"...creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.
"Welcome to the age of average."
"In contrast, on social networks centered around people and feeds, content recommendations made by machine-learning algorithms sourced from users you don’t know feel out of place, incongruous, interruptive, and sleazy. They feel like what they are: desperate attempts to juice engagement based on a machine’s idea of what you want or need. They feel like ads."
nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/why-every-app-now-feels-like-tiktok-but-worse.html
teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-cory-doctorow good listen
@agiletortoise the sadistic orthodontist I went to as a child played classical music in his office and it ruined classical music for me for life... 😭