Also, I'm glad to announce the Edi Rama is being officially classified as part of the Reactionary International. This has been the greatest achievement of the #flamingoRevolution so far: it has ruined Rama's carefully curated image internationally, and he's super mad about it
Realizing I haven't posted anything for more than a month of the ongoing #flamingoRevolution so here's a well-made investigation to make sense of what triggered such protests of unseen popularity in Albania.
As my regular followers might have guessed from my last months now page update and the status update a few weeks after, I've embarked in a new musical project. Inspired by this years Rewire festival, and the years-long insistence of Olsi , I was considering taking my newly acquired synthesizers hobby (forgive me Adorno for using this word) more seriously. And the announcement of the second edition…
Friends know me for my amazing humus, but they still haven’t tried the latest addition to my legume dips: the FAVA! It’s so yummy 🤤
I will just put this in my bookmarks, because although it might feel weird to post content from the Vatican website, the letter makes some really good points about the perils of AI. I'm not even catholic, but the text feels like you're reading through a mastodon or bluesky thread of tech criticism. It got me nodding my head and saying "so true bestie" on every other paragraph, as in: We cannot be…
Bandcamp is one of those rare cases where the mobile website works better than the app
Recent problems with the wallabag instance I was using to save articles for later got me thinking about hosting, no, rather, building my own read-it-later app. Being primarily a developer and not an infra guy, I feel overwhelmed when looking at the instructions and specifications for hosting these ready-made apps. They might be pretty good in themselves, but sometimes lean toward overkill. I just…
My work desk for the next week or so
I don't get this thing with youtube, do they or do they not want me to watch their videos? Cause blocking me with captchas and asking to sign in to confirm I'm not a robot isn't really helping!
I don’t get this thing with youtube, do they or do they not want me to watch their videos? Cause giving me captchas and asking me to sign in to confirm I'm a human sure doesn’t help me watch
While contemplating my approach to political engagement after a discussion with some party comrades, I found myself mapping our disagreement onto philosophical debates fron Ancient Greece. I've always been fond of Epicureanism as an attitude for times of crisis, or for life in general, and kind of disliked Stoicism due to its (in my opinion) unnecessary embrace of hardship and its tendency to…
The Eudaimonic Compass: a funny little quiz to check your ethico-political convictions against ancient philosophical traditions: https://eudaimonic-compass.neocities.org/
First you're put off because they're microsoft. Then you cringe at the content people post there. And now you find out (surprise surprise!) that they're actively spying on you every time you visit their site (because they're microsoft, remember?). Why the hell are people still on linkedin? https://browsergate.eu/
Quick update since the seasons are changing, and quite a few things have changed for me as well. My period working for Coko Foundation is coming to an end, as the foundation is shutting down. It's been a very nice 4 years collaboration, and I really liked Coko's mission and philosophy, so I'll remember the good time I had here as one of the best places I've worked at. The bright side is that I'll…
"A striking datum of this war is how few attempts have been made at selling it, rhetorically dignifying it, morally arming it or situating it in some context of shared Western interests. [...] Of course, since the Gaza genocide, in which Washington spearheaded a global coalition behind a far-right extermination campaign while liberal apologists cultivated a studied obliviousness, the belligerati…
Me when I google search
Failed my driver's licence test, but got myself a bike
Ever felt jealous of rich people for having a much larger carbon footprint than you? Now you can pollute from the comfort of your home, with Claude Code.
Ai code assistants are like cars: ecologically hazardous infrastructures that once they set in everybody wants them, or even needs them, to do things they didn’t have to do in the first place
We are witnessing the proletarianization of high-skill work, where the autonomous creator is demoted to a supervisor of a machine that has swallowed their craft By ridiculing the technology’s real labour effects while focusing mainly on externalities (energy use) and upstream harms (exploitation of marginalized data workers), you can end up offering reassurance precisely where society needs…
Me after failing the driving test #fuckCars #publicTransportFTW
I use BookWyrm to track my reading. I switched from Goodreads to BookWyrm in 2023, right after I started using Mastodon and become more acquainted to the Fediverse in general, so ditching the Amazon-owned book platform for an independent one on fedi was a no-brainer. The platform does a decent job as a reading catalog, and since it's powered by ActivityPub it's part of the social web, meaning you…
Bookshelf now live at https://grgml.xyz/bookshelf/
Does owning property make us more fascists? This essay investigates the ideological roots of the liberal attitude towards private ownership and its political consequences. Property organizes our ethical relations, our ecological conditions, and our subjective identities. It habituates us to a grammar of command and deference. property is not a neutral legal tool but a central site of social…
Libs are so gullible, or just shamelessly playing their role as propagandists of the empire, because how the hell do you read the Epstein files, with Epstein being you know what, his wife being you know what, with clear indications of him and his wife's father working for you know who, and you twist everything up and conclude that it was some Russian operation all along? Like are you r*tarded or…
I didn't want to bookmark just a link, but a whole conversation. Evgeny Morozov, Aaron Benanav and Leif Weatherby have been engaging in a polemical exchange on the meaning, impact and future possibilities opened by a technology like AI in a world not organized around private property and the profit motive. Taking aim at Benanav's two-part essay on NLR titled Beyond Capitalism , Morozov…
I’m considering migrating to a new mastodon instance in the coming weeks/months. Indieweb.social is good and has a cool domain name, but the local timeline is not really inspiring to me, I think it’s hosted on the US, and the about page is too dry and tech-focused. Already have the new instance in mind, but will announce it when the time comes.
So is it ok if I put multiple .u-bookmark-of inside a singe bookmark .h-entry ? #indieweb
In case you didn't notice, I've added a second theme to my website. In this blogpost I will give an overview of how I manage my themes and how you could go about adding multiple themes to your website. A note on SCSS When I started writing this post I realized that I'm still using SCSS files for my styles, and eleventy-plugin-sass-lightningcss to process and bundle them up in a single file. And I…
Why are we still using scss files in 2026? Why am I still doing it on my site that I fully control? Time to retire this relic, only native css from now on.
Say what you want about Lea Ypi, she drives the right people mad and she has my unconditional respect for this
Silly me for enabling experimental grid masonry on my firefox, forgetting about it, and acting like everything is fine for months!
It's been a while since my last technical blogpost, and there's been quite a few changes to the website since then, so it was about time to start documenting the new features. In my last update , I describe how after creating my posts (status updates or bookmarks) in the editor and pushing them to the website, I would grab the url of the new post and syndicate it manually from the bridgy web…
Another great piece by Cédric Durand on the perils of the AI boom, built on speculative financing, dubious productivity gains, customer lock-in strategies, unsustainable ecological footprint, and space colonisation fantasies that go hand in hand good old resource-hungry imperialism. The future looks bleak.
Not sure if I should keep calling this the "now" page or rather the "last few months" page, since that's how often I update it. Anyway. So what have I been up to? A lot, although nothing groundbreaking. I had a period of frequent changes to the website a few months back, from adding a new theme to the image previewer, to posting via obsidian and automatically syndicating posts on mastodon while…
Research platform bringing together books, articles and publications related to the history and debates around democratic planning.
This post was created via the obsidian app 🥳 So now i can use obsidian to update my website. No more lame decap-cms, no more “sign in with gitlab” to post a status update, just open obsidian, create new note with a template in the right directory, write your post and sync! Terrific!
Last night’s halloween themed spooky read was Groys on Russian cosmists and the biopolitics of immortality. “All the people who have ever lived must rise from the dead as artworks […]. Death's limits must be overcome by the state.“
Tfw you know it should be satire but you start having doubts
The United States and Europe have long used unilateral sanctions as a tool of imperial power, to discipline and even destroy Global South governments that seek to shake off Western domination, chart an independent path, and establish any kind of meaningful sovereignty. several times more people are killed by sanctions each year than are killed as direct casualties of war. More than half of the…
Overshoot is the idea that we can go way beyond 1.5 degrees of global heating and then, sometime in the future, somehow, bring the temperatures down to acceptable levels. It is an obscene idea based on wishful thinking, technological solutionism and protecting the interests of fossil capital. This 4 part series explores the history, science and the delusions around the idea overshoot.
Not to feel self-complacent but
With mounting evidence and new atrocities every day, every international body, even the most refrained ones, are forced to admit what we’ve been saying from day one, that Isr*el is a genocidal entity and knows only one way to deal with Palestinians’ rightful claim to self determination. Not sure how people who were in denial feel nowadays, but considering that there still exist scums who refuse to…
Are you one of those people that insists that summer ends on September 21st or do you follow the meteorological convention that September 1st is the start of autumn? I'm more for the second option, although for me personally summer ends when I'm back from my last week of vacations, which usually is around the first week of September. Temperatures are still relatively high, but that's just climate…
A few days ago while hanging out with some comrades I encountered what seems to be a not-that-uncommon position among some leftists, at least in non-western countries: a certain dislike of vegans and veganism in general. I will briefly sum up what I understand to be their critique and why i think it’s misguided. Their primary issue with vegans seems to be their preaching. According to them, vegans…
This thing can make you very angry, proceed with caution
"suspicion therefore arises that the Trumpist aberration is not in fact so aberrant – that it rather expresses a systemic, or at least governmental, tendency."
[Saito] warns against acting as if “the productive forces developed under capitalism” are “neutral forces that can be taken over by the proletariat and utilized for establishing a socialist society.” Degrowth, he suggests, would require redefining what it means to live well—valuing sufficiency, generosity, and care over quantity, convenience, and speed. “The only way to realize happiness for all…
So this new pipeline config should read the result of the request to post my latest status update to mastodon, grab the id and add it as frontmatter data to the md file of that post, after which i would be able to fetch and render all interactions with the post from the mastodon api.
TIL emoji domains are a thing and i feel like I’ve been living under a rock, why did nobody tell me about this before