2025-05-18

If nothing is curated, how do we find things? (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

Timely post about non-algorithmic curation. Two years ago I took a year off all music recommendation algorithms to push myself to seek music from friends and aim to learn more about the music I'm consuming. That was before the AI slop machine went into full gear. Now Spotify has every incentive to juice your feed with cheap music from AI and musical ghost kitchens. There's never been a better time to ask your friends for some recs or tune into a local internet radio station.