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elan.place
Algorithmic escape artist | Rolling Stone called me one of the people "quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive" Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | 📍Philly 💌 Subscribe: https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com
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Gather, the offline-first client for collecting, curating, and cultivating multimedia collections, is officially on the app stores! Start archiving daily moments like you would text a friend on gather.directory and cultivate your capacity to notice

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If you have questions that haven't been answered by this job posting or are wondering how our process works, we'll be hosting our second and final hiring office this Friday, February 28th at 12 PM ET. Registration info at the job link. (Audience members will remain anonymous to each other).

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My team @themarshallproject.org is hiring a Designer! You'll work on everything from interactive storytelling to improving our digital products, making complex issues in criminal justice more accessible and impactful. www.themarshallproject.org/jobs/designer A bit more about what we're looking for…

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"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself" www.youtube.com/watch?v=55PS...

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"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQYO...

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FlappyFavi is a flappy bird clone that lives in your favicon mewtru.com/flappyfavi (by tru narla)

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For some completely unknown and totally undiagnosed reason, I collect envelope security patterns. Today I found a new pattern for my collection so I celebrate by sharing my collection with you: 79 envelope liners for your viewing/art making pleasure. www.are.na/brandon-alva...

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My team @themarshallproject.org is hiring a Designer! You'll work on everything from interactive storytelling to improving our digital products, making complex issues in criminal justice more accessible and impactful. www.themarshallproject.org/jobs/designer A bit more about what we're looking for…

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your subscribers are sending you $10/month. my subscribers are sending me jars of homemade pepper jelly. we are not the same.

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your subscribers are sending you $10/month. my subscribers are sending me jars of homemade pepper jelly. we are not the same.

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today i’m launching a ᵐⁱᶜʳᵒsupporter program: readers can support Escape the Algorithm by doing something as little as sending me a gift/postcard in the mail or taking me out for a cup of coffee. here’s why:

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Every generation gets a Tronc

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This is the policy/rubric for using generative AI in my Escape the Algorithm classroom:

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find someone who looks at you like the spotify algorithm looks at white winter hymnal by the fleet foxes

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"[This] connects me to the long history of queerness... Anonymous, often scared people saying 'I was here. No matter what they told you, I was here.' Queer people will never be erased. Trans people will never be erased. We were here. We are here. You are living history that deserves to be saved."

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still thinking about "the vertigo of Net travel" and how sometimes it feels disorienting and other times delightful. is the difference just agency?

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the wonderful critical coding cookbook is now available as an #openaccess pdf ✨🫧💜 criticalcode.recipes featuring recipes from @xinemata.bsky.social @ann9na.bsky.social @joanachicau.bsky.social @renick.bsky.social @rouxpz.bsky.social @autolumi.bsky.social @anu1905.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social & more

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collecting anecdotes of how it felt to use the early internet. this one from gary wolfe in a 1994 issue of wired is hitting me as simultaneously familiar and foreign

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"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself"

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“an open source ‘tar pit’ to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power” @404media.co www.404media.co/developer-cr...

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the tediousness of synthesizing and summarizing [in this case, public meetings] is a feature, not a bug (by @biancawylie.com) biancawylie.medium.com/automating-s...

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i've spent months searching for a definition of "algorithm" that feels alive to the agency of both practitioners and users, and looks beyond the codebase to inputs and outputs in the broadest, societal sense. stumbling upon @nickseaver.website's work feels like homecoming.

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Great assignment / exercise prompts from @elan.place to promote algorithmic literacy, critical understanding of "user" experience, practices for creative adaptation and détournement

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building algorithmic attunement and agency (for @are.na editorial) www.are.na/editorial/so...

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it makes me incredibly sad that it's become cool to brag about how little time and care was put into building something

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"The Doc Web" has reached the perfect level of coinage wherein nobody uses it most of the time but once in a while it inspires a really thoughtful/personal screed on publishing. Just came across this by @thejaymo.net thejaymo.net/2024/08/20/t...

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Honored that read.cv named howdidyoufind.me one of the best projects of 2024!

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💌 a message in a bottle, collaged from correspondences that embodied the heart of my time as a charge of my teachers, from secondary school to college kayserifserif.place/teachings

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