# Untitled Session ## Skills Used - morning-review ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `752d62c5-97ad-41fb-832d-188f1cc9b006` - Last activity: `2026-02-22T13:13:50.776Z` ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User /morning-review ### Assistant Good morning, Nick! Let me pull everything together for your Sunday briefing. ### Assistant Right, I need to use path indirection for Claudian. Let me retry all the data gathering. ### Assistant --- ## Morning Brief — Sunday, 22 February 2026 **Weather:** Milan — Sunny, +12°C, light breeze ↖4km/h **Day:** Sunday --- ### 🚨 Upcoming Deadlines - **[[Notes/ASA Annual Meeting 2026.md|ASA Annual Meeting 2026]]** — March 1, 2026 (**7 days**) - Salt Lake City, Nov 18–21. Submission via Submittable. - **[[Notes/BSA Annual Conference 2026.md|BSA Annual Conference 2026]]** — March 2, 2026 (**8 days**) - Oxford, Sep 11–13. 200-word abstract, anonymous review. Both are a week away. What are you planning to submit? --- ### Schedule & Tasks **Calendar:** Nothing scheduled today or the next two days. Clear runway. **Tasks due today/overdue:** - [ ] **Take pills** *(due today)* - [ ] **Transfer money** *(overdue — Feb 21)* - [ ] **Shut up** *(overdue — Feb 21)* - [ ] **Rachele's grade** *(overdue — Feb 19)* - [ ] **Email Marcello** **Other open tasks:** - [ ] Call British Consulate Milan (02 723001) — re lost CdS and travel - [ ] Call Naga free legal service (02 58102599) — re lost CdS and travel rights - [ ] Fix `~/.claude/projects/` iCloud symlink (needs Terminal) - [ ] Prenotare treni per Viareggio - [ ] Review generating philosophy CEV conversation - [ ] Laptop: set up vault backup + config sync --- ### Recent Emails Mostly Sunday newsletters. One notable item: - **[PHILOS-L] CFP: Philosophy of Artificial Music** — from Vincent Granata, Nantes Université. Conference 3–5 November 2026, Nantes. Directly relevant to your AI aesthetics work. - Foreign Affairs, Noahpinion, Nick Cohen, Suzanne Moore, The Free Press — the usual Sunday reading --- ### philos-L Today The scanner timed out, but the CFP came through directly via email: *CFPs:* - **Philosophy of Artificial Music** — Nantes Université, Nantes, France — Nov 3–5, 2026 (deadline TBC from full email) This overlaps with your AI aesthetics research and the generative aesthetics paper. Worth checking the full CFP if the deadline works. --- ### Yesterday (Saturday, Feb 21) **What happened:** A heavy system/infrastructure day. You ran many sessions — some on semiotic physics and generating philosophy, but most on skill-building and config: - Worked on skill triggering and knowledge consultation (created [[Notes/Skill Triggering and Knowledge Consultation Overhaul (21 Feb 2026).md|Skill Triggering and Knowledge Consultation Overhaul]]) - Updated [[Notes/Thinking again about semiotic physics.md|Thinking again about semiotic physics]] with reformulations from a forked conversation - Created a horror game concept based on Brian Evenson's *A Collapse of Horses* - Audited config sync and vault state - Diagnosed excessive bold usage in Claude's output - Explored forking Claudian, recent conversations panel **The arc:** Infrastructure and system refinement day, with a burst of genuine philosophy work around semiotic physics and generating philosophy. --- ### Vault Activity (Last 3 Days) **Recently modified notes:** - [[Notes/Referee Report - Against Perceiving Meanings.md|Referee Report - Against Perceiving Meanings]] — today - [[Notes/Thinking again about semiotic physics.md|Thinking again about semiotic physics]] — yesterday - [[Notes/Generating Philosophy - Integration Queue.md|Generating Philosophy - Integration Queue]] — yesterday - [[Notes/Skill Triggering and Knowledge Consultation Overhaul (21 Feb 2026).md|Skill Triggering and Knowledge Consultation Overhaul]] — yesterday - [[Notes/Writing Dislikes Log.md|Writing Dislikes Log]] — Feb 19 - [[Notes/IBE — The Full Architecture (Lipton).md|IBE — The Full Architecture (Lipton)]] — Feb 19 - [[Notes/Life in the Chat.md|Life in the Chat]] — Feb 17 **Writing progress:** - [[Writing/substack/Life in the Chat.md]] — last touched Feb 19 --- ### Today's Scratch Pad Your scratch pad already has the Facebook post draft for the UK Citizens' Rights Group about your lost permesso situation and April travel. Two related tasks were logged this morning about calling the Consulate and Naga. **Note:** Both phone lines are for weekdays — Consulate opens 8:00, Naga presumably similar. Those calls will have to wait for Monday. --- ### System Health ✅ Config backup healthy (last sync: 12 minutes ago) ✅ Disk: 49% capacity, fine ✅ Spotify cache: 4.2GB, within limits --- ### Questions for Today 1. **The ASA and BSA deadlines are 7–8 days out.** Are you planning to submit to both? If so, what topics? The generating philosophy paper and typography/fittingness are already submitted elsewhere — do you have other abstracts in mind, or are you adapting existing work? 2. **How's the permesso anxiety?** The Facebook post is thorough and well-drafted. It's clearly been weighing on you. How are you feeling about the travel situation generally? --- *La domenica mattina a Milano, con il sole e dodici gradi, si potrebbe quasi dimenticare che la burocrazia italiana non riposa mai — nemmeno nei pensieri.* ### User "? Spotify cache: 4.2GB, within limits" please do some research for me. How can I stop my Spotify cache taking up so many gigabytes? Is there a way to limit it? Please search online for up-to-date information. 22 Feb 2026 ### Assistant Good question — 4.2GB is within the alert threshold but it's still a lot of space for a cache. Let me look into this. ### Assistant Let me also check the more detailed pages for the most practical approaches. ### Assistant Now I have a good picture. Let me compile the answer. Key findings: 1. Spotify has **no built-in GUI setting** for limiting cache size on Mac. They removed it. 2. There's a manual workaround: editing the `prefs` file to add `storage.size=1024` (value in MB). 3. Spotify's official documentation only covers clearing cache entirely, not limiting it. 4. Default behavior: cache can't be larger than 10% of free disk space. 5. You can clear cache via Settings → Storage → Clear cache in the desktop app. I should be honest about what's confirmed to work vs. what might not work in current versions. The community thread mentioned the GUI setting was removed, and the prefs file method is a workaround that may or may not still be honored. Here's what I found: ### The short answer Spotify **removed** the GUI cache limit setting from the Mac desktop app. There's no official way to cap it. Their documentation only covers clearing the cache entirely, not limiting its growth. ### The workaround (manual prefs file edit) This is widely shared and may still work, though it's unofficial: 1. Quit Spotify completely 2. Open `~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/prefs` in a text editor 3. Add the line: `storage.size=1024` (value is in MB — so 1024 = 1GB cap) 4. Save and restart Spotify The idea is Spotify reads this on launch and respects the limit. **However**: the Spotify community forums are full of people reporting this setting was removed or stopped being honoured in recent versions. There's a [long-running community request](https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Setting-for-max-Cache-Size-Allowance/idi-p/3474568) asking Spotify to bring back a proper cache limit setting, still unresolved. ### What Spotify officially offers Just a nuclear option: Settings → Storage → Clear cache. Wipes the whole thing, then it grows back immediately. Spotify says the cache should never exceed 10% of free disk space, so in theory it's self-limiting — but 10% of your free space could still be many gigabytes. ### Practical options for you **Option A — Try the prefs file method.** Set `storage.size=2048` (2GB) or even `1024` (1GB). If Spotify still honours it, you're done. Low risk — worst case it ignores the setting. **Option B — Periodic nuke.** I could add a Spotify cache size check to the morning review and flag it when it crosses, say, 5GB. You clear it manually when flagged. (This is what the system health check already does, just with a higher threshold.) **Option C — Automated clearing via launchd.** A scheduled job that clears the cache weekly or when it exceeds a size threshold. But this is automation — and per your preferences, I'd want to verify it actually works before claiming it's set up. Want me to try Option A (check if the prefs file exists and add the limit)? Sources: - [GitHub Gist: How to limit Spotify cache size](https://gist.github.com/ghostbear/f12ee429e07ba528fb36778be5c2c88c) - [Spotify Community: How to limit cache size?](https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/How-to-limit-cache-size/td-p/2907725) - [Spotify Support: Storage information](https://support.spotify.com/us/article/storage-information/) - [Spotify Community: Cache limit setting request](https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Setting-for-max-Cache-Size-Allowance/idi-p/3474568) *Spotify non offre nessun controllo serio sulla cache — ti lasciano solo il pulsante "cancella tutto," come se la soluzione a un rubinetto che perde fosse svuotare il secchio ogni mattina.*