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*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

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*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

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_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/)