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Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:53:18 -0700

Started Soil and Soul by Alastair McIntosh 📚

Been going through the citations of @kissane.bsky.social | @kissane@mas.to’s #ATmosphereConf 2025 talk on “vernacular institutions”

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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:15:46 -0700

So now my device OS spread is fully maximized:

Mac Studio: macOS
iPhone 13: iOS
iPad Pro: iPadOS
Boox Go: Android
MacBook Air: Fedora
Kindle: Kindle OS

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:17:38 -0700

Immediately had to switch to Gnome. So I am now setup with Zen Browser, Bitwarden, Obsidian, Fastmail, all syncing. This is a good setup for my away missions into Z-Space. Just need to sort out the key bindings and I will feel productive.

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:23:33 -0700

I migrated from 1Password to BitWarden, installed Linux on my MacBook, then went for a walk in the forest around the lake with the fam. How is your Labour Day weekend going?

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:47:21 -0700

Finished Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative? 📚

Wish I’d read this when it came out but tbh I don’t think I would have got it at the time. Can see why it was popular, but also why it was dismissed. Don’t usually read “cultural criticism” but was a fun lens to explore political philosophy

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:20:42 -0700

Made it to 100 pages of 893 in 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 📚

Wow, the detail, the sidebars, the swerves and yaw. I can see how this could be tiring, but so far loving it.

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:11:36 -0700

Surgery complete. Now officially a cyborg. (Unfortunately not a centaur)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:31:54 -0700

Back on my archery shi 🏹

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:41:11 -0700

“building a generator of alternative energy”

Remember folks, this is what we are doing together.

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:01:20 -0700

Rode my bike down to the Biodiversity Park and took a selfie with a young 200 year tree! 🌲🚴

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:21:28 -0700

Roberto Bolaño loves himself a comma, eh?

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:52:21 -0700

Omg finally got the venue secured for Protocols for Publishers ✨ in Toronto this fall. Official announcement with initial speaker reveal on Monday. Sign up to the newsletter so you don’t miss it! protocolsforpublishers.com

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:59:56 -0700

Started the first few pages of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 📚 tonight before going to bed.

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:15:36 -0700

#AmReading: Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher 📚

Finally finally actually reading this highly referenced work!

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:40:52 -0700

A simple question, a Werner Herzog answer

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:40:08 -0700

When man uses the vernacular to create an alternative to that of internationalism or modernism he possesses a living environment which is authentic and rooted in its indigenous culture.

Yes, I am reading and thinking about commons management and cooperatives in the vernacular.

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:56:17 -0700

So first it was the city dump, then ice cream before stopping at the gun range. After that was the Korean farm where we got a ton of free chillies.

Don’t say that my wife and I don’t know how to have an afternoon date! 😘 #truelove

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:27:56 -0700

Finished The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 📚

I think this book is a masterpiece…? I can’t completely tell since I listened to it and the dreamy sequences let the audio get away from me. But I saw masterful craftwork in the structure and themes and turns of phrase. Someday I will re-read in text.

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:37:31 -0700

Finished CIRCE by Madeline Miller 📚

What a beautiful rumination on change and the ups and downs of life. I basically had tears for the last quarter of the book (and I read the last 45% just today! Couldn’t stop)

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:23:17 -0700

Ha ha my sidebar! 😅

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:58:34 -0700

Took a walking tour of the Vancouver Japanese Language School neighbourhood. Founded in 1906 this new building was erected in 1928 designed by the same firm that made Burrard Bridge and the Art Museum. Mosaics commemorate the internment in 1942 and race riots of 1907.

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:17:07 -0700

Of course there are victims in this poem: victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim you are here victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim

Excerpt of History by Tracy K. Smith

h/t to Neverpo.st

#poetry

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:30:40 -0700

Electricity-enabled Company
Digital-enabled Company
Internet-enabled Company
AI-enabled Company

A little tour down the “we have been here before” path of corporate transformation

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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:22:03 -0700

And was that not the point of a marriage? To love a person more than they can love themselves?

🥰

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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:04:27 -0700

Using a small locally-hosted quantized chinese language model to brainstorm research into my ancestors' mennonite roots with great success… what a world