Substack live: today 6pm BST, 1pm ET
'How Algorithms Make Everything the Same' - with Kyle Chayka & Yancey Strickler
This is just a quick note to say that I’m hosting a Substack Live with two of the most interesting thinkers on where tech meets culture in a few hours’ time. This is being hosted on the new Citizens Reunited Substack, details below.
Do join, or I’ll send out the video in this week’s newsletter.
V best, Carole
How Algorithms Make Everything the Same - Substack Live on 9th May
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May 6
We'll discuss how algorithms impoverish the artistic experience and homogenize culture, while AI robs creatives of their intellectual property, ideas, and output, threatening their livelihoods. But, remember, none of this is inevitable, and there’s huge momentum to rebuild a creative commons—cooperation instead of competition is the way! Read more about the event here.
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An American journalist and cultural critic. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker where he writes the Infinite Scroll column on digital culture. His latest book Filterword is about how digital platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Spotify have taken over our modes of cultural distribution in the past decade, and how the algorithms that drive these platforms are leading to a homogenization of culture.
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A writer and entrepreneur focused on supporting artists and creative people. He co-founded Metalabel, an operating system for creative work that helps people cooperate rather than compete. He has also co-founded other creative platforms like Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, and The Dark Forest Collective. He is the author of books like This Could Be Our Future and The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.
Carole, I just sent an email to Bernie Sander's campaign urging them to reach out to you to give you an even bigger megaphone, and start holding one particular billionaire accountable. The Hedge fund manager behind Cambridge Analytica whose AI software helps him earn 80% annualized returns on investment (you know who I'm talking about). AI software that was used on us (with stolen FB data) to brainwash our electorates. Data that was given to Russia so their Troll army could manipulate the internet algorithms and cause big unbelievable culture shifts like Brexit and Trumpism. If we don't try this person for treason, they just keep doing it, and other Billionaires follow suit (they already are). We need to come together to expose him on a greater scale. Show everyone that this is happening so that we can deliver a collective consequence upon the few who are destroying our social fabric and organic culture. I am so grateful to you and your investigative journalism, and to all of your other supporters who won't let the billionaires silence you. Keep speaking out! I am one of you supporters and I share your message with everyone who will listen.
Ffs I'm trying to watch this and keep going around in circles. Is this for paying subs only. 🤨