Merge branch 'master' of github.com:flancian/garden

2025-03-21.md

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     - I started packing for the [[us]]:
         - [x] [[alfajores]]
         - [x] [[passport]]
+        - [x] everything else :)
     - Things I want to do during the upcoming trip:
         - [ ] write in the [[zine]], I've been writing in my head for a while and it's time to do some actual writing?
-        - [ ] fix agora bot, hopefully earlier than the trip though?
+        - [x] fix agora bot, hopefully earlier than the trip though?
+          - I finally got to this on the flight to Durham on [[2025-03-23]] -- untested, but at least I made two commits that I think should move the Agora mastodon bot in the right direction.
         - [ ] do some small FR for [[bull]]? which one?
         - [ ] fix [[betulagora]]
-        - [ ] finish packing for the trip
-        - [ ] check in
+        - [x] finish packing for the trip
+        - [x] check in

2025-03-22.md

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   - I thank them for their service! beautiful computer.
   - [[paramita]] was ready to take its spot.
 - [[bouncepaw]] told me about [[xremap]] today! it looks great, like it could fix several issues I had in the back of my mind with the input layer in wayland.
-- New day but I'm working on my todo on [[2025-03-21]] :)
+- New day but I'm working on my todos on [[2025-03-21]] :)
 - I implemented [[chill]] today (late yesterday) to set the light levels at home to a nice late night/hacking level using [[home assistant]], that was somewhere on my todo list :)
 - I read about [[router7]] by [[stapelberg]].

2025-03-23.md

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+- Traveling to the US today!
+  - As I write this I'm typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]].
+  - I've been reading and listening to audiobooks:
+    - I started [[Flowers for Algernon]] on the flight from Zürich, it's already quite moving (as expected).
+    - Then I continued [[Memories of Hadrian]].
+    - Then I started an [[Introduction to Systems Thinking]] by [[Donella Meadows]] called [[Thinking in Systems]].
+- Yesterday I thought again quite a bit about:
+  - [[light]]
+    - led me to read [[photon]] in Wikipedia, very nice article!
+  - [[momentum]]
+  - [[entropy]]
+  - Quiz: what do momentum and entropy have in common?
+- [[Waking up]]:
+  - It turns out there's going to be a community meetup in Zürich on [[2025-04-01]]!
+  - Maybe I could check it out. For more, see the email from [[2025-03-22]].
+- I need to do somthing to bring [[todo]], [[do]], [[next action]] and such under control :)
+  - To begin with I think I just need to re-pick one as the 'root' and start going through it and try to keep my actual priorities at the top.
+  - It's going to be painful (because of the amount of stuff I've amassed! and the fact that even after all this I won't be able to have all my todos there because I have a parallel life at work...) but probably worth it, so maybe I should just get right on with it.
+  - -> done! I refactored [[todo]] a bit, and went through very old todos and actually found them even done. Maybe there's a tune to the chaos I seem to operate in after all, at least some of the time ;)
+- I think having an offline wikipedia could be nice. Or a language model that I can run locally, albeit slowly, but hey... that will come :)
+- I enjoyed reading [[The discrete charm of the Turing machine]] by [[Greg Egan]]. This was in [[Instantiation]]; previously (in February) I read [[The Best of Greg Egan]], a selection of his short stories, and enjoyed them a lot!
+  - He's definitely one of my favorite living writers.
+- Now I'm giving [[Binding Chaos]] a taste, after finding it on my [[Kobo]] and also mentioned in my long term todo mentioned above.
+- Travel day!
+  - As I write this I'm on the second plane today, about to tale off from Heathrow towards Raleigh.
+- Ladu Burup's day as I leave -- I will miss her! She's in good hands though.

Labör.md

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+- a [[place]].
+  - Affolternstrasse 76, Zürich 8050.
+  - #go https://www.laboer.ch
+  - #email mailto:hello@laboer.ch

Thinking in Systems.md

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+- a [[book]].
+  - by [[Donella Meadows]].
+    - It says upfront it's going to be light on math and computer references, which it's a bit of a shame, but I also like that it's written for a general audience.
+    - It's a bit old, from the eighties I believe (but then again, so am I) -- but supposedly it's held up nicely.

hans widmer.md

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 	- [[article]]: https://tageswoche.ch/politik/aus-der-agglo-sollten-wir-staedte-machen-sagt-hans-pm-widmer/
 	- [[bolo]] http://bolo.cnr.ch/
 	- participates in [[kraftwerk 1]]
+  - [[open letter to hans widmer]]
 

light.md

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 # light
 
+- (This node is old and lightly surprising even to me :))
 - a [[thing]].
   - a [[particle]] and a [[wave]]
-  - [[process]]
+- a [[process]]?
     - perhaps [[emergent]]?
-  - [[pull]] [[photons]]
-  - [[pull]] [[fire]]
+  - #pull [[photons]]
+  - #pull [[fire]]
     - it has been said before: [[come on baby light my fire]].
   - [[beams of light]] seem correlated with [[free energy]]
 
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 It is a [[question]] with many interesting [[answers]].
 
+--
+
+As of [[2025-03-23]] I ran into [[Gilbert N. Lewis]]'s letter to Nature where he introduced the word [[photon]] into common usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon -> [[photon]]
+

open letter to hans widmer.md

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+- an [[open letter]].
+  - another one I have yet to write :) but I get the feeling I'm likely to get to this one eventually.

photon.md

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+- "We are reminded of the process in which a molecule loses or gains a whole atom or a whole electron but never a fraction of one or the other" -- [[Gilbert Lewis]] in [[The Conservation of Photons]].
+  - "[[Einstein]] was led to the idea of light quanta which has proved so fertile"
+  - "…two photons, as seen by a single observer, differ in direction of motion, in energy and in polarisation".
+  - "If we were moving with rapid acceleration toward a wireless station, its photons would appear to possess increasing amounts of energy, and would pass over the whole spectral scale through the visible and into the ultraviolet"
+  - "Even so fundamental a process as the flow of heat must involve two factors, the amount of energy and the number of photons transferred"
+- From Wikipedia:
+  - > The name photon derives from the Greek word for light, [[φῶς]] (transliterated phôs).
+  - > Although Wolfers's and Lewis's theories were contradicted by many experiments and never accepted, the new name was adopted by most physicists very soon after Compton used it.
+  - > In physics, a photon is usually denoted by the symbol [[γ]] (the Greek letter gamma). This symbol for the photon probably derives from gamma rays,
+  - (...) (this article is great)
+  - > Dirac's second-order perturbation theory can involve [[virtual photons]], transient intermediate states of the electromagnetic field; the static [[electric]] and [[magnetic]] interactions are mediated by such virtual photons. 

photons.md

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+- #pull [[photon]]

todo.md

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-# Todo
-
 - A [[list]].
-  - Of [[actions]] :)
-    - To be strict, this is more of a [[tree]], but you get the idea ;)
-  - See also: [[do]], for the alternate (maybe more regular) phrasing.
+  - Of things I want/wanted to do.
+  - To be strict, this is more of a [[graph]], but you get the idea ;)
+  - See also: [[do]], for the alternate (maybe more regular) phrasing, and other nodes such as [[next action]], [[agora plan]].
+
+This is one of those nodes that must begin with an introduction, or if the bullet list in nodes usually serves as introduction, then a pre-introduction :)
+I have so many todos that my todos often have their own todos. They are distributed around my computers, around my home, around the office.
+
+As of [[2025-03]] I'm making a "fresh start" in the sense that I intend to come back here and actually clean up and order things, and try to keep this in roughly priority order so that the things I'm working on next are roughly towards the top. Let's see if it works!
+
+## [[2025-03]]
+
+- [ ] write in the [[zine]], I've been writing in my head for a while and it's time to do some actual writing?
+- [ ] test mastodon [[agora bot]] "fix"
+- [ ] fix [[betulagora]]
+- [ ] respond to the email from Mike Kupfer.
+- [ ] check out the link(s) that [[smurp]] sent to me
+- [ ] process his signup to the Agora! which I saw just before leaving for travel, looking forward :)
+- [ ] do some small FR for [[bull]]? which one?
+- [ ] fill the [[Labör]] survey
+
+## [[2023]] and earlier
+
+- Meta: Instead of deleting many of these, I may just copy/paste the ones I still want to do above?
 - [ ] [[write]] to [[hans widmer]]
   - I didn't do this yet but I met him in [[Paranoia Verlag]] and spoke to him shortly :)
+  - -> This would go well into an [[open letter to hans widmer]] node?
 - [[answer]] Riccardo on Foam discord
   - I am not using Foam, so I think I will deprioritize this -- although I like [[Riccardo]] and [[Foam]] still!
 - Go over my [[twitter todo]] and move items to the agora
+  - Update: huh, this is so old that I have since both 1. stopped using Twitter (now X) as Elon Musk shut down API access, and 2. been suspended from X for no clear reason and with no recourse/answer to my questions about motivation.
   - https://flancia.org/go/twitter-todo.
   - I have mostly moved on from [[Twitter]] due to [[Muskgate]] and such :)
-  - The [[Fediverse]] has replaced it in a way; I think the right [[next action]] here
+  - The [[Fediverse]] has replaced it in a way; I think the right [[next action]] here likely has to do with that.
+    - And/or [[Bluesky]]?
 - [[answer]] https://twitter.com/peternlimberg/status/1301937727588503554
   - https://thestoa.substack.com/p/just-fucking-send-it [[peternlindberg]] [[read]]
   - https://thestoa.substack.com/p/the-dark-forest [[peternlindberg]] [[read]]
+  - ? I am currently on a plane offline but these look intriguing. I think it's about that philosopher's house in SF I once found?
 - [x] Become a contributor for [[social.coop]]: https://opencollective.com/socialcoop
-  - [[tweet]] about it
-  - [[tweet]] about opencollective.com: https://opencollective.com/flancia
+  - [x] [[tweet]] about it
+  - [x] [[tweet]] about opencollective.com: https://opencollective.com/flancia
   - [x] Sign into social.coop
-- [[read]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
-- [[read]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial
+  - I have definitely become a contributor since :) So, yeah... this is actually done! See [[social coop tech group]], [[twg]], [[organizing circle]] and such.
+- [x] [[read]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
+  - This probably happened since :) I actually have learnt a lot about the Fediverse, and participated, since I wrote this.
+  - The Agora has even had an Agora bot in the Fediverse for years now, currently at social.agor.ai :)
+  - So I guess I *did* do some things!
+- [ ] [[read]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial
+  - I think I read this but I'm unsure so I'll leave this open.
 - [[write]] about things people want to read about: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1305069564158500865
-  - [[write]] "Minimum set of requirements, necessary and sufficient, for Flancia to sprout and flourish. In other words: Why can't we get it done by the end of today (GMT)?"
-  - [[write]] "Is there a place for aesthetic transcendence in Flancia?"
+  - [ ] [[write]] "Minimum set of requirements, necessary and sufficient, for Flancia to sprout and flourish. In other words: Why can't we get it done by the end of today (GMT)?"
+  - [ ] [[write]] "Is there a place for aesthetic transcendence in Flancia?"
     - Trascendence: "to touch the infinite" 
     - Watch https://twitter.com/codexeditor/status/1261626600010866688 recommended by [[Codex]]
     - "Would be interested to hear your thoughts on agorae" by [[cklorentzen]]
-- [[read]] about [[Jainism]]
+- [x] [[read]] about [[Jainism]]
+  - I did this at some point, and I also read a lot of Buddhist suttas, some of which touch on Jainism :)
 - [x] Advance [[Go Links]]
     - Add some graphs?
     - "[[TODO]]: research open source ways of drawing 1. protocol diagrams and 2. graph visualizations. Is dia the best there is, or should I use something higher level? This is sort of implicitly blocking calling my [[Go Links]] post finished."
     - Edit
-    - Post to Twitter
-- [[read]] something by [[meaningness]]
+    - [x] Post to Twitter
+- [x] [[read]] something by [[meaningness]]
+  - This totally happened at some point.
 - [[write]] a sci fi short story about [[orthodox jews that wear 80s clothing]]
+  - Wow, this was unexpected :) I don't remember the context at all..
+  - [ ] Hmm, now I do :) It was funny, maybe I should still do it? Where do I keep all my fictional + potentially funny ideas again?
 - [[write]] [[Twitter report]]
   - Or adopt suggestions in thread if any?
+  - I don't remember what this was about and X has broke ties with me for some reason, so I guess this just didn't happen in this timeline!
 - [x] [[think]] about https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1297295559133462529
 - [x] Get back to: https://twitter.com/dpovey1/status/1296681168142655490
 - [x] Read [[ribbonfarm]] as recommended by [[AbstractFairy]]
 - [[read]] the original (?) blog post about [[digital garden]]s.
+  - Which one?
 - [x] Respond to email from [[social.coop]]
 - [x] Investigate social.coop, set up donation.
-- [ ] [[write]] [[Agora for EA]].
+- [x] [[write]] [[Agora for EA]].
+  - Hmm, EA is having reputation problems nowadays after Scammy McScamPants did FTX and such. Just this week someone called me an idiot in the Fediverse because of trying to "defend" the reasonable core of EA.
+  - [ ] Maybe [[Agora for Altruism]] is a better framing?
 - [x] [[read]] [[Zhuangzi]] as recommended by [[ikesharpless]]
-- [ ] [[code]] [[Twitter Go Links]]
+- [x] [[code]] [[Twitter Go Links]]
+  - I think I did this? I mean, I did have the Agora bot running on Twitter until Musk killed it...
 - [ ] [[write]] [[Caramel City]]
+  - The draft is still there, published since its inception. It's weird how much of it has come so much closer to real...
 - [x] [[code]] [[Roam Go Links]]
   - Dropped Roam as a personal platform.
-- [ ] [[read]] [[bolo'bolo]]
+- [x] [[read]] [[bolo'bolo]]
+  - Totally did this!
 - [ ] [[read]] [[Binding Chaos]]
+  - Totally have this on my list still :)
 - [ ] [[read]] [[Seeing like a State]]
-
-## Done
+  - I didn't finish it but I read the first chapter so far.
 - [x] Meta: fix go links that pointed to Roam. 
 - [x] Figure out [[Foam]] rendering to [[github pages]]
   - Made obsolete by the Agora.