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But this era is over. Now consumers have coalesced into the powerful multitude. Their empowerment can more and more be seen as a threat for society. Just like Walmart, tech companies such as Amazon and many others prove that in the Entrepreneurial Age, a multitude hungry for quality at scale beats workers and society most of the time, inflicting a

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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.

If e/acc is an attempt to rebrand tech zealotry as an apotheosis of moral goodness, it is also, as Silicon Valley grieves the realization that it is no longer seen as an unbridled force for good, a form of denial and bargaining—one last plea for salvation as the walls close in. If it happens to result in the end of humanity, so be it. As Land’s lat... See more

I gave a talk in 2018 on the incompatibility of technological progress and privacy at the @Stacks conference in Berlin. Since then the advancements in AI have made this argument ever more relevant. The talk is short (15 minutes)

Just as algorithmic recommendations slot users into categories of consumption, supplanting their personal tastes, they also sort cultural output into categories, which creators run up against. These categories are the house styles of Filterworld, in which greatness is defined by optimization rather than dramatic creative leaps into the unknown. Cul

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