Wednesday, 18 May 2022

A Curiously Cognizant Computer.

Just lately I’ve been getting a number of adverts and YouTube recommendations which are suspiciously apposite to my current state of mind and suspected health issues. It can’t be algorithms at work because they’re things I haven’t mentioned on the blog, in emails, anywhere else online, or even expressed verbally to anybody in any circumstance whatsoever. And there are too many of them to countenance the possibility that’s it’s all down to coincidence.

So how does my computer know what I’m thinking and should I be disturbed by the fact? No, let’s re-phrase that: I find this not only mysterious, but actually quite disturbing.

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