Andy K S @akstuhl@assemblag.es

later, on the plight of salmon/alewife/shad who've been blocked from their old rivers by dams and factories: "Armed with no sword, no electric shock, but mere Shad, armed only with innocence and a just cause, with tender dumb mouth only forward, and scales easy to be detached. I for one am with thee, and who knows what may avail a crow-bar against that Billerica dam?"

intriguing bit from Thoreau on "the fish principle in nature" – "There are fishes wherever there is a fluid medium, and even in clouds and in melted metals we detect their semblance."

a nice thing about Pauline Oliveros's essay "Quantum Improvisation" (delivered at a conf in 1999, included in the 2008 book _Sound Unbound_) is that she uses the term Data properly ­– to refer to the Star Trek TNG character

starting up a new thread for this week, aiming for 500 words per day on diss chapter 1

today: 645 words

cool short-term, paid, remote residency for grad students: Environmental Media Lab (@EnvMediaLab@twitter.com) seeking scholars with a degrowth computing practice https://environmentalmedialab.com/grad-scholar-in-residence

here's more than anyone should want to read about text editors.
https://akstuhl.net/blog/2022-07-16-text-editors.html
TLDR I think gedit is great.

here's the slightly longer single line tool I use to clean up and paste text from a PDF (this was an enormous time-saver for me in its atom package form):

xclip -o -selection clipboard | tr '[\n\r]' ' ' | sed -E -e "s/- //g" -e "s/[ \t]*$//" -e "s/[\"\“\”]|[\’\‘]+/\'/g"

pretty wild to me that this one-line config adds a Zotero citation picker hotkey to gedit. thanks to the Better BibTex Zotero plugin maintainers for designing it this way.

Gnome seems to be switching from gedit to the new Gnome Text Editor. The former's future seems iffy. The latter looks beautiful and has great markdown support, but its devs are explicitly opposed to re-implementing external tools (https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/st4qi5/are_there_plans_to_have_something_like_the/). This is a bummer, as Gnome Builder (where they figure users wanting any advanced features will go) has far too much IDE stuff for a non-code writing workflow.

still not loving emacs. thought about going the opposite direction: less reliance on editor features and more on os/utilities. learned about gedit's external tools plugin, which lets you pin bash commands to keyboard shortcuts. this seems pretty ideal – I'd way rather re-implement my atom packages as bash scripts than as elisp (both for familiarity and portability). BUT...