Okay less of an emergency and more of the slow creeping predictable outcome, but none the less

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Jon Stewart dives into Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a. DOGE, and how the Elon Musk-led project masks its allegiance to corporate overlords and negligence to the American people under the guise of slashing the government's budget.

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I write my blog posts in Org Mode and export them to Eleventy with ox-11ty, which is derived from the ox-html backend.

Sometimes I want to link to something in a different blog post. This lets me build on thoughts that are part of a post instead of being a whole post on their own.

If I haven't added an anchor to the blog post yet, I can add one so that I can link to that section. For really old posts where I don't have an Org source file, I can edit the HTML file directly and add an id="some-id" so that I can link to it with /url/to/post#some-id. Most of my new posts have Org source, though. I have a my-blog-edit-org function and a my-blog-edit-html function in my Emacs configuration to make it easier to jump to the Org file or HTML for a blog post.

If the section has a heading, then it's easy to make that linkable with a custom name. I can use org-set-property to set the CUSTOM_ID property to the anchor name. For example, this voice access section has a heading that has CUSTOM_ID, as you can see in the . If I don't mind having long anchor names, I can use the my-assign-custom-ids function from my config to automatically set them based on the outline path.

(defun my-assign-custom-ids ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((custom-ids
         (org-map-entries (lambda () (org-entry-get (point) "CUSTOM_ID")) "CUSTOM_ID={.}")))
    (org-map-entries
     (lambda ()
       (let ((slug
              (replace-regexp-in-string
               "^-\\|-$" ""
               (replace-regexp-in-string "[^A-Za-z0-9]+" "-"
                                         (downcase (string-join (org-get-outline-path t) " "))))))
         (while (member slug custom-ids)
           (setq slug (read-string "Manually set custom ID: ")))
         (org-entry-put (point) "CUSTOM_ID" slug)))
     "-CUSTOM_ID={.}")))

  #+ATTR_HTML: :id interest-development
  That reminds me a little of another reflection
  I've been noodling around on interest development...

/* Add link icons to headings and anchored paragraphs */
function addLinkIcons() {
  document.querySelectorAll('h1[id], h2[id], h3[id], p[id]').forEach((o) => {
    const link = document.createElement('a');
    const article = o.closest('article[data-url]');
    link.href = window.location.origin + (article?.getAttribute('data-url') || window.location.pathname) + '#' + o.getAttribute('id');
    link.innerHTML = '🔗';  // link icon
    link.title = 'anchor';
    link.classList.add('anchor-icon');
    link.addEventListener('click', copyLink);
    o.prepend(link);
  });
}

addLinkIcons();

.entry h2, .entry h3, .entry h4, .entry p, .content h2, .content h3, .content h4, .content p { position: relative }
.content a.anchor-icon:link, .entry a.anchor-icon:link { font-size: 60%; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: small; float: right }
@media only screen and (min-width: 95rem) {
   .content a.anchor-icon:link, .entry a.anchor-icon:link { display: block; position: absolute; left: -2em; top: 0.2em; float: none}
}

Trump’s return isn’t just chaos, it’s a calculated strategy. While liberals dismiss him, Trump understands raw economic power in a way centrists fail to grasp. What is his master plan, and how could it backfire?

Meanwhile, Musk & other billionaires are the new ruling class. As capitalism dies, we enter technofeudalism, where corporate overlords control entire infrastructures of power.

And in Europe, elites literally cried over the U.S. pivoting away. Does Europe have any real sovereignty left?

Yanis Varoufakis joins Rania Khalek to break it all down.

Highlighting keywords such as TODO, FIXME, NOTE, BUG, and others (often referred to as tags, codetags, or tokens) enhances workflow by making key annotations more visible. This allows developers to quickly identify tasks, warnings, and notes within the code, reducing the time spent searching for unfinished work or potential issues.

This article outlines an Elisp code that highlights these codetags.

(There are packages like hl-todo and comment-tags that can highlight these codetags for those who need a more feature-rich solution. However, they contain hundreds of lines of code, which is excessive if your only goal is to just highlight codetags. While these packages likely offer additional features, such as navigating to the next codetag, the Elisp code in this article provides a much simpler solution for those who just want to highlight them.)

Elisp code to highlight codetags

To highlight these codetags, you can use the following Emacs Lisp code:

(defvar highlight-codetags-keywords
  '(("\\<\\(TODO\\|FIXME\\|BUG\\|XXX\\)\\>" 1 font-lock-warning-face prepend)
    ("\\<\\(NOTE\\|HACK\\)\\>" 1 font-lock-doc-face prepend)))

(define-minor-mode highlight-codetags-local-mode
  "Highlight codetags like TODO, FIXME..."
  :global nil
  (if highlight-codetags-local-mode
      (font-lock-add-keywords nil highlight-codetags-keywords)
    (font-lock-remove-keywords nil highlight-codetags-keywords))

  ;; Fontify the current buffer
  (when (bound-and-true-p font-lock-mode)
    (if (fboundp 'font-lock-flush)
        (font-lock-flush)
      (with-no-warnings (font-lock-fontify-buffer)))))

To apply codetag highlighting across all programming modes, add highlight-codetags-local-mode to the prog-mode-hook:

(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'highlight-codetags-local-mode)

If you call highlight-codetags-local-mode interactively, you can toggle the highlighting of codetags on and off.

Customizations

If desired (though not required), you can further customize the Elisp code:

• You can customize the highlighting by substituting font-lock-warning-face or font-lock-doc-face with any other face of your choice. (You can view all available faces by executing the command: M-x list-faces-display)
• Additionally, you can add more keywords to the regular expression.
  For instance, to add the MAYBE codetag to the \\<\\(NOTE\\|HACK\\)\\> pattern, simply append \\|MAYBE before the closing parenthesis \\):
  \\<\\(NOTE\\|HACK\\|MAYBE\\)>.

Conslusion

This simple configuration enhances keyword visibility in Emacs, making it easier to track important annotations while editing source code.

We have Ted on for our far too often Plakate review (man there's been too many fucking elections) of the 2025 snap elections

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Within weeks of assuming the presidency, Donald Trump has instituted tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump has touted protectionism as a way of supporting American workers.

In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber and Jacobin contributor Melissa Naschek discuss how nineteenth and twentieth-century protectionist trade policies helped build domestic manufacturing bases around the world, but why Trump's twenty-first century tariffs are very different. While decades of global free trade have contributed to deindustrialization, workers are not likely to benefit from Trump’s tariffs.

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Will and Felix briefly touch on Trump’s new Ft. Knox gold obsession, Hakeem Jeffries’ “captain chaos,” and look at an Ezra Klein interview with an up and coming dem with some “interesting ideas.” Then, we’re joined by Marlon Ettinger & Olly Haynes of the French Legislative Assembly Podcast (Flep24(/7)) to look at what’s up in France, which has gone through a wildly unstable political year. Starting with a new Catholic school sexual abuse scandal that’s implicated the current prime minister, we look into the state of the center & right parties, discuss what makes Mélenchon such a compelling left leader, and try to untangle the growing international right-wing conspiracies around Brigitte Macron.

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Democracy Now! 2025-02-20 Thursday

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Earlier I talked about using Org Mode to produce lesson worksheets for my students. This year I am thinking about using powerpoint-style presentation slides instead of worksheets to encourage students to write more in their books. This naturally led me to look into how to do this with Org Mode.

A Simple Lesson

Making presentations in \(\LaTeX\) is normally done using the beamer package. It turns out that Org Mode has good support for beamer. An example of a simple lesson presentation org-mode file might look like this:

Ryan and Emily discuss Trump and Musk with Hannity, Hamas open to stepping down in Gaza, Jewish man shoots Israeli tourists he thought were Palestinian, Bannon calls Musk 'parasitic", Trump border czar demands AOC prosecution, Trump FTC sides with Lina Khan, Chappelle says SNL censured Gaza monologue.

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Following the Gaza ceasefire, Israel is already preparing for its next round of ethnic cleansing with full Western backing. Pro-Palestine activists are facing escalating repression, Trump is pushing a new ethnic cleansing plan, and Israel’s increasing resemblance to fascist regimes is impossible to ignore.

Rania Khalek speaks with Tony Greenstein, a Jewish anti-Zionist, Marxist, and anti-fascist activist, about the historical roots of Zionism, the weaponization of the Holocaust, and the imperialist crackdown on Palestine solidarity.

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Following a successful negotiation by President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump walked back his executive order imposing 25% tariffs on Mexico. Co-hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth tell the story of this week’s rollercoaster of events in the Mexico-US bilateral relationship, looking at Trump’s executive order, Sheinbaum’s response, and the deal that was ultimately struck. 

Jake and Thomas return to look at the latest news of Elon’s bizarrely begotten offspring. Plus the jewish guy who shot two Israeli guys because he thought they were Palestinians, Millei’s rug pull, and Bari Weiss’ Free Press asks what exactly makes an American hero (and why does it take place in dive bar bathrooms).

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Just a quick post about a short note from Marcin Borkowski (mbork) concerning searching for the thing at point. Despite using Emacs for over 18 years I didn’t know about isearch-forward-thing-at-point.

As mbork says, it does just what it says. You invoke it with Meta+s Meta+. and it searches forward for whatever the point is on. This is something I want to do all the time and I was vaguely aware that it was possible but didn’t know exactly how to do it, so I’m really glad to see mbork’s post.

Finding out about this now serves to emphasize that learning Emacs really is a lifelong journey.

Trump's Economic Recovery a Dead End? - Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

Get up close with four presidents of the United States discussing some of their most personal causes.

Former President Jimmy Carter sits down with Jon Stewart to explain his efforts to eradicate the harmful Guinea Worm. Former President Bill Clinton talks about his foundation's campaign to combat ebola. President Barack Obama joins Trevor Noah to unpack how to be authentic amidst the demands of the presidency. Then Senator Joe Biden talks to Jon about how he would approach the presidency, and what it means to him. 

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Krystal, Ryan and Emily discuss Trump blackmailing Eric Adams, DOGE targets the IRS, Trump admin floats Ukraine boots on the ground.

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Take a romantic stroll down memory lane with The Daily Show's Valentine's Day coverage. 

Nate Cordry tackles the War on St. Valentine's Day. Resident Expert John Hodgman educates us on romance. Lewis Black rails against the technology of the holiday. Jon Stewart checks in on a synagogue with a surprisingly saucy new teacher. Trevor Noah weighs in on the risks of modern romance. Ronny Chieng challenges people on the street to prove him wrong about love. Sarah Silverman and Michael Kosta investigate the world of romance scams. 

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Continuing with our “Emacs for all things” theme of the last couple of days, here’s another post that speaks to how Emacs can be used for many things and how seemingly difficult or even impossible tasks can be done by using the right packages.

The topic of the post is using Emacs for taking research notes. S4h4rJ says that he loves Emacs but that he finds it hard to use for taking research notes because it’s so hard to deal with figures (jpegs, etc.). They are, he says, hard to size and hard to place within the file.

That didn’t seem right to me and other researchers chimed in explaining how they handled the problems that S4h4rJ was complaining about. It’s surprising how often the answer is simply installing and using an existing Emacs package.

The TL;DR is that there are many researchers who use Emacs to take and organize their notes. They use things like org-download and org-roam to deal with problems specific to their workflows. Take a look at the comments to S4h4rJ’s post for the details.

The takeaway is lots of serious researchers are using Emacs everyday for taking and organizing their research notes. If you’re a researcher and want to use Emacs, there’s no reason you can’t. You just need to be aware of a few packages and techniques that ease the process. Read the comments to S4h4rJ’s post to get an idea of what’s available. Even if you’re not a researcher, you may find those packages useful for your own workflow.

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