- Adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden not as straight forward as it could be.
- Using it as an opportunity to get familiar with ERT. Testing my org-export customisations with ERT.
- Should be simpler to write against small tests rather than having to go through the whole publish pipeline.
Kind: Articles
- Late night listened to What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)
- Social data.
- Has predictive value.
- Three ways to extract surplus value with it:
- 1. Just sell it on, e.g. data broker
- 2. Use it to exploit people based on knowledge from the data
- 3. Use it to exert power (e.g. Uber’s Greyball program)
I’ve been picking up the guitar again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I’m really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some John Fahey too.
- Noticed that someone (haji-ali) has forked and updated both calfw and calfw-blocks.
- https://github.com/haji-ali/emacs-calfw
- https://github.com/haji-ali/calfw-blocks/
- Might be worth making use of these. Have a read through the fork changelogs.
- Further to trying out org-timeblock, I’m now trying out calfw-blocks.
- As part of a general attempt to be able to do timeblocking in org-mode. (Using org-mode for timeblocking).
- Although in general it feels the same (possibly slower? because I didn’t compile it myself?), one thing that is much faster in Emacs 28 is the parsing of my huge Tasks org file for work. Thumbs up.
- I’d like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have ‘planted’ and ‘last tended’ dates on each page.
- I already have ‘This page last updated: …’ at the bottom of every page.
- But I’d prefer it right at the top. Not too prominent/distracting, but I have some pretty old pages knocking around now and I’d like people to be aware that they might be outdated.
- org-timeblock looks pretty good and like it’d fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.
- I used to use Goalist on Android and it was great, but I got annoyed that I couldn’t sync it and make use of it anywhere else.
- So… trying out org-timeblock. However, hitting a bunch of issues from the beginning.
- We watched Soul again.
- Such a lovely film. Heartwarming message, great music, great visuals, funny for the whole family.
- I listened to What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins
- Vincent Bevins again on his book If We Burn.
- Really interesting stuff.
- I like the very loose analogy between what happened to the internet and what happened to the movement of the squares.
- Basically a form of The Tyranny of Structurelessness in both.
- Also listened to Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor
- Insecurity and security – in more of social and psychological meanings of the word than the technical sense.
- Claim: Capitalism requires insecurity.
- Claim: Social insurance is a bulwark against insecurity.
- Also by Astra: The Dads of Tech and The People’s Platform.
- We have national insurance in the UK.
- Wonder when it was introduced?
- Never really thought much about insurance before.
- Superficially it seems a boring topic. But this and Jathan Sadowski podcast discussion (How the World Became Uninsurable) recently making me realise it’s kind of fundamental and sadly mostly privatised.
- Returning a little to IndieWeb for following activity streams. I had been using the Fediverse for a while, but I find it a bit too fast paced, a bit too attention grabbing. For me. IndieWeb is kind of slow social media and that suits me fine.
- hyperorg could be useful for me.
- Either for publishing wiki to web, or could be a useful internal parser for the Agora? Python based.
- Listened: Yanis Varoufakis, “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”
- Great interview with Yanis Varoufakis.
- Techno-feudalism.
- Ultimate goal: socialisation of cloud capital (i.e. Big tech)
- Only America and China have cloud capital.
- Glad they mention McKenzie Wark – Varoufakis says he agrees with all of it.
- Listened: Democracy for sale, Europe’s first black leader + tea with Obama
- Political donations.
- New first minister of Wales is first black leader of a country in Europe.
- Rwanda bill.
- Listened: Black Box: Episode 6 – Shut it down?
- Eliezer Yudkowsky with AI doonerism.
- Alternate positive view from Alex Hern.
- One disappointment with the series as a whole is there’s no mention of environmental impact or questioning of who owns AI technology.
- Listened: The silencing of climate protesters in English and Welsh courts
- Latest in a long line of crackdowns on defences that climate protesters can use in the courts.
- One of which made it an offence to use the words ‘climate change’ in court.
- Listened: Vulture Capitalism – Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley
- Interesting interview and book sounds worth a read.
- A lot sounds like analysis of problems, but they talk about some potential solutions and examples too. (Cooperation Jackson, Blaenau Ffestiniog, The Lucas Plan)
- Read: ‘It’s Not Rocket Science – It’s Just Community’: Radical Ffestiniog
- My great grandad was from Blaenau Ffestiniog. Nice to have this little connection.