>"Treating “the algorithm” as a kind of divine power misunderstands where algorithmic power comes from"

*Why Can’t We Be Friends* by Brendan Mackie > Podcasts and other forms of “parasocial” media reframe friendship as monetized self-care _...Read More_

>"On algorithmic culture and the creation of coercive “fun”"

>"“Crisis actor” conspiracy theories relieve the cognitive dissonance of not knowing how to respond"

>"Why does Google still have that “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?"

>"Tracing the insidious idea that the nonhuman world is voiceless until “activated” by technology"

>"The “Deep Nostalgia” face animator conflates the desire to honor the past with an impulse to appropriate it"

Automated tools that try to calculate “brand safety” reproduce the whiteness of mainstream content

"Prominent anticultists occupy a powerful niche as non-credentialed voices of authority in fields that are largely of their own design" "The raw power of cult has rendered the term _...Read More_