The Classicist Who Killed Homer How Milman Parry proved that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by a lone genius. By Adam Kirsch https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/the-classicist-who-killed-homer June 7, 2021

Someone mentioned this in class today

Web Browser Engineering by Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson https://browser.engineering/

A Web Browser Built for Me by Robin Rendle https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/a-web-browser-built-for-me/

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-19/25666

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-18/25541

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-17/25270

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-16/24166

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-15/23348

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-14/23046

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-13/21959

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-12/21564

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-11/21184

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-10/20523

https://uxdesign.cc/the-principles-of-user-sovereignty-515ac83401f6

https://dwhuseby.medium.com/dont-use-dids-58759823378c

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/homer-print-transmission-and-reception-homers-works/introduction/

https://i.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/

Contains the visions fro the pioneers on the field.

Merging distribute knowledge is an excersize on the abstractness of ontologies vs the practicality of schema-less graph knowledge.

Maybe a bit vague (the article), maybe re-read it. But i really appreciate the boldness [[agora]] try to solve the same problem.

Useful tip about personal notes.

Journalistic video about NSU neonazis and links with Golden Dawn criminal political party.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box-after-a-year/

Tomas Vik discusses the path he took in looking at zettelkasten software to end up at Logseq. He specifically highlights (rightly) how much work/time is involved in doing it well, but as a result indicates he's seeing the value in the process.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit#

https://vimeo.com/173128404

Some better in-depth examples of how Niklas Luhmann used his zettelkasten as well as some of the problems he would have faced and how they were solved (or weren't).

https://tracydurnell.com/2021/10/20/digital-garden-index/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_salt_in_Christianity

Looked up in relation of mention of a blessing of salt and water in LJS 418, a manuscript about Saint Blaise: https://bibliophilly.library.upenn.edu/viewer.php?id=Oversize%20LJS%20418#page/12/mode/thumb

references

https://ednico.medium.com/30-oct-21-logseq-mobile-update-todoist-plugin-zettelkasten-flow-namespaces-alfred-workflow-3b9ab31bddac

Some updates in the note taking space with respect to Logseq.

https://hackernoon.com/how-i-use-zettelkasten-and-obsidian-to-keep-my-notes-organized

Nothing new to the conversation. This is more of a note that links zettelkasten and Obsidian and nothing more.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Luhmanns-Denkmaschine-endlich-im-Netz-4364512.html?seite=all

An interesting overview of Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten and how it was digitally archived with some potential ideas about how this might be done for other such systems or for ideas for those building and designing their own digital gardens.

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/perfect-numbers

Apparently Terry Tao's first paper

https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/zzy5f6bn/release/1

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-papers-democracy-election-zuckerberg/620478/

Adrienne LaFrance outlines the reasons we need to either abandon Facebook or cause some more extreme regulation of it and how it operates.

While she outlines the ills, she doesn't make a specific plea about the solution of the problem. There's definitely a raging fire in the theater, but no one seems to know what to do about it. We're just sitting here watching the structure burn down around us. We need clearer plans for what must be done to solve this problem.

https://community.reclaimhosting.com/t/pressbooks-add-on-to-dooo-differences-from-pressbooksedu/3695

https://laughingsquid.com/finding-randy-bachman-stolen-gretsch-guitar/

https://blog.remark.as/introducing-private-letters

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/pigment-timeline/2016/08/26/lamp-black-digital-humanities/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html

https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1327-Some-thoughts-on-comments-and-interaction

Some interesting commentary on comments and problems within social media.

http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Lampblack

https://irongallink.org/home-a-website-about.html

Read further

Read

https://yishunlai.medium.com/the-two-conditions-that-helped-me-to-finally-understand-zettelkasten-ef24190b614c

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/netflix-employees-stage-walkout-protest-dave-chapelle-special-the-closer-transphobic-1235093535/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1450474094357532672.html

https://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-10-20-challenge-do-something-for-a-community-project.html

http://www.kevinmarks.com/notinourstars.html

https://greyzonepages.com/2019/03/29/how-to-use-the-hobonichi-cousin-daily-layout/

I haven't been logging them all since they've been so repetitive and fluffy, but this is one of the more interesting and thorough takes I've seen for the Hobonichi Cousin Daily Layout

https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/8rxyd1le/release/1

The Bruniquel cave, in southwest France, is believed to be a Neanderthal dwelling 100,000 years before humans in Europe. Stalagmites in the cave may have been arranged as walls, and possibly as a fireplace. Charred bone found in the walls date to 175,000 years ago.

This cave is apparently fairly deep. Cross reference this with deep cave fires and asphyxiation research.

• Article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/25/neanderthals-built-mysterious-cave-structures-175000-years-ago
• Related journal article: http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature18291

Is it possible that such a place was used as a memory palace? Being secluded away and the play of fire inside would certainly fit some of Lynne Kelly's criteria from Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies. More evidence would be needed however.

Μακρυ άρθρο στα Ελληνικά για τη κατασκευη του Ουκρανικού Λιμού το '30, Γολομοντορ (όχι το 1921).

https://www.engadget.com/google-chrome-rss-follow-button-android-181659150.html

https://slate.com/culture/2011/08/cathy-n-davidson-s-now-you-see-it-do-the-young-really-rule-in-the-internet-era.html

A very prescient article by Annie Murphy Paul from 2011. It doesn't review Davidson's book, so much as to take to task some of the underlying optimistic views of the magic of technology. If only we were able to better adapt and evolve to create the sort of changes in humanity to take advantage of the potential benefits that were assumed. Instead, much of the tech sector adapted instead to hijack our slowly evolving attention to benefit themselves.

I wish we as a culture had had more of this sober sort of outlook about technology at the time.

I'm now even more intrigued by Paul's new book: The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, which is already in my reading queue.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Annie Murphy Paul </span> in "@ChrisAldrich @amandalicastro @CathyNDavidson Chris, you may be interested in this review of "Now You See It" that I wrote . . . https://t.co/TnnbQ3NHWf" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>10/17/2021 10:25:52</time>)</cite></small>

https://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2018/03/fountain-pen-review-pilot-prera/

https://ideas.time.com/2012/09/07/the-myth-of-bootstrapping/

https://wptavern.com/the-heropress-network-launches-as-a-multi-project-portal

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-pulling-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-myth-explained

Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01283-5

This portends some interesting results with relation to mnemonics and particularly songlines and indigenous peoples' practices which integrate song, movement, and emotion.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/254961v4

Across the world, people express emotion through music and dance. But why do music and dance go together? <br><br>We tested a deceptively simple hypothesis: Music and movement are represented the same way in the brain.

— Beau Sievers (@beausievers) October 12, 2021

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Beau Sievers </span> in "New work published today in Current Biology Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception With @ThaliaWheatley @k_v_n_l @parkinsoncm @sergeyfogelson (thread after coffee!) https://t.co/AURqH9kNLb https://t.co/ro4o4oEwk5" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>10/12/2021 09:26:10</time>)</cite></small>

https://againstthefuture.net/2021/10/09/impressions-of-my.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray

https://www.myglendale.com/manoukian-responds-to-mohills-lies/

Rafi Manoukian provides inaccurate quotes from Mike Mohill and rebuts them.

https://glendalecitygovernmentwatch.org/2021/09/09/an-open-letter-to-mike-mohill/

https://outlooknewspapers.com/blog/2020/09/19/council-condemns-glendales-past-racism/

A satirical and ironic take on information theory, but also subtly about cultural memory.

Great set of resources and links.

Downloaded a copy to work through them. Some I've run across in the past.

[[Cynthia Turner Camp]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiated_initial

I wonder if these still exist in the new spaces of productivity porn in within journaling? Perhaps the application of stickers in peoples' planners sort of serves some of this functionality, though I'd consider them to be more in the drollery family.

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/NXvLZHeIqQw/m/PbGve3rRAwAJ?pli=1

cc: @dwhly, @judell

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jubilance/

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Cory Doctorow</span> in Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (<time class='dt-published'>09/30/2021 09:17:09</time>)</cite></small>

The latest installment of Propublica's essential IRS Papers reporting shows how the richest Americans abuse a bizarre loophole to avoid ANY tax on indescribably vast estates:

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-than-half-of-americas-100-richest-people-exploit-special-trusts-to-avoid-estate-taxes

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1442414902761689088.html Problematic is "problematic". This meta discussion does what it advises.

I feel like that is a very broad generalization but I would agree that most people have read something about technology. I'm also not sure if I agree that learning devices enhance learning outcomes for kids. I know there have been studies done that say if you use pencil and paper to write your notes, you are more likely to remember information.

https://www.academia.edu/28540354/The_commonplace_book_miscellany_assignment_revised

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039380004/gilgamesh-dream-tablet-hobby-lobby-iraq-return

https://tracydurnell.com/2021/09/26/gardens-and-streams-ii/

https://tracydurnell.com/2021/09/26/getting-more-women-involved-in-the-indieweb/

Some great questions here and it's a difficult problem.

My personal solution is to do my best to provide personal invitations to people I think would enjoy participating and then trying to provide some space and support for them once they've arrived.

I do remember a self-named DrupalChix group of women around 2008 who banded together and created their own space within the Drupal community. Their leadership from within certainly helped to dramatically move the needle within Southern California. (cross reference: https://groups.drupal.org/women-drupal)

I love this outline/syllabus for creating a commonplace book (as a potential replacement for a term paper).

I'd be curious to see those who are using Hypothes.is as a communal reading tool in coursework utilize this outline (or similar ones) in combination with their annotation practices.

Curating one's annotations and placing them into a commonplace book or zettelkasten would be a fantastic rhetorical exercise to extend the value of one's notes and ideas.

sources to add to my reading list, if not already there

https://www.zachleat.com/web/indieweb-avatar/

This is how I feel about most people's personal websites. Few people have homepages these days, but even for people who do, even fewer of those homes have anyone really living there. All their interesting stuff is going on on Twitter, GitHub, comments on message boards...

Really weird when this manifests as a bunch of people having really strong opinions about static site tech stacks and justifications for frontend tech that in practice they never use, because the content from any one of their profiles on the mainstream social networks outstrips their "home" page 100x to 1.

Inside the cult of crypto Debate? No thanks. Doubts? Not welcome. How the world of cryptocurrency diehards really works

https://www.ft.com/content/9e787670-6aa7-4479-934f-f4a9fedf4829

https://briansunter.com/blog/five-minute-journal/

Lists of prompts for writing/journaling:

• 365 Thought Provoking Questions
• 87 Self-Reflection Questions for Introspection
• 200 Icebreaker Questions
• 237 Icebreaker Questions to Try with your Team
• 36 Questions that Lead to Love
• 119 Journal Prompts
• 120 Questions to Ask Yourself

For a potential template:

• # Morning Questions
  • [[Morning Questions]] #daily
    • [[What Am I Grateful for?]]
    • [[What Would Make Today Great?]]
    • [[What Am I Worried About?]]
    • [[What Am I Thinking of?]]
• # Evening Questions
  • [[Evening Questions]] #daily
    • [[How Am I feeling?]]
    • [[What's Something Good That Happened Today?]]
    • [[What Did I Do Well?]]
    • [[What Could I Have Done Better?]]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1439615491174141965.html

Apparently Chuck Todd has been captured by Republican Party PR?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-nonsense_n_5b1ed024e4b0bbb7a0e037d4

https://qz.com/2059755/book-publishers-warn-of-supply-chain-delays-for-2021-holidays/

Ebooks Are an Abomination: If you hate them, it’s not your fault. by Ian Bogost in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/why-are-ebooks-so-terrible/620068/

Ian Bogost has a nice look at the UI affordances and areas for growth in the e-reading space.

Summary:

"What has time done to us?"

https://www.platformer.news/p/what-i-learned-from-a-year-on-substack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Monday

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/zinns-critical-history/

https://dev.to/einargudnig/building-my-second-brain-with-obsidian-pt-i-4oc2

too basic; Tiago Forte disciple; pass

https://zettelkasten.de/posts/no-categories/

There's lots of advice for categories, tags, and other taxonomies out there. This isn't as opinionated as some, but takes the approach to allow things to come organically so that one can grow, expand, and (possibly most importantly) change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.html

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Joel Chan</span> in on Twitter: "@RoamBookClub next book? Extended Mind draws on distributed cognition, which is a powerful theoretical perspective for understanding #toolsforthought and #BASB" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>09/14/2021 10:01:01</time>)</cite></small>

https://icds.uoregon.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Clark-and-Chalmers-The-Extended-Mind.pdf

Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?

There seems to be a parallel between this question and that between the gene and the body. Evolution is working at the level of the gene, but the body and the environment are part of the extended system as well. Link these to Richard Dawkins idea of the extended gene and ideas of group selection.

Are there effects to be seen on the evolutionary scale of group selection ideas with respect to the same sorts of group dynamics like the minimal group paradigm? Can the sorts of unconscious bias that occur in groups be the result of individual genes? This seems a bit crazy, but potentially worth exploring if there are interlinked effects based on this analogy.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Annie Murphy Paul</span> in Opinion | How to Think Outside Your Brain - The New York Times (<time class='dt-published'>09/13/2021 19:58:53</time>)</cite></small>

James didn't include a photo here, but oddly I've never thought of using my Aeropress upside down like this. I'll have to give a try this week.

https://jamesg.blog/2021/08/24/ordering-espresso-at-cafes

This reminds me that I ought to be more adventurous in cafes myself. Of course the pandemic ending could help in that area as well.

https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/13/new-social-pages

Some awesome looking progress here.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Suzanne Conklin Akbari</span> in Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History | Penn Libraries (<time class='dt-published'>09/12/2021 21:11:23</time>)</cite></small>