Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Filtering my search for chana masala recipes by “.edu” domains, for example, may not make much intuitive sense, but does have the accidental effect of returning recipes that were not optimized within an inch of their life.
Elan Ullendorff • Folk search engines
Good Song Club
goodsong.club
“A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.”
Jihad Esmail • Believe in Something
At the core of our psychological approach to understanding radicalization is people's drive to re-establish feelings of personal significance following actual or perceived threats to their sense of meaning or belonging in society, a process known as significance quest.
Countering Extremism Directive — Mindbridge
Empathy and Foundation Architecting
there’s something significant about publishing a creative work online - particularly made with another person - it is tangible - visible and a permanent record of interaction and participation
Study: The CCP’s Digital Charm Offensive: How TikTok’s Search Algorithm and Pro-China Influence Networks Indoctrinate GenZ Users in the United States
musictechpolicy.commusic and Remind me Often
No such thing as a free lunch - also - don’t build on one platform alone
So we should then examine every convention through its origin – especially within the context of social dynamics, power, and wealth.
What is Culture? Part Seven: Summary and Bibliography
we should not post how many years a curator has been in the community or how many playlists theyhave made - over all time - it should be last quarter.
This study identifies 33 as the tipping point for sonic stagnation , an age where artistic taste calcifies, increasingly deviating from contemporary works. But wait, there's more. Spotify data indicates that parents stray from the mainstream at an accelerated rate compared to empty nesters—a sort of "parent tax" on one's cultural relevancy.
When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
— Eugene Gendlin
The Whippet #179: Antarctica is not the answer
Mexican-style bean soup with shredded chicken & lime
bbcgoodfood.com