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

2024-04-18

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

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

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