"The feed flows by without the user needing to pay attention to any one thing too closely, since another is always about to load, personalized to some degree by their previous actions. There is nothing to alienate personal taste but also nothing to deeply compel it." π§²
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"Such feeds encourage the quality of ambience because they allow for a consistent baseline of engagement; the user never stops the flow. Yet consuming it for too long at a stretch, leads to a feeling of depersonalization: Are you becoming the person the algorithmic feeds perceive you as, or were you already?"
"When we embrace ambience, we lose the meaning of the finite and the discrete." 
Zee