be your own algorithm

For access to monthly videos, check out my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pagemelt Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pagemelt.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/page.melt/ My indie freak website: https://pagemelt.neocities.org/ — *Music* "Secrets Amongst Machines" by Seth Thomas: https://zolom.bandcamp.com/track/secrets-amongst-machines "The Opposite of Falling" by Seth Thomas: https://zolom.bandcamp.com/track/the-opposite-of-falling — *Contents* 0:00 Intro 4:35 Storytime 7:10 What is Filterworld? 12:32 Dear Kyle 15:25 The medium is the message 22:21 Hipster coffee shop 28:13 Lo-fi beats to relax/study to 32:49 We'll be right back 33:57 Who curates the curators? 40:57 Flow state 46:49 Serendipity 52:16 Am I better than everyone? 1:02:53 Interoperability 1:09:41 Cringe 1:16:00 I quit scrolling 1:23:24 Outro — _Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture_ by Kyle Chayka "Sam Altman warns AI could kill us all. But he still wants the world to use it” by Samantha Kelly for CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/tech/sam-altman-ai-risk-taker/index.html) _Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI_ by Madhumita Murgia _Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man_ by Marshall McLuhan BBC’s 24 Hours: Marshall McLuhan on Advertising (https://youtu.be/LFjj3OyjzwA?si=JqADb4qzBs4YUJTv) “The original slop: How capitalism degraded art 400 years before AI” by Mike Pearl in *Blood in the Machine* (https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-original-slop-how-capitalism) _Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm_ by Dan Charnas National Geographic’s “The Birth of Hip-Hop” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSPwIjK8Aa8) CUNY TV’s “History of Hip Hop in the Bronx” (https://youtu.be/D5ZpQ73R_z4?si=CTFkTzOZ1Zeyvbfy) _Red, White & Royal Blue_ by Casey McQuiston _The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue_ by V.E. Schwab _Management Science: The business use of operations research_ by Stafford Beer “Black people don’t go to galleries” by David Osa Amadasun (https://mediadiversified.org/2013/10/21/black-people-dont-go-to-galleries-the-reproduction-of-taste-and-cultural-value/) “Is smartphone addiction really an addiction?” by Tayana Panova and Xavier Carbonell (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29895183/) _Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas_ by Natasha Dow Schüll “Trapped in the Maw of a Stillborn God: Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions at CES, and the future.” by Edward Ongweso Jr. (https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/trapped-in-the-maw-of-a-stillborn) “against the paved web (or, why we can't have nice things)” by Lou Millar-MacHugh (https://irrationaltechnology.substack.com/p/against-the-paved-web-or-why-we-cant) “The Perfect Match” by Ken Liu, from _The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories_ “Here’s Why Rupi Kaur’s Poetry Sucks” by Fareah Fyudeen (https://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/ink/2019/01/12/heres-why-rupi-kaurs-poetry-sucks/) _The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation_ by Cory Doctorow “Surfing the Web like it’s 1999” by Retro Tech Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUX8AN3s2g) “romance discoursing (#2)” by Sanaja Basker (https://baskinsuns.substack.com/p/romance-discoursing-2) _Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ by Joan Didion “Digital detoxes don’t actually work” by Hannah Rose (https://nesslabs.com/digital-detoxes ) “How Curiosity Rewires Your Brain for Change” by Anne-Laure Le Cunff (https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/how-curiosity-rewires-your-brain-for-change/)