Category: field notes

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, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. 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.

▰ Netflix (etc.) needs a ratings option along the lines of “I still like this genre but this show/movie is not good.”

▰ Just a reminder we’re in a golden age of soundtrack releases. Used to be only a small number became available, especially where TV was concerned, and now it’s an endless stream.

▰ The voice-to-text software transcribed “sycophancy” as “sick of fancy” and I’m OK with it

▰ Sunny day = increased emergency sirens en route to the beach. One just passed by. Next week, when temperatures break records on the way to 80º F, is gonna get loud.

▰ News of Claude being down is like the lamest Space Cowboys reboot

▰ I love that the lyrics to Kim Gordon’s “Play Me” are just the names of “mood-themed Spotify playlists” (“Rich popular girl,” “Villain mode,” “Jazz in the background), per my old friend Rob Sheffield, who interviewed her for Rolling Stone. The song sounds like a lost Ambitious Lovers / Cibo Matto collab produced by DJ Premier. The surveillance-chic video, by Barnaby Clay, is pretty great, too.

▰ Disquiet Junto, eight days a week:

Wednesday: prep next Junto project
Thursday: post Junto project
Friday: Junto pieces continue to arrive
Saturday: Junto pieces continue to arrive
Sunday: Junto pieces continue to arrive
Monday: Junto pieces continue to arrive
Tuesday: listen to finished Junto pieces
Wednesday: prep next Junto project

▰ Finished reading a graphic novel, Dark One, written by Brandon Sanderson, Jackson Lanzing, and Collin Kelly, art by Nathan C. Gooden.