Beyond the Feed

Today, it’s better to think of Roku not just as an advertising company or the folks who make cheap TVs and streaming sticks, but also as a data company with millions of detailed profiles.

When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity.

AI is a machine that captures and projects subjectivities, a “noematograph.”

• It’s imperative that we situate the public algorithmic feeds as more equal to the rest of our information ecology. It’s not the beginning and end. It means going back to using group chats. But also, simply going offline again and investing in local communities. It’s not saying we should toss out the public web and algorithms. But, it’s one part of

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🚨This is the trap that social media, and by extension all of us, are in: 📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not) 📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful https://t.co/NeqlZ4G05H