Current status: Airport, about to fly back to Vancouver. ✈️
A little bit of snow in Kelowna. Just here catching up with fam and friends before the hols. ⛄️
2024
November Newsletter is out, on the theme of making connections #newsletter
OMG this is epic… from the @uncannyjapan.com Discord
Completed my challenge of 35 books! 📚
Picked up my advent calendar from revolvercoffee.ca in Gastown today ☕
Comes with a little booklet for tasting notes! 📝
“He has no fear of cowardice”
Some 🔥 lines in this section of The Saint of Bright Doors by @vajra.me 📚
🚨 THIS WEEK 📢 for the Metagov seminar we are hosting Kaliya Young and Day Waterbury to discuss their new paper “Exploring the Remarkable Regenerative Patterns and Practices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).”
#Metagov #SummerOfProtocols
Shining a light on the Dark Forest theory of the internet
Sunday, November 24, 2024
In Against the Dark Forest internet writer and thinker Erin Kissane (who has just been killing it recently) re-assesses then challenges the notions of the Dark Forest (and by association the Cozy Web). People in my corner of the internet will already be familiar with the writing of Yancy Strickler, Maggie Appleton and Venkatesh Rao, all cited in the piece. Figure: Maggie Appleton’s now famous illustration of the layers of the web.In the second bookstore of the afternoon with my kids. They just love going to the bookstore, running around to see what’s available, talking excitedly about which they read and which they want to buy… and then leaving to go to the next one! I think we did well with these girls 🥹📚
4-nil!!! #COYS
My DWeb Seattle Social Trip Report
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Here are some photos and a bit of an overview of our recent, cross-border #DWeb event whtwnd.com/chadkoh.c…Started listening to The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera 📚
Good morning all! 🙏 🙇♂️
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
Just watched Wim Wenders 1977 film The American Friend. Beautifully shot and I admire the young Bruno Ganz’s moustache… but this film is MESSED UP 😳 I need to watch it again and make note of all the connections between the scenes.
Neverpost, a show about the internet
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Why do young content creators scream into their mics and blowout all the sound? When you need to reply to an important email, do you do it on your phone or wait until you get to a computer? What is the internet “megadungeon”? What about Poster’s Disease? Why does nobody use hashtags anymore, and who ruined the Laser Eyes Meme? Is it right to create an AI or generate photos of your departed parent?This story is lovely. And from it I found out about silentbook.club so tempted to start a chapter! 📚
Saturday night, so eating homemade tanghulu and watching BlueLock with my daughter
Renunciation and technology
Saturday, November 9, 2024
“But why wouldn’t you use it? It’s so convenient!” I was surprised that he was surprised. I was talking to a very intelligent technologist, someone who thought deeply about his craft. It got me thinking about the respect shown to renunciation in this culture, compared to other places I have been. Nine years ago I renounced the eating of meat. At the beginning most people questioned it, but our culture has really come around to plant-based diets.Rainy Friday night dinner date with my wife in Gastown (I forgot to take photos of the food! Sorry!)
Cindy Mochizuki, director of BETWEEN PICTURES: THE LENS OF TAMIO WAKAYAMA takes questions at the Vancouver Asian Film Fest. Tamio travelled to the US south in 1963 to join and photograph SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement. Later, back in Canada, he photographed the Powell Street Festival.
#vaff
Went to Amazon.ca to check on something and this was on my For You page
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After months of waiting, my wife’s new Permanent Resident Card arrived! 🎉
Now we can leave the country 😜
Just found out about the passing of Kei Kamanishi, the last surviving member of the legendary Asahi baseball team made up of Japanese-Canadians disbanded during the WW2 internment. He was 102 years old. I never met him in person, just on a virtual call. 南無阿弥陀🙏📿
I can hear the fireworks 🎆 Happy Diwali everyone! 🪔
Our IETF Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (DIN RG) will be in Los Angeles in Dec 9th at ACM featuring speakers like Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr and @martin.kleppmann.com
Check out the schedule
#dweb
CITED is back and taking on "economics"
Sunday, October 27, 2024
The CITED podcast is back! It has been a few years. I’ve previously enjoyed their work on the reproducibility crisis in scientific publishing and many of their critical episodes on their original run in the 2015-2018 era. Gordon Katic and the CITED team have an engaging narrative technique for introducing listeners to complex topics, so I know this new series is going to be good. This time they are taking on the issue of expertise in economics and how it is abused.This Gulabjamun cheesecake is 😋
Just been sitting ant home tonight watching the #bcelxn results come in. Still too close to call! 😬 #cdnpoli
Gawd I really need to get out and do a photo walk soon… I really like our new neighbourhood, but I sure miss living in downtown Kyoto/Osaka