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I am, you are and everyone you've ever met is deep into the 'Age of the Algorithm'. Everything is some optimization of every last data point you can slough off as you go about your day. You are just an agglomeration of metrics, shoe sizes, browsing histories and late night shopping. To date, I'm yet to find a single benefit I've been afforded from handing over my valuable data points over to the barons of the internet.

That said, I am a little curious about what they know about me. How well can they predict me, after all they literally know everything about me? This is part of my attempt to extract some value from the process.

Over the many years I've been a netizen, I've been on Twitter/X for some of them, but over enough time that the algorithm has gotten to know me pretty well (I'm not on Instagram/Reddit/Facebook/Google+/MySpace thanks for asking).

I know this because it is capable of sucking me in for protracted lengths of time despite my best efforts and the dozens of time-waste-prevention apps I have on my phone and laptop.

I think that there will eventually be some form of matching you can do based on these algorithms (Yes I'm aware this has been tried and people hated it), but in the meantime its a good outsourcing of what the algorithm thinks is good to feed me. If you read these and say 'Hey, I'd like to know this guy', then perhaps it would be good to connect.

So here you have it, an uncurated list of my bookmarks over the years, in no particular order of importance. I've tried to do some preliminary categorization to save you some time, and I likely don't agree with many of them anymore for a plethora of reasons, nevertheless at some point in time they made me have a thought I wanted to come back to. I hope you find some value in the silly things that have entertained me over the years.

N.B: Videos appear to have stopped working natively recently, I suspect a package update will solve this soon.