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Sep 28, 2025, 8:20 PM -04:00 Implementing a Reading List in Org Mode
I joined Goodreads in 2012, at roughly the same time I joined Twitter, in what might be called a more innocent age of social networking. The idea of a social network for book readers appealed to me at the time.
Fast forward to 2025, and the world looks different. Twitter/X has turned into a hellscape run by a super villain, and Goodreads, though not quite a hellscape, is slow, dated and run by a company with dubious ethics.
I ended up deactivating my Twitter account - not that difficult given that I never really gained a following. As it turns out, my use of Goodreads as a social network never really took off either - I don't think my friend list ever exceeded 20 people. I used it much more as a log of my reading habits, a record of every book I ever read or wanted to read. That made it easier to think about finding a replacement.
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Jun 8, 2025, 4:26 PM -04:00 
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Apr 25, 2025, 9:19 AM -04:00 From what I understand, Dennett's response to the Chinese Room was that we find it unconvincing because we don't think of it in enough detail.
This used to be my position as well, until ChatGPT came along. Now we have extremely convincing syntax generation, without genuine intentionality behind it. So I guess I have to believe there's something more to genuine intelligence here.
Indieweb.Socialadamclaxon (@adamclaxon@indieweb.social)
@desmondrivet I find this very intriguing; Dennett's views on consciousness and qualia are interesting, but ultimately unconvincing to me. Though I do land somewhere between Searle and Dennett on this debate. I'd be interesting to know your thoughts. -
Apr 24, 2025, 3:48 PM -04:00 "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power"
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Apr 24, 2025, 1:27 PM -04:00 There is something to be said about the connection between ChatGPT, John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment and Dan Dennett's response to it, but I'm not totally clear what that would be. I'm leaning towards Dan Dennet being wrong, though.
Chinese room - Wikipedia
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Apr 8, 2025, 8:39 AM -04:00 It's that time of the year in Montreal, when you have to alternate between wearing your winter coat and spring jacket several times in the same week.
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Apr 3, 2025, 11:09 AM -04:00 If I have learned anything from the Trump tariffs imposed yesterday it's that we've obviously all been underestimating penguins. Sneaky little devils.
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Apr 2, 2025, 9:38 AM -04:00 I saw my first cyber truck the other night, "in the flesh" so to speak, and I was unprepared for the level of revulsion I would feel.
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Mar 13, 2025, 11:22 PM -04:00 
beige.partyπΏπΆππΆ "not yet begun to fight" (@Lana@beige.party)
Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts: 1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales. 2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances. 3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute. 4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them. 5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout. You. Are. Powerful. They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up. You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance. And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it. -
Mar 13, 2025, 1:21 PM -04:00 I have downloaded an app called "Buy Beaver" and I can't believe it's come to this
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Feb 3, 2025, 10:28 PM -05:00 Ton ZijlstraSep 15, 2019, 10:21 AM -04:00Joining RSS Club as an Experiment
A few days ago Frank Meeuwsen wrote a posting only available through his RSS feed, not otherwise easily visible on his blog. His RSS only postings do still have URLs of course and can be directly accessed that way. But they do not show up on the front page, in search, or as part of archive overviews. Itβs open secret so to say. Public but somewhat hidden. Heβs replicating an idea by Dave Rupert, who started what he called RSS Club early last year. More on RSS Club further down. Limiting Week... -
Feb 3, 2025, 10:25 PM -05:00 Bookmark of https://smallweb.cc/
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smallweb
a manually curated collection of neat indie websites :) -
Feb 3, 2025, 10:24 PM -05:00 Bookmark of https://ooh.directory/
@OohDirectory
ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
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Jan 30, 2025, 9:36 PM -05:00 It's Not Nostalgia, Exactly
I have spent most of my life in Montreal but there was a decent sized chunk in the middle, spanning high school and university, when I lived in Toronto.
I still visit Toronto not infrequently. I have a soft spot for it; at the very least, I don't harbour quite the same level visceral hatred a lot of people seem to lob at the city.
But I haven't lived there for over 20 years. Obviously, a lot has changed in that time. I'm not sure I could live there now. I mean, I guess I could but my life would look very different. The place is so huge, and the housing so expensive, that I'm not sure it would be a good trade.
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Jan 21, 2025, 6:04 PM -05:00 
ChaosfemEmily π³οΈββ§οΈ (Injection Arc) (@EmilyGB2023@chaosfem.tw)
@RickiTarr@beige.party You know, I really think there's just this vast untapped market for movies like Muppet Christmas Carol. It's a movie, and 95% of the cast is Muppets, and no one ever remarks on this. Played absolutely straight. Is that Animal in a still suit? Did John Wick just get in a knife fight with Kermit? Did Mrs Piggy jjust avert a world war by translating a language so hard she saw the future and created a stable time loop? FUCK YEAH. I've never watched Inception, but can you honestly say it wouldn't be better with Muppets? -
Jan 19, 2025, 7:35 PM -05:00 I Never Considered Myself Naive
I never thought that the law applied equally to rich people and poor people. I never considered myself that naive. I had always understood that rich people could break the law in ways that poor people simply couldn't.
But I had always assumed that the way this worked in practice was that being rich just came with a heightened ability to cover your tracks. I had always assumed that, rich or poor, it was of supreme importance not to get caught, and that being rich simply bought you more options in that regard. Maybe you could bribe a police officer, or a judge, and make the charges go away. Maybe you could afford to hire someone to do the dirty work for you, or take the fall for you if it came to that.
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Jan 10, 2025, 8:27 AM -05:00 Bookmark of https://seds.nl/notes/org-roam-firefox-bookmark/
Ben MezgerOrg-roam Firefox bookmark
tags Org-mode Emacs Org-roam Org-roam has roam-protocol, which we can call throughout the system just like Org-mode Firefox bookmarks. Org-roam protocol supports specifying the roam template to use. Template is the template key for a template in org-roam-capture-ref-templates. More documentation on the templating system can be found here. These templates should contain a #+ROAM_KEY: ${ref} in it. Roam-ref protocol # Find and creates from with a specific ROAM_KEY javascript:location.href = 'org-protocol://roam-ref?template=r&ref=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href) + '&title=' + encodeURIComponent(document.title) -
Jan 10, 2025, 8:27 AM -05:00 Bookmark of https://seds.nl/notes/orgmode-firefox-bookmark/
Ben MezgerOrg-mode Firefox bookmarks
tags Org-mode Emacs Add the following scripts to call org-capture from Firefox Call capture template # The following calls capture template key n javascript:location.href='org-protocol://capture?template=n'+'&url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&body='+encodeURIComponent(window.getSelection()); Without a capture template # If unspecified, the template key is set in the variable org-protocol-default-template-key. The following template placeholders are available: %:link The URL %:description The webpage title %:annotation Equivalent to [[%:link][%:description]] %i The selected text See: https:orgmode.org/manual/The-capture-protocol.html#The-capture-protocol -
Dec 30, 2024, 2:16 PM -05:00 Bookmark of https://gitlab.com/howardabrams/emacs-rpgdm
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Howard Abrams / emacs-rpgdm Β· GitLab
Emacs package of functions for helping support the Dungeon Master in a Role-playing Game. -
Dec 30, 2024, 2:15 PM -05:00 Bookmark of https://codeberg.org/howardabrams/emacs-rpgtk
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emacs-rpgtk
A toolkit of functions for writing RPGs in Emacs. An emphasis is placed on Solo RPGs organized in Org-formatted files, but we can grow this. -
Dec 25, 2024, 7:45 AM -05:00 
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Dec 21, 2024, 12:36 PM -05:00 I've actually been toying with the idea of switching to Hugo to learn some Go and also because the org mode integration is a bit better.
social.lolJack Baty (@jbaty@social.lol)
My Hugo blog is working just fine, so of course my brain is nagging me with thoughts like, "But, but, but remember Eleventy? That sure was neat!" -
Dec 21, 2024, 12:30 PM -05:00 I've been using Eleventy for my blog for the last 3 years or so, and I'm finding the experience...okay? It's more complicated to set up than Pelican, which I was using before, but also a lot more amenable to programming yourself out of problems.
social.lolJack Baty (@jbaty@social.lol)
My Hugo blog is working just fine, so of course my brain is nagging me with thoughts like, "But, but, but remember Eleventy? That sure was neat!" -
Dec 16, 2024, 7:47 PM -05:00 Annual Christmas tree snap
