Substack live: today 6pm BST, 1pm ET

This is just a quick note to say that I’m hosting a Substack Live with two of the most interesting thinkers on where tech meets culture in a few hours’ time. This is being hosted on the new Citizens Reunited Substack, details below.

Do join, or I’ll send out the video in this week’s newsletter.

V best, Carole

How Algorithms Make Everything the Same – Substack Live on 9th May

The Citizens

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May 6

Big Tech, its algorithms and its rapacious business model are flattening our culture and fleecing creatives. How are streamers like Spotify and Netflix upending the cultural process, our art, films, and music… and how can we fight back?

We’ll discuss how algorithms impoverish the artistic experience and homogenize culture, while AI robs creatives of their intellectual property, ideas, and output, threatening their livelihoods. But, remember, none of this is inevitable, and there’s huge momentum to rebuild a creative commons—cooperation instead of competition is the way! Read more about the event here.

AND WATCH IT HERE

With…

Kyle Chayka

An American journalist and cultural critic. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker where he writes the Infinite Scroll column on digital culture. His latest book Filterword is about how digital platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Spotify have taken over our modes of cultural distribution in the past decade, and how the algorithms that drive these platforms are leading to a homogenization of culture.

And…

Yancey Strickler

A writer and entrepreneur focused on supporting artists and creative people. He co-founded Metalabel, an operating system for creative work that helps people cooperate rather than compete. He has also co-founded other creative platforms like Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, and The Dark Forest Collective. He is the author of books like This Could Be Our Future and The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.

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