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”
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
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.
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?
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
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.
Surgery complete. Now officially a cyborg. (Unfortunately not a centaur)
Back on my archery shi 🏹
“building a generator of alternative energy”
Remember folks, this is what we are doing together.
Rode my bike down to the Biodiversity Park and took a selfie with a young 200 year tree! 🌲🚴
Roberto Bolaño loves himself a comma, eh?
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
Started the first few pages of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 📚 tonight before going to bed.
#AmReading: Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher 📚
Finally finally actually reading this highly referenced work!
A simple question, a Werner Herzog answer
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.
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
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.
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)
Ha ha my sidebar! 😅
