Pluralistic: How a billionaire’s mediocre pump-and-dump “book” became a “bestseller” (15 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: How a billionaire’s mediocre pump-and-dump “book” became a “bestseller” (15 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
This is how algorithmic normalization happens. Normal is a word for the unobtrusive and average, whatever won’t provoke negative reactions. Whichever content fits in that zone of averageness sees accelerated promotion and growth, like “Strange” did, while the rest falls by the wayside. As fewer people see the content that doesn’t get promoted, ther
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