A comment on the times: To the tune of “If I Only Had a Brain”
We may not think we’re with ‘em
But annoying algorithms
Control our daily lives
Search for recipes for muffins
And our mailbox will be stuffin’ … itself
With sneaky little spies.
Google, Yahoo, Facebook
Know wherever we look;
They watch our every move.
Where we go, what we’re buying … they
Got our number, I ain’t lyin’,
And it’s one we can’t remove.
A muffin search elicited … brings
Pop-ups unsolicited:
Designer pans and mousse!
Those muffins we were cravin’
Made computer screens a slave ‘n’ … cooked
Our cupcakes and our goose.
So next time we go looking
For more than just some cookin’ … Let’s
Be careful what we cursor.
1984’s Big Brothers
And a few political others … can make
Things a whole lot worser.
We need a reverser.…
…I know. Let’s give A.I. an impossible task. “Google. Find a recipe for a chayote muffin slathered in a fruit peel flambe, dotted with shreds of gold leaf and a splash of kumquat reduction, served on a fossil slab with mugwort mochi bathed in white chocolate.”
Grease up a pan, Stan, I’m about to shovel a walloping slice of Gotcha down the Algorithm’s π-hole.
by Donna Rhodes
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