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"The effect goes back to the Mechanical Turk; we can’t always tell the difference between technology working and the illusion of technology working, but the perception may be just as impactful, in the end, as the reality."
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"Monopolistic growth is more important to these entities than the quality of user experience and certainly more important than the equitable distribution of culture through the services’ feeds. (A digital platform has none of the curatorial responsibility of, say, an art museum.)"
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"The ambiguity of algorithmic influence creates a feeling that has been labeled 'algorithmic anxiety'... describes the burgeoning awareness that we must constantly contend with automated technological processes beyond our understanding and control... forever anticipating and second-guessing the decisions that algorithms make. It is not hypothetical or an abstraction: It’s already prevalent."
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"With new technology, the miraculous quickly becomes mundane, any glitch in its function is felt as bothersome, and finally it becomes ignorable, the miracle forsaken."
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"But there is a world of difference between falling in love with a voice and remaining in love with a person you can see. From the moment I opened my eyes, Mary became a human instead of a dream and my passion evaporated." 🌪️
Going Solo by #RoaldDahl
"If you want something badly enough, and if you need something badly enough, you can always get it. You have a lot to learn. But you are a good boy. You are fighting for freedom. So do I."
Going Solo by #RoaldDahl
"The stillness was overpowering. There was no sound at all, no voice of bird or insect anywhere, and it gave me a queer godlike feeling to be standing there alone in such a splendid hot inhuman landscape - as though I were on another planet, on Jupiter or Mars, or in some place more desolate still, where never would the grass grow green nor a rose bloom red."🏜️
Going Solo by #RoaldDahl
"Where Project Cybersyn suggested that the world run by data might be coherent and graspable, contained within a room, we now know that it is abstract and diffuse, everywhere and nowhere at once. We’re encouraged to forget the presence of algorithms."
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"Still, no matter how complex, an algorithm remains in its essence an equation: a method to arrive at a desired conclusion. All algorithms are engines of automation, and, as Ada Lovelace predicted, automation has now moved into many facets of our lives beyond pure mathematics."
#Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture by #KyleChayka
"明明是同樣的事物，透過人類的眼睛看見的卻是不同的東西。人類的構造真是奇怪。一起生活，各自的時間流逝速度卻不一樣；看著同樣一個地方，每個人的記憶卻各不相同；不表達，就沒人知道你心裡是怎麼想的。有時候，她們甚至還能做到心口不一。人類光是為了隱藏自己，可能就要耗盡一切燃料。
儘管如此，有時她們不用說話也能明白彼此的心意；各自看著不同的東西，方向卻是一樣的；沒有在一起，卻跟在一起一樣，擁有相同的時間。人類的世界如此深奧複雜，卻似乎也是快樂的。假如能感受到情感，它一定也會覺得非常快樂，也會覺得生活本身就像一連串的謎題。
它生活的那個家不知怎麼總有些淒清寂靜。雖然有三個人住在那裡，但是在同一個時段裡，只有一個人發出動靜。她們生活在一起，卻都被禁錮在了各自的時間裡，彼此隔絕，互不相通。但那樣的沉默不會持續很久。龜裂已經出現，她們發出的聲音也開始慢慢地互相滲透，總有一天，她們會把彼此的時間調整到同一個頻率上，讓時間不至於流逝得太快。"
"人和人就算在一起，也看不見得活在同樣的時間裡？"⠀
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"隨著時間流逝，以為自己已從那個地方走出來了，但其實她還滯留在那裡，從那一刻起，時間再也沒有流淌過一秒鐘。不得不承認，每天早早起床，忙碌不停，就是為了從那令人窒息的時間裡、從那個地方走出來。她的時間沒變快，也不會變慢，一直都是靜止的。時間成了一攤死水，沒有任何波瀾。她始終在沒有一絲風的水面上揚著帆。⠀
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很多時她以為自己已經沒事了，卻總是又被拉回那一天。⠀
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那許許多多經歷過悲傷的人，他們的時間都是如何流動的呢？大概也是靜止的吧？地球上是否還存在另外一個世界，專屬於靜止的時間？究竟要如何才能讓那些時間繼續流動呢？"⠀
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"您需要慢慢地行動起來。⠀
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因為從靜止狀態直接飛奔起來，那一瞬間需要極大的力量。這不正和您說的克服思念的方法是一樣的嗎？您不是說，只有幸福能戰勝思念嗎？您可以一點一滴慢慢地累積幸福的瞬間。總有一天，您現在的時間能讓停滯的時間再次緩緩流動。"
"並不是所有人都對動物有那樣的好感。很多養寵物的人也不懂得怎麼好好愛護它們。對他們來說，動物不是夥伴，而是消費品，養寵物只是為了趕潮流，或出於某些需求。"
"在這個徹底圍繞著人類運轉的星球上，動物只是環境變化的犧牲品。人類已經把它們馴服成了沒有人類的保護就無法生存的生物，現在卻來說要給它們自由。那也不過是人類的利己之心，追求的只是自己心安。"
"當然不會來得很快，可能是在遙遠的未來，也許動物會放棄這個星球。當牠們判斷在這裡無法生存以後，遺傳基因就會主動選擇死亡。如果像這樣日復一日地被關在狹窄的柵欄裡忍受著無止境的剝削，也許有一天，牠們的遺傳基因就會選擇死亡來作為生存的手段。"
"In a world, where war was all around me... not to mention life itself, was no longer too important. Survival was not something one struggled for any more. I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible."
Going Solo by #RoaldDahl
"After I had gone solo, I was allowed to go up alone for much of the time and it was wonderful. How many young men, I kept asking myself, were lucky enough to be allowed to go whizzing and soaring through the sky above a country as beautiful as Kenya? Even the aeroplane and the petrol were free!"
Going Solo by #RoaldDahl