72: Sex Appeal, Heteronormativity, and White Supremacy in Algorithms

In today's episode, I step through some follow-up and a few items of note I've been tracking (such as the gorgeous Nikon Z fc retro-style camera!) before kicking off a rant about the ways algorithms privilege the already privileged instead of favoring content off the beaten path. Apparently you're likely to do quite well on YouTube if you're young, white, cis, "attractive", and so forth…but what about the rest of us?

In today’s episode, I step through some follow-up and a few items of note I’ve been tracking (such as the gorgeous Nikon Z fc retro-style camera!) before kicking off a rant about the ways algorithms privilege the already privileged instead of favoring content off the beaten path. Apparently you’re likely to do quite well on YouTube if you’re young, white, cis, “attractive”, and so forth…but what about the rest of us?

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Nikon Z fc

design is based on the Nikon FM
which in turn was based on the Olympus OM cameras


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