bespacific, to ArtificialIntelligence
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How media 'flatten' our culture by making for us. "[There] are equations that measure what you're doing, of all users on these and then try to predict what each person is most likely to engage w" Kyle Chayka explains. "So rather than having this neat ordered feed you have this feed that's constantly trying to guess what you're going to on, what you're going to , what you're going to or to." https://www.npr.org/2024/01/17/1224955473/social-media-algorithm-filterworld

gfarrell, to apple
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osma, to random
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And not just Americans, of course. American companies all of us, and anyone can buy that data.

"A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans."
https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/

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