Ballard, Snow, Time – Disquiet
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 find knowing I’ll 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.
▰ “Delete and play next”*
“Head to the curb”**
There’s something brutal (and, to that end, Ballardian) to the user experience language one encounters on a daily basis.
*Netflix
**Uber
▰ On a positive note, whatever bizarre (seemingly) Cloudflare-related issues I had been having on Disquiet.com seem to be not happening during Monday’s AWS outage. Here’s to 21st-century snow days. 🙂
▰ Morning trio for pages being turned, passing jet plane, sprinkler
▰ Main thing I like about the new iOS upgrade is the massive time displayed on the lock screen. Every time I glance at it, I feel like the movie that is my life has begun some momentous, title-card-deserving new phase. It’s 4:18!
▰ Subset of iPhone users who still have U2’s Songs of Innocence on their phones
▰ Me: My 11” iPad is old and slow and can’t hold a charge for as long as it once did. Maybe I’ll get the 13” one when I upgrade
[Someone walks by carrying a massive 13” iPad]Me: Uh, I think I’m good as is.
▰ So this new YouTube system converted all my channel subscriptions to “personalized” and I need to go through hundred of the channels and manually switch to “all”? This seems … odd.
▰ Very excited the second book, The Faith of Beasts, in James S. A. Corey’s The Captive’s War series will come out … in mid-April 2026. Very excited this new Cyberpunk card game, Cyberpunk Legends: Into the Night, will come out … in late July 2026.
▰ Have a good weekend. Hum along with your refrigerator’s drone. Meditate to your HVAC system’s whir. Dance to the rumble of a clothes dryer. See you Monday — or maybe Tuesday.
▰ You know it’s a busy week when you barely read anything. Whew.
