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When I say “I don’t know where everyone went,” I know everyone’s out there surfing the web , of course, but it feels like it’s a different place now. When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet. The “For You” pages of the world are right, I am interested in that content, but I’m not seeing ... See more
I miss human curation
But it’s not that innovation isn’t happening; it’s that innovation is improving only in the direction of the feed, encouraging the development of products that serve the structure of digital platforms, as Nigel Kabvina’s cooking videos do. The perfect piece of algorithmic culture, after all, is almost intentionally uninteresting. Its emptiness can
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Remember The New Yorker . You subscribed because you liked it. Then it taunted you with its endless words, pages and pages demanding to be read. It reminded you of all the time you didn’t have to spend reading The New Yorker . Whenever you glimpsed the growing pile, you felt mild panic. Every time you recycled an unread issue, you felt like a waste... See more
Caroline Cala Donofrio • You Are a Person, Not a Pickle
Running a newsletter like DD is, at its core, an expression of taste. It’s me saying, ‘Here’s what I think deserves your attention this week.’ A process that Stepfanie Tyler describes beautifully in her piece on taste as the new intelligence:
“Curation is care. It says: I thought about this. I chose it. I didn’t just repost it. I didn’t just regurgi... See more
“Curation is care. It says: I thought about this. I chose it. I didn’t just repost it. I didn’t just regurgi... See more

Emily in Paris may as well have been a screen saver of Paris,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The one thing I thought was funny about Anu’s piece is that it claims “no one owns taste” but then sort of poo-poo’s the anticipated reaction of people that views the subject of taste as their “special territory”.
You can’t have both of these things. And it’s what tech people broadly get wrong about many other intersectional dialogues. Either no on... See more
You can’t have both of these things. And it’s what tech people broadly get wrong about many other intersectional dialogues. Either no on... See more
Reggie James • Product Lost by @hipcityreg | Reggie James | Substack

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