• A bit more on Testing my org-export customisations with ERT.

• Had a quick read about Passkeys.
• Listened to Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna

• Listened to Hotel Bar Sessions: Whose Anthropocene?
  • Good discussion – is Anthropocene a useful term? Maybe Capitalocene works better? Maybe both have their uses. Good overview of the pros and cons of both.
  • There’s a geological definition of Anthropocene (descriptive), which is interesting and all, but perhaps of more genuine use is it as a definition that motivates us to act to mitigate climate catastrophe (prescriptive).

• Also listened to Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon
  • Great discussion. Loads of good stuff in there, listened while doing chores so not much in the way of notes, warrants a relisten.
  • Platform Socialism. Guild socialism. Subsidiarity. Some things best as worker coops, some local municipality, some national. Some global. Global digital services. Take Google into global public ownership?
  • DECODE.

• Went for a walk and listened to The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)
  • Silicon Valley Imperialism.

• Following a stumble through the garden related to , re-reading The Telekommunist Manifesto.
  • political economy of network topologies
  • political economy of free software
• Also plan to re-read The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution.

• 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.

• 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.
  • What’s new in Emacs 28?
• 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.