Changing the Algorithm

Send a text In this episode, I step back and slow things down. I talk about what an “algorithm” really is, not as technology, but as a pattern. A set of rules that decides what happens next. Long before computers, algorithms shaped families, religions, economies, and entire societies. Many of them still do.  This isn’t an episode about answers or solutions. It’s about recognition. This episode is...

Send a text In this opening episode of Changing the Algorithm, Luda examines how contemporary online culture reshapes old systems of gendered power through aesthetics, ideology, and digital reinforcement. From pick-me culture and tradwife influencer narratives to the rise of online male grievance movements and “high-value” rhetoric, this conversation explores how insecurity, entitlement, and contr...

Send a text In this second episode of Changing the Algorithm, Luda examines how women have been shaped, constrained, and conditioned by systems of power from ancient history to the digital present. Tracing a through-line from early belief systems, sacred texts, and cultural norms to modern algorithms, influencer culture, and social media, this episode explores how control adapts over time — changi...