Steven Forth
@stevenforth.bsky.social
Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
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Reposted by Steven Forth
I've written a blog about how it works and what I learned pieterma.es/syntopic-rea...
Reading across books with Claude Code | Pieter Maes
In which we teach an agent to read syntopically.
pieterma.es
January 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I've written a blog about how it works and what I learned pieterma.es/syntopic-rea...
Reposted by Steven Forth
Design books
Draw by Kenya Hara
www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/draw
#Booksky #design #books #designbooks #sketching
Draw by Kenya Hara
www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/draw
#Booksky #design #books #designbooks #sketching
January 18, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Design books
Draw by Kenya Hara
www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/draw
#Booksky #design #books #designbooks #sketching
Draw by Kenya Hara
www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/draw
#Booksky #design #books #designbooks #sketching
1st lines
Ye injur'd fields ere while so gay
When natures hand display'd
Long waving rows of Willows gray
And clumps of Hawthorn shade
But now alas your awthorn bowers
All desolate we see
The tyrants hand their shade devours
And cuts down every tree
John Clare 1820
#1stlines #poetry #enclosures
Ye injur'd fields ere while so gay
When natures hand display'd
Long waving rows of Willows gray
And clumps of Hawthorn shade
But now alas your awthorn bowers
All desolate we see
The tyrants hand their shade devours
And cuts down every tree
John Clare 1820
#1stlines #poetry #enclosures
January 18, 2026 at 1:27 PM
1st lines
Ye injur'd fields ere while so gay
When natures hand display'd
Long waving rows of Willows gray
And clumps of Hawthorn shade
But now alas your awthorn bowers
All desolate we see
The tyrants hand their shade devours
And cuts down every tree
John Clare 1820
#1stlines #poetry #enclosures
Ye injur'd fields ere while so gay
When natures hand display'd
Long waving rows of Willows gray
And clumps of Hawthorn shade
But now alas your awthorn bowers
All desolate we see
The tyrants hand their shade devours
And cuts down every tree
John Clare 1820
#1stlines #poetry #enclosures
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Writing as physical thought.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
Writing as physical thought.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
January 18, 2026 at 1:23 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Writing as physical thought.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
Writing as physical thought.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
The Nuuk Museum, Greenland.
May Greenland never be part of the USA.
www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/en/3134-2/
#Nuuk #Greenland #art
May Greenland never be part of the USA.
www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/en/3134-2/
#Nuuk #Greenland #art
Nuuk Kunstmuseum // Nuuk Art Museum – Grønlands største kunstmuseum
www.nuukkunstmuseum.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:46 AM
The Nuuk Museum, Greenland.
May Greenland never be part of the USA.
www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/en/3134-2/
#Nuuk #Greenland #art
May Greenland never be part of the USA.
www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/en/3134-2/
#Nuuk #Greenland #art
January 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Trails and associations between books. Many fascinating small collections here.
trails.pieterma.es
#Booksky #books #connections #AI
trails.pieterma.es
#Booksky #books #connections #AI
Trails
Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude.
trails.pieterma.es
January 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Trails and associations between books. Many fascinating small collections here.
trails.pieterma.es
#Booksky #books #connections #AI
trails.pieterma.es
#Booksky #books #connections #AI
I am interested in reading A Guardian and a Thief by Mega Majundar. CBC has reasonably good coverage of books.
www.cbc.ca/books/so-muc...
#CBC #novels #Kolkata
www.cbc.ca/books/so-muc...
#CBC #novels #Kolkata
Why Megha Majumdar has 'so much fun' on book tours | CBC Books
The author talked to Mattea Roach on Bookends about what it felt like to write a book set in her hometown, and why her book tour was a blast.
www.cbc.ca
January 17, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I am interested in reading A Guardian and a Thief by Mega Majundar. CBC has reasonably good coverage of books.
www.cbc.ca/books/so-muc...
#CBC #novels #Kolkata
www.cbc.ca/books/so-muc...
#CBC #novels #Kolkata
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(from an interview with Gustaf Sobin)
January 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM
(from an interview with Gustaf Sobin)
Reposted by Steven Forth
"Night and distance occupied the ship, hummed in the hollowness of it, throbbed in the engines of it, drove it like a line across a screen. I wondered if the Kraken felt the tremor of it, wondered if the blind and questing head of Orpheus swam before it, cleaving the darkness ahead of the bow wave."
January 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
"Night and distance occupied the ship, hummed in the hollowness of it, throbbed in the engines of it, drove it like a line across a screen. I wondered if the Kraken felt the tremor of it, wondered if the blind and questing head of Orpheus swam before it, cleaving the darkness ahead of the bow wave."
OpenReview is a useful complement to asXiv in keeping up with recent advances in areas like AI and ML.
openreview.net
#OpenReview #AI
openreview.net
#OpenReview #AI
OpenReview
Promoting openness in scientific communication and the peer-review process
openreview.net
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
OpenReview is a useful complement to asXiv in keeping up with recent advances in areas like AI and ML.
openreview.net
#OpenReview #AI
openreview.net
#OpenReview #AI
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Design books
100 Words for Water; A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño
#Booksky #boos #design #designbooks #water
100 Words for Water; A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño
#Booksky #boos #design #designbooks #water
January 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Design books
100 Words for Water; A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño
#Booksky #boos #design #designbooks #water
100 Words for Water; A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño
#Booksky #boos #design #designbooks #water
1st lines
I'm returning home
the garden would be all weeds if I didn't
since enslaving my heart to my body
how depressed and miserable I have been
I realized I couldn't restore the past
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 405
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China
I'm returning home
the garden would be all weeds if I didn't
since enslaving my heart to my body
how depressed and miserable I have been
I realized I couldn't restore the past
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 405
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China
January 17, 2026 at 2:10 PM
1st lines
I'm returning home
the garden would be all weeds if I didn't
since enslaving my heart to my body
how depressed and miserable I have been
I realized I couldn't restore the past
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 405
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China
I'm returning home
the garden would be all weeds if I didn't
since enslaving my heart to my body
how depressed and miserable I have been
I realized I couldn't restore the past
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 405
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Chus Pato reminds me of the importance of local language.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
Chus Pato reminds me of the importance of local language.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
January 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Chus Pato reminds me of the importance of local language.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
Chus Pato reminds me of the importance of local language.
#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation
In BC we need new voices and new visions of the future.
From Inside the NDP, I'm Working to Change Politics by Ji Wong Jung via @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
#Canada #BC #NDP #politics
From Inside the NDP, I'm Working to Change Politics by Ji Wong Jung via @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
#Canada #BC #NDP #politics
From Inside the NDP, I’m Working to Change Politics | The Tyee
A 22-year-old party member hopes a grassroots movement will take hold to challenge top-down control.
thetyee.ca
January 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM
In BC we need new voices and new visions of the future.
From Inside the NDP, I'm Working to Change Politics by Ji Wong Jung via @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
#Canada #BC #NDP #politics
From Inside the NDP, I'm Working to Change Politics by Ji Wong Jung via @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
#Canada #BC #NDP #politics
1st lines
Our tracks stopped at a makeshift hut
we cut ourselves off from the world
no one comes to see us
we keep the gate closed
in a driving year-end wind
and daylong falling snow
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 403
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China #陶淵明
Our tracks stopped at a makeshift hut
we cut ourselves off from the world
no one comes to see us
we keep the gate closed
in a driving year-end wind
and daylong falling snow
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 403
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China #陶淵明
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
1st lines
Our tracks stopped at a makeshift hut
we cut ourselves off from the world
no one comes to see us
we keep the gate closed
in a driving year-end wind
and daylong falling snow
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 403
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China #陶淵明
Our tracks stopped at a makeshift hut
we cut ourselves off from the world
no one comes to see us
we keep the gate closed
in a driving year-end wind
and daylong falling snow
From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 403
#1stlines #poetry #translation #China #陶淵明
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Design books
The Architecture of Open Source Applications Vol. 2
aosabook.org/en/
#Booksky #books #design #designbools #software #opensource
The Architecture of Open Source Applications Vol. 2
aosabook.org/en/
#Booksky #books #design #designbools #software #opensource
January 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Design books
The Architecture of Open Source Applications Vol. 2
aosabook.org/en/
#Booksky #books #design #designbools #software #opensource
The Architecture of Open Source Applications Vol. 2
aosabook.org/en/
#Booksky #books #design #designbools #software #opensource
Reposted by Steven Forth
A collection of articles on design from the Aspen Ideas Festival
www.aspenideas.org/collections/...
#design #Aspen #designthinking
www.aspenideas.org/collections/...
#design #Aspen #designthinking
Design of the Times | Aspen Ideas
Design is shaped by the past, drives the present, and reimagines the future. In an era of rapid innovation and technological breakthroughs, design is more than aesthetics — it’s a force that can inspi...
www.aspenideas.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
A collection of articles on design from the Aspen Ideas Festival
www.aspenideas.org/collections/...
#design #Aspen #designthinking
www.aspenideas.org/collections/...
#design #Aspen #designthinking
Saya Gray - "SHELL (OF A MAN)" (Live at WFUV)
YouTube video by WFUV Public Radio
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Wittgenstein TLP 6.41 Searle Translation
The meaning of the world must lie
Outside of the world inside the world
Everything is how it is
If there is a value
That has value it must lie
...
#poetry #haiku #Wittgenstein #TLP
The meaning of the world must lie
Outside of the world inside the world
Everything is how it is
If there is a value
That has value it must lie
...
#poetry #haiku #Wittgenstein #TLP
January 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Wittgenstein TLP 6.41 Searle Translation
The meaning of the world must lie
Outside of the world inside the world
Everything is how it is
If there is a value
That has value it must lie
...
#poetry #haiku #Wittgenstein #TLP
The meaning of the world must lie
Outside of the world inside the world
Everything is how it is
If there is a value
That has value it must lie
...
#poetry #haiku #Wittgenstein #TLP
Should Sunrise Market Become a City-Owned Grocery Store? by Katie Hyslop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
#Canada #Vancouver #DTES #alternatives
#Canada #Vancouver #DTES #alternatives
Should Sunrise Market Become a City-Owned Grocery Store? | The Tyee
With London Drugs closing and Sunrise Market’s future unsure, the Downtown Eastside faces a retail desert.
thetyee.ca
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Should Sunrise Market Become a City-Owned Grocery Store? by Katie Hyslop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
#Canada #Vancouver #DTES #alternatives
#Canada #Vancouver #DTES #alternatives