At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ Wasn’t expecting this random portable monitor manufacturer to include a Teenage Engineering OP-1 in its demo.
▰ Yeah, 1987 was an exceedingly great year for record releases. My top 10 albums and singles from our college music magazine, Nadine. Apparently I posted this 10 years ago this week, when Steven Young of M/A/R/R/S (and Colourbox) died.
▰ New categories of “media condition” for Discogs:
- Played by someone who has a life but gives a shit
- Yeah, the vinyl rubbed through the cover a bit after 40 years
- If you say this is lower than near mint, you need a Go Fund Me for significant therapy
▰ The Capture goes full Person of Interest in the third season
▰ Whew, Mimestream added an “All” category, so when I need to I can see my Work and Personal category emails in one column. This is fantastic. (Now maybe have an option for those three buttons to take up less space.)
▰ Not all waveforms are created equal. Some are more readable than others. Some, even if they tell a story different in visually than sonically, still register as unique, individual. This one, building from sparse initial strikes, caught my eye. It’s the first piece to appear in this week’s Disquiet Junto project, in which music is made with nothing but rocks.
Listen here:
▰ So now everyone’s in the West Coast Avengers?
▰ At the risk of centering one’s own personal experiences, I feel like broken music file metadata is truly OG enshittification, and it just keeps enshitting. I type this as, in 2026, Plex overwrote the file names for the Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) album The Ecstatic (Instrumentals), which upon import is now listed in my apps/database as merely The Ecstatic. At least Plex kept the new release’s cover art.