Scratch Pad: Lore Was Always Ahead of Mythos

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.

▰ gluten-free breadboarding

▰ Still not sure why audiobook players don’t let you also listen to music

▰ Been doing this thing with TV ads lately where I unmute for the last second or, at most, two seconds (the now normalized ad countdown makes this easy), and seeing — that is, hearing — what makes the final sonic impression, and then trying gauge the extent to which advertisers are doing anything in that final moment to catch the ear of and appeal to vigilant ad-muters

▰ Friday morning hold-music dancing-in-place

▰ In the middle of reading too many books. As matters of gluttony go, it’s a lesser of numerous evils. I did finish reading a short graphic novel, Old Dog: Operations, an anthology by various writers and artists building out the world and lore introduced a year ago in Declan Shalvey’s Old Dog [Redact One]. I was going to type “mythos,” and then sorted “lore” as the more common word these days, and then wondered when lore overtook mythos, but according to the data in Google Books Ngram, lore was always ahead of mythos.