I do this manually each Saturday, usually in the morning over coffee: collating most of the tweets I made the past week at twitter.com/disquiet, which I think of as my public notebook. Some tweets pop up sooner in [expanded form](https://disquiet.com/2022/06/21/pre-junto/) or [otherwise](https://disquiet.com/2022/06/22/infrastructure-readymades/) on Disquiet.com. I’ve found it personally informative to revisit the previous week of thinking out loud. This isn’t a full accounting. Often there are, for example, conversations on Twitter that don’t really make as much sense out of the context of Twitter itself. And sometimes I tweak them a bit, given the additional space. And sometimes I re-order them just a bit.
▰ Re-watching old *Great Pottery Throw Down* episodes. Season 1, episode 2: large ceramic sinks. They don’t need to look to see if one held up in the kiln: just give a ping to see if it rings. (By coincidence or design, in the same episode they have the potters do a project blindfolded.)
▰ An IBM advertisement on Twitter for Watson AI services reads “No one likes hold music. Quickly solve customer problems.” It’s funny how in the world of AI-mediated customer service, hold music’s been replaced by that rapid processing noise meant to suggest a computer is thinking.
▰ 16th novel I’ve finished reading this year: *Leviathan Falls* by James S.A. Corey. Final novel in the 9-volume series. Has elements of my least favorite (the 3rd) but improves on them; lacks some favorite characters while almost balancing out with new/expanded ones. Loved the epilogue. Going to miss this universe a lot.
▰ I’m used to houseplants in photos/videos of music equipment, but seeing a Buddha Machine in a photo for an article about a phone is new to me [engadget.com](https://www.engadget.com/the-engadget-guide-to-the-best-midrange-smartphones-120050366.html)
▰ Wednesday, June 22, 2:34pm EDT: afternoon quartet for rain, passing airplane, washing machine, and suburban construction
▰ “I found that this color provides confidence in all things mechanical.” That’s Jason Sandberg, writing about the results of zinc chromate for the Color Code series at
[hilobrow.com](https://www.hilobrow.com/2022/06/19/color-code-3/), for which I recently did a piece on [teal](https://www.hilobrow.com/2022/06/10/color-code-2/).
▰ “The offbeat satire follows the creative differences within a collective of ‘sonic caterers’—performance artists who generate soundscapes from the preparation and manipulation of food” ([hyperallergic.com](https://hyperallergic.com/741775/flux-gourmet-peter-strickland-review/)). Film screenwriter-director Peter Strickland (*Berberian Sound Studio*) is back with *Flux Gourmet*.