This looks interesting with respect to the flows of the history of commonplace books.

Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Megan Heffernan

https://site.pennpress.org/material-texts-2021/9780812224955/bitstreams/

Something about this seems related to the ideas of archiving and saving digital and physical culture.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/twitter-smarter--twitter-harder-with-twitter-blue

Meh... This looks like a play which will have them buying up smaller subscription apps that do these sorts of services separately and putting other competitors out of business.

Watch out Readwise, ThreadReaderApp, etc.

https://threader.app/threader-has-joined-twitter

https://www.edge.org/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-1934%E2%80%932021

Saddened to hear that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi passed away in late October.

This overview on Edge.org looks like a good overview of some of his work and personal thought.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2296899-new-mineral-davemaoite-discovered-inside-a-diamond-from-earths-mantle/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/arts/music/graeme-edge-dead.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2296962-origins-of-japanese-and-turkish-language-family-traced-back-9000-years/

Martine Robbeets et al have used linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence to show that millet farming communities in north-east China 10,000 years ago may have given rise to the Transeurasian language families that became Japanese, Mongolian, Korean, and Turkish.

Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04108-8

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/new-findings-on-jordanian-megaliths/141965

New megaliths found in Jordan in various stages of construction which helped archaeologists suggest a method for their construction by carving the stones from the ground and then supporting them with smaller ones.

Worth checking to see if standing stones may have been found at these sites as well.

https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-expand-sci-hub-libgen-and-ebook-piracy-blocking-211112/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/overused-words-and-phrases-that-make-you-sound-weak-less-confident-according-to-grammar-experts.html

A list of useless filler phrases and softeners that are generally unnecessary. including the word "just". Worth exploring these in more depth.

I'm not sure I believe the "think"/"believe" one.

“I think this would ...” What to say instead: “I believe this would …”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1459547762517688327.html

Anthony Baker experimenting with ideas from Necromant and Eleanor Konik to cross link digital notes with physical paper notes.

I've thought about doing something similar to this with my physical notebooks in the past, though hadn't done block level linking as a means of potentially pulling in and linking pieces in the future.

Often for more important linked things, I'll simply import the physical version into my digital copy at the time of first use/reference, but this could be interesting for large bodies of notes which aren't digital.

https://infohist.fas.harvard.edu/news/information-cultures-series-john-hopkins-university-press

This looks like a fascinating series and who could go wrong with Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton, and Earle Havens?

Also interesting to see what sorts of things they will find interesting at the cutting edge of all these disciplines.

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/readwriterespond070/

As always, some great tidbits hiding in here. Some new and reminders that I ought to look at a few things I've put off, but bookmarked when I saw them myself.

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/antennapod/

I feel your pain here Aaron.

Perhaps it helps, perhaps not, but I've been using AntennaPod for a few years now. In particular I love it on Android because I can use the share functionality to share to a custom email address which posts to reading.am for an account that aggregates everything I'm listening to. Then I port the RSS feed of that back into my site. It's a stupid amount of manual work, but it mostly works.

Alternately you could share material you listen to to Huffduffer and pull data out that way as well. My problem here is that Huffduffer is more of a bookmark service than a "listened to this" sort of service, though you could always add a "listened" tag to the things you've heard in the past.

The tougher part of all this is that podcasts have "canonical" links for the podcast episodes (sometimes) and an entirely different link for the audio file which has no meta data attached to it (presuming you can even find the URL for the audio file to begin with.)

AntennaPod allows you to pick and choose what you want to share, so usually I default to the audio file to get that in to the workflow and finding/adding the data for the particular episode is a bit easier.

I will say that this is one of the ugliest and most labor intensive workflows I've got for social posts, so I'm usually only doing it and posting publicly for things that I really think are worth the time that make for interesting notes/observations that go along with the post.

I'm curious to see what others come up with for this workflow.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-11-12/britney-spears-conservatorship-ends

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/jerry-craft-books-texas-school-challenges-16596152.php

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29115696

Read through comments for the fun of it.

Nothing beyond the extraordinary here.

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/help-me-find-world-history-textbooks

Dan Allosso is curious to look at the history of how history is taught.

The history of teaching history is a fascinating topic and is an interesting way for cultural anthropologists to look at how we look at ourselves as well as to reveal subtle ideas about who we want to become.

This is particularly interesting with respect to teaching cultural identity and its relationship to nationalism.

One could look at the history of Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War to see how the South continued its cultural split from the North (or in more subtle subsections from Colin Woodard's American Nations thesis) to see how this has played out. This could also be compared to the current culture wars taking place with the rise of nationalism within the American political right and the Southern evangelicals which has come to a fervor with the rise of Donald J. Trump.

Other examples are the major shifts in nationalism after the "long 19th century" which resulted in World War I and World War II and Germany's national identity post WWII.

Why can't it act and prosecute with the new administration?

https://apnews.com/article/presidential-elections-election-2020-elections-778951007a888c1f2af6babbb198634b

https://calmernotes.com/

I like that the underlying idea behind the design here is "calm" as well as attempting to get an 80% solution rather than get-it-all.

https://deadline.com/2021/11/dean-stockwell-dead-quantum-leap-star-1234870413/

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Fountain-Pens/pt/927

A simple, but reasonable primer. Didn't learn anything new sadly.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Yusufa</span> in Improving how universities teach science (<time class='dt-published'>11/04/2021 13:26:34</time>)</cite></small>

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

After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out ‘Virgin birth’ might be more common in animals than we thought. by Sarah Zhang https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/california-condors-are-capable-virgin-birth/620517/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/

Anne Applebaum looks at the ideas of public humiliation and cancel culture as a potential slippery slope toward authoritarianism. She provides numerous examples of people experiencing forms of cancel culture without any arguments for or against them, but instead explores the cultural space around it and what its consequences might possibly be.

Many of her examples focus on spaces related to academia rather than broader life, a space which needs further exploration as the scope and shape for those may differ dramatically.

She also brings up the broad phenomenon of "university justice" (my descriptor) and generally secret tribunals and justice administered by them rather than traditional governmental means.

This brings up some excellent avenues for thought about who we are as a country and a liberal democracy.

Highly recommend.

“keeping students safe” means you must violate due process?

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Anne Applebaum</span> in Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse - The Atlantic (<time class='dt-published'>11/07/2021 13:41:11</time>)</cite></small>

Skimmed opening paragraphs in physical newspaper. Want to revisit. This sounds like the sort of "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" that actually works.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/03/what-does-tech-take-from-us-meet-the-writer-who-has-counted-100-big-losses

A brief review/interview with a book author who eschews many new technologies and why.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logging-off-facebook-what-comes-next-tickets-201128228947

Not attending, but an interesting list of people and related projects to watch.

https://indieweb.org/this-week/2021-11-05.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/books/review/hearing-homers-song-milman-parry-robert-kanigel.html

Short overview of Parry's biography. One could do better reading the Wikipedia article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/books/review/hearing-homers-song-milman-parry-robert-kanigel.html

https://mailchi.mp/942af84a891f/8x0d2nndm6-4835029

Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now? by Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Vidya Ravilochan and Colette Kessler) https://gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-it-wrong-ae45d6217a8c

Apr 4, 2021

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Dylan Thomas</span> in Come and get yer social justice metaphors! (<time class='dt-published'>11/05/2021 11:26:10</time>)</cite></small>

"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators" by Peggy McIntosh https://via.hypothes.is/https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack

"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwftoBW6zbNv4qLi0NjuBNvtZyYg0f34xKVuOIO3DVk/edit#

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