Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think

Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by ddq on Saturday March 08, 2025 @02:58PM (#43302995)

I highly recommend reading Marshal McLuhan's book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man from which that phrase originates (and not just a Wikipedia summary, different medium after all!)

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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by mlekoszek on Saturday March 08, 2025 @03:47PM (#43303369)

And as a follow-up, Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization.

Where McLuhan argues technologies shape worldviews, Mumford argues worldviews also shape technologies.

And then perhaps into the world of science and technology studies (STS), where these questions are explored more deeply, and specific cases are examined.

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Re:Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what yo... by ndm000 on Saturday March 08, 2025 @03:36PM (#43303299)

There is a comment in the intro of that book about the pinnacle of human labor being the simulation of consciousness. Very prescient for being written in the 60s.

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