Show Notes
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?
Wired - Geese’s popularity is a psyop
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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– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
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