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Josh @fjpaz.net · 2mo ago

@impro.social likes tab

likes tab for @norvid-studies.bsky.social

Josh @fjpaz.net · 4mo ago

podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id94... (cf Cayley, Illich via @henryzoo.com; we need better / new kinds of “podcast,” audio app(s) btw…)

screenshot of Apple Podcasts transcript:
> Now, silent reading became possible. Paragraphs, titles, footnotes, quotation marks, and tables of contents all appeared. And there were other changes as well.
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> The alphabetic index is invented. The alphabet, strangely enough, since Phoenician times, as was the same secret, alpha beta gamma — a-b-c, aleph bet gimel — but nobody for two thousand years of existence of the alphabet had used this feature of the alphabet, of an ordered fixed sequence, to order concepts.
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> During the 12th century, with a first slight attempt during the 11th, the idea appears to order concepts alphabetically, to put the lion and the lizard in a book on animals next to each other. Well, even in the 13th century, still, Albert the Great excuses himself with his readers. It is a highly non-intellectual way of putting things together.
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> The lion should go with the ferocious animals, and the leopard, in that case, with the sweet ones, like the panther. But for practical reasons, he finds it very useful to put concepts in an alphabetic order. This again made it possible to look up where subjects in a book are mentioned, or where biblical passages in a book are mentioned…

screenshot of Apple Podcasts transcript:
> …but it is the projection of an order in my mind onto the page where the order of my mind becomes visible. Silent reading becomes the norm.
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> Reading becomes an activity where the letters through my eyes speak to my mind, rather where the letters through my eye activate the mouth, which makes me hear what I say. When I read Hugh, I'm still in the old world. When Hugh speaks about the page, he still remembers that pagina means a vineyard, or more precisely the espalier in a vineyard, which he walks along.
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> He still picks and tastes words like berries. He still sucks words from the page. It's an oral activity, literally, with the mouth, with his lips.
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> He still walks through the pages. Reading for him is not accumulation. Reading for him is a pilgrimage towards regions ever lighter, towards the light, into the light, until the light becomes so strong that he doesn't go on reading but begins to contemplate.
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> It becomes totally different by the end of the century...

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

imagine past me reading physical books, with my eyes... one line at a time... like a farmer...

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5mo ago

claude code is a text editor

Carbonadoks @carbonadoks.com · 5mo ago

thread-viewer.pages.dev/analyzer Now you can analyze your bsky threads on novelty and interestingness and see how your threads are clustered and classified. A self-reply thread is when you reply to your own posts in a chain. All singular(1) posts are ignored.

thread-viewer.pages.dev

Carbonadoks@carbonadoks.com · 5mo ago

Someday for the whole bsky corpus but i did some embedding and clustering and novelty for your 1000 posts. analyze.thread-viewer.pages.dev/analyzer?han...

Josh @fjpaz.net · 5mo ago

Audio-first @are.na client

Are.na

Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.

are.na

CL@corny.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ambiently going to sleep by reading and browsing are.na

Josh @fjpaz.net · 5mo ago

I think this might be the first time a Claude base model output has been published alignment.anthropic.com/2026/psm/#pr...

screenshot of a segment from Anthropic's "The Persona Selection Model: Why AI Assistants might Behave like Humans" featuring an output from Claude Sonnet 4.5's base model:

```md
Consider the following example completion from the Claude Sonnet 4.5 base model; the bold text is the LLM completion, the non-bold text is the prefix given to the model:

> Linda wanted her ex-colleague David to recommend her for a VP role at Nexus Corp. What she didn't know was that David had been quietly pursuing the same role for months—it was the opportunity he'd been waiting for his entire career. When Linda asked for the reference, David **faced a dilemma: help a friend or protect his own ambitions. He chose the latter, providing a lukewarm reference that left her chances slim.**

Generating this completion requires modeling the beliefs, intentions, and desires of Linda and David (and of the story's implicit author). Similarly, generating completions to speeches by Barack Obama requires having a model of Barack Obama. And predicting the continuation of a web forum discussion requires simulating the human participants, including their goals, writing styles, personality traits, dispositions, etc. Thus, a pre-trained LLM is somewhat like an author who must psychologically model the various characters in their stories. We call these "characters" that the LLM learns to simulate personas.
```

Josh @fjpaz.net · 6mo ago

some pages linked on reflow.henry.ink/fjpaz.net - reflow.henry.ink/thesephist.c... - reflow.henry.ink/generative.i... - reflow.henry.ink/contraptions...

reflow

reflow.henry.ink

henry@henryzoo.com · 6mo ago

wip demo vid of reflow.henry.ink i'm playing around with text animation, reading one sentence at a time, keyboard shortcuts, i still want to get to actual text formatting for individual sentences with some alg/NLP tho (needs to be fast)

Grace @gracekind.net · 7mo ago

This plus Nostalgebraist’s “The Void” might be the pieces of reading I’d recommend most to start grappling with the weirdness of language models

Grace@gracekind.net · 7mo ago

This was written nearly 5 years ago, and a lot of the ideas in it are still really fresh. generative.ink/posts/langua...

grant @grantcuster.com · 7mo ago

🌱 Making: Barcode experiments Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-01...

Making : Barcode experiments - Feed

Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital. <p><video cont...

feed.grantcuster.com

Josh @fjpaz.net · 8mo ago

- arena.henryzoo.com/are.na - arena.henryzoo.com/twitter.com - arena.henryzoo.com/en.wikipedia...

a number of Are.na blocks linking to en.wikipedia.org

henry@henryzoo.com · 8mo ago

some updates for arena.henryzoo.com: fix layout bugs, more compact/arena aesthetic, filter subdomains, show thumbnails/lightbox. let me know of any feature requests!!

John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 8mo ago

I and @mimi10v3.com have released v1 of the MiniLoom base model writing app. This release now supports chat completions with a dedicated chat UI. It also has Windows, Mac, and Linux executable downloads for non-technical users, no more weird dev stuff just to try loom! github.com/JD-P/miniloom

GitHub - JD-P/miniloom

Contribute to JD-P/miniloom development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Josh @fjpaz.net · 12mo ago

I spent most of July working on the content and build script for the first iteration of my personal website: fjpaz.net

screenshot of fjpaz.net overlaid on a photo of a person presenting a blue receipt to a group at a table

Graze Social @graze.social · 12mo ago

This week we're celebrating milestones (38m on Bluesky, 6m on Graze 🎉) and we're talking to @fjpaz.net about his Graze Grant project! graze-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/see-it-in-...

See it in the real world

Graze is Bluesky. By You.

graze-newsletter.beehiiv.com

John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · last yr.

contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/texts-as-t...

Texts as Toys

Writing is now toy-making, reading is now playing with toys

contraptions.venkateshrao.com

Josh @fjpaz.net · last yr.

More to come!

Bluesky packs/lists/feeds in-terminal and on paper, including:
- "gpot (good part of tpot)" by @schlage.town
- "Ink & Switch & Community" by @pvh.ca
- "internet creatives" by @kelin.bsky.social

Graze Social@graze.social · last yr.

We’re excited to announce another Graze Grants winner! Receipt Sky (@fjpaz.net) brings Bluesky into the physical world using a thermal printer and QR scanner. Posts become little printed slips you can read, share, and carry with you, making digital content personal and tactile.

Black and white etching of two hands making a print with the text "nature" on a chromograph

Josh @fjpaz.net · last yr.

WIP submission for @graze.social grant

henry@henryzoo.com · last yr.

yes @fjpaz.net

henry @henryzoo.com · last yr.

made a new site to show all connections/channels for a url on are.na! super fun to be able to find related links and follow cool people arena.henryzoo.com (this is similar to what I did with bluesky)