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All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
As theorist Matt Klein puts it, “There’s this weird thing that’s happening where amongst creative surplus, we have creative stagnation.”
The New York Times • The Algorithm Has Been Hiding Something From You | NYT Opinion
It’s long past time that we realized these systems are not benefitting culture. Creators and consumers alike are pushed into preset formats that we may ultimately have no organic interest in. By giving in to algorithmic feeds, we are letting tech companies determine our tastes.
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In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In recent years, an underlying sense has emerged that algorithmic culture is shallow, cheap, and degraded in the washed-out manner of a photocopy copied many times over.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
