Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we trust our own personal taste? –Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content–
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–Did The Feed Ruin Taste?
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Vulture - The entire feed is fake
Find Kyle:
His column Infinite Scroll in The New Yorker
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
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