Algorithms

I feel like yesterday’s blog post was a little bit too negative and angry. I kind of don’t want my blog to be about that. But I honestly like to take a more positive take on the world. I don’t know, I was thinking about deleting yesterday’s post, but I might keep it up just because I feel it makes my blog more real in some way. I can do what I want. With all the fear and uncertainty in the world. I feel like I kind of want to make my blog a more positive place of hope and just write about cool observations I make about the world. ...

Well, not exactly. I found a software that converts all your subs into an RSS feed. Later I come to find out that it does not show all the channels that you sub to. For example, I sent to a pottery channel a few months ago, and it did not show up on my YouTube subscriptions tab, and I just assumed, oh they’re just not uploading or something like that. I come to find out using my new RSS feed that they just uploaded a video like less than an hour ago. What the heck, YouTube! Subscriptions tab, I think should show all the channels I’ve subscribed to videos in chronological order, but for some reason. They just don’t do that. They just feel the need to put the algorithm into everything. The reason is money and increase shareholder value, if you see though that lens then it all makes sense. ...

It’s been a week or so since I started this series. If you could call it that. And that MP3 player finally came in yesterday. I also bought a point it and shoot camera. The MP3 Player Honestly, this thing is tiny. Smaller than I expected. And super light. There’s probably nothing in it except for maybe like a circuit board and the battery, The operating system is super basic. It is not the most polished thing in the world by any means, but it gets the job done. It plays music, and I mean, that’s all you really should be asking of a mp3 player. No frills, just does the one thing it was designed to do. I remember someone saying something like that in the reviews, and I feel like it really stuck with me when I started using this player. ...

Intro Recently, I’ve been trying to remove algorithms From my life. Well, the ones that cause an addictive downward spiral So the corporations can show me more ads. In recent years, the corporate world has moved towards infinite growth and appealing to shareholders instead of customers. This concept is referred to as Enshittification*. My hope is to remove many of these algorithms from my life as much as I can. So I can control what media I consume, not what Corporations want me to consume. ...