#Algorithmic Culture

[algorithmsoflatecapitalism]

[raffaellopalandri]

Dwelling Beyond Capture – Reclaiming the Texture of Being

In a digital epoch saturated by relentless visibility, the imperative to be seen has become axiomatic. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Algorithms sculpt perception, presence is quantified into reach and engagement, and our subjectivities, once sacred, unruly, and intimate, are now datafied for optimisation, circulation, and extraction. What is lost in this conversion is not merely privacy or…

[yellowmanula]

popatrz algorytmie, wychodzę ci naprzeciw, karm się moimi reakcjami, szerami, moimi bańkami, moimi afektami, wciąż jest język który ja też mogę podpatrywać u ciebie.

[captaingimpy]

“The Usefulness of ‘Please’: Ritual Politeness in an Age of AI Mediation”

In recent weeks, Sam Altman offhandedly remarked that people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars annually in compute. While he framed it as “money well spent,” the internet did what it always does: turned it into a meme war between earnest politeness and pragmatic nihilism. But as with most internet debates, the loudest voices missed the deeper…

[zomb13s]

Honey or Vinegar: Analyzing Influence, AI, and Leadership Dynamics in Modern Governance

Alfons Scholing, CEO of Alfons Design, Founder of the Ik Zie Zombies Platform The complexities of global governance, particularly in the era of rapid technological advancement and artificial intelligence, call for deeper insights into how leadership shapes both societal dynamics and individual lives. My personal journey, profoundly altered after soliciting the position of Vice President of the…

[unsolicited-opinions]

The Algorithm isn't a moral compass

It isn't neutral. The Algorithm It rewards outrage and punishes nuance.

The Algorithm has trained us to chase clout instead of understanding

So now people don't ask: "Is this true?"

They ask: "Will this get shared?"

[zorangezest]

in honour of it being around my tumblr anniversary i have to say this site was the last place i thought i would be posting to consistently but. ive grown to love it a lot i would fight for this app like it were my country

[violet-and-honey]

I miss good old fashioned blogspot blogs. Like I want to stumble upon the diary style writings and digital camera photos of some girl I fall madly into a girl crush with and i eagerly await her heartfelt indepth life updates

[thechekhov]

[canisalbus]

Which is your favorite platform? (of the ones you have accounts to post things I mean. I can't imagine it being Instagram since you don't really post there which honestly fair)

Tumblr, Twitter (X?) bluesky? Something else?

I think I'm going to have to go with tumblr, and it's not just because we're here. Twitter and Bluesky are nice and my experiences on both are overwhelmingly positive. But tumblr has an atmosphere that encourages originality, sharing your creations and talking about things in depth.

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

[algorithmsoflatecapitalism]

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[artist-issues]

yes I'm a Christian writer. Yes I'm a Christian artist. Yes I'm a Christian whatever--I'm so tired of people being like "I'm not a Christian ___, I'm actually a ______ who is Christian" what?!? No! Say the "Christian" part of my identification louder, it's the only part that matters.

I have been crucified with Christ, therefore it is no longer I who live! No longer I who put pen to paper! No longer I who type! No longer I who thinks and plans and practices and works and communicates--it's Christ who lives in me! He must increase! I must decrease!

If you're a Christian, knock that bogus worldly self-centered crap about "no I'm not part of the 'Christian genre' so I'm not a 'Christian whatever,' because I want to be taken seriously," off. Knock it off, shut up, get out of here with that.

Who cares if you're taken seriously? Who are you doing this for? For others? For Christ? Or just for you and your own credit and your own status? Get away from me with that. Ugh.

Anything you do in your life is supposed to be for Christ. You died. You said He was in charge of you from now on--You said He was the sum total of your identity, from now on. Did you mean it? Or did you mean, "everything except my special interests and career?" Of course not.

Anything you do in your life is supposed to be for Christ. That includes your art, your music, your hobby, your writing, your job. You should be so fortunate, so favored, to be called a "Christian" anything. You're not identifying with the "Christian genre," you're identifying with Christ. The word Christian doesn't mean "little Skillet" or "little Frank Peretti" or "little Dallas Jenkins." The word Christian means "little Christ."

You should be so fortunate to be called "Christian" anything, like the disciples were beside themselves with joy to be called "Christian" prisoners and "Christian" slaves. Because they got to be associated with Christ.

Get out of here. Honestly.

[yellowmanula]

I am the art 🥰

[kindaorangey]

i really am a sucker for thinking about the way victor and yuuri's relationship is received by the in-universe media/general fans of figure skating. like if i saw that shit play out in front of my eyes just on regular televised figure skating programs and press conferences i'd lose my goddamn mind.