Whatever thought or bias I have it somehow hones in on exactly and immediately starts shoveling me essays that confirm all of them. I’m thinking about Mark Fisher and suddenly get bombarded with essays about him, I feel annoyed with liberal identity politics and suddenly get hit with the Catherine Liu book tour essays and all the people in her sphere (also a load of hatepieces about Ocean Vuong’s writing along with them), I disagree kind of with these people’s obsession with saying “the identity left talks about cultural issues too much” while almost exclusively talking about cultural issues just from the opposite perspective and there’s the posts agreeing with me, I dislike the twitter feed style of it and bam, posts talking about the instagramification of the site, I find some DVDs of old shakespeare adaptations lying around and suddenly I’m getting recommended a load of stuff about him (tbh this recommendation was pretty goated though ngl, I saw one kind of tenuous but interesting piece connecting the witches in Macbeth to Marx’s writing about capital as black magic), I send my friends cat pics and I can’t stop getting recommended ‘Cats of Instanbul’, I get stuff to help me diet, to do my skin routine better, to know about all the latest niche jazz albums I’ll listen to the first three songs on before turning off, and so on and so forth (people also love zizek over there, im just reflexively sick of him at this point).
Like, it must be cookies on my phone picking up on me saying things in stream of consciousness on social media and the mic listening to what im talking about irl and reading my texts to friends ig, but I at least wish it wouldn’t mainly pick up on when I have negative thoughts about something (also the constant pseud-porn trying to gaslight everyone who downloads the app into thinking they’re a Very Intelligent Person is kind of scary).

I just made an account so I could read some woman’s piece about weird / offputting / somewhat endearing perverts she met in New York, and now I’m being driven insane by an app lovebombing me saying all my opinions are always correct.