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“Algorithms are replacing the fundamentally human—or at least, the less digitally mediated—process
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
world that Facebook is shaping. Facebook, using our native narcissism and
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
become aware of my own blurred boundaries, seized by the suspicion that I am not forming new opinions so much as assimilating them, that all my preferences can be predicted and neatly reduced to type, that the soul is little more than a data set.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Gayatri Chakravorty…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
I want to explore what feels like the transcendent power of beauty to change our lives. That was the motivating question behind Beautiful World, Where Are You—the title sums it up. I have spoken about my ideological commitments—how I look at the contemporary world through a Marxist lens and through the lens of climate change, and how I feel like
... See moreCal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
C. Thi Nguyen • Review Drift
a culture that places limitless value on attention and money, while creating information tools that seem designed to turn every person’s screwup into an opportunity for public shaming, mockery, abandonment, and humiliation on a scale previously unimaginable.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
