Mon. 11/01 - "Behind The Joy Are The Algorithms"
A meditation on streaming entertainment, algorithms, and David Foster Wallace’s prescient writing on the illusion of choice. Plus, a possible functional cure for HIV has just been approved to enter human trials. And, the Wampanoag woman who grew heirloom corn on its original land for the first time in over three centuries.
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Links:
How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping (Literary Hub)
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
One Complaint Per…
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