{"id":222085,"date":"2025-05-04T03:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/ambient-music\/algorithm-apps-mycology-disquiet\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T03:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:37:22","slug":"algorithm-apps-mycology-disquiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=222085","title":{"rendered":"Algorithm, Apps, Mycology \u2013 Disquiet"},"content":{"rendered":"


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At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I\u2019ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I\u2019ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at\u00a0post.lurk.org\/@disquiet<\/a>), and I\u2019m also trying out\u00a0a few others<\/a>. And I generally take weekends off social media.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I sometimes wonder if the Algorithm processes that much of the music I Shazam is stuff I can\u2019t stand, so I can avoid it in the future. The Algorithm can\u2019t regularly distinguish curiosity from affection from dislike.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0Listened to some old Power Station albums for the umpteenth time and remain astonished by Tony Thompson\u2019s drum production<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I love when it\u2019s clear a website has tweaked its backend because suddenly the RSS reader is full of a dozen or so old posts<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I\u2019ll take a small pleasure at the end of the week. I use an phone app a lot, and I so send a note to its developer with a small suggestion, and less than a day and a half later my suggestion is part of the app, and now I\u2019m using the app even more regularly. Doesn\u2019t matter, really, what app, or what feature. Just a kind of interaction and response and sense of connectedness I marvel at, and hope not to stop marveling at.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0End of week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u25b0\u00a0A lot of foghorns and a lot of wind, that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here. Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n

\u25b0 I\u00a0didn\u2019t finish reading any books this week, but I\u2019m about halfway through the first Bosch novel (by Michael Connelly), The Black Echo<\/em>, and about a quarter of the way through The Mushroom at the End of the World<\/em> (by Anna Lowenhurst Tsing). I love how seemingly unrelated books that one might read at the same time end up having connections. For example, without giving too much away about the Bosch book, both it and the mushroom book center around skills gained by people in Vietnam and around Southeast Asia, and how those skills then get transferred to the United States: in one case, of military veterans committing crimes based on skills learned in tunnel combat; and in the other, of mushroom hunters foraging in the forest. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n