Steven Forth
@stevenforth.bsky.social
Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
Stewart Brand has a new book series coming out, on the theme of maintenance, what it takes to design for maintenance, how to carry out maintenance, the way maintenance shapes a civilization.
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#Booksky #books #design #maintenance #StewartBrand
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#Booksky #books #design #maintenance #StewartBrand
Page | Books in Progress
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Stewart Brand has a new book series coming out, on the theme of maintenance, what it takes to design for maintenance, how to carry out maintenance, the way maintenance shapes a civilization.
books.worksinprogress.co/book/mainten...
#Booksky #books #design #maintenance #StewartBrand
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#Booksky #books #design #maintenance #StewartBrand
Dr. Feifei Li
Intelligence requires more than language.
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
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#AI #spatialAI
Intelligence requires more than language.
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
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#AI #spatialAI
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
In 1950, when computing was little more than automated arithmetic and simple logic, Alan Turing asked a question that still reverberates today: can machines think?
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November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Dr. Feifei Li
Intelligence requires more than language.
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
open.substack.com/pub/drfeifei...
#AI #spatialAI
Intelligence requires more than language.
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
open.substack.com/pub/drfeifei...
#AI #spatialAI
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ;
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Karen Solie, Wellwater: poems
BERKELEY HILLS, 2022 In Wildcat Canyon live the laurels. No rain in two months and nine days. Like girls do, the laurels grow from...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ;
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Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of this year's Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry! Her winning book, Wellwater, was also recently awarded the Forward Prize, in a tie with Vidyan Ravinthiran. Here's one of my favourite poems from the collection.
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of this year's Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry! Her winning book, Wellwater, was also recently awarded the Forward Prize, in a tie with Vidyan Ravinthiran. Here's one of my favourite poems from the collection.
Canada under Marc Carney is opposed to effective action on climate change.
How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit by Ian Urquhart via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #climatechange #COP30
How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit by Ian Urquhart via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #climatechange #COP30
How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit | The Tyee
We used to pledge lower emissions. Now we push for higher oil production.
thetyee.ca
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Canada under Marc Carney is opposed to effective action on climate change.
How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit by Ian Urquhart via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #climatechange #COP30
How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit by Ian Urquhart via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #climatechange #COP30
Congratulations to Karen Solie on winning the 2025 Governor General' award for poetry for Wellwater.
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#Booksky #poetry #Canada #environment
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#Booksky #poetry #Canada #environment
Karen Solie reads 'Wellwater'
YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize
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November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Congratulations to Karen Solie on winning the 2025 Governor General' award for poetry for Wellwater.
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#Booksky #poetry #Canada #environment
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#Booksky #poetry #Canada #environment
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Design books
Toward an Architecture (aka Towards A New Architecture) by Le Corbusier in 1923
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#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #architecture #Modernism
Toward an Architecture (aka Towards A New Architecture) by Le Corbusier in 1923
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#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #architecture #Modernism
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Design books
Toward an Architecture (aka Towards A New Architecture) by Le Corbusier in 1923
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#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #architecture #Modernism
Toward an Architecture (aka Towards A New Architecture) by Le Corbusier in 1923
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#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #architecture #Modernism
1st lines
Look at that little bay of the Qi
Its kitesfoot so delicately waving.
Delicately fashioned is my lord,
As thing cut, as thing filed
As thing chiseled, as thing polished.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
Look at that little bay of the Qi
Its kitesfoot so delicately waving.
Delicately fashioned is my lord,
As thing cut, as thing filed
As thing chiseled, as thing polished.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
1st lines
Look at that little bay of the Qi
Its kitesfoot so delicately waving.
Delicately fashioned is my lord,
As thing cut, as thing filed
As thing chiseled, as thing polished.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
Look at that little bay of the Qi
Its kitesfoot so delicately waving.
Delicately fashioned is my lord,
As thing cut, as thing filed
As thing chiseled, as thing polished.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley's 'Nerd Reich' by Harrison Mooney via @thetyee.ca
American techno fascism, what Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are promoting is an existential threat to Canada.
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#Canada #democracy #technofacism
American techno fascism, what Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are promoting is an existential threat to Canada.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
#Canada #democracy #technofacism
The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley’s ‘Nerd Reich’ | The Tyee
Wonder what US tech titans wish for, Canada? Study their roots, says writer Gil Duran. A Tyee Q&A.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley's 'Nerd Reich' by Harrison Mooney via @thetyee.ca
American techno fascism, what Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are promoting is an existential threat to Canada.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
#Canada #democracy #technofacism
American techno fascism, what Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are promoting is an existential threat to Canada.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
#Canada #democracy #technofacism
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“I asked him which authors his brother most admired. ‘Moby-Dick was Cormac’s favorite book without question, and Faulkner was more of an influence than he liked to admit,’ he said.”
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#MelvilleMonday
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#MelvilleMonday
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“I asked him which authors his brother most admired. ‘Moby-Dick was Cormac’s favorite book without question, and Faulkner was more of an influence than he liked to admit,’ he said.”
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#MelvilleMonday
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#MelvilleMonday
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Shinkichi Takahashi
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Shinkichi Takahashi
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
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Design books
Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
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#Boosky #design #books #designbooks #type
Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
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#Boosky #design #books #designbooks #type
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Design books
Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
ellenlupton.com/Thinking-wit...
#Boosky #design #books #designbooks #type
Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
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#Boosky #design #books #designbooks #type
1st lines
High rise the pole banners
In the outskirts of Jun,
With white brands braided.
Of, fine horses, four abreast!
Such great gentlemen,
What can we offer them?
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
High rise the pole banners
In the outskirts of Jun,
With white brands braided.
Of, fine horses, four abreast!
Such great gentlemen,
What can we offer them?
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
1st lines
High rise the pole banners
In the outskirts of Jun,
With white brands braided.
Of, fine horses, four abreast!
Such great gentlemen,
What can we offer them?
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
High rise the pole banners
In the outskirts of Jun,
With white brands braided.
Of, fine horses, four abreast!
Such great gentlemen,
What can we offer them?
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
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BicycleDutch: protected intersections don't need more space www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlAp...
Intersection design, the Dutch - cycle friendly - way
YouTube video by BicycleDutch
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November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
BicycleDutch: protected intersections don't need more space www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlAp...
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 1980 William H Whyte
Our public spaces matter to our quality of life.
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#design #publicspace #urbanspace
Our public spaces matter to our quality of life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkJ...
#design #publicspace #urbanspace
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 1980 William H
YouTube video by Urban Future Flow
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 1980 William H Whyte
Our public spaces matter to our quality of life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkJ...
#design #publicspace #urbanspace
Our public spaces matter to our quality of life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkJ...
#design #publicspace #urbanspace
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Congratulations to Tania Willard on winning the 2025 Sobey Art Award.
Art is the fabric of our imaginations.
www.taniawillard.ca
#Canada #BC #art
Art is the fabric of our imaginations.
www.taniawillard.ca
#Canada #BC #art
Tania Willard
Tania Willard's artist website and online portfolio.
www.taniawillard.ca
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Congratulations to Tania Willard on winning the 2025 Sobey Art Award.
Art is the fabric of our imaginations.
www.taniawillard.ca
#Canada #BC #art
Art is the fabric of our imaginations.
www.taniawillard.ca
#Canada #BC #art
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Design books
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal
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#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal
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#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Design books
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interv...
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal
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#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX
1st lines
The gourd has bitter leaves;
The ford is deep to wade.
If the ford is deep to wade there are stepping stones;
If it is shallow you can tuck up your skirts.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
The gourd has bitter leaves;
The ford is deep to wade.
If the ford is deep to wade there are stepping stones;
If it is shallow you can tuck up your skirts.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
1st lines
The gourd has bitter leaves;
The ford is deep to wade.
If the ford is deep to wade there are stepping stones;
If it is shallow you can tuck up your skirts.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
The gourd has bitter leaves;
The ford is deep to wade.
If the ford is deep to wade there are stepping stones;
If it is shallow you can tuck up your skirts.
From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE
#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
A wonderful interactive exploration of strange attractors, I would like to internalize the deeper patterns here.
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...
Strange Attractors | Shashank Tomar
A visualisation of Strange Attractors using a Threejs particle system. In this post, I will try to explain the basics of dynamical systems, chaos theory, attractors and the butterfly effect.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A wonderful interactive exploration of strange attractors, I would like to internalize the deeper patterns here.
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...