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08.07.26

  1. governance and coordination Are.na (2)
    pdf
    Monetary_Theory_Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_LaTeX
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    C0F6AD0F-0A6B-48DB-88F1-85DC6F461171
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  2. Variety 38 Spotify (2)
    Ginga
    Robson Jorge, Lincoln Olivetti
    Kathy
    Moacir Santos
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08.06.26

  1. trails (2)
  2. perhaps in demo, but need to decide if mentioning/showcasing the LLM integration is worthwhile
    ↩ replying to trail · 9 items
    Q Quarry / breaking down presentation storyline: 1. finished work neglects messy process 2.…
    R Readwise / The semilattice axiom goes like this: A collection of sets forms a semilattice if and only if, when two overlapping sets belong to the collection, the set of elements common to both also belongs to the collection.
    R Readwise / These experiments suggest strongly that people have an underlying tendency, when faced by a complex organization, to reorganize it mentally in terms of non-overlapping units. The complexity of the semilattice is replaced by the simpler and more easily grasped tree form.
    Q Quarry / wondering if the "city is not a tree" source is worth introducing for the sake o…
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  3. Todo - test this locally on some pdfs and URLs. Curious how good it is
    Are.na / Parse - Firecrawl Docs
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  5. Archive Are.na (1)
    Why You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive
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    Agent Plugins
    anydoc by Firecrawl
    Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers | The Cloudflare Blog
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  8. governance and coordination Are.na (14)
    The Professor and the Politician
    max weber - the vocation lectures
    huxley-words-and-behavior
    The Curious Career of “the American Dream” | The New Yorker
    Francis Heylighen - Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism
    Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age | The New Yorker
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08.05.26

  1. trails (3)
  2. And know little about his campaign to purge dissenters, how he’s shaped the party
    R Readwise / That kind of prophecy suits the official mood in Beijing, where Xi Jinping, the President and the General Secretary of the Communist Party, calls technology the “main battlefield of international competition” and bluntly asserts that “the East is rising, and the West is declining.”
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  3. breaking down presentation storyline: 1. finished work neglects messy process 2. history of record keeping across disciplines 3. digital environment surprisingly fragmented 4. graph walkthrough, which reveals - 5. trail primitive 6. quarry concepts concise 7. demo
    R Readwise / The semilattice axiom goes like this: A collection of sets forms a semilattice if and only if, when two overlapping sets belong to the collection, the set of elements common to both also belongs to the collection.
    ↩ 10 in trail · 4 replies today
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  4. want to look into all their offerings. Some really impressive snappy rendering of text/diffs that could be useful...
    Are.na / Pierre Diffs — now with edit
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  5. Obsidian (1)
  9. Archive Are.na (2)
    The Future, Made in China
    The Yale Review | Daniel Lefferts: “Terms and Conditions”
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  10. Dev Are.na (4)
    Bases syntax - Obsidian Help
    Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | The Cloudflare Blog
    Pierre Diffs — now with edit
    ibelick/mesurer: Measure and align everything.
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  11. designing-quarry Are.na (2)
    trail_example_draft1
    bipartite_draft1
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    deux hommes dans la ville ( gino et sophie ) philippe sarde 1973 - YouTube
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  13. Variety 38 Spotify (2)
    Sandalwood II
    Jonny Greenwood
    Wah-Wah - Live
    George Harrison
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08.04.26

  1. trails (3)
  2. A bit meta — but rewarding that here on quarry (via this very comment) I can reply to and continue a “conversation” (their term) with a piece of media, and this annotation can be rendered with its associated trail siblings separate from my chronological ledger, and also separate from yet another view where it’s grouped by underlying document
    R Readwise / For most of recorded history the interactions of humans with their media have been primarily nonconversational and passive in the sense that marks on paper, paint on walls, even "motion" pictures and television, do not change in response to the viewer’s wishes. .A mathematical formulation—which may symbolize the essence of an .entire universe—once put down on paper, remains static and requires the reader to expand its possibilities.
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  3. Continues to be the hardest of the new songs to sing. I definitely prefer this version to what I had before but need to come back with fresh ears
    ♪ Are.na / anniversary song v2
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  4. crazy sample of shabba ranks by sam in this song. from ~2:45 in telephone
    Spotify / Shabba Ranks, J.C. Lodge — Telephone Love Deh Pon Mi Mind (feat. J.C. Lodge)
    Spotify / Sam Gellaitry — LONG DISTANCE
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  5. Obsidian (1)
  9. voicememo Are.na (1)
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    anniversary song v2
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  10. Computer Canon Are.na (1)
    Amaya Software Story - Vincent Quint and Amaya - YouTube
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  11. Retrieval Hypermedia Are.na (1)
    Amaya Software Story - Vincent Quint and Amaya - YouTube
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  12. Archive Are.na (1)
    How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb | The New Yorker
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08.03.26

  1. trails (3)
  2. not sure how connected but exploring different views. ideally trails can be in "inbox" to carry the conversation? I do think that the unfolding chronological nature (more "chat" than page) is more the paradigm I'm after
    Are.na / shapes at 26-08-03 15.55.27
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  3. Thinking could do stacked vocal harmonies, building and intertwining, in place of strings at least to get a sense of the arrangement. Maybe starting there the lyrics (or there fitting pattern) may be revealed
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    Q Quarry / lyrics for second half proving hard to arrive at. need time. stacking arrangemen…
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  4. would probably start with fed 10 to get a different perspective on a "pluralist" framework
    ↩ replying to trail · 4 items
    Readwise / The Federalist No. 51
    Readwise / The Federalist No. 10
    Q Quarry / noticing pluralism was almost a footnote in this essay yet is effectively his un…
    R Readwise / But Herder’s view, and Vico’s, is not that: it is what I should describe as pluralism – that is, the conception that there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathising with and deriving light from each other, as we derive it from reading Plato or the novels of medieval Japan – worlds, outlooks, very remote from our own.
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  5. Obsidian (1)
  8. designing-quarry Are.na (2)
    shapes at 26-08-03 15.56.05
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  9. gallery-2l1eb_62glk Are.na (11)
    Basilica di Massenzio 1960 Wrestling Summer Olympics
    walker evans
    Gordon Parks - Paul Gonsalves, Duke Ellington, Andres Merenguito, and Britt Woodman During a Recording Session, Los Angeles, California, 1960
    Gordon Parks - Duke Ellington Listening to Playback, Los Angeles, California, 1960
    Gordon Parks - Untitled (Duke Ellington), 1960
    Gordon Parks - Untitled (Muhammad Ali), Miami, Florida, 1966
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    N.H. Pritchard
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    Emma Camille Barreto - The Sound of Gordon Parks W/ Justen Leroy 27th July 2026 | Listen on NTS
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    Gordon Parks Lecture - Maryland Institute College of Art - 1970
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  12. Archive Are.na (1)
    Photography Archive - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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  13. Variety 38 Spotify (1)
    Telephone Love Deh Pon Mi Mind (feat. J.C. Lodge)
    Shabba Ranks, J.C. Lodge
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08.02.26

  1. trails (8)
  2. ^ this was with respect to the past experiments section
    R Readwise / The idea is the whole thing. If you stay true to the idea, it tells you everything you need to know, really. You just keep working to make it look like that idea looked, feel like it felt, sound like it sounded, and be the way it was. And it’s weird, because when you veer off, you sort of know it. You know when you’re doing something that is not correct because it feels incorrect. It says, “No, no; this isn’t like the idea said it was.” And when you’re getting into it the correct way, it feels correct.
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  3. Attempting to better understand this synth part. The harmonies and interactions between separate lines is so unique. Can’t find a transcription anywhere so trying my hand at it, just takes time to hear each line separately
    Spotify / Stevie Wonder — You And I
    ♪ Are.na / transcribe_lofi_you_and_i_synthpart_progress
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  4. completely forgot i made this game! fun.
    Are.na / Garmish
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  5. lyrics for second half proving hard to arrive at. need time. stacking arrangement in that section will be the fun / easier part (although strings sound appealing and I don't want to settle for midi there)
    ♪ Are.na / TS_newguitar_bounce3
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  6. interesting to think here that constraints "make certain thoughts possible" in the same way they make certain thoughts impossible. and that it is "playing" with the defined limitations which can produce a form of creativity. aka a "more limited" conceptual space is not inherently a "worse" conceptual space
    R Readwise / This is not a matter of abandoning all rules (there, madness lies), but of changing the existing rules to create a new conceptual space. Constraints on thinking do not merely constrain, but also make certain thoughts – certain mental structures – possible.
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  7. noticing pluralism was almost a footnote in this essay yet is effectively his underlying thesis? must be other writings on this concept - to look into
    R Readwise / But Herder’s view, and Vico’s, is not that: it is what I should describe as pluralism – that is, the conception that there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathising with and deriving light from each other, as we derive it from reading Plato or the novels of medieval Japan – worlds, outlooks, very remote from our own.
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  8. I was certainly hoping for more from this essay broadly but he has some killer quotes. "total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs" is top notch. Still thinking about it a day later.
    R Readwise / Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings through many centuries; but total liberty [13] for wolves is death to the lambs
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  9. I stand by this project being vibe-coded for the sake of experimentation and velocity, but there is a frustration that time and time again certain hard requirements fall by the wayside. Spotify doesn't mess around with their rate limits, and the language necessary to request adherence from an LLM seems...unattainable? This is the cost of "not reading the code," for I have no idea how my requested structures have been implemented. I'm sure others would recommend a handful of strategies to mitigate this, but ultimately the true version of quarry could not realistically be developed in this manner.
    G GitHub / fix: pace Spotify near observed quota ceiling
    G GitHub / fix: close Spotify limiter bypasses
    G GitHub / fix: bound Spotify ingestion request rate
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  10. Obsidian (2)
  16. Retrieval Hypermedia Are.na (3)
    Personal Dynamic Media
    Shneiderman — Direct Manipulation (1983)
    Francis Heylighen - Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism
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    Garmish
    Francis Heylighen - Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism
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  18. gallery-2l1eb_62glk Are.na (3)
    Eugène Atget. Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève. 1898
    Eugène Atget. Hêtre. Before 1900 _ MoMA
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  19. Variety 38 Spotify (1)
    When Will You Be Mine
    Average White Band
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08.01.26

  3. Archive Are.na (7)
    Stevie Wonder’s ‘Talking Book’ at 50 - The New York Times
    Realism and Moralism in Political Theory
    The Federalist 51
    The Federalist 10
    Heilbroner_The_Inexorable_System_of_Karl_Marx
    Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today | The New Yorker
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  4. voicememo Are.na (1)
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  5. composition references Spotify (1)
    You And I
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    Mas O Menos Antes
    Silvana Estrada
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07.31.26

  1. Obsidian (2)
  4. Archive Are.na (2)
    Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
    Around the wwworld
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07.30.26

  2. Archive Are.na (1)
    Notes on Abstract Browsing - Rafaël Rozendaal
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07.29.26

  1. Obsidian (1)
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    How to Write English Prose
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    supreme. garage house sunny feeling
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    Superlogical
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    Eight
    Y La Bamba
    Introduction Theme - Live
    Fania All Stars
    Quítate Tú - Live
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07.28.26

  1. trails (6)
  2. one of the more relatable quotes from this book in hindsight
    R Readwise / The idea is the whole thing. If you stay true to the idea, it tells you everything you need to know, really. You just keep working to make it look like that idea looked, feel like it felt, sound like it sounded, and be the way it was. And it’s weird, because when you veer off, you sort of know it. You know when you’re doing something that is not correct because it feels incorrect. It says, “No, no; this isn’t like the idea said it was.” And when you’re getting into it the correct way, it feels correct.
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  3. Obsessed with this song right now. I'm not positive but I think to get the pitch shifting effect on the guitar they may have played different voicings/qualities all at the same root note and slid the pitch up and down to match whichever chord it needed to be. Vocals are breathtaking, what a falsetto. And the album art! This is special.
    Spotify / feeo — There is No I
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  4. The doc was good, nothing astonishing a fairly standard approach. Oliver makes a good subject and I personally learned a great deal, was in it much more for the content than the filmmaking.
    Are.na / Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World movie review
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  5. gonna try to re-record vocals. Current delivery doesn't "sell me" on the lyrics the way the other songs are starting to
    ♪ Are.na / TS_newguitar_bounce2
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  6. Conceptually appealing but the mechanics/usability are nebulous...
    O ┊ Obsidian / What if each day felt more like a page? More fluid, malleable. What if it could be a place of creation instead of simply review. Would probably look different than the web view?
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  7. it also feels like an "exchange," where in return for an "easy" set of symbols, I get the "hard" set. The problem is I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in wrestling with the "hard" symbols and offloading the "easy" ones (those that take time but are effectively higher level pattern-matching work).
    O ┊ Obsidian / had a feeling today with respect to agentic coding that I feel like I’m “bartering with symbols” which is rather draining in the long term. Bartering verb used because of its nondeterministic behavior and the almost adversarial nature of chats.
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  11. Archive Are.na (1)
    The notebooks for Crime and punishment : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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    Screenshot 2026-07-28 at 9.54.20 PM
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  13. Variety 38 Spotify (2)
    Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: III. Molto adagio
    Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg Quartett
    Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123: Benedictus
    Ludwig van Beethoven, Otto Klemperer, Elisabeth Söderström, Marga Höffgen, Martti Talvela, New Philharmonia Chorus, Waldemar Kmentt, New Philharmonia Orchestra
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07.27.26

  2. voicememo Are.na (2)
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07.26.26

  2. Archive Are.na (2)
    Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest
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07.25.26

  1. Obsidian (2)
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    The Creative Mind - Chapter 4 - Maps of the Mind
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