Tuesday 18 June 2019

The quietness of closing things



visited
old friends
today

and found them
to exist
no more

old kafka winston world 
for one
no longer

to be found at home



having violated 
an overbearing 
algorithm's 
newly
 drawn up 
rules 



7 comments:

  1. I thought it was only me they liked.

    You're far too clever for me Gwil with this post. Any clues? Not cryptic ones.

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    1. The algorithms decide if your post, tweet, facebk, youtube, breaches any of the ever growing number of new rules and restrictions which are euphemistically known as guidelines. Famous works of art from the Renaissance famous fail to get past computer censorship for example. Are we slowly slipping back into the dark ages? Mr Sugar-Mountain and his friends create algorithms to decide what you can say and what you cannot say and if internet accounts which don't to the line are to closed down.

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    2. Sometimes I think I must have the same spell checker as Donald "I met the Prince of Whales" Trump. And then I think No, mine's worse! It writes grammatical garbage.

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  2. Down again? I've never listened.
    Please put those infiltrators into spam.

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    1. Thanks Joanne. No sooner said than done.

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  3. Not at home, gone for ever I fear.

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    1. Half the places I surf are closed due to algorithmic 'violations'.

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