Category: journal

• 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.

• Learning about biodiversity via the Kinna app.
  • Variety of species. At various levels.
  • Essential to the health of the planet.
  • Genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity.
• Listened to Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha
  • Fascinating discussion. Post Capitalism. Post here not meaning ‘after’ but ‘in relation to’. Pluralistic. Past and present examples: Zapatistas. Rojava. Indigenous worldviews. Relational ontologies and OntoShift.

• Migrating my publish.el to a Literate publish.el.
  • To make it a bit more understandable to others, and also as a push for me to tidy it up.

• Made good progress on adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden.
  • Testing my org-export customisations with ERT was incredibly helpful, would have been a bit of a nightmare otherwise.

• Listened to Should the UK stop arming Israel?
  • Drone strike killed seven aid workers. (Some of whom British).
  • While Israel says it was a mistake, suggestion is that this is in line with Israel’s current rules of engagement.
  • UK sells a small amount of arms to the UK. Sunak threatening to stop this unless more aid allowed.
• Nonprofits should (almost) never write their own software
  • From the Aspiration Manifesto.
  • Being the tech lead for a non-profit that develops our own software – I fully agree. We are currently going through a process of trying to divest as much bespoke code as possible to pre-existing (FLOSS) software.
  • One alternative I see, where no other software exists for the desired purpose, is for non-profits to perhaps be incubators for the software, but always with an intention to exit to community / exit the software to cooperative.

• My publish.el file would be a good candidate for a literate config approach. Would make it more useful for other people to make use of then I think. Also would make me tidy it up.
• Listened again to Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
  • Parallel Polis, Vaclav Havel.
  • Touches on similar stuff as recent Vincent Bevins podcasts re: failed revolutions of the 2010s.
    • Technology helped spread viral messaging for movements, did little to help collective decision making and long-term organisation.
  • Mentions Loomio, Action Network.
• When I get a moment I’ll make a page of gardening tasks for myself.
  • Just simple things like reviewing nodes that haven’t been edited for a long time; reviewing empty nodes to either prune or flesh out; etc.
• Ecology.
  • interaction between organisms and their environment.
  • communities, ecosystems, biomes.
  • producers, consumers, decomposers.
  • food chains, food webs.
  • energy flows, trophic levels.
  • nutrient cycles.

• If you share your commonplace book to the knowledge commons, is it then a commonsplace book?