Jacob Sam-La Rose

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Poet, editor, facilitator, programme leader, freelance artistic director. Geek for #poetry, computational poetics, ergo-mechanical keyboards, #iPad & #iPadOS, vintage road bikes, #sciencefiction, #TfT and #PKM. 🤓

Probably already exists, but I couldn't find anything, so made this:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7bd76af158e54f63b53c2169d1a1156a

...a shortcut for creating a direct link to an Audible audiobook. From Audible, share the book you want a link for to this shortcut. You'll get an appropriate URL in your clipboard.

I use this in a workflow to maintain a list of audiobooks (Spotify and Audible), podcasts, ebooks etc in progress via a GoodTask home screen widget that also serves as a launcher.

#iPadOS #iOS

Shortcuts

Fantastic write-up on the importance of time in The Bear (which is itself on my list of all-time favourite TV series for a number of different reasons) via the Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/every-second-counts-on-fxs-the-bear/
Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books
Digital Spaces Directory | New_ Public https://newpublic.org/directory
Digital Spaces Directory | New_ Public

Welcome to New_ Public, a home for the people who are building and dreaming up the diverse, community-serving, anti-oppressive public-spirited tech future.

New_ Public

Now THIS looks interesting… Riverbed https://about.riverbed.app/

Personal information manager— essentially a database builder. The appeal is that you can build/extend your own system(s)/workflows without the need to code anything.

You have to spend time designing a system, and your returns will only be as good as the strength of that design. Nonetheless, I'm curious to see what Riverbed might be capable of. I can imagine overlap with Obsidian and Airtable in function…

Kudos to @CodingItWrong

Riverbed | Riverbed

Riverbed allows you to build mini-apps that let you interact with your data the way that works best for you—all without writing any code.

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

This quote. Building meaningful connections takes work.

(Also curious to know which Mastodon servers most of the scientists will end up on…)

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.

"Here We Were Happy" by Rebecca Starks

And still I fall back on the garden like a firebreak, as if its walls might contain the inferno sweeping through paradise

Rattle: Poetry
Looking forward to seeing what Amelia Wattenberger comes up with… https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/yay-embeddings-math
Getting creative with embeddings

Amelia Wattenberger's personal website

Today: discovered Crocker's Rules via Matthew Sweet… http://sl4.org/crocker.html
Crocker's Rules

"The strategy is the same as it always was: cultivate small, sturdy networks of affinity and interest. Connect them to each other. Keep them lit." https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/summer-wind/
A summer wind

Discovery and forthcoming.

Robin Sloan
A little friction is not a bad thing. Friction by design as a process for filtering interest… not so much as to make a thing inaccessible, but enough to make people reflect on whether/why they actually want the thing. Friction as a funnel for attention? https://birchtree.me/blog/friction-mastodon-andred-dead-redemption-2/
Friction, Mastodon, and…Red Dead Redemption 2?

I recently learned that there is a small, but enthusiastic group of people who play Red Dead Redemption 2 online, but they don’t compete, they role play. The details are too much to get into here, but the gist is that thousands of people will sign into a multiplayer

Birchtree