Exporting references from Zotero to Tiddlywiki https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/exporting-references-from-zotero-to-tiddlywiki/

A recipe for doing just that ^^

https://david.shanske.com/2021/11/24/5364/

I've been thinking about how to best do photo uploads myself. I've got something quirky right now myself, but want something more solid with less after-the-fact work.

This seems a lot like the same longevity questions that the Internet Archive and IndieWeb are working on or the @RJI's Dodging the Memory Hole conference for born digital news.

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/11/17/guest-post-seeking-feedback-on-a-model-digital-preservation-policy-a-project-of-the-nasig-digital-preservation-committee/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/ahmaud-arbery-verdict-guilty/620817/

A good reminder that justice was only reached because of national outrage and not because our system really works.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/evangelical-trump-christians-politics/620469/

Evangelical Christians have been held together more by political orientation and sociology than they have by a common theology. This has set them up for a schism which has been exacerbated by Donald J. Trump, COVID-19, and social changes.

Similar to Kurt's quote, "We go to church to see and be seen", too many churches are focused on entertainment and being an ongoing institution that they aren't focusing on their core mission. This is causing problems in their overall identity.

Time at church and in religious study is limited, but cable news, social media, and other distractions are always on and end up winning out.

People are more likely to change their church because of politics than to change their politics because of church.

The dichotomy of maleness and femaleness compound the cultural issues of the evangelical church.

Southernization of the Church

Pastors leaving the profession due to issues with a hostile work environment. Some leaving because parishioners are organizing and demanding they be fired.

Peter Wehner looks at the rifts that are appearing in the Christian evangelical movement in America, some are issues that have been building for a while, while others are exaggerated by Donald J. Trump, the coronavirus, the culture wars, political news, political beliefs, and and hypocrisy.

https://nscresearchcenter.org/stay-informed/

https://www.studentclearinghouse.org/nscblog/undergraduate-enrollment-drops-nearly-8-and-community-colleges-decline-15-since-fall-2019/

https://diggingthedigital.com/abonneren-op-aantekeningen/

I like the idea here of being able to watch over someone's shoulder quietly to see what they're working on and how they're doing it. There's some interesting anthropology hiding here.

Have to say I'm a bit flattered that it's me that's being watched...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/travel/john-jay-paris-abigail-slavery.html

A wonderfully written short essay about the scant history of an African American slave owned by John Jay and her time in Paris.

https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.edutopia.org/article/social-annotation-digital-age

a teaser article for social annotation. only scratches the surface.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/04/opinion/20090908_opart.html?_r=0

We recognize letters in reading much better by reading the top of letters rather than by reading the bottom of letters.

As a result of this, closing the tops of letters properly is important in writing.

An alternate method of holding one's writing instrument between fore-finter and middle finer with the thumb near the tip can alleviate forearm, wrist, and thumb pain.

https://willtmonroe.com/microblog/hypothes-is-oer-and-smart-notes/

https://marksuth.dev/indigenous-for-android-0-65/

http://countryoftheblind.blogspot.com/2011/10/product-review-remembering-traditional.html

Review of Remembering Traditional Hanzi, by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson which is related to Heisig's similar Japanese book.

While Heisig's book in Japanese is interesting, it's interesting and feels less useful than a similar and more contextualized book by Kenneth Henshall.

http://countryoftheblind.blogspot.com/2012/01/mnemonics-for-pronouncing-chinese.html

The Marilyn method is a means of creating associated characters and places to sounds/tones in Chinese for memorizing kanji.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Lynne Kelly</span> in Foreign Languages – a call for opinions – Lynne Kelly (<time class='dt-published'>11/22/2021 12:44:51</time>)</cite></small>

https://asiasociety.org/china-learning-initiatives/radicals-reveal-order-chinese-characters

Article about the importance of radicals in Chinese (and by extension Japanese) with hopes that pedagogy will change to make the teaching and remembering of kanji easier.

https://thedispatch.com/p/a-note-to-our-readers-from-steve

Center-right journalists Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch have severed ties with Fox News over a misinformation campaign from Tucker Carlson based on the January 6 events.

Kudos to them for drawing a line on this issue.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Lynne Kelly</span> in Aboriginal education and The Memory Code (<time class='dt-published'>11/21/2021 15:32:45</time>)</cite></small>

http://www.lynnekelly.com.au/?p=5024

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/schools-face-parents-who-want-ban-critical-race-theory-don-ncna1284185

Too many people on the far right as well as some on the conservative religious spectrum feel it's their right to dictate what is taught in schools and are attempting to legislate against it. Sadly that isn't how this all works....

This looks interesting with respect to the flows of the history of commonplace books.

Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Megan Heffernan

https://site.pennpress.org/material-texts-2021/9780812224955/bitstreams/

Something about this seems related to the ideas of archiving and saving digital and physical culture.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/twitter-smarter--twitter-harder-with-twitter-blue

Meh... This looks like a play which will have them buying up smaller subscription apps that do these sorts of services separately and putting other competitors out of business.

Watch out Readwise, ThreadReaderApp, etc.

https://threader.app/threader-has-joined-twitter

https://www.edge.org/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-1934%E2%80%932021

Saddened to hear that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi passed away in late October.

This overview on Edge.org looks like a good overview of some of his work and personal thought.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2296899-new-mineral-davemaoite-discovered-inside-a-diamond-from-earths-mantle/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/arts/music/graeme-edge-dead.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2296962-origins-of-japanese-and-turkish-language-family-traced-back-9000-years/

Martine Robbeets et al have used linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence to show that millet farming communities in north-east China 10,000 years ago may have given rise to the Transeurasian language families that became Japanese, Mongolian, Korean, and Turkish.

Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04108-8

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/new-findings-on-jordanian-megaliths/141965

New megaliths found in Jordan in various stages of construction which helped archaeologists suggest a method for their construction by carving the stones from the ground and then supporting them with smaller ones.

Worth checking to see if standing stones may have been found at these sites as well.

https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-expand-sci-hub-libgen-and-ebook-piracy-blocking-211112/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/overused-words-and-phrases-that-make-you-sound-weak-less-confident-according-to-grammar-experts.html

A list of useless filler phrases and softeners that are generally unnecessary. including the word "just". Worth exploring these in more depth.

I'm not sure I believe the "think"/"believe" one.

“I think this would ...” What to say instead: “I believe this would …”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1459547762517688327.html

Anthony Baker experimenting with ideas from Necromant and Eleanor Konik to cross link digital notes with physical paper notes.

I've thought about doing something similar to this with my physical notebooks in the past, though hadn't done block level linking as a means of potentially pulling in and linking pieces in the future.

Often for more important linked things, I'll simply import the physical version into my digital copy at the time of first use/reference, but this could be interesting for large bodies of notes which aren't digital.

https://infohist.fas.harvard.edu/news/information-cultures-series-john-hopkins-university-press

This looks like a fascinating series and who could go wrong with Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton, and Earle Havens?

Also interesting to see what sorts of things they will find interesting at the cutting edge of all these disciplines.

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/readwriterespond070/

As always, some great tidbits hiding in here. Some new and reminders that I ought to look at a few things I've put off, but bookmarked when I saw them myself.

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/antennapod/

I feel your pain here Aaron.

Perhaps it helps, perhaps not, but I've been using AntennaPod for a few years now. In particular I love it on Android because I can use the share functionality to share to a custom email address which posts to reading.am for an account that aggregates everything I'm listening to. Then I port the RSS feed of that back into my site. It's a stupid amount of manual work, but it mostly works.

Alternately you could share material you listen to to Huffduffer and pull data out that way as well. My problem here is that Huffduffer is more of a bookmark service than a "listened to this" sort of service, though you could always add a "listened" tag to the things you've heard in the past.

The tougher part of all this is that podcasts have "canonical" links for the podcast episodes (sometimes) and an entirely different link for the audio file which has no meta data attached to it (presuming you can even find the URL for the audio file to begin with.)

AntennaPod allows you to pick and choose what you want to share, so usually I default to the audio file to get that in to the workflow and finding/adding the data for the particular episode is a bit easier.

I will say that this is one of the ugliest and most labor intensive workflows I've got for social posts, so I'm usually only doing it and posting publicly for things that I really think are worth the time that make for interesting notes/observations that go along with the post.

I'm curious to see what others come up with for this workflow.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-11-12/britney-spears-conservatorship-ends

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/jerry-craft-books-texas-school-challenges-16596152.php

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29115696

Read through comments for the fun of it.

Nothing beyond the extraordinary here.

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/help-me-find-world-history-textbooks

Dan Allosso is curious to look at the history of how history is taught.

The history of teaching history is a fascinating topic and is an interesting way for cultural anthropologists to look at how we look at ourselves as well as to reveal subtle ideas about who we want to become.

This is particularly interesting with respect to teaching cultural identity and its relationship to nationalism.

One could look at the history of Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War to see how the South continued its cultural split from the North (or in more subtle subsections from Colin Woodard's American Nations thesis) to see how this has played out. This could also be compared to the current culture wars taking place with the rise of nationalism within the American political right and the Southern evangelicals which has come to a fervor with the rise of Donald J. Trump.

Other examples are the major shifts in nationalism after the "long 19th century" which resulted in World War I and World War II and Germany's national identity post WWII.

Why can't it act and prosecute with the new administration?

https://apnews.com/article/presidential-elections-election-2020-elections-778951007a888c1f2af6babbb198634b

https://calmernotes.com/

I like that the underlying idea behind the design here is "calm" as well as attempting to get an 80% solution rather than get-it-all.

https://deadline.com/2021/11/dean-stockwell-dead-quantum-leap-star-1234870413/

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Fountain-Pens/pt/927

A simple, but reasonable primer. Didn't learn anything new sadly.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Yusufa</span> in Improving how universities teach science (<time class='dt-published'>11/04/2021 13:26:34</time>)</cite></small>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wove_paper

After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out ‘Virgin birth’ might be more common in animals than we thought. by Sarah Zhang https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/california-condors-are-capable-virgin-birth/620517/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/

Anne Applebaum looks at the ideas of public humiliation and cancel culture as a potential slippery slope toward authoritarianism. She provides numerous examples of people experiencing forms of cancel culture without any arguments for or against them, but instead explores the cultural space around it and what its consequences might possibly be.

Many of her examples focus on spaces related to academia rather than broader life, a space which needs further exploration as the scope and shape for those may differ dramatically.

She also brings up the broad phenomenon of "university justice" (my descriptor) and generally secret tribunals and justice administered by them rather than traditional governmental means.

This brings up some excellent avenues for thought about who we are as a country and a liberal democracy.

Highly recommend.

“keeping students safe” means you must violate due process?

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Anne Applebaum</span> in Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse - The Atlantic (<time class='dt-published'>11/07/2021 13:41:11</time>)</cite></small>

Skimmed opening paragraphs in physical newspaper. Want to revisit. This sounds like the sort of "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" that actually works.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/03/what-does-tech-take-from-us-meet-the-writer-who-has-counted-100-big-losses

A brief review/interview with a book author who eschews many new technologies and why.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logging-off-facebook-what-comes-next-tickets-201128228947

Not attending, but an interesting list of people and related projects to watch.

https://indieweb.org/this-week/2021-11-05.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/books/review/hearing-homers-song-milman-parry-robert-kanigel.html

Short overview of Parry's biography. One could do better reading the Wikipedia article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/books/review/hearing-homers-song-milman-parry-robert-kanigel.html

https://mailchi.mp/942af84a891f/8x0d2nndm6-4835029

Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now? by Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Vidya Ravilochan and Colette Kessler) https://gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-it-wrong-ae45d6217a8c

Apr 4, 2021

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Dylan Thomas</span> in Come and get yer social justice metaphors! (<time class='dt-published'>11/05/2021 11:26:10</time>)</cite></small>

"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators" by Peggy McIntosh https://via.hypothes.is/https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack

"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwftoBW6zbNv4qLi0NjuBNvtZyYg0f34xKVuOIO3DVk/edit#

The Classicist Who Killed Homer How Milman Parry proved that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by a lone genius. By Adam Kirsch https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/the-classicist-who-killed-homer June 7, 2021

Someone mentioned this in class today

Web Browser Engineering by Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson https://browser.engineering/

A Web Browser Built for Me by Robin Rendle https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/a-web-browser-built-for-me/

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-19/25666

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-18/25541

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-17/25270

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-16/24166

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-15/23348

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-14/23046

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-13/21959

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-12/21564

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-11/21184

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-10/20523

https://uxdesign.cc/the-principles-of-user-sovereignty-515ac83401f6

https://dwhuseby.medium.com/dont-use-dids-58759823378c

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/homer-print-transmission-and-reception-homers-works/introduction/

https://i.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/

Contains the visions fro the pioneers on the field.

Merging distribute knowledge is an excersize on the abstractness of ontologies vs the practicality of schema-less graph knowledge.

Maybe a bit vague (the article), maybe re-read it. But i really appreciate the boldness [[agora]] try to solve the same problem.

Useful tip about personal notes.

Journalistic video about NSU neonazis and links with Golden Dawn criminal political party.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box-after-a-year/

Tomas Vik discusses the path he took in looking at zettelkasten software to end up at Logseq. He specifically highlights (rightly) how much work/time is involved in doing it well, but as a result indicates he's seeing the value in the process.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit#

https://vimeo.com/173128404

Some better in-depth examples of how Niklas Luhmann used his zettelkasten as well as some of the problems he would have faced and how they were solved (or weren't).

https://tracydurnell.com/2021/10/20/digital-garden-index/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_salt_in_Christianity

Looked up in relation of mention of a blessing of salt and water in LJS 418, a manuscript about Saint Blaise: https://bibliophilly.library.upenn.edu/viewer.php?id=Oversize%20LJS%20418#page/12/mode/thumb

references

https://ednico.medium.com/30-oct-21-logseq-mobile-update-todoist-plugin-zettelkasten-flow-namespaces-alfred-workflow-3b9ab31bddac

Some updates in the note taking space with respect to Logseq.

https://hackernoon.com/how-i-use-zettelkasten-and-obsidian-to-keep-my-notes-organized

Nothing new to the conversation. This is more of a note that links zettelkasten and Obsidian and nothing more.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Luhmanns-Denkmaschine-endlich-im-Netz-4364512.html?seite=all

An interesting overview of Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten and how it was digitally archived with some potential ideas about how this might be done for other such systems or for ideas for those building and designing their own digital gardens.

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/perfect-numbers

Apparently Terry Tao's first paper

https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/zzy5f6bn/release/1

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-papers-democracy-election-zuckerberg/620478/

Adrienne LaFrance outlines the reasons we need to either abandon Facebook or cause some more extreme regulation of it and how it operates.

While she outlines the ills, she doesn't make a specific plea about the solution of the problem. There's definitely a raging fire in the theater, but no one seems to know what to do about it. We're just sitting here watching the structure burn down around us. We need clearer plans for what must be done to solve this problem.

https://community.reclaimhosting.com/t/pressbooks-add-on-to-dooo-differences-from-pressbooksedu/3695

https://laughingsquid.com/finding-randy-bachman-stolen-gretsch-guitar/

https://blog.remark.as/introducing-private-letters

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/pigment-timeline/2016/08/26/lamp-black-digital-humanities/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html

https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1327-Some-thoughts-on-comments-and-interaction

Some interesting commentary on comments and problems within social media.