Eff the Algorithm

Eff the Algorithm

The Attention Farm: How Big Tech Profits From Your Unpaid Labor

You’re not using the algorithm. It’s using you.

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Eff the Algorithm
Jun 03, 2025
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Illustration depicting people tending to phones on a digital landscape that symbolizes the Attention Farm

A few weeks ago, I spent the day volunteering at a local community garden that was short on help. We worked from dawn to dusk hauling compost, pulling weeds, and swapping stories under the warm Sprin…

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