{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Writing Slowly","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/writingslowly","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"4028","username":"writingslowly","bio":"My name’s Richard. I live in Sydney, on the traditional land of Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. Here I write about writing and reading (and what I do when I'm not writing or reading).\n\nI'm writing slowly but may at some point speed up.\n \nConnect with me on micro.blog or at Mastodon @aus.social@writingslowly. On Reddit, I'm @atomicnotes.\n","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":228,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/4028.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"97999296","content_html":"

@ablerism this is a great idea!

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@writingslowly maybe it worked!

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OK, taking a deep breath, I’m updating the website to a more recent version of Hugo. Wish me luck…

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@manton @alpower it isn’t random or about distraction. Renaming lakes/arts centers/AI has the form of a classic mafia loyalty test. He’s exploring who has limits. Set an absurd, demeaning small task, to learn who’ll accept the subsequent steps. Watch who kisses the ring and push them further.

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@microadrian yes it’s interesting that Star Trek could get it right all those years ago.
\nI’m also reminded of the denouement in the movie Her, where the guy suddenly realises the AI was massively multitasking on what he thought was their uniquely intimate relationship. The let-down was immense.

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@microadrian 📝 Jules Verne could have told us AI is not a real person

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There is something you find interesting: writingslowly.com

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📷 Facing the wave.

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A matrix-like shower of numbers, text, esoteric syntax, and witty repartee: writingslowly.com

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@marick First they make you a hero, then they make you burn out — but then it doesn’t look like <all of this> is going to fix itself so thanks for volunteering!

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@marick thanks — rebels like you help us imagine a better world

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@philipbrewer ha, I’d never tried that on my android phone — it only works with the number keyboard but now I’ll be doing it all the time

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The consolations of literature: writingslowly.com

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Between the lines by Rachel Dioso-Villa \"A : writingslowly.com

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@writingslowly oh, but there already is a keyboard shortcut for the em-dash: Shift + Option + Hyphen. I could try text replacement instead.

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@Miraz that’s probably what the bots tell themselves – but still, as long as the em-dashes keep coming it’s all good!

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@hjalm turns out there are five ways to type an em-dash on a Mac. This is civilized!

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@philipbrewer yeah, I still use two hyphens and sometimes it works.

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@bobdoto thanks for your support. This is how we defeat the machines – by turning their own weapons against them.

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@theTangentSpace ah, of course – learning to use Vim being a step too far, I should just create my own keyboard shortcut. Em-dash heaven!

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Before the freak-out about em-dashes in AI-generated text I didn’t even know how to produce one. I’d just copy and paste them as needed. But since the Great Em-dash Emergency, I learned it’s quite easy, so now I use them more, not less. Anyone else own up to this experience? Is it proof we’re bots?

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Empty hands: writingslowly.com

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@Miraz thanks. It’s a stunning bit of coastline just south of Sydney — though it’s not too shabby where you are!

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📷 The Illawarra coast at dusk

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#photography

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@ReaderJohn yes. For example, approx 500,000 (X) vs 3,000,000 (Facebook) monthly users. Tik Tok is the one that’s growing. I’m attempting to place talk about X in some kind of perspective.

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💬 “Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.”
\n― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

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While reading, I’m acutely aware of certain phrases and sentences that seem particularly significant. Struggling to articulate this significance is the development of taste.

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When I read something and think “that’s interesting”, I make a note to record why I find it interesting. This is the way I expose shadowy intuition to the sun.

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A death-knell for the Dewey System? writingslowly.com

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I took part in the August '26 IndieWeb Book Club: writingslowly.com

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Compliment this with: Jules Verne could have told us AI is not a person

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💬 Sadly, not just tech.

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@writingslowly @manton by the way, I strongly support your work to promote interoperability, because these platforms clearly hate it.

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@manton X is the 15th largest social media platform by monthly use. It’s 6 times smaller than either Facebook or Instagram, 5 times smaller than YouTube, 3 times smaller than TikTok. Unsubstantiated talk of a ‘resurgence’ is a choice to promote it, not a politically neutral observation.

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📷 Lounge lizard

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📚Currently reading: My year in paris with gertrude stein by Deborah Levy.

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📷 Late afternoon at the ocean baths.

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“He’s like Jesus with a plow, and we’ve gotta walk beside him with our hands on that plow if we’re going to learn anything from him.”.

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An apprenticeship in writing, with Wendell Berry. | Substack

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@manton you keep making surprising improvements - surprising because I didn’t realise it could be improved in that way. Recent changes to the bookshelves is an example.

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@umraphael.bsky.social Você pode se interessar por este artigo sobre as anotações de Didi-Huberman: writingslowly.com/2025/03/20/t…

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@alerque that’s the precise trick. The mafia don deliberately picks tasks it’s slightly hard to object to. Lakes, gulfs and performing arts centers should just be renamed, right? That’s the rules. But the goal is displays of abject loyalty, taking advantage of people’s obedience.

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‘Renaming Lake Ontario’ has the form of a classic mafia loyalty test. The Don sets an absurd, demeaning small task, to learn who’ll accept the subsequent steps. Google keeps passing. They don’t know their boundaries, which for a leading map-making company is ironic.

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#Tech #TechEthics #Cartography

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There's only make: writingslowly.com

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Thinking about the late Yayoi Kusama today. We remembered our visit to the art gallery in her home town of Matsumoto where we were moved to tears.

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#YayoiKusama #JapaneseArt

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@rupertread.bsky.social What we can learn from past civilisational collapses and what we will learn seem like two very different things. Also, ‘we’ is doing a lot of work here.

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Thoughts on The Mulai, a novel by Munir Hachemi: writingslowly.com

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Finished reading: The Mulai by Munir Hachemi 📚 — recommended by VHBelvadi as part of the IndieWeb Book Club.

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@Avner this is really great. Your questions are very interesting.

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@markreckons.bsky.social I’m too Tyne and Worn out to fetch it myself

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@markreckons.bsky.social I’ve a sudden hankering for a nice piece of Leiensteinshire cheese

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As Jim Mitchell says, Indieweb is punk, and clearly I like spinning my own threads, but I do have a question: Since you still need to rent a domain name to get on the Web, isn’t there something more indie, like hosting your own server on a mesh network? Did I miss something?

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#IndieWeb #Blogging

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Watched: The Invite 🍿very funny and quite poignant, with some great performances. I’m now keen to see the Spanish original.

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Is your note collection making or unmaking the world? A reflection on institutional collecting, personal note archives, and why output matters more than input.

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writingslowly.com/2026/08/1…

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#Zettelkasten #Writing #NoteTaking #PKM #Blogging

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