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content.org

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+#+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ./
+#+HUGO_SECTION: blog
+#+HUGO_FRONT_MATTER_FORMAT: yaml
+* Weekly Reading :weeklyreading:
+** TODO Weekly Reading: Volume 1
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: volume-1
+:EXPORT_DESCRIPTION: An insightful description
+:END:
+This is a [[id:volume-0][test]]. Links should be created with the value of the CUSTOM_ID property
+** TODO Weekly Reading: Volume 0
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: volume-0
+:EXPORT_DESCRIPTION: An insightful description
+:CUSTOM_ID: volume-0
+:ID:       328714a2-f63b-48d1-b5f7-31719c429607
+:END:
+This is a test.
+* Asides :aside:
+** DONE Paul Elie on Control in the Music Industry :music:access:
+CLOSED: [2026-01-21 Wed 09:44]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: aside-paul-elie-music-control 
+:END:
+#+begin_quote
+The outpouring of new recordings prompted by tape and the LP (and, in pop music, the 45) makes it easy to overlook the fact that, in many ways, the new formats were limiting forces. They gave control of the market to big companies, which licensed the formats to smaller companies. They crowded out “amateur” performers and raised the bar for “professional” ones. They placed the responsibility for choosing which music would be recorded and made public with record-company executives, many of whom had extramusical motives in the front of their minds. And they proved so attractive that they drove the existing format — the 78 — into oblivion, and, with it, the thousands of recordings that existed only as 78s. This would be the pattern of progress for recordings in the postwar period. The new formats were advanced forms of mechanical memory, and they entered experience into the record with ever greater fidelity. Yet they were not means of revival so much as of forgetting.
+#+end_quote
+-- From Alan Jacobs, https://social.ayjay.org/2026/01/19/paul-elie-the-outpouring-of.html
+* Posts
+** DONE Storytelling
+CLOSED: [2026-01-21 Wed 09:44]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: storytelling
+:EXPORT_DESCRIPTION: Or how to preserve civilization 
+:END:
+A quote I posted a long time ago and seems more relevant by the hour...
+#+begin_quote
+Storytelling is how we're moved to take care of each other when we recognize how extremely thin the veneer of civilization we cherish is, and how very hard it is to keep that veneer from shredding in the wind.
+#+end_quote
+-- Barry Lopez; [[https://ww.pw.org/live][Poets & Writers Live]]; October 17, 2015; Portland, Oregon
+** TODO Social Media
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: social-media
+:EXPORT_DESCRIPTION: Or how to preserve civilization 
+:END:
+X? Just to check the weather
+I don't read my Follow timeline on Blue Sky. Just hockey folks
+Facebook is the hole I disappear down. I have to catch myself from lingering there
+Instagram reels when I'm done thinking for a bit.
+No TikTok
+No Snapchat
+No Threads
+
+

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+
+Archived entries from file /home/shawnb/Development/picosh-blog/content.org
+
+
+* Weekly Reading :weeklyreading:
+:PROPERTIES:
+:ARCHIVE_TIME: 2026-01-17 Sat 09:55
+:ARCHIVE_FILE: ~/Development/picosh-blog/content.org
+:ARCHIVE_CATEGORY: content
+:END:
+** TODO Weekly Reading: Volume 1
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: volume-1
+:EXPORT_DESCRIPTION: An insightful description
+:END:
+This is a [[file:content/blog/volume-0.md][test]].
+** TODO Weekly Reading: Volume 0
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: volume-0
+:EXPORT_DESCRIPTION: An insightful description
+:CUSTOM_ID: volume-0
+:ID:       328714a2-f63b-48d1-b5f7-31719c429607
+:END:
+This is a test.

content/blog/aside-paul-elie-music-control.md

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+---
+title: "Paul Elie on Control in the Music Industry"
+author: ["Shawn Borton"]
+date: 2026-01-21T09:44:00-06:00
+tags: ["aside", "music", "access"]
+draft: false
+---
+
+> The outpouring of new recordings prompted by tape and the LP (and, in pop music, the 45) makes it easy to overlook the fact that, in many ways, the new formats were limiting forces. They gave control of the market to big companies, which licensed the formats to smaller companies. They crowded out “amateur” performers and raised the bar for “professional” ones. They placed the responsibility for choosing which music would be recorded and made public with record-company executives, many of whom had extramusical motives in the front of their minds. And they proved so attractive that they drove the existing format — the 78 — into oblivion, and, with it, the thousands of recordings that existed only as 78s. This would be the pattern of progress for recordings in the postwar period. The new formats were advanced forms of mechanical memory, and they entered experience into the record with ever greater fidelity. Yet they were not means of revival so much as of forgetting.
+
+-- From Alan Jacobs, <https://social.ayjay.org/2026/01/19/paul-elie-the-outpouring-of.html>

content/blog/folding-proteins.md

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+---
+title: "On Folding Proteins"
+date: 2020-12-23
+description: "On Folding Proteins"
+---
+
+Merry Christmas, everyone. 
+
+[What is the “protein folding problem”? A brief explanation](https://rootsofprogress.org/alphafold-protein-folding-explainer)
+
+> Today Google DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry.
+> 
+> What is this problem, and why is it hard?
+
+A good primer on protein folding, the challenges involved, and, of course, recent developments. 

content/blog/ode-bottlecap.md

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+---
+title: "Ode to a Lost Bottlecap"
+description: "Those who wander aren't necessarily lost."
+date: "2023-01-29"
+tags: ["poetry"]
+---
+
+When I go to a hockey game, I typically spend those 60 minutes of game time nursing a bottle of soda. I had never lost a bottlecap...until this week, when careless misalignment caused the cap to fly off the bottle and into oblivion (read: under another seat). I joked with my wife that I should pen an ode to this wayward cap and that it perhaps found its way to the land where lost socks and Tupperware lids go.
+
+Problem is that I'm no poet. Sure, I can write a rhyming scheme, but I'm ignorant when it comes to proper meter. So I reached out to a poet I knew could help: ChatGPT.
+
+Below is the fruits of our efforts. ChatGPT did the writing and I massaged the text since it had issue with repeating words.
+
+> Lost bottlecap, now joined with socks astray
+> And Tupperware lids that wandered far away
+> A band of misfits, traveling the land
+> In search of a place where they can stand
+>
+> Together they set out, like Argo's crew
+> On a journey to find and pursue
+> With each step they take, they count the days
+> Bonding together, in brotherly ways
+>
+> But now adrift, like Odysseus' crew
+> Reliving past tales of glory, fleeting as the dew
+> The bottlecap dreams of Mount Olympus' height
+> And the lids and socks, they too long for the sight
+>
+> But as they roam, they find solace in each other
+> Like the muses of old, they sing and they gather
+> For they are a team, Achilles and Patroclus
+> United in their search, never to be hidden from us.
+>
+> So here's to the lost, the brave, the few
+> May their journey be filled with hope and virtue
+> For though they're not found, they'll always remain
+> In the hearts of many, like mythic terrain.

content/blog/social-media.md

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+---
+title: "Social Media"
+author: ["Shawn Borton"]
+description: "Or how to preserve civilization"
+draft: true
+---
+
+X? Just to check the weather
+I don't read my Follow timeline on Blue Sky. Just hockey folks
+Facebook is the hole I disappear down. I have to catch myself from lingering there
+Instagram reels when I'm done thinking for a bit.
+No TikTok
+No Snapchat
+No Threads

content/blog/storytelling.md

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+---
+title: "Storytelling"
+author: ["Shawn Borton"]
+description: "Or how to preserve civilization"
+date: 2026-01-21T09:44:00-06:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+A quote I posted a long time ago and seems more relevant by the hour...
+
+> Storytelling is how we're moved to take care of each other when we recognize how extremely thin the veneer of civilization we cherish is, and how very hard it is to keep that veneer from shredding in the wind.
+
+-- Barry Lopez; [Poets & Writers Live](https://ww.pw.org/live); October 17, 2015; Portland, Oregon

content/blog/volume-0.md

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+---
+title: "Weekly Reading: Volume 0"
+author: ["Shawn Borton"]
+description: "An insightful description"
+date: 2026-02-21T14:04:00-06:00
+tags: ["weeklyreading"]
+draft: false
+---
+
+This is a test.

content/blog/volume-1.md

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+---
+title: "Weekly Reading: Volume 1"
+author: ["Shawn Borton"]
+description: "An insightful description"
+date: 2026-02-21T14:04:00-06:00
+tags: ["weeklyreading"]
+draft: false
+---
+
+This is a [test](volume-0).

content/weekly-reading/volume-0.md

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+---
+title: "Weekly Reading: Volume 0"
+author: ["Shawn Borton"]
+description: "An insightful description"
+date: 2026-01-06
+tags: ["weeklyreading"]
+draft: true
+---
+
+This is a test.

content/weekly-reading/volume-1.md

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+---
+title: "Weekly Reading: Volume 1"
+author: ["Shawn Borton"]
+description: "An insightful description"
+date: 2026-01-15T17:59:00-06:00
+tags: ["weeklyreading"]
+draft: false
+---
+
+This is a [Weekly Reading: Volume 0]({{< relref "volume-0" >}})