<story><title>Algorithms are changing what we read online</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/how-algorithms-are-changing-what-we-read-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text>This article rings true to me.&lt;p&gt;In particular I&amp;#x27;ve noticed a steady stream of woke articles being pushed my way despite me  having little interest in that sort of thing.&lt;p&gt;These things are supposed to be fed by our preferences, but while I&amp;#x27;m happy to read across the board brow-wise, most of my reading is of the deeper articles and yet genuinely intellectual essays are rarely  offered up.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s frustrating as a reader, and interesting to hear about it from the view of the writer.</text></comment>
<story><title>Algorithms are changing what we read online</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/how-algorithms-are-changing-what-we-read-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>I saw this essay in Arts and Letters Daily (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aldaily.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aldaily.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) and added it to my blog&amp;#x27;s next links post, with a variation of this comment: I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of this guy and yet his work sounds like just the sort of thing I&amp;#x27;d like to read: I&amp;#x27;m not interested in most of the standard political and pop culture stuff that&amp;#x27;s endlessly written and re-written. Unfortunately, he doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to have a link list of his recent works anywhere, at least that I can find. His website (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;russellsmith.ca&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;russellsmith.ca&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) appears to be pretty generic, and its RSS feed seems to have last been updated in 2015. How are we supposed to find his work and follow him, if we are interested in his work (and I am, after reading this)?</text></comment>