Trove - August 2nd 2022
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Hi everyone!
Here’s your weekly trove of recommendations. If you enjoy it, please feel free to forward this along to friends.
This 90’s themed music player via a thread by @matt_gray_
Try the Tokyo Disco channel :D
An app for book discovery I’m using lately
Tertulia creates book recommendations based on genre and by featuring written buzz about the book from influencers at major publications and on Twitter.
This nature scene from Tochigi Prefecture
Video: a good example of how complex (but with time understandable!) the Japanese language is…
Quotes from this New Yorker Piece about a feeling coined as “Algorithmic Anxiety”:
“Algorithms would not have the power they have without the floods of data that we voluntarily produce on sites that exploit our identities and preferences for profit. When an ad for bras or mattresses follows us around the Internet, the culprit is not just the recommendation algorithm but the entire business model of ad-based social media that billions of people participate in every day.”
“Lately, I have been drawn toward corners of the Internet that are not governed by algorithmic recommendations. I signed up for Glass, a photo-sharing app that caters to professional photographers but is open to anyone. My feed there is quiet, pristine, and entirely chronological, featuring mostly black-and-white city snapshots and wide color landscapes, a mix reminiscent of the early days of Flickr (even if the predominant aesthetic of photography today has been shaped by iPhone-camera-optimization algorithms).”
Pair this with a book that goes way deeper into social media’s effect on society and individuals, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Thanks for reading, y’all. See you next week!
-Tobin