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Eric Selland @chinmoku001.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's notebook

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Eric Selland @chinmoku001.bsky.social · 14h

And the saga continues...

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Eric Selland @chinmoku001.bsky.social · 14h

These two go together:

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 6h

1st lines Rising from the river, Does the roar of waves break in upon the sleep Of the Uji villagers, So that even at night their way is perilous Across the floating bridge of dreams Nami no oto ni Uji no satobito Yoru sae ya ... Fujiwara Teika translated by Robert Brower #1stlines #poetry #waka

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 30/09/2026

1st lines Small wiry brown-skinned yet British; sky, too quick, skilled with lock and key, long black hair braids touching her leather packsack: tools plus lasers, all the latest gadgets for openings no lock that ever ... From Bramah and the Beggar Boy, Renée Sarojini Saklikar #1stlines #poetry

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1st lines The deer lay near my head. It was a night that felt as if another night had come behind it, then another behind that night, stacking. The deer rolled on his (her?) shoulder toward my mouth, this ... From The Volcano's High Held Snow Note by Tim Lilburn #1stlines #poetry #Canada #BC

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

for Susan Philips Black eyed susans Withered rain wet Remembering a friend - Gardening in the coat Of her dead friend Gathering leaves #poetry #haiku #gardening #memory

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1st lines a red room, tongued from a second place, thick with covenated mountain ranges, coastal, reached only by under-rain logging roads, drifting through dripping, charcoal fir, west shore, ... From The Volcano's High Held Snow Note by Tim Lilburn #1stlines #poetry #Canada #BC

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(note to Tu Fu's poem "Written on the Wall at Chang's Hermitage") The recluse Wang Hui-chih (d. 388) set out "on a whim" to visit a friend. When he arrived at the friend's house, however, the mood had vanished, so he simply returned home without seeing his friend. -David Hinton

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

1st lines Matted snow with hard crust unfolds, linen cloth, on the west face, the male hummingbird broken from sleep, its seal, stilled at the just thawed feeder. Final dark, snow breathes down between monstrous firs From The Volcano's High Held Snow Note by Tim Lilburn #1stlines #poetry #Canada

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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 · 26/09/2026

天の原思へば変る色もなし秋こそ月の光なりけれ Ama no hara omoeba kawaru iro mo nashi aki koso tsuki no hikari narikere Sky field Changes with thought Colourless The autumn moon That light Fujiwara Teika one of my translations of this waka. #poetry #waka #translation #moon

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Eric Selland @chinmoku001.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Notebook

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1st lines if I give my heart to the land will it hold grief like I do? too tightly and too long it rolls in like a thick ice fog in the dead middle of winter drowning in debilitating delicacy From Where the Sea Kunuks the Land by Ashley Qilavaq-Savard #1stlines #poetry #Innuit #Canada

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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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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

3 p.m. two mynas walking on freshly-hoed ground … gray sky … banana plant tall as our house

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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 · 25/09/2026

1st lines can you imagine just barely escaping a snowstorm enough to witness it in all its glory at your tail's end swallowing whole your home like a sneaky fox and clueless lemming swiftly, ... From Where the Sea Kunuks the Land by Ashley Qilavaq-Savard #1stlines #poetry #Innuit #Canada

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1st lines Remember. The sow brought drops of sealing-wax and molten lead and the lies of a little girl who had killed a swan, and the gloved hand brought the dispersion of light and the murder that seemed to go on forever, Rafael Alberti tr by Mark Strand #1stlines #poetry #Spain

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1st lines The one I wanted came, the one I called. Not the one who sweeps away defenceless skies, stars without homes, moons without a country, snows. The kind of snows that fall from a hand, a name, a dream, a face. Rafael Alberti tr by Mark Strand #1stlines #poetry #Spain

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

David Eby's trope about the BC Conservatives is already old and tired. The BC NDP have to show us why they have earned reelection. Pointing out how horrible the BC Conservatives are is not enough. #Canada #BC #BCelection #NDP #BCConservatives #CentreBC

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1st lines The waves, blue walls of Africa, go and never come back. When they go . . . Ah, to go with them! Ah, to come back with them! When they come back . . . Rafael Alberti translated by Mark Strand #1stlines #poetry #Spain #Argentina

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1st lines Since there's bending You feel it bent Apply for carnival and for protest Since there's bending The Run for Sight Recumbency makeover bent grass sort Since there is bending You feel it bent From Hungry Slingshots by Louis Cabri #1stlines #poetry #Canada

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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 · 20/09/2026

1st lines Since our bond was shallow as an inlet one might ford on foot without even wetting one's robe I hope to pass again through the gate at meeting hill Waka by Ariwara Narihira tr by H.Mack Horton #1stlines #poetry #waka #Japan #translation

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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 · 19/09/2026

1st lines You know it: adoration of the mother Because we got souls she looked, because she looked out for us No sweetener! "The client may feel your not interested" From Hungry Slingshots by Louis Cabri 2020 #1stlines #poetry

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

LawZero is an important international initiative to help guide us towards safe AI. Let's hope it will have an impact. lawzero.org/en #AI #safety

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LawZero | Home

LawZero is a nonprofit startup developing technical solutions for highly-capable, safe-by-design AI systems.

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1st lines 1 you smell damp, is it raining? 2 nice and dry in here 1 two hundred seats not even half full 2 Japanese film week? 1 funny how Americans dislike subtitles 2 you said this one's a film noir? 1 what I like about you, baby, ... From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson #1stlines #poetry

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Design Vancouver Festival is on. Started last night with an excellent and moving edition of PechaKucha. If you have not been to a PechaKucha check and see if there is one one near where you live. designvancouver.org #Canada #BC #Vancouver #design #designthinking #PechaKucha

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Home - Design Vancouver Festival

Design Vancouver Festival celebrates and advocates for Vancouver's architecture and design community. Join us Sept 17-27, 2026.

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1st lines Little tough ones, little tall ones, others yellow as hay, their tiny blades falling across the cracks, the stones. Blades moving a bit. There is no reason for you to wonder about this. Keep listening. Keep glancing out, ... From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson #1stlines #poetry

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 17/09/2026

South Korea’s unusually rapid transition to a super-aged society meant it has had little time to find solutions. Here’s what the US can learn from South Korea’s experience with long-term care insurance, healthcare, and pension funding. theconversation.com/how-south-ko...

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy 100th Birthday to Takao Tanabe One of Canada's great artists. Thank you for the decades of compelling work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_T... #Canada #BC #art

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Takao Tanabe - Wikipedia

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1st Lines Poverty is a scapegoat. We drive them out! "Hermes, I shiver like crazy, give Hipponax a cloak." (Don't look it in the eyes.) We forbid you asking "in God's name" for bread. We distinguish relative (some teeth) from absolute ... From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson #1stlines #poetry

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I learned some things about Canada and myself in this podcast with Carol Off. Worth listening to. youtu.be/Cww5s42F-N0?... #Canada #US #identity

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Is a New Canada Emerging in the Era of Trump?

YouTube video by The Paikin Podcast

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

And it continues through the whole piece, I had to read it twice to get the flow and understand what is happening.

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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 · 15/09/2026

1st lines Oh that the dew Might keep from falling while I thread it Into a string of jewels Upon the hedge of white deutzia flowers Clustered beneath its crystal weight Fujiwara Teika tr by Earl Miner 1200 #1stlines #poetry #waka

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1st lines The fate of the earth. The fate of me. The fate of you. The fate of Faisal. The fate of the court where Faisal will plead his case. The fate of the court's bias. Every court has a bias. It sifts to the surface gradually. The fate of ... From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson #1stlines #poetry

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Who is more credible on AI security risk? Donald Trump or Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. We regulate and certify nuclear energy, telecommunication, etc. Why would we not regulate and certify AI models? #AI #regulation

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fall gardening (for Yoshie) She drinks slowly Watering the garden Thinking slowly - Planting in four dimensions Space the the daily, seasonal, annual Cycles thinking ten years out - We will not be here when These plants reach maturity Will anyone be here to care #poetry #garden #seasons

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1st Lines Though the time must come When the cherry blossoms fall and scatter With advancing spring. As I walk through the new-turned mountain fields, I cannot but look back in grief. Fujiwara Teika tr by Earl Miner 1200 #1stliines #poetry #waka #translation

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Canadian law schools need to stop using LSAT scores as part of their entrance procedure. LSAC is violating Canadian Law and the rights of Canadian residents. It is no longer a trustworthy institution and must be removed from the process. #LSAT #LSAC #US #Canada #LawSchool

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