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# [[2022-02-12]]
- [[Anagora]]
	- [[Random]]
		- I've stumbled upon [[no matter what machines]] by @yiction.
			- No being "needs us" to help them "feel" anything. No one can be certain that a being's [[Umwelt]] will never change. And ultimately, we *are* machines. Mechanicism is just a human, all too human prejudice which does not reflect what machines really are.
- [[Meta]]
	- I've finally made a basic draft of my [[canonical Meta]].
	- I've noticed that I rarely, if ever, produce original content or make writeups about concepts in my private digital garden. It has become a tool for outlining my notes on books and articles in an organized and linked way.
		- I'm really not a [[Zettelkastener]]—as long as I can copy, I never paraphrase.
		- I should fully embrace this and adapt myself to it. I simply don't have the time to obsessively paraphrase and rewrite while I read and study. I can make most of my original content and writeups/entries about concepts *public*, while keeping my outlining mostly private.
- [[Agora]]
	- [[Kritik der reinen Scheiß-Posting]]
		- When my site's [[Digitarium]] is ready, this [[Agora Digital Garden]] will become a plaintext mirror of it.
- [[Read]]
	- I've read [Differentiating online variations of the Commonplace Book: Digital Gardens, Wikis, Zettlekasten, Waste Books, Florilegia, and Second Brains](https://boffosocko.com/2021/07/03/differentiating-online-variations-of-the-commonplace-book-digital-gardens-wikis-zettlekasten-waste-books-florilegia-and-second-brains/) by [[Chris Aldrich]]
		- I should do some research about the history of knowledge management.
- [[Digital gardener|Digital gardeners]]
	- I should make something like [[@neil]]'s "[[wikis I like]]" and "[[my garden circles]]", mostly for myself.
		- Maybe it's time for me to start using [[RSS]] again.
		- I've skimmed through a few digital gardens today. The most interesting ones are:
			- [[Agency Made Me Do It]] http://www.hyperphor.com/ammdi/pages/Agency-Made-Me-Do-It.html
				- I've loved this one. Though I'd never be able to choose a single theme as the kernel of my work, I'm really liking how Mike Travers approached this.
			- [[ThoughtStorms]] https://thoughtstorms.info/
				- Comfy, old-school and serendipitous.
				- [[@neil]]'s thoughts and feelings about it are almost the same as mine:
					- > Phil has been doing it for a long time. It has an old school look and I really like that. In terms of content, it's precisely what I want to read in someone else's wiki - a hot mix of quick thoughts and long-evolved ideas to stumble through. It's got wiki personality.
						- [[@neil/wikis I like]]
			- [[Gwern.net]] https://www.gwern.net/index
				- Organized, opinionated, and quite charming visually. And fucking loooooooooong.
- [[Art]]
	- I've stumbled upon [[melanocarpa]]'s [[pipepunk]] entry: https://melanocarpa.lesarbr.es/hypha/pipepunk
		- Now I really want to read [[Shōjo Shūmatsu Ryokō]].
		- Some works I believe fit the aesthetic:
			- [[dot flow]]
			- [[Answered Prayers]]
			- [[Tetsuo]]
			- [[Malice@Doll]]
			- [[Silent Hill franchise]]
			- Aside from Answered Prayers (which still *is* an [[Yume Nikki fangame]], so there's that), all of these are [[Japan|Japanese]] works. This isn't surprising.
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