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AKA Damon Arvid. Under-the-radar writer, musician. Let's keep it that way. The cloud novels and other highlights are being collected at DamonArvid.com. To access all the music and Avocado Sun, click the big black box below.

Fabric - Summon These Days (Music)

Kale Superfoods and the Algorithm-Driven Life

8/29/2016

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 The bottom line with Kale and other superfoods - there is no "superfood." Eat more than the amount of a vitamin or mineral that your body can absorb or needs to run at top performance, and you will not start doing a Benjamin Button. Remember, no one lives forever––and we are all made of stars. 

So Facebook is apparently the top source of news worldwide. Facing allegations of potential bias*, the company recently fired its 'trending'  team and hired a crack team of bots. The result of algorithms deciding our reading material have been hilariously dismal, with a link to a story of "a man masturbating with a McDonald’s sandwich" rocketing to the top. I would feel sad about this but I am not writing for lemmings. I'll take my thousand or so #endwriter readers over the great unwashed anyday.**

Facebook what?***

I am reading an amazingly pertinent bio of Andrew Jackson. There is this contingent of people who will walk into a hail of redcoat bullets just to see what it feels like. 

On the subject of Trump, I was trying to understand what was going on with him... this article
Trump, the Insult Comic Candidate
 makes total sense.

#endwriter
Arisugawa Park
* Read Silicon Valley, liberal bias.

**
Not having a smart phone again, hopefully for the rest of my life, puts everything in perspective.
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***About a decade from now, popular culture will dub the current trend toward algorithmic feeds a cosmic mistake. That option should be there no doubt, but in the same way you can decide to go into Earth view mode on Google Maps. If I have the time and energy, fabric may be at the vanguard of the curated content-driven app and wiki site trend. 
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