Steven Forth
@stevenforth.bsky.social
Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
Happy 100th Birthday to Takao Tanabe
One of Canada's great artists.
Thank you for the decades of compelling work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_T...
#Canada #BC #art
One of Canada's great artists.
Thank you for the decades of compelling work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_T...
#Canada #BC #art
Takao Tanabe - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Happy 100th Birthday to Takao Tanabe
One of Canada's great artists.
Thank you for the decades of compelling work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_T...
#Canada #BC #art
One of Canada's great artists.
Thank you for the decades of compelling work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_T...
#Canada #BC #art
1st Lines
Poverty is a scapegoat.
We drive them out!
"Hermes, I shiver like crazy, give Hipponax a cloak."
(Don't look it in the eyes.)
We forbid you asking "in God's name" for bread.
We distinguish relative (some teeth) from absolute ...
From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
#1stlines #poetry
Poverty is a scapegoat.
We drive them out!
"Hermes, I shiver like crazy, give Hipponax a cloak."
(Don't look it in the eyes.)
We forbid you asking "in God's name" for bread.
We distinguish relative (some teeth) from absolute ...
From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
#1stlines #poetry
September 16, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I learned some things about Canada and myself in this podcast with Carol Off.
Worth listening to.
youtu.be/Cww5s42F-N0?...
#Canada #US #identity
Worth listening to.
youtu.be/Cww5s42F-N0?...
#Canada #US #identity
Is a New Canada Emerging in the Era of Trump?
YouTube video by The Paikin Podcast
youtu.be
September 16, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I learned some things about Canada and myself in this podcast with Carol Off.
Worth listening to.
youtu.be/Cww5s42F-N0?...
#Canada #US #identity
Worth listening to.
youtu.be/Cww5s42F-N0?...
#Canada #US #identity
Interesting that BC relies on the US for less than 40% of its trade.
I wish people reporting on this would include trade in services, especially trade in digital services. This is a big gap in people's mental models.
www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-us-ca...
#Canada #US #trade #BC
I wish people reporting on this would include trade in services, especially trade in digital services. This is a big gap in people's mental models.
www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-us-ca...
#Canada #US #trade #BC
September 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Interesting that BC relies on the US for less than 40% of its trade.
I wish people reporting on this would include trade in services, especially trade in digital services. This is a big gap in people's mental models.
www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-us-ca...
#Canada #US #trade #BC
I wish people reporting on this would include trade in services, especially trade in digital services. This is a big gap in people's mental models.
www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-us-ca...
#Canada #US #trade #BC
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The fate of the earth. The fate of me. The fate of you. The fate of Faisal. The fate of the court where Faisal will plead his case. The fate of the court's bias. Every court has a bias. It sifts to the surface gradually. The fate of ...
From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
#1stlines #poetry
The fate of the earth. The fate of me. The fate of you. The fate of Faisal. The fate of the court where Faisal will plead his case. The fate of the court's bias. Every court has a bias. It sifts to the surface gradually. The fate of ...
From Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
#1stlines #poetry
September 14, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Who is more credible on AI security risk? Donald Trump or Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. We regulate and certify nuclear energy, telecommunication, etc. Why would we not regulate and certify AI models?
#AI #regulation
#AI #regulation
September 14, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Who is more credible on AI security risk? Donald Trump or Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. We regulate and certify nuclear energy, telecommunication, etc. Why would we not regulate and certify AI models?
#AI #regulation
#AI #regulation
Fall gardening (for Yoshie)
She drinks slowly
Watering the garden
Thinking slowly
-
Planting in four dimensions
Space the the daily, seasonal, annual
Cycles thinking ten years out
-
We will not be here when
These plants reach maturity
Will anyone be here to care
#poetry #garden #seasons
She drinks slowly
Watering the garden
Thinking slowly
-
Planting in four dimensions
Space the the daily, seasonal, annual
Cycles thinking ten years out
-
We will not be here when
These plants reach maturity
Will anyone be here to care
#poetry #garden #seasons
September 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
1st Lines
Though the time must come
When the cherry blossoms fall and scatter
With advancing spring.
As I walk through the new-turned mountain fields,
I cannot but look back in grief.
Fujiwara Teika tr by Earl Miner 1200
#1stliines #poetry #waka #translation
Though the time must come
When the cherry blossoms fall and scatter
With advancing spring.
As I walk through the new-turned mountain fields,
I cannot but look back in grief.
Fujiwara Teika tr by Earl Miner 1200
#1stliines #poetry #waka #translation
September 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1st Lines
Though the time must come
When the cherry blossoms fall and scatter
With advancing spring.
As I walk through the new-turned mountain fields,
I cannot but look back in grief.
Fujiwara Teika tr by Earl Miner 1200
#1stliines #poetry #waka #translation
Though the time must come
When the cherry blossoms fall and scatter
With advancing spring.
As I walk through the new-turned mountain fields,
I cannot but look back in grief.
Fujiwara Teika tr by Earl Miner 1200
#1stliines #poetry #waka #translation
Canadian law schools need to stop using LSAT scores as part of their entrance procedure. LSAC is violating Canadian Law and the rights of Canadian residents. It is no longer a trustworthy institution and must be removed from the process.
#LSAT #LSAC #US #Canada #LawSchool
#LSAT #LSAC #US #Canada #LawSchool
September 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Canadian law schools need to stop using LSAT scores as part of their entrance procedure. LSAC is violating Canadian Law and the rights of Canadian residents. It is no longer a trustworthy institution and must be removed from the process.
#LSAT #LSAC #US #Canada #LawSchool
#LSAT #LSAC #US #Canada #LawSchool
Leanne Ogasawara interviews Emily Wilson
Some good insights into translation.
dreaminginjapanese.substack.com/p/emily-wils...
#translation #Homer
Some good insights into translation.
dreaminginjapanese.substack.com/p/emily-wils...
#translation #Homer
Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It In Conversation with Leanne Ogasawara
First published at Lithub
dreaminginjapanese.substack.com
September 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Leanne Ogasawara interviews Emily Wilson
Some good insights into translation.
dreaminginjapanese.substack.com/p/emily-wils...
#translation #Homer
Some good insights into translation.
dreaminginjapanese.substack.com/p/emily-wils...
#translation #Homer
Second Derivative sequence. Same seed text as First Derivative sequence. Different frame used for note selection and sequencing. Jazz improvization transitions used for sequencing.
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/second-der...
#poetry #haiku #derivative #sequencing #AI
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/second-der...
#poetry #haiku #derivative #sequencing #AI
September 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Second Derivative sequence. Same seed text as First Derivative sequence. Different frame used for note selection and sequencing. Jazz improvization transitions used for sequencing.
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/second-der...
#poetry #haiku #derivative #sequencing #AI
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/second-der...
#poetry #haiku #derivative #sequencing #AI
First Derivative sequence - using phase changes in water as the frame for selection and sequencing.
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/first-deri...
#poetry #haiku #AI
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/first-deri...
#poetry #haiku #AI
September 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
First Derivative sequence - using phase changes in water as the frame for selection and sequencing.
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/first-deri...
#poetry #haiku #AI
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/first-deri...
#poetry #haiku #AI
1st lines
Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near Tassajara
The vault of rock is painted with hands,
A multitude of hands in the twilight, a cloud of palms, no more,
No other picture. There's no one to say
Whether the brown shy quiet people who are dead intended
Robinson Jeffers
#1stlines #poetry
Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near Tassajara
The vault of rock is painted with hands,
A multitude of hands in the twilight, a cloud of palms, no more,
No other picture. There's no one to say
Whether the brown shy quiet people who are dead intended
Robinson Jeffers
#1stlines #poetry
September 12, 2026 at 11:49 AM
For Wendell Berry, My North Star by Andrew Nikiforuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
#poetry #WendellBerry
#poetry #WendellBerry
For Wendell Berry, My North Star | The Tyee
He was America’s rural consciousness. And his death demands more than a moment of reflection.
thetyee.ca
September 11, 2026 at 11:19 PM
For Wendell Berry, My North Star by Andrew Nikiforuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
#poetry #WendellBerry
#poetry #WendellBerry
September 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Pre cancer I did the Gran Fondo twice, hope to recover enough to do it again.
May all tomorrow's riders have a safe and healthy ride!
www.rbcgranfondo.com/event/whistler
#BC #Vancouver #Whistler #GranFondo #cycling
May all tomorrow's riders have a safe and healthy ride!
www.rbcgranfondo.com/event/whistler
#BC #Vancouver #Whistler #GranFondo #cycling
RBC GranFondo Whistler
The original and best. Ride traffic-free from Sea to Sky in this iconic Gran Fondo event from Vancouver to Whistler, BC, Canada.
www.rbcgranfondo.com
September 11, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Pre cancer I did the Gran Fondo twice, hope to recover enough to do it again.
May all tomorrow's riders have a safe and healthy ride!
www.rbcgranfondo.com/event/whistler
#BC #Vancouver #Whistler #GranFondo #cycling
May all tomorrow's riders have a safe and healthy ride!
www.rbcgranfondo.com/event/whistler
#BC #Vancouver #Whistler #GranFondo #cycling
1st lines
Featherweight she floats unrevised leisure time
fiercely clocked involutions of not-quites
pitches her tent when digital twitches
knuckle down her stomach sleepy balance-
conditions that web orgasmics, blink admonishment
From The Lores by Robert Sheppard 2003
Featherweight she floats unrevised leisure time
fiercely clocked involutions of not-quites
pitches her tent when digital twitches
knuckle down her stomach sleepy balance-
conditions that web orgasmics, blink admonishment
From The Lores by Robert Sheppard 2003
September 11, 2026 at 12:29 PM
1st lines
Featherweight she floats unrevised leisure time
fiercely clocked involutions of not-quites
pitches her tent when digital twitches
knuckle down her stomach sleepy balance-
conditions that web orgasmics, blink admonishment
From The Lores by Robert Sheppard 2003
Featherweight she floats unrevised leisure time
fiercely clocked involutions of not-quites
pitches her tent when digital twitches
knuckle down her stomach sleepy balance-
conditions that web orgasmics, blink admonishment
From The Lores by Robert Sheppard 2003
A useful explanation of the solution to Navier-Stokes proposed by OpenAI and the controversy around it.
youtu.be/cvTHBXyXM2I?...
#OpenAI #Anthropic #Millenium #NavierStokes
youtu.be/cvTHBXyXM2I?...
#OpenAI #Anthropic #Millenium #NavierStokes
The Controversy Behind AI Solving A Million Dollar Math Problem
YouTube video by Up and Atom
youtu.be
September 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM
A useful explanation of the solution to Navier-Stokes proposed by OpenAI and the controversy around it.
youtu.be/cvTHBXyXM2I?...
#OpenAI #Anthropic #Millenium #NavierStokes
youtu.be/cvTHBXyXM2I?...
#OpenAI #Anthropic #Millenium #NavierStokes
1st lines
Counterpoint 80s speculation against the
clamping gate takes us whole
through collisions of semantic torques
twists on the page saddle
us to a fiery buck
assertively thrusting those isolate recognitions
(against the credits ...
From The Lores by Robert Sheppard 2003
#1stlines #poetry
Counterpoint 80s speculation against the
clamping gate takes us whole
through collisions of semantic torques
twists on the page saddle
us to a fiery buck
assertively thrusting those isolate recognitions
(against the credits ...
From The Lores by Robert Sheppard 2003
#1stlines #poetry
September 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The night expanded to a big black crow
Which slowly flew
With stars as gleaming nails
Within her claws.
canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol4...
A.M. Klein
#Canada #poetry
Which slowly flew
With stars as gleaming nails
Within her claws.
canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol4...
A.M. Klein
#Canada #poetry
A.M. Klein and the "Fibbiest Fabricator of Them All"
canadianpoetry.org
September 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
The night expanded to a big black crow
Which slowly flew
With stars as gleaming nails
Within her claws.
canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol4...
A.M. Klein
#Canada #poetry
Which slowly flew
With stars as gleaming nails
Within her claws.
canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol4...
A.M. Klein
#Canada #poetry
A needed book
Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World edited by Bob Rae.
lorimer.ca/adults/produ...
#Canada #sovereignty
Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World edited by Bob Rae.
lorimer.ca/adults/produ...
#Canada #sovereignty
September 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
A needed book
Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World edited by Bob Rae.
lorimer.ca/adults/produ...
#Canada #sovereignty
Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World edited by Bob Rae.
lorimer.ca/adults/produ...
#Canada #sovereignty
There is a lot of insight in Stephen Marche's Gloves Off podcast.
www.youtube.com/@Gloves-OffPod
#Canada #US #trade #sovereignty
www.youtube.com/@Gloves-OffPod
#Canada #US #trade #sovereignty
Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
Gloves Off is about the threat to Canada’s sovereignty and how the country can thrive in the new world disorder. Because it’s not just about surviving as a nation. It’s about winning. Hosted by journa...
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
There is a lot of insight in Stephen Marche's Gloves Off podcast.
www.youtube.com/@Gloves-OffPod
#Canada #US #trade #sovereignty
www.youtube.com/@Gloves-OffPod
#Canada #US #trade #sovereignty