“Centering” race is not the same thing as undoing racism

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

>"“Cringe” is an instrument of algorithmically managed social control"

>"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"

"There is a long list of services that purport to be powered by sophisticated software, but actually rely on humans acting like robots"

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_