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Algorithmic recommendations are the latest iteration of the Mechanical Turk: a series of human decisions that have been dressed up and automated as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed. Designed and maintained by the engineers of monopolistic tech companies, and running on data that we users continuously provide by logging in each day,

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In a landscape of AI-generated homogeneity, authentic taste becomes social capital—a career advantage, an entry ticket, a source of relevance.

In some ways, this shift to algorithms is convenient. It’s tiring to interrogate your preferences all the time: researching which new cultural products are available to you; reading magazines or requesting book suggestions from friends; and making decisions about what and where to eat. It’s a luxury form of labor that eighteenth-century French phil

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