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/2022/07/23/the-sound-of-michael-mann/) or otherwise 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.
▰ If you say “human” enough the voice menu eventually gets the point.
▰ Soundtrack: buncha kids on some sorta summer camp stroll walking by while singing loudly in perfect misharmony, muffled by wind and walls and traffic.
▰ Ludwig Göransson is scoring Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, *Oppenheimer*. Very much looking forward to it.
▰ From today’s New York Times mini crossword. An across clue: “8 electronica instrument” (5 spaces).
▰ One of the “Physics Cost-Saving Tips” from today’s XKCD:
▰ “It is not on any map. True places never are.”
I’m enjoying Todd Eliot’s *Moby Dick* (re)read in particular and book blog in general: [thelithole.com](https://thelithole.com/2022/07/19/obligations-what-i-am-reading-white-whale/).
▰ *Quicksilver* by Neal Stephenson is the 18th novel I’ve finished reading this year. I strive to get into historical fiction but I’m usually left wanting to read more history. I’m not sure I’m moving on to volume two of the Baroque Cycle for a while. *Diamond Age* and *Cryptonomicon* remain my favorite Stephenson novels.