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Algorithmic culture
Where software stops being a tool and starts setting the terms. Briefs on artificial intelligence, platforms and the companies that write the defaults everyone else inherits.
Who controls the cultural frame
TIME’s location report introduces Alec Guinness as “black of face” and wearing a floral-print dress, then gives him the line “Excuse my skirt.” In this supplied fragment, racial i…
Convenience sets the starting point
Chosic promises a playlist built from a song the listener likes, delivered in seconds.
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Ownership is not cultural continuity
Amazon now gets to decide who plays Bond and how the series runs, according to The Global Story’s description.
Whose technological risk gets counted
Drone operators in Ukraine’s war spool fiber-optic cable across ground and trees; according to Endless Thread’s description, often single-use aircraft leave behind cable that does…
AI expansion tests shared capacity
Nano Banana permits 32,768 input tokens, according to Max Woolf, who proposes using the full allowance.
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