Author: Neil Mather

• Soccer96 – I was gonna fight fascism
• Listened to Seto Kaiba is My Role Model

• Changes in the forces of production come into conflict with the relations of production.
  • The infinite replicability of digital assets is in conflict with the wishes of corporations who profit from artificial scarcity.
  • From memory, I think Paul Mason discusses this in Post Capitalism.
  • Also the phrase What is possible in the information age is in direct conflict with what is permissible from the Telekommunist Manifesto comes to mind.
• Listened to The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield
• Listened to How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe

• Replacing Google Fonts usage with locally-served font
  • What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?
• It could be time for a new season of Node Club…
  • AKA Homebrew Commons Club
• I should back up my Doom config on Termux.
  • Given I’ve spent enough time configuring it now that it would be a pain to have to redo it.
  • Backing up my Doom Emacs config on Termux.

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)

• Listened to Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism
• Listened to Is the Middle East on the brink?

• Shells.
  • Bash vs Fish vs Zsh vs Nushell? | Lobsters
• Listened to Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”
  • About Israel’s AI targeting system, “Lavender“.
• Read: Emacs: Dead and Loving It
  • “What is dead cannot die”
  • Emacs
• Working on some improvements to the look and feel of my writing mode that I use when in org-roam.for Emacs.
  • Improving my Emacs writing mode

Not sure if this has happened just recently, or I’ve been living with it for a long time, but: case sensitive node search in org-roam was starting to bug me.

• Turns out that it’s Helm that is doing it, when set to the ‘smart’ completion algorithm.
• I just need to (setq helm-case-fold-search t) and all is good – much smoother completion experience.
• See: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/v2-case-insensitive-completion-and-backlinks-not-working-as-expected/1701/17
• In Doom, something different.
• I’ll pop it in a separate note: Turning on case-insensitive search in org-roam

• Listened to New Economics Podcast: Should we be going for growth?
  • Good discussion.
  • Growth. GDP . Degrowth. Green growth. Decoupling. Doughnut economics. Policies for alternatives to growth. Growthism. Growth is structurally baked in – how to change that?
• Listened to Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism
  • LLMs. AGI. Political economy of AI. Neo-Luddism. Left spirituality. Fun wide ranging discussion.
• Habitat loss.
  • One of the most significant threats to biodiversity.
• Film theory looks at films and the effect they have on society.
  • I find this really interesting so learning a little on it via Kinnu.

• Did a bit more on Setting up a literate publish.el with org-babel.