The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley's 'Nerd Reich' by Harrison Mooney via @thetyee.ca American techno fascism, what Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are promoting is an existential threat to Canada. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11... #Canada #democracy #technofacism

“I asked him which authors his brother most admired. ‘Moby-Dick was Cormac’s favorite book without question, and Faulkner was more of an influence than he liked to admit,’ he said.” www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture... #MelvilleMonday

Shinkichi Takahashi (tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)

Design books Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton ellenlupton.com/Thinking-wit... #Boosky #design #books #designbooks #type

1st lines High rise the pole banners In the outskirts of Jun, With white brands braided. Of, fine horses, four abreast! Such great gentlemen, What can we offer them? From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE #1stlines #poetry #China #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Sorting and search #Booksky #2books #data #computation #coding #Knuth

BicycleDutch: protected intersections don't need more space www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlAp...

Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 1980 William H Whyte Our public spaces matter to our quality of life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkJ... #design #publicspace #urbanspace

Cold morning air Between the blankets Warm — Lavender bitter as The pear is sweet Late fall #poetry #haiku

Congratulations to Tania Willard on winning the 2025 Sobey Art Award. Art is the fabric of our imaginations. www.taniawillard.ca #Canada #BC #art

Design books Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interv... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX

1st lines The gourd has bitter leaves; The ford is deep to wade. If the ford is deep to wade there are stepping stones; If it is shallow you can tuck up your skirts. From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE #1stlines #poetry #China #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Coding #Booksky #2books #data #computation #coding #Knuth

Books I got for my birthday ... John Berger - A Seventh Man Paul Celan - Letters to Gisèle Thrown: British Columbia's Apprentices of Bernard Leech and Their Contemporaries #Booksky #birthday

A wonderful interactive exploration of strange attractors, I would like to internalize the deeper patterns here. blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...

Laundry steam Faint In the bright sun — One week since I came back awake Cold air — At two in the morning Bath water pale blue With heat #poetry #haiku

1st lines O sun ah moon That shine upon the earth below, A man like this Will not stand firm to the end. How can such a one be true? Better if he had never noticed me. From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE #1stlines #poetry #China #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Coding #Booksky #2books #data #physics #Feynman #computation #coding

It will be interesting to see how Creative Commons responds to the use of content to build the models used in generative AI. Is there an opportunity for leverage here? creativecommons.org #AI #generativeAI #CC #CreativeCommons

Design books Chair Anatomy by James Orrom Many designers are obsessed with chairs. www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/chair-... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #chairs

1st lines Now the magpie had a nest But the cuckoo lived in it. Here comes a girl to be married; With a hundred coaches we'll meet her. From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE #1stlines #poetry #China #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Computation #Booksky #2books #data #physics #Feynman #computation

Design books Who owns the water by Lars Müller, Klaus Lanz, Christian Rentsch, and René Schwarzenbach www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/who-owns-water #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #water

1st lines It then --- its breath --- the story of words --- the written object --- its rhythm --- how it means to beat in speech --- to melt words to recognize there the edge of a body perhaps From It Then (Il donc) by Danielle Collobert tr by Norma Cole #1stlines #poetry #France

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Quantum Mechanics #Booksky #2books #data #physics #Feynman

The economy is a subset of the ecology. Economic policy that does not lead to improved ecological resilience and sustainability is bad economic policy. The tanker ban is one very small thing we have done to support long term ecological sustainability. #Canada #BC #economics #tankerban

Has the election of Mamdani in NYC shifted the Overton window in the US to make policies on public goods more acceptable? #US #politics #Overton #Mamdani

I prefer poetry and haiku on Bluesky without the accompanying image that is often added. The same is true of haiku. The words don't need anything else. #poetry #haiku

Design books Design requires thought, tools for thinking help. Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel Dennett. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/404481... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #tools #thought

1st lines Like dead the buried text when driven silent --- exhausted --- alone in its space --- tells itself --- improvises facts and gestures for itself --- solitary banishment --- disperses ... From It Then (Il donc) by Danielle Collobert tr by Norma Cole #1stlines #poetry #France

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Feynman #Booksky #2books #data #physics #Feynman

Luddite Land Assembly: Weaving Sound, Storytelling and Community by Sara Cruz via @thetyee.ca Looks like a good way to spend some time this weekend. Interested in use of ideas and practices from textiles in music thetyee.ca/Presents/202... #Canada #BC #arts #Vancouver #music #textiles #Modulus

Design books Summa Technologiae by Stanisław Lem translated by Joanna Zylinska An engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future form. #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #future

1st lines to hear from afar it hears the far-off the gaps in time --- the voice currents mutations of words in the voices weighed down by the out- flowing alluvial deposits snagged on the impediments From It Then (Il donc) by Danielle Collobert tr by Norma Cole #1stlines #poetry #France

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. Feynman #Booksky #2books #data #physics #Feynman

The Toronto #BlueJays gave us arguably the closest #WorldSeries in modern history, and the most fun and inspiring playoff run I can remember in any sport. I LOVE THAT TEAM, and 100% believe #TORONTO should have a HUGE CELEBRATION ANYWAY, to thank the team, fans, city and COUNTRY for a legendary run!

While in VGH for surgery and a visit to the ICU last week there was a very good Martha Sturdy work on the ward. VGH has one of the best art collections in the city. The pieces also work as way marks as one is rolled around the corridors. marthasturdy.com #Canada #BC #Vancouver #art #VGH

Vancouver artist Martha Sturdy among 2025 Order of Canada appointees

Design books Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/georg... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #evolution

The oxygen transparent Becomes pale blue as it Condenses into liquid Pressure and temperature Combine to give crystalline oxygen Different stable structures Crystal oxygen shifting From light blue to faint blue to Pink to dark red into black #poetry #haiku #phasestate

A colder dense Inflow under the Outflow nourishing More salt pulled In as the surface water Slides out Life concentrating at The density interface where Nutrients collect #poetry #haiku #SalishSea

1st lines voice silenced underground quiet depths to break up yet to rise up out of the ground --- folds and fractures --- ruptures of thickness --- over abundance of seams --- ... From It Then (Il donc) by Danielle Collobert tr by Norma Cole #1stlines #poetry #France #translation

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. At a finer scale the world is quite strange ... #Booksky #2books #data #design #Tufte #physics #Feynman

Some more attempts at same method but with different brushes. These were done at my suburban location in Machida where I have a narrower range of brushes to choose from.

The Kyoto School: An Introduction, by Robert E. Carter has been recommended to me by Eric Selland. @chinmoku001.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/jjs/article-... #philosophy #Kyoto #Japan

Ordered myself a birthday present. Linked Verse in Medieval Japan: History, Commentary, Performance by H. Mack Horton. I have learned a lot from his other books. cup.columbia.edu/book/linked-... #Japan #renga #translation

Caught in Covid's Net Another of Leanne's wonderful essays, that bring together different things in ways that often surprise me. open.substack.com/pub/dreaming... #essays #Covid #stories #reading

Hello from Ladysmith, BC, Canada! Mary Fox Pottery supports the potters of today and tomorrow through the Mary Fox Pottery society. Follow us here for all the latest on my next book, Developing Glazes, Low-Fire Reduction and Oxidation and more ❤️🦊 maryfoxpottery.ca

Pots, pots, and more pots! Are there ever enough, silly question, of course there aren't 😜🦊