Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
While the notional shift from programming to curation can feel academic, it represents a crucial step in the democratization of media. Through thousands of individual curators, each of us will be able to escape the tyranny of averages and the limitations of algorithmic recommendations, as well as benefit from the ability to become tastemakers... See more
Tal Shachar • REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry
In any case, I’d go so far as to argue that the dopamine framing actually subsidizes the social imaginary that reduces the human being to the status of a machine, readily programmable by the manipulation of stimuli, which may itself be the deeper and more malignant problem.
L. M. Sacasas • Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
on context collapse and subculture
via @futurecommerce https://t.co/R7ZFQHt1IU
Nearly all popular consumer software has been trending towards minimal user agency, infinitely scrolling feeds, and garbage content.
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain little control over their personal data, and the digital workplace is creeping into every corner of workers’ lives. Online platforms often exploit and exacerbate existing inequalities in society, even while
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
