I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I take weekends off social media.
▰ I’m on day 157 of Duolingo German and year six(ish) of guitar lessons, and I’m looking forward to giving this upcoming Duolingo Music tool a go.
▰ Not a tragedy of the commons
▰ Even before Duolingo Music has been released, the app is doing wonders for my music education, because my inability to grok German sentence structure makes me realize how far my (still limited) grasp on guitar chords has come
▰ Nothing quite like purchasing an album at 35,000 feet, in this case Andrew Tasselmyer’s diary #1, methodically glitchy combination of Octatrack and iPad, on the French record label Sonic dialogue
▰ I’ve been trying out this social network called Pebble (pebble.is). If it’s of interest, I’ve got some invites, apparently. It’s being built by people who used to work at Twitter. Nothing fancy so far, but I’m keeping an eye on it. DM me if you want an invite. I’ve also got a few from Bluesky. And as for Threads, the site seems fairly quiet (in a negative sense) to me, but to remain active there is a simple matter of copy and paste, so for the time being I am expending those three or four seconds.