outside the algorithm

You don’t notice the moment the algorithm takes you.No one ever does— which is why knowing how to break the algorithm spell matters more than you think.. It isn’t a sudden pull — it’s a settling-in.A slow rearranging of your thoughts so they fit the shape of the feed. You open it the way you breathe: without thinking.The scroll…

Algorithms colonize the mind, one suggestion at a time You don’t scroll the feed. The feed scrolls you. We like to pretend we’re in charge. That we open our favorite app out of free will and not sheer reflex. That we’re just “checking something real quick”—a modern fairy tale that always ends an hour later, eyes…