Elan Ullendorff
@elan.place
Algorithmic escape artist | Rolling Stone called me one of the people "quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive"
Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | 📍Philly
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Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | 📍Philly
💌 Subscribe: https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com
For the first installment, a conversation with the wonderful @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social about…why nobody wants her to have conversations.
escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/anti-viral...
escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/anti-viral...
Anti-viral with Alicia Kennedy
"People just want you to talk about yourself"
escapethealgorithm.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For the first installment, a conversation with the wonderful @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social about…why nobody wants her to have conversations.
escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/anti-viral...
escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/anti-viral...
there’s nothing more telling than the fact that a platform like grammarly is both a tool for creating slop and for detecting it. like, the buttons are quite literally right next to each other.
you’re participating in an arms race against an industry that is already both sides of the arms race
you’re participating in an arms race against an industry that is already both sides of the arms race
March 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
there’s nothing more telling than the fact that a platform like grammarly is both a tool for creating slop and for detecting it. like, the buttons are quite literally right next to each other.
you’re participating in an arms race against an industry that is already both sides of the arms race
you’re participating in an arms race against an industry that is already both sides of the arms race
like, if they need to, they’ll tweak their models infinitesimally to reduce the occurrence of em dashes leaving us pointing our fingers at each other.
March 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
like, if they need to, they’ll tweak their models infinitesimally to reduce the occurrence of em dashes leaving us pointing our fingers at each other.
i conducted an experiment with my substack audience and it corroborated this. escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/is-substac...
Is Substack exaggerating its network effects?
The data tells the story writers want to hear... but is it true?
escapethealgorithm.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
i conducted an experiment with my substack audience and it corroborated this. escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/is-substac...