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"Human is the only animal that is killing their own kind."
"Everybody is making their own rules to suit themselves."
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The BFG by #RoaldDahl
"A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out. (same as with wild animals)" 🐑💭✔️
The BFG by #RoaldDahl
"Dreams that are giving the dreamers a happy time."
"A dream as it goes whiffling through the night air, is making a tiny little buzzing-humming noise. But this little buzzy-hum is so silvery soft, it is impossible for a human bean to be hearing it."
"They are always invisible until they are captured. After that they are losing a little of their invisibility."
The BFG by #RoaldDahl
"The implied answer to algorithmic anxiety is to learn not to desire differentiation in the first place, to simply be satisfied with whatever is placed in front of you. The cultivation of taste is discouraged because taste is inefficient in terms of maximizing engagement." 🧠🙌 🔩
#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." 
"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." 🧲
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"This perception that culture is stuck and plagued by sameness is indeed due to the omnipresence of algorithmic feeds. But it’s not that innovation isn’t happening; only in the direction of the feed, encouraging the development of products that serve the structure of digital platforms. The perfect piece of algorithmic culture, after all, is almost intentionally uninteresting." 🪹
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"While we have the advantage of freedom of choice, the endless array of options presented by algorithmic feeds often instills a sense of meaninglessness: I could be listening to anything, so why should any one thing be important to me? The constructive relationship between collecting and culture goes in both directions." 
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"Artists have always evaluated their work based on numbers, whether on-air radio plays, movie tickets sold, or museum exhibition attendance. But before Filterworld, creative taste—which is the way that artists evaluate their own work, as much as how consumers evaluate their appreciation of it—has never been so influenced by data and the granular measurement of attention." 📊
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka