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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

As anyone whose favorite banana went extinct can tell you, homogeneity *works* well, but diversity *fails* well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Mi... The brittleness of algorithm-induced homogeneity is compounded by the fact that recommenders obscure the *true* preferences of people. 66/

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Gros Michel - Wikipedia

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

If you watch two Scandinavian crime dramas after Netflix recommends them to you, it will keep showing you more Scandy crime for the next decade - even if there's another kind of programming that you'd vastly prefer (if only you knew about it). 67/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

This means that decision-makers who choose which shows will get made in the future will keep on funding their safe Danish detectives, to the exclusion of whatever might emerge from the same weird attractor that produced the K-Pop Demon Hunter fortune. 68/

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Charby @stornahal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I fell into a massive soup of K-dramas after I watched one. Couldn’t get Netflix to recommend anything else. So I quit :-)

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