Scratch Pad: Haiku, 666, Cables

I do this manually at the end of each week: collating most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I also find knowing I will revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media 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.

▰ Which will come first: (A) the confirmation email from the editor to whom you sent the article you just finished writing, or (B) the surveillance-capitalist alert from Amazon to purchase random things you happened to research in the context of writing the article?

▰ The readymade haiku of Wikipedia’s notable deaths:

Hungarian short track speed skater
Italian robber
Maltese painter and sculptor

▰ This week’s Disquiet Junto project will be the 656th consecutive weekly project, which means that in 10 weeks we’ll hit 666.

▰ Do you have favorite email newsletters by electronic (and adjacent) musicians where they regularly include examples of their recordings? Mine are from Andrew Tasselmyer, Marcus Fischer, Chris P. Thompson, and Taylor Deupree. If you have others, I’d love to check them out. Thanks.

▰ Splitting my synth into a few cases made sense. But I’m gonna need some much longer cables.

▰ I read a ton this week, but only finished one book, the massive, 400-page first 12 issues of Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg!, which I haven’t read since the previous millennium. It holds up. Also good to have re-read it shortly after reading Chantal Montellier’s earlier Social Fiction.