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5. Algorithmic feeds are failing: StumbleUpon helped me start to understand, almost at a humanistic level, how vast the internet could be. TikTok often yields a similar result, though with a key difference. On TikTok, almost all videos trend toward a kind of visual consistency and repeatability. Silly voices or bits of speech become ‘sounds’, to be... See more
Kyle Chayka • 10 Lessons for Crypto Media: Dirt’s Year in Review
All that exists is a relentlessly changing digital present tense.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Neil Postman diagnosed the same parasite at the level of culture. Tools, he argued, are never just tools. Once unleashed, they metastasize into systems that dictate their own terms, reorganizing the very forms of thought and memory. A technopoly is not a society that uses machines, but one consumed by them, where the parasite has eaten even the
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space of places.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
I view the internet today as millions of subcommunities. I think NFTs are a way for subcommunities to have cultural artifacts and create little economies within them. It is a big world, so some of the popular existing ones will go awry, but my bet is that there will be many positive communities.