Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 31

Weekly Whaaa…?

I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week 31 is the week of 2024-07-29/2024-08-04.

Reading

Infomocracy

This week I started reading Malka Older’s Infomocracy—which is so engrossing that I’m only finally getting around to posting these sparse notes on Thursday!

Idaho Fire Newsletter

Although it’s less pleasurable reading, Zeb Palmer’s Idaho Fire newsletter has been a great place for getting news and analysis of all the wildfires happening in the Intermountain West. Zeb’s been providing fire information on Mastodon and elsewhere for years, so it’s great to see those efforts turn into something more centralized onto its own platform.

The newsletter is made using Ghost, which means that you can subscribe to it via email or RSS.

Lightly-Annotated Linkapalooza

• Tracy Durnell’s Using personal weeknotes as a tool for attention reflects on how she started using weeknotes and how she uses them now, with an emphasis on awareness, accountability, and shaping her own behavior. I also really appreciate how she shares her weeknotes template and the process she uses for compiling them. I’m sure you can see why this post is the first link this week!
• Mandy Brown’s blog shared a link to the excellent Consensus Decision Making: a short guide by Seeds for Change. I’ve participated in consensus processes at workplaces and at the journal I help edit, and this guide provides a great overview of ways to make this intention work in practice.
• Although I currently just ride a stationary bike, I rode my bikes all over the Riverside area in middle school and high school, and then explored widely again when I got one in Rochester. So I like to think I’m reasonably informed about bicycling’s positive and negative potentials, including some of the unfortunate effects from all that time perched on a saddle. But I knew very little idea about the unfortunate effects some people with labia experience, until reading this Bicycle magazine story cycling’s silent epidemic. If these conditions might be relevant to you, the article fortunately has some tips that can help you avoid or minimize saddle issues.

TWI(R)L

This week I learned some great words and concepts:

• four-sides model of communication
• glintelligensia (a word used in Malka Older’s Infomocracy)
• pilpul
• stigmergy

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