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    ytch.xyz Flip through (YouTube) channels like the old days. /via bencrowder.net

    The internet isn’t for humans anymore. Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. The internet isn’t for humans anymore

    If the web is now a metaphorical barren wasteland, pillaged by commercial interests and growth-at-all-costs management consultants, then I’m all the more motivated to keep my little patch of land lush, and green, and filled with rainbow flowers. — My own little patch - Rach Smith

    The scale of the algorithm exceeds even our own understanding; its returns benefit only its owners and leave the rest of us awash in noise and bereft of understanding. — Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links - Christopher Butler

    Surrounded by dreck, the digital citizen is discovering that the best way to find what she used to get from social platforms is to type a URL into a browser bar and visit an individual site. The Revenge of the Home Page (newyorker.com)

    Heat Death of the Internet Enumerating all the ways the internet currently sucks. Example: You buy a microwave and receive ads for microwaves. You buy a mattress and receive ads for mattresses. No one wants this. The article does end on a positive note: You read the Wikipedia entry and there is a lot of useful information supplied by a community. One of the sources cited is a non-fiction book. You go to your local library’s website and although they don’t have the exact book, they do have others by the same author. You place a hold on two of them, then go get your shoes on.

    Is the kottke.org comment section the best community on the web? I’m not a member yet, but I have been a lurker and it seems like a great place to hang out digitally.

    The Analog Web: “Owning your own piece of the Internet (to borrow a recent phrase from Anil Dash) is itself a radical act. Linking to others at will is subversive all on its own.”

    The Death of the Follower: “Something that’s not contorting our online personas in the image of the algorithm to reach ~10% more strangers who probably don’t care, and won’t stick around.”

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    Knowing Machines “is a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of how machine learning systems are trained to interpret the world.”