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Three panels depicting a person and a robot labelled “social media algorithm”.
Person (handing over a card): Please share this with my friends.
Social media algorithm (holding the card closely): I will show this to… no one.
Person: But…
Social media algorithm (poiting gun at person): Pay me.
@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social (toot)
Algorithm bad. Me no want algorithm. Me want see thing in order, old thing first new thing last.
Me want see thing in order, old thing first new thing last
Fun fact: this is also an algorithm!
As a programmer, nothing about the modern world frustrates me more than the difference between the definition of the word algorithm when you ask a programmer or mathematician, and anyone else in the entire fucking world.
Hey FB check out this off-site link I want people to see! I won a major award and I want to show it off!
1 like and it’s your mom who probably refreshed your page twice a day