Algovictim

Mary L. Holden
Aug 29, 2024

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…when your electronic device “knows” more than you think it does.

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When teapot broke
I wondered how
to it replace
in here-and-now.

I gave some thought
— not with Google! —
yet the screen tried
to be useful.

What ghost chatbot
pixelated
all the teapots
I’d debated?

Why, look at that
a gee i eff
that illustrates
my WTF!

NOTE: Tell me this has happened to you, too. Your vacuum cleaner fritzes and you think about buying a new one. Maybe you call your brother and ask him what brand of rugsucker he bought last. Then you open your laptop to write a poem and have to wade through advertisements for shop vacs to Dustbusters to crumb sweepers to Dysons! Have algorithms have now gone into the realm of Extra Sensory Percepetion? I think so!

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Mary L. Holden
Mary L. Holden

Written by Mary L. Holden

A constantly evaporating editor and writer. Believer in medium since 2013 when they made me wait for an invitation….

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