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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 10h

More translations of Fujiwara Teika. These are still exploratory fumblings. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/more-work-... #poetry #translation #waka #tanka #Japan

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

100 million kids drawings ... Mind opening (any eye opening) walzr.com/kids-trends/ #art #kids

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chiharu Shiota has a compelling exhibition on in Montreal that I will try to get to. www.chiharu-shiota.com/drawing-1 #art #Japan #Canada #Berlin

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New book of English language haiku and tanka from Isobar, by Alan Spence. Looking forward to reading this. isobarpress.com/titles/the-p... #poetry #haiku #Japan #Scotland

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Notes collected in September. Includes a longer set on painter Takao Tanabe. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/september-... #poety #haiku #notes #Tanabe #Canada #BC #Vancouver

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spoke with several of the designers from the Vancouver IDS Show Prototype yesterday. For me this was the most interesting part of the show. interiordesignshow.com/vancouver/pr... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #design #designthinking #prototype #IDS

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The recent revelations from Mother Jones on the role that ChatGPY played in the Tumbler Ridge and other recent tragedies is pushing me towards Anthropic's use of an AI Constitution in model training. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... #AI #AIsafety #OpenAI #Anthropic

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many of the Bollingen books framed my thinking as a teenager and I plan to revist them. press.princeton.edu/collections/... #Booksky #books #corereadings

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Vancouver IDS connects early in the design process with its Prototype Program, curated this year by Kaito Forth. interiordesignshow.com/vancouver/pr... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #design #prototype #IDS

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Vancouver is only 30th in the Copenhagen Index, a measure of urban cycling. Let's do better. copenhagenizeindex.eu/index.php/pr... #cycling #urbanism #Canada #BC #Vancouver

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Notes on my research into my own method for selecting and sequencing notes (short haiku adjacent poems I write most days). foldingnotes.substack.com/p/new-frames... #method #AI #poetry #haiku #sequencing

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Her garden A birthday post for Yoshie Hattori Sequenced with a new Carnatic theme designvancouver.org #Vancouver #Kitsilano #garden #poetry #haiku #haibun

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Interesting that BC relies on the US for less than 40% of its trade. I wish people reporting on this would include trade in services, especially trade in digital services. This is a big gap in people's mental models. www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-us-ca... #Canada #US #trade #BC

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Second Derivative sequence. Same seed text as First Derivative sequence. Different frame used for note selection and sequencing. Jazz improvization transitions used for sequencing. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/second-der... #poetry #haiku #derivative #sequencing #AI

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

First Derivative sequence - using phase changes in water as the frame for selection and sequencing. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/first-deri... #poetry #haiku #AI

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The summer’s last plums Skin cracked and musty Thick with juice #poetry #haiku #plums

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A needed book Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World edited by Bob Rae. lorimer.ca/adults/produ... #Canada #sovereignty

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sink 2, the same seed text as Sink 1, the same set of Notes to draw on, but this one selected and sequenced using aJazz transitions frame. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/sink-2 #poetry #haiku #Jazz

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Much to learn on Chris Olah's blog. colah.github.io #AI #neuralnetworks #design

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A first sequence using a simplified approach. I used renga links for this as that is a source of my approach to sequencing, though I am beginning to learn more from 100 waka sequences. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/sink-1 #poetry #haiku #renga #AI

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My daughter gave me this book, for which I am very grateful. Reading it now with great enjoyment. An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality #math #categorytheory

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ugly Duckling Press is a good source for writing that will change how you live in the world. uglyducklingpresse.org #poetry #publishers

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wendell Berry passed away at the end of August. He is missed. A man who stood by his words. 信 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell... #poetry #America #trust

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Notes from August, an inward looking month, with rather more commentary than usual. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/august-raw... #poetry #haiku #notes

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Came across the work of Mayu Kanamori in a chapbook she did wth Jane Joritz-Nakagawa. mayu.com.au #photography #thought #Australia #Japan

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wonderful discussion of the deep ethics of accurate translation that maintains the ambiguity of the original. Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyranus and Seneca's Oedipus by Frederic Ahl. cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801... #poetry #drama #tragedy #translation

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Leanne helps me understand writing across cultures. dreaminginjapanese.substack.com/p/emily-wils... #Japan #translation

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Took How to Read Water by Trstian Gooley with me canoeing. Got caught in a downpour. The book got more experience of water than it needed. #Booksky #canoeing #rainstorm #BC

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Bai Juyi, Record of the Thatched Hut on Mount Lu Three spans, a pair of pillars, two rooms, four windows --- the dimensions and expenditures were all designed to fit my taste and means. ... Translated by Burton Watson #translation #China #architecture #Tang

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

1st lines I straighten and adjust robe and headcloth, wipe clean the platform: one pitcher of autumn water, one incense burner. Needless to say, cares and delusions must be gotten rid of; ... 白居易 Po Chü-I translated by Burton Watson. 824 #1stlines #poetry #translation #白居易 #China #Tang #music

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

After 白居易 Bai Juyi (828, poem 100 in the Burton Watson translation) All beings rise out of extinction Nonbeing their point of departure No more sameness #poetry #haiku #derivatives

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It will be great to have Bria Fernandes in Victoria, look forward to seeing her art transform the city. www.instagram.com/p/CHd-zapgH5... #Canada #BC #Victoria #Art

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

July notes. A month spent at home, mostly alone, focussed on writing. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/july-raw-n... #poetry #haiku #haibun #summer

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Tom Burrows work changed how I experience where I live. An essential artist, www.figure1publishing.com/book/tom-bur... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #Hornby #art

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My first attempts to translate Fujiwara Teika. Ten waka. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/fujiwara-t... #poetry #translation #Japan #waka #Teika

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Lost art of Vancouver - Maplewood Mud Flats - Tom Burrows vancouverartinthesixties.com/archive/422 #Canada #BC #Vancouver #sculpture

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fujiwara Teika 時わかぬ波さへ色に和泉川ははその森に嵐吹くらし Toki wakanu nami sae iro ni Izumi-gawa hahaso no mori ni arashi fukurashi Time stands still As even the waves change colour On the Izumi River In the konara oak forest A storm blowing Calligraphy by Yuko Matsuyama. washicraft.com/archives/28135 #waka

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

One of two posts using the Yoneda Lemma as a seed to select and sequence three line, haiku influenced notes. The Yoneda Lemma connect to the Buddhist idea of no independent origination. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/the-yoneda... #poetry #haiku #math #Buddhism #categorytheory #Yoneda

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Fascinating research into human - AI collaboration. Collective Cognition in Hybrid Groups: A Network Science Synthesis by Babak Hemmatian, Razan Baltaji, Lav R. Varshney. Worth a slow read. arxiv.org/abs/2607.05593 #cognition #collaboration #AI

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reading Being in Being by Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, translated by Robert Bringhurst. One of the most important books to have come out of Canada #Canada #BC #poetry #epic #Haida #translation

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Great read - Greenwood by Michael Christie Connects the threads of Canadian history into an apocalyptic story of climate change with characters we come to care about. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/588402... #Booksky #Canada #BC #novel #climatechange

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Can a recipe act as a seed to select and sequence notes? The recipe tried is for wasabi risotto. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/wasabi-lea... #poetry #wasabi #haiku #risotto #recipes

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Quiet Sunday, working, listening to Radio Tarifa www.radio-tarifa.com #music #worldmusic

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

After many years of dithering I am beginning to translate the Japanese waka poet Fujiwara Teika 藤原定家. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/preparing-... #poetry #waka #tanka #Japan #translation #藤原定家

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Looking forward to seeing Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, ignoring racist 'influencers.' www.imdb.com/title/tt3376... #movies #Odyssey

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

DavidcKakuktinniq photography www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/art... #Canada #Arctic #art #photography

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Reading Hiroaki Sato's translation of Princess Shikishi, a friend, maybe lover, of Fujiwara Teika. Sato uses a one line translation which flows better than the conventional five line approach and is arguably more faithful to the Japanese. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes... #poetry #waka #translation

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I will be publishing a technical/business book this fall with Michael Mansard and Wolfgang Ulaga, sponsored by INSEAD. Pricing strategy legend Tom Nagle has agreed to write the forward. pricinginnovation.substack.com/p/pricing-fo... #Booksky #pricing #AI #agents #agenteconomy #creditbasedpricing

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My first attempt at using images as seeds for note selection and sequencing to create a collection of threads. Used a water framing in my first attempt, which did not work as well as I had hoped. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/collaborat... #poetry #haiku #collaboration #inkdrawing #brushwork #AI

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