bit of setup involved. Maybe I should just use otter.ai for now while I'm getting in to the habit, otherwise the friction might kill my habit.
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Been reading the Winter 2022 issue of [[Tribune]] on my Kobo. [[Tribune Winter 2022]].
- My brother got me a subscription to Tribune as a late birthday present. Got some good stuff in there. Editorial on [[Cost of living crisis]]. Article about [[New Towns]]. Article about socialist science-fiction - some good recommendations in there. Article on successful [[trade unionism]], specifically in refuse workers sector - some organising to drive worker conditions back up. Also something about [[Partygate]] being hopefully the end for Boris Johnson. I think this article is a few months old, doesn't seem to have happened yet though.
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[[Flancian]] suggested a [[node club]] on [[utopian socialism]].
- I'm up for that. I've started with a transcribed voice note.
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Listened: [[Is the UK heading for a recession?]]
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Listening: [[How to feed the world without destroying it]]
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[[Appropedia]]
- "The weekend is almost here." -- said by millions of people every Thursday.
- [[matrix]]
- [[weirdrubikscube]] == [[luminosity]]
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[[ladee]]
- we had a lovely conversation over Mastodon.
- spoke to [[jz]] and I loved it
- [[om mani padme hum]]
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met with the [[fellowship of the link]], it was amazing
- [[chris aldrich]]
- [[jerry michalski]]
- [[diego de la hera]] == [[diegodlh]]
- [[metasj]] couldn't make it, notes in the [[stoa]]
- now [[recurring]]
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First of June! Feels significant somehow.
- One month to the quarter (and to do my OKRs at work).
- Seven months to go in the year.
- I start this month single for the first time in 10 years.
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In some Flancias the revolution started one month after [[international workers day]].
- One month for planning, then a call to action?
- [[flรขneuse]] == [[calico fisk]]
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I really want to implement:
- That script/function to gather all known TODOs from a garden in one place.
- [[path tracking]] (for the user) in the Agora.
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Meet [[diegodlh]].
- [[peter hagen]]
- [[social coop]]
- [[agora]]
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[[wikimedia]]
- [[media wiki]]
- lovely conversation!
I feel as if something is turning. It might not be much longer.
- Meetings day a priori, but relatively few meetings today!
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#push [[do]]
- I need to put my [[todo]] in order. I have by now a mix of [[wiki vim]] style and [[logseq]] style TODOs, and neither are aggregated.
- Perhaps I should write a simple script or just [[egrep]] invocation that brings back all my undone items in different formats around my garden?
- Or add this to [[agora server]], where it'll be most useful.
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[[robert haisfield]] suggested we add 'path tracking' (not user identifiable) -- in the sense of knowing which paths each user took.
- I'm thinking the nicest way to do this would be just [[query string]] based, e.g. each node linking to another node while appending itself to ?path=.
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I did [[yoga with x]] live today and then stayed on for 3h and nobody showed up :)
- That's alright, maybe someone did in the multiverse, or will in the future.
2022-05-31
- Long been on the to read list, but after seeing it namechecked in various places (most recently [[Red Plenty]] and [[Half-Earth Socialism]]), finally started reading [[News from Nowhere]]. Wasn't sure what to expect given its age but it's been really good so far.
- Today I met a [[flรขneuse]]!
Useful guide to the oauth nonsense to use the Mastodon API. Not sure if there's much I'd want to do with it? Hmm.
Xe did a nice guide to ssh keys and yubikeys. I should bother to set that up...
2022-05-30
- Read: [[How to Make a Pencil]] in [[Logic]]. Follows nicely from [[Half-Earth Socialism]].
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(check pushes for incoming tasks)
- Yesterday I "took off" / went out; today I plan to stay put and do things around the house and catch up with some things I wanted to do this weekend.
- [[rodrigo baraglia]] told me about [[jacob taubes]] and his [[occidental eschatology]]
- [[phil jones]] told me about [[the anti christ now rules us all]] by [[paul kingsnorth]]: https://unherd.com/2022/05/the-anti-christ-now-rules-us-all/
- TIL about [[overleaf]], an online [[LaTeX]] editor and renderer: https://www.overleaf.com
- [[vundle]]
- [[schelling and revelation]]
- [[j0lms]]
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[[containers]]
- TIL about [[tini]], an mvp [[init]] that ships with [[docker]]
- [[social coop]] containers run it
- [[podman]] seems to prefer something they call [[conmon]] instead: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/1670
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[[pomodoros]]
- retrieve context / set up workspaces as below :)
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empezar a leer tesis de [[joelle]]
- [[workspace 8]]
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empezar a leer tesis de [[berni]]
- [[workspace 8]]
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social coop tech group troubleshooting
- [[workspace 2]]
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[[agora development]]
- [[workspace 5]]
- [[audio cleanup]]
- fix [[stoa]] propagation delays