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Architecture in the Filterworld
“Algorithmic recommendations are addictive because they are always subtly confirming your own cultural, political, and social biases, warping your surroundings into a mirror image of yourself while doing the same for everyone else.”— Kyle Chayka, Filterworld Goodreads When Kyle Chayka coined Filterworld to describe the algorithm-mediated cultural environment, he meant to capture how algorithms don’t…
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Cargo Cult BIM
A Cargo Cult refers to a religious or social movement that emerged among some Indigenous communities in the Pacific Islands after World War II. These movements developed when islanders, who had witnessed Allied soldiers arriving with vast amounts of supplies or “cargo” (such as food, clothing, and machinery), sought to understand and reproduce the apparent…