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The question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define great art: depth, complexity, and the capacity to provoke discomfort or transformation. The question is whether we, as creators and consumers, are willing to resist their influence.

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Dr. Felix S. Grenwood • Algorithms of Mediocrity — william

Here I have put forward a hypothesis that our problem is not the internet, smartphones, smart speakers, or the art of algorithms. Instead, the problem that has made the world so dark and crazy lately is the BUMMER machine, and the core of the BUMMER machine is not a technology, exactly, but a style of business plan that spews out perverse

Jaron Lanier • Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier’s critique of the “hive mind” appears in his book You Are Not a Gadget,

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

Folk and blues musician Anthony Moser skips the careful case against AI and opts for a plain human response: being a hater. "Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total

Urbit and the Telos of the Creator Economy

Justin Murphy otherlife.co

More central to the heart of governmental responsibility in democracies, however, is the digitization of public services.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

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Amazon and Spotify offer a raw deal for artists, Adam M. Lowenstein writes. ⁠ ⁠ In their new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back,” the law professor Rebecca Giblin and the activist author Cory Doctorow portray creative markets such as... See more

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the next digital ecosystems will reward the specialized, the voice-driven, and the dependable.

Kyle Chayka • 🟧 The internet’s distribution problem

Controlling valuable pillars of internet utility -- the flow of information, social connections, music and video delivery -- has created tremendous wealth for a few while very little for stakeholders not on the company’s cap table.