glenn mcdonald
@glennmcdonald.bsky.social
Music, furia.com, everynoise.com, books, soccer, food, civilization, running, technology, music. Bridges.
Epstein introducing you to a 28-year-old: the Nordstrom Rack of underage sex-trafficking?
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Epstein introducing you to a 28-year-old: the Nordstrom Rack of underage sex-trafficking?
Another podcast-episode's worth of me talking about music and my book, but with Jessica Brown at Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa, who asks me much less industrial questions than some other hosts have, and thus leads us into interestingly different conversations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YrQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YrQ...
Tune Me In Episode 6: Spotify's Data Alchemist, Glenn McDonald
YouTube video by MENZA
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Another podcast-episode's worth of me talking about music and my book, but with Jessica Brown at Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa, who asks me much less industrial questions than some other hosts have, and thus leads us into interestingly different conversations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YrQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YrQ...
CSV is a fine tool, and I trust myself to know when to use it and not you, and probably vice versa. For anything else machine-directed, use JSON. Do not try to save tokens. Do not waste your time *counting* tokens, which you're probably doing wrong anyway. Improve something else.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
CSV is a fine tool, and I trust myself to know when to use it and not you, and probably vice versa. For anything else machine-directed, use JSON. Do not try to save tokens. Do not waste your time *counting* tokens, which you're probably doing wrong anyway. Improve something else.
I am convinced.
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I am convinced.
Just a reminder that FIGHTING is super-effective against ICE.
This has been your morning note about Pokémon types.
PS: DOUBLE-super-effective against DARK + ICE.
This has been your morning note about Pokémon types.
PS: DOUBLE-super-effective against DARK + ICE.
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just a reminder that FIGHTING is super-effective against ICE.
This has been your morning note about Pokémon types.
PS: DOUBLE-super-effective against DARK + ICE.
This has been your morning note about Pokémon types.
PS: DOUBLE-super-effective against DARK + ICE.
Gamification is the opposite of learning to appreciate the thing for its own qualities.
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Gamification is the opposite of learning to appreciate the thing for its own qualities.
draining the swamp. Back into the public water supply.
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
draining the swamp. Back into the public water supply.
It would be delicious if the "builder" (sic) president were impeached for permit violations.
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It would be delicious if the "builder" (sic) president were impeached for permit violations.
Our Lady of Vigilance
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Our Lady of Vigilance
Nobody voted for a ballroom.
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Nobody voted for a ballroom.
Today's BlueSky vibe summary via furia.com/skyq/skyq.html:
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today's BlueSky vibe summary via furia.com/skyq/skyq.html:
A. And yet, B. I don't feel like I'm being unreasonable.
October 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A. And yet, B. I don't feel like I'm being unreasonable.
"...brain the size of a planet, and a bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle. Were you asking about bridges in a specific context? I need to think carefully about this. 'Take me to the bridge' is an iconic James Brown call-out. [generating Python artifact]"
Great.
Great.
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"...brain the size of a planet, and a bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle. Were you asking about bridges in a specific context? I need to think carefully about this. 'Take me to the bridge' is an iconic James Brown call-out. [generating Python artifact]"
Great.
Great.
Without context, this looks metaphorical. With context, same.
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Without context, this looks metaphorical. With context, same.
Rights expressed without corresponding responsibilities can maybe be poetry, but not policy.
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Rights expressed without corresponding responsibilities can maybe be poetry, but not policy.
I rarely claim any kind of prescience, but I gave up moving pictures because of manipulative backgrounds even before the foregrounds became manipulated.
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I rarely claim any kind of prescience, but I gave up moving pictures because of manipulative backgrounds even before the foregrounds became manipulated.
Scroll flicks until I feel disgusted by humanity:
Twitter: 0-1
CNN: 1-2
MSNBC: 2-3
LinkedIn: 2-3
Threads: 2-3
TikTok: 2-5
Facebook: 4-10 (usually 4-5, but at the moment I'm getting a lot of pickleball highlights)
YouTube: 4-10 (same)
Bluesky: 2-*
The Guardian: usually *
Reddit: NA
I Love Music: NA
Twitter: 0-1
CNN: 1-2
MSNBC: 2-3
LinkedIn: 2-3
Threads: 2-3
TikTok: 2-5
Facebook: 4-10 (usually 4-5, but at the moment I'm getting a lot of pickleball highlights)
YouTube: 4-10 (same)
Bluesky: 2-*
The Guardian: usually *
Reddit: NA
I Love Music: NA
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Scroll flicks until I feel disgusted by humanity:
Twitter: 0-1
CNN: 1-2
MSNBC: 2-3
LinkedIn: 2-3
Threads: 2-3
TikTok: 2-5
Facebook: 4-10 (usually 4-5, but at the moment I'm getting a lot of pickleball highlights)
YouTube: 4-10 (same)
Bluesky: 2-*
The Guardian: usually *
Reddit: NA
I Love Music: NA
Twitter: 0-1
CNN: 1-2
MSNBC: 2-3
LinkedIn: 2-3
Threads: 2-3
TikTok: 2-5
Facebook: 4-10 (usually 4-5, but at the moment I'm getting a lot of pickleball highlights)
YouTube: 4-10 (same)
Bluesky: 2-*
The Guardian: usually *
Reddit: NA
I Love Music: NA
I did not think Trump would bring peace to Israel and Palestine, and I will be happy to be proven wrong. I also do not think he will bring peace to Ukraine, or restore a functioning democracy with a dedication to human rights and equality in the US, and please can I keep being wrong.
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I did not think Trump would bring peace to Israel and Palestine, and I will be happy to be proven wrong. I also do not think he will bring peace to Ukraine, or restore a functioning democracy with a dedication to human rights and equality in the US, and please can I keep being wrong.
I do not want to read the Epstein files. I want competent non-partisan professionals trained in criminal investigation and law enforcement to do their jobs upholding laws that exist to defend the vulnerable against abuses of power.
October 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I do not want to read the Epstein files. I want competent non-partisan professionals trained in criminal investigation and law enforcement to do their jobs upholding laws that exist to defend the vulnerable against abuses of power.
understands only one problem, which is that he is looking at something and his name is not the biggest thing on it.
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
understands only one problem, which is that he is looking at something and his name is not the biggest thing on it.
Risk, doubt and failure are human traits, but not the ones that *make* us human. You are not less human when you succeed, or even when you know you are going to succeed before succeeding. The thing that makes us human is *intent*.
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Risk, doubt and failure are human traits, but not the ones that *make* us human. You are not less human when you succeed, or even when you know you are going to succeed before succeeding. The thing that makes us human is *intent*.
As a Swift fan I do not claim to rate "super", but even so, listening to Taylor talk to Seth Myers about bread and Travis and music made me feel better about the world and humanity in exactly the way that listening to Oompa Limpa or any of his orcs talk about literally anything makes me feel worse.
October 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As a Swift fan I do not claim to rate "super", but even so, listening to Taylor talk to Seth Myers about bread and Travis and music made me feel better about the world and humanity in exactly the way that listening to Oompa Limpa or any of his orcs talk about literally anything makes me feel worse.
I think I could get a Nobel peace prize for proposing that we give Trump a Nobel peace prize in return for him declaring victory and resigning and leaving and taking all his hats and medalions and orcs with him.
October 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I think I could get a Nobel peace prize for proposing that we give Trump a Nobel peace prize in return for him declaring victory and resigning and leaving and taking all his hats and medalions and orcs with him.
when the only groups you understand are current enemies and people you haven't turned on yet, and some of the former are bad people but all of the latter are.
October 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
when the only groups you understand are current enemies and people you haven't turned on yet, and some of the former are bad people but all of the latter are.